Author's Notes:

First part will be in third person due to dramatics later on.

It's been a few days since Josh had awoken, and subsequently threatened each of the Elements, and the Equestrian army was preparing to march on the minotaur capitol. Luna and the Elements stood at the front of the army. Luna was the one most, if not the only one, worried about Josh.

He had rarely left the clearing, and when ever a pony, whether of their own will or under an order, approached, they fled from the clearing, citing strange sounds like those from nightmares coming from the clearing, and a strange, green glow coming from there at night, and most of the camp, including the Elements, were weary of this, as green was the color most commonly associated with evil.

Regardless, Luna stood atop a hill, overlooking the city. None of those constructs could be seen, but Luna knew they were waiting. She could feel the magic in the air.

"Do you think he abandoned us," Twilight asked. She had on a lavender armor, matching the color of her skin, with her cutie mark in the center of the chest plate. Her weapon was a custom short sword that only the best of weaponsmiths could make that allowed her to focus her magic through it. The strange thing was that the way to make those types of swords was lost to the ages, but it could have easily been found. Quite a few relics of magic had been found since the war began, after all.

"I doubt that, Twilight Sparkle," Luna replied. "Even if he would do so, he himself said that his friends had been captured, and he would risk us imprisoning him than leaving his friends."

"Yeah, but how do we know he isn't lying there," Rainbow, wearing a cyan blue armor with two steel short swords, asked. "I mean, come on. He attacked Ponyville."

"But, um, he didn't really hurt anypony who lived there," Fluttershy, wearing a butterscotch yellow armor with a single, small dagger, said. "Really, they all said that he just took stuff from them, and actually put bits as compensation for the goods."

"But they also stole from Diamond Tiara!"

This got looks from Rarity, wearing a white and purple, as she called it, 'combat skirt', with a rapier and Applejack, wearing an orange armor with a medium sized war hammer on her back. "An' ya don't think she migh' 'ave had that comin' jus'a bit from how she tormented Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, an' Scootaloo?"

". . .I guess you have a point," Rainbow grudgingly said.

"And besides," Rarity said, "he could have left any previous day, bu he always came to the camp, if only for a short while."

"And I use my magic to sense when and where he's sleeping," Luna said. "Every night since he woke up, it has been in the clearing."

"Can we just get this battle over with so he can leave?"

"If that is what you wish," Luna said. She then turned back to the Equestrian army. "Ponies! Today, we free the minotaur capitol from Sombra's forces, and bring the planet one step closer to the peace it knew before!" A short speech, but the army cheered at it. "Charge!"

As the army charged., on a hill that overlooked the camp they were at, a single, shadowed figure stood, with seven objects hovering near it. "Follow them," the figure said. "Make sure nothing happens."

One of the seven made a noise before they went invisible, vanishing form sight.

At the front of the army, Luna and the Elements led the charge, still none of the constructs in sight, which only made the seven of them more weary of the city. The army itself, though, was not organized. They spread out during the charge, staying only in groups of two. This was mostly out of confidence, mostly because they thought the princess and the Elements would do most of the fighting. Lazy assholes.

Even when they crossed the threshold into the city, there was no resistance, no physical trace of the constructs. "Anypony else thinking he lied and is working with Sombra," Rainbow asked as they slowed down to a careful walk.

"Rainbow, you can be an idiot sometimes," Rarity said. "Why would they try to kill him if he was working with them. Princess Luna showed us what she saw, and he let us know about those dragon constructs."

"Could have been an act and false memories he had planted in him."

"Oh, if only it were that easy," a voice said, one the seven recognized, causing them to stop. Cadence, wearing the same armor she had when her forces had captured the Rogue army, stepped into view from the top of a small building, along with ten of the dragon constructs. "After all," she said, "we then could have easily killed or abducted each of you."

"Cadence," Luna growled. "So it really is you, and not one of Chrysalis' drones."

"Of course it is, Luna," Cadence said before she spread her wings and hovered down to the ground. "Why would you think it wasn't?"

"Because you killed my brother!" Twilight yelled, tears in her eyes. "Why, Cadence!?"

"I didn't want to, Twilight," Cadence said, the dragons coming down and encircling the seven. "But I did it for my subjects, and I made his death painless as possible. And for you."

"Cadence, why would you wish to join SOmbra," Luna asked. "You despise him."

Cadence took on a more. . . dark look here as she glared at Luna. "No, I love him. The only reason I used to is because Celestia indoctrinated me to fear shadows. You of all ponies should know that, Luna. After all," she said, "it is why you were banished to begin with. Abandon Celestia, and join with the ones who know what you go through."

"You know not what I go through, Cadenza," Luna said. "Unlike you and your current comrades, I have moved past my history, and made amends with my sister, and would not betray her for something so long ago."

"Then it seems you'll have to die," Cadence said. "But just so you know you had no chance of winning," she said before lighting her horn, it being the same color it normally was, and revealing an army of constructs, as well as the sound of battle once hidden. "I hid the constructs from view so that I could ambush you all, and so they could easily pick off your troops, almost all of which are already dead, by the way. Now you'll join them."

With that, the fallen princess teleported away, along with three of the dragons, leaving one dragon for each of them. The seven opened their maws, and blue orbs crackling with lightning could be seen.

"We can't get away, can we," Twilight said in hopelessness and sorrow. "It'd take to long to get a teleportation spell ready."

"Aye it would," Luna said. "But I will not go down like a coward, " she said before she began to run to one of them, only for an invisible field to send her flying back. "But it seems I have no choice but to," she said.

With that, the dragons let loose their attack, kicking up a dust cloud that obstructed the view of all, and smirked, only for that to fall when they saw the seven targets alive behind seven, dark blue, see through shields, ones the ponies were surprised to see. From the top of them was a small, orange beam that led to a strange being, one for each shield.

The seemed like strange, metal insects, with two, green and glowing, circular wings. "And here I thought you would wait for me," a voice said getting all heads to turn. One one of the smaller buildings, in his cyan and brick armor, with a strange, gray weapon in his hands with a blue and orange strip near the back, and two similar weapons, similar in shape and color, though with one having an orange stripe, on his thighs above his swords, was Josh.

"You," one of the constructs growled at me.

"Me," I say, smirking under my helmet. "Watcher Wing Alpha, good work. Return to Knight Lance Alpha, and tell them I will need assistance."

The lead watcher, the one above Luna, beeped in response, and the seven flew back to the clearing where my small, but formidable, Promethean army waited. What I had been doing in the days since I woke up was making one thing that could harm the constructs. An army that could use Hardlight. I stepped off the building, and used my thrusters to slow my fall as I hit the ground. In my hand was the Didact's Signet, a scattershot that fired fast moving, long range projectiles that had better tracking after ricochets. On my left thigh above my sword was the closed fist, a boltshot that fired at a faster rate and had a higher clip size. On my right was the open hand, a boltshot that fired swarms of tracking bolts with each trigger pull. "So, are we going to get this party started, or what?" I ask.

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"Kill him," the dragon from near a week ago said to one of his companions, who charged at me, claws out. I didn't move, only stood where I was. Just before he reached me, I pointed my weapon at him, hip fire form, and fired, the Hardlight projectiles doing what I had hoped they would, which was rip through the thing. I fired an entire clip into it to ensure it was dead, which was confirmed with the last shot as it began to disintegrate.

I then flipped the main part of the gun down, and reloaded. "Wanna try again?" I ask once I had fully reloaded before I placed the scattershot on my back and grabbing the two boltshot variants, closed fist in my left, the open hand in my right.

"How are you able to harm us?" the lead dragon growled.

"Simple," I say, grinning like a psycho. "Light can pass through you, which means something can harm you. My weapons use a little something I like to call hardlight, which results in them being able to harm you. And they aren't even the best of what I thought up since I woke up," I say as seven Knights, two standard form Halo 4, one battle wagon form same game, two standard from Guardians, one bannerman, from same, and one Halo 4 commander, teleport behind me. "Meet the best of what I thought up, Knight Lance Alpha."

The seven knights shook a little, not out of fear, but of preparation. One major difference between them and the games:they had green light, and not blue or orange. "And the blades they have or hardlight," I say with a maniac grin under my helmet.

"You are still out numbered."

"Don't be so sure," I say before broadcasting on the radio "Knight Lances Bravo through Zulu, move in. Crawler packs Alpha through Zulu, move in." Each group had seven in them, and there were twenty six, so there's. . . uh, hold on, let me check. Okay seven times twenty is one hundred and forty. Seven times six is forty two, so that would be one hundred and eighty two Prometheans in an alphabet group, and there's three groups, so one hundred and eighty two times three? Okay, three times one hundred is three hundred. Three times eighty is two hundred and forty, and three times two is six. Add three hundred, two forty, and six to get-holy shit. Five hundred and forty six. Dear god.

Anyway, from the Equestrian camp, multiple mechanical howls and roars could be heard. "Activate AR mode, hostiles may be invisible, and stick to hardlight weapons. Only thing that'll harm them," I order over the radio. "And as for you," I say over suit speakers, pointing my boltshots at the construct that strangled me, "time to die. Take 'em down, Alpha!"

The seven Knights roared, their face plates splitting apart to reveal the skulls, and they charged, shrugging off the physical attacks, while shooting and slicing as I made my way to the one who got me, shooting the entire time. Bottomless clip, bitch. When I reached him, none of my shots hitting him due to him using his non dragon comrades as shields, he tried to bring his arm out to knock me in the head using my own momentum against me, but I dropped down to my knees and slid under his arm, firing at him as I did so, damaging him slightly, but nothing major.

Once I had slid entirely past him, I spun around and used my left leg to stop my sliding, amd pointed my open hand (weapon) at him.

The dragon growled as he turned to face me. "You will pay for that," he said.

I stood up, and pointed both my guns at him as I stood sideways. "How much?" I reply like the asshole I like to be. "I got a few hardlight shots for ya."

He growled. "You will die!" He then charged at me. Time to deploy one of my. . . modified projects from before the others were captured. I dropped my two weapons, and got into a position to give additional energy to a punch from my right hand. "Checkmate, bitch," I say as I send a mental signal to that particular gauntlet, and a hardlight blade projector popped up, and a blade appeared. I then used the thruster in my left gauntlet and the one in my right back, which, together, propelled my arm blade into the face of the dragon construct. I then use my right arm and left back thruster to spin around quickly, and take the head off, finishing in a kneeling position.

Note, my original projects were those energy wrist blades Elites use in Halo: Reach, just so you guys know. I then stand up, saying over the radio, "All Knight Lances and Crawler Packs, once finished with current engagement, make way to capitol building, and surround. Watcher Wings Alpha through Zulu, deploy and spread out, find where Cadence is keeping the rest of the Rogue army. Once they are found, transmit to Knight Lances November through Zulu and Crawler Packs Alpha through Mike. Designated groups, once done, infiltrate, and get them out of there. Knight Lance Alpha, your with me."

I got the response from them, as my helmet translated their beeps and such, though I did give the Knights normal speech capability, as well as names. "And as for you seven," I say, looking at Luna and the Elements, "Cadence lied. Her forces had already killed your troops before I got here. Those shouts were just the constructs simulating them to break your spirit. If you don't want to join your forces, you'll stay with me and Knight Lance Alpha, are we clear," I ask as I pick up my two boltshot variants.

"Indeed you are," Luna said.

"Then stay behind me," I say without waiting for a second response before walking to the capitol building, ready to kick some ass.