It's been a few days since the party, and the entire army, organics and Prometheans, were making our way way to the south. Two reasons. One was a lead for both Silver's history and the other was a potential lead on Selene and Artemis, Luna's daughters. I was at the center of the group with my squad, which was Lone, Starlight, Mist, Quick, Onyx, and, most recently, Luna. Yeah, most of the others didn't trust her, I can see why, but they wouldn't try anything so long as I was alive.

Must you ask why?

Each night, I had been practicing the whole "making thoughts physical" thing, which reminds me of Inspiration Manifestation without the crazy factor, while awake, and going through the the dreams of the mane six as stealthy as possible to see what they knew. Through that, I learned that Twilight, Rarity, and Rainbow were in the south, where we were going. That'll make things interesting, I'm sure.

"So, what do you guys think we'll find," I ask the others.

"You know what I'm looking for," Quick said.

"As with me," Luna said.

"I just hope we don't find Sharp Wit, or whatever the hell he's going by Wit," Lone said. Guess i should mention because ponies were morons in general, it simply had to change his first name, and most wouldn't recognize. Only reason I didn't remember the first one was because I'm terrible with names, and Luna because, well, she'd never actually met the guy. "And if we do, I hope we kill him."

"Same," Starlight and Onyx said.

"I just hope I get to see my sister," Mist said,

"You have a sister," I ask, surprised, to which he shrugged.

"Half-sister, but yeah," he replied. "Left the hive when we were young, but the two of us kept in touch. Was in the south near Appleloosa when the war started."

"So, which parent did you guys share," I asked.

"Father," Mist replied. "Amber's mom was, of all ponies, an Apple."

This made me stop mentally to process. When I was done a few second, all I could say was, "Heh?"

"Yeah, I can understand the reaction," he said. "Especially considering that technically makes me an Apple as well. In fact, I actually have two half sisters, each of us having my father's genes, and them having the same mom. No idea what happened to the other one, though. Don't even know her name."

"Well, maybe if you see her, Amber will say."

"No, she won't," he said. "I asked her once already, and she said only if she was dying, and if she was dead, there was a letter under her bed saying who."

"And you haven't peeked once," I asked.

"Once, but she put a spell on it, remember, she does have changeling magic, that would stop me from touching it, as well as reading it, while she was alive."

"She sure is clever," Lone said.

"Yep," Mist said. "Really, all she said was that our sister was given to another part of the family, she didn't know why, but tabs were kept on her."

"So at least you'll know both of them are alright," I said.

"More than I can say for my daughters," Luna said.

"We'll find out what happened to them, Luna," I said, putting a hand on her shoulder as gently as possible because, well, armor wight and the armor enhances reflex speed. "I swore that when I found out, and if I need to revive and kill the Caribou by myself, I will if it me and finding them."

"You'd probably die first."

"I said alone, I never said without some heavy artillery helping me out." I.E.: Freckles rifle from RvB, a Prototype suit, must you ask why, and perhaps an Armored Command Unit from Supreme Commander. Damn, I love those things. Best part is, the last two I would be in, and even if I am killed, I win. Because, well, if you've watched Legends, you know why with the suit. For the ACU, it goes nuclear boom upon destruction. And what a glorious explosion it is! "Remember, I have the same ability you do, and a lot more instruments of destruction to make."

"Yes, I suppose you have a point," Luna said.

"If you ask me, those things should be kept in Tartarus," Starlight said.

"Oh yeah," Onyx said. "I'd say they're worse than Sombra, and that's saying something."

"That bad," I ask, which brings a question to my mind. Who is worse: the Caribou, or Hitler?

"Yep," Starlight said.

It was here that one of the Watchers with the group flew over to me. "What is it," I asked.

"Sir," it said in its mechanical voice, "Zeta group has reported Sharp Wit is in the South with bearers Twilight Sparkle, Rarity Belle, and Rainbow Dash. What course of action do you wish them to pursue?"

"Follow, but do not engage," I said. "But tell Knight Zeta One to deliver a message to the bearers. The message is as follows: I wish to speak with the three of you and the other bearers. Be asleep at midnight, and I shall you in the dreamscape."

"Message sent," the Watcher said.

"Good. Go back to the group you're a part of."

"Yes sir," it said before flying off behind us.

"Why do you wish to speak with them," Luna asked.

"Did I say 'speak,'" I asked. "I meant see if they've been working on dream shit, seeing as how I could invade their minds, or someone else, for that matter-" Sharp with Control Brace, anyone?- "and we don't want them caught unprepared, now do we?"

"If that's the case, I'll join in," Mist said. "Might be fun. You guys?"

"Nope," Quick said. "I want actual sleep tonight."

"And Starlight and I want to be alone tonight."

"Have fun, then," I say. "I know we're going to."

That night- midnight

I, along with Luna and Mist, were in the dreamscape, this one being in the guise of my favorite Halo 4 map, the Impact variant from my first time in the Equestrian dreamscape. The one with the ship. I had added more land in between the two asteroids for the mane six to walk one when they got here. If they decided to come that is, as another thing I had done but not mention the first time around was implant a small bit of my mind in their minds that I had kept inactive until now. Hey, dream logic, anything goes.

"So, what do you have planned," Mist said.

"I'm going to fucking improvise," I say. "No plan survives contact with the enemy, anyway."

"I hear that," Mist said. "So, any idea when they're going to show up?"

"Nope." Fortunately, we didn't have to wait long, seeing as how, a few seconds later, each of the bearers appeared.

"And just what do you want," Rainbow asked.

"For you to think fast," I said before throwing a primed plasma grenade at her. "You all need training in dream combat, I seem to be the only one interested in it, no offense, Luna."

"None taken, you are right, Josh," she said as the grenade hit Rainbow. "But this means you won't get anything tomorrow night."

"I'd rather make sure ponies can defend themselves then personal desires right now, Lulu," I said as the grenade exploded, though doing no damage, leaving a very surprised Rainbow. "Right now anyway."

"You still won't get anything."

"Can we talk about this back in the real world," I said just as the Elements got over their shock, snapping my finger to keep them from moving. "Now, if you want to try to fuck my shit up," I said to them, "get out of there without using magic."

"I suppose we can," Luna said.

"Thank you," I said, turning back to the Elements. "Oh, dear god, you people are morons," I said with a face palm. "This is a dream. Just imagine the chains breaking for god's sake!" It was here I was surprised, and I do mean that. I was looking at my tracker, which I had told no one how it worked, and listening in, and I was sure Luna and Mist were watching as well, and nothing came up. And yet, I was punched with the force of a Hunter shield, on Legendary, from the front in the helmet, and was sent flying into the ship I made, punching right through the top of one of the hangers. "Owww," I croaked out.

"Like that," I heard, of all ponies, Rarity say.

"Exactly," I said with a groan. "How the actual fuck?"

"I've had practice," she said as I heard hoofsteps next to me, as my head was still ringing to where I couldn't get up. "And don't worry. Luna and the changeling are alright, I just made it look like you and I are up there fighting."

"How," I asked, turning my head to face-. . . . . Okay, who here showed Rarity RWBY? Pinkie?

"Wasn't me, Lone."

Discord?

"I started with Red vs Blue, and when she saw the outro that had the Red trailer in, she wanted to watch it, don't blame me here."

(Sigh) Why do I have to suffer here in the Void until the others are ready?

"Just get back to the story. The readers are a little confused right now."

Shut it, Pinkie. Okay, sorry about that, I just hate it when Pinkie or Discord interfere without any good reason in a world, and this is one of those times.

Anyway, Rarity was dressed as a mix between Coco and Wiess, maybe a hint of Emerald and Cinder. She had on a white beret with designer glasses like Coco, the outfit Cinder wears when not in disguise, Emerald's boots, with a pair of beige jeans going with red and gold patters at the top before fading to green at the bottom to blend with the boots, and Wiess' sword. Well, could be a worse outfit, I guess. And even so, I guess it fits with her personality. "Why," was all I could ask.

"Discord showed me and the others a show you seemed to like before you came here. I didn't really like it, but the outfits, well, I did like a few, and combined what I liked about each."

"I'll admit, fits with your character," I say. "Now, to my original train of thought: how did you do that? Only someone that's a Dream Master can fool another, Luna said so, and I'm certain Celestia would have said not to when either you or your parents came to somepony to find out what it was."

"Unless my parents knew what it was, and hid it from Celestia," Rarity said. And something just hit me like a speed boosted 'Hog with boosters, that sounds fun to ride, by the way. Her small grin from the Minotaur capital when Celestia was mentioned, the dirt on her being revealed, her being able to fool two dream masters, one of whom is a fucking alicorn, and, god, I was lacking common sense then, the families Luna said her children were with, Gem and Light. With some help from Lone, I found out what happened to them. Both families had broken apart. One had went to Canterlot, and most Nobles were descended from them. As for the Gem, they remained scattered, in the end becoming as spread out as the Apples, with one. . . having. . .lived in. . . Ponyville. And the name of that one was-

"Belle," I said. "That's part of the family Luna gave Selene to." I then looked at the white unicorn. "Selene?"

"Hello, Josh," she said. "I'm a little surprised you took so long to figure it out."

"Well, to be fair, I'm trying to stop a crazy unicorn who potentially has two powerful artifacts that could utterly fuck everyone's shit up," I said. "So I am not sorry."

"I can see why my mother likes you," Selene said. "Are you going to get up?"

"Soon as you tell me why you didn't tell Luna who you are."

"It's because I was afraid Celestia would find out if I told anypony, and think I wanted revenge."

"Fair enough, I guess," I said before I teleported, dream logic, people, next to a Banshee. "So you don't know where your sister is?"

"I do, but I think you can figure it out with the little hints we left."

Before I could say anything, we heard an explosion. "That was not me," Selene said.

"And I did not say how grenades work, and it didn't sound like magic," I said. "Not good." That feeling was amplified on hearing a voice.

"Oh, Spartan," Sharp said, surprising the both of us. "If you don't show yourself, I'll make Luna regret it."

"Fuck you too, bitch," I said before getting the Banshee I was next to and going out the teleporter, and flying to where I saw Sharp using magic to hold the others. I got out when I was close, Selene, still a little surprising she was Rarity, believe me, teleporting next to me.

"I'm guessing you're a dream master too," I said, pointing my BR at him.

"Indeed I am," Sharp said. "I imagine you wonder why I am here?"

"Yeah, I am."

He chuckled. "Simple," he said. "A rematch, and a little bet."

"Why, and what are the terms if I accept?"

"Because if you don't, I will enslave these six right now," he said, gesturing to Luna and the others. "And when I win, you eight with no argument. If you win, I tell you my plan, and let you try to stop it. And I pick the terms."

"Okay, okay, and no," I said. "You made the terms, I choose the rest." Under my helmet, I smiled. Time to do something i always wanted to do.

"Fine," he said.

"Good," I said, snapping my finger, unleashing a torrent of information into Sharp's head that will instantly be forgotten upon him waking up. "You'll need that, seeing as how my terms are an all out war between us in the dreamscape in an eighty-one by eighty-one kilometer area that is mostly naval territory. You know with what by the information I just gave you."

"A strategy game," he asked in surprise. "I will win this easily. I accept."

"And we have equal unit types here," I say. And it's just us."

"If you wish."

"Then let the Infinite War," I said, snapping my fingers, putting the two of us on the Betrayal Ocean Map from Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance in UEF ACUs. "Begin."

Author's Notes:

Next Chapter: A war of epic proportions, and a blatant Supreme Commander chapter I had to do after mentioning it this chapter with the dream master.