So, I was debating the entire dream fight, or just the actual epic final fight, and, for your sake, I went with the latter.

So, my forces, first, and you may want to get a tab open for the supreme commander wiki. I went there once. Just type in supcom.wiki.com. Trust me, you'll need it for the units.

So, first, my naval force. It had thirty tech one, lowest tier of units, by the way, Thunderhead class frigates and a similar number of tigershark attack submarines, ten Govenor class cruisers, which have cruise missile capability as well as AA missiles, ten Valiant class destroyers, ten Cooper torpedo boats, which are dedicated sub killers, by the way, three Summit class battle ships, three Neptune class battle cruisers, which have laser cannon, I am not kidding, missile defenses from cruise missiles, torpedoes and torpedo defense. The flagship is the Experimental Aircraft Carrier, known as the Atlantis, which holds, in order of lowest tech to highest, thirty Scorcher attack bombers, which carpet napalm a place, ten tech two Janus attack bombers, which hit a larger area than the Scorcher with more damage, and five tech three strategic bombers, which drop low area-high damage nukes. Those twenty five are my air force.

The ground force, which one would think useless as Betrayal ocean, there is a wiki page for maps there, by the way, is mostly water. That is the joy of the UEF. Their tech three armored assault bots, called Percivals, are amphibious, and walk under the water, and are the landing force. They, numbering one hundred, and it did take a while to get there, believe me, were the bulk of my force, and, with the naval and air force covering them, would be transported into Sharp's territory via five tech three heavy transports, myself in my ACU, having a personal shield generator, damage increase, and a tech three engineering suite, which allows it to build tech three structures and experimental units, but also increases its health. I made it a fucking pain to kill.

I'll admit, though, there's one thing I didn't expect, and that would be Selene, also Rarity and one of Luna's daughters, for those who forgot, wanted to help, so, I built a quantum gateway to build a Support Armored Command unit, which is upgraded with shields, an energy accelerator, that increases the rate of fire for the main cannon, and an upgrade to give said cannon splash damage.

"You don't have to do this, Selene," I said. "I can do this myself."

"Josh, I'm doing this to show Sharp he can't just take my mother and sister hostage, or threaten to mess with our minds," she said, her sACU, that is the acronym in the game, next to my ACU. "And besides, I am a little eager to see how this thing handles, even if it is ungainly in look."

"And there's Rarity," I said.

"Shut it."

"And there's Selene," I said. "Thank god this is my favorite map from the PC version of the game. Next to Seton's, that is," I muttered. "Okay, I'm putting us in the same group as the Percivals." Under my helmet, as I still had my Spartan armor on, I smiled. "But first, a little ranged fucking." I typed in a few commands. There is one combo in Forged Alliance UEF players should know. I call it the 'Sniper Spotter' combo. It's the Experimental Novax satellite, yes that is a unit, plus one of the most memeable UEF units. The Mavor. My favortie meme featuring it is 'Mavor. You may as well drop the pretenses and just have it flash 'You lose, n00bs' on the screen of all your opponents'. Appropriate, since the Satellite can't be destroyed unless the control center, which I am protecting as much as I can, and the Mavor has unlimited range. Said artillery gun was behind me, and was aimed for Sharp's power facilities. "Fire!"

A single shot rang out from behind me, the massive artillery shot firing, which is when I had my naval forces, which were at the island west of Sharp's, move in. Once they began to bombard the base, I would move the ground units in via using the transports to ferry them to the water, as well as my ACU and Selene's sACU, which, upon us arriving, we would march out of the water, and utterly rape Sharp's base. I went to the strategic zoom, and saw that the Atlantis was almost in position to deploy the air units.

Okay, stopping the Atlantis where it is and allow the others to pass. Keep in mind it's easy, as said ship is submersible.

Three minutes later, the shore bombardment began. "HEY, SHARP," I said over open comms. "SUCK IT!" With that, I had the Atlantis surface, and then deploy the bombers over the island, letting the, focus on what they wanted. "Okay, Selene, let's go."

"Right," she said, and I had the transports initiate the ferry, me and Selene in the first wave, which consisted of thirty total T3 units, the ACU counting as a tech three. That means a little less than four waves of thirty units. I did the math.

"I'll take the lead out of the water," I said as we were picked up with four Percivals. "Also, music is my choice here, Selene."

"This is stuff you know, Josh," she said. "I'm just here helping."

"Right," I said as we passed over a small island in the center of the map. Time to get the music going.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd2ieQ9EyMA

With that, anyway, I had one of my camera feeds in my ACU focus on the Naval fleet. Perfect. The cruisers and frigates were keeping Sharp's air force suppressed while the Battleships bombarded the hell out of the AA and torpedo launchers, the battle cruisers protecting them, while the Coopers, Tigersharks, and Valiants kept any naval forces in check.

The bombers were doing there part as well, targeting mobile units and hitting factories, either destroying them, or weakening them for the ground force. Only thing I didn't see, though, was Sharp's ACU, and, seeing as how the attack started just a minute ago, I went through footage from the units, and still didn't see it. Something isn't right here.

Anyway, the first thirty units landed in the water near the up slope on to Sharp's island, and the transports made their way back to base to pick up the next thirty. But to keep the pressure on, I decided to go on, and have the other units move up as they arrived. "Let's go, Selene," I said. "Take half of the Paladins, and move up from the right. I'll go left."

"Got it," sh esaid, and her sACU and fourteen of the Paladins followed her to the right and out of the water, the other half, doing the same with me on the left. All in all, we had Sharp's base in a scorpion, which is a pincer attack, flanking the enemy from both sides, with air support. With that and the reinforcements arriving from Alpha base, the landing area was cleared, which is where we split up to make sure he wasn't on the island. I was a quarter way down the left side of the island when I heard a sound I dreaded, as well as every Supreme Commander player.

Strategic launch detected. Aw, fuck berries. "Selene, we need to pull out. I have a feeling that missile's coming for us!"

"I can't," Selene replied. "Sharp sent Riptides-" basically hover tanks that can go over the water- "and Percivals! I'm boxed i-" BOOOM! Aw, double fuck and fuck you, Sharp. That was Selene's sACU being destroyed, taking Selene to where ever Luna and the other Elements were being held. Wait a minute. Nothing coming after me-fuck. I redirected my ACU and the Percivals, every single one still going, into the water near us to avoid the Nuke. Yes, a UEF ACU can survive a nuke, even at its base health, but still, if he sent multiple to the same area, I'm screwed in the extreme.

Turns out I was right, as just as soon as I entered the water, one nuke landed, followed in succession by two more. That would have killed me. "Computer, where did the missiles come from?"

"Island Charlie."

And that's the one to the east of my base. "Damn it," I muttered. "Voice command: Air factory one, construct single tech three spy plane, then have spy plane move over missile launch site."

"Confirmed," the A.I. replied, and a minute and a half later, I had a view of the island in question. This one was heavily protected form air and naval attacks, and Sharp was quick to adjust, as he had Kennels, which give an engineering drone to assist structures in their range, next to shield generators, which allow them to charge quickly if they are taken down, something that takes a lot of energy, but was countered by all the tech three fusion reactors, making sure nothing would break the shields. That's a pro move, there. He also had air patrols going, which, combined with SAMs, took the plane down, but not before I saw more of the base, as well as where Sharp's ACU was. It was located next to a walled off portion of the base, with gunships nearby, and stealth field generators. I imagine that is where the others are being held. I also saw that Sharp had put upgrades on his ACU, but not what they were, as well as SMD, strategic missile defense, systems. This was going to be one tough nut to crack, but nothing is invincible. In this case, he failed to protect his generators, I'm guessing he thought the AA, patrols, and shields would protect them. Nope.

"Voice command: Air factory one, construct one tech two transport. Land Factories one and two, construct three field engineers each. Engineers are to board transport." The confirmation was received, and the orders carried out as I put my ACU on the nearest Tech three transport. Now, for those who don't know, field engineers are combat capable variants of tech two engineers, equipped with a low damage-high rate of fire riot gun.but in numbers, by the way, radar, and, what is most important here, jammers, meaning false positives will show up on Sharp's radar, giving them time to either capture or reclaim/destroy one or two of the generators, which would cause a missive drain when the shields are recharged.I manually gave the orders for the six, transporting them to the southern end of the island, out of the patrol range, and had the transport come back, when it was shot down.

Hopefully, he would assume it was a light recon force, and become over confident. That was the case apparently, as the six engineers were able to capture one of the reactors, which is when I had my Mavor target a shield with a reactor under it, and fire. The shield went down, but quickly came back on. Still not there. "Give it up, Spartan," Sharp said over the radio. "My defenses are impregnable."

"Nothing really is, bitch," I replied. "You just need the right tactics," I said, sending my Atlantis, which had all the bombers form the initial attack stored in it now, yes all of them survived. under water and close to the island. I need the perfect timing if this is going to work.

This is my plan, have every bomber mass bomb a single shield and, if the timing was dead on, have a Mavor shot hit generator for the shield before it came back up, which would allow for destruction of the reactor removing more power from his grid, hopefully leading to Energy stall, causing the shields to go between off and on as power came in and ran out, allowing for more strikes on generators, leaving his base completely exposed. Then again, he may then divert forces to that area, which may expose the engineers.

. . . Got it. Okay, Sharp. Time to see which of us has the better tactical mind. I sent my carrier to just short of his naval defenses and submerged, so only torpedoes could strike it, and made the Mavor target a shield generator, but had it hold fire. Now, the reason I'm holding back and not just nuking him to oblivion, which I can, I have enough launchers to overwhelm the defenses, is because where he is with the wall and gunships is, again, where Luna and the others are being held, and I don't want to risk anything here. But first- "All air factories, construct five tech three air superiority fighters each, and have them stand ready." That would lead to a total of thirty tech three fighters, meant to target the patrols in conjunction with everything else.

Two minutes later, everything was in position. The fleet was holding just short of their maximum attack range, belonging to the battle ships, the Atlantis was ready to deploy, the ASFs on an outpost island next to Sharp's current one, and I was in the same transport as before, twenty nine Percivals in the air with me in the other slots and transports, and the Mavor was locked. "Hey, Sharp, answer me this," I said. "Who's going to lose this fight? You." With that, I unleashed the attack, having the carrier rise and deploy the bombers on the opposite side of the island as the engineers, hoping to divert his attention away from them as they got to work on a second generator, and the Mavor fired.

The first two bombs dropped were by the Strategic bombers after ten seconds of travel, and they dropped the shield, only for it to come back on. The next to hit it were ten Janus napalm bombs, also dropping it, but no damage was taken. The third thing was what I had been trying to open a window for, the Mavor shell. Turns out timing was still needed, but not for what I hoped. As soon as the shell hit, the third and fourth strategic bomber delivered their payload, which, with the shield still recharging, took out the generator. "Eat it," I yelled to Sharp before having the other bombers target the generator being protected by the shield, and the combined pay loads took it out just as the third was captured, and the shields began to flicker. Bingo.

"Voice command: All ASFs, move in and engage air patrols. All bombers, target Anti-Air. All ships, target naval defenses. Transports, move in and deliver cargo."

Luna-1st person

To think, this is how I was captured. In the dream world, where I was in my element. 'Tis embarrassing. Sharp had me, Mist, and other Elements, excluding Rarity, moved to this outpost of his as soon as the battle had begun, and fortified it whenever he could. After an hour of only being able to walk for fear of the machines he placed outside the walls shooting us down- one could still feel pain in dreams, after all- we saw something leave the location and go north, though we did not know where, with Sharp's machine coming out of the water. A few seconds later, Rarity appeared in the practical cage with the elements, Lone, and myself.

"Welcome to the party," Mist said sarcastically.

"Oh, shut it, Lone," Rainbow said. "What took you so long, Rares?"

"Well, Rainbow, if you must know, I was trying to help get all of you out of here," Rarity replied. "Obviously, I failed in that regard."

"Well, if it isn't the Element of Generosity," Sharp said, getting our attention. "I wondered if I would kill you or the human first. It seems as if the larger threat was removed first."

"I wouldn't underestimate him, Sharp," I snapped at the traitor. "Like you, he is a dream master, and defeated me and the Elements in combat."

"So? I am as well, and took you seven down. The only one left is your lover, and that will remove each of you from my way. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to wait for his suicide charge. I hope you have fun reuniting with your daughters, Princess Luna. They're in there with you, after all."

I stood there, not believing what I heard, as he turned around to wait for Josh. My daughters, my only two lights while I was imprisoned within Nightmare, were here? I fell to the sandy ground, mouth slightly agape. I had expected them to be living a life as far away from my sister's eye as possible, not directly under it, if not dead. Then again, the best place to hide from a pony is right next to them in plain sight. And Celestia doesn't know of them, or she would have said if they were the Elements, which meant everything about two of the Elements lives before a point are lies. And I know who.

My daughters were born unicorns, after all.

As the six Elements tried to figure out, well four and two acting to do so, with Lone doing the same, I said, loud enough for them to hear, "Why did you not tell me when we met?"

It was the most recent arrival who answered, stopping the others where they were. "We were afraid you'd think we would try to make you take revenge on Celestia for your banishment. We wanted to, but were afraid of that, and of our aunt's reaction," Rarity said. "We're sorry, mother."

"Yeah," Twilight Sparkle said. "Sorry, mom."

"Wait a minute," Rainbow Dash yelled, my eyes focused on the ground and wet with tears. "You two are Princess Luna's daughters!?"

"We'll explain everything later, Rainbow," Twilight said. "We do have bigger issues right now, after all."

"Yeah, like Sharp wanting to mind rape each of us," Mist said, his tone showing slight irritation. "Come on, girls. I think we should give them some time."

"On that, we can agree," Applejack said, and I heard five sets of hoofsteps getting fainter before I felt two pairs of arms wrap around me.

"I had thought you two dead," I said through small gasps.

"We practically were," Twilight said, "without actually being able to see you, that is."

"But this time, we won't be separated again," Rarity added. "Even if it means the three of us get banished for something only one of us did."

"May I know which of my daughters you two are," I asked. "Now that I know you two are my children, I want to refer to you by your birth names, unless you wish otherwise."

"Whatever you want, mother," Rarity said. "Selene. That's the name you gave me."

"And Artemis for me," my other daughter said, which is what finally broke me. Not of sadness, but of joy. Not only was I reunited with my daughters, but one of them had achieved their birth right, as any alicorn child must, and that is gaining whatever appendages they are missing for their race. The dam burst, and I began to sob, and I felt my children's heads rest on my shoulders and hug me all the tighter.

And it was then that we knew, we would be free, as we heard an explosion sound from the other side of the island, and saw a flying unit come over the mountain in the center. A few seconds later, the ground shook as something flashed over the island and impacted on a dome on that side, followed by two mushroom shaped clouds. "Looks like Sharp's in trouble," Selene commented, and her sister and I couldn't help but agree as we looked up from our prison and saw Sharp's own units being destroyed.

But, for me, the best sight was seeing a large machine almost exactly like Sharp's, but with a kind of shimmer surrounding it and the accents colored blue where Sharp's were red.

"Guess who," Josh said before he raised his machine's right arm, and pulled its trigger.

Josh-1st

As I fired the first shot from my ACU's cannon, I used one of the secondary camers on my ACU to look in the impromptu prison, and saw Luna, Twilight, and Selene hugging, the others not far. Looks like that guess was right as to Twi being Luna's other daughter.

Anyway. the shot connected, and an armor integrity bar appeared on my HUD for Sharp's ACU, dropping about one percent before steadily rising. Great. He went with the auto-repair rate upgrade. Fun.

"So, what other upgrades do you have?"

"Damage increase and missile launcher," he said. "I imagine you have the shield and the damage increase as well."

"And the Tech three engineering suite. Health increase. Oh, and a fucking army, navy, and air force. All ready to kill you."

"Good luck," Sharp said. "I know not everything of yours can shot me.

"Plus, I kind of planned for this," he said before more naval cannons fired on the ground forces.

"One on one, then," I said. "Voice command: All Naval and bomber units, engage hostiles. Percivals, fall back to the water." Note I ignored the Engineers. "So, should we start?"

"If you wi-" he said before I fired an overcharge, an enhanced shot with extra damage. And with enough energy, no cooldown.

"DIE, ASSHOLE!" I kept firing, but the health boost and regen did counter most of the damage. Low rate of fire and all.

"Even if you beat me, you'll still lose," he said.

"Why's that," I asked, continuing to fire.

"Because Princess Luna has no protection from my cannon," he said before turning his ACU to face where he kept Luna and the others. "And a dead princess will still fit my goals."

With that, he fired.

And I smirked.

Just as the shot left, a blue dome popped up, the area just barely protected by a shield I had the engineers build. "Ever heard of field engineers, bitch," I asked, pumping two over charge shots into his back as the six engineers move into the area, one reclaiming a wall segment. "I suggest you all get on one of them. I'll hold Sharp off." If they complained, I couldn't hear it. Regardless, I saw them each climb onto an engineer, two of said units carrying two ponies, and made their way to the water.

"I don't think so," Sharp said, leveling his barrel at them, but I rammed into him before the ACU could fire, resulting in its shot going wide to the left. I backed off, and fired two overcharge shots, which, with the barrage earlier and the gap between the firing taken into account, brought his ACU's integrity to seventy five. Yeah, fuck it.

Once the engineers were over the water, I went against my own rules. "Voice command: all combat dedicated units, redirect and target hostile ACU." As soon as the last syllable left my mouth, the Percivals in the water began to march out.

"I thought you said this would be one on one," Sharp said.

"This is war, motherfucker," I said. "And besides, you would do the same if our roles were reversed. And one other thing." Strategic launch detected. "I hope you like being in a sun," I said as the Percivals began to fire and bring the integrity low enough to where Sharps would be killed, much as he could be in a dream and a transport came to pick me up, as this nuke wouldn't have a long travel time. The reason why is because I also had a tech three strategic missile sub built but kept put of the main force, as it needed time to make a nuke, which it had been able to do. It just happened to be in the vicinity of this island.

Just as the transport got my ACU, I gave one last message. "Next we meet, Sharp, you will die." With that, I directed my transport back to my main base, and I had left the island just as two mushroom clouds, one from the missile, one from Sharp, came into existence. It was also then that the scenery changed.

Now, you may be asking what it changed to. Simple. It changed to the map I was in during my first dream here in Equestria. We all stood in a circle in the central area, which was filled with a shit load of Halo four UNSC weapons and vehicles, and, bad as I was at reading people, I could tell there was some tension between Luna, Selene, Artemis, assuming the last two want to be called that, and the other Elements, given how they stood apart from one another, as well as the looks. "So," I said, getting their attention, "I guess you four," I said, looking at Rainbow, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Pinkie, "mostly Rainbow Dash and Applejack, feel betrayed that Twilight and Rarity didn't tell you they were Luna's daughters?"

"Darn tootin'," Applejack said.

"And what does it change," I ask, crossing my arms. "I mean, yeah, their past isn't the same, but does that change everything you six have? You still have the same experiences, you six are the Element bearers, and who knows what else. They're the same ponies. If anything, there's just more to learn about with them." I can tell when people, or ponies, in this case, are going to be pissed. Plus, this is Applejack and Rainbow, here. Believe me, I needed to head things off before they even began.

"He isn't wrong, girls," Pinkie, cheerful as ever, said.

"There's really only one thing I want to know," Mist said. "You two going to stay with Celestia, or what?"

"Yeah, I'm a little curious too," Rainbow said. "But before you two say, I do want to point out that, much as I hate to admit it, the guy's right. Whatever you two decide, I'm okay with it."

"I have a name," I said.

"Yeah, I know," Rainbow said. "So, what are you two going with?"

"And more importantly, what do we call you two," I asked.

"Our birth names," Selene said. "Which would be Selene for me, and Artemis for my sister

"As for who we're going with? We said we'd stay with our mom," Artemis. "So, assuming Rainbow doesn't try to stop us once we wake up, we'll try to find where you and everypony else is, Josh."

"Don't" I said, raising a hand. "I'll come personally. We know where you are." And then I remembered something. "We need to wake up, now."

"Why," Luna asked.

"I just remembered. Sharp's in the south."

"In the same town as us," Rainbow said.

"Bingo," I said. "You'll have help holding him off until I get there. Right now, see ya later," I said, snapping to wake each of us up.

I jolted upright from where I lay on the ground, as did Luna as we got up. "How do we get there quick enough," she asked.

"We fly," I say before bringing into existence the fastest UNSC vehicle I know. And my personal favorite. The Falcon, this one having the chin mounted gun and two machine guns on the side. Fortunately, I knew it well, and we were at the edge of the camp for the night, and I was able to bring it quickly. "Come on."

Just as I got into the pilot cabin and Luna one of the seats inside, Mist and Quick came running. "Mist filled me in," Quick said. She would have been on patrol tonight, so she would have ran into Mist on his way here. "You guys need help."

"Get on the side guns," I said. "Operation is simple: point at what you want to hit, and pull the triggers. And hold on, we're going to top speed."

"I don't see how we can get to Appleoosa there," Mist said as he took the left gunner seat. "It's ten miles away."

"And this thing was meant to carry Spartans," I said, closing the canopy, and taking the vehicle into the air before gunning it in the direction of Appleloosa, intent on getting Selene and Artemis out of there.