I stood in front of Sharp and the Taken he controlled, my left hardlight wrist blade and right energy sword lit. "I didn't know you were allied with Oryx, Sharp," I said.

"Well, he did offer me what I wanted for helping him," Sharp said. "But you won't find out what that is. Take him while I find the Night's daughters." With that, Sharp turned to the left, and left as the Taken moved forward and closer to me.

"Well, this is going to be fun," I said sarcastically before the first Taken, Taken Thralls, annoying assholes who could short distance teleport and were melee enemies. Yeah.

Anyway, though they moved at a walking pace, their teleportation had them reach me pretty quickly, but I quickly cut them down, causing them to melt as if they were liquid. And before you ask, no, I don't know how that works, I just know it's their usual death animation in Destiny. The few that were able to hit me with flame infused claws, again, no idea, had their attacks blocked by the amulet Luna had given me, and were killed before they could try again. After them came the Taken Acolytes, which weren't much different than from before they became Taken, soulless abominations, except that they can summon something called "Acolyte's eye", which is essentially an easy to destroy turret.

Of what I could see, there were twenty of them, and ten of them opened fire with their weapons, which, in essence, fired lightning, while the other half summoned their Eyes. Thankfully, they can only summon one apiece. Unfortunately the eyes had a fast rate of fire, and ten meant high damage per second. Joy.

Anyway, I began to move before the massacre of me could begin, and kept moving, or risk being torn to shreds or vaporized, both being equally bad, and, with my two blades lit, made my way to each Eye, intent on removing those first as I dodged fire from all else, and killing whichever Acolytes got in my way, which was only five. Still, once I made it to the first Eye, I began to slice and dice through them with my hardlight blade, and alternating to the energy sword for every third strike.

It took five strikes each to remove the Eyes. The only reason I survived was because of the amulet and my shields, as I alternated between the two. From there, I proceeded to take out the Acolytes themselves, which was easier than the Eyes, as it took only a single slice to kill them, and I used my thrusters to get in close for them.

After them came the area denial assholes, which is to say the Taken Knights, who can, I swear I am not kidding, spit fire, and there were twenty of them. For this, I decided to bring out the big guns. I deactivated the hardlight blade and sword, put the sword hilt on my thigh, and, from my back, drew the Didact's Signet.

With that, I ran to the nearest Taken Knight, and, before it could swipe at me, I unloaded a shot into its chest, making it disintegrate in that way only Forerunner weapons can do. I then ducked under a shot from one of their weapons, which fired void energy, far as I can tell in Halo terminology, and fired off another shot, killing another, which left six.

I used my thusters to avoid shots from the others, and drew the open hand boltshot, and fired it, with the whole clip killing two more.. I dropped it, and drew the closed fist, and fired, killing another two. This left two Knights and the annoying, for me anyway, Taken enemy type. Taken Wizards. They have tracking shots, and move at high speed. Yeah, they are annoying fuckers.

"Well, time for the bigger guns," I said before summoning a vehicle I knew well. One with a. . .sting to the enemy. "Fuckers, meet tank!" I summoned a Scorpion. "DIE!" I fired the main cannon, which killed each of them. "Now. Promethen group Zeta. Where's Sharp?"

Outskirts of Appleoosa

"Good thing this town was evacuated during the first days of the war," Luna muttered as she heard an explosion. "Sounds like Josh is having fun." Here, a Promethean Knight walked up to her.

"Princess Luna," it said, "escort team is enroute to our current location with your offspring and the Element of Loyalty."

"Are they safe?" Luna asked, concern in her voice.

"At the moment," the Knight replied. "ETA for their arrival is thirty seconds."

"While mine," Sharp said, making Luna whip her head around behind her, "is now." Sharp stood about ten feet away from Luna, and he held a Taken weapon, the one Acolytes used, and had it pointed at Luna. "Tsk, tsk, Luna," he said. "I thought you knew that if you betrayed me, you'd pay for it. And here I was planning on being merciful and letting you and your daughters be together after I took over."

"You think we would live under your control?" Luna asked. "Assuming you could take over at all. I'm certain that when what you plan on doing is revealed to my sister and the other leaders, they'll join together to stop you at least."

"Highly unlikely," Sharp said before he conjured up a familiar collar. "I imagine you know what the control brace is? Well, you see, I already have one on Chrysalis, Sombra, and Cadence. I was about to put one on your daughters and Rainbow Dash before they woke up. Perhaps once my allies forces kill the human and subdue you, perhaps I'll put this one on you, and have you go to Canterlot, and bring your dear sister into the fold."

Luna growled before she used her magic to summon a sword. "Never, traitor."

"You think I betrayed Equestria?" Sharp asked before chuckling. "Oh, no. I'm doing what I ma to make it a strong nation. It's because of your sister and her incompetence that you became Nightmare Moon; it's because of her that Cerberus left his post, and Tirek escaped. It's because of her allowing trips in the gardens that Discord escaped! If it were me, I would have smashed that statue the first chance I got to ensure he didn't come back! I'd rather be a monster who protects his home than some softass who just let's threats roll over her. The Caribou? I told them I would help them, so long as Dainn made Celestia my slave. Before I would kill him and every Caribou, just to prove I was set on protecting my home. Try and tell me you didn't have that line of thinking before your banishment and upon your return!"

This made Luna lower her sword a little. "You are right," she said. "I did have that line of thinking before." She then glared at Sharp. "And I still do. But I will not be seen as a monster to protect my home." It was here that Artemis, Selena, the Prometheans escorting them, and Rainbow ran into the picture.

"And look who's here," Sharp said before three more control braces popped into existence. "Time to grow my army a little more," he said before flinging the three braces in the direction of the three new pony arrivals, who were being held in place by Sharp's magic.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Three thunderclaps rang out, and the three control braces exploded. "What?" Sharp said before his eyes narrowed. "Damn him."

Josh

"Boom times three, bitch," I whispered as I reloaded the Sniper I had made before climbing onto a roof, the Scorpion tank on the street below. I saw Sharp turn and I think snarl at me before he teleported away. "Mist, Quick, you there?"

"Yeah, we're here," Quick said. "You're lucky we can fly, because we landed away from the fighting. Where are you?"

"Northern part of the town. Luna and the others are here. I'll meet you once I take care of something."

"Just don't do something stupid this time," Mist said. "I want to live to see my next birthday, which is in a week, by the way."

"Copy," I said. With that, I put the rifle on my back, and sat down in a meditative pose. Time to get to mental work.

Ten minutes later

Mist and Quick had arrived where Luna and the others were, with some hostility between Mist and the Element bearers, which was understandable, while Luna and her daughters, for the first time in over a thousand years, embraced. It was a tearful reunion, one that Rainbow, having only known her father, could only imagine what it was like to reunite with a lost parent, and didn't want to ruin the moment. The only wods spoken there, the only ones needed, were, "I missed you two," by Luna.

"Us, too," by her daughters. They knew it was cheesy, and a little cliche, but they didn't care. The moment was ruined, unfortunately, by Josh coming in with a large, airborne vehicle, colored olive green, two wings coming from the sides, with flames coming from the back of them, as well as the tail of the vehicle.

Josh set the vehicle down, the tail end facing the group, and a hatch opened up, with Josh stepping out the back. "Ride's here, guys," he said. "If you're ready, that is."

"Almost," Artemis said before she and her sister turned to face Rainbow. "I guess you and the others will have to come after us next time we see each other, huh, Rainbow?"

"Yeah, I guess," Rainbow said. She then looked at Josh. "If you even hurt Twi and Rarity, your armor won't help you."

"I'm so scared," Josh said, sarcasm in his voice. "Promethean group Zeta, return to the main group. Everyone else, if you guys are ready, get on."

The three ponies of the night looked at each other, small smiles on each face. "Well, see ya guys," Rainbow said before she spread her wings, and flew away.

"I suppose we had best leave, too," Luna said to her daughters. "After all, you two do need time to get to knw your stepfather."

"We aren't married yet," Josh snapped, though with a joking tone. "Come on. I need to pick something up."

"What?" Luna asked.

"A Scorpion," was all Josh said, bringing confusion to the faces of all before they shrugged and boarded the Pelican Josh had made, the hatch closing as they sat down. Josh put the ship in the air, picked up the tank, and, with the tank and the others on board, made his way back to the rest of his army.

Author's Notes:

I hate villains who do shit simply because.