Equestria's Supreme Commander

So, as it turns out, an ACU has scanners for mass deposits. Explains that part of the games, I'll admit. A large amount of deposits had been found near where I teleported in, actually at an area with a large hill, a small mountain, really, facing Equestria. Perfect. I pressed the middle finger button of the left control panel, which brought up the build menu. "Access Cybran Schematics," I say to make it easier to find what I need. "Mass Extractor." This selected said structure, and, on three of the deposits, I placed a single mass extractor. "Power Generator," I said, and that was brought up next, and I placed three in a sort of triangle pattern, away from everything else right now, the beginnings of a energy grid. "Land Factory." Again, it was selected, and I cued up two next to to each other at the base of the mountain. I also had a HUD, which showed what my mass and energy total, current, and storage maximum was. Too bad I don't have anything to use to use strategic zoom. Shame. Any way, due to the close proximity, I finished the Extractors quickly before moving to the generators, which would be at the back of this compartment of the base.

Now, how I was building this thing had defense in mind. It would have three sections with a wall on the outside and between, a single path leading to each. The current one was for tech one levels, the middle for tech two, and the last would be tech three, where I would have to use a UEF engineer for the Ravager point defenses, four factories of land and air at each. I had turned the factories to where the open end, which would leave units open to fire, faced back towards where the very back of the base would be, a safety precaution to prevent unit destruction while being built. I still wonder why the original and FA didn't allow that. At least SupCom 2 protected the units.

Once all three groups had been finished, I set up a more complicated cue. My two factories made tech one engineers, two each. One, I had finish my energy array, which is a square, of increasing size from the base model of four storage sites, which add five thousand units of energy to my standard,and five actual generators, four at the corners of the center one. Just add a second square to that, an energy facility at the corner of each generator in the first level, a storage facility adjacent to the level ones. That engineer was finishing the first level and adding the second. Engineer two would build mass facilities at the remaining points near the base, which totaled twelve without the ones already taken, fifteen with. By luck, they were arranged in groups of five spaced well apart, with would help with base separation. Three would do mass storage, adding five hundred units of mass to my basic. Four would handle the most important right now, and that is intel, which would be followed by two air factories, which I would give a patrol route to be followed by interceptors. Low altitude to avoid detection, of course. Hey, if they declare war on me, I will gladly show them where my base is, then nuke Canterlot to hell. Only if they attack me. Cybran units may be built to be aggresive, but they can be very effective defenders.

Once the radar and air factories were done, and the first part of the wall that represented the front of my base in an arrow shape was completed and I moved on to the next part as I had Engineer Two begin on point defense, which I had set to track, but not shoot. In other words, hold fire, though I did make a shortcut to make it to where they would go to return fire mode, and Engineer one would be set to building AA clusters in X patterns, lines, or small clusters, as it's my personal experience that tech one AA is not that accurate, like a shot gun at range. Once the intel was done, I began to get readings, small stuff, mostly, just birds for now, but it would come in handy for later to see any pegasai guards inbound. Four begin work on the air factories, which I would have make five interceptors on a patrol route. Well, for the Cybran ones. The Aeon ones, I would tech up to two, and transport engineers to other locations. In the Aeon case, the north, as their chrome armor is extremely reflective. Add white coloration, and pretty much invisible in a blizzard. For UEF? Yeah, probably wait on them. Once every thing but the AA was done, I put the land factories to teching up to level two, who would then construct, in order from first tech two engineer to last, air staging facilities, anti air flak,  tech two power, which actually gave out twenty five times the tech one, which would power the shields the last would build. But that would be boring for you guys, I'm not stupid. So, I'll pick my part of the story back up a few days later from when I began to build the base, otherwise I'd be holding the story up, so I'll let Twilight start where she left off, as that has stuff currently relevant to the plot. Twilight?

Twilight-1st

Thanks, Josh. Okay, so, it had been an hour since me and the others had seen Josh kill Tirek, we still didn't know his name. Really, all we knew was that he was powerful enough to kill Tirek, which scared each of us, even Rainbow, even if she hid it. Anyway, the nine of us, my friends, myself, and the princesses, were in Canterlot, Discord who knows where, even if I had objected otherwise to Celestia letting him go after what had happened with him, even if he felt sorry for it, and Spike was in Ponyville, getting what he could to help build us a new home. Of what he said, everypony was helping out.

"So you six were beaten by Tirek," Luna said, making sure we had explained everything right, "and he was beaten by something you believe to be another demon from Tartarus?"

"Yep," Applejack said. "Ah mean, it had horns and was colored red with a hint of black."

"And that makes it evil," Luna deadpanned. I saw where she was going with that logic, I don't know why, but I used my magic to close Applejack's mouth before she said something. She may be the Element of Honesty, but even she didn't think some things through before saying. In case you couldn't tell, her logic train was that ponies assumed that dark colors equaled evil, which would bring the question is she was evil, which we all knew she wasn't, which would lead to us just assuming it was evil. I'll admit, she wouldn't be wrong. And, when you think about it, Josh did have a fair point earlier. For all we knew Tirek could have engineered his escape, including Cerberus leaving his post. Which meant he could have done so again. So from Josh's perspective, he was doing what was right. Still didn't excuse him. Of cours,e he did do that later, but that's getting ahead here.

"But princess," I said, "it also killed Tirek. I mean, Tirek wasn't good, but I don't think he deserved death."

"By today's standards, you would be correct," Luna said. "But by the laws from before my banishment, what he would have done would have gotten him death. The only reason he was in Tartarus was because it was on conspiracy to do so."

"Luna, that's enough," Celestia said upon seeing our surprised, and shocked, faces.

"Of course, sister," Luna said, though it was clear she was a little bitter. I wouldn't find out until later as to why, even if all of Luna didn't know then. I know that's confusing, but I'll get to it later, I promise. Celestia then sighed.

"I was afraid of this," she said. "There is something the seven of you must know."

"What's that, auntie," Cadence asked.

"An old prophecy from Starswirl's time," the princess replied. "Luna and I call it 'The Demon Prophecy'. I do not remember it all, but the basics went like this: When Equestria has fallen, a force from the stars will arrive, the first sign being the arrival of a black and red being with no qualm of killing. The demons shall ravage Equestria, destroying the sun of Equestria and bringing with them an eternal darkness for those on Equis. When things are at their darkest, a demon born of flames will appear, and Equis' fate, decided. I believe it clear what you all saw is the first sign, and that more of its people will soon arrive." She looked at me and the others. "You six must be ready to defend Equestria, as it is stated they have no qualms against killing."

We looked at each other, and nodded before standing up. "Princess," I said, "if it means protecting Equestria, we would do anything." Little did I know that statement would cause chaos on an unimaginable scale later on because I couldn't follow through.