Whitetail Woods.... POV Nagai...

As the night fell nagai can see the massive amount of lights in the distance around the Roman fort. The Equestrians besieging their new allies fort, but he must hope they can hold out for long enough that the plan can work otherwise they will be slaughtered. But now he must hurry, rushing his troops to marching faster but quietly so that they can leave without the Ponies knowing they are there.

"Sir i think we are in the clear, they probably don't know we even exist, As we have only been here for a day."

"Thank you for the update, let us hurry, just in case their flying ponies make patrols around here." Nagai responds to his sub commander

Soon the army marches farther and farther away from the siege. heading towards their objective that will take advantage of the fact that the ponies don't know the Japanese exist yet. Soon they slow down enough so they are not on a forced march and they wont be tired by the time they get to-...

Siege of Roman fortification... Day 5 of the Seige....

Five days have passed and the equestrians have yet to move in for the assault, there have been a few archer clashes but nothing important, and luckily no major injuries other than a few arrow hits and scrapes. Though the food situation is slowly going to become a problem since they did not have much time to stockpile food and they may only last 5 more days, 7 if they stretch rations. For the plan to work the Romans would need to hold out for at least a week and a half if the Japanese rush. but most likely it would take 2 weeks to accomplish the goal.

Vesperianus is torn from his thoughts when a centurion walks into his personal tent

"Sir one of our Gallic auxiliaries has asked if he could speak to you about a plan he thought of."

"Let him in, i could use any ideas at the moment" He says while setting up 2 stools in front of his makeshift battle map of the fort and nearby woods.

Soon the Gallic Auxiliary enters the tent and sits in front of Vesperianus.

"So you have an idea? lets hear it."

"Yes sir, i learned this from one of my tribes history long before the Rome conquered Gaul, a siege was conducted on a small fortified city and much like us they did not have many supplies to hold out, but they bargained some prisoners of war for supplies which ultimately saved them as a relief force arrived a few weeks later."

"So what your saying is we use the captives we took from the fruit farm and bargain them for supplies?"

"That is exactly what im saying, whether the 'ponies' will accept the offer i am not sure but if they do we might be able to hold out enough for whatever you and that other general had planned." The Gallic man says

"hmm.. that might work.. depending if they accept the deal, but no harm in trying. Go, get a few horsemen and tell them of this plan, ill get a few of the prisoners ready for the deal..."

30 Minutes later.. Equestrians POV...

"-And that is how we might be able to peirce the walls, and when the gate falls-" Blueblood is interuppted by a messenger bursting into his tent

"Sir! I am sorry to interrupt but you must see this, its the humans. they have 10 royal guards that were captured from the battle of ponyville and they have them in front of their fortress!" The messenger says urgently

"I think this can wait blueblood we must see what the humans are planning" Shining says while putting on his helmet and grabbing his sword as he follows the messenger to the front of the lines to see what the humans have planned.

All the Guards are watching as 10 of their own are lines up in front of their fort gate, wondering why they have them there and some thinking that they are going to publicly beat them or worse, execute them. but those thoughts are put on hold as a single rider rides up to Shining and Blueblood, guards raising their Halberds as the horseman stops a few meters away from their lines.

"Who is in charge here?" The roman horseman yells

"That would be me and him" Blueblood exclaims while pointing to himself and Shining.

"My commander wishes to make a deal with you-" The horseman is cut off by Blueblood

"We will not make deals with you human rebels!" BB exclaims at the horseman who huffs

"If you dont listen to the deal then one will be executed!" He exclaims for dramatic effect, hoping that that will change their minds about negotiating. And from the looks of their faces it seems to have worked, for many guards show faces of concern or horror after the statement.

"Now Blueblood maybe we should hear their proposal out.." He then whisperer to Blueblood, "i will not lose anymore Guards for no reason" he says to Blueblood

"Fine, tell us what your demands are 'human'" Blueblood says while saying the word human in disgust.

"We demand a large shipment of food for each guard." His voice yells out, with many guards silenced by the request.

"Hmm let us think about this-" Shining is interrupted by the Horseman

"You have 10 minutes to decide before one is executed, and by the looks of it, its the youngest one!" The horseman says while riding back to the gate next to his commander who puts the 10 guards on their knees with 10 legionnaires behind each one with swords drawn, ready for the order to kill in case it comes to that.

Soon the 10 minutes are up and the Horesman rides back to the equestrian lines.

"Have you made your decision yet?" The horseman asks Shining.

"Yes we have, we will give you the supplies in exchange for the prisoners!" Shining yells back, giving a few orders to his guards to get the crates of food ready.

"Good choice, and don't think of poisoning it, we will test the food on a few of the prisoners we still have to be sure you haven't tried any tricks!" The Horseman yells back, seeing the carts full of food being rolled to the front of the Equestian lines and orders his squad of horsemen to hook their horses up to the carts and roll them towards the fort. The equestrians tensing up and gripping their weapons tighter as the Humans approach mere meters away from them and take their food to the fortress. And as soon as the 20 wooden carts full of wheat, fruits, and vegetables go past the gates the Legionnaires on the outside of the fort with the prisoners release 5 guards, letting them run back to their equestrian brethren. But start bringing the other 5 guards back to their fort. Soon though shining runs halfway to them and yells to them.

"HEY YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO RELEASE ALL OF THEM!!" He yells at them angrily.

"Next time bring more food if you want to see them alive!" The Cocky horseman yells back while laughing to his fellow soldiers in arms as they go back into their fort and close the gates.

"We had a deal!" Shining yells

Nobody responds and shining's frustration only grows at the arrogance of these humans to go back on their deal like this.

"You will regret this humans!" He yells again at nobody in particular.

Soon though an arrow strikes near his foot and he recoils in shock and runs back to the equestrian lines as a few more arrows strike the ground near him, with laughing Roman archers on the walls who are presumably the ones who fired upon him. And as to taunt them more they raise the SPQR Banner on the 4 watchtowers on the walls.

"Sir are you alright?" A random royal guard asks his commander.

"I am fine... just.. fine!" Shining says through his teeth as he storms off to his tent.

To be Continued....

Author's Note

Hey guys sorry about the long ass delays on the updates but as said before im not as into writing htis story as before so my next few chapters will probably be around 1000 to 2000 words long, but i will try to update more often.

Also Mount and blade Warband is fun.