POV Blueblood..

Blueblood smiles to himself, his brilliant plan to easily take over the fort is coming to fruition. All it will take is to have the unicorns at the opposite side of the fort the rest his forces are attacking from. Not telling shining out of fear he will take the credit himself. But nonetheless he quickly orders his unicorns to prepare their spells as they organize into formation and start to march out into the artificial clearing and having arrow-fire begin to rain down on his troops, quickly being stopped by the shields of the unicorns.

"Haha those stupid humans cant possible win now, prepare to light the wooden forticifaction on fire unicorns. Lets burn them out like the rats they are!" Blueblood yells as he draws his sword and eyes the walls where the axuileries are hopelessly pelting the shields with arrows and javelins .

"Fire!" Blueblood smiles at his clever pun as the shields drop, causing a few guards to get hit with stray arrows and javelins, and fire a mass amount of fireballs at the wooden fort. Causing many fires to break out much to the panic of the Romans standing atop the fort.

"Lets see them run out and beg to be spared like the slaves their meant to be!" BB says to nobody in particular as he teleports back to base camp. Where he startles a slightly stressed Shining armor.

"BLUEBLOOD! Where are all of our unicorns! our guards are being hammered by arrows without forcefields to prote-"

"Fear not for i have just enacted a brilliant strategy! See!" Blueblood points to the growing fire at the opposite side of the camp. "I have set their camp on fire, now they will rush out and beg to be spared or die in a blaze!" he states giving himself a glass of wine.

"You idiot!" Blueblood spits out his wine. "Our guards are not in a position to be dealing with a frontal charge!" The sounds of yelling and trumpets sound from the fort causing both stallions to turn and see the gates opening as ponies are halfway up ladders and about to arrive with the rams. "YOU SEE!"

"I will have you court marshaled for insulting me! But i see they are coming out to surren-"

"No you idiot! Humans don't surrender when their cornered! they fight harder! Have you never picked up a history book!

"Of course not! History is not something a aspiring noble commander such as myself needs." BB States arrogantly

"Well you must have heard of the battle of thermometai 900 years ago, where 400 human 'speartins' nearly beat 10,000 equestrians. It is probably the only battle in recorded history of a human army nearly beating an equestrian one! and they only had 400 humans!" Shining yells angrily at blueblood, causing a few nearby guards to worry since none of them are commanding, as a tide of red clad humans rush out of the gates....

Roman side.. 5 Minutes ago..

"Alright men keep that arrowfire up! throw javelins when they get closer. And make sure to keep an eye on those ponies attempting to go around us!" Vesperianus yells to his sub commanders and messengers as they rush around to prepare all for the iminent breach of the gates and the scaling of the walls by the ponies.

"Sir the legionnaires are all ready at the gates and the archers are at half their arrows sir!" A messenger says rushing up to vesp.

"Good job, now-" Vesperianus is cut off by the smell of smoke and the sudden screams of 'fire', he quickly turns his head to see the walls where the unicorns were heading are now on fire. And spotting a legionnaire running from the blaze he quickly rushes to him. "What in the name of Marz happened here!"

"S-Sir the ponies with horns just summoned fire from their heads! A-and threw it at the walls! it all happened so quickly they even blocked our arrows with strange glass bowls they summoned out of nowhere!" The shaken up legionnaire states as more troops evacuate the burning walls or die in the fire or by jumping off to try to escape.

"Change of plans! you!" Vesperianus points to a random artillery. "Tell the centurions to prepare to charge out! and tell them to make the gates open when i blare my horn! Go!"

The auxiliary runs off and Vesperianus quickly rushes to the closest gate with legionnaires preparing for the ponies to bring the ram in but quickly look at Vesperianus as he rushes up to the gate and climbs on the walls to tell the men in the gatehouse to open the gate when he blares his horn. Then rushes back out.

"Legionnaires! The walls are on fire and we have to make a charge out! The ponies are disorganized and will not expect it! make sure to strike hard and strike fast! otherwise we will die in this burning hellhole!" He yells to his men as he grabs his sword and looks to the axuileries gathering behind the legions at the front before taking in a deep breath and breathing hard into his horn, blaring the sound throughout the fort. "CHAAARRGE!"

The gates swiftly open to a large group of confused looking ponies pulling a ram, a look that quickly turns to fear as the Romans yell out battle-cries as they charge out, shields raised and swords drawn, Quickly smashing into the out of formation guards and easily killing those on or preparing to go on the ladders. With the archers firing farther into the crowd of ponies scrambling to get into a formation the romans push back the ponies and kill many with stabs shield bashes and arrow-fire. The legionnaires quickly forming shield walls and stabbing at foolish ponies attempting to charge them and push forward, marching in unison as they have trained, while auxileries behind them toss javelins over their heads towards the still forming wall of scared and nervous pike-ponies only 10 metres away.

"Pilum!!" Vesperianus yells, halting the legionnaires who stab thier swords in the ground and draw their javelins, "Loose!" Vesp yells, with a quick wind up, The legion toss the javelins into the line of ponies with devastating results. Tens to hundreds die in the first volley and causing many to rout back to the reinforcements coming from the outer formations to watch for the cavalry. The legionnaires quickly grab their swords from the ground and charge, smashing into any ponies who didnt or couldnt rout quickly enough.

Screams of dead and dying ponies ring throughout as the ponies pull back to thier camps to get some space to re-organize their forces sacrificing those who stayed to be slaughtered.

POV Shining/Blueblood...

Shining watches in horror as the Humans charge out of their two remaining gates and straight into his unorganized guards. With no unicorns to support them and with most of their pegassi still out searching for the elusive humans who escaped, hundreds of earth pony guards die as the Romans cut them down to pieces and pierce them with javelins. Shining and Blueblood are frozen as they watch the one sided slaughter, Shining both marveling at how organized, well drilled, and fluent the humans are, and mortified at the amount of guards being slaughtered under his command.

Blueblood in a similar situation, but instead of admiring their training, he only sees barbarians slaughtering, although earth ponies, superior ponies where they stand. He quickly realizes he left ALL their unicorns on the opposite side of the fort. Even if they knew to come now they wouldn't get here in time. Swearing mentally at his short sided-ness he quickly snaps out of his trans like state and yells for the troops to retreat back to the edges of the camps and form a pike-wall. Sacrificing the Ponies who are still engaged with the humans in order to buy him some much needed time.

"Quickly! Form pike walls before the humans get closer!" Blueblood rushes out sword drawn prepared to save the day from 'Shining's' disaster. "You messenger! Go find our pegsassi and tell them to get their flanks over here now!"

"Prince Blueblood!" A Pegassi from the 3rd air regiment flies down, bloodied and having an arrow stuck in his side. "THEIR COMING!" She says out of breath and on the verge of passing out.

"Who!" Blueblood yells as the sound of hooves stomping in the distance is heard. "Ah yes! Re-enforcement! Now we can-"

"THEIR NOT OURS!" The mare yells as she passes out from blood loss, causing the prince to question who it is then as he, and many other guards hearing the noise, some cheering for their 're-enforcement', only to see, at the edge of the clearing 50 metres away, Lots of Humans, on their large 4 legged ponies, spears in hand and in armor different to the humans in the fort, With their mounts having heavy armor as well. Along with some wearing banners on their backs. Blueblood's eyes turn to pinpricks as he stares death in the face and runs back to his commanders tent..

POV Nagai, Japanese/ Alyattas, Byzantine

Nagai awaits his scout to return from the edge of the forest where the 'roman' base is being assaulted. Wanting to know if the time is right to attack. Stepping over a dead body of a Pegassi shot out of the sky by his and the byzantine archers. Taking the time from finding them to now to explain to Alyattas and his men of the situation they are in. Of course he did not believe him until a patrol of pegassi were shot out of the sky, causing all the doubts Alytattas and his men had to vanish. Boredom quickly set in as they waited, Alyattas forgetting to ask who is in the fort, quickly helps Nagai plan supply raids on the few supply lines the ponies have, as well as killing the scouts sent to search for the roman light cavalry.

1 day before the assault of the siege the Roman cavalry return, some with loot they said to have gathered from a 'self propelling carnage on metal tracks'. Many thinking they simply raided a village and stole those things. Alyattas never saw the romans directly and soon the cavalry all joined together, after the scouts came back with confirmation the fortress was under attack. Nagai and his elite samurai cavalry joining together with Alyattas and his Elite Cataphracts in a large wedge formation, with them at the tip of the spear marching in semi-uniform formation as they must weave their way through many trees. Small talk between samauri and cataphracts easing tension slightly.

"I forgot to ask" Alyattas says breaking the silence between the Nagai and himself. "Who are the ones inside of the fort, you never told me."

"Ah yes, I did forget. They call themselves 'Romans' I believe." Alyattas' heart skips a beat when he hears the R word.

"Were they clad in red shields, red skirts and shortswords?!"

"Uhh.. Yes they were, some carried banners with strange letters on them and wearing skins." Nagai says none the wiser that he told a Eastern roman (Byzantine) commander about the fact they are saving soldiers from the original roman empire. "Shh everyone quiet! there's the clearing! Prepare to charge." Nagai yells ironically as everyone shuts up and draws their lances and spears, putting on their helmets and telling their now talking horses to quiet down as well.

Soon they all line up at the border between the clearing and the forest on a slight hill overseeing the Equestrian camp and the fort, red soldiers and fire easily visible from the hill. the shade of the trees slightly hiding them from the ponies on the other side. A trumpet is heard and yells from the ponies as well as panic in the camp follow as the combined Japanese and Byzantine force watch the roman infantry charge out of their camp and cause havoc. "Now is the time! Come on Alyattas!" Alyattas quickly comes out of his thoughts and sees the situation. "Indeed it is! CHARGE!"

The combined force of the Byzantine and Japanese cavalry charge out of the treeline and into the clearing down the hill, both rider and horse yelling battlecries as they charge towards the back of the pikewalls formed by the ponies. One being seen running to a tent as most of the ponies are oblivious to the massive amount of cavalry charging at them from behind, That is until the Byzantine Light cavalry and the Japanese samurai rain arrows into their backs killing many and causing Ponies in their lines quickly turn around only to stare in fear as the cavalry charge is mere meteres from them.

Time slows down as ponies attempt to raise their pikes, few managing to do so, before being rammed into by horse, lance, and spear alike. Instantly vaporizing the back 3 lines of the pony pike wall and pushing out towards the front, riders slicing and stabbing ponies as they run them down. Causing a massive panic in their lines.

Seeing this the Romans charge and slam into the already panicking ponies pinning them in between the cavalry and the roman infantry. Bloodlust taking over most as they slaughter the ponies, who don't have enough space to use their pikes and many attempting to use their short-swords, with little effect. Blood, guts, heads fly as swords clash and yells of pain and help are silenced soon afterwards. The few remaining guards run away into the forest towards Ponyville, dropping all their armor, pikes, swords, and helmets to run faster. A Full rout to those not caught in the slaughter. Meanwhile Blueblood and Shining teleport themselves and a few nearby guards back to Ponyville with an emergency spell shining set up.

Within minutes the battle is over, All the participating parties cheer as the Japanese and Byzantine infantry rush in to help but disappointingly find out they missed the fight and go to loot the bodies of the ponies anyways. Soon the armies disperse to gather up the supplies the equestrians left over and to steal their tents for themselves as the fire engulfs the roman fort in the background....

To be Continued....

Author's Note

Finally finished this chapter, ill probably be off for a week since finals are coming for me. Wish me luck, anyways hope you liked this chapter and hope it was worth the wait. Also thanks to whoever first mentioned the 'winged hussars' song a while ago like during my first few chapters.