Canterlot Castle- 30 minutes after Battle

"-and that is why we need more humans for tests. Humans are the perfect 'Guinea pig' so to speak because they are so similar to us ponies that any medications and treatments that work on them, work on us. So, Princess, Do you see why it would be benificial to have the state provide Labratories and research centers with human test subjects?" Explains Pill Bottle, A Doctor from canterlot hospital.

"Hmm i may have to think about this, the cost of this will be high, especially with medical tests mortality rate." Celestia says to the Doctor who came to her day court to petition about having the state pay for human test subjects for various things. The problem is that humans arent cheap to buy, and with the mortality rate of most medical tests, it would take a massive chunk of money from the treasury. But it would help save many pony lives.

During these thoughts a guard bursts in, covered in blood and with a terrified look on his face.

"P-Princess!!"

"Dear Faust what happened to you?!" Celestia shockingly states.

"Ponyville! Humans! Need reinforcements!" The guard, Sword Scabbard, panicky states in a frenzy.

"Calm down, Calm down. Now tell me what happened clearly."

"O-Okay.. So about 30 minutes ago the local Ponyville garrison of about 1000 guards went to react to a rumor of a human army marching its way to ponyville. We went to investigate and discovered the rumors were true! There was a massive force of humans, all clad in very well made armor and large red sheilds, marching in unison towards ponyville. Soon though they threw these strange Javelins and killed hundreds in the front lines. The javelins bent upon impact so we couldnt throw them back, or worse, got them stuck in one of us! Then they charged...." Scabbard starts to shiver in fear and terror at reliving those terrible moments. Seeing his friends and Fellow guards cut down in front of him as he ran like a coward.

"Then what happened? Did you repel them?" Celestia asks.

"N-No.. They drove us back.. They killed hundreds and captured those who didnt die. We only had 266 guards come back to ponyville alive."

The whole room is silent as he finally finishes he telling of the battle. All guards in the room in utter shock at how humans, out of all species, killed 700 guards in what seemed like minutes according to Scabbard.

"Call all generals and captains then tell them to meet me and my sister in the war room, i feel this may be the start of something bad. Do not let news of this defeat spread, we do not want other humans starting to riot all across equestria."

"Yes ma'm!" The guards scramble to get the word out to the generals and captains.

"Scabbard, i need you to come with me and tell me and the generals everything you can about those humans, how they foungt, their equipment, weapons, anything."

"Yes mam.."

Meanwhile With Captain Shining Armor.

Shining is busy regrouping the remaining guards he has to defend the town for the Siege of Ponyville. The townsfolk and many of the remaining human slaves in the town are busy setting up wood walls and palisades while keeping an eye out for a large group of red. As minutes go the guards and citizens of ponyville are confused as to why the humans didn't attack ponyville yet. Their grateful that they didn't but wonder why.

"Why haven't they attacked yet? they killed most of our guards so we wont be much of a threat so why not attack..." Shining mumbles to himself while waiting for a messenger to come back from Canterlot. Soon though a large group of 100 carriages pulled by pegassi land in town. Each carrying 3 Guards each, along with the 2 pegassi who pulled the carriage.

"Where is Captain shining Armor?" One of the Sargents asks.

"Right here, what do you need?"

"The princess' are ordering all captains and generals to be imminently transferred to Canterlot and head to the war room. Get in the carriage and go." The Sargent exclaims.

"Alright then. Thank you and be careful, these humans are tougher than they might look." Shining warns

"Their just humans, your guards were just recruits they were probably just panicked at their first battle. Lets see how these human rebels fair against veteran guards."

"Just be careful" Shining tells him as he boards the carriage to head to Canterlot.

5 Minutes later in The Canterlot Castle war room.

About 30 of Equestria's finest generals and Captains are seated around a table with a map of equestria on it. All telling stories of past victories and boasting about accomplishments that were very over exaggerated for glory. None of them knowing why they have been summoned and most not caring. For most have been bored at doing nothing but paperwork and overseeing training of recruits and guards. Most of the Ponies in attendance have never even seen a battle, most being nobles who decided to enlist for bragging rights and to seem braver for the mares or their wives. Being nobles, they were immediately promoted to officer ranks.

As everyone talks a door opens and enters Celestia herself, which quiet downs all conversations as she takes a seat at the far end of the table.

"You may be wondering why i have summoned you all here, as we have not had a conference of the generals since the Return of Tirek. So you may know that this is serious." Celestia says while looking over the faces of everyone in attendance. "I will now let Captain Shining Armor Explain the situation at hand, Captain, please enter." Celestia says, using her magic to open the doors to reveal a lightly bloodied Shining in dented armor and a few battle scars. Shocking most of the ponies seated at the table, with only the more experienced ones keeping their poker faces on.

"What in Equestria's name happened to you?" Exclaims a random Noble.

"Well" He takes a seat next to Celestia "I was going to investigate the massive magical teleportation spell that backfired a few hours ago along with Princess Twilight and a small squad of guards along with us. When, as we were about to enter Whitetail woods, we saw about 3 humans on some strange 4 legged pony like creatures, and the humans were wearing some strange armor with red highlights-"

"Pfft, some humans, whats the problem" Prince Blueblood says.

"Let me finish, Anyways skipping a bit of time, Rainbowdash, who was with us, tried to attack them and was stabbed in the side by one of the humans with a spear." Cue Gasping Nobles " So after taking her to the hospital i organized the Ponyville guards to crush the humans so they do not start a rebellion. As we marched to Apple Family farm we waited there for a map of the trails through it when we saw a large human 'army' marching towards us, all wearing silver armor and large red shields."

"I still do not see the problem, just crush this petty uprising like the last one." Blueblood says. All the while rolling his eyes.

"Blueblood! Silence!" Celestia yells at her nephew.

"As i was saying, we did try to crush them, but they weren't some simple human slaves who stole some armor. They were organized and very good at fighting. We lost over 700 Guards from 1000 and we dint even harm 1." Shining exclaims the last part to emphasis his point.

The room was silent. Even blueblood. The fact that a majority of a 1000 strong guard army was wiped out in one battle. And by humans. As the everyone looked each other in silence.

"Now. What do we do. We know they have at least 1000 human soldiers. Apparently well trained and fully armored. we know they came from the whitetail woods, which is where the spell landed. I believe the spell brought them here, for, from what Captain armor told us, They are well trained and good at fighting, which can only come from years of battle experience that a simple rebel group would never have been able to have. Now i need ideas, how do we stop these humans from doing more damage." Celestia Asks calmly.

"Ahem. Well, i believe we can simply muster a much larger force of veteran guards from canterlot and simply crush these humans and beat them with numbers. It would take no longer than a few days." Blueblood explains.

"I'm not sure that's a good idea, we don't know exactly how many there are or if they have hostages, we weren't able to tell if they killed all the guards who were simply injured or captured them. A full on assault would mean that many guards would be executed." Shining tells Blueblood.

"Well then we attack at night, and catch them while they sleep, they are only humans after all. Not only that but we have magic to teleport and make shields over any hostages."

"That's not going to work. I recommend we contain them before they escape. Surround whitetail woods and wait for them to run out of supplies or to attack our garrison, where we can simply divert our troops to surround them."

"Well those are both good ideas.." Celestia says while thinking 'some better than others'. "But we will settle this in the usual way, all who vote for bluebloods idea raise your hands."

A large majority of the ponies in attendance raise their hands, While the guards who have actually seen battle keep their hands down. Sadly the votes were 23 votes for BlueBlood and 6 for Shining.

Celestia sighs. "Ok looks like Blueblood's plan wins. Who do you think should lead the guards against the humans?" Celestia asks.

"Well i think i should lead the charge, obviously. For i have the most experience from the military academy" Blueblood says, while Celestia and shining roll their eyes. "I will start recruiting the best guards to lead a glorious charge against the simple humans.

Soon blueblood leaves and everyone but shining and Celestia.

"Shining. Please go with Blueblood to help him."

"Ill try to help, but I am not sure if he willlisten..."

To be Continued...

Author's Note

Finally finished with this chapter after a few days of having 0 words in it for a while. Laziness and writers block is a bitch. Thanks for reading. and remember, All constructive criticism is welcome as well as suggestions as to how the story should go, i might add it.