Combined Arms

Equestrian Royal Guard Encampment

Ponyville.

POV Captain Shining Armor

Shining's morning was not going to well, Blueblood's insistence on a straight forward battle with them, The magic draining last night, The potential threat of another human army arriving from wherever the first one came from, and the fact that Blueblood doesn't bring coffee has made his morning a mess. The fact that he gets to spend time with his sister makes it slightly more bearable though. Currently Sitting with Twilight, Shining is enjoying a nice cup of coffee from Sugarcube corner made by ,a slightly less energetic, Pinkie pie.

"I swear Blueblood's talking is going to kill me faster than any sword or spell would. He wont shut up about his 'accomplishments' and how he graduated at the top of his class at the academy." Shining complains to Twilight.

"I know Shining, but you got to try to reason with him, we both know hes incompetent and has an ego bigger than the sun."

"I try but he is too stubborn, and its not like the troops will listen to me, they all adore Blueblood, they think he will save the day and magically give them victory. They look up to him and don't know how bad of a soldier he is."

"Just try, Use reverse psychology, it works for when i need to get Rainbowdash to do something, Speaking of rainbow. Shes recovering quickly though that spear did almost hit her spine, luckily it didn't and she will be able to fly by tomorrow."

"That is good to hear twi, Glad she didn't have anything serious. Anyways i got to go, Blueblood is going to give a speech before we march out. I gotta be there." Shining says as he stands up, scarfs down his coffee and starts walking back to the camp.

"Bye Shining"

50 Minutes later...

After Blueblood's long speech addressing the Equestrian guard army about what they will face and that they will have certain victory and bring honor back to the guard after their defeat the other day, The guards in attendance all cheered and shouted praises at Blueblood. Many believing he will lead them to victory against the rebellious humans. While others cheer at their chance to avenge their fallen brothers. As Blueblood walks off the stage and into his private tent, shining follows.

"That was quite a speech, i must admit, you do know how to give a rousing speech." Shining tells Blue blood as he enters the tent.

"Of course it was, i made it, and i did take many classes on poetry and giving speeches in my spare time. One thing they teach you in the Academy is, Keep your troops spirits high, then they will follow your orders blindly." Blueblood says back as he grabs a cupcake from a table.

"Well what shall we do now?"

"We march at sunset, and send pegassi scouts to find the army's location so we may fight them. Then we can surround them with our numbers while they are sleeping and capture them all."

"Okay, a reasonable plan. Kinda surprised that came from you, are you sure your blueblood?" Shining jokes

"Ha-ha very funny captain." Blueblood smirks "Anyways, get the troops ready, we march as soon as possible."

"Alright" Shining says as he leaves the tent to organize the army.

Meanwhile with Twilight and Co.

"So my the army is going to march into the woods by tomorrow to stop the humans, i sure hope nothing bad happens to shining" Twilight states to the mane six, all sitting in their respective seats around the crystal table in Twi's castle.

"Ah sure hope those humans get what's coming to them, Maybe Ah should ask shining that once they capture all them humans ah can use them to replace the ones they took from mah farm. Otherwise we wont be able to harvest our apples this year and well be in serious trouble!" Applejack complains "Ah cant wait to see the faces of those humans once shining and the guards bring them back in chains."

"Applejack calm down.." Fluttershy says. "Your overreacting, and Im sorry about what happened to your humans but i think its for the better" Fluttershy states, firmly believing that humans shouldn't be slaves and should be free.

"It ain't for the better, ah might lose mah farm without those humans picking the apples, we got a huge order for zap apple jam when the season starts in a week and ah cant harvest nearly enough zap apples with just me and Big mac. We will lose our farm!"

"Whats more important, a farm or the lives of hundreds of living beings!" Fluttershy snaps back at AJ

"Their just some dumb humans!"

"Girls stop fighting!!" Twilight Snaps "This is no time to be fighting. Now apologize to eachother!"

The room is silent as the 2 girls sigh. Aj swallows her pride and apologizes after fluttershy does.

"Now that you guys made up lets change the subje-" Twilight is cut off as the Cutie map lights up and the cutie marks of the 6 start blinking.

"OOOH where we going this time!" Pinkie pie says excitedly as all 6 marks are on the board. Moving towards vanhoover and floats above the city on the map"

"Alright Vanhoover, ive never been there before. I wonder what the problem is there" Rainbow Says excitedly.

"I wonder what it is as well but we wont find out staying here. Though its late, lets go tomorrow after breakfast then..."

Meanwhile With Nagai....

"And that is what we found out so far.." Seranchi finishes

"That sounds utterly ridiculous, if it weren't for the fact that we were brought here by a lightning storm forming a circle around us then i wouldn't even hesitate to say you were lying.. but this does still seem too ridiculous to believe." Nagai responds

"You wont have any doubts after we show you some of the 'ponies', as they call themselves."

"I hope your right, And is that your base?" Nagai says while pointing to a large artificial clearing About 300 meters ahead on the side of the trail.

"Yes that is it, let me ride ahead and tell my commander you have arrived"

As Seranchi rides ahead, Nagai's army slows down and stops in front of a small group of legionnaires guarding the road. The legionnaires admiring the armor and weapons of the Japanese and the Japanese Admiring the Romans armor and shields. Soon a large gathering of Romans gather in front of the Japanese army, each army trying to figure out where the other came from and who they are.

After 3 minutes of an intense stare off between the Romans and Japanese Vesperianus walks past his legionnaires and meets Nagai halfway between their two armies.

"Greetings, I am Vesperianus, Primus Pilus of the 9th legion of Rome. And who might you be?"

"I am Nagai, Heir to the northern province of Japan. Pleasure to meet you Vesperianus."

Nagai extends his hand and Vesperianus shakes it.

"Now that we have formalities out of the way, Why dont we have our armies greet eachother?"

"That would be a good plan Vesperianus, and while they do that i expect you to back up the claims your scout told me about where we are."

"Of course, follow me." Vesperianus leads Nagai towards the fort as the Legionnaires and Samurai merge and start talking to eachother...

To be continued...

Author's Note

Hey guys i am REALLY sorry for making this A lot later than usual its just cause Civilization 6 came out and ive been all over that shiz. But i plan to continue writing this so thanks waiting. may be less frequent though due to lazyness and the hype for this story going down for me.