The Legion continues to march onwards, With the fortress in sight, the cavalry rides ahead to put their horses to rest and to get the general out for the legate. While the horses with the wagons stay behind the legionnaires. With the gates opening for the cavalry and the men on the walls waving to the approaching legion, Seeing the new additions of wagons and loot, many cheer their victory over whomever they fought. The noise of the men on the walls drawing the other men out from their barracks to cheer their comrades and welcome them back. As the legionnaires walk into the fortress, the blood and dented shields show the men who stayed they had won a victorious battle. But when the wagons roll in the cheers turn to confused whispers as the soldiers catch glimpses of the ponies and the freed slaves.

"Is that a blue horse?"

"By jupiter that one has a horn."

"That one has wings!"

"We are not on the rhine thats for use."

"An explination on our situation will be given by the general the next day! Now go back to your barracks! Its already night you should be asleep!" The legate yells out, quieting the murmurs and causing the troops to dispurse back to their posts or beds. "Everybody else, Get your rations and clean your armor. Get the wounded to the doctors and go to bed. Youve all earned it. Though you men guarding the wagons follow me, We must show the general what we have found."

The men nod and disperse or follow the legate as ordered. The legate himself heading to the center of the camp, Giving his horse to a fellow cavalryman to be taken back to the stables and walking the rest of the way to the generals office. Knocking on his door.

"Door is open. Enter."

The legate walks in and salutes to the general. "Sir we went to the village as ordered and.." Marcus Pauses.

"And what Legate Marcus? What did you find?" The general asks, looking up at the legate.

"Well you might want to see for yourself. We have prisoners after the battle-"

"Battle? How many men did you lose? Who did you fight?" Varian asks, standing up and walking over to the door.

"I will have your report on your desk after this, but sir, this is important." Marcus opens the door showing Varian the prisoners currently on the wagons, guarded by some legionnaires.

The general freezes in place. Staring at the the ponies then looking back at Marcus. "Is this a joke? Ill have you know that i will have you lashed if this is a joke."

"Sir this is no joke, these ponies-"

"Ponies?"

"Thats what they call themselves."

"They talk as well?" Varian asks astonished, taking a step closer to the ponies. Seeing most have wounds accept for one, Who looks at him with hate in her eyes.

"Yes sir and they are the ones who attacked us."

"How many were there and how many did you lose versus them?"

"About eight thousand-"

"Seven thousand.. Seven thousand couldnt beat you.." An injured earth pony mumbles. Looking around at where he is.

"They do speak.. Hm well take them to the prison to be interrogated. And get one of the stable masters to check their wounds. They might be better at it then the doctors." Varian states, watching the men roll the wagon past him towards the prison. "And them?" Varian points to the Slaves huddling together with blankets taken from the village.

"They are apparently slaves to the ponies. From what they told me humans are considered traitors here. Yet they appear as capable as us if not starved." Marcas states, shaking one of the men on the cart to wake up. "Come i need you to explain everything to the general."

"Aye.. give me a minute.." he states, carefully getting up and draping the blanket around his waist. Walking with legate Marcus and Varian inside his office. Varian pulls a seat to let the man sit down as he sits behind his desk. Grabbing a quill, ink, and a paper.

"This may take a while to explain. Ill need to start along time ago for you to get the full image. it all started hundreds of years ago. Humans created their own civilizations alongside the other species. Ponies, griffins, Minotuars-"

"Minotuars?" Marcus asks, taking off his helmet and putting it on the table.

"Let him finish Legate."

"Yes, minotuars, And others. We were less naturally gifted then them. Having less strength then minotaurs, no flight like pegassi and griffins and no magic. We were easy pickings for conquest early on, Though we never made it easy. Some City states took years to take down from what ive heard. Ever since then humans have been either slaves or second class citizens. Equestria being the place where we were treated better than most. Relatively speaking. We were still persecuted and not well liked. That all changed when Luna decided to help us."

"And who is luna? You mentioned her before." Marcus asks.

"Luna is the alicorn of the moon. The kindest of the Celestial Sisters, and the only one who saw the plight of us humans. She tried to help us. Change laws to stop our persecution by ponies. Yet her attempts were always delayed by her sister or the so called nobles.." He states with slight malice. "Even outright blocked. Eventually luna decided her sister was too obsessed with protecting her ponies at the expense of others, She confronted her. But was threatened by the nobles and her sister did nothing to stop them. They stripped her of her princesshood and cast her out."

He takes a moment to take a drink of water as well as to let Varian catch up writing. "And then she did it. She Incited a rebellion against her sister. Taking her like minded bat ponies and any humans she could find to create a lunar kingdom. But her efforts were threatened when the royal guard and army were sent after her. She couldn't let the humans she liberated across the countryside to simply go back without a fight. So they attacked. A Single battle in the civil war, that's all it took. We nearly won the war right there. That is until Celestia used dark magics to banish her sister. She disguised it as using an artifact called the 'elements of harmony' to 'evict the evil that has infested her sister', But its all lies to protect her image to her ponies." He takes another gulp of water. Watching as Varian writes quickly the details and Marcus intently listens in.

"Then after that. Humans were enemy number one in equestria. All rights, what little we did have, were stripped away and we were enslaved. Much like in the griffin kingdom. Yet last time i heard the Minotaur were a bit more lenient but they live an ocean away. As for my story, I was a farmer in an cornfield when luna declared her freedom for humans. So me and my family joined her, and then i joined her army. But when it was all over with i was shipped off to this town to be sold off. My family is luna knows where. All revolts i've heard of the past five years were either small scale and put down by local militias or simple fizzled out after humans starved out in the woods and hunted by militias and bounty hunters. But you guys.. You have a fort and are trained. Where did you come from? Your certainly not still hiding out from the war, especially with.. these numbers and equipment.."

General Varian and Legate Marcus look to each other. Varian finishing his notes as he rests his quill and clears his throat. "Well we are not sure how we got here, But from where we are from. There aren't any other intelligent species. Only humans. We hail from the Roman Empire, Thus our training and Equipment. How our entire fortress was put here is beyond us. But from what you said, this world has magic. So that is one possibility. Or simply Jupiter is bored."

"Yes, i saw those with horns fire these brightly colored bolts from them. Some men called them 'Magic Arrows'. From what you said of these 'alicorns' they sound powerful."

"They are. Luna used to move the moon, But now Celestia moves both the sun and moon now."

The two look at him as if he grew a second head. "Did you say, Celestia, Can move the SUN and MOON?!" Marcus asks, thinking its a joke.

"Yes, how else would it move? Though don't think they are all powerful gods. Luna herself told me that they are simply powerful immortals."

"Nothings Immortal, If it bleeds you can kill it. Persians learned that the hard way with Greece." Varian states. Writing this down. "This 'Celestia' Reminds me of that Egyptian god. Helipole or something."

"Heliopolis." Marcus corrects.

"Greece? Egypt? Are those other countries from wherever you came from?"

"Indeed. Rome conquered both. Well technically annexed Egypt."

"Enough history. You must be hungry, Let us get you a meal with the others." Varian states, getting up and leading the man to the cooks...

POV: ???

"Hmm.. Seems they are doing well so far. Beat the ponies faster than i thought. Perhaps i chose the right humans for the job. Though those ponies were only militia. The real test of these humans will be if they can defeat the Manehatten forces. If only i could help them more. I hope these humans will win. Took all my remaining magic to cast that spell to bring them.." Using her magic to view the humans through a magic telescope in her signature midnight blue aura, she watches as the Roman fort turns off its fires for the night, And sets up guard patrols on the walls.

"Maybe I can still help them.. Let my night light their way.."

Deactivating her telescope spell. She begins to pace around the white hole filled surface of her home for five years. Drawing out her plans. "If this works, It will bring a new age. I hope they get the message. That book on their language only teaches me so much." She says to herself. Writing in the dust to plan out her message...

Author's Note

thanks for reading guys. Please leave a comment if you find anything wrong or mistakes so i can fix it. Constructive Criticism is always accepted.

Basic Equestria and surrounding area Map (May change not fully official)