User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 486: The Fourth Guest, Review/@comment-70.179.149.246-20160523175724/@comment-7418318-20160524080948

Most people, including myself, fully agree with you on that. At least on my part, I'm only joking around with the idea.

Except for surrender, Fairy Tail has nothing to offer to August and Alvarez and since they don't know the meaning of surrender, that's not going to happen.

On the practical side they could offer to release their captured Spriggans, but August knows they won't harm their prisoners... not to mention that putting the Spriggans back on the battlefield can easily make the situation worse, rather than better for FT.

So yeah, realistically the best Brandish can hope for is getting Lucy out of there. And it'd make sense too. She has no attachment or other reason to suppor Fairy Tail as a whole. Her only connection is to Lucy. Sure Lucy would be devastated to lose Fairy Tail, so Brandish has an indirect interest in protecting them... but that's hardly enough to betray her fierce loyalty for.