A/N: (This is Death Strike writing this chapter, as High Roller is indisposed right now. He should be back next time though. This Author's note was left by him, so this really is him responding to you readers.) I have no idea what to do with this story anymore, so I'm thinking about ending it pretty soon here. Not in this chapter, there's still some things that have to happen to set up the sequel, but it will be within the next 5 or so chapters. This chapter will be Twilight's conversation with the aforementioned pink pony, so nopony can feel that I left anything out.

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And so we go

"What do you mean, it had to be me?" Pinkie asked as she bounced in place.

Twilight sighed, "I mean, you had to be an Archangel. And I guess that means Scootaloo will also be an Archangel."

Pinkie laughed, "Of course, silly! How did you think I was able to do half the things I did? Very few Archangels, and no normal pony, could do even one of the things I can do."

"Wait," Twilight said, realizing something, "If you're an Archangel, doesn't that mean you've died before? When did you die? Was it after you left your family's rock farm?"

"No, silly. It was 1000 years before that."

Now Twilight just looked confused, "What? How could you die 1000 years before you were born?"

"I didn't die before I was born, Twilight. That's just absurd. I was born during the Reign of Discord, back before the Princesses overthrew him and claimed Equestria as their own."

"Wha-Huh?"

"You're so cute when you're confused, Twilight," Pinkie giggled.

Completely flustered now (and with a hint of color on her face), Twilight was unable to string her thoughts into a coherent order.

Sensing this, Pinkie elaborated on her history, "As I said, I was born as a pegasus during the Discordian Reign, which is the time period that Starswirl lived in. In fact, the two of us were friends growing up, along with Shattered Silence, who was also a pegasus. The three of us joined the Equestrian Resistance pretty early in our lives, and while we weren't able to perform any field operations, we were able to help the resistance in other ways. Mainly this meant researching new magics and finding ways to give us a chance against Discord. When we were first introduced to the directors of the R&D division of the Resistance, we didn't think much of them. They were just a couple unicorns, though their magic was a little stronger."

Taking a breath, Pinkie continued, "Under their guidance, we developed many advances in science and medicine, but it was Starswirl who was singled out as a genius, and as such, was assigned to more 'theoretical' magics, namely, Necromancy. And Starswirl was a prodigy of this Forbidden Magic, though the Directors had to keep a close eye on him, due to the Chaotic nature of Necromantic Magic. After almost 20 years, he developed what he called the 'Alicorn Effect'. He said it would allow us to take down Discord, but that the procedure was incredibly risky, and those involved weren't guaranteed to survive. The Directors jumped at the chance, willing to take any risk if it meant defeating Discord. After he explained the process, that it was a simple limb transplant which required that both subjects voluntarily take part, Shattered Silence and myself volunteered our wings for the process. Using our wings, Starswirl made the Directors into the first Alicorns, whom you know as Celestia and Luna. The sisters were lucky. They didn't have the difficulty that we did; Starswirl had had to cut our wings off, and quickly transplant them onto the Directors before the wings 'died', that is, before their nervous system shut down, so that the Directors would have fully operational wings. Because of this, Starswirl wasn't able to clean and close the joints where our wings had been, so we ended up bleeding out."

Twilight interrupted Pinkie's story, "What do you mean Celestia and Luna weren't always Alicorns? Why did they let everypony assume that they had been born as Alicorns?"

"Let me finish!" Pinkie said to Twilight, "As I was saying, me and Shattered Silence died from bleeding out during the procedure, and according to the Princesses, Starswirl spent the next 30 years researching, trying to figure out how to bring us back. It was during this time that he developed the Phylactery Spell and the Vessel Reconstruction Spell that you used to make Death Strike into an Archangel. Just like you, Starswirl didn't understand why our bodies ended up looking like humans, or where our Shapeshifting ability came from, so he had to figure out the source. He spent the next 200 years figuring out everything he could about us by creating more of us, until there were about 84 Archangels in existence."

Again, Twilight interrupted Pinkie's story, "Wait. If Starswirl was a normal unicorn, how did he live for over 200 years?"

Pinkie's mood (and hair) deflated a little, "He was using his Necromantic Magic to steal the life energy of any pony he came across. By doing this, he killed them, while expanding his life beyond any normal pony's. The sheer amount of ponies he drained would have allowed him to live for thousands of years quite easily. Of course, it was easy for him to hide what he was doing, since Luna had unleashed the De Manis Queen, Nightmare Moon, on Equestria, who was determined to destroy all ponies in her quest for revenge. Once Celestia was able to banish Nightmare Moon to the moon, she noticed that not all of the dead ponies were because of the De Manis Queen or her creations, but were the result of having their life force drained by Necromantic Magic. Knowing that there was only one pony in all of Equestria who was capable of Necromantic Magic, she tracked down Starswirl, and found him, almost 200 years after she had defeated Nightmare Moon, when he was creating the 85th Archangel. I don't know who this Archangel is, since I was off on an assignment at the time he or she was created. Anyways, once Celestia found Starswirl, she teleported him and herself into the sun, where she incinerated his body and purified his soul in the Corona of the Sun."

Twilight was stunned, both from the fact that Starswirl, her idol, had been a mass murderer, and that both the Princesses had actually killed ponies before.

Noticing the look on her face, Pinkie quickly started speaking again, "Twilight, please try to understand. Sometimes a ruler has to kill in order to insure the safety of their people. Don't hold Starswirl's murder against Celestia. She was only doing what she had to do, in order to be a fair ruler. And Luna was suffering from severe depression and loneliness when she created Nightmare Moon for company but she had no idea that the De Manis would corrupt her and take control of her body, so you can't hold her responsible for all the deaths she caused."

Shaking her head, Twilight banished her thoughts to a distant portion of her mind, and turned to Pinkie, "Thank you for telling me all of this, Pinkie. I'm glad you were honest with me, and I do hope that you will continue to be my friend."

"Of course I'll still be your friend, Twilight," Pinkie giggled, her naturally bubbly attitude surfacing again, "I've gotta go now, though, so I'll see you again soon. The next Archangel should be here soon, so I'd start preparing your thoughts if I were you!"

"Thanks Pinkie," Twilight said as Pinkie slipped under the rug, not even leaving a bump where she had gone under, "Now to meet Archangel 4 of 86... This is going to be a long night."

"You can say that again," Big Macintosh said as he walked out of the door to her Isolation Room (Twilight still doesn't know that High Roller is Big Macintosh).