The group headed back to the castle, they knew ponies were looking at them, thanks to the cloaks Celestia provided nopony knew… yet.

When will they have to tell them that Equestria may have five new alicorns?

As they made their way back to the castle and approached it Mayor Mare was unexpectedly standing there.

“Pardon me princesses, but multiple ponies are wondering what was the commotion, and who are these ponies accompanying you?” Mayor Mare asked.

“All will be revealed in due time, but for now we must have a meeting in the castle,” Celestia said and they walked around her.

“O-ok,” Mayor Mare said unsurely.

As they walked into the castle Luna spoke up.

“So, where is your student and younger brother?” Luna asked.

“Spike remained here if you remember, and Starlight is in the human world with Sunset, they should be stopping by soon,” Radiant Shine replied.

“We should find Spike, he’ll want to hear what we’re going to talk about,” Luna said.

“Yeah,” Radiant agreed as the group removed their cloaks and walked to the sitting area, while Radiant went to go look for her little bro.

“I’m getting a snack if that’s alright,” The CMC alicorn walked into the kitchen.

“Don’t be long,” Celestia informed her.

“Soooo…. I want to know if what’s happened to me is permanent,” The smaller grey alicorn stallion asked.

“Yeah, if not then I’ll be fine,” The pink alicorn said.

“What about your fragments?” Brave Wing asked.

“I think this is what they’ve secretly wanted, at least that’s what I’m hearing in my head,” She shrugged.

“When Radiant and Spike get back downstairs we need to inform everypony what is going to happen, I just hope Spike wasn’t caught up in the spell,” Celestia said.

“Why? He’s a dragon, he should be immune right?” Brave asked.

“Because-” Suddenly they heard a scream and their attention shot to the stairs “....That is why…” Celestia sighed.

A minute later Radient came downstairs with a purple and green alicorn stallion's arm over her shoulder.

“Guys! Look at what happened to Spike! We have to do something!” Radiant said.

“No, he’ll be fine after some rest, bring him here,” Luna stated and Radiant looked hesitant but she carried Spike down the stairs.

“What? What’s goin on?” The CMC alicorn walked in from the kitchen.

And dropped the salad she was bringing in as she saw the alicorn with all too familiar colors.

“S-Spike!?” she cried.

“Uuugh…” Spike winced as his head hurt and Radiant helped him over to Luna.

“It is as we feared,” Luna said with chagrin.

“What?” Radient asked.

“The spell had a delayed effect due to Spike being a dragon, I can sense the ambient magic on him,” Luna said.

“Oh dear,” Radiant said examining him and seeing he didn’t seem injured, somepony else was examining him too…

The CMC alicorn was staring at Spike with a longing expression.

“Hello?” The grey alicorn waved in her face and she snapped out of it.

“S-sorry,” She stuttered and blushed.

“Before we begin I wish to hear what we may call you all,” Celestia announced.

“What you’ll call us all? You make it sound like we’re stuck like this,” The pink alicorn said nervously.

“We’ll get to that soon, but first we need surnames,” Luna said.

That got everypony not named thinking.

And they quickly came up with answers.

“I’m thinking… Platinum Tiara,” the pink alicorn said.

“Why?” Radiant asked.

“Because platinum sounds expensive and I’m wearing a tiara,” Platinum said.

“Ok,” Radient nodded.

“Sky High,” the grey alicorn stated “Makes me sound like some awesome hero or something,” Sky said.

“And I’m part apple, among others, so how about… Golden Apple,” the CMC alicorn said with a smile.

“Good names,” Luna nodded.

“Very well, Platinum Tiara, Sky High, Golden Apple, sit and we will discuss something important,” Celestia before cascading a silence spell on the walls.

“What did you do that for?” Brave asked.

“We need this conversation to be private, because the things we’re going to be revealing will be… a revelation to be frank,” Celestia said.

“Alright, what did you want to talk about?” Radiant asked sitting by Spike.

“...The truth… about alicorns…” Celestia sighed.

“Celly, maybe we shouldn’t,” Luna said.

“Trust me Luna, I wish it hadn’t come to this,” Celestia said before looking at all the confused ponies.

“...Alicorns never used to exist,” Celestia said.

“What?” Platinum said.

“It is true, alicorns weren’t even a concept back in the day, until Starswirl found a way to make them,” Luna added.

“Make alicorns… you mean, alicorns are an artificial species?” Radiant asked.

“Yes, they were made by Starswirl’s genius, but the power of an alicorn came from the concept by which his student completed,” Celestia said.

“Starswirl had a student?” Brave asked.

“I thought he didn’t,” Sky High said.

“He did, and this student's name was Black Prism, he was an ambitious pony who sought to use what Starswirl had learned to benefit Equestria, but his methods after Starswirl vanished one day under mysterious circumstances were… less than acceptable,” Celestia said with a bowed head.

“Celestia, what did he-” Radient asked before Celestia cut her off.

“He forced ponies to become one, through various experiments, he made various ponies into one, and they all suffered horrible fates,” Celestia said.

“Oh…” Golden said sounding nervous.

“He sought only to create the ideal pony, one that embodies a trait from every tribe, and after many experiments Prism found the solution, and he tested it on three captured ponies, one a unicorn, one an earth pony, and one a pegasus, the first success, and the resulting pony not only didn’t die soon after, they were gifted with immortality, and as a result, he got ready to commit more atrocities but he was stopped when a pony he captured broke free of his bindings and knocked him out, the rest was a blur to that alicorn but he saved her and took her and the others to safety, alerting the authorities the mad pony Black Prism was captured and executed…” Celestia said.

“...Celestia… it almost sounds like… you know what happened exactly that day,” Radient said.

“I do know… because that pony who was created, was Luna and I’s mother, and the pony who saved her was our father,” Celestia said not looking up.

“That….that’s crazy! What about-” Platinum Tiara exclaimed before Luna answered her.

“Cadance? Twilight? And even the other alicorns of old?... that in itself is a story, you see our mother died after giving birth to us and as such we eventually took over as leader figures when we came of age, we had hoped to find a way to help fix Prism’s mistakes, those of his who were turned into alicorns and survived albeit they were merely dying slowly, we resumed his work in the hopes of finding a cure, the difference being we didn’t hurt innocent ponies to get our way… unfortunately we were too late to save the subjects who were suffering, but we did come across the method to make more alicorns without sacrificing ponies in the process, which is how we ascended Twilight and how we secretly ascended Cadence, but it seems Prism had a surprise too,” Luna said

“How is that?” Golden Apple asked.

“He had broken out of prison and resumed his work in secret, and he created a method to continuing the fusions after he was gone, he created a sentient spell capable of doing so the ‘Alicorn Spell’ Thankfully it never saw the light of day as he was recaptured before he could unleash it, and the spell was hidden away in the archives, for what we had hoped was forever… until today,” Celestia glared at Radiant.

“T-Twilight didn’t know,” Radiant said.

“Regardless the damage is done, and I do not know if it can be reversed or not but I assure you, this will be a difficult adjustment,” Celestia said.

“Is this Black Prism gone?” Sky said.

“Yes, he was a mortal unicorn who lived thousands of years ago, but now it seems his work has come back to haunt us regardless,” Celestia said with a sigh.

“So, what now?” Platinum Tiara asked.

“We prep for the future, we have multiple new royals to introduce,” Celestia said.

“New royals?!” Platinum said eagerly.

“Yes, I suppose since you are all alicorns now we should get to know what your work should imply,” Celestia said.

“Uuuugh,” All eyes went to Spike who sat up and looked around confusedly.

“What? What happened?...” Spike asked.

“Spike, before you panic know that you are alright and safe,” Radiant said.

“What?” Spike looked down at himself… and jumped with a surprised yelp.

“Wha-what happened to me?!” Spike exclaimed.

“Spike, calm yourself,” Luna said.

“Why am I a pony?!” Spike said looking at his hands and not seeing his claws.

Then a pair of hands grabbed his and he looked up into a beautiful pair of green eyes.

“Spike, it’ll be okay,” Golden Apple said firmly.

“....Whoa,” Spike found himself blushing as they stared into eachothers eyes.

“Spike!” Radiant said and the two jumped and looked at Radiant with blushes on their cheeks.

“We’ll focus on this later, for now we need to fix this,” Radiant said.

“Right, yeah,” Spike said embarrassedly.

“Princess, if what you said is true we need to find a way to fix this, is there any way?” Radiant asked.

“I have it confirmed that we don’t yet, I am sorry, in the meanwhile you all must come with me,” Celestia said as she stood up.

“What?” Brave Wing asked.

“We need to go to Canterlot,” Celestia said.

In the distance far from Ponyville a hidden cottage sat in the woods.

And Inside this cottage sat a mysterious black and white mare, she was writing something down when suddenly her horn lit up and her eyes widened.

She hurried outside and looked into the distance, and a smile went across her face.

“The spell…. It was unleashed, it finally happened…. Heh, looks like you weren’t so crazy after all gramps,” She said before she hurried inside to start her prep for a journey.

In an equally distant cave a figure exited and looked out in the direction of Canterlot, and he frowned.

“You fools, looks like the problem escalated, I better get moving,” He said as he went down the cave path.

And went for Canterlot.

Author's Note

Bit of a small chapter, I am honestly struggling a bit with this series, but now I turn to you all, any ideas to help make this story even better?

I just have a lot going on lately, but I'll still churn out some new chapters here and there.

Also I know there are some continuity conflicts but this is more like a non-canon thing, just letting you know.