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I gave a hard glare at our captive ghouls. Very little information had been divulged, and Teacup refused to let me harm them further for information, although I contemplated blowing one of their heads off anyway.

"Alright." I said, clearing my throat. "So all you're going to tell us is that you're a group called "ressurrection", and that you 'plan to renew the glory of the heavens'?" I rose an eyebrow. "You're one kooky cult." Teacup rolled her eyes.

"A fool like you could not possibly understand." the ghoul mare said, glaring at me. "We plan to use the resources we have to create a body for Celestia, and then for Luna, so they may reign in the turmoiled heavens and right this devastated wasteland."I cocked my head. The ghoul groaned and rolled her eyes.

"Aaaand... You needed to ponynap and kill some random colt's parents to do this? I don't think the princesses would quite agree with that." I said, pointing a hoof at the two captives.

"One cannot conjure up a suitable body for the Princesses from nothing, fool!" she spat. "One must have a base! Alicorns are a unity of all three kinds of pony, we needed one more kind."

Teacup gulped, and Ronier glared at the ghoul mare.

"You needed a unicorn? What the hay for?" Ronier said. She looked to be ready to beat the offending ghoul. The ghoul mare was unfazed.

"One does not simply conjure alicorns, you ignorent twit, I have already said, we needed three of each kind of pony. For then we could fuse them to create a pure-hearted, innocent foal for one of our princesses to reside in." She snorted. "I can already sense the rites taking place, we will succeed, this time."

"This time"? they tried this more then once and failed? They killed mothers, and used foals and failed before this? My eye twitched. "And how many times, pre-tell, did you not succeed?" I asked dangerously.

"We have attempted to create alicorns 124 times, using 42 of our own, 60 adults outside of our own, and 54 foals. All were mostly earth and unicorn." the mare answered calmly, crossing her injured forelegs as she sat. The unicorn ghoul beside her shot her a glance but she ignored it. "All failed tests either killed or turned subjects into mutated creatures resembling a brahm." she continued.

I rose an eyebrow. That was way too easy. Nopony gives up that kind of information at the drop of a hat. So why... I telekinetically tore her labcoat off her and flung it aside, causing everyone around me to eep, and the ghoul to gasp in surprise. It clinked to the floor and an energy blast blew out from in, vaporizing it instantly. I narrowed my eyes. Still too easy, the kamikaze run could not have been what they were trying to catch us with, the bulge had been enormous. That brought up the question of why I hadn't seen it earlier from the little pony in my head, but I mentally shooed it away.

I looked over to see my three companions staring at me. "How in equestria did you know she was trying to blow us up?" he asked, jaw hanging open. The ghoul fidgeted a little.

"Call it paranoia. I was with a merchent group for a while, heard stories. 'Nopony gives up secrets easily unless they intend to sell you the farm afterwards.' one of them would say." I rubbed the back of my head with a hoof. "Though she made it awfully obvious..." I glared at the offending ghoul.

"Well, should we tie them up and hide them?" Teacup asked. I rolled my eyes.

"Fabulous idea, let's give them a nice holotape to listen to while we're at it." I said sarcastically. "Actually, no, how about the smart thing?" I whipped out my pipe wrench with my mouth and before anyone could stop me, crushed the unicorn ghoul's head with a single stroke. The ghoul mare's eyes became the size of saucers as blood splattered onto both of our faces. I levitated the wrench from my mouth and gave her a twisted grin.

"Tell me, where are the foals being taken." I said. "Tell me, and I might be willing to spare your wretched life." I could feel my companion's bewildered stares, but didn't care. This ghoul's attitude needed adjustment, my pipe wrench was going to fix it if she didn't do it herself. Comically (to me, at least) she went from "condescending b***h" to "bedwetting pansy" in ten seconds flat.

"I-I..." she stammered. "I-It's... It's in the s-science w-wing..." she shakily pointed a hoof to the hallway she and her now-dead companions entered from. "T-through there."

"Thank's." I said, before swinging my wrench into the side of her neck, crushing her windpipe. "Too bad I really couldn't care less about you." I nudged her convulsing body out of the way, which happened to be next to Teacup. She obviously didn't expect me to suddenly start slamming down on ponies. Her expression was one of absolute shock. Ronier and Black Powder only seemed slightly less disturbed.

"What?" I asked, knowing full well what. "Quit acting like you just saw Nightmare Moon and let's go."

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