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// Pipsqueak's Roots (get it, it's like Alex Halley's Roots) 
// Story: Pipsqueak's Big Brother 
// by Nightspawn 
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As Doodle Doo collapsed onto the bed, his cat, Midnight meowed softly. Following this, the black and white cat then began tugging at Doodle Doo's silver and green scarf. This action caused Doodle Doo to awake, "Silly, kitty" he said. Then Doodle Doo turned to pip and asked "So pip, how was school?", this was pipsqueak's chance. 
"What can you tell me About Your Father's side of the Family?"
At this question, Doodle-Doo looked around frantically back and forth, then he pulled a random lever, that wasn't there until it was pulled. After pulling the (Deus Ex Machina) lever, the wall opened up and reveled a dusty old starcase. Gesturing with his hoof, Doodle Doo beckoned Pipsqueak to a small, dimly lit, metal room. He sat down on a rusty old chair and grabbed a binder filled with tattered scraps of parchment.
"So Far, I've found records going back to My Great-Great-Great-Great Grandfather." He, Doodle Doo, explained "He lived in the time shortly after the first Hearths Warming, His Name was Horatio, he like most ancient unicorns was eventually given a title, The Magicless. He was, as far as I can tell, the earliest known case of what we call a Squib." Doodle Doo paused slightly pointing to himself at the mention of the word squib, before continuing.
"Now although the Hearth's warming had strengthened most of the tribes relations, there was one exception, The Belief of Unicorn Supremacy was in its peak, and the earth ponies were on the receiving end of it,  It was a dark time, and tensions were high, War was a large possibility. In fact it almost did." Doodle-Doo paused again, wondering how to explain what was about to happen.
"But, He prevented it, right?" Pipsqueak, who was rapidly scribbiling down every word of the story, asked.
"Well yes and no, you see on December 7th, 1775, He was killed after a protest turned into a riot. No one is Really sure who Killed him, but both Unicorn and Earth pony Put aside there differences, For his sake."
"But..."
Well Before He died, Horatio, married a mare by the name of Jyn Abbot Aeverfriee, They had one kid, Scrimjour, When Jyn died, She Asked That Scrimjour carry on his father's name, However due to a clerical error, Aeverfriee became spelled as Everfree." 
Pipsqueak then turned to Doodle Doo and asked, "so what did Scrimjour Everfree do?
"Scrimjour Became a professor, and Documented and researched what we now know as the Everfree Forest, It was named for his mother, however too was mistranslated into what it is now."
"Professor Scrimjour married an earth-pony by the name of Jelly Apple, They had two children, the only member of the family to do so."
"Firstly there was Duskstorm, He was the first Captain of The Shadow-bolts, He died Childless. Then there was Our Great Great Grandfather, General Nightstriker Sr. He was a hero of The Equestro-Griffon War, He married Belladonna Sparkle, Who planted the seed, Quite literally for the Golden Oaks Library, which was meant as a memorial to those who died in the war."
"His Son was probably one of the most famous members of the Everfree Family Tree, General Nightstriker Jr, He was One of the most brilliant military Generals in the Equestrian Civil War. He was the Head of the Army of Northern Ponyvile."
"He was The Last NLR general to surrender, Weeks after the Disastrous raid on Canterlot, That led to Nightmare Moon's banishment, He held out, Until on August 14 1865, at the Applelossa courthouse, the hero of the battles of Gallopsburg, Alicorntiem, and the First and Second Battles of Minotaur Run (or as the Sols called it Marenassis), Finally laid down his Sabre."
"He Then Married Diane Pie, and Lived out the rest of his days on his farm west of Canterlot, with the rest of the NLR general staff, under the watchful eyes of Federal Troops. They had one Child, Scrimjour Everfree II, who married Jolly Joker."
"And then We get to My-I mean Our father, Dusk-Shield Everfree." 
"And it is here that we Depart from firm Facts to Murky Speculation and Tragic Sacrifices." 
"Tell Me, Pipsqueak, What do you know about an Ancient bit of magic called, Lily's Sacrifice." 
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Well Pipsqueak Got an A for His project.