MLP FiM: Hansen Rising

Writing for this fanfiction began on February 23, 2016, before Season 6 was aired. Any continuity errors should just be considered as being part of an alternative universe.

Our story begins in Canterlot, where Princess Celestia is sitting on her throne, with Princess Luna sitting next to her.

Princess Celestia gets up, and she stares in front of her. Luna looked at her sister, puzzled.

"What troubles you, sister?" Luna asked.

"Come" Celestia responded.

Celestia flew out of her throne and out of her castle, and Luna followed her lead. Celestia and Luna landed in front of the castle entrance. Every-pony who saw the sight of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna bowed before them. Celestia and Luna walked through Canterlot.

"Tell me, Luna, we are the princesses of Equestria? Are we not?"

"We are."

"And we are beloved by all who obey us."

"What is your point?"

"What I'm trying to say is that ever since we first became a prince and princess, we never had time to socialize. We were always sitting upon our thrones watching over the ponies of Equestria. We hardly spend any more time outside of the castle. What I would like us to do for once is to go out of the castle."

"But we do that sometimes, don't we?"

"True. But every-pony we see treats us like royalty. Well, we are royalty, but you get the picture. I feel like we've spent an eternity being beloved so much and watching over the ponies of Equestria that we are hardly even seen as normal anymore. I just wish we could just visit as normal ponies. We used to have friends of our own back when we were fillies, but those are memories, now. I just wish ... that we could pretend to be normal ponies just for a day, and no-pony would recognize us as royalty."

"It's not like we can shapeshift, I mean we're not changelings."

"Hmmm, but what if we were."

"Sister?"

"When Twilight and her friends had to bring the breezies back to their home, they temporarily transformed into breezies themselves. Maybe if we transformed into Changelings, we could shapeshift into normal ponies."

"That is a great idea. But the only promlem is ...won't we need a changeling as part of the spell?"

"You're right. We could capture one. But wait, we can't just capture a changeling for no apparent reason. That's pony-napping."

"Don't we have some changelings as prisoners?"

"I think so. Let's check the dungeons."

The two princesses walked back behind them, but then they bumped into a couple of ponies behind them. They were a married couple: Mr. and Mrs. Ungul.

Mr. Ungul had a peach-colored coat with a brown mane and tail, a brown moustache, a white panama hat, a monocle, a white tuxedo top, and a cutie mark that resembled his monocle.

Mrs. Ungul had a pink coat, a brown mane and tail, and a white dress, her cutie mark wasn't seen.

"Ah" Celestia said. "Greetings, Mr. and Mrs. Ungul."

"Greetings, your majesty" Mr. Ungul replied.

"As I recall, didn't you have a colt with you years ago?"

"Yes, as a matter of fact we did. His name was Stardust Blaze. A fine young boy."

"Where is he?"

"Oh" said Mrs. Ungul "he was sent to a special school in Manehattan. Needed some more tutoring, it seems."

"I see" Celestia responded. "Well, nice to see the two of you. Have a nice day."

"As do you, princesses" Mr Ungul responded.

"Ta-ta" the married couple both said.

"Who were they?" Princess Luna asked.

Celestia answered "they're a very wealthy couple in Canterlot, the Unguls. Rumor has it that they're even wealthier than Filthy Rich."

So Princess Celestia and Princess Luna went to the Royal Dungeon in order to look for a changeling for their spell. They found one changeling in a cell.

"Shouldn't we check the rest of the cell?" Luna asked.

"No need" Celestia answered. "We've already found what we need."

"What do you want!?" the changeling said. His name was Venom Thorn. He showed himself from out of the shadows, revealing that he has a mane like Queen Chrysalis, only it's a neon green color and it's spiky, but he has eyes similar to Queen Chrysalis.

"Venom Thorn" Celetia said. "We need you for a little mandatory community service."

The two sisters opened the door and went into Venom Thorn's cell. Then, they performed the same spell Twilight Sparkle performed when she transformed herself and her friends into breezies. However, instead of breezies, Celestia and Luna transformed into Changelings. But the two didn't look like ordinary changelings, rather they resembled what they would look like if they had Queen Chrysalis' fangs, horns, wings, and eyes.

So the disguised Celestia and Luna went out of Venom Thorn's cell and closed the cell door behind them, locking Venom Thorn back into his cell.

Celestia told Venom "you'll be set free once the time is right."

So Celestia and Luna shape-shifted into ponies that are about Twilight Sparkle's age, only Celestia's mane was pink and her cutie mark was a cartoonish sun while Luna's mane was black and her cutie mark was just a regular crescent moon.

"I'll call myself Sunlight Shine" Celestia said.

"And I'll call myself Moonlight Eclipse" Luna said. "But wait. If we're gone, who will watch over Canterlot?"

"You do make a valid point. After all, who will watch over Philomena?"

"What if we get Princess Cadance and Shining Armor to watch over Canterlot?"

"They're taking care of their baby. But, we could get Twilight to watch over Canterlot for us."

"Good idea. Twilight is a princess after all."

So Princess Celestia, disguised as Sunlight Shine, took a quill and paper and wrote a letter:

Dear Twilight Sparkle,

I have an important task for you today. Princess Luna and I are going to be doing some ... royal duties. So we need you and you alone to watch over Canterlot for us. Be sure to feed Philomena at 3:00 PM. The reason I asked for you to do this alone is because some of your friends may not, let's just say, be as responsible as you are. Please make sure everything is alright back at the castle, and please don't go into the dungeon. Since you are a princess, now, I have faith that you'll do a great job looking after Canterlot for us.

Your's truly,

Princess Celestia

Later, as Twilight Sparkle arrived in Canterlot on the Friendship Express, Princess Celestia, disguised as Sunlight Shine, and Princess Luna, disguised as Moonlight Eclipse, were waiting for her. Of course, Twilight didn't recognize either of them once she saw them.

"Good afternoon" Twilight told the two of them.

Then Twilight left and walked towards Canterlot Castle.

"Good, let's go" Celestia said.

But then, Celestia and Luna saw Pinkie Pie coming out of the Friendship Express from a separate box cart, followed by Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, Spike, and Starlight Glimmer.

"Oh no" Luna said. "I knew this was a bad idea. Twilight ignored our warnings and invited her-"

"Relax, Luna" Celestia told her sister "I'm sure Twilight didn't know her friends were with her. After all, they did come out of a separate box cart. Besides, I've known my faithful student for a long time, and I know that she wouldn't intentionally disobey us."

"Perhaps you're right, sister."

So Celestia and Luna got on board the Friendship Express as it was leaving for Ponyville.

Meanwhile, Twilight was going into the castle, and she looked in awe at Celestia's throne.

"Do I dare sit on that throne?" Twilight asked herself aloud.

"Heck, yeah!" Rainbow Dash said behind her.

Twilight Sparkle turned around, and saw Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rarity, Spike, and Starlight Glimmer behind her.

"Girls" she siad. "You're not supposed to be here!"

"Wait, I'm not a girl" Spike replied.

"I told you all not to come with me."

"We just couldn't resist" Rainbow replied. "You get to take the place of the highest authority in all of Equestria. How cool is that!?"

"I'm not taking her place. I'm just filling in for her temporarily. Celestia and Luna told me that I should do this alone, so can you all just please go back home?"

"Not a chance, Sugarcube" answered Applejack. "We came all the way here to stay with you, and we aint leavin' any time soon."

"Fine. Just please don't touch anything."

"What about the critters?" Fluttershy asked

"No" Twilight responded.

"The jewels" Spike and Rarity asked

"No!"

"What about the spells?" Starlight Glimmer asked.

"NO!! Wait, now that you mentioned it Celestia didn't say that the spell rooms were off limits. No no, Celestia put me in charge and I'm not letting her down."

"Aw c'mon" Rainbow Dash said. "You love learning new spells, and Princess Celestia has all of the spells she knows. Where are the magic spells anyway."

"Well, now that I think about it, Celestia has told me she had two magic spell libraries, the one for regular magic and the one for dark magic."

"Really!?" Pinkie Pie asked. "She has a spell library for Dark Magic!?"

"Wait!?" Twilight said in surprise "Did I just say that out loud!? That was supposed to be a personal thought!"

"I had that same situation one time" Rarity said.

"Celesita has a library for Dark Magic!?" Rainbow asked. "Isn't that like evil and forbidden!? Girls, we gotta check it out!"

"No! The Dark Magic Library is Off Limits, not just for Celestia's pupils, but for almost everyone in Equestria except for the Princesses."

"C'mon" Spike told Twilight. "Loosen up. The princess couldn't punish us for a little curiosity"

"Last time some-pony went in there for curiosity, she was a student of Celestia's, and she was dismissed from her studies."

Then, everyone paused, and they looked at Twilight.

"Hmm" Rainbow said. "Maybe that is a serious thing. BUT THEY'LL NEVER KNOW!!"

Rainbow dashed out of the castle and dashed all over Canterlot Castle to look for the Dark Magic Library.

"We gotta stop her!" Twilight said. "Otherwise Princess Celestia will be super mad at me!"

So everyone ran out to find Rainbow Dash.

Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash stopped when she reached the door inside Canterlot Castle that said "Dark Magic - No Entry".

"Well, it's not like anyone will noticed" Rainbow Dash told herself. "There's no one here."

"No one except us!" shouted Twilight.

Then Twilight, the rest of the Mane 4, Spike, and Starlight Glimmer arrived.

"Don't open that door" Spike said.

"Wait" Rainbow told them "Now that I think about it, Twilight isn't Celestia's student anymore, so it's not like she could be dismissed from her studies if she doesn't have any more studies to be dismissed from."

"No" Twilight responded "But I could be thrown in a dungeon, or given a different kind of severe punishment. Or worse, I could be given all of the above."

"There's no-pony here to tattle on us" Rainbow said.

"Not out here" Starlight Glimmer said "but in there"

Everyone looked at Starlight Glimmer in shock.

"I can see through walls using a temporary x-ray eyes spell" she said. "There's someone watching in there".

"See" Twilight told Rainbow "if we go in there, we'll get in big trouble."

"Hmm" Rainbow said. "I know. YOU said that only princesses are allowed right? So you can just go in there and tell us what's inside there."

"I don't know" Twilight said.

"You made us sit through a boring book club a week ago-"

"Hey! You all said you enjoyed that book club!"

"Whatever. The point is that YOU owe us a favor, and THIS is that favor."

Twilight groaned and said "fine. But I'll only tell you a little of what's inside."

"All of it, or I open this door."

"Don't you dare."

Rainbow then placed a hoof on the door.

"Okay, okay." Twilight said. "I'll tell you whatever you want to know when I go in there. Just please take your hoof off of that door."

So Rainbow Dash took her hoof off of the door. Then, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rarity, Spike, and Starlight Glimmer hid behind a bush at the side of the door.

Twilight then knocked on the door, and a pony inside the library answered the door.

"Ah, hello, Princess Twilight" she said. "What brings you here?"

Twilight Sparkle answered "I came to browse the library."

"Okay, then. Come on in."

"Thank you".

So Twilight entered the room, where she saw many history books, as well as many creepy-looking books.

Little did Twilight know that a shadowy-pony entered the room behind her when no one was looking.

"This place is giving me the heebie-jeebies" Twilight thought in her head.

Then she looked towards one book and stared at it in shock. The book was titled "Creation of Discord".

"Creation of Discord? Could this be Discord's secret origins? Now that I think about it, I never knew how Discord came to be. Celestia didn't even tell me. Surely she would have if she wanted to. Could this just be so serious that Celestia wouldn't dare to tell me about it? Well, if Celestia didn't tell me about it, she wouldn't want me to know. Do I dare? No, I made a promise to Princess Celestia and I will not let her down."

So Twilight was about to leave, but then she paused. Sweat rolled down her face, and she was shaking.

Then, due to temptation, Twilight levitated the book and saw the cover. Below the text "Creation of Discord" was another text that said "A Journal by Star Swirl the Bearded".

"Maybe it wouldn't hurt" Twilight told herself. "After all, it is written by Star Swirl the Bearded."

So Twilight opened the journal, and read the book aloud.

Day 1

I am Star Swirl the Bearded, and today I have taken under my wing a secret apprentice. His name is Grey Shade, he is a grey unicorn colt, with a light blue horn, who has befriended Princess Alouette's daughters, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. He agreed to promise me that as long as he was my apprentice, he would not tell any-pony about his studies. I decided to write this journal in order to track my newest pupil's progress. Someday, he may become either a heroic legend or a villianous nightmare. Only time will tell.

Then Twilight saw a perfect sketch of colt Grey Shade, he looked like a colt version Discord's pony disguised from when he was face to face with Tirek after Tirek returned from Tartarus. So Twilight kept reading aloud:

Day 2

Today, Grey Shade is struggling with his studies. He has tried very hard to perfect his lessons, but he keeps failing. He has told me that he has been struggling with magic in the past, and it led to him not making much friends because the other unicorns made fun of him, all exept for Celestia and Luna, which is why he befriended them. I've decided to keep teaching him until he masters his lessons because no matter how hard he fails, I still believe in him.

Later

Day 50

Today, Grey Shade has saved my life from a tornado. And he has earned his cutie mark, which also resembles a tornado ...

Later

Today, it was Grey Shade's 25th Birthday. He is now fully grown, and I decided that he is ready. I took him with me into the Everfree Forest in Equestria in order to practice my newest spell. I had help from the spirit magic of zebras, along with the magic of the spirits as well as my own unicorn magic and Grey Shade's unicorn magic in order to perfect this spell. So we began the magic spell performance in order to transform Grey Shade into a powerful super-being, beyond any unicorn.

However, out of nowhere, an evil being who called himself Hansen came to conquer Equestria, and he found us after explaining that he noticed our powerful magic. He tried to destroy Grey Shade using his dark magic, but that magic combined with the magic of the zebras, the magic of the spirits, and my own magic to prevent Grey Shade from being destroyed. Instead, the experiment went terribly wrong. I don't know how, it could have been the spirit magic combined with Hansen's dark magic, but Grey Shade has transformed into a new kind of being. He still has his blue horn, only it's lumpy, and his fur coat on his head and neck as well as his mane are still the same, only his mane is shorter, he has brown fur on his torso, a blue bird wing, a purple bat wing, a deer's right antler, grey eyebrows, a grey beard, red eye pupils, yellow eyes, a griffon's talon, a lion's paw, a deer's hoof, a green lizard's foot, and a red dragon's tail. I tried to talk with him, but he doesn't remember who I am, nor does he remember what his own name is. Hansen took Grey Shade under his wing to teach him about chaos, and he was thus renamed 'Discord', meaning 'chaos' and 'disharmony'. So I left to warn Celestia and Luna about Hansen, leaving behind the corrupted Grey Shade. ...

Some more pages later ...

Turns out there was no need to warn Celestia and Luna, because years after Discord was taken from me, they already found out about Hansen and Discord before I even made it to Celestia and Luna's homeland of Valla. In fact, when I went to Valla, there was nothing left but burnt land and ashes. From what I've heard, Hansen destroyed all of Valla and left to conquer the rest of the world. Celestia and Luna imprisoned Hansen in a red jewel for all of Eternity. As for Discord, he took Hansen's place as ruler of Equestria. But then, unfortunately, Discord met his end when Celestia and Luna used the Elements of Harmony to turn him into stone.

Twilight turned the pages, but the rest of the pages were blank. Later in the book, the more pages had a rectangular shaped hole in them, and inside the hole in the pages were a red jewel. One of the pages said "Hansen is inside this jewel. This jewel should not be broken, or else Hansen will be released from his jewel prison."

"I never knew" Twilight said.

        But then, the shadowy pony shot a blast of magic from behind Twilight, and it was shot at Twilight. The blast stunned her, making her drop the book. But the shadowy pony used unicorn magic to levitate the red jewel.

         Twilight turned around and saw the shadowy pony.

         She told him "who are you!? How did you get in here!?"

         The shadowy pony revealed himself once he stepped into the light, revealing himself as a yellow unicorn stallion wearing a hooded cloak. He took his hood off, revealing his face. He had an orange mane and tail with a white stripe in the middle of each, along with green eye pupils.

         The mystery pony said "I teleported here. As for your other question, my name is Stardust Blaze, a member of the Eye of Hansen, and this jewel contains our master."

        "Give that back!"

        Stardust Blaze then ran out of the dark magic library and Twilight chased after him.

        "Stop! Thief!" she shouted.

        Then the Mane 5, Spike, and Starlight Glimmer chased after Stardust Blaze while following Twilight Sparkle.

To Be Continued ...