MLP FiM: Hansen Rising

Twilight chases Stardust Blaze, with the Mane 5, Starlight Glimmer, and Spike behind her.

Stardust Blaze then lured the Mane 6, Starlight Glimmer, and Spike towards a dead end, and he teleported away. The Mane 6, Starlight Glimmer, and Spike stopped.

“Where did he go!?” Rainbow asked.

Then, all of the sudden, the group heard the sound of glass smashing.

“That can’t be good” Twilight said.

The group ran towards the entrance of Canterlot Castle, and they found Stardust Blaze. He turned around, giving an evil grin, and he moved backwards to reveal what he was hiding: it was the source of the breaking sound, the jewel that Hansen was trapped in was shattered, leaving behind shards and a scarlet fog surrounding it.

“Princess Twilight Sparkle” Stardust said. “Thanks to you, I’ve set Hansen free into Equestria!”

Then, the fog expanded, and it started to glow. A bright beam of light was shot from the fog and into the sky.

Meanwhile, Princess Celestia, disguised as Sunlight Shine, and Princess Luna, disguised as Moonlight Eclipse, heard the sound of thunder while they were in Ponyville. They looked up at Canterlot and saw the light.

“What is that?” Luna asked.

“I don’t know” Celestia answered. “But it can’t be good.”

So Celestia and Luna ran off to return to Canterlot.

Back in Canterlot, the glowing fog dimmed, and the fog took the form of a humanoid knight with black gothic armor, red gothic gloves and boots, a red cape, glowing red eyes seen through a helmet, and a grey lizard’s tail. This figure was definitely Hansen.

Stardust bowed down to Hansen and said “Hansen, my master!”

Hansen looked at Stardust and said, in a deep voice, “who are you?”

“My name is Stardust Blaze, one of the newest members of the Eye of Hansen.”

“The Eye of Hansen? I thought your cloak looked familiar.”

Hansen looked at Spike, Starlight Glimmer, and the Mane 6.

He said “And who might you be? Well, the purple one is an alicorn, so she must be a princess.”

Twilight responded “that’s right! I’m the Princess of Friendship, Twilight Sparkle!”

Stardust told Hansen “she’s a new princess, she used to be a unicorn who was transformed into an alicorn by Princess Celestia.”

“Oh” Hansen said. “So then it’s safe to assume that you must be Celestia’s friend.”

“Not only that” Rainbow responded “she’s Celestia’s pupil! And you better back down now, because we can do this the easy way or the hard way!”

“Master” Stardust said “truly these ponies, and dragon, don’t know about you, with the exception of Princess Twilight. However, the Eye of Hansen has always known about you, and it’s been hard to find you to bring you back.”

“You wanna know what was hard!?” Hansen asked. “Spending almost all of Eternity trapped in that crystal. It was almost as much of a nightmare as Tartarus. Well, almost. But anyway, I’ve spent all of those thousands of years in that crystal, and it was horrible.”

Hansen remembered what it was like back in the crystal, he was trapped in chains unable to move, while being surrounded by illusions of cute anthropomorphic flowers and pegasi colts and fillies singing childish songs and dancing around Hansen.

Back in the present, Hansen said “When I was trapped in that crystal, I was stuck in chains while surrounded by illusions of pegasi colts, pegasi fillies, and talking flowers, all dancing and singing around me singing childish songs while always singing about fun and happiness. You have no idea what it was like being stuck with that for almost all of eternity!”

“Sounds like fun!” Pinkie Pie shouted.

“Pinkie” Twilight told Pinkie Pie.

Twilight then looked at Hansen and said “You probably deserved it, after all, you destroyed Celestia and Luna’s homeland of Valla.”

“So you have read about me” Hansen said.

“Twilight” Rainbow asked. “How do you know about him?”

“I read about him in the Dark Magic library. His name is Hansen, he was the one who created Discord, and he was also an enemy to Celestia, Luna, and Star Swirl the Bearded. He even destroyed Celestia and Luna’s homeland. He’s extremely powerful, and he’s a strong user of Dark Magic.”

“Where is Celestia and Luna?” Hansen asked.

“They’re not here” Applejack said.

“We have no idea where they are” Twilight said.

Pinkie said “Wait, didn’t she-”

Rainbow stopped her by placing a hoof on her shoulder and whispered to her “If he’s after the princesses, we can’t tell him where they are.”

“Oh”

“Well, if you don’t know where they are” Hansen said. “Then I’ll just have to come back when they’re around.”

“Yeah” Fluttershy said. “Come back later!”

“I’ve been waiting patiently in that crystal for the chance to get my revenge against the princesses! So why not! I’ll give them … a month to show themselves. In the meantime, I think I’ll do some training to prepare myself for our reunion. Come, Stardust.”

Stardust replied “yes, master.”

So Stardust used his unicorn magic to self-levitate to follow Hansen as Hansen flew away.

“Wait!” shouted Rainbow Dash “What am I doing! We should stop them!”

“Let them go for now” Twilight said. “We should tell Celestia about this. Unfortunately, she’ll be mad once she finds out that this is kinda my fault.”

“Your fault?” Spike asked.

“When I came into the Dark Magic library, he followed me when no-pony was looking. Then he attacked me when I saw Hansen’s jewel. I read the story aloud when I thought no one else was there, and it gave him the information about how to set Hansen free. I can’t imagine what kind of punishment I’ll get for this once I tell her.”

“Then don’t tell her” Rainbow said.

“Rainbow, I have to tell her, Hansen is free and that means that Equestria is in danger.”

“Okay, then how about you exaggerate the truth. You know, don’t let the princess know how it really happened but make up a story of what could have happened.”

“You mean you want me to lie!? Oh no, I can never lie to the princesses! I have responsibilities! Besides, I’m more mature than that!”

“Well, you wanna tell her the truth?”

Twilight sighed and said “what do you have in mind?”

Rainbow Dash told her “well, you encouraged us not to come, and we disobeyed you. So we’ll just leave and pretend like we didn’t bother you. Besides, knowing that Applejack is the Element of Honesty, we should probably keep Applejack out of this. Now I know you may be nervous about telling a lie in front of them, so let’s work on your nerves.”

After the conversation, Twilight is dusting the throne room while the rest of the group watches.

Rainbow Dash asked “So you got down what you’re supposed to tell the princesses?”

“Yep” Twilight responded.

“Then we’ll just be on our way” Applejack said. "Though since I am the Element of Honesty, I won't like going along with this"

So Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rarity, Spike, and Starlight Glimmer leave. But then, once they get to the entrance of Canterlot Castle, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna arrive, and they are no longer in disguise, and they’ve already turned back into their alicorn selves again. However, they looked mad.

“Where’s Twilight” Celestia asked the Mane 5.

“She’s dusting the throne room.” Spike answered.

So Celestia and Luna went to see Twilight in the throne room.

“Twilight Sparkle” Celestia said “What was the meaning of that beam of light shot in Canterlot?”

Twilight wasn’t facing the princesses, she was facing the opposite direction when they came in, lucky for her because they couldn’t see the sweat rolling down her face.

So she took a deep breath and said “what beam of light?”

Celestia and Luna were confused.

Luna said “didn’t you see the beam of light shot up into the sky, coming from Canterlot?”

“No” Twilight fibbed “I was in here, dusting the throne room.”

“You were ... dusting?” Celestia asked.

“What about your friends?” Luna asked. “We told you not to bring them.”

Twilight kept saying another fib “Oh them? I didn’t know that they’d follow me, so we had an argument, and now they’re on their way to leave back to Ponyville.”

“So, you didn’t see that beam of light?” Celestia asked.

“No”

“Very well.”

Celestia turned to Luna and told her “It was probably nothing, Luna.”

Luna turned to Twilight and told her “thanks for looking after our castle, Princess Twilight. Truly we were right, you are a responsible ruler.”

Twilight then left.

As she went out the entrance to meet up with her friends, she had a nervous look on her face.

“I pulled it off” Twilight told her friends.

Her friends cheered in celebration.

“But wait.”

As Twilight said this, her friends stopped cheering and paused.

Twilight resumed “I just told a lie to the princesses, and I feel bad about it, now.”

Applejack gave a concerned look at the others and told them “it’s probably guilt, I reckon.”

“Look, Twilight” Rainbow Dash said. “So you said one little fib to the princesses. Big deal.”

“I don’t think any-pony has ever lied to a princess before” Twilight said. “Not unless they’re traitors or enemies. Am I a traitor?”

“Twilight, you’re not a traitor. All of what happened was just an accident. I’m sure even if the princesses know the truth, they’d forgive you. Besides, what’s the worse that could happen? Will Hansen and Stardust Blaze come back?”

Twilight was shocked to hear this.

“Hansen! I completely forgot! Hansen said that he would return in one month! I have to warn the princesses, and that probably means that I’ll have to confess that I lied!”

“No! We already goofed up enough” Rainbow told Twilight. “Imagine how mad the princesses would be if they found out we lied to them!”

“Well how do you think we should warn them?”

“Hmmm … with more lies!”

“More lies?”

“Twilight, do you still have that shattered jewel that Hansen was trapped inside?”

“I gave it to Spike so he could eat it.”

“Actually” Spike said as he pulled the shards out of his ‘pocket’, “I was going to eat these later. But now I’m considering not eating them because since it was used to trap evil inside of it, it probably tastes bad.”

Twilight levitates the shards and hugs Spike, telling him “thank you.”

“Okay” Rainbow Dash said “here’s the new plan.”

The group huddled up as Rainbow Dash whispered to them. Pinkie was just making whispering sounds.

“Pinkie Pie, stop makin’ whisperin’ sounds” Applejack told Pinkie Pie.

Then, the Mane 6, Starlight Glimmer, and Spike rushed back to the throne room, where Celestia and Luna were sitting back on their thrones.

Twilight said “Princesses. As we were leaving, we found these shards on the ground. Do you know what they are?”

Celestia levitated the shards to her face, and she saw a dark magic aura coming out of the shards.

Celestia dropped them and screamed. Then she breathed heavily.

“Where did you find these?” Celestia asked Twilight.

Twilight answered with another fib “we found them outside.”

Celestia and Luna took the group into the Dark Magic Library.

“Princess?” Fluttershy asked “the door says ‘no entry’.”

Celestia responded “normally, ponies aren’t allowed in here, but for us, we’ll make an exception.”

Celestia then levitated the ‘Creation of Discord’ book, opened it, and looked to the section at where the jewel used to be. She gasped as she saw that the jewel wasn’t in there, and she looked back at the shards that used to be the jewel. She closed the book and put it back.

Celestia said “it’s just as I feared. Hansen has returned.”

“Who’s Hansen?” Rainbow Dash asked, pretending not to know about Hansen.

Pinkie asked “Isn’t Hansen the big-”

“Pinkie” the group, except for Celestia and Luna, said.

“Hansen is a dangerous being from my past” Celestia said. “This book tells of how Discord was created. It was given to me by Star Swirl the Bearded himself.”

Celestia tells a story:

“Long ago, when Luna and I were fillies, there was a small unicorn colt named Grey Shade. He was normal except that he had a blue horn, and he was often made fun of by the other foal for it, with the exception of me and Luna. In fact, we actually befriended Grey Shade, and there was even a prank that the bullies set up where he was tricked into thinking I invited him on a date, but then the bullies revealed that the whole thing was a trap to get him to embarrass himself by confessing his love to me. He was so angry and heartbroken by this that he said he would win my heart by becoming a powerful unicorn, maybe someone like Star Swirl the Bearded.

Little did I know that he was serious, and he became Star Swirl’s secret apprentice. However, on his 20th Birthday, Star Swirl combined his magic with the magic of zebras, along with the magic of spirits, in order to make Grey Shade a powerful super unicorn. However, Hansen corrupted him with Dark Magic, and it caused a bad side effect: the result was that he became Discord, and he lost all of his memory. Hansen took Discord under his wing and taught him about chaos. Luna and I didn’t know any of this happened at the time.

However, while Discord was causing chaos in Equestria, Hansen destroyed our homeland of Valla. But my mother, Princess Alouette, took everyone in Valla to safety, and sent them to go find new land. Meanwhile, after I heard about Hansen and Discord, Luna and I used the Elements of Harmony to trap Hansen in a magical jewel, where we created illusions based on what he hates the most in order to punish him for his crimes.

Then, we stood up to Discord, and you know the rest.

After we met Star Swirl the Bearded, he gave us his journal, and we learned more about Discord, who was formerly Grey Shade.

One time, we set Discord free, and we tried to tell Discord who we are to try to help him regain his memory, and we tried other ways to help him regain his memory, but all of our methods failed, and we were unable to restore his memory. So when he caused havoc in Equestria again, we had no choice but to turn him into stone again.

Then he was freed a third time, and you know what happened, you six turned him back into stone, and then you reformed him after freeing him again. But that was the reason I wanted him reformed, it’s because I think that deep down Grey Shade is still somewhere in his stone-cold heart. However, I was wrong, because even to this very day, he doesn’t remember who he really was. I fear that he may never remember who he was.”

Fluttershy sobbed, saying “poor Discord. That’s such a sad story.”

“Wait” Pinkie Pie said. “Should we call him Discord or Grey Shade, now?”

“The jewel shards you gave me used to be the jewel that Hansen was trapped inside of. But now that it’s broken, Hansen has been set free, and he is now loose in Equestria. I don’t know how his jewel was taken outside, but we’ll worry about that later. Right now, we have to stop Hansen before he destroys all of Equestria.”

“You can count on us!” Rainbow Dash said. “We’ll stop him together!”

“I’ll come, too” Starlight Glimmer said. “You could use my magic in this adventure.”

“Luna and I will come with you as well” Celestia told the group. “Hansen is a personal enemy that we’ve dealt with. But there’s one more who should come with us: Discord.”

“Are you sure about that?” Rainbow Dash asked. “Last time we trusted Discord to stop Tirek, he betrayed us.”

“He thought that he could have something better than friendship. However, he learned from his mistakes and has moved forward from there.”

“So, Princess” Twilight asked “how are we going to find Discord?”

“I-”. Celestia paused. “To be honest, I don’t know.”

“Aren’t you an all-powerful being?” Pinkie asked. “Don’t you know everything?”

“No, we alicorns don’t know everything” Celestia responded. “And some stuff like that are just some annoying rumors spread around by gossip ponies.”

“Oh, sorry” Pinkie replied.

Twilight looked at Spike and told him “Spike, you better stay back in Ponyville, Hansen is probably really dangerous.”

“No” Spike said. “I’m coming, too. I want to help you out. Besides, it’s kinda boring not having you guys around.”

So the group left Canterlot castle.

“So where do we find that there Hansen?” Applejack asked the Princess.

Twilight then thought in her head “oh man, we should have followed Hansen when he flew off when we had the chance.”

“We’ll worry about that later” Celestia said. “But I do know that during his past, he secretly had a group of supporters for him known as the Eye of Hansen, and we can see if they know where he’s at. But for now, we need to find Discord.”

Then, Discord popped out of Celestia’s mane, with his ears on fire, and said “my ears were burning.”

Discord put his hands on his ears to put out the fire.

“Where did you come from?” Applejack asked.

Discord replied “I was just taking a stroll through Canterlot Castle when I overheard that you were going to add me to an adventure you were having.”

“Did you hear about the Grey Shade story?” Pinkie Pie asked.

“Who’s Grey Shade?” Discord asked. “You know, I’ve heard a few ponies call me Grey Shade before, that includes Celestia, but I never knew who that was. Strange.”

“The only thing strange” Rarity thought in her head “is that it’s been over a thousand years and he still doesn’t remember his own past.”

“So what’s the occasion?” Discord asked Celestia.

“The occasion is that we need your help” Celestia answered. “You remember Hansen, don’t you.”

“My old teacher?”

“Well, we need your help trying to stop him from destroying the world.”

“Well, I don’t know, he was an old friend.”

“But you’re on our side now!” Rarity argued. “You’ve been reformed, and you’re our friend now! Shouldn’t friends help each other!?”

“But Hansen was my old friend, too, you know.”

“Discord” Celestia said. “I know it may be hard to lose a friend, but you still have more friends who will help you.”

“Hmmm …. okay, I’ll help.”

“Okay” Pinkie said. “Let’s go stop Hansen right now!”

So with Discord added to the group, the group left to stop Hansen and the Eye of Hansen.

Meanwhile, in a castle far, far away. It was a dark gothic-looking castle. There was a meeting, where there were thirteen ponies in hooded cloaks similar to the one Stardust Blaze was wearing, and one chair at the meeting table was empty, probably reserved for Stardust Blaze.

Then, Stardust Blaze entered the meeting room.

“Mister Blaze” one unicorn stallion in a deep voice said.

This unicorn took off his hood, revealing his grey coat, and a long black mane. This unicorn was named Snare.

“Chief Snare” Stardust responded as he took his hood off.

Snare said “you’re late for our meeting, again.”

“I know, but I have a good reason this time.”

Stardust turned behind him and said “do come in, Master.”

“Master?” asked the other ponies at the table.

Then, Hansen arrived through the doorway that Stardust entered.

Every-pony else gasped, and they came before Hansen and bowed before him, saying “master”.

“So you all must be my new subjects” Hansen said. “I saw that there were a lot of ponies in this castle, and I’m surprised. When this group began, there were only about ten to twenty members.”

“My king” Snare said. “We didn’t know you would be set free today. We didn’t even bring a chair for you. I’ll go fetch you one right now.”

“I’d rather stand.”

“Yes, my king.”

So Stardust took his seat and the meeting resumed, almost.

“Our meeting will have to be rescheduled” Snare said “because right now, thanks to our underachiever, Stardust Blaze, our master has already returned. So now, we may have a new meeting under the rule of master Hansen.”

“Thank you” Hansen told Snare.

He looked at the group and said “my loyal subjects. As you are aware, I have returned from my imprisonment. Right now, the newest princess, Twilight Sparkle, has probably warned Princess Celestia and Princess Luna about my return, and they’re probably going to stop me as we speak. But I gave them a warning that I’ll come back in one month to face Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.”

“What about Princess Cadance?” one pegasus mare asked.

Hansen looked at the mare and asked “Princess … Cadance?”

“Uh, I mean, Princess Mi Amore Cadenza. She’s known as Princess Cadance for short. She used to be a pegasus, but she was turned into an alicorn when you were still in your prison. I can only assume that that was the reason why you didn’t know about her until now.”

“Nevermind that, now. I’ll deal with this Cadance later. Right now, my main focus is on Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. They’re the ones that trapped me in crystal, and I want revenge upon them for that. So during this one month of waiting, I intend to do some training to prepare for our ‘reunion’.”

“Revenge?” Snare asked.

“Don’t tell me you’re surprised! Of course my vengeance must be satisfied! Celestia and Luna control the Elements of Harmony, which is what was used to trap me in crystal!”

“Actually” Stardust Blaze said. “I’ve done some spying on the pair, as well as listening to some rumors. Celestia and Luna are no longer connected to the Elements of Harmony. In fact, if what I’ve learned is correct, the ones that are connected now are a group of six ponies, one of which is, curiously enough, Princess Twilight Sparkle, whom we heard is Celestia’s former pupil.”

“Is that so? Then I guess it’s not just Celestia and Luna anymore, we have six more targets. As of today, I shall train to stop Celestia, Luna, and these six ponies. In the meantime, I would like all of you to train as well. Meeting adjourned.”

So everyone left the meeting.

Snare walked down through a door with a sign on it that says “Prisoners’ Dungeon”. Snare walked through a dungeon that contained many prisoners. Some of them were other ponies as well as monsters that were captured. Each cell contained one prisoner inside.

Snare walked past one dungeon cell that contained a small hole in the ground and no prisoners. Snare dashed back to the cell and looked inside.

“She’s escaped!” he shouted. “I’ve got to warn everyone!”

Meanwhile, outside of the castle, a small female baby dragon dug a hole out of the ground. She was green and had horns, a yellow belly, small bat-like wings, and yellow eye pupils, and her name is Jade the Dragon.

So Jade ran off, and she ran into a nearby forest so that the Eye of Hansen wouldn’t find her.

To Be Continued ...