MLP FiM: Hansen Rising

So Stardust Blaze blasted a beam of magic at Twilight Sparkle, and Twilight flew in the air to dodge it.

“Where do you think you’re going!?” Stardust shouted.

Stardust used his unicorn magic to self-levitate himself into the air to follow Twilight.

“He wore a black cloak” Celestia said. “He must have been from the Eye of Hansen! We have to stop him!”

So Celestia, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Discord flew into the air to help Twilight. Starlight Glimmer also self-levitated in order to help Twilight as well. But then, Stardust shot a large beam of magic from his horn at them all.

“Stay out of this!” he shouted, “This battle is between me and this so-called princess of friendship!”

Stardust looked at Twilight and chased her, shooting beams of magic at her, but Twilight kept dodging them. Twilight shot some more beams of magic at Stardust, and he dodged them. But one of Twilight’s beams struck Stardust, but all it did was knock his cloak off, and it reveals his cutie mark: it’s a white twinkle.

Twilight and Celestia both looked at Stardust’s mane, tail, and cutie mark.

“Wait a minute” they both said to themselves. “I recognize that mane, that tail, that coat, and that cutie mark.”

“Didn’t you say your name was Stardust Blaze?” Twilight asked.

“Yes” he said.

“Stardust Blaze?” Celestia asked herself. “That’s the son of the Unguls!”

“The who?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Hansen told you that he would return in a month!” Stardust told Twilight “You shouldn’t be back here!”

“Hansen told you what!?” Celestia shouted.

Stardust looked at Celestia, and then he looked back at Twilight.

“Wait” he said “You didn’t tell her!?”

“Tell me what?” Celestia asked.

“Twilight!” Rainbow said. “Don’t tell!”

“Rainbow” Applejack told her “If we don’t want Celestia to know, we can’t shout to Twilight not to tell her.”

“What’s going on here!?” Celestia asked. “Twilight, I want answers!”

Twilight lowered her head.

“If you won’t tell her” Stardust said, “I will!”

“Wait!” Twilight shouted. “I’ll tell her!”

So Twilight descended and landed in front of Celestia.

“Well?” Celestia asked.

Twilight sighed and told Celestia the true story, as she told this story, Celestia’s face grew more grim the further on she heard:

“The truth is, I lied. Actually, we all did, me and my friends. I didn’t know they were coming with me even though you said not to invite them, but they urged me to let them stay to keep me company. Then through a slip of the tongue, I revealed about the Dark Magic Library, and it made Rainbow Dash interested in it. Rainbow Dash wanted to look at the library, and she told us that I owe her a favor, and that favor is to tell them about what’s inside the library. So I looked, and I found the book ‘Creation of Discord’, and I learned about who Discord really was. I also learned that Hansen was sealed inside the jewel in the book. But little did I know that Stardust Blaze snuck into the library with me-”

“Wait” Stardust told Twilight’s friends. “How did you girls not see me come in, anyway?”

“We were hiding in a bush” Applejack said. “Now stop interruptin’ Twilight!”

Twilight Sparkle continued:

“As I was saying, Stardust Blaze snuck into the library, and then he took the jewel from me because he said he was part of Hansen’s followers, the Eye of Hansen, and he broke the jewel, setting Hansen free. Hansen said that he would return to Canterlot in a month because you weren’t there, so he wanted to settle the score with you once you returned. My friends suggested that I lie so you two wouldn’t be mad.”

“So the reason that Hansen is free” Celestia said “Is because YOU found Hansen’s crystal.”

Twilight covered her eyes, waiting for Celestia to punish her. But rather than a punishment, Celestia placed her hoof on Twilight’s shoulder.

Celestia spoke “Twilight, I know that you have a curiosity, and I know that you’re afraid, but when things happen, I need to know about it. You didn't know what would happen so-”

“Just stop” Twilight said “this is my fault. I caused this mess, now I have to stop it!”

“Yeah” Rainbow said. “Don’t punish her, it’s our faults. We urged her to go into the Dark Magic Library, we were all the cause of Hansen’s release from his crystal.”

“I'm not mad about that. What concerns me is that you lied to me. You should always tell me the truth no matter what. Besides, I've known you for a long time, and I know that you would never try to put Equestria in danger.”

“That makes me feel worse about what I did. I have to stop Hansen, and it has to be me and me alone!”

“No!” Stardust shouted.

Stardust blasted a magic beam at Twilight, but she dodged it.

Stardust told her “If you want Hansen, you'll have to go through me first!  We have a score to settle!”

Stardust and Twilight continued their fight.

Stardust shot magic beams at Twilight as she flew away from him.

“What score do we have to settle, Stardust!?” Twilight shouted.

Twilight shot another magic beam at Stardust, but Stardust dodged and levitated some giant rocks from out of the ground.

“What you did to me long ago!” he shouted.

Stardust used his levitation to chuck the rocks at Twilight, but Twilight dodged them.

Twilight told Stardust “I didn't do anything!”

Stardust levitated some trees around Twilight, and tried to squish her with them, but Twilight flew away.

“You ruined my life!” he said

“When!?”

“When we were foals!”

Meanwhile, back in the castle, the fight between Stardust and Twilight attracted the attention of some of the guards and henchmen.

One guard said “we have to alert our Master about this!”

So the guards and henchmen ran off to alert Hansen about the fight.

Meanwhile, in Stardust’s room, Ace Spades saw the fight happening through a window. He squinted his eyes, and he saw Stardust fighting with Twilight.

“Stardust!” he said.

So Ace jumped out of his window, and he flapped his wings like a ladybug to fly away without being seen.

Meanwhile, outside of the castle the fight continued between Twilight and Stardust. They were flying and shooting beams of magic at each other.

Twilight shot a beam of magic at Stardust at the same time Stardust shot a beam of magic at Twilight. The beams collided, and they were pushing against each other.

“I’m not gonna stand there and let you remind me of everything I hate about my life!” Stardust shouted at Twilight.

Stardust pushed his beam closer to Twilight, and the beams exploded in her face, causing her to be launched away far into the forest.

Stardust used his magic to blow away the smoke caused by the explosion. He couldn’t see Twilight anywhere.

“Princess Twilight!” Stardust shouted. “Where are you!? Hide all you like, but I will find you!”

There was no response.

“Fine!” he shouted. “If you won’t come out, then I’ll have to hurt your friends until you come out!”

“That won’t be necessary!” said a voice from behind.

Stardust looked behind him and saw that Hansen and his henchmen were behind Stardust on the ground. Hansen was the source of the voice.

“We saw the whole battle from inside the castle” he said. “We’ll capture the rest of the group while you look for Princess Twilight.”

“Yes, sir!”

Stardust used his self-levitation to fly away into the forest to look for Twilight.

“Hansen!” Celestia shouted. “As long as I’m still here, I will protect Equestria from destruction!”

“Oh really.”

Hansen used his magic to form a dark magic bubble around Celestia. Celestia used her magic to teleport out, but the dark magic reversed her spell to teleport her back into the bubble. Celestia tried to shoot a beam of magic from her horn to break the bubble, but it didn’t work.

Hansen levitated Celestia’s bubble close to him.

“Any last words, princess?”

But then, Discord snapped his fingers on his lion paw, and banana peels appeared on the ground below Hansen and the Eye of Hansen, causing them all to slip. Hansen also accidentally flung Celestia’s bubble towards his castle, causing some damage.

“What was that?” Hansen asked.

“That was me” Discord said.

Hansen turned his head and saw Discord from a distance away.

“Discord!?”

“Hello, Hansen!”

“That’s rude, I prefer my subjects to call me ‘Master’.”

“Oh, right, sorry Mas- oh wait, I’m not your subject anymore.”

“What!?”

“You heard me, I, Discord, am not your subject anymore. In case you didn’t know, I’m friends with Celestia and the other ponies, now.”

“So you’re a traitor!? Tell me, is friendship really what you desire?”

“Yes, why?”

“Because, what if I can offer you something greater than friendship? Would you be willing to come back to my side?”

“Not a chance. Tirek offered me the same thing, once, and it didn’t go so well.”

“Tirek?”

“Sir” said one member of the Eye of Hasnen “Let me explain: when we were trying to look for you, we went to Tartarus and freed the Cerberus, it unleashed someone named Tirek, but we couldn’t find you.”

“I know who Tirek is!” Hansen said. “When I was imprisoned, I heard about many powerful beings who are close to being as powerful as me: Lord Tirek, King Sombra, and Discord.”

Hansen looked back at Discord.

“Tell you what, Discord” he told him, “You were known to be the powerful Spirit of Chaos, yet you were outsmarted by ponies. Doesn’t that sound ridiculous?”

“Hmm” Discord said. “It kinda does.”

The ponies looked at Discord in shock.

“Here’s the deal: if you do not rejoin me, then you are considered a traitor! However, if you rejoin me, I can give you full control of my army, except that I’ll still be your boss. I can give you a better reputation, make you well known and feared throughout Equestria. What do you say?”

Hansen held out his hand to Discord.

Slowly, Discord walked towards Hansen.

“Discord! No!” Fluttershy shouted.

“Silence!” shouted an Eye of Hansen member.

Discord kept walking towards Hansen until he stopped in front of Hansen.

Discord grabbed Hansen’s hand, much to everyone’s shock.

“Thank you, Captain Discord” Hansen said.

But then, Discord made a grin, much to Hansen’s confusion. Then, Hansen got shocked in his hand, and Discord revealed that he had a 'joy buzzer' in his hand.

“Just kidding!” Discord shouted. “You should have seen the look on your face! You actually thought I was going to rejoin you!”

Discord laughed, and the rest of Discord and Celestia’s group sighed in relief.

“But seriously” Discord said. “My mind’s made up, I’m not going to rejoin you. In other words: I’m with the ponies, and I prefer to stay that way for a long time.”

Hansen responded “You...TRAITOR!!!!”

Hansen got up and tried to attack Discord, but Discord dodged him.

Discord stuck his tongue out and made a teasing face at Hansen.

Hansen got angry, and he tried to take both hands and clobber Discord with them, but Discord teleported away.

Discord teleported back, and he teleported away when Hansen tried to attack him. He teleported back again, and he teleported away when Hansen tried to attack him. Then Discord teleported back, and Hansen jumped onto Discord, pummeling him. But Discord watches the pummeling while eating popcorn as if it was a movie. Hansen stopped and saw that he was only attacking a doll that resembled Discord. Hansen got even more furious.

“Discord!” he shouted. “Stop toying with me!”

Hasnen shot a beam of magic at Discord, but Discord teleported away, leaving the beam to make a hole through a forest.

Then Discord teleported inside Hansen's armor, and popped out of his helmet.

“Why do you wear this armor” he asked. “Doesn’t it get hot in here? Why don’t you take it off and cool off.”

So Discord teleported away, along with Hansen's knight armor and red cape. Hansen crouched on the ground, and everyone gasped as they saw Hasnen without his armor.

“No” Hasnen said. “Don’t look at me! I’m hideous!”

“The master has never been seen without his armor” one Eye of Hansen member said.

“Master” they all said.

Hasnen stood up and revealed what he really looks like, much to everyone’s shock, even to Celestia’s shock. It turns out that Hasnen, from above the waist, has a humanoid torso, grey scaly skin, a lizard head with white eyes and red eye pupils, a pair of two fangs coming out of his mouth from the top, and brown hair on his head. From the waist down, Hansen has the legs of a minotaur covered in brown fur, with black hooves on his feet, and a grey lizard’s tail.

“Master” one Eye of Hasnen pony said. “Pardon my asking, but, are you … ashamed without your armor?”

“No” Hasnen said. “I only wore the armor because throughout my life, I was called a hideous beast. So I wear the armor in order to make my name known and feared. But now that you see who I really look like, I assume you’ll be too disgusted to serve me.”

“No, we are the Eye of Hansen, we serve you no matter what!”

All of the Eye of Hansen bowed before the armor-less Hansen.

“So you all still pledge your loyalty towards me?”

The Eye of Hasnen nodded at their ‘master’.

“You know” he said “I’m actually glad to be out of that armor, it was a magic armor I created so it wouldn’t hold back my true power, because like the old saying says, I don’t know my own strength.”

“Holding back!?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“That’s wasn’t his best!?” Rarity asked.

So Hansen raised his two hands, and smashed them against each other and shouted “Second Phase!”

Then, Hasnen bulked up and gained a more muscular appearance due to the power Hansen’s ‘Second Phase’.

“This is the power of my Second Phase” Hansen said. “I couldn’t do it with the magic armor holding me back.”

So Hansen self levitated using his dark magic, and he raised his hands in the air. So Discord charged his hands with Dark Magic, and he flung gaint beams of dark magic from out of his hands as if he were throwing objects from his hands.

Starlight Glimmer used her unicorn magic to deflect some of the beams of dark magic, and Rarity used a parasol made of magic to block the beams of dark magic as well.

“We can’t do this on our own!” Starlight shouted. “We need you to use your Element Powers!”

“Element Powers?” Pinkie Pie asked.

“You are all connected to the Elements of Harmony, without them, you wouldn’t have defeated Tirek!”

“But we can’t do it without Twilight” Rainbow Dash shouted. “We have to all be together for our powers to work!”

Starlight was shocked.

Then, Celestia came, and she used her magic to help Rarity and Starlight Glimmer deflect the beams of dark magic.

“Discord!” Celestia shouted “We need your help!”

So Discord arrived and conjured up magical mirrors, making some more dark magic beams bounce off of them. He also conjured magical trampolines to make the dark magic beams bounce off of them, too.

But then, an Eye of Hansen unicorn came up from behind him and tried to grab onto Discord using a ‘rope’ made of unicorn magic. But Discord stretched through the ‘rope’ and broke it. Discord then turned that unicorn’s cape into a black snake that squeezed him.

Some more Eye of Hansen unicorns tried to attack Discord, but Discord turned his attention to them so he can mess around with them like that other unicorn. He tried bouncing their magic beams back at them, or by turning their magic beams into harmless objects like pillows or stuffed animals.

However, Hansen noticed that Discord focused his attention not on him, but on some Eye of Hansen unicorns.

“This is the perfect moment to fight back” Hansen said to himself.

So Hansen stopped throwing beams of magic at the group, and he levitated himself towards Discord. He grabbed him by his torso with his two arms and pushed both of them to the ground. With Hansen holding Discord pinned to the ground, he used his magic to weaken him.

“I … feel … weak” Discord said.

“Good” said Hansen. “I used my magic to make that happen.”

Hansen’s eyes started to glow completely red as he stared into Discord’s eyes. Then, Discord’s eyes started to glow red the same way. However, glowing white cracks appeared on Discord’s body, and they started to grow in length.

“Discord!” Celestia and Fluttershy shouted.

“Discord!” the rest of the group shouted.

So the entire group went towards Discord’s aid, but the Eye of Hansen unicorns shot beams of magic at them, telling them “Don’t interfere!”

Discord’s eagle talon broke off of his body like stone, then the same happened to Discord’s deer hoof, then Discord’s lizard foot, then Discord’s dragon tail, then Discord’s lion paw, and then Discord’s deer antler on his head.

The cracks on Discord’s body grew bigger and bigger until finally, Discord shattered into a million pieces, leaving behind his eagle talon, deer hoof, lizard foot, dragon tail, lion paw, and deer antler. Also, the brown fur of his torso was left off of his body.

But out of the brown fur emerged Grey Shade: who looks like Discord’s pony disguise from when Discord confronted Tirek, only he was older, evident by the fact that he’s as tall as Celestia.

Celestia stared in shock and gasped.

Fluttershy ran towards Grey Shade as Grey Shade was slowly waking up. Hansen got up and walked backwards.

“Discord” Fluttershy told Grey Shade “are … you alright?”

“Discord?” Grey Shade asked, his normal voice sounded like Discord’s. “Who’s that? My name’s Grey Shade.”

“Don’t you remember me!?” Fluttershy asked.

“No” he said.

The group gasped, except for Celestia.

“Is that … Grey Shade?” Rainbow Dash asked Celestia.

Celestia answered “yes ... only, he looks older.”

Fluttershy hugged him and said “It’s me, Fluttershy”

“I’m sorry” Grey Shade responded “But I don’t know you”

“It’s no use” Hansen told Fluttershy “When Grey Shade was Discord, he was asleep, unable to know what happened. Yet when Discord confronted Tirek, he transformed into Grey Shade. That was probably Grey Shade’s way of trying to wake up. Nevertheless, Discord is gone, and there’s no bringing him ba-”

“You’re lying!” Fluttershy shouted at Hansen.

“Discord” Fluttershy told Grey Shade. “I know you’re still in there. You may be back to the way you used to be, back to being Grey Shade, but you can’t forget all of the fun times we had together.”

Tears formed in Fluttershy’s eyes.

“You can’t forget about all of that! Can you!? We were best friends! We laughed and talked together! You can’t forget about that!”

“I’m sorry” Grey Shade responded. “Fluttershy, is it? But, I don’t remember any of that.”

Fluttershy broke down into tears and began to sob. “Please. You can’t forget about me.”

“But I don’t remem-”

“Don’t say that! I remember you and all of the fun we had together! You have to know who I am! Look deep into your mind! We had something special, something you told me that you never had: a bond of friendship! You have to remember! You have to remember!”

Fluttershy broke into more tears and started crying.

“I’m sorry, Fluttershy” Grey Shade said. “But whoever this Discord person is, he’s not me. I wish I could remember you, but I can’t.”

Meanwhile, the remains of Discord’s body turned into dark smoke, and they all combined into one body of dark smoke. Hansen raised his right hand to use his dark magic to bring the smoke closer to him.

“What’s that!” Pinkie asked.

“This, Pink Pony” Hansen said “is Discord: his consciousness, personality, memories,everything. And now, it’s mine.”

“Oh no you don’t!” Rainbow Dash said.

Rainbow tried to fly towards Hansen, but Hansen took a deep breath, breathing in the smoke form of Discord into his mouth before Rainbow Dash could even stop him. Then, an aura of Dark Magic surrounded Hansen, engulfing him in it.

Rainbow Dash stopped, and she, along with the entire group, including Fluttershy, gazed in awe at Hansen's transformation. Hansen then emerged from the engulfing Dark Magic as a new form:

He had a pair of two dark magic wings on his back, a brown fur-covered humanoid body, red-fur-covered minotaur legs with brown hooves, two green arms, and a furry grey humanoid head with black hair, yellow eyes with red eye pupils, and a front fang like Discord’s. He also had a pair of twin thick deer antlers.

“Hansen?” Rainbow Dash asked,

The creature was no longer Hansen.

He said “I am neither Hansen nor Discord, now. I am both, we are one! I … am … Darkord!”

Ace Spades watched this from a tree in the forest surrounding the castle.

“What will I do?” Ace asked himself.

So Ace rushed back into the forest.

TO BE CONTINUED ...