Hansel and Gretel Sombra Hunters

by Kaliann25

Welcome to a new world

This wasn’t going well for Gretel. First the group faced a male witch, yes a male witch, but if that wasn’t weird enough; now they were in the middle of nowhere strangely transformed and Hansel was unconscious.

“Hansel! Hansel! Damn it Hansel, open your eyes for god’s sake!”

The young man let escape a small annoyed groan and opened his eyes rubbing his head. It truly hurts; but not only his head, the feeling of being numb was all over his body now.

“Gretel? Where are you sis? All I see is an weird-looking miniature equine who really looks like you. Ey! She even have your green dress and blouse!

“You know, idiot? You really should check on a mirror before say any comments” answered the unpleased moss-green unicorn who wore a green dress and a white undershirt who somehow reminded to Gretel. “Apparently, that guy came from a very different place; a complete different world if you ask me”

Hansel blinked surprised and stood, in four legs. Wait, what? Four legs? Looking at himself Hansel gasped in surprise examining his new body: he turned into a moss-green unicorn just as his sister; but like hers, his hair and eyes reminded the same, just like his black long coat. After analyze his new development, Hansel gasped; he even stared at his hoof without completely accepting the fact he was now a pony. At the end he sighed:

“So that male witch came from another world. Anyway, what happened with Edward and Ben?”

Gretel just pointed behind Hansel with her head, so he could see his partners’ development as well: the troll turned into an equine too; a really big deformed one with his front hooves abnormally big and the same big ugly face. Noticing the siblings were looking, he dragged the chariot to them so they could see Ben. On the chariot, covered with all the blankets the hunters had, was the unconscious Ben who was now a beige coated earth pony. But that wasn’t that called Hansel’s surprise, but the fact he had a giant black burn on his chest and was breathing with difficulty.

“Fuck, was the same idiot?” Asked Hanse looking at his friend.

“Yep”

“And just when I thought nothing could surprise me anymore” complained Hansel standing on his four legs. Luckily for him it wasn’t too difficult, probably his instincts were kicking. “Now what? How can we operate the weapons now we don’t have fingers?”

Gretel nodded, yeah, she haven’t thought on that detail neither. But she had an idea, guided by her new pony nature she tried to pick one of the rifles using her magic imagining she was holding it with her fingers. A brown light appeared on her horn’s tip and the weapon was taken and correctly operated by Gretel, who shot to prove the new situation.

“How you did that?” Asked Hansel.

“Don’t know, but you try it as well. Concentrate your energy on your horn and imagine you have your hands back, at least it worked for me”

“Whatever” said Hansel trying to do the same thing as Gretel. Not being a wizard himself he had a little difficulties, but again his new pony instincts came to rescue and could easily levitate the weapon and shoot.

“You need more practice” commented Gretel.

“I know, but now I highly recommend go look for some help for Ben, don’t you think? He could be an annoying fanboy but still I like him”

Gretel just nodded and began to walk looking for the nearest town to ask for help. With Edward’s help they began to move the chariot looking for a town or a city or at least a house. Luckily for them they didn’t have to wait for too long, after half an hour they found a small town.

“Ponyville” recited Gretel looking at a sign on the way. “Okay, small town but at least they have to have a doctor or something”

“For Ben’s sake I hope you’re right”

And they entered the town, that was just like they imagined: completely populated by those miniature equines who came in all kinds of sizes, colors and shapes: there were with a horn like the siblings, without nothing like Edward and Ben; and even winged ones. Lots of them came to the newcomers ready to ask them where they came from and what they wanted but as soon as they saw Edward they all froze for a little and ran in fear.
In a matter of seconds, all town was in a massive panic attack.
Gretel made an exasperated groan, if there was something that really irritated her were hillbillies who easily got panicked, usually that ended with someone doing something really stupid and an unnecessary tragedy.
Then Hansel shot to the air with his hand pistol. The detonation created a great silence that Gretel used:

“People of Ponyville! Listen: there’s nothing to worry about, I can assure you that Edward is completely harmless. Now, my name is Gretel and this is my brother Hansel. We came from very far and all we want is a doctor for our friend Ben”

“Once we help him, we’ll go where we came from”

At least the people seemed to calm a little. Then a pink pony came to them bouncing happily.

“Oh, why don’t you said that from the beginning? My name is Pinkie Pie, the self-proclaimed welcome committee of Ponyville, I hope you have a great stay with us, so let me guide you and…”

Irritated from the speed of the speech and the tone of the pink pony, Gretel took her by the mane and stared at her eyes with anger.

“Listen to me you weirdo: if we don’t do something now, our friend is going to die so tell us where’s a fucking doctor and go annoy anyone else”

The pink pony seemed surprised and hurt by the tone of the green unicorn, so her mane deflated and with a sad look she pointed the hospital. Both unicorns, followed by the giant and the unconscious Ben, left Pinkie Pie about to cry.
Still looking them leaving and restraining her tears, Pinkie felt the friendly hoof of a friend on her shoulder. Whining, she looked at Applejack:

“You see how she talked to me? I thought everypony liked to feel welcome”

“Please don’t blame yourself sugar cube, don’t ya’ see how bad their friend was? Of course the fellas’ were a little worried and urged to help him. Give them some time, alright? Once he recovers ya’ can try to befriend them again”

Pinkie nodded. Of course. How could she not notice that? If one of her friends end up as hurt as the unconscious pony of course she would felt urged to help them as well.

“Okey dokey lokey! I’ll ask Red Head when he recovers so I could offer them a “everything is alright party” and sure they’ll be happy and be my friends” said Pinkie back to normal again.

“That’s the Pinkie Pie I know. Now go back to work and wait for good news” said Applejack relieved for Pinkie Pie.

In the meantime, Hansel and Gretel arrived to the hospital; with Edward guarding their stuff, both of them could find some help from nurse Red Head who seemed very surprised by Ben’s state.

“What happened to him? This seems really really bad?”

“Not the time to answer stupid questions” said Hansel with a threatening tone. “We need a doctor and we need it now”

Red Head gulped and ran for a stretcher to take the poor pony to the nearest free room. Of course she didn’t offended by the aggressive tone of Hansel. Looking at Ben it was just logical to them to be that stressed. In fact she was mentally lecturing herself for her lack of priorities.
When she found the stretcher, the siblings blinked surprised. The stretchers they knew were made of wood and leather; but this one was made of aluminum and fabric. It even had wheels! What the fuck? They also get surprised by the modern equipment of the hospital, the coats and everything else.
But again, that wasn’t the time to admire pony technology, they had to help Ben. Finally a Pegasus doctor examined Ben’s burn with concern in his eyes.

“This doesn’t seem natural. What happened to him?

“A direct strike of black magic” answered Gretel. As witch hunter she was used to that kind of things, it was strange when a witch send a direct strike instead of canalizing the magic in a spell or curse; but it wasn’t that unusual.

“What? You said black magic?”

“I have a little of experience with that kind of wounds. Now if you don’t mind we need to save his life”

The doctor frowned, this wasn’t looking very well.
Hansel only stared at the doctor.

“And what? Can you save him or not?”

The doctor didn’t say anything; this was really concerning. With a serious look in his face he began to treat the wound the best he could; it was a third-degree burning but still he could save Ben; they brought him just in time.
When he finished he looked at the ponies:

“Tell me something: is it true he was attacked with black magic?”

“We saw the whole thing” said Hansel. “It doesn’t matter anyway”

“Of course it matters” said the doctor not letting himself feel intimidated by Hansel. “This means we have to inform the authorities right now. Understand that black magic isn’t very common and if somepony is injured by it, the Princesses should know”

Hansel and Gretel exchanged a significant look. In this place magic was well-known, but black magic wasn’t that much. That gave them a little advantage, the idiot who attacked Ben and stole Muriel’s book was going to be easy to locate.

“Go ahead, inform them then” said Gretel. “I just don’t see the importance of this”

The doctor frowned, those two were acting very suspiciously; but as a pony he always thought the best of people and considered their attitude as they were concerned about their friend; who wouldn’t be? So he ran to call the nearest Princess: Twilight Sparkle.

Twilight came flying as soon as she heard the news, and as soon as she arrived to the hospital, she ran to the room the siblings and Ben were. All the personal let her pass respectfully; the news of a pony attacked with black magic quickly spread all over the hospital.
She entered to the room along with the doctor, where Hansel and Gretel were waiting checking regularly on Ben and some books the nurses gave them to spend time. Especially history books trying to find some information about black magicians.

“Princess Twilight Sparkle is here” announced the doctor.

The siblings nodded, and waited.
Twilight used her magic to examine Ben while she was being watched carefully by the two witch hunters.

“So?” Asked Gretel. “We already know he’s out of danger so it’s only a matter of time for him to recover, right?”

“Yes and no” said Twilight very agitated. “Of course he’ll recover but as soon as he does, we have to make several questions”

“What kind of questions” Asked Gretel defensively.

Luckily for her, again the ponies thought her attitude was that bad because she was worried about the friend who lied on the bed so nopony felt offended.

“Well, first we’ll have to know where that happened. Black magic is uncommon in Equestria and if somepony was attacked by it, that means we have a new enemy to face. Or worst, an old enemy; there’s something on the remains of the dark aura that seem familiar”

On that moment Hansel looked at his sister passing her the book.

“Gretel I think you should check this” he said.

Gretel did as he said, on the chapter cover they could see a black unicorn who seemed like the male witch they faced on Ausburg’s forest. Same eyes, same gray coat, same long black mane.

“King Sombra” mumbled Gretel. “So Ben was hit by royalty, okay, I bet he’ll feel important when he awakes”

Both siblings grinned, this was going to be fun, and luckily for them; this wasn’t notice neither by Twilight or the doctor.

“You said it was King Sombra? You saw him?”

“Yes we did” said Gretel. “Is there any problem, your highness?”

“OF COURSE IT ITS! HE SUPPOSED TO BE SEALED BY THE CRYSTAL HEART! Now we have a trouble, lots of trouble. King Sombra can’t return that easy; and if he does, Equestria is in grave danger”

“Sealed?” Asked Hansel. “Is that something like locked away?”

“Well, yes. Is that or try to reform him; the only two ways to stop evil” said Twilight a little recovered. Something on the siblings’ expression was odd… like they were having fun of her? No, it had to be her imagination- “Are you sure it was him”

“Pretty sure”

Twilight frowned.

“I need to go to Crystal Empire as soon as I can; to check with Candace and Shining Armor if they can help me to assure if he truly escaped. And I know this is too much to ask but I need you to come as well”

“You mean go to the former domains of the one who did this?” Asked Hansel.

“I understand you’re scared but…”

“On the contrary your highness, it’ll be a great honor” said Gretel. “But at least I wish we could wait until Ben could join us. How much time do you think he needs until he could travel, doctor?”

The doctor smiled, tendered by the concern on the siblings for their friend.

“Thanks that you brought him on time, tomorrow morning he could move. I recommend to wait for a week considering it was black magic but I guess Princess Sparkle can do it for you. Only if you don’t mind your Highness”

“Of course not” smiled Twilight. “And I understand your request, we won’t move until he recovers and in the meantime, you can stay at my Palace for tonight along with your other friend. If there’s something I honor is true friendship”

Both Hansel and Gretel bowed, but rejected to stay with Twilight saying they wanted to spend time with their friend. Again Twilight granted them that, admiring the devotion for their friend. But at least she recommended to have a walk in the town.

“The doctor told me he administrated a very powerful sedative to your friend so he won’t awake in the next four hours so you have that time to kill. What about I show you the town? You know, to think in other thing while your friend is resting”

Both of them shrugged and accepted. In fact they only wanted to be there when Ben open his eyes to explain him the new situation; but if they had some time to kill it would be wise to know their new hunting territory. They needed to be as cautious as they could to avoid uncomfortable situations.
In the middle of the walk, some watch Hansel had began to sound it’s alarm making the hunter to stop walking and put an injection on his back leg.

“What was that?” Asked Twilight.

“I have the sugar sickness. If I don’t put this injections every four hours I die” said Hansel like nothing.

“Oh, you’re diabetic. That means bad news for Pinkie Pie; because you see… she set a party for you, to celebrate your friend is out of danger and to apologize for her lack of tact when you arrived”

“WHAT?” Both of them asked.

Twilight stopped in front of a building that looked like a gingerbread house, and of course that didn’t seem fun for the hunters.
It was when the pink pony from early came bouncing happily:

“Welcome to Sugar Cube Corner! You see, I have friends in the hospital and they informed me about your situation and I thought, oh they have to be very scared; but, hey! Let’s help them relax celebrating that at least their friend is okay now. Besides you leave tomorrow an I want to be your friend before you leave town and…”

Both witch hunters just began to walk away from the backery.

“Ey, what’s the matter? You don’t want to have some fun?”

“Not only there’s still a bad moment,” said Gretel. “But also if there’s something we learnt in our life is… if you see a house made of candy, you better don’t enter”

Twilight didn’t understood the last part but at least she did the first one: they weren’t the kind of ponies who won’t stop worrying until everything finish and a still there wasn’t the right time for parties.
By her way, Pinkie just heard the part of not entering a house made of candy:

“Come on! Is just a little something to attract more foals to our business, nothing bad”

“You said to attract children?” Asked Gretel.

Pinkie nodded.
Then Hansel approached and began to examine her eyes, teeth, mane and body.

“Clean” he informed.

“Okay, let’s move” said Gretel coldly.

And walked away from Sugar Cube Corner.

“Please! At least stay for a piece of cake!”

Hansel stared at her:

“First: I can’t eat sugar. Second: this is not the time you idiot”

And they left. Pinkie looked at them leaving again, but this time she felt a little guilty. Again her urge to befriend every new pony she meet made her annoy two strangers who only thought about their friend. Why she have to be that impulsive?
Twilight sighed, she understood that Pinkie was hurt but this time she had to be at the side of the strangers, they weren’t from there so they weren’t used to Pinkie and her happiness.

“Okay next stop: Crystal Empire”

Author's Note:

A little rush but like I want to concentrate the fic on the fight with Sombra; this was only an introduction to a new world chapter, next will be like the first: with lots of violence.

Read ya later!!