As Tirek galloped towards us, I adopted an offensive posture and Pinkie stood up her two rear legs while raising her front legs level to her head, baring her teeth and growling all the while.
I rolled my eyes at the display and then released a quick magical blast at Tirek before he could reach us. He brushed the sudden attack off rather easily, but while he was distracted, Pinkie ran up to him at hypersonic speeds and then smacked a cupcake platter into his face, causing Tirek to yell in irritation. I had to stifle my giggle for a few seconds, but then swiftly went back to being serious.
In the time it took me to stop giggling, Pinkie managed to blast her party cannon at Tirek, attach some balloons to him, put a hat made out of cake on his head and cover his face in another tray of half a dozen cupcakes, all at a comically quick pace.
Tirek grew more and more frustrated as he shot out several powerful beams in Pinkie’s direction, but all of them failed to hit the hypersonic pony. Eventually, he decided to shoot out less powerful, but much faster beams, in order to have a chance to catch his target.
He conjured up an extra strong magical blast, and upon firing it he split it up into a dozen quick beams of yellow, orange and red light.
Tirek let loose a couple more of these barrages, and then stood still, smiling as he waited for one of the rays to meet their target. Pinkie looked surprised at first, but soon she happily exclaimed, "Ooh, fun!" In an instant, she got into motion, leaving behind a pink cloud shaped like herself. I saw her bobbing and weaving through the arcane attacks. Her speed could've outmatched Rainbow Dash, and momentarily it looked like she had split up into 5 versions of herself. Needless to say, with her incredible agility, she managed to evade every single beam without even breaking a sweat. Tirek’s anger spiked at the display, and he stomped towards Pinkie with indignation.
I ran towards him. "Don't forget about me, Tirek!!" I yelled, launching a powerful blast at him. Since I managed to blindside him, the attack knocked Tirek to the ground, and Pinkie dashed out of the way before the magic came anywhere close to her.
After the smoke from the blast cleared, Tirek was a bit scratched up, but no serious damage was inflicted upon him. Enraged by the sneak attack, he turned to answer it with a ray of his own.
I came up with an idea that would save my magic, and would make Tirek even more angry, if that was possible. All I would need to do was fly out of the way as soon as Tirek launched his beam, which would also make Tirek waste a bit of his power for no reason.
The plan worked flawlessly. I flew out of the way the moment he released his magic beam, and Tirek grew even more enraged and tired. I was thinking, This fight is going almost too well...The instant the thought crossed my mind, I regretted it.
Tirek had had enough, and decided to put this confrontation to a close. He glared at Pinkie, and suddenly, she was trapped in his magical grasp. She twisted and turned within her small magical prison, but to no avail.
I closed my eyes in horror as Tirek opened his mouth to take the magic of Equestria's last hope. But after a few seconds, I opened them again, the lack of Tirek's magic stealing noise leaving me curious. I turned back towards Pinkie and Tirek, and saw that Pinkie was smiling. Then I remembered something that Pinkie had said earlier...Tirek can't just steal that power whenever he wants to, he may have stolen my regular magic, but no one can take my full hidden power away unless I tell them about it...Now, I smiled, as this would frustrate Tirek even more, and increase our already surprisingly high chances of victory.
However, my newfound happiness vanished once Pinkie opened her mouth. "Ha! No pony can take my hidden magic away unless I tell them about it...Ah! Oops!" I stared at Pinkie. Completely dumbstruck by her revelation, it took me a good few seconds to speak again.
"Pinkie!! What are you thinking!?"
Tirek switched from extremely infuriated to wearing a wide, evil grin. He cackled, and then began to suck out all the hidden reserves of what might very well have been the most powerful creature in all of Equestria.
A massive outpour of thick, pink magic started gushing out of Pinkie's mouth, mixed in with tinges of chaos magic, remains of a guide to physics and fourth wall breaking (?), and many other colors. Her eyes adopted a rainbow hue and spiraled in a circular pattern, while the magic kept on gushing out. There was so much magic kept in Pinkie's hidden reserves, that the process went on for more than a minute.
While Tirek was distracted, I charged up a super powerful magical blast, and shot it out at him, but it just bounced off of an invisible magic shield that had appeared to protect Tirek during his absorption.
I kept assaulting his magical barrier, but it was useless. It just wouldn't budge. Eventually, I decided to summon forth a magical sword and slashed at the seemingly impenetrable barrier again and again, until Tirek had finally finished sucking out the last of Pinkie's magic, and his shield exploded outwards, sending me flying.
Pinkie collapsed on the ground and weakly muttered, "That wasn't fun..." I looked at Tirek, pure rage clouding my vision red, then flew back towards him at supersonic speeds.
"HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO MY FRIEND, YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS!!!" just as I was about to slam into him, Tirek started to grow. And I mean like, growing 20x bigger in a few seconds kind of growing. If you haven't seen it, good. You don't want to. I mean, you really don't want to.
When his enormous growth spurt was done, he was so gigantic that his size was dozens of times bigger than that of an average tree, and he could probably have crushed me with his smallest claw, or maybe even with just its tip.
Before doing anything else, I made sure to teleport Pinkie to just outside the village, then went back to Tirek, who now had his arms raised triumphantly above his head, shooting huge magical blasts at the forest he was now towering above.
Staring at the 500 feet tall giant filled me with apprehension, knowing I would have to do battle with this enormous menace.