"Here he comes!" Bright summoned his axe and got ready for the impact, but Tirek stopped a few meters from them.
"Huh? Well, this is unexpected. I guess Discord was hiding more secrets from me than I thought. May I know what the hay are you creature?" Tirek asked.
"I’m a human. You got a problem with that?" Bright said.
"Not really. Now tell me, that axe in your hand,
is what I think it is?"
"I don’t know, what do you think it is?"
"A defiant one you are. No matter, I know what it is, I can feel a huge amount of magic coming from it and you. Come and let me taste you."
"Ok… that sounded so wrong, punishment time."
Bright jumped at top speed to the monster, Tirek never seen him coming, the human managed to hit a powerful kick right to his cheek. Tirek felt all the electrity going through all of his face before collapsing on the floor. Twilight’s jaw was open after watching her friend do that, he turned to see her and said:
"What? You think I lost my touch when I visited Minus after my mother in law died?" Bright said.
Bright landed in front of a shocked centaur and spoke:
"Now asshole, you will tell me where my mother is?"
"The Tartarus I know! I haven’t seen another creature like you these days."
"Oh so you don’t know, my mother is Celestia! NOW YOU WILL TELL ME WHERE YOU IMPRISONED HER!" yelled Bright.
Tirek face was full of surprise after realization.
"So you are Celestia’s son… wow, I never knew she was so desperate to have a son, that she would adopt a freak like you."
Once again Bright used his speed to approach Tirek, but this time the centaur was ready. He used his arm to protect himself from the hit, but the shockwave was enough to make him retreat a few meters.
"There is a lot more where that came from. Are you ready to talk now?"
"DON’T UNDERESTIMATE ME! ACCELEROO!"
Tirek horns shined and a second later he moved with an incredible speed.
"What the…?" Bright said as he casted his plasma shield just in time to survive a powerful punch from Tirek.
"You think you are the only who can move really fast?" Tirek exclaimed.
"Not really, but I have to admit that I thought only pegasus and Pinkie could move that fast. No matter, my speed is still superior, let me show you!"
"BRING IT ON FREAK! ACCELEROO!"
Bright and Tirek started a high speed fight, even when Tirek was clearly stronger, he was glad to be right. Even with that amazing spell, he was still a little faster than the monster, that helped him to leveled the fight. Bright kept striking Tirek with his fists and kicks, he tried to cut his horns with the axe, but Tirek managed to dodge him. The centaur took advantage of that opening and shot a beam right at the human. Bright didn’t have time to cast his shield and got hit landing on the ground.
"YOU ARE DONE HUMAN!" Tirek screamed and was getting ready to finish Bright when he was struck by a purple beam.
"Don’t forget that I’m still here Tirek." Twilight said.
"You! I forgot you…"
Another hit to the jaw interrupted him and sent him back to the ground.
"Not to mention I’m not done for as you said ugly!" Bright screamed after recovering.
"Bright! Are you ok?" Twilight said while inspecting her friend body.
"Yeah… be grateful for the extra protection my axe gives to my body or I would be very injured right now. Even so, it hurts like tartarus… now Are you ready to tell me what that guy wants from you?"
"Well, you see…"
Twilight explained to Bright as fast as she could what his mother, Luna, and Cadence did to protect the Alicorn magic from Tirek.
"I see, that explains your power boosting. Ok Twilight go somewhere safe and keep that magic away from Tirek." Bright said.
"No! I can fight too, together we can do it! Even when you became stronger, you are still no match for him! Let’s do this, you and me. I know we can win."
"Probably, but we don’t know what he is capable of… besides, if that’s all of his powers, with me it is enough to handle him."
"What do you me… uh?"
Twilight didn’t finish talking when she felt something. The air felt heavy and she could feel power radiating from her friend. He was holding his axe in front of him and his eyes were closed. She didn't understand what he was doing but what caught her attention more was all the cyan lightning's surrounding his body and merging with him. His red hair was also changing, it was raising and some tufts were shining with a bright cyan as well. When he opened his eyes, she immediately noticed they were blue instead of black. She had to say, he looked amazing!
Bright turned to see his friend, with a confident voice he spoke:
"Yeah I know, it took some time for me to reach this and to be honest, I haven’t mastered it completely, but I know it will be enough for Tirek. Go hide, I’ll take it from here."
Twilight couldn’t say anything because a second later Bright disappeared. Before she noticed, he was already on the ground in front of Tirek, who was already back on his feet.
"GRRRRRRR, you will pay for that… What happened to you?"
"I decided to stop playing around, ready for round 2?"
"You think changing your appearance a little will do anything, you are a bad joke to me! Let me show you, ACCELEROO!"
Tirek moved at full speed, but was stopped the next second by Bright’s fist right to his stomach and was sent flying a lot of meters away. He stood up immediately, as some blood escaped from his mouth
"What the hay? Such speed!"
He looked around but there was no sign of the human, then he felt a kick right to his jaw and another the second later, and another, and another. For the next five seconds his face was hit at least 20 times. Not only each hit hurt like Tartarus, but the electricity recoil made the pain a lot worse.
"ENOUGH! BARRIER!" screamed Tirek.
In his despair, Tirek casted a powerful bubble around him. Bright appeared in front of it and ceased his attacks.
"I… I don’t know how you got that power and speed but you will not surpass my barrier. Once I recover my strength, you will pay for what you have done to me!"
Bright disappeared again in a flash, Tirek could hear how his barrier was striked dozens of times in different places but none could pierce his barrier at all. Bright appeared again in front of the barrier, he was a little pissed.
"Hehehehehe, I told you, you can’t break my defense, give up."
"I literally don’t have time for this shit."
Bright summoned his axe and started to charge energy on it.
"Let’s test that barrier! PLASMA RAZOR!" Bright yelled.
With one swing, the human released all the energy in a powerful beam that looked like a cyan colored boomerang. It impacted the barrier and it started to crack until it was completely destroyed, Tirek still managed to teleport away to evade being cut in half, he reappeared a little far away from the battlefield.
"DAMN IT! How is that posible? Even with all this power he is beating me!... I need the alicorn magic or I’m done for."
"Too bad you will not get it."
That voice made the centaur looked at his side only to enconter the human with his axe in hand.
"WHAT? HOW?" Tirek yelled.
"Lightning speed remember?" With a powerful swing, Bright cut one of his horns, a scream of agony from Tirek could be heard even in Ponyville.
"CURSE YOU! HOW COULD YOU?"
Tirek was interrupted by another kick from Bright and was sent away to the ground again. Landing next to him, satisfied for what he just did.
"Give up Tirek, you are no match for me, now if you want to keep your other horn and the rest of your body parts, you will tell me where is my family. You will then free them and then go back to the place you came from. So, what is it gonna be?"
"How about the option B?"
"Uh?" said a confused Bright.
Tirek immediately snapped his fingers and the next moment, the Mane 6, Spike, and Discord appeared above Tirek, all of them trapped inside bubbles.
"You really don’t like your second horn do you? Say good bye to it!"
Before Bright even could move, the bubbles became smaller, enough to start chocking all his friends and Discord.
"You are the faster being I ever encountered, but not even you can stop me to crush them, it would take less than a second. Can you do it in time?"
Bright didn’t move at all.
"As I thought, now tell your alicorn friend up there to come down here, I have a deal to offer to her."
Twilight who had been watching everything from above, heard what Tirek did and said, she didn’t lose time to teleport next to Bright.
"Coward… ok, tell me what kind of deal?"
"An easy one to be honest, the life of your friends in exchange for all the Alicorn magic."
"Yeah right! And then you will tell us you want my Axe too." said Bright.
"Compared to all of the Alicorn magic, your Axe means nothing to me, not to mention that I need to show you who is the boss." said Tirek.
"Hmmmm, and what proof do we have that you will fulfill your promise or will try to destroy Equestria once you have the magic?"
"With all the magic in my power, Equestria means nothing to me, I will just beat you to a pulp and then I’ll leave to my land. I still have some unfinish business with my brother and my people."
"Like Tartarus I will believ…"
"I accept!" Twilight interrupted Bright.
"What? Twilight! You can’t be serious!" Bright exclaimed.
"He is right Twilight! We aren't worth it!" Fluttershy said
"Don’t do it sugarcube!" said Applejack
"Please Darling, Equestria’s fate depends on it." Rarity said.
"I’m sorry girls… but your worth it… I just can’t leave you hanging."
"Twilight, he is lying, I don’t need to be Applejack to know that." Bright said.
"I know… but they are our friends Bright… I have no choice."
"Very well… I hope you know what you are doing."
Twilight noded and accepted Tirek deal, he then casted another barrier to make sure the human would not attack him, then he proceeded to free his captors. At first he only freed the Mane 6 and Spike, but then Twilight demanded Discord to be freed too. That surprised Bright but he was not going to question Twilight at that moment. Once all of them were free, the alicorn walked in front of Tirek who opened a little hole in the barrier to let her in. Once she was close enough, Tirek levitated her to his level and started to steal all of her alicorn and Princesses’ magic. When he was finished, Twilight looked like everypony else, no cutie mark and milky eyes. Tirek started to grow in size, his cut horn grew again and his muscles were getting bigger as well. Bright could feel the ground shaking and the great power boosting Tirek was getting, he knew they were screwed big time.
"Twilight… get everypony and flee this place, find a safe place and think of a plan to solve this, I know you will come up with something, I will give you all the time I can. Now go…"
"No Bright… he will kill you."
"I said go…"
"Bright, please."
"I SAID GO!" Bright yelled.
Bright eyes were enough to convince the alicorn and the rest, they noded and started to walk away. Bright watched them leave and then turned to see Tirek.
"Ok… Maximum effort." he said to himself.
Bright once again flew in front of Tirek who had just finished powering up. A red and black aura was covering his whole body. He looked at the human with a huge smile on his face.
"Ready for Round 3?"
"Ok… I only have a few minutes left… I better make them count." Bright thought.
Not losing time, Bright used his lightning speed to aproach Tirek, his fist impacted on his right cheek but Tirek didn’t move an inch.
"What?" said a confused Bright.
"Was that support to hurt? Pathetic!" Tirek closed his fist and delivered his own hit to the human but Bright was quick enough to dodge it, he tried once again to hit Tirek with a kick to the ribs but again it did nothing.
"Look how the tables have turned, hahahahaha! ACCELEROO!"
Tirek started to chase Bright but he showed to be fast enough to dodge all Tireks beams and hits.
"Damn! I didn’t want to do this but I have no choice!" Bright said. He summoned his axe and flew at top speed to Tirek.
"Say goodbye to one of your arms!"
He swinged his axe with all intention to cut that arm but to his suprise, the edge didn’t go through. It was like Tirek’s skin was made of something even more hard than his Axe.
"You thought this Aura was for nothing? You will need something much better than that pathetic attack to hurt me!"
Taking advantage from Bright’s surprise, Tirek delivered a hit to Bright with his open hand, sending him flying away, he managed to compose himself in the air, he could feel how his body was reaching the limit but he didn’t want Tirek to notice that.
"Oh yeah, what about this!" Bright got some distance and charged all the energy he had left in his Axe. "PLASMA EDGE!"
"It will do nothing!"
Bright once again swung his axe at Tirek. Tirek used his arm to cover himself again, but to his surprise, this time the Axe manage to deal a little cut to his skin, it was not deep but it was enough to make him back away.
"What? This is not posible! My shield is perfect."
"Not as perfect as you think… time to finish this!"
Tirek once again casted accelero to get away, he managed to gain some distance but only because the human didn’t chased him at all. He remained in the same spot, he looked really tired and in pain, he could hear him gasping. At first he didn’t understand what was happening but after noticing that in the last minute, the boy didn’t seem to be as strong and fast as he was when he first transformed, realization finally came to him.
"Ohhh, so that transformation has it’s weakness, you take a high risk doing it. You are almost out of stamina."
"That’s not true!" Bright lied.
"It's not? Let see."
Tirek shot a little beam directly to Bright.
"Plasma Barrier!" Bright said and was able to deflect it but it consumed all his remaining energy. The human lost his cyan aura and went back to normal and collapsed on the floor. Tirek smirked and slowly walked where the human was.
"I have to admit you managed to entertain me for a good amount of time, but it seems your big act is over, it would be so easy to kill you now but I’m going to give you an offer. Swear loyalty to me and become my right hand, together we will unstoppable and all this world will be ours. I’m sure we can even take HIM down."
"HIM?" Bright thought
"So, what do you say? Or would you rather die here?"
"Like Tartarus I will accept that… I already disappointed my mother… I will not betray her as well."
"Have it your way boy."
Tirek started to charge his horns to incinerate the human to the bones. Bright closed his eyes for his incoming end.
"Scootaloo… I’m sorry, it seems I will not be able to keep my promise." Bright thought.
"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE TIREK!"
Both the Centaur and the half beaten human looked to see who screamed, it was Twilight with the rest of the Mane 6, they were… floating? And not only that, Their manes and tails grew larger and had different colored stripes that matched their natural color, their hooves were now showing their cutie marks as if they were imprinted on them. Rainbow and Fluttershy had their wings glowing with rainbow colors too. He had to admit it, all of the Mane 6 looked amazing and powerful. Somehow, he knew everything was going to be alright now.
"You did it Twily... I don’t know what you did but you did it..."
That was the last words Bright managed to say before passing out.