Saying this thing was heavy is like saying the ocean has a lot of water, in the sense that while technically correct, they fail to convey the sheer sense of magnitude of what you're describing. This thing was at least three times heavier than anything I've ever lifted before, and this was just one leg.
I looked at the blue unicorn I had just saved, and breathed out a single word, "Run." She didn't need to be told twice.
I managed to lift it up another foot, before dropping down to a crouch. Taking advantage of it's temporary imbalance, I threw myself up with all my strength, forcing the thing onto it's back legs.
Unfortunately, I misjudged the speed of it's other front leg, and it swatted me out of the air like an impudent fly.
When I landed outside of town, I nearly broke a boulder in two. A new plan forming, I threw it at the Ursa, and ran. I launched myself back up as it was lowering, landing a solid uppercut. It worked just as planned, and I forced it's head up so that the boulder smashed into it's face with the force of thousands of angry wasps.
Shitshitshit! It's overbalancing! As it falls onto it's back, I try to hold it up, and if not for Twilight's magic, I may of been flattened. But with it, I'm able to throw it onto a relatively clear and open park. I shoot her a thumbs up before taking off towards the park.
As it starts to get back up, I launch myself through the air like a bullet aimed right for it's nose, both fists forward. I hit it with enough force to bring down a skyscraper, and the thing just staggers backward.
This is not going to be fun.
* * * * *
Fluttershy was helping her friend Rarity up. "So, he just dropped you?"
She nodded, and gasped out, "And he ran off to fight an Ursa! Fluttershy, you have to help him! He's going to get killed!"
Fluttershy stared at her for a moment, unable to comprehend why someone would want to fight an Ursa. But then she flew off to see what she could do to help.
* * * * *
I narrowly avoided getting squashed as I moved a young fat colt and his lanky friend out of the Ursa's path.
"Get out of here!" I shout at them, before I hear a stampede. As I turn, I see it's not a stampede, but rather the nearby ponies stamping their feet in unison, cheering me on. I had to move this fight before someone got hurt.
As I rise to my full height, the Ursa tries to step on me, and I hold up it's foot. Using every bit of strength in my body, I lift the whole thing up, and the next instant, I throw it outside of town. As the ponies try to crowd me, celebrating my "victory", I take off after it.
* * * * *
Fluttershy shrieked in terror as the stunned Ursa landed in front of her, and shrieked again as it was jerked up and over Nighthawk, before being slammed on the ground on the other side of him. He brought it back over him, and it landed in front of Fluttershy before he spun it around several times, and threw it into the Everfree.
Fluttershy galloped to him as he collapsed from strain.
* * * * *
She smacked me across the face, screaming that I was an idiot and that I could of gotten hurt and not to make her worry like that. I mumble out an apology, but honestly? I'd do it again in a heartbeat. She helps me to my feet, and lets me lean on her as we make our way back to town to check out the damage.
When we got there, I was swarmed by a group of very thankful ponies. Not my usual welcome, but I welcomed the change. I saw the blue unicorn and approached her.
"You okay?"
She turned to me, her eyes widening in awe, "You... You saved the Great and Powerful Trixie! Trixie thanks you for your heroism in the face of an Ursa Major."
As she grins sheepishly, Twilight speaks up, "That was an Ursa Minor. A baby one at that."
I almost pass out from exhaustion just thinking of a bigger one, but then I'm dragged by a pink blur to a light brown mare with gray hair.
"Mayor Mare, Nighthawk. Nighthawk, Mayor Mare."
We both wave stunned, before I'm dragged off by the speedy mare back to Twilight, and Pinkie nearly screams with excitement, "He met the Mayor! Let's party!"
* * * * *
For someone on such short notice, she sure knows how to set up a party. I'm wading through a crowd of ponies giving their thanks, when Rainbow Dash nearly crashes into me.
"That! Was! Awesome!" She shouts over the music, her eyes alight with awe.
I rub my shoulder as I respond, "No. That was painful."
She punches my shoulder, "Aw, you're just being modest. How'd it feel, saving everypony?"
"It... it was amazing. The feeling of euphoria as they started cheering. It... It filled me with something. I don't know if I could of lifted the Ursa without it." And it's true, that sense of... of being cheered for, it empowered me. In all my years of being a hero, I'd never felt that. I smiled as a remembered another detail from my forgotten past.