The strange being that had emerged moments ago from the Tree of Harmony walked casually through the Everfree Forest towards his destination and his target, Tirek. As he calmly strolled through the woods, he was able to get a good look around, and a good feel for his once again mobile body.

“It has been so long. Everything has changed.” Said the being as he continued his path towards Tirek through a more swampy area of the Everfree. “The forest is more wild now. The flora has become more vicious. The fauna has become more dangerous.” As if on cue, a cragodile appeared from the muddy pond and lashed out at the being. Without even blinking, the being slashed the cragodile’s face with his sword, causing a large gash that split open its maw and left a cut that reached from its mouth to its eye. The cragodile fell back into the water, motionless. “They are even sneakier than I remember, too. Stupid beast.”

The being walked on, away from the dead cragodile for a few more steps before he heard something splash into the water directly behind him.

“Hm?” He turned back to the pool, and blinked in shock at the sight of something he both treasured and despised. “Oh...hello there… Did you come out with me?”

The area that Tirek had been rampaging in was a now burnt landscape littered with uprooted and burning trees. To any other creature in the area, this would have been an obvious sign to stay away, but not to the creature that wielded the strange sword with a cat-shaped crossguard. He walked into the field with no fear, only walking around calmly with his sword drawn.

“Tirek!” The being yelled. “Tirek! Come and face me!”

“Ah, the old hero. Tell me, Terrarian, what happened to you after all these years?” Tirek asked mockingly as he approached the comparatively pathetically sized ‘Terrarian’. “Last I heard, you had disappeared after a chance meeting with Discord. Now here you are, up and living once again, but where is your armor? Where are your tools? You seem to have misplaced them in your ‘return’. Yet here you are, calling out to face me, a being who now dwarfs whatever power you had with all of those silly toys. Do you finally wish to truly die, Terrarian?”

“No, I wish to get what is mine, and to return something to you, Tirek.” The Terrarian declared. “I have come to kill you, Tirek, like I should have done years ago when you first attempted to take over Equestria.”

“As if, Terrarian. I am more powerful now than I ever was.” Tirek boasted. “You have no hope of killing me. Even if you somehow did, I know you. You would never kill me because of them. They asked you to swear an oath that you would not kill a single living being. Our last encounter ended as such because of that oath.”

“Do not test my patience Tirek, and do not mistake my patience with following a long old oath that has not been renewed.” The Terrarian warned coldly. “I shall not show mercy today. You forget that other oath I swore. I remember it perfectly. I swore on my honor, on my life, on my blood, that I would kill you if you dared to show your face in Equestria again with the goal of taking over. I swore to them that I would break their oath if you came, now I shall honor my word. Tirek, prepare to die.”

“Ha! You must be joking. I have obtained what I could not last time.” Tirek declared. “The alicorn magic, and all of the other magic in Equestria is mine. What could you possibly have now that could defeat me?”

“I have a sword!” The Terrarian yelled as he charged Tirek. He slashed at Tirek with reckless abandon, doing next to nothing against his gigantic foe, the wounds healing up almost instantly.

“You fool!” Tirek laughed as he looked down at the Terrarian’s futile attempts to harm him. He kicked the Terrarian away, sending him several yards away only to land with a thump on the hard ground. “Your puny sword cannot harm me when I have this much power. I am invincible now!”

“Yeah? Well let’s see how your ‘invincibility’ stands up to this blade’s true strength!” The Terrarian said as he poured energy into the blade. ‘Please work.’ The Terrarian raised his sword and brought it down in one fluid motion, letting go a projectile of rainbow colored energy that took the form of a common overdone internet meme.

The obscenely adorable abomination conjured of LSD, cats and pop-tarts flew at the gobsmacked centaur, cutely screaming- “NYAAAAAAN~!” -In potentially the most absolutely cute voice ever, before plunging paws-first right through the stunned centaur’s chest, cleanly piercing through him like the lightning spear of Zeus, and Tirek was standing for several seconds before he held his hands to his chest and coughed up blood in wide-eyed horror and incomprehension. “W-what was that?” Tirek questioned as the wound shined brightly and began to stitch together. “That magic, I must have it!”

“Pffft. Magic? I call it energy, mana… No wait. That exact thing? I call it Nyan Cat.” The Terrarian mocked.

“Whatever you call that impossibly precious creature, I will have it!” Tirek declared.

“As if, you giant cow morph!” The Terrarian mocked.

“I AM A CENTAUR YOU PEON! MOTHER WAS JUST HUSKY!” Tirek screamed angrily before snorting and rearing back, stomping the earth and sending a tide of stone spikes rising from the earth at the Terrarian. He jumped over the spikes, landing amongst them and charging forward even as they erupted beneath him, using the explosive force to leap into the air at Tirek, who backhanded him out of the air and causing him to dig a trench with his body across the field between Ponyville and Everfree. “Learn the difference between a morph and a genuine species, it’s insulting.”

“I will when you finally can tell what you are, you monkey-horse freak!” The Terrarian yelled at Tirek as he climbed out of the trench. “The rest of your kind accepted the ponies! Yet here you are, even after your original defeat! How dare you attack Equestria again?!”

“How? Because they didn’t even have the decency to kill me upon my defeat! They instead threw me into an eternal prison where time means nothing, and so not even age is an escape! There is Kindness, and then there is cruelty masked with Kindness! If these ponies were not such hypocrites, I would not have bothered trying this again because I would have passed on as I should have!” Tirek fumed. “They brought this on themselves, the fools. They should have finished me off when you left me bleeding into the dirt, but no! The little asses healed me, and then threw me into Tartarus to suffer forever!”

“It was punishment, Tirek!” The Terrarian shouted. “They were trying to teach you a lesson-”

“FOR MILLENNIA?!” Tirek roared before firing a massive orange energy beam from an orb summoned between his towering horns, the beam of destruction digging up the earth even more as it trailed the running Terrarian. “If they’d let me out several years after, I’d have definitely been changed, I would have accepted I was wrong, but as time wore on, I grew bitter! Even more infuriated! I won’t stop now until every pony’s magic is mine, and this land crumbles upon it’s weak foundation!” His beam finally found it’s mark, impacting the Terrarian, sending him into a new trench and digging him deeper by focusing the beam for a few moments longer before ending the attack. Tirek snorted and turned around to continue his rampage.

“And then what?!” The Terrarian’s voice called from the trench. Tirek turned back around to see a battered Terrarian in now utterly destroyed clothing save the part covering his pelvis climbing out of the hole he had put him in. “Destruction leads nowhere, Tirek. All it does is call upon an end! I am yours!” The Terrarian raised his sword and charged at Tirek once again, slashing and sending several more cat-shaped rainbow projectiles at Tirek as he ran.

Tirek boredly watched the adorable attacks approach before smacking them aside on their flat pastry bodies, making the cats yowl in despair at their flight being disrupted. “Powerful you may be, but if even Discord could put you down, then me as I am now is more than you can fathom. He wouldn’t shut up about that either, how he fooled you by sealing you into the Last Prism.” Tirek mocked as he levitated dozens of boulders out of the ground and idly began launching them at his opponent who deftly dodged them and tried to approach again.

“You forget Tirek! I’m back now! And my true power has not waned at all!” The Terrarian shouted before holding out a hand, and a pyramid-shaped crystal prism floated out of his open palm.

“How?!” Tirek screeched in surprise and fright. “How did you get that back?!”

“Not a clue, big guy!” The Terrarian yelled at the scared centaur. “Guess it just wanted out with me. I can tell you this, though, I’m gonna use it!” The Terrarian started pouring energy into the prism floating in front of his palm. “Now, face the wrath of the Last Prism!”

Beams of light of all the rainbow fired out of the prism in a perfect circle, growing stronger and spinning together, trapping Tirek in the center as he stomped his hooves and put several tons of stone between them, as if that’d help. The beams then rapidly spiraled inward, eating away at the stone faster than would normally even be thought possible before they all converged into a focused rainbow beam that pierced through the remaining stone and the Terrarian heard Tirek roar in mortal agony moments before the special legendary weapon’s attack ended.

“That should do it.” The Terrarian commented, observing the scene in front of him that was covered in dust. As the dust settled, he was able to see the damage he had done.

Before him laid Tirek, broken. A large hole marked the center of his chest, burn marks all around it, sadly though, his head was still mostly intact, and the eye that wasn’t seared shut was crying, and when it opened, The Terrarian was shocked to realize he was STILL alive. “E-end it...this time...please…. Have mercy....”

“You don’t deserve my mercy, Tirek. Not now, not in a million years.” The Terrarian said with venom. “But you also don’t deserve to live, especially like this.”

“I’d eventually recover, but that isn’t the point...I’m tired, Terrarian. I don’t want more of the pony’s ‘mercy’.” Tirek cried, tears openly streaming down his only open eye. “I want true mercy. My brother is long gone, I...I want to apologize, but I can’t on this side, but I can’t let go either. If you let me live, I will still try to destroy everything. Please, Terrarian… End it.”

“As a last request, I shall honor your wishes.” The Terrarian said. “Goodbye, Tirek. May we meet again in another life on better terms.”

The Terrarian raised his sword, charged it with energy, and brought it down and into Tirek’s head. The projectile that came out into Tirek’s skull detonated in a rainbow colored explosion, sending blood and chunks of his skull everywhere, and releasing the magic that was trapped within Tirek. The magic flowed out openly from Tirek’s corpse in different directions, seeking out their owners wherever they might be.

“It is done.” The Terrarian said before falling backwards onto his behind before pulling out a large bottle of red liquid that had three rings on it and downing the contents. “Once again, I save the day. Oh how I missed moments like this. I just wish you could have seen the light, Tirek…” With that, the Terrarian flopped over onto his back, and promptly fell asleep.

Author's Notes:

So yeah, another chapter!
Want an explanation for why it's so short? Seriously, look at where it ends. It'd be wrong to end it on a cheery note after all that.

Anyways, I'm still suffering with this piece o' shit broken computer, but still. Well, this is Music Mod, signing off for now.