Ruby/Ruby

"And what are you supposed to be?" Tirek asked, looming over his tiny human opponent.

"I am the slayer of Grimm, the girl of a thousand rose petals on the wind, and this town's last defender," Ruby solemnly said. "You've drained everyone's precious magic, and you've captured everyone here. But your worst crime? The least forgivable thing you've done?" Crescent Rose came out and unfolded to its full scythe form, gravity dust rounds loaded and ready to go. "YOU CUT OFF MY COOKIE SUPPLY!"

Cup, Carrot, Pound, and Pumpkin Cake collectively facehooved while Pinkie sagely nodded in approval.

Ruby went to work, utilizing her speed and Crescent Rose's sharp blade to its fullest extent, flying around from leg to leg, leaving deep wounds that she kept reopening as they healed. Eventually, his front legs gave out and he fell forward. As he fell, Ruby ran in front of him, and fired one round up at his chin, knocking his head up. With his neck exposed, she turned Crescent Rose back and fired a round, sending herself flying at his exposed neck.

Crescent Rose embedded itself in his neck, and with the power of recoil, semblance, and a mighty battlecry, Ruby ran around his neck. She made two full passes before he hit the ground, profusely bleeding, but still alive.

"Hit his horns!" Luna shouted. "The horns!"

"Okay!" Ruby ran up to Tirek's head, braced Crescent Rose against the ground, and fired a few rounds at the base of a horn. The high impact rounds did their job, tearing into the horn and eventually punching a hole through.

"No!" Tirek tried to stem the magic flowing out of his horn, but Ruby kept shooting at the same spot. Even as he shrank, she simply did not stop firing. When he tried to put a hand up, a round would hit his hand, and it HURT. "Stop!"

"NO PEACE FOR THOSE WHO DENY ME MY COOKIES LIKE YOU HAVE!" She pulled Crescent Rose out of the ground, pointed the gun behind her, and pulled the trigger. She flew at him and managed to get past his swinging arms, hooking the blade around his neck again. With one more pull of the trigger, she cut through, ending the threat of Tirek for all eternity. As his body hit the ground, released the stored up magic, and shrank, a northern sunflare floated out of his body and exploded.

Pinkie bounded up to Ruby, holding a cookbook under one foreleg and making grandiose gestures with the other. "Iwae! Ruby has saved the world and taken the first step down the road of legends! She will lead Equestria to a bright new age-"

"Filled with sweets," Ruby whispered to Pinkie.

"-filled with sweets! It will be a wonderful future indeed! That is all."

"Are you going to keep doing that? Because having a herald sounds really cool."

"Yep! But only when the situation calls for it."

Miranda/Weiss

"And what are you supposed to be?" Tirek asked, looming over his tiny human opponent.

"Ticked off is what I am," Miranda said. "I can see what I need to do here, and it will be done."

"You will not defeat me." Tirek fired a beam at the girl who dared to stand up to him.

Miranda, cool as the shattered two foot thick ice dome and freezing cold air around her, let out a visible breath. "When all hope is lost, undo this lock, and send me forth on a moonlit walk. Release restraint level. . . Zero."

At the ominous and somehow intimidating words, Tirek put his arms up defensively. Miranda took advantage of her not being seen and conjured some time glyphs, speeding along a path leading up to the back of his neck. With the lightning dust ready to go, she shot a few bursts onto Myrtenaster, then delivered one quick thrust to the back of his neck, just under his skull.

Tirek's death was quick and painful as an untold amount of electricity fried his brain and spinal column. Miranda was not spared from a share of the pain though, and she grit her teeth as the electricity slammed against her aura at the same time.

Finally, she could hold on no longer and fell to the ground. As Tirek's accumulated magic was released, Myrtenaster fell out, no longer charged with power. Miranda did not catch it, nor did it land point first in the ground next to her. Instead, it unceremoniously landed behind her.

"Well. . . He won't be a problem anymore," Twilight noted as a north pointed flare floated up and exploded. "I wonder what that was? Ah, Miranda, are you alright?"

"So who was that and what was his problem?" Miranda asked as she got up. "God complex or something?"

"My protege!" Luna shouted as she ran up, knocking Twilight away and wrapping Miranda in a hug. "Thank you for saving us all from Tirek. Is there anything you would like as a reward for your glorious deed this day?"

"Are there spas here? A spa trip sounds relaxing."

“Twilight has told me much about the Ponyville spa, and I would be delighted to take you there, except the sisters, like the rest of town, have had a rough day. For today, we shall go to a Canterlot spa, but mark my words! We will come to the Ponyville spa before winter begins!”

Ally/Blake

"And what are you supposed to be?" Tirek asked, looming over his tiny human opponent.

"A ninja catgirl." Ally suddenly vanished.

In the minutes that followed, Tirek was slain. Nobody watching the fight was quite sure how, but they knew that Ally had won when magic spilled from Tirek's body and went back to its original owners. As his body shrank down, a north pointing flare floated up and exploded.

Fluttershy made one of her well known "eep" sounds (eep #23, specifically) when Ally picked her up. "I'm done for today." Without another word, the catgirl walked off in the general direction of the sunrise to go back to her benefactor's cottage.

Sandra/Yang

"And what are you supposed to be?" Tirek asked, looming over his tiny human opponent.

"A hot blonde on a mission," Sandra said as she cracked her knuckles. "Prepare to experience TRUE PAIN!"

Tirek slammed a hand down on Sandra like she was a bug and picked her up like a snack. "No." He tossed her away over his shoulder like an annoying pebble.

"Ow," Sandra muttered as she got up from her crater over a mile away. "Okay, that's gotta be a good semblance boost there. And with this distance. . . I should get some aura back. Welp, time to walk."

When Sandra got back, she found Tirek laying down, gloating about his great victory to his drained audience. After sneaking part way up, Sandra got tired of sneaking and ran at him with a mighty battlecry, ready to hit him with an explosive punch.

"Hm?" Tirek looked at the source of the sound and swatted her away into the forest, breaking a few trees. "Pest."

"Okay. . . Let's try that again," Sandra said as she extracted herself from a tree and began trudging back. "This time, I'll sneak all the way up, then attack. Full power!" With the plan in mind, Sandra went up to Tirek's side, then quickly started launching herself up. He heard the blasts, and tried to catch her, to no avail.

Soon, Sandra was on his lower back, and was going up toward his head, throwing explosions around that set of his fur on fire. They didn't do much damage, but Tirek's focus on healing and putting out the fires gave her precious seconds, especially as she climbed his upper back.

With the improvised plan working, Sandra kept going. Finally, she reached his shoulder and leapt forward, grabbing his beard. After climbing a bit, she threw a full power punch at his jaw. There was a faint crack and his fur caught fire as he recoiled. The smell wasn't pleasant, and nearly made Sandra let go, but she kept punching.

"Enoug-" Tirek's angry shout was interrupted by Sandra leaping up and holding his mouth open.

"I! HOPE! YOU'RE! HUNGRY!" Each word was punctuated by an explosive round going to the back of Tirek's mouth. Then, even though the reference had been made, she continued sending explosions into him.

It wasn't long before Tirek, unable to breathe because of the constant explosions and the sudden departure of the author's imagination budget, died standing. With his death came the release of everyone's magic and Sandra falling to the ground.

"Hey, AJ?" Sandra asked as the farmer she was living with came up.

"Yeah, Sandra?" Applejack asked.

"I might have to skip, uhhh, all my chores tomorrow."

"Hmm. Ah'll allow it this time because you saved everypony."

“Thank you.” A moment later, Sandra was asleep where she lay.

Author's Notes:

Another HICHB set.