Mad Pony: The Chaser’s Tale

Prologue

The story begins with Jack Cayman was riding down the road on his motorcycle, as he recaps what he had accomplished: he snuck on Jefferson Island, which was taken over by The organization and set up a Death Tournament called Deathwatch. As a Chaser, Jack Cayman was tasked to hunt down the man running the organization, which turned out to be Leo Fallmount, and put a stop to the tournament.

He participated in the tournament, killed every opponent in his way, climbed all the way to the top and became the 4 time champion of Deathwatch. After killing Leo and the men running the organization, he felt he had finally put an end to it all and could finally move on with his life, but little did he know, this was just the beginning...

It doesn't mean that he was going to find peace within the world since they are scarred memories within his mind. There are issues within his life that he cannot forget that left him nothing, but a broken man. He lost his daughter and he lost his images, but has nightmares of his voice calling out for help. He cannot run away from the past as he wakes up in the night with nightmares, but he doesn't know what comfort meant anymore.

He isn't safe since he was forced to sleep with one eye open because of break-in and there was a warrant for his arrest in the United States. They wanted him dead or alive for a lot of money after what happened and some wanted to take over. He doesn't know who to trust anymore when he tries to stay hidden.

He lost contact with Amala, because he destroyed the communicator that allowed him to contact with her, so now he can't call her for back-up or give her any useful information. He has grim imaging of the little girl that he failed to save and his own daughter in his mind. As his memories continued to haunt him throughout this day, but he thought comforted from women would help forget except it didn't. He has nightmares of his life shattered, but he wasn't quite proud of the images within his mind. He wasn't quite happy as his mind is going insane. He was going to die in the world except he didn't allow fear gets the better of him.

He has grim imaging of the little girl that he failed to save and his own daughter in his mind. As his memories continued to haunt him throughout this day, but he thought comforted from women would help forget except it didn't. He has nightmares of his life shattered, but he wasn't quite proud of the images within his mind. He wasn't quite happy as his mind is going insane. He was going to die in the world except he didn't allow fear gets the better of him.

"Why didn't you save me, you promised to protect me and mommy? Daddy, where are you? Why are you and mommy is fighting?"

It didn't leave his mind. Jack kept having these awful memories and nightmares about it. He just couldn't forget the biggest failure of it all: losing his family. He and his deceased wife had their fights, but they weren't normally anything big. But there was something else that drove him into first losing his wife, before he lost his daughter.

He has hidden his emotions from the public except he drank alcohol like a madman to try to get it away. The money doesn't replace the family anymore as he refused to come out and socialized with the others. The church refused to help him except for some who gives an advice to confront the past.

"I can't take it anymore,” Jack thought to himself, "No matter what I do, no matter what anyone tells that I have to do... my pain will never go away. I will never be able to find my peace in this rotten world gone mad.”

He looks down at his hand, holding a bottle of sleeping pills.

"I have no choice...Death is the only escape from the madness,” he said still talking to himself. "I don't care what anyone says. No one will miss me, not even Amala, or Lord Gessor or anyone. I will reunite with my family in the afterlife,”

With his mind made up, he emptied the bottle and filled his own mouth with the pills; he washed them down his throat with a glass of water. Then he lies down and goes to sleep, allowing the pills to take effect.

"That you are wrong, Jack Cayman…”

"Your story won't end yet...not while there is still hope…”

The mysterious entity disappeared from Jack's world with his body. Jack was dying and the police cars were driving right in front of his apartment. The entity has pity on Jack as she watched him wake up in the forest. He wasn't human anymore as he looked around, but she won't make any appearance soon as she disappeared.

"Where am I?" Jack wondered as he looked around the forest.

He tries to move his body, except something was off confused; he tries lifting his hand and look at it. He has a WTF reaction when instead of seeing his own hand, he saw a hoof.

“A hoof?!"

Jack still had a WTF expression. He tries looking all over his body, but it was still hard to tell, but he could see what looked like a hairy tail behind but he still couldn't just make it out.

Then he saw a nearby pond, he tries to move toward it so he could see his reflection. When he looked down and saw it, instead of seeing his own human face, he saw the face of... a horse? Or is it a pony? Nevertheless, he let out a scream of horror that echoed throughout the forest, scaring all the nearby animals and birds around the area.

"What the (Beep) did I just become?!" he yelled out loud in a state of panic. "I died and then I come back to life as a freaking HORSE or PONY or whatever the hell I am!? WHAT THE (Beep) IS GOING ON HERE!?!?!?"

This was all too much for him to handle all at once as he ran around in a panic, his screams and shouting scaring away all the animals around the place, some even think it's just some crazy pony who has no idea what he's doing, others don't even want to think about it, as Jack continued to panic not knowing that he panicked, but he attracted the attention of two certain individuals, one who lived just outside the forest and another who actually lived in it.

Back with Jack, it took him about an hour to finally stop running around in circles in a panic, as he fell exhausted. He was still freaked out, but at least he finally had time to think about what the hell is going on.

“Ok... So I just died and then I got reborn as a pony... While still keeping my memories as a human... Why the hell do I still remember about myself and my life, if I was supposed to reincarnate or something like that?"

Jack tried to think logically, but instead all he got was headache thinking about it. Nothing made sense to him anymore as he looks down to his right leg, all mechanical and had a chainsaw blade coming out of it.

"At least I still have my chainsaw,” Jack thought to himself. "But that hardly makes up for the fact that I'm now a pony trapped in the middle of a forest...for some reason.”

He grumbled under his breath when he looked around the forest as he flinched to hear someone calming the animals down. The individuals followed where that was coming from, but they saw Jack. Jack reacted when he saw the two individuals before him as he was still in the state of panic.

The two individuals weren't human at all. One was a yellow pony with wings, a Pegasus to be exact, with long pink made and tail and blue eyes. The other one was a zebra wearing large gold earrings and Gold necklaces around her neck, like an African woman, except she was a zebra.

The Pegasus said as she reacted, “Oh Dear… He looks so frightened…”

The Zebra takes a closer look, “What he is doing here in the forest? I don’t know, but one thing is for sure, he picked the wrong place to take a walk in.”

As the Zebra walked up to Jack Cayman as she examined him as Jack doesn't know what to say since he never encountered talking animals or a Pegasus before. He has nothing to say, but he reacted in a panic as he fainted before them.

Jack said in his mind, "This is WRONG in many levels; I never ENCOUNTERED TALKING ZEBRA AND PEGASUS! IS THIS A DREAM OR NIGHTMARE?"

Jack woke up in a dream again as he looked around the place. He wondered what he got in the situation as he looked except it was unfamiliar as he heard the voice.

"Hello Jack Cayman!"

Jack reacted when he looked around except he flinched when he almost got a heart attack to see an alicorn.

"I know you are scared and confused about all of this, but rest assured, we are not here to harm you,” the alicorn said.

"You're not real! None of this is real! This is all just a bad dream! Yeah, a DREAM!"

Jack insisted, trying to snap back to reality, as he was still in panic.

"If it is a dream, you will not wake up from your sleep and you took a lot of pills," the alicorn said as she revealed herself before Jack, "If I left you to die, you will end up in a grave. I brought you here because I felt bad for you…”

Jack reminded when he drank all the sleeping pills and he wasn't getting up soon. If the alicorn hasn't come, he would be dead for good and buried in the graveyard. He would be dead when he never thought about it twice as he flinched for a second. He realized what he has done and he was dead in the world, but not in this world. He has a lot of questions in his mind on how he got into the world.

Jack said as he looked at the alicorn, "So meaning?"

"I saved your life, because I knew what you were feeling and I believed you deserved better," the alicorn replied as she remained calm, "You may be considered dead in your home world, but in this world, you were given a second chance in life and find that inner peace that you desire.”

"My apologies..,” Princess Luna said as she reacted, but remained calm, "Old habits die hard…”

Jack didn't say a word except he rubbed his ears, which were still ringing from Luna's voice. It took Jack about thirty minutes to recover from Luna's voice as she sighed.

It took Jack about thirty minutes to recover from Luna's voice as she sighed.

"Ok, the ringing is gone," said Jack said to Princess Luna calmly.

"What are you saying?" said Jack as he was prepared.

Princess Luna ended up explaining to Jack about this world that is in now as Jack struggled to take the cigarette from his pocket. He tries to pick it up, but he tried to light it up with the lighter. As it was struggled for him since he was Earth Pony, Princess Luna apologized for what his abilities that he is going to be lacking.

"My apologies, but since you are now an Earth Pony, there are some abilities that you used as a human that you will lack now, such as picking things up," explained Luna as she was watching him as Jack struggled to pick up the cigarette.

"What?" said Jack reacted in shock.

He dropped his cigarette on the floor, but there was a voice reminded him from the past. When he promised his daughter never smoke cigarette since it was bad for his health. Jack was reminded when his daughter stood before him and he was reminded of the promise a long time ago that he forgot.

"You promised not to smoke again, but you have broken it…”'

He could hear his daughter's voice, like she was right next to him. Jack didn't say much as he was struggling with the past when he lost his mind. It was torturing to admit that he broke promise as he picked up the smoking habits. He tries to keep it hidden except the memories won't go away. It left a mental scar within his heart that it hurts so much.

Princess Luna witnessed that Jack was struggling with the memories that he wanted forget. Princess Luna comforted Jack, but Jack doesn't want comfort from a goddess. His old and new ways doesn't mix up within his mind. He wanted to die, but his anger remained inside of him. Princess Luna knew that it will harden to break him out the chain as she felt the power within him. Jack doesn't notice it except Princess Luna knew that he has the potential and the next one. She cannot say it since it was too soon to tell him as she disappeared before him.

"We will meet again Jack Cayman, good luck,” Princess Luna's last words before she disappeared.

To Be Continued.