Prologue

Prologue

BEEP.BEEP.BEEP.BEEP.BE- SMASH! Jace threw the pillow over his head with a groan of agony. “What day is it?” He rubbed his eyes and looked up at his wall, with a My Little Pony calender on it. Jace got close to see the dates and saw it was a Saturday. “Whoohoo! Yes! No work!”

He got out of bed, wearing his Big Macintosh cutie mark underpants and heading to his dresser to grab some clothes. “Ummm...Applejack shirt with a Rainbowdash hoodie? Hmm..” He went through his clothes, mix matching his different pony shirts that he has bought over the years and tried to find the best combo. But, he finally settled on a black Under Armor T-Shirt, and a pair of baggy blue jeans. He grabbed some underwear and headed off for the shower.

Jace lived alone, after graduating from high school. To be honest, he really missed some of his friends from school, especially the one that got him into ponies. His old friend Coal. His last name escaped him, since it has been so long. (Over 4 years ago.) He missed his friend a lot since that fight they had.

(FLASHBACK) Jace walked the halls of the middle school, holding his books under his arm as he walked with headphones in his ears. His head bobbed to the beat of the dubstep he was listening too as he saw Coal walking up to him.

"Coal! What's up bro?" Jace asked, throwing his backpack into the locker they shared. "Nothing much, just being a brony!" Coal smiled his usual smile when Jace turned to look at him with a serious look. "Dude, cut the gay 'brony' shit.. That is BEYOND homo (I'm such an ass.)" Coal looked at him with anger in his eyes. "Dude! SHUT UP! Seriously that's NOT funny anymore! If you would just watch a cou-" Jace cut him off with him prancing around. "Ohh~ Look at mee~ I'm a pretty little pooony~" He laughed and Coal walked over, shoving him into a locker and kneed him in the balls. Jace fell on the ground and groaned. "You fucking queer! I'll fu.." He couldn't get the word out as he puked all over the ground. Coal had taken off before the principle came to see what had happened.

In the office, Jace told the principle the truth that he was making fun of Coal. He told her that Coal shouldn't be punished, and he should. Even though Jace poked fun at Coal for being a brony, he was still a friend of his that would always be his friend, or so he thought.

(End Of Flashback) Jace sighed as he leaned against the shower wall as his body was soaked with water. He shook his head and sighed, looking down, knowing that he still lived in Coal's town.

Jace took his shower fast and got out to straighten his hair and walked out of the bathroom, looking into the mirror and seeing a pony in the background that gasped and then it went away. (FORESHADOWING) Jace blinked and thought, 'What the buck just happened?' He shook his head and sighed. "To much ponies.." He said, with a sigh as he walked to the kitchen to get himself a soda.

In the middle of downing his Coke, he had the idea to look up Coal. Last name, Buck, ironic. He dug out the phone book and flipped through the white pages to get to the B's. "Buck..Buck...Buck..." His finger slid down the row of names, softly saying the names. "Ah Ha! 453 West Drive..." He blinked and looked up, walking to his window and looking down the street to see that the street next to him WAS West Drive. Convenient.

He threw on his sneaks and opened the door to smell the cool air of a crisp fall morning. He especially loved fall, made him think of Applejack. He shook his head and got out of the haze of ponies long enough to make his way down the street and find 453 on the street. After a bit of walking, he soon got there, walking up onto the porch, ringing the doorbell.

A woman answered the door, sure to be older. Jace blinked. "Oh, sorry ma'am, I think I have the wrong address.. I'm looking for Coal Buck but, this probably isn't it.. Sorry for the mis-" He was stopped by the woman when she put her hand on his lips. He looked down at her hand with his bright blue eyes. "Uhh.."

"I am Mrs. Buck, and Coal does live here. I'll have to call him down." She smiled and opened the door for him. "Won't you come in sir? I'm sorry I didn't get your name deary.."

Jace looked at her, half gawking. "Mrs. Buck? You don't remember me?" The woman shook her head. "No.. My memory has escaped me all these years deary.." Jace smiled wide. "Mrs. Buck, I'm Jace Romero! I've been living a couple of blocks down the road from you guys for the past two years!" Mrs. Buck went wide eyes. "Little Jason?! Is that you?!! Oh my gosh, you look so different! I'm sorry I didn't recognize you, oh I'm so embarrassed." She was a beet red and Jace chuckled. "Hehe, It's quite alright..It has been about six years since me and Coal last talked..."

"Mom? Who's at the do-" Coal was coming into the room and was looking right at Jace. "Whaa..J-J-.." Jace smiled and walked over to him, and Coal hugged Jace tightly, almost crushing him. "OW! COAL! That hurts man!"

"OHMYGODICAN'TBELIEVEIT'SYOU!" Coal yelled out, being as happy as can be. Jace chuckled and hugged his friend back. "It's been a long time friend." He pulled from his friend's embrace and smiled. "You'll never guess what I got into.." Coal blinked as Jace held up his fist. "Brohoof?"

(Bit of a Fast Forward, when Coal has to go to work(if you've read the original story)) The two friends drove to the store to show Jace where Coal worked and such, and possibly get a second job for Jace. "Man, I tell ya Jace.. Seeing you made my day.. I was moping in my room thinking 'why me' this morning. Sorry I was a dick a long time ago man.." Jace looked at him. "Water under the bridge, I'm just glad I found you!" He said with a big grin.

As the two friend's pulled into the store's parking lot, Jace had to take a look around. "Jesus man, that's a lot of people.." And there were a lot of people. About 500 cars in the parking lot. "Yeah, this is the busy season for shoppers, getting the best deals before they run out.." Coal said, getting out of the truck. Jace followed behind Coal as they entered the store.

Once inside, Coal showed Jace around and introduced him to everyone that he worked with. 'A nice bunch of people,' Jace thought to himself. The manager even told Jace he looked like he could be a good box-boy after the busy season and Jace just had to laugh. "That's funny you mention that, because I work with boxes already. I work at a factory, doing heavy lifting and such. I also dabble a bit in construction. I mean, I know how to build a barn but that's not very useful anymore now is it?" Coal shrugged. "You never know man.."

After the long work day, the two were ready to go and hang out. As they were getting into the truck, Jace forgot he had his Skull Candy headphones in his pocket and he put them on over his neck, pulling out his I-Pod and swiping through his expansive library. "Gees dude! How many songs are on there?!" Jace chuckled. "Over one thousand. I have to have a lot of variety if I want to be a good DJ." Coal gaped. "You DJ? What's your DJ name?" Coal had to hear this. "Well, it's Craimer Xegen.. Don't ask, It's a mix of a band name and Seinfeld with a change to the name.." Jace smiled and put a headphone up to his ear to listen to one of his latest mixes.

On the way home, the two were talking about MLP FIM and about some things the two have experienced over the years of being bronies. Coal and Jace got into a heated debate over who the best flyer was and Coal ran a red light, and didn't see the truck coming up to their side. The only thing they knew next, was blackness.

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Author's Notes: Oh boy, Craimer does these 'Author's Notes' things too! Let me tell you right now, this is a 'what if' scenario between two old friend's and the story of My Second Life. The only difference is, there is a bit of a new story with Jace in the picture. I hope the hardcore fans don't flame me with hate, I'm not trying to be a copycat or anything, I just really wanted to do something fun. I've been reading this story a lot and I wanted to add a little something to it. I saw that Coal was really down on himself and had no friends, so I fixed that! I hope people enjoy this and Coal, if your reading this, thank you for letting me do this, you rock!