Here is the next chapter.
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Chapter 2: Jack's Experiments
As the two ponies enter the scene of the party they see Jack talking with other guests. He seemed to act like a proper gentlecolt but Nightwing didn't trust him
"So Sir Jack, how goes you experiments, what were they again?" an old rich pony asked Jack
"Now dear sir, there's a reason my research is tagged classified, meaning I can't freely tell anypony what it is but I can say we're near a breakthrough." Jack told the pony politely.
"I must say Jack, you are always such a charming man to meet" A fancy mare said to him
"My lady you flatter me" Jack said charmed but then adds "I am afraid I cannot stay for long."
"Mr. Despair" a voice called and Jack turned to see a pony in a suit and a top hat holding a pipe "Leaving so soon?"
"Mr. Holmes, I'm surprised to see you're here" Jack said surprised a bit
"Oh….I can't believe it! It's Sherehoof Holmes!" Nightwing said shocked and happy to see his idal here.
"Well….who knew we meet him during this trip back" Twilight said equally surprised.
"The queen invited me to this along with my colleague Dr. Hoofston. Anyway I was hopeing you can discuss with me some disappereance of some mares who a few days later end up being found dead in the streets where you live which is Haychapel." Sherehoof said serious.
This caught Jack off guard and he said "Well…I'm afraid now isn't the best time, my research is in the most important stage, sometime next week?"
"Very well" Sherehoof said taking note on how Jack acted.
Jack nods and excuses himself as he leaves the party. Much to the disappointment of some mares. However Sherehoof watched him suspiciously, he knew Jack was hiding something over how he reacted to the topic he wanted to discuss.
The scene changed for the watching ponies to the streets of HayChapel it was dark and slightly foggy and hardly anypony out.
"HayChapel, the area where the victims of some strange deaths of mares occurred." Nightwing said looking around
"How strange?" Twilight asked concerned
"It was like they died from despair." Nightwing said shuddering and hearing that made Twilight shudder as well.
Soon Jack emerged from the fog and enters his home where the watchers followed. Jack sighed with relief but said to himself "That foolish great detective is getting close, my machine needs to be ready if I'm to make my move"
He then pulls out a book from his bookshelf and a secret passage open up and he heads down the stairs. As he goes down the sound of a female screaming.
Once at the bottom we're now in what looks like a dark temple dungeon mixed with a lab. There was a big steam powered machine with an axe attached to it. I was firing a black beam at a mare strapped to the temple.
There were many ponies in robes working acting like the pony in distress was normal. Which it was as Nightwing figured out "I already knew Jack was the cause of those deaths as he told me."
"This…this is so disturbing…" Twilight said shocked and horrified as all this.
Nightwing pats Twilight on the back reassuring her. He said "It'll be okay Twilight…Jack got what was coming to him which we'll see."
Jack approaches a cloaked pony on the controls of the machine and asked serious "Iron Works, how goes the experiments with the Despair axe?"
The pony removes hood showing he was an brown black maned Earth pony with an eye patch "So far so good. We up to 50% power and she's still alive and the machine as broken, we are about to go to 60%"
"Not good enough, go to a hundred now" Jack ordered in an 'I'm serious voice'
"But sir…" Iron Works began but seeing the look sighs and turns the dial to hundred increasing the power. The mare screams louder but soon the machine sparks and fails. Iron Works grows "Darn it, overheated again!" He goes over to the machine and examines it.
"How is the subject?" Jack asked uncaring. One pony checks and shakes his head "Dead…what a shame."
"Well the damage wasn't too bad" Iron Works said fixing it "But this is the last time I can repair it, I'm shipping out soon to a new land to expand my business."
"Such a shame Iron Works, you've been loyal" Jack said to him and adds "Before you go despose of the body, but somewhere over then Haychapel that should throw off Sherehoof for a while."
"Yes sir, hey Talltale!" Iron Works calls out getting the attention of a green and red maned unicorn by surprise "Come help me move this body. We need to put her somewhere"
"S-Sure…" Talltale said nervous and the two ponies remove the mare and dump her into Iron Work's cart and the two pull it out of the secret exit.
Nightwing watching said "Let's follow them for a while."
"Why?" Twilight asked curious in Nightwing's reasoning "Think there up to something."
"Yeah…I recall hearing from Mono that an Iron Works was one pony who caused his curse. If that pony is the same one here I need to find out if he is the cause" Nightwing explained to Twilight
"Alright, let's follow them" Twilight said as she uses the magic to transfer this to the magic mirror.
Well Jack truely is a monster. But Nightwing suspect two of his helpers may have had a hand in his downfall. Next time we see if he's right.
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