The streets of Coltham lay barren as night had descended upon the city. For most in the downtown area of the city, this was a welcome to the chaos that once plagued it a few months ago. However things were not as peaceful as they seemed. Inside a now rundown apartment complex, two groups were meeting…

“Well, looks who’s come…” came the voice of a colt with a thick beard and a pair of muscular stallions standing next to him. On his flank there rested a picture of a dog collar, corresponding to his name ‘dog mane.’ Behind the three there rested a cage with a locked steel door, barking heard on the other side of it. “Let’s get this going, my dogs are hungry.”

Across from the three stood another three stallions, two appearing similar to dog mane’s own while the one in the middle stood apart from the others. On his head, the pony wore a cotton mask with small bits of straw sticking out of it. His cutie mark was hidden behind a suit the colt wore. “We’re here, as per our agreement. Let’s just get this over with; I’d hate to run into some unwanted company.”

Dog mane nodded as he motioned for one of his guards to step forward, a briefcase in his mouth. “I’ve got the money if you’ve got the chemicals.” The masked pony nodded before reaching behind himself to produce another briefcase. He was about to pass it to one of his own guards before Dog Mane stopped him. “Wait… show me first Scarecrow, I want to see it first.”

The Now identified Scarecrow visibly tensed as he reached down and unclipped both sides of the briefcase. All was silent for a moment before Scarecrow spun around and kicked the briefcase towards Dog mane’s group.

As it reached a halt thick smoke began to leak out of the small case, quickly blinding the area in thick smoke. As it reached pitch black darkness, the sound of hoof steps could be heard charging the trio. ‘Dang, and here I thought this would be easy.’

Within a few moments, the apartment complex was flooded with fighting….

Across the street, there stood a single figure. Covering her head there was a navy blue material, only leaving her eyes to be covered by a light blue cloth. From her torso down there was a purple costume with an ‘M’ on her chest. The costume led to a cape, which seemed to catch in a slight breeze and make her appear as an imposing figure to all who saw her. Finally to top it all off there rested a purple fedora on her head.

This was the hero of Coltham, the one all criminals in the city feared. This was the mysterious Mare Do Well.

For the past few months, this mare had almost single handedly driven down the crime rate in this city. Of course this didn’t escape the public’s eye, but local police had recently begun to team up with the mare to help stop the city’s crime.

This currently led to the current situation.

Mare Do Well looked down from her spot on a building towards the ruckus and face hoof’d. 'Copycats… I have fucking copycats…' She inwardly grumbled while watching the colts and mares dressed in mare do well like gear try and fight off the trio of crooks.

Now while the trio of crooks were outnumbered three to one, the vigilantes were actually getting the crap beaten out of them. For a moment it looked like the vigilanties would actually take one of the guards down. That was stopped when the criminal known as Dog Mane opened the cage of vicious dogs.

Not going to stand this anymore, Mare Do Well leapt from her perch from the building across the street and smashed through the window. Instantly all eyes turned towards here for a moment as Mare Do Well sprang into action.

Dog Mane, upon seeing the one mare he was trying to avoid show up promptly split the scene.

For the next few minutes, the only sound heard in the thick smoke was the sound of hoof and rope meeting flesh. Finally after several minutes, the smoke finally cleared. Laid out across the room was both the criminals and the copycats.

Feeling like here work was done, Mare Do Well turned to leave through the window. As she did so, one of the copycats called out to her. “Please Mare Do Well, let us help you! We can help change the city!” Calmly turning to the mare, Mare Do Well shook her head. Her voice was gravely, and held no warmth s she spoke, “Don’t get involved with this, trust me.”

With those words Mare do Well left the building, disappearing into the night…

The following morning, a meeting was called between the Allforponi family to discuss the new events taking place.

Currently walking into the building where the meeting was to take place was an old withered Pegasus named Fire wing. His fur was a sky blue while his gray mane and beard seemed to bring an age to him. He was the Allforponi’s security leader, having trained some of the best goons the family has seen in generations. However lately all of his colts and mares were being taken out by one single mare.

Fire Wing walked into a room with several Colt’s and Mare’s within, several guards flanking each of them. Most notable were Tender Hoof and Blue Sky of the city's council, as well as Room Service, the leader of the city’s most predominant hotel chain. Then there was Dog Mane with his three canine partner's with him, and last was of course himself. "We have a problem." Fire Wing stated while moving to sit down at one side, Dog Mane rolling his eyes in response.

"No duh. Thanks to the police finding out about our stash of cash, the fucking law enforcement is starting to crack down." He grumbles angrily before Fire Wing looks over to Tender Hoof with a frown.

"Who the hell is stupid enough to steal from us?" Dog Mane demands angrily while Fire Wing frowns to himself.

"He's a two-bit whack-job in makeup and some old cheap purple clothes from what I've learned." He offers while Blue Sky frowns darkly, making a note to get rid of this annoying pest as soon as she is able too.

"Why don't you and your group just get rid of this nuisance, Fire Wing?" The hotel chain owner questions as Fire Wing frowns deeper than before.

"We haven't been able to find him. He's as slippery as a Celestia-Damned fish." He growls out while the Dog trainer leans forward.

"Besides that he's nothing but a common criminal, he's nobody to worry about." Tender Hoof then states with Blue Sky nodding her head in agreement with her long time partner and Co Worker.

"Too true. Let's skip this, that Joker isn't the problem here. The problem is The Law and that new Lawyer, Court Bench coming down on us." Dog Mane says only for all of them to turn at a voice from a shadowed corner in the back of the room.

"Ha ha ha…" The voice echoes as the silhouette of a person becomes visible. "Ah, hee hoo hoo ha, ha hee hoo, hoo hoo haa." The person continues to mock laugh while walking into the light, allowing them all to see the person.

He was young, possibly only in his mid 20’s with a lanky yet athletic build and bright emerald green eyes. He has disheveled hair that is tinted green, white paint covering his face and ears ,with black done around his eyes. A pair of long scars from the sides of his lips forming into a Glasgow grin with red smeared over his lips and scars like some form of twisted clown.
The Colt was wearing what he always wore, a purple suite which was sure to hold a large amount of goodies inside.

"Good evening ladies and gentlemen…" The Joker offered while looking around then points at Tender Hoof accusingly. "And I'm not a common criminal."Joker offered as Tender Hoof looked at him with obvious annoyance clearly visible on his face.

"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't have my boys kill you where you stand?" Fire Wing asks darkly and Joker looks at the man before levitating a pencil out of his coat.

"How ‘bout a magic trick. I'm going to make this pencil disappear…" He offered before stabbing the pencil down into the table they were all sitting at.

"Tear this freak's head off." Fire Wing growls in order to one of his security men. As he neared him Joker quickly reaches out to grab the Stallion by the back of his head before then quickly slamming the Colt's head down where the Pencil was and allowing him to fall to the ground.

"Tadaa! It's ahh… It's gone!" Joker says while motioning to the spot, the dog colt nodding his head with an amused smirk and obviously impressed with the little "Magic Trick". "Oh and my clothes weren't cheap…" Joker says while sitting down and adjusting his trench coat. "You should know, you bought them…" Joker offers with an amused grin while Fire Wing starts to get up.

"Sit down." Dog Mane states while looking at Joker with obvious Interest as Fire Wing fumes towards him. "I want to hear his proposition." He says simply while motioning to Joker as Fire Wing slowly sits back down himself.

"Alright, now lets turn the clock back a year no one in Coltham would DARE cross any of you…" Joker says and looks all around. "Well, what happened? Did your balls drop off? You see a pony, like me…" Joker starts to say only for Fire Wing to scowl towards him.

"FREAK." He says earning a few chuckles from the ponies around the table and Joker mentally groans.

"A pony like me…" He starts to say again only to have lost his train of thought. "Look listen, I know why you all have your little…" Joker clears his throat at this. "Group Therapy Sessions" in broad daylight. I know why you're afraid to go out at Night…" Joker says then licks his lips while leaning forward to look all around. "Mare Do Well…." The Joker could feel all attention on him; nobody spoke a word at all. “You see she’s shown Coltham your true colors, and they are not pretty. Court Bench and the police, they’re only the beginning. “

"And how exactly do you propose we fix this problem?" Blue Sky questioned as the Joker licked his lips once more.

"Ah, that's simple, we ah, kill Mare Do Well." He says and several of the people in the room look at him and laugh.

"If it's so simple, why haven't you done it already?" The Hotel owner questions as Joker looks at him with a strange grin.
"If you're good at something, never do it for free." He offers in response before the Dog colt asks the obvious question.

"How much do you want?"

"Half" This brought immediate chuckles to the ponies as Fire Wing spoke up once more.

“You’re crazy.”

Joker licked his lips and responded, “I’m not, I’m really not.” The T at the end of the sentence coming out sharp and carrying force behind it. The room fell silent once more as everyone listened in as the Joker continued. “If we don’t stop this now, Fire Feather there, won’t be able to get a penny for his poor dead grandma.” He stated while pointing his hoof at the seething elder.

"Enough from the clown!" He growls while he and his guards start to get up. Seeing this Joker get’s up as well, doing so as as he opens his coat to show numerous bombs stowed within.

"Ah ah ah… Let's not BLOW this out of proportion shall we?"he says says while several of the people in the room curse and move away from the psychotic colt.

"You think you can steal from us and just walk away?" Fire Wing demands unafraid while Joker immediately answers, "Yeah."
Fire Wing snarls even more angrily than before, teeth gnashed together into a snarl.

"You better watch your back Clown, I'm putting a bounty on your head. Five hundred thousand for this clown DEAD. A Million Alive, so I can teach him some manners first!" he says through gritted teeth while Joker’s horn glows for a second as a card levitates itself out of the pocket in his vest the word JOKER printed on it.

"Listen… why don't you contact me when you're ready to take this a little more, SERIOUSLY…" he says before putting the card down onto the table in the room and then smirked.”Here's my card…" before slowly backing away from the group to another door, kicking it open before turning around and making his way out of the area…

End of Chapter

A.N. Alright, here’s the second chapter to this story. As you can see, Joker has introduced himself to the leaders of the family while Mare Do Well has made her appearance. As for who is under the mask… I’m not telling! Keep goin and stay golden^^