The next morning, everyone went about the day, as for the Crusaders they were at Sanders Labs when Trevor wanted to show them something.

"So do you what surprise is?" Scootaloo asked.

"Not sure," Tyler said. "Judging from the amount of coffee he been drinking I'd say a couple of weeks at best."

Trevor worked on his laptop on his work desk, when he turned the screen on, it showed a project he’d been working on for a while. “Wow, it's working.”

“What’s working?” Sweetie Belle asked.

“A while ago, I had an idea about an app where people could submit their problems and our superheroes could assist them,” Trevor answer her as he typed in the code and launched the app onto the internet. “It just finished programming itself, now it’s online. Ready to try it out?"

"You know it!" The three girls said as changed into costumes.

"Connecting to your analytics from your gauntlets," Tyler said. "Were all good here! Let's test this baby!"

"You girls ready?" Trevor asked.

"You know it," All three of them said as they cruise through Canterlot City.

We can see everything you see," Trevor sees it from a first-person view.

Just one question? How do your lunch down?" Tyler asked.

"Tons of practice," Rocket Blade said then Tyler got an alert on the computer.

"Someone made a request! Request from a guy named Thomas Ridley."

"Wait, what?" Rocket Blade realized something. "That's my uncle."

"Does he know you're Rocket Blade?"

“It’s probably just a coincidence; We're gonna head over to see what’s up.”

---

As they reached the tower, the person Thomas Ridley was pressing buttons on the computers to try and get the system working again. “Come on, I left early this morning so I could avoid something like this.” He muttered to himself.

Without warning, Rocket Blade leaped onto the side of the tower and came down to the open window; she looked at her uncle working, and she knew she would have to disguise her voice. “You call for some help?” she asked in a deeper tone.

Thomas turned to the window to see the masked hero looking through his window; he replied, “Yeah, I got this app and thought you could help me with something.” He turned back to the controls and explained, “I think someone’s messing with the system relay, and we need trains on the track or all these people are gonna be late. I’ve had four complaints this morning alone.”

“Don’t worry, We'll follow the tracks back to the train yard, and see if anything needs fixing.”

"By the way what happened to the Rainbooms?"

"They're on vacation, but don't worry we got this." Rocket Blade left and Harmonic and Ground Breaker did the same.

As heading to the real, Thomas called through the app.

"Hey, forgot to mention; There was a break-in last, right next door, at TAS Corp Plaza. A group called the Underground. Caught'em hanging around my stop this morning."

"You know anything else about them?" Ground Breaker asked.

"They think of themselves as a young mafia. They've been around for a while, but now they have a new boss. The Cyber-Knight.

"Cyber-Knight. Thanks for the tip. We're almost there."

When they made it to the relay station one of the towers blinked red.

"There are way too many wires on this one," Harmonic said. "It's gotta be messing the signal."

"Look like the cables lead through the shack," Rocket Blade pointed to the building the bust it open to see an Underground goon.

"Hey!"

"Hey yourself!" Rocket Blade did a Plamasa Punch knocking him out then look around the room and saw the relay that jammed the signal. "This is crazy tech. Hate to do this..."

She gave a small shock to it destroy it.

Senors are back online. What did you do?

"Took care of the guy messing with it," Rocket Blade said then sees an Underground Crate. "And it looks like they left some of their toys behind. I'll call you back."

"What you got there?" Ground Breaker asked.

"Some Underground tech they left behind, I'll bet Trevor and Tyler would be thrill to get their hands on this. Hope the trains are running again?"

Suddenly, The Crusaders got a call, Thomas was calling them through the app; “I don’t know what you did, but the trains are working again. Thanks.”

“Don’t worry about it; I took care of the people messing with the controls. And be sure to tell your friends about the Rainboom Hero Help App.” Harmonic replied.

“Will do, in the meantime, come back to me; I got something for you.”

---

When The Crusaders arrived at Thomas's office, he stepped up to the window to greet them; he was holding a little reward for helping him keep his job. “Here, a one-way subway card; ride the trains with no charge. One for each of you. Did I get the name right?”

"How did you know--" Rocket Blade realized that their subway had their actual names.

"When heard the news that you three been lending a hand I had a feeling it would be you three, plus the way you took down those escapes convicts only confirm my theory?"

"You're not going to tell them?"

"Of course not, they're helping out Candance with her campaign rally speech tonight, trust me, my lips are sealed. Oh, by the way, TAS Corp was planning to transport that Nuform stuff on the trains, but they’ve just canceled their shipment.”

“They must have already heard that the Underground was stopping the trains, and after the break in a TAS Corp Plaza, they don’t that gang anywhere near the Nuform.”

"Thanks, see you later." As they left.

---

Later that night, everyone in Ponyville was at Candance's rally. the road was full of people and stalls; people from all over Canterlot City were here to support her. Just as such The Crusaders were enjoying themselves while having their costumes underneath.

"This is my favorite of living here," Lemon Zest of Shadow Seven said. "Pop-up street fair, best food in the city, awesome music."

"I'll admit, this is pretty cool," Sour Sweet said while eating a gyro. "It's still hard to think that Miss Candance is a politician."

"It's just the same as teaching," Rarity said. "Rallying people, educating them, making sure that they throw stuff at each other..."

Before she could finish, however, everyone began gathering around the stage; it was time for Candace to give a speech to the people. She got up on stage and walked up to the microphone; took a deep breath and then began with TAS Corp men doing surveillance.

"Man, those TAS Corp guys really into the constant vigilance thing, huh?" Adagio asked looking at them.

"For real," Sonata replied while eating a taco.

"Good evening, everyone," She got their attention. "Do you remember what we lost, when TAS Corp bulldozed this block? That was Paul's Pizzeria, home of the best-hand-tossed pizza in Canterlot City. And a bunch of other places that we lost and recently TAS Corp is transporting Nuform its 'experimental fuel,' across the city... but the won't tell us risks."

Suddenly, she was cut off when a billboard to her right began sparking; everyone turned their attention to the large monitor. On the screen, appeared a figure in cyber armor.

"This message is for TAS Corp. The woman you answer to, Amanda Hailey, is a killer. This is a monument to everything she's done. I won't let it open. The Underground will stop it." The screen then went blank.

As the people started panicking; Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo got in their costumes and lend a hand.

Girls, I just word from police chatter," Trevor spoke to them. " the Underground are on Canterlot Bridge.”

“What? What are they doing there?” Harmonic asked.

“Well it turns out TAS Corp was scared to use the trains to transport their new power source; since the Underground was able to sabotage it so easily. So they decided to ship it via convoy, and now it’s being attacked.”

"Even so, why would they attack here," Rocket Blade said as she kicked one of them.

"Who knows, but we can let them grab it for whatever the hell they're using it for."

"Right, Rocket Blade head to the bridge, we got things here."

"On it!" As she left for the Canterlot Bridge then Thomas called her.

"Scoots, I saw what just went down at the rally, is everything okay?" Thomas asked.

"Yeah, the others are helping the people to safety and I'm heading to Canterlot Bridge. There was an explosion."

"Alright, but TAS Corp show, beat it, they look for someone to blame for all this, and it won't be the Cyber-Knight."

"Okay, I'll be careful," Rocket Blade, said as she made her way. "Trevor, are you seeing this." Looking at the destruction.

Yeah, look like the attack on the plaza was only or warmup..

"Or just a distraction," As Rocket Blade went to of it all was the armored truck that was carrying the Nuform. Four Underground members were approaching the truck, only to be greeted by three TAS Corp soldiers.

The leading Underground member said, “Listen, we just want the Nuform.”

“Well, that ain’t gonna happen.” The commander TAS Corp soldier replied.

The two groups raised their weapons at each other; until Rocket Blade jumped in between them, holding out her hands. “Whoa, let’s not shoot each other.”

Then suddenly the figure who was the Underground's Leader. The Cyber-Knight came with a direct kick to Rocket Blade, his backup began fighting them.

"We're after the Nuform," Cyber-Knight explained. "Ignore everything else."

Cyber-Knight slashed the convoy showcasing all the Nuform and most of the Underground grab as much as they can.

"What do want to do with her?" An Underground brawler asked as two of them restrained Rocket Blade.

"Get rid of her, no witnesses."

"How about, hell no!" Rocket used her Plasma Power to break free and came right at Cyber-Knight and tried to take the Nuform from him. As they struggle, the young hero's electricity reacted with the Nuform.

"What the hell are you doing?!" As his mask was disabling and revealed to be Alex Wright.

"Alex?"

Alex pulled away from her then kicked her into a column and left leaving them.

As Rocket Blade came around one of the soldiers muttered something into his shoulder radio, “We have eyes on her; requesting instructions.” Scootaloo heard some mutter from the radio, then the commander said, “Copy that.”

The TAS Corp soldiers their guns at the hero, and she raised her hands in defense.

One of the people that Sctooaloo saved shouted, “Hey, what are you doing; she saved us!”

Then out of nowhere a flash grenade went off only blinding the soldiers, the Bishop came down and helped her up.

"Come on, kid, we need to get out here," Bishop said as she and Rocket Blade left leaving everyone confused.

---

Moments later after Bishop dropped her close to home, Rocket Blade took off her mask, Rocket Blade took deep breaths from the tense situation she was just in.

“What happened to TAS Corp being there for you?” She said to herself. “They were going to shoot me.”

With nothing left to do, Scootaloo reapplied her mask and made her way home; still puzzled about what made TAS Corp turn against her and why Alex became the Cyber-Knight.

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