The next morning at Rarity's house.

And joining us, Amadan Hailey, discussing the indecent of Cantelot Bridge.

Look, I want to root for the new guy but I can't turn a blind eye to what to the damage they caused last night. That cost us TAS Corp property not to mention--

"That son of a-" Trevor exclaimed as cut off the broadcast.

"Are sure your telling the truth?" Apple Bloom asked.

"Yeah," Scootaloo said while laying down on the ground. "Alex is the Cyber-Knight. He stole the Nuform. No idea why, and my fault that the bridge blew up."

"Not it's not your fault," Sweetie Belle assured. "We thought we could fix anything do anything like the others."

"Are guys crazy?" Tyler asked them. "You guys are trying to compare them to them when you forgot one thing. The part of a being hero is also being true to yourself. You're not with them, you are one of them."

"Tyler's right," Apple Bloom agreed as they put their hands together. "We can fix this, our way!"

"Your right Apple Bloom, but we going to need something a bit more flashy," Scootalo said while looking at the torn-up suits.

"Well your luck," Trevor said. "We just finished making your new and improved suit with a little help from Rarity, not only do you stop crime, you look good doing it."

"Awesome!" As they put on the new suits.

---

"Okay, girls what's the plan?" Tyler asked.

"We got to find out what Cyber Knight doing with that Nuform," Apple Bloom explained.

"Not to be the wise guy, but it makes more sense to call him and talk.

"I'm not on that one," Sweetie Belle, said. "When Scottoaloo saw him as The Cyber-Knight, she didn't know that person none of us, do. We need to figure out why he's doing this."

"If you think that's the best way, we're not going to stop you but I may have something that could help, TAS Corp has a second building in the city; and after doing some research, I learned that they’ve been working with the Nuform there. It might explain why Alex is doing all of this."

“Okay, We'll check it out.”

---

The Crusaders landed on a lamppost outside the TAS Corp building she had been sent to by Tyler.

"If Tyler tells us is right, this place should give me the answers we need,” Harmonic said then two guards were patrolling what looked like her only way in.

“I hear we’re getting new orders soon.” One of the guards said.

But the other one replied, “Don’t raise my hopes. The talk of Hailey discovering the Underground’s base and that we have a new weapon is just a load of rubbish.”

Harmonic used her grapple and quickly tied up the two before either called for backup, then made their way in they toward a guarded room.

Rocket Blade used speed and took them all out before they could get up.

"Nice going," Ground Breaker said to her then noticed a guard who had just seen them.

The guard pointed his gun at her and said, “Hey, don’t move.”

"Dude, if I had a nickel 'for don't move," Rocket Blade said as they put their hands up

The guard stopped what he was doing because something just started electrocuting him. When the guard fell unconscious, an invisible figure uncloaked himself.

“What’s up, you three.”

Ground Breaker got a good look at him, a figure appeared to be called The Phantom, and without she came right at him with a full force punch and pushed him against the wall. She then jumped back and she and her friends were ready to keep fighting.

However, Phantom just got back up and started to laugh a bit.

"What's so funny?" Ground Breaker said.

"Damn, Apple Bloom, for being young you hit hard," He revealed himself to be Thomas Ridley.

"Uncle Ridley?" Rocket Blade said seeing him. "You're the Phantom? Rainbow had a file on you."

"Yeah, I know, but right now there are more important questions that need to be answered, like what the heck are you three doing here? We need to get out here, you picked the wrong place to break into."

"We're not leaving until we find what we came for."

“Look, I did some work for TAS Corp a while back; these are not the types of people you want to get involved with. Especially since they’re already out there gunning for you.”

"Then at least help us," Rocket Blade suggested.

“You’re as stubborn as Rainbow, I’ll help you find some answers, but then we get out of here. And a word of advice, don’t get caught."

Phantom left the way he came in, while the three just used the vents to get through the building.

---

"I can't believe my uncle is The Phantom."

You should feel honor, now I know an I can access a security terminal, let you what's coming. And a random question what are you looking for?

"Information about the Nurform, and why the Cyber-Knight need a lot of it?"

There's a computer room that should give you all the info about it, but you do it quickly before any guards show up.

"Sure, we'll be quick."

The Crusaders were in the room where the Nuform info was.

"Okay, that's weird," Rocket Blade said.

"What's weird?" Harmonic said.

"It said here that TAS Corp been testing with Nurform with gives off the same energy as dark matter."

Wait, dark matter? As in the stuff that created meta-humans like Glacier, Plasma, Queen Toxic, and Crimson Sparrow? Trevor asked on their comms.

"Yep, but there's also a..." Rocket Blade was interpreted by the siren. "Crap! TAS Corp knows that we're here."

You must trigger a silent alarm by adding, get out there before they show up.

The Crusaders exited the lab, and luckily that subway was right on time, then went through a vent as well as Phantom.

"You need to lay low," Thomas told them. "Don't trust anybody, and don't take off that mask. Wait until TAS Corp finds a better target."

"We can't lay low, we need to find Alex," Apple Bloom said.

"Hold the phone, your friend the Cyber-Knight? No wonder why to care so much about this."

"It's not just that, we need to convince him to stop this before people get hurt."

"I'm not going to stop any of you, but you want what you need to do," Thomas as he left.

---

Later at Sanders Tech.

"It's a lot to take in, Alex is the Cyber-Knight, TAS Corp is finding around with dark matter, and your uncle is The Phantom," Trevor exclaimed. "Got any leads?"

"No, we had to bail before we found any on why Alex doing it but had got us thinking, that we should tell Alex that we want to join the Underground. Then we take the Nuform, so he can't use it for whatever reason," Apple Bloom explained.

"So, basically, lie to his face?" Tyler asked.

"Yeah, but what choice do we have, we got no other leads."

"Well, good luck with that, we're here in need of us."

"Thanks," Scootaloo said as The Crusaders left without anyone knowing Arctic Ace heard the whole thing.

"Shit! How am going to explain to Dash and the others about this?" He worried.

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