Spiderman Equestria's Hero: Back In Action

After leaving the abandoned shopping mall, Spiderman was running up the side of a building, he still couldn’t wrap his head around what just happened. Tombstone is hunting super-villains to kill them; but why, and why is a gang that hates Meta-Humans, working for two Meta-Humans?

Adam knew he would have to pass this information onto the others, but how were the girls going to take this. He may have made some mistakes, but the Rainbooms did know Micro Chips before he became Zzzax.

Taking a breath, Adam perched himself on a rooftop and made the call to Fluttershy; after everything, it would be nice to listen to her voice right now. “Hi honey.” The sweet girl answered with.

Spiderman replied, “Hi sweetheart, I have had a day.” Adam took one more breath before he explained the situation. “So, I found a base that belonged to these ‘True Humans’; I learned they really are working for Tombstone, and Morbius. And...”

Fluttershy replied, “Go on, Adam.” There was a little bit of ‘nervous’ in her voice just then.

“Tombstone killed Zzzax.”

Adam just came out and said it, he could hear his wife gasp on the other end of the line; she thought before replying to her husband. “That’s horrible; why would he do such a thing?”

“I don’t know; but its not just him, they’ve got a whole hit-list of super-villains. They’re going after them all.” Spidey explained. The hero jumped off the roof and started swinging to his apartment; he told her, “I’ll see you when I get home.”

But Fluttershy replied, “Actually Adam, me and the girls, Soarin and Spike are already at Friendship Land.” Adam should have known that, he could hear the carnival music in the background. “We’re just waiting for you.”

This absolutely killed him inside, but Adam was just not up for fun right now; not after what he just saw. “I’m sorry, honey. But I don’t think I’m coming tonight, I’m just going to head home, maybe get some sleep.”

Obviously, Fluttershy was disappointed, but she understood; however, she was looking forward to them having some time as husband and wife. But she knew that this life came with its baggage, and Fluttershy promised when she put her wedding ring on, she would support Adam, no matter what.

“Okay, Adam. You get some rest; I’ll be home later.” Fluttershy explained.

Adam replied to her, “Thank you, sweetheart. I love you.”

“I love you too.” Fluttershy replied as she ended the call. She then noticed her friends waiting for her by the entrance to the park; she walked over to them and explained everything, how Adam wasn’t coming and what happened with Zzzax and Tombstone.

To no ones’ surprise, the group were all shocked that this had happened.

Rainbow Dash was the first to ask, “Does this mean, we’re targets too?” Soarin quickly put his arm around her, he could tell that she was slightly worried.

“I don’t know, Dashy. Adam didn’t have much information.” Fluttershy replied.

Sunset then stepped forward, trying to lift everyone’s spirits; she explained, “I’m not trying to sound mean here, but there’s not a lot we can do about it now. We’re here at the most fun place in the city; let’s take a night off and enjoy ourselves, just once.” Everyone could see the point she was making, so they were all in agreement, this was their night off.

The Rainbooms walked into the park to have fun, but the first thing they noticed was a new attraction with a sinister vibe on it. A circular building, with a big green eye on the sign; the sign actually read ‘MYSTERIUM’.

“What in tarnation is that?” Applejack asked, in her country tone.

“Looks like some kind of new ride or attraction.” Twilight replied.

Spike brushed himself against Twilight’s leg, thinking that this building was creepy; he explained, “Maybe we shouldn’t go towards the park ride that looks like it was made by one of your greatest enemies.”

However, the Mysterium was drawing a crowd, so the Rainbooms decided to see what all the commotion was about. On the little stage next to the entrance to the Mysterium, were two faces the Rainbooms actually recognised; Snips and Snails.

Snails was holding a laptop, while Snips was dressed like a ringmaster from a circus; when they saw the crowd that was forming, Snips stepped forward to address the public.

“Hello. I’m Snips Trotterham, master illusionist.” He then gestured to the Mysterium, “And this, is the next generation of entertainment.” Turning back to the crowd, he seemed proud of his attraction, but he needed someone to give it a go. “Is anyone willing to step into the future?”

The crowd was hesitant, no one wanted to try this thing out; they’d all seen the news, they knew who this attraction was based off. However, one person in particular was actually interested to see where this would go; Pinkie Pie stepped forward and volunteered.

“How about me?” she said, raising her hand.

The rest of the Rainbooms didn’t stop her, they knew this was all good fun. Snips stated, “Excellent, you’ll be taking the first step towards something never before seen, here in Friendship Land.”

Snails handed Pinkie a pair of special sunglasses and headphones; the doors to the Mysterium opened and Pinkie stepped inside. She was in a large open room, with a computer screen in the middle; she walked over to the screen to see what she had to do.

Pinkie could hear Snips talking to her through the head phones; he explained, “Now, just use the screen to customise your illusion. Make your dreams come true.” After hearing that, Pinkie Pie knew exactly what she wanted to do.

Once the settings were made, the illusion came to life; the sunglasses were helping her see it. Her entire environment changed, even she changed; she was now wearing a blue striped dress, with candy designs on it.

Pinkie Pie took a deep breath and mumbled, “This ones for you, Pa.”

Knowing exactly what she was doing, she stepped through the door that was in front of her and stood before a crowd of people. One man stepped forward, wanting to know.

“Is the store open?”

Taking one more deep breath, Pinkie took the man’s hand and replied....

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“Close your eyes and count to ten;”

“Make a wish, now open them.” She sang while snapping her fingers.

“Here’s a store that’s like no other;”

“If it were, I wouldn’t bother.”

Pinkie walked the man into the store, the rest of the people followed; she began listing all the things this place had to offer.

“Chocolate bushes, chocolate trees;”

“Chocolate flowers and chocolate bees.”

“Chocolate memories that a girl once saved;”

“Before they melted away.”

The entire store lit up with bright lights and colourful designs; the place looked like a large forest, where everything was made of chocolate.

“A world of your own;”

“A place to escape to.”

“A world of your own;”

“Where you can be free.”

“Wherever you go;”

“Wherever life takes you.”

“This is your home;”

“A world of your own.”

Working in the shop, making the chocolate, were Mr and Mrs Cake; the ten year old Cake Twins were here as well. Not only that, all of Pinkie’s sisters worked here to.

Pinkie kept singing as she let the people explore the shop, trying all the candies and chocolates.

“Here is the child that you left behind;”

“Here is the kid with the curious mind.”

“Here is the wonder we used to feel;”

“Back when the magic was real.”

Pinkie walked up the stairs to the higher level of the store.

“A world of your own.”

“A place to go when you’re;”

“Feeling alone,”

“Feeling unsure.”

“Embrace the unknown;”

“Enjoy the adventure.”

The people watched as Pinkie Pie stepped off the balcony and onto one of the clouds that were hanging from ceiling; it began lowering her back down, whilst she had buckets of sweets to give out.

“Let’s go strolling in the clouds;”

“Grab a handful, it’s allowed.”

“Clouds are made of cotton candy;”

“Just keep your umbrella handy.”

The Cakes handed out umbrellas as Pinkie started throwing the sweets she had to the people.

“Cause there’s a hard rain gonna fall;”

“Humbugs, gumdrops and aniseed balls.”

“Fireworks bring sugar string, to chew.”

Sugar string fireworks went off behind Pinkie Pie and were spreading the candies across the room.

“All the colours of the rainbow;”

“And some others too.”

The rest of the people were singing along with Pinkie, this was the greatest candy store in the world.

“A world of our own;” (a world of our own)

“A place to escape to.” (a place to escape to)

“The world of our own;” (a world of our own)

“Where we can be free.” (where we can be free)

“Wherever you go;” (wherever you go)

“Wherever life takes you.” (wherever life takes you)

“This is our home;”

“A world of our own.”

With that final note, the people of the candy store all gave Pinkie Pie a huge round of applause; they only stopped clapping when the illusion was ending and the room was returning to normal. Once her experience was done, Pinkie took off her sunglasses and headphones and left the Mysterium.

Once again, the people clapped for her, being the first to try that experience. Once the pink haired girl re-joined her friends, Snips announced to the crowd, “This was but a small portion of the potential of the Mysterium; when all the preparation is complete, the Mysterium will be open to the public and all your wishes will come true.”

The small crowd began cheering, they couldn’t wait for this; the Rainbooms just started walking away, Pinkie was telling them everything that happened in there.

Later that night, the Rainbooms were wandering around Friendship Land; Applejack and Pinkie Pie had won prizes from the games-stand, Rarity with Spike in her arms were looking at the stands with all the merchandise and trinkets, Soarin and Rainbow Dash were checking the park’s map for the fastest rides.

However, Fluttershy, Twilight and Sunset were just sitting on one of the park benches; just taking in the sights and resting for a needed moment. Whilst Sunset was on the phone to someone, Twilight had a little chat with Fluttershy.

“You okay, sorry Adam couldn’t come out tonight.” Twilight stated.

Fluttershy replied, “I’m just glad he’s doing what he loves.”

“Lying in bed after fighting too many bad guys?”

“No, helping people who can’t help themselves.” Fluttershy explained. “Its great that he has talents to use in the benefit of others.”

Twilight replied, “You’re always looking on the bright-side, huh?”

“It’s better than the alternative.” Fluttershy said back.

Suddenly, Pinkie Pie and Applejack came rushing over to the rest of the group; Applejack asked everyone, “Anyone up for the go-karts?”

Rarity jokingly replied, “With your driving, darling, I think not.”

That was when some commotion was heard from the go-karting track; the Rainbooms all went over to see what was going on. When the group got there, they saw that one of the karts had crashed on the track; the kart flipped over and the driver was trapped underneath.

The mechanic, who was on the side-lines, jumped onto the track to help out; however, when the Rainbooms saw who the mechanic was, they didn’t believe it. The one lifting the kart off the civilian, the one working here at Friendship Land, was Spitfire.

“Hang on, I got you sir.” Spitfire said as she pushed the kart out of the way and helped the poor guy to his feet.

Soarin was the first one to ask, “Is that... Pyro?”

“What’s she doing here?” Fluttershy asked.

Applejack answered their questions with, “I think... she’s a mechanic.” The cowgirl saw what she was doing; no destruction, no fire, not even a spark. “And... she’s saving the day.”

When the other people saw what had just happened, they started clapping; it was their way of saying ‘great job’, Spitfire had just saved that guy.

The man that was trapped under the kart said to her, “Thank you, miss. That could have been bad.” He and Spitfire shook hands before she guided him off the track and out of harms way.

After that little event, the Rainbooms all agreed to take a miss on the go-karts; most of them were still just in shock from seeing a former super-villain save someone’s life. When she saw the rest of the group, Sunset Shimmer approached her friends after just getting off the phone, she had good news.

“Hey guys.” She said, getting their attention. “I just got off the phone with the manager of the new Canterlot Theatre; it just opened last week. Anyway, they wanted the Rainbooms to be the first performers in their new theatre.”

When the rest of the girls heard this news, they were beyond excited; this was a huge break for them.

Twilight walked over to hug her girlfriend; she then explained, “That’s wonderful.”

Soarin sighed in disappointment at himself, “Uh, I knew I should have brought that champagne.”

Meanwhile, at the entrance of the park, some uninvited guest were entering the grounds; the people saw the True Humans walk into the park. And when they saw the masked people with guns and weapons, they began screaming and running away.

One of the True Humans was heard saying, “She’s this way.”

Spitfire, who was trying to fix the kart that had just crashed, quickly noticed she was becoming surrounded by the masked thugs. The True Humans aimed their machine guns at her; Spitfire simply put her hands up, she didn’t really want to fight.

Twilight and Applejack, being the ones with Spider-Sense, took notice of the True Humans coming into Friendship Land and going after Spitfire. They showed the rest of the team by pointing at the situation; the Rainbooms all saw what was going down.

“I’ll handle them.” Twilight stated.

“We’ll get the people out.” Sunset explained, the rest of the team followed her in making sure all the people got to safety.

The Spider-Hero quickly ducked behind one of the food stands, and after a quick change, she emerged from the shadows as Spider-Girl. Wasting no time, she ran over to the gang of masked thugs and quickly began taking them down.

Twilight started the fight by grabbing one of the park decorations with her webs and throwing it at one of the criminals. This caught the attention of the rest of them, now the True Humans were attacking Spider-Girl as well.

Wanting to break the tension, Spider-Girl asked, “Tombstone’s goon squad; which super-villain are you going to murder this time.” She punched away one of the thugs and kicked another in the face. “Because that’s just an attraction, you know Mysterio isn’t really here, right?”

She became surrounded by the True Humans; one tried to tackle her to the ground, but Twilight dodged the attack and shot two web-lines onto his back, she then flipped him over and knocked him out. Two other guys grabbed her by her arms, trying to hold her still; but this wasn’t going to work; she kicked both of them in the stomach, disorienting them. Once she had the opening, she used her strength to slam them together before flipping them onto their backs.

Spider-Girl kept cracking jokes while she fought, “You didn’t expect to see me tonight, did you? One night off, that’s all I wanted.”

Twilight wasn’t the only one who was going to have to fight their way out of this, Spitfire watched all the masked thugs draw in closer, but this girl wasn’t going to go quietly. Completely ignoring the terms of her parole, Spitfire rolled up her sleeves, revealing the two metal bracelets she was wearing; she scraped the bracelets together, igniting two fireballs in her hands.

When one thug got too close, Spitfire threw one of the fireballs at him; the small flame blast knocked him back, but he was okay. Two other thugs were carrying strange new weapons, they fired them, shooting two nets at the fire-wielder.

The nets were glowing blue, almost like they were electrified; the nets tied up Spitfire and were starting to weaken her.

Spider-Girl saw this from where she was and shouted, “I’m coming, Pyro!” Twilight jumped forward, only to be greeted by another group of True Humans.

The first guy to attack her got it the worst; Twilight shot two webs at his shoulders and pulled him forward to knee him in the face. When another tried to attack Spider-Girl from behind, the hero slid under her legs and kicked the criminal in the back, sending her away. The last one to try anything was knocked down hard, Spider-Girl upper-cutted them into the air, and as they were coming back down, she swung her leg around and kicked them away.

While still trapped in the electric-net, Spitfire saw Spider-Girl fighting off the thugs that were trying to get at her. Spitfire shouted out, “I never thought I’d see the day, one of you heroes defending me.”

As she fought, Twilight was able to reply, “You and me both; but for some reason, Tombstone and these guys want you dead. He’s already killed Zzzax.”

“Well hurry up and get me out of here then.” Spitfire shouted back.

But suddenly, a black van came speeding in out of nowhere; just as Twilight was about to get Spitfire out of the net, her Spider-Sense warned her to move out of the way. She dodged the speeding van and watched as it crashed into a tower; the tower began to wobble.

Spider-Girl muttered, “Don’t fall, please don’t fall.”

The tower fell over, it was heading right for the rollercoaster; Twilight watched the tower fall into the ride, destroying most of the track. And, as if things weren’t bad enough, the karts were coming, with people inside; the people started panicking as they saw the track was gone, but they had a hero on standby.

Wasting no time, Spider-Girl shot a web-net at the end of the track, halting the kart; the people were able to release themselves and make their way back down the track. But just as the people were getting off, the ride automatically sped the kart up and it broke through the web-net; it flew off the track with people still in it, so Twilight shot the front of it with a web-line, trying to hold it up.

Luckily, the end of the long kart was still on the track, so Twilight webbed the wheels so it couldn’t go any further; however, the front of the kart was dangling over one of the lower tracks, and another kart was coming.

“Oh, you’ve got to be kidding me!” Twilight cried.

She jumped down and landed on the front of the incoming kart, the hero shot out two web-lines to latch onto the track and she pulled with all her strength, halting the kart in place.

Suddenly, the web holding up the other kart snapped, the kart fell; Twilight jumped after it. She webbed the front of the kart again, this time, holding it up herself; but the collapsing tower was still falling, Twilight shot a web-net upwards to stop it, but the tower was too heavy. As the structure came down, Spider-Girl had no choice but to use her other hand and hold it up with her Spider-Strength; but it was too much.

A fire had broken out under the ride, caused by all the damage, the kart was dangling right over the flames; the tower was too heavy, the people were trapped in the kart and Twilight’s web was snapping from the weight.

The people looked at the hero, nothing but fear in their eyes; all Twilight could mutter was, “I’m.... sorry.”

But suddenly, out of nowhere, the tower was being lifted out of the way; Twilight looked to her side and saw Applejack, as Spider-Woman, lifting the tower all on her own.

“AJ, what are you doing?” Spider-Girl questioned.

Spider-Woman replied, “Uh, can’t you tell? I’m saving the day.” The symbiote hero lifted the tower and pushed it away, it safely came crashing down beside the rollercoaster.

Once the tower was no longer a problem, the two Spiders had a crazy idea; they looked at each other and nodded. Twilight, and now with Applejack’s help, used their webs to pull the kart up into the air; they watched it go flying over the rollercoaster, they could hear the people screaming. But just before it hit the ground, they both fired web-nets under it, safely catching it.

After the people were safe, Spider-Girl and Spider-Woman both left the rest to the authorities; they began swinging away from the park.

When the two heroes landed on a rooftop, they both removed their masks, just to take a breath.

“How?” Twilight asked. She then explained, “That tower would have weighed about ten tons; not even me and Adam combined would’ve been able to lift that the way you did.”

Applejack turned to her and replied, “I think, this suit just sensed what I needed to help you.” AJ looked at her suit, the symbiote tendrils slithering around her arms.

Twilight approached with caution, she had to ask, “Are you sure that thing’s not alive?” Twilight reached her hand out to check, but suddenly, four tentacles shot out of Applejack’s back and lunged at Twilight. “Whoa!” she cried.

AJ retracted the tentacles, she replied, “Sorry, Twilight. I guess, its been a year with this suit and I’m still figuring things out.”

The two friends came together again, Twilight explained, “Whatever’s happening, we’ll figure out.” She put her hand on Applejack’s shoulder, “And, thanks for the save back there.”

“Its what friends do.” Applejack replied.

With that said, the two Spider-Heroes thought it best to meet up with the rest of their friends; I think they’ve all had enough excitement for one night.

Running down the street, were three masked robbers; it was the next morning, and a corner store in Canterlot City was being robbed. The masked criminals climbed into the getaway car, just as the cop chasing them was catching up.

Wasting no time, the driver put his foot down and the three criminals sped off down the street.

The police officer that was chasing the criminals had to stop and catch his breath, plus, there was no way he could catch up with them now.

All three of the criminals were laughing and cheering, they’d got away with the biggest robbery of their criminal-career; the bar was pretty low for them. The one driving turned to his two friends to say, “And the best part; no Spiderman to stop us.” That made them laugh even more.

Suddenly, the most unexpected thing just happened; the getaway car stopped right in its tracks, the force knocked the thugs around a bit, that stop came out of nowhere. The criminal driving the car looked out the windscreen, he could see the city ahead was getting lower.

It didn’t take a genius to work out that the city wasn’t getting lower, they were getting higher; something was lifting their car off the ground.

Underneath the car, Iron Heart was using her suit’s strength to lift the car off the ground; once she thought they were high enough, she turned the car upside-down. The criminals inside were even more confused, they couldn’t see what was going on.

Rarity then put the car back onto the ground, they weren’t going anywhere now. The officer that was chasing them was able to catch up when he saw the superhero stop the thieves; he looked up at Iron Heart.

“Iron Heart, you saved the store’s money. And possibly my job.” The cop explained.

Rarity replied, “Think nothing off it sir, all in a day’s work.”

Once that was said, the officer called in the theft to the local police station and waited for other officers to arrive. Seeing she wasn’t needed anymore, the armoured super-hero flew back into the sky.

Whilst flying, Rarity needed to talk with her AI assistant; Rarity asked, “So Coco’, what’s on the engender today?”

Coco Pommel replied, “Well Miss Rarity, today we need to go over all the designs for your latest clothes line, and we may need to hire some extra hands at the boutique.”

Suddenly, static was beginning to form on the screen of her helmet; all of Rarity’s systems were going offline, leaving her floating in the air. Finally, a picture came onto the screen, it showed someone Rarity was wondering when she’d see again.

“Hello, superhero.” Jigsaw stated as his face came onto the screen. “Time for your next DAT, Iron Heart. And I wouldn’t keep this one waiting for too long.” Jigsaw explained. Iron Heart saw on her screen, the image was showing another one of the missing students; they were lying on a circular platform, their wrists and ankles were held down by restraints. The student had green skin like the last one, but it was much lighter, and his hair was a really light purple colour.

Once that image went away, Jigsaw came back onto the screen, “Come to this location, Iron Heart, or Puzzles here will only be half the person he is.”

Iron Heart wasted no time at all, once all of her systems came back online, she was sent the location to her GPS; Rarity shot through the sky like a missile.

It only took her a few minutes to get to the given location; it was an old sawmill, right on the edge of the city. The place looked more run down then anywhere in the whole of Canterlot City; of course this was the evil villain’s lair.

Before the hero went inside, she needed to talk to her AI again, Rarity explained, “Now Coco’, you know what will happen when we go inside.”

Coco Pommel replied, “Most likely, I’ll go offline again.” The AI ran a quick scan of the sawmill. “I’m once again picking up the alloy within the walls of this complex; this material will block my systems. You’ll be on your own in there.”

“I’ll be okay.” Iron Heart replied.

Rarity walked inside the mill, once inside there was a large open room; and in the middle of this room, Puzzles the second missing student, was seen. He was still trapped on the circle platform, struggling to get free from the restraints; he was able to look up and see the superhero who had come to his rescue.

“Iron Heart!” he cried.

When Rarity tried to step forward to help him, her foot landed on a pressure plate; once she set off the mechanism, something fired at her. It happened quite fast, but Iron Heart saw the hole in the floor when the bullet impacted; she looked at the walls, they were equipped with sentry-guns. They were fifty-calibre rounds, they’d cut right through her powered down armour.

On the back wall, a video screen turned on, revealing Jigsaw on the screen. The villain chuckled before explaining the rules of this next test, “Okay Iron Heart, this next DAT will be about Math. My personal favourite subject.”

The floor then lit up with numbers, the floor had a square pattern to it, like a chess board; and each number was placed in each square. Also, the machinery on the ceiling began shifting, before a giant saw blade was lowered down; the blade was angled just above Puzzles.

Jigsaw explained, “We’re going to have double the amount of Puzzles; in one minute, the saw blade will slowly slice Puzzles in half. It might sting a bit.” The villain once again laughed at his own humour. “Unless you can tell me: What is the value of Pi, in its decimal form?”

The saw blade suddenly started spinning, once it was going fast enough, the blade slowly began to lower itself down towards Puzzles.

Puzzles screamed as he saw the blade coming for him, “Help!”

Rarity needed to think quickly, she remembered this Math topic from school; the value of Pi. Once she remembered the answer, Rarity shouted allowed, “3.14!” And after looking at the pressure tiles on the floor again, she worked out what she had to do; she would have to jump from tile to tile, using the ones with the numbers that made up Pi. Iron Heart saw the first tile and jumped for the one that said three.

However, when she stepped on it, the sentry-gun fired at her again; this caused her to jump back. Now Rarity was confused, she had the answer; why was it saying she was wrong? That’s when the hero remembered something that Jigsaw said, ‘we’re going to have double the amount of Puzzles’, she had it.

“Double Pi; Pi times two. 6.28.” Iron Heart announced.

The hero jumped for the tile that said six, then another that said two, and then the one that said eight; this allowed her to move across the room without being shot at. Once she made it to Puzzles, she saw the big red button on the edge of the platform; she pressed the button, and the sawblade started slowing down and lifting back up to the ceiling.

Puzzles let out a huge sigh when he saw the danger go away; after that, the restraints holding him down opened.

Iron Heart helped the student to his feet, “Are you okay, darling?”

“I think I saw my whole life flash before my eyes.” He replied. “It was really boring.” He realised.

Once the test was over, Jigsaw appeared on the screen again; the villain explained, “So you saved another one, big deal. You still have three missing students to find, and I won’t hold back next time. I’ll send you the next location when I’m ready for you, Iron Heart.” With that said, the screen went black.

After he’d gone, Rarity turned back to Puzzles; she needed information, “Can you tell me anything about this person? Why is he doing this?” the hero asked.

“Search me, all I know is this guy is nuts.” Puzzles replied. “He was keeping us all in a metal room somewhere, then one by one we were brought out by that guy who took us off the bus. When I came around, I was here; I don’t know what happened to the others.”

That was all Rarity needed to know, she placed her hand on the students shoulder and explained, “Stay here, I’ll send someone to pick you up.” She then stepped outside the mill; once she had her systems back, she pushed the button on her wrist computer which sent the anonymous message to the police informing them of the found student.

Coco Pommel came back online and asked, “How did it go, Miss Rarity.”

Rarity replied, “This creep is getting more bold, he’ll kill these students if we don’t hurry.” That’s when the hero had an idea, “Coco’, run a search for any former convict or escaped prisoner from Rykers that links to the two found students. I need a name.”

“Right you are, Miss Rarity. I’ll get right on it.” The AI replied.

With that said, Rarity took off into the sky; she wanted to focus on her fashion for the rest of the day, I think this superhero life was becoming too much to handle sometimes.

On the other side of town, was the little house that resembled a farm, with an actual barn out in the back yard. The home of the Apple Family, and one member in particular was having a bit of a day.

Applejack was at home, still getting over the events of last night; she was strong, like really strong. She had never lifted anything like that before, AJ had no idea where that surge of strength actually came from; maybe it was because she saw her friend in trouble?

As the cowgirl lied on her bed, staring up at the ceiling, she began to feel a little sleepy.

She started to dose off, slightly falling asleep....

“Hungry!”

With a sudden shock, Applejack sat up on the back; that little fright woke her right up. “What in the heck was that?” she asked herself.

The next thing she heard was her phone ringing, Applejack picked up her phone to answer; however, she was a bit cautious, as the caller had no ID. But, AJ answered the call.

“Hello.” She answered with.

The caller replied, “I’m looking for Spider-Woman.”

Now Applejack was worried, this person must know something; the Spider-Hero said back, “You found her, how did you get this number?”

“Relax, I just hacked your hero-comm to call you.” The caller replied. “I can hear the worry in your voice, if you’re wondering if I know your secret identity, you can stop sobbing. I did this all the time with Spiderman; he really needs to update his system.”

That explanation suddenly helped Applejack work out who this mystery caller was, “Talon.” She replied.

Talon explained her reason for calling, “Look, I tracked those snow-coat thugs to an abandoned clinic on the north side of the city. I saw how well you handled yourself against them, if we team up, maybe we’ll find their boss.”

“What, so you can leave them to die too?” AJ said back.

“Not unless I have to. Look, this gang needs to be stopped.” Talon explained. “You want to come along, it’ll make things easier. But I don’t need you.”

Once that was said, the call ended, Octavia hanged up the phone; Applejack suddenly had a lot to think about. Did she want to go and help Talon go up against these guys?

AJ said to herself, “Maybe I should go; I could keep an eye on her. And it would be better for everyone if another gang was off the street.” Applejack then concentrated, she generated her suit around her body.

Spider-Woman then opened her bedroom window and jumped from the frame out into the city.

The Spider-Hero had swung all the way across the city to the abandoned clinic that Octavia had told her about; it was the only clinic like this in the north of the city. AJ found a roof entrance, but the door was locked; she didn’t want to break it down yet, she didn’t exactly have a plan.

“Did she go inside already?” Spider-Woman asked. Applejack wandered over to the edge of the roof, she then asked, “How is this going to work; just an ordinary team up?”

And then out of nowhere, Talon wanders over to Applejack, stretching her arms, like she was ready for a fight. For the most part, they both just stared at the city in front of them; one waiting for the other to talk.

Spider-Woman had to say something, “How long you been tracking these guys?”

“A few weeks.” Octavia replied. “Heard rumours for a while.”

“And what’s your connection to them?” AJ then questioned.

“That’s none of your dang business.”

Talon then used her grapple hook to onto the ledge and swing herself inside through one of the open windows; Applejack followed her, using webs to do the same.

Once they were both inside, the first thing they both saw were the two thugs in winter coats; the room they were in was filled with papers and desks, all left here from years of neglect. The two vigilantes decided to make themselves known to the criminals; Applejack web-zipped to one, knocking him out by slamming him into the floor.

Before the other could strike her, Octavia pulled the thug forward with her grapple hook and kicked him into the wall, hard. With them two down, the two of them started looking around the room they were in.

“When we find their boss, how will we know its their boss?” Applejack asked as they moved.

“Iceberg was never a fan of subtlety.” Talon replied.

Iceberg, wealthy tycoon of the city and secretly one of its most powerful crime-bosses; hasn’t been on the grid since the turf war between him, the other crime-lord and Filthy Rich.

Applejack walked over to a desk that was by the back wall, there she saw pictures of every member of Iceberg’s gang. One picture in particular caught her eye, it was the demolition worker from the other day, the one Spider-Woman saved from this gang.

Talon walked over and saw the picture to, “If that guy has any sense, he’s left the state by now. Iceberg doesn’t take to kindly to traitors.”

The two of them kept looking around, the place was still disorganised and messy; these guys clearly haven’t been here for long. Octavia looked up and saw a ventilation entrance; she then pointed out, “Here, we can go this way.”

Spider-Woman web-zipped up and into the vent, Talon grappled up after her; the vent put them in another, larger room, this one filled with Iceberg’s gang members.

“Okay, take out the thugs and keep moving.” Applejack suggested.

“Sounds good.”

Applejack web-zipped across the room to land on one of the support beams that were fitted in above the room; Talon did the same, landing on a different beam. Whilst they were here, AJ wanted to get some answers out of Octavia.

She started with, “So come on, what is your connection to this gang?”

“I told you, its none of your business.” Talon replied.

Octavia then jumped down from where she was and landed directly onto one of the gang members, knocking him out; this caught the attention of the other thugs, and they immediately went to attack. Applejack had no choice but to jump down and help with the fight.

The first crook that tried to attack AJ got something in return; Spider-Woman punched him twice before pushing him back and allowing Talon to whip him in the face with her grapple-cable, knocking him unconscious. Applejack then web-zipped to another and back flip-kicked him to the ground; she then took out two at a time by using a new move she’d learnt. She jumped into the air and symbiote tendrils sprouted out from all over her body, the mass of alien slime then quickly slithered across the floor before grabbing the two gang-members and spitting them up into the air.

Octavia pulled one towards her with her grapple and slammed him into a table, smashing it to pieces and knocking the guy out. And with one quick spin-kick, the last guy went down with ease.

When the fighting was finished, Octavia explained, “No sign of the boss. Lets keep moving.”

However, the thing blocking their path was a large metal door; Applejack took a quick look at the lock, she recognised it from some of her other superhero assignments.

“The door is locked, and it needs a voiced password from a member of the gang.” AJ explained.

Talon replied, “We don’t have time to wait for one of these guys to wake up.”

But then Applejack replied, “We don’t have to.” She then sprouted two symbiote tendrils from her arms and they latched onto the metal door; with a swift motion, AJ was able to pry the door free and snap it in half.

Spider-Woman threw the two pieces away, then brushed off her hands; Talon thought she was showing off, so they just kept moving through the building.

When the two of them made it into the next room, they jumped up to the ceiling support so they wouldn’t be noticed, the room was a large hallway with rooms along the walls; they saw two gang members bringing in a civilian, they opened one of the rooms they had fashioned into cells and threw this person inside.

One of the thugs muttered, “If you run away again, he won’t be so forgiving.”

The other one said, “You’re part of something bigger, the next step in human evolution.”

The thugs then locked the cell and left the person inside; the two vigilantes looked along the corridor and saw all the rooms had been made cells and there was a person in each one.

“Next step in human evolution?” Octavia questioned.

She then grappled to another support beam, the two need to get the drop on these two thugs; Spider-Woman web-zipped one to the ground while Talon kicked the other in the back of the legs and knocked them to the floor.

Applejack then walked to the cell that these two crooks were just at; the Spider-Hero reassured the prisoner, “Don’t worry, Sugarcube. We’re gonna get you out of here.”

The person in the cell replied, “Thank you, the door controls are in the next room.”

Spider-Woman and Talon made their way down the hallway and using a hole in the wall above them, made it into the next room; once again, using the rafters above to not be detected. The room they were in now had a large screen on the back wall, but all that was on it was static; the room was also filled with Iceberg’s thugs, some of which with guns.

There was no more time for subtlety, AJ web-zipped to the crook right underneath the screen and slammed him into the ground; she then punched and kicked the guy next to him before kicking him into the wall. Applejack’s hand then generated a large cluster of symbiote, she slammed the cluster onto the ground and the force knocked most of the thugs away. She even sprouted about six tentacles from her body in order to knocked them down when they tried to get up.

Octavia finished punching her guy, now all the thugs were down.

“See the door controls anywhere?” AJ asked.

“Not sure.” Talon replied.

Suddenly, Applejack felt something; mini-tendrils were sprouting from her suit, like her suit was shifting. The small tendrils started pointing towards something, it was a control box underneath the screen; Applejack pushed a red button on the box, she’d done it.

The two of them turned to see the open door and the cells in the room behind them were now opening. The Spider-Hero commented, "Huh, smart suit.” As the two of them were about to leave, the screen on the wall finally had a picture put on it.

“We really need to stop meeting like this, Octavia.”

Spider-Woman and Talon turned back to the monitor and saw Iceberg, the crime-lord on the screen. “People will think you’re trying to kill me.” He explained.

Octavia approached him, “I know what you took from me. I want it back.” She demanded.

Iceberg chuckled before replying, “Not until the final experiment. And you owe me, since you freed all my guinea-pigs.” The crime-lord then sighed. “Huh, the things it would take for someone to love me.”

“You’re sick, and you know it.” Talon spat.

The crime-lord did nothing but chuckle again, “You want it back so much. The old hospital south of Canterlot Bridge. Stop by anytime.”

With that said, Talon just walked away; when the screen went dark, Applejack followed her.

Once the two of them had gotten all the hostages out, they met back up on the roof of the clinic; Applejack was the first one to say something.

“Please tell me you’re not thinking of going to that old hospital.”

Octavia replied, “You wanted to know what my connection to this gang was. Iceberg has my girlfriend.” AJ was surprised to hear that, Octavia had someone she cared about. “We knew each other back in school and now, we decided to give it a go. But then Iceberg demanded I do jobs for him to pay off my debt."

“What debt?” AJ asked.

“I stole his drive that one time. Every piece of criminal data he had.” Octavia explained. “But when the jobs were done, Iceberg took her in order to even the score. I’ve been tracking them down ever since; this is as close as I’ve gotten.”

Spider-Woman actually felt bad for her; she couldn’t have gone to the police with this, they would have just arrested Octavia for her criminal history. If an innocent life was in danger, the heroes of this city would do what they could to help.

Applejack explained, “We’ll go to this hospital together, and get your girlfriend back.”

Octavia turned to Applejack and replied. “Thanks.” She then explained, “I’ll scout out the area and call you when its save to move in.” After that, Talon shot a grapple line and started swinging away.

There was nothing left to be done here, the police were picking up the thugs and the hostages were save; so Spider-Woman just decided to go home, the work was done for today.

Meanwhile, across the city, Rainbow Dash was waiting at the coffee shop; there was a line and she was right at the back. Not liking things going slow, she let out a small groan in disappointment; she also didn’t like waiting.

As time went past, the line got smaller and smaller, until eventually, it was Rainbow’s turn. She fist-pumped before saying, “Yes.” However, just as she was about to order; something caught her attention.

The sound of police sirens could be heard from the street; Rainbow Dash once again groaned, she carefully said, “What happened to this city?” Rainbow then left the shop, leaving the other people in there confused.

Rainbow Dash ran out to the alley, and when no one was watching, used her speed to quickly spin like a small tornado. When the whirl-wind went away, Rainbow was fully dressed in her suit; red and yellow colour scheme with golden boots, and two bolts of lightning mounted onto the ear pieces. Now dressed for the occasion, the speedster ran for it, after the wailing police cars.

Whilst running, she got onto the comm with Sunset Shimmer, “Hey Sunset, I’m following the police to a Rich Industries plant.” She explained. Their destination was just ahead, and the Dash could already see other police officers battling with an unknown gang. “Any leads on the situation?”

“Rainbow, its the Sable Gang. The gang that work for the crime-boss Silvermane.” Sunset explained. “Police radios are saying Sable Agents are attacking that plant. Officers have already engaged; but with all of Sable’s tech, their out gunned.”

The Dash replied, “Don’t worry. I’ll even the playing field.” With that said, she ran faster towards the plant.

At the plant, cops were ducking behind their cars, the Sable weapons were just too powerful; laser rifles and bullet-proof armour. One guy, who looked twice the size of the others, walked calmly towards the polices’ line of fire; his armour doubled his strength, the thug grabbed a car with his bare hands and shoved it towards the police.

As the officers moved to avoid the collision, Rainbow Dash arrived just in time.

The superhero super-sped to one of the Sable Agents, she began punching and kicking him before one final kick sent him flying into the nearby crates, smashing them to pieces. However, one guy above, on the top of a truck trailer, fired a Sable rocket launcher at the hero; Rainbow was knocked back from the blast, forcing her to the ground. She responded to that attack by running up to the top of that truck and kicking the man off the trailer and into a wall. Then, the big guy wanted a piece of the action; the brute in the armour charged for the Dash, he grabbed her and held her in a bear hug.

Making a joke, Rainbow stated, “Look, I’m flattered. But I’m afraid I’m spoken for.”

Suddenly, a blast of blue energy hit the large guy in the face; this disoriented him, making him let go of Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow’ looked up and saw her husband flying in; Soarin, aka Nova explained, “Yeah, by me.” He then released another blast of blue power at the brute, sending him into a brick wall, smashing said wall to pieces.

As Nova landed safely on the ground, Dash walked over to him; through the small gap in his helmet, Soarin was able to kiss his wife on the forehead.

Without warning, Sable Agents with jetpacks flew into the scene; one guy landed on one of the cop cars. The officer closest to the car tried to back away, but the agent jumped off the hood and grabbed the cop by his collar.

This Sable Agent then turned to the two heroes, showing them his hostage, “Come on then, love-birds. Lets play ‘Save the Pig’.” The agent shouted, before flying up to the roof, and the cop with him.

Rainbow didn’t wait for Soarin, she just ran up the side of the building and after that Sable Agent; but when she got to the top, she was greeted by the other agents with jetpacks.

“Well, hello ambush.” She joked. Dash then started fighting with the agents, running up the large chimneys this plant had and kicking the Sable-goons out of the sky. Rainbow Dash was making jokes the whole time she fought, “Cool jetpacks, where’d you get them? Let me guess, they fell off the back of a truck?” Using both feet, Dash kicked one guy in the stomach before using both feet again to knock him to the ground.

Before she could fall to the roof, Rainbow grabbed hold of one of the other flyers, she spun around him with her legs still around his neck and then kicked him to the ground, via the back of his head.

After the last thug went down, Rainbow Dash saw the one that had the cop in his grasp.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a net was shot at the Sable Agent; he was trapped in a net that stuck him to one of the large chimneys. The officer he was carrying was dropped out of the sky, but luckily Nova flew in and caught him.

Flying into the scene, was a police helicopter; and seen on that helicopter was Captain Gilda Griffon. Gilda pushed a button on the net gun that she had, it released the agent from the net she had just shot and dropped him to the roof of the plant.

When he was down, the police captain jumped onto the roof as well, she wanted to question her suspect. She drew her revolver pistol and aimed it at the agent, “Where’s your boss?” she demanded to know.

Rainbow Dash walked over to them and said, “Captain Griffon, is the gun really necessary?”

Gilda turned to the hero and fired a shot at her, thankfully Rainbow’s speed allowed her to dodge the bullet.

“Tell me everything you know.” Gilda said, still aiming her weapon at the speedster.

Feeling like she had no choice, Rainbow gave her the intel, “Its Silvermane, these guys work for Silvermane.”

“I know that, you berk. Where is he?!” she shouted.

“How the heck should I know? I just got here to deal with the thugs.” Rainbow replied.

Captain Griffon was done with this, she ran towards the hero, looking like she was ready to attack; however, Rainbow grabbed her arm and flipped her over. What the two of them just noticed was the Sable Agent reactivating his jetpack and starting to fly away; Gilda got up off the ground and tried to stop him, but it was too late.

The agent flew away, and Gilda turned back to Rainbow Dash; she cried, “Dang it!”

Gilda waved her arms in the sky, waving down her chopper; the helicopter landed on the roof of the plant, but Dash was trying to get a word in.

“I really think we need to work together on this. I thought you were a good guy.” Rainbow said.

But the police captain just replied, “I’m good at what I do.” Before she closed the chopper door, Gilda finished with, “And that’s get scum off my streets.” The helicopter then flew off again.

Everything happened so fast then; Gilda and the Sable Agents, the way she was acting around them. All Rainbow could ask was, “What just happened?”