“Rainbow?! Rainbow, come in!” yelled Fluttershy. She began to panic as she heard the loud crack of lightning hit Rainbow. After that, Rainbow wouldn't respond to Fluttershy, she knew something was wrong. She quickly switched to Twilight. “Twilight!”
“What’s wrong Fluttershy? We're headed to the hideout right now.”
“It's Rainbow, she...she...she won't respond! I heard this noise and then...”
“Fluttershy! Calm down!” said Twilight as she signaled Applejack to stop the carriage. “What happened?”
“Rainbow...she won't respond!”
“Okay, something must have happened to her. Activate the tracking signal on her earpiece just like I showed you.”
“Um...okay. Give me a second...” said Fluttershy as she stumbled around on the computer. Soon she activated the signal and saw Twilight was close to the signal. “She's a few blocks away...and...and...and she's not moving!”
“Okay! We'll go over there immediately!” said Twilight as she signaled the other three with her.
“What's going on darling?” asked Rarity.
“I'm not sure...something may have happened to Rainbow...let's just hope things aren't too bad.”
Meanwhile at a Manehattan rooftop...
“So...this is one of the Rainbooms...” said Trixie as she poked Rainbow's body. “This must be the main flier of the group.”
“I agree.” replied Sunset as she examined Rainbow. “Hmm...considering how fast she was going...I'm surprised she's not some type of stunt flier or trying out for the Wonderbolts...though the Wonderbolts aren't known for taking in thieves...”
“Trixie has too agree with you there...Trixie can't remember the last time she saw a pegasus fly so fast. Then again, Trixie doesn't have wings so she doesn't know what real fast pegasi are.”
Sunset then looked at Rainbow's leg and saw the disguise ring. “What's this?” she said as she removed the ring. The two then gasped as they saw Rainbow change colors and turn into her usual looks. “What the...”
“Sunset...what was that?! And why did her skin color and mane change?!”
“I...I think it was this ring...”
“The ring? You mean that ring hid what she really looked like?”
“I think so...” said Sunset as she levitated the ring in front of her. “Hmm...whoever made this is really smart...I mean super smart. Maybe the Rainbooms have a scientist on their team...or an inventor.”
“An inventor? Perhaps that is the Rainbooms' leader?”
“That's definitely a possibility...well Trixie...why don't we handcuff this mare and take her to the station?”
“Trixie would love too Sunset.” said Trixie as she proceeded to grab her handcuffs. As she pulled the handcuffs out, she then stared at Sunset and said, “Thank you Sunset. Trixie couldn't have done this without you.”
“You don't have to thank me Trixie, you're my friend.”
“Still...Trixie would have never been able to do this without your help. Trixie hates to admit it but...Trixie would have never thought about booby-trapping the clouds that float over Manehattan.”
“It's cool. I'm just glad we finally caught one of these thieves. Let's hope this thief will help us catch the whole group...”
“Trixie agrees with you there...”
BLAM!
“AUGH!” yelled Trixie as a beam sent her flying across the rooftop.
WHAM!
“Trixie!” screamed Sunset as she saw her friend get blasted and lose consciousness. She quickly turned to see two cloaked ponies on the rooftop. “You'll pay for that!”
Sunset immediately shot several beams out of her horn.
BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!
One of the cloaked ponies quickly pulled up a magic shield, blocking all of the beams. The other cloaked pony quickly rushed into Sunset. Right before the hoof of the cloaked pony was about to hit Sunset's face, she teleported. However, the first cloaked pony saw it coming and blasted a beam where Sunset teleported to.
BLAM!
“Ugh!” said Sunset as fell to the ground after the blast. “I can't believe this is happening...”
BLAM! THUD!
Sunset completely lost consciousness as the second beam blasted her entire body. There as her body fell over on the rooftop, the two cloaked ponies approached her. The two then pulled theirs hoods, showing they were Twilight and Applejack.
“This isn't good...” said Twilight as she began to examine the unconscious Rainbow.
“No kidding sugarcube. What do we do?”
“Hold on...” said Twilight as she placed her hoof on her earpiece. “Hey...”
“Oh thank goodness...did you find Rainbow Twilight?” asked Fluttershy as she scrambled to her headset.
“Yeah...tell Pinkie to bring up the toolbox we always keep in the escape carriage up to the roof. We're going to need you to heal Rainbow, seems she got hit by a full brunt of lightning.”
“Oh dear...okay, I'll tell Pinkie.”
“So...what do we do? Looks like these two know about the disguise rings.” asked Applejack. “You know what that means...”
“I know...guess we don't have a choice now...when Pinkie gets up here, tie them up with the rope in the toolbox.”
“Tie them up?! We're kidnapping them?!”
“No...well, technically, yes...but only temporarily. At least until I can get us pardons.”
“Okay, that sounds absolutely nuts sugarcube! We're not kidnappers! Ah know ah don't always approve of what we do but ah am no kidnapper! Can we even take care of them?!”
“What else am I supposed to do?! Just let them know who Rainbow is?!”
“Well...”
“If they reveal this to the police, things could get a whole lot worse. Worse case scenario, Rainbow ends up in jail and loses Scootaloo! If Rainbow is exposed as a Rainboom, we'll get caught very quickly! We don't have a choice!”
“Ah just...well...aw shoot!”
“I don't like it either...”
“I'm here!” yelled Pinkie as she hopped up to the rooftop. “Oh no!”
“It's fine Pinkie. Just give me the toolbox.”
“What are we going to do?! This is terrible!” said Pinkie as she began to panic.
“Listen Pinkie, we're going to tie these two up and get some anti-magic braces put on them. We'll also get Rainbow to Fluttershy. We'll use the second hideout we set up that we never used in Manehattan to hide these two.”
“Okay...” said Pinkie as her hair began to deflate. “I hope Rainbow is okay...”
“She will be Pinkie, we just need to get her to Fluttershy.”
A few hours later in another part of Manehattan...
“Boss! Boss!” yelled a pony as he ran into an office. The pony inside quickly turned around as he smoked a cigar. “Smoking Brick, sir!”
“What is it?!”
The pony that had just entered then showed off a jewel he had stashed into his bag. “Look at this!”
“Is that...”
“Uh huh! Sure is!”
“Give it here already!” yelled Smoking Brick as the jewel was given to him. “Well what do you know...the Crystal of the Dawn...how is this possible?”
“Some pony was flying with it and got hit by lightning, then the pony fell on a rooftop and dropped it off the building!”
“And you just happened to see this happen?!”
“Yeah!”
“Huh...well this saves me a lot of trouble...okay! Somepony get me Shady Wheel!”
“Yes sir!”
Smoking Brick then stared deep at the jewel and thought, 'Heh heh heh, just when I thought all my luck had run out thanks to the Rainbooms...with this and the money I'll get from this...nothing will stop me from owning Manehattan!'