Me: Well, here's the new chapter!

DB: Hope you enjoy it. I'll be enjoying it with a bucket of popcorn.

Me: Of course you'll enjoy it. You're my OC.

DB: And I'm trying to butter you up into giving me an appearance in here.

Me: And you know as well as I do that buttering me up will not help you. It is all chance as to if you make an appearance at any point in the story. Enjoy!

Applejack woke up that morning and checked to see if Sprocket was in his bed. He wasn't. She then walked out to the barn, which had the door cracked open. She opened it up the rest of the way and turned on the light. There was a big machine covered with a sheet. But, what really caught her attention was what was on the sheet. It was a box with a piece of folded paper setting on it with her name written on it. She picked it up and opened up the letter, which read, "Dear Applejack, I know I haven't been the best coltfriend, and I'm sorry about that. I hope you can forgive me for that. I rpomise to try to be better in the future. If everything goes right, the whole Steel Stallion incident will be behind us, as his suit will be rusting in a junk pile and Rainbow Dash will go back to hogging the glory. I promise just a little longer. With love most sincere, Sprocket."

Applejack smiled. "You memorized what ya wrote me?" She turned to the door, where Sprocket was standing, a bouquet of roses on his back.

"Why wouldn't I? It came straight from the heart and is full of truth. Are you going to open the package or do I have to throw it in the junk pile with the Steel Stallion suit?" Applejack chuckled and opened the package. She pulled out a necklace that wasn't the best made. She raised an eyebrow at Sprocket, who blushed and rubbed the back of his neck. "Yyyyeeeaaaahhh. I'm not the best craftsman. And it took me most of the night to just make it that good. I'm not much good in the area of jewelry."

Applejack's eyes widened. "Y-yall made this? Fer me?"

Sprocket nodded. "Yes. I truly wanted to show you how much you mean to me and didn't want to give you just a necklace anypony could buy at a store. You. Are what my world revolves around. I know I haven't been giving you the attention you deserve. But, I promise that it will change very soon."

Applejack threw herself onto Sprocket, knocking him down, and wrapped him in her arms. Tears of joy were shed by her. "Ah love ya. Ya said exactly what Ah needed to hear."

Sprocket smiled himself. "I'm glad. Now, do you want to know how I know it will change?"

She got up and nodded. "What's yer plan?"

Sprocket's smile became a confident smirk. He walked towards the machine he had set her present on and removed the sheet. It looked kind of like an arcade machine, but the screen was slightly larger and there were more buttons. He pushed a button and the screen lit up in a few seconds, showing several different places in Ponyville. "I've set up many hidden cameras throughout Ponyville. This moniter allows me to watch what they see and I can see if my hypothesis is correct. If it is, he will be discreditted in front of the whole town. If somepony else is doing it for him constantly, I'll be able to confront that pony, then show the town, still discreditting him."

"Why not make yer own suit, find a way ta show all this from the suit, so that way, ya can discredit him an' have a way ta defend yerself if'n he gets violent."

Sprocket's eyes widened. "Applejack. You. Are a true genious. But, that'll take time."

"Wouldn't sittin' here, watchin' these all day be takin' time?"

Sprocket waved a hoof. "No! I have it set up so it can't show a live feed. I'm going to go over the filmed events at the end of the day and just look for images that show Steel in them, enlarging those to see what happens. And, if there is an area that isn't covered, and I'm only able to see something fishy happen, I can ask Applebloom where he was- as she seems to know a lot about him- and figure out if he was the cause by the angle of it." He then turned it off. "So, I can get all the work on the farm done that I need to, and watch those when it is done."

Applejack let out a whistle. "Impressive. Ah never thought Ah'd see somethin' like that."

"Well, when you know machines like me, you can do anything." He then glanced at the crudely-made necklace. "Except make fine jewelry."

Applejack chuckled. "Next time, just buy it."

"Or have DB make it. He's great at making all kinds of jewelry. Maybe I could get lessons." Sprocket and Applejack began walking out.

"Ya know, Ah've wondered. What does DB stand fer?"

"DB."

Applejack raised an eyebrow. "O-kay...That don't make sense."

Sprocket gave the best shrug he could. "Well, it's what he's always said. So, I'm just going with it."

Steel's lair

Steel was just standing in the middle of the clearing. "Sprocket ain't gonna find anything. We're going to make sure to be out of sight enough no pony would be able to see us do anything and Sprocket isn't going to be showing his face around town. Besides. If he does start finding stuff, no matter how unlikely, we will easily be able to find a way to keep him from finding any more infromation as soon as we realize." After a pause, he said, "Of course I'm right. Now, let's fly!" With that Steel flew into the sky and towards Ponyville.

That evening, Sweet Apple Acres, barn

Sprocket was watching the screens in fast forward. He paused them, enlarged one, rewound a bit, the play it in slow motion, pausing when a rock flew by. "Hm. By the angle, I'll be able to see the effects on camera twenty-four and see where it came from on camera thirteen." He then had two more screens come up at different points, and Steel was in one, in the other a cart was being hit by a rock. Sprocket grinned. "Well, there's incriminating evidence if I ever did see any." He heard the barn door open and turned to see Applebloom. "Hello, Applebloom. How are you doing?"

"Fine. What're ya up to?"

"Oh, just getting incriminating evidence on Steel."

"How're ya gonna do that when ya can't go inta town and Steel ain't gonna do anything to incriminate himself."

Sprocket smiled. "Well, look at these three images. They are just seconds apart from cameras I've placed all over town." Applebloom looked and seen Steel about to throw a rock, the rock in mid-flight, and a cart being hit by the rock. "Now, to save this."

"Are ya sure that's evidence enough?"

Sprocket shook his head. "It's not. It's circumstantial and can be explained in other ways and there is no way of knowing, except by me, if they are truly connected. But, it's a start. And, I'll eventually get enough evidence to show he is not the hero everypony believes."

"Ah see. So, are ya gonna be doing this all day everyday?"

"No. I'll only be looking at the images from the day before at the end of the day." He began watching again, when he paused, and enlarged three screens. One had Steel, another had a balcony, and the other had a tourist cart. He played it in slow motion. Steel broght a laser up and fired it. In the screen with the cart, it was sent flying. Sprocket kept watch of it in his cameras as best he could, and Steel saved it. "Stronger evidence there. Saving it." Applebloom walked out of the barn after that. "I've got you under a microscope, Steel."

"Ah hope ya are almost done. Supper's almost ready."

"I'll be there in a few minutes. I still have a few more hours to look over, which shouldn't take too long."

"A'right. Mind if Ah watch with ya?"

"Not at all." The two began watching it together, happy to be next to one another. Sprocket wrapped his fore-leg around her and they both smiled, happy that their fight was over.

Me: Well, there's that one.

DB: Who'd of though Steel was really that evil!

Me: Well, I wasn't to sneaky about it.

DB: Yeah. You're right.

Me: This is not going to be as long as I initially thought. Unless something happens.

DB: Oh well. Review!