Rush Zone S2 E17 "Community Service"

## Plot

Ash has a nightmare about a BlitzBot coming after her dad, and the bot shrinks her. However, a system failure occurs, and she realizes that someone is messing with her dreams. Drop Kick is having trouble with his plan, especially now that Wildcard knows about it and is breathing down his neck to finish it. They'll soon have enough info on the Guardians to create their own though. Ash has been putting in a lot of hours at the community center for her summer homework assignment. None of the guys have started, so she makes them go to RZ so they can give back to some football communities. They split up into three groups to go to Houston, Atlanta, and Seattle. The problem Drop Kick keeps encountering is that the kids keep waking up. He's invented a Sonic Sleep Ray BlitzBot to fix that. Ricky and Tua head to Houston. They meet Arian Foster, a running back for the Texans. The BlitzBot ambushes them and accidentally hits Mr. Foster, putting him to sleep. I don't think the ray will work on the kids if they're in Guardian mode. Tua and Ricky are hit before they can transform. Marty and Troy went to Atlanta with the Falcons Rusher. They meet Tony Gonzales, a tight end for the Falcons. Ish and Ash go to Seattle and meet the head coach for the Seahawks, Pete Carroll. He was also the head coach for the New York Jets and the New England Patriots at one point. Ish goes to pick up some more donations and is ambushed by the BlitzBot. Ash goes to look for him. She's ambushed by the BliztBot as well, but she's able to transform and chase it off. She goes back to HoK with Ish. Mr. Foster, Tua, and Ricky are already there. Their vitals are normal, so that's good. RZ has searched his memory banks for dream projects he worked on as Richard Zimmer, and he found a design similar to the BlitzBot. He thought that by monitoring people's dreams, he could help them overcome their fears. Wildcard and Drop Kick have been watching their dreams to use their own fears against them. That's not exactly something they can fight normally. RZ tells them that to beat the attack and wake up, they have to combine their energy in one dream. They can do this by modifying their NFL-Rs with special coins that will help them find each other in the dream world. Ash comes to Atlanta so that she, Troy, and Marty can execute their plan, which is to get hit on purpose. It works and they fall asleep. Ash remembers that it's just a dream, and her NFL-R creates a portal to take her to another person's dream. It's Marty's, and she reminds him that it's just a dream and that he's worked things out with his brother. They go into Ish's dream next. Marty attacks dream Ricky. Ash tells Ish that it's just a dream and that she'd never replace him. They go into Troy's dream next. They hold him back from going after Drop Kick and tell him that it's just a dream. They split up to get Ricky and Tua. Since we didn't get to see their dreams beforehand, they're not as in depth or character driven as the others. Ricky's is his dad yelling at him for not winning. Tua's is a mountain of failed tests. Wildcard takes over for Drop Kick and appears in the dream world. The kids still can't transform in the dream, so they take cover and hide. Ash doesn't know what to do now. Then Arian Foster shows up, having been sent by RZ to get them out. Everyone but Ash has overcome their fears. She's still scared of losing her dad. Aw! It's interesting that Ash was the one who helped the others get over their fears, but didn't overcome her own. Talk about a double-edged sword. Fear is what gives Wildcard power in their dreams. Ash gets over her fear, and now they can transform. They defeat Wildcard, kick him out of the dream, and wake up. The power surge destroyed Drop Kick's device, so they don't have to worry about anyone invading their dreams anymore. However, Wildcard and Drop Kick still got what they needed to create the clones. Wildcard has Drop Kick's hard drive erased to be loyal to him again. Drop Kick used the disk to rewrite his own programming. Specifically, he erased the part about never being able to harm Wildcard. Drop Kick is taken away to have his programming rewritten. The disk is mistakenly left on the floor though.