Max must deal with an issue of keeping his secret identity as Max Steel, so Miles Dredd doesn't come after him through his friends and family to siphon his near limitless TURBO energy. This is even more difficult as Dredd has analyzed the Max Steel sightings and has pinpointed Copper Canyon High as the epicenter. When the school is repeatedly attacked, school bully Butch is misunderstandedly credited as the hero when Max tries to be more inconspicuous. But on a field trip through the canyon, Dredd appears and goes after Butch. Dredd immediately realizes Butch isn't Max Steel, and Butch sells out Max MacGrath practically exposing him to the students on the bus as Max Steel. Kirby tries to play hero and knocks a weakened Dredd off the edge of a cliff, with the student body hailing him as a hero. After Dredd is defeated, a holo-bot is used to establish that Max Steel and Max MacGrath are two different people, securing Max's secret. Dredd escapes and plans to use force, not manipulation, to capture and drain Max Steel's TURBO Energy.