In one of the many abandoned building in Robotropolis, two of the Freedom Fights sat huddled together looking tentatively out a window. These two noble rebels were the half robotic Bunnie and the young dragon Dulcy.

Bunnie was a southern bell that had been nearly roboticized, a procedure that turns flesh to steel and destroys free will. She escaped, but both her legs, left arm and shoulder were made robotic. Now she fights against the dictator that did that to her.

Dulcy on the other hand was an exiled dragon, big in size and power. She could fly around at sonic speeds, carrying Freedom Fighters anywhere on earth. She had green scales that covered her body and a huge round belly that stuck out.

They were completely different, but they were connected through a mutual enemy and right now a mutual problem.

“You need to go sugar. Get Sonic, he can help me,” Bunnie begged as she hazarded another look outside. She sighed when she spotted no Swatbots outside ready to storm the building.

“But that will take too long, by that time they will find your heat signature and…” Dulcy bit her lip, she couldn’t finish that sentence. Everything had been going so good. They had made a raid on Robotropolis to steal supplies when they discovered Robotnik’s latest weapon, heat-seeking missiles. It was the prefect weapon because with the exception of the fat man himself, the only thing with heat in Robotropolis was them. The missiles had nearly hit Bunnie, but the cold-blooded dragon saved her from being blown apart at the last second. Rushing to the nearest abandoned building they waited and watched the missiles fly around aimlessly, looking for something to hit. They were trapped, if Bunnie went outside, a missile would careen right towards her, but if they stayed too long, Swatbots would come and take Bunnie away. Dulcy was the only one that could save Bunnie, but she had no idea how.

“In that case,” Bunnie started to say but paused to give Dulcy a comforting smile. “You go hun and I’ll stay here. No reason we both get caught.”

“No, I’m not doing that,” Dulcy firmly said. She wasn’t about to abandon a friend just to save her own tail. She wasn’t that kind of dragon. The large dragon closed her eyes and tried to think of a way out of this mess. She needed to get Bunnie out of the city without the missiles finding her. She was safe because of her cold blood, but Bunnie wasn’t. Those were the facts, now she needed a solution. How was she going to hide Bunnie from the missiles?

“I’ve got it,” Dulcy grinned as an idea came to her out of the blue. It was a crazy, completely bonkers, but it would work.

“You got what, shug?” The southern rabbit asked as she tried to deal with her impeding doom. Unlike Dulcy, Bunnie had given up and was ready to accept that there was no way out, but when she saw the big, happy grin on Dulcy’s face, a glimmer of hope formed inside her.

“I’ll eat you,” the dragon proclaimed proudly, puffing her chest out in confidence over her brilliant idea.

“Say what?”

“I’ll eat you and carry you out in my stomach, the heat seeking missiles won’t be able to find you if you are inside me,” Dulcy explained to a very skeptical Bunnie. The rabbit looked at her friend up and down. Bunnie had no doubt she could fit inside the much larger animal, Dulcy was four times her size and her stomach alone was bigger then the cyborg Hares whole body. However, Bunnie was unsure about this. Jumping into another person’s mouth didn’t sound like a rescue, it sounded like suicide.

Sighing at Bunnie’s reluctance, Dulcy explained what she had come up with further. “Technically, you’ll be going into one of my stomachs. Dragons have two stomachs, one that can digest food and one that can’t. The one not for digesting is used to store stuff for safekeeping, you’ll be perfectly protected inside that belly. I’ll carry you inside me back to Knothole village and spit you out when we get there. I guarantee you’ll be safe.”

Bunnie looked carefully at Dulcy, to be exact, her big snout and even bigger belly. This plan sounded a little bit too crazy for her, but what other choices were there? They could wait around, hope someone comes to rescue them or the missiles leave, or go with this insane idea Dulcy had. A shiver ran down Bunnie’s furry back at the thought of being inside Dulcy’s body. For some reason, it seemed very strange and unnatural for one creature to be alive inside another. Bunnie wasn’t thrilled by the idea of crawling into Dulcy’s mouth, but a bunny has to do what a bunny has to do.