"Rabbot Deployment" is the second story, and I just want to say IT'S ABOUT TIME. Up until this point Bunnie Rabbot was in one page of one issue of the comic, and it was a pinup of all the characters, good and evil, facing off against each other. She was all white in that too, definitely not close to the final design she'll come to have. Anyway, this is basically her origin story. Sonic and Rotor spot an innocent bunny rabbit with a southern accent getting captured by some swatbots, which immediately produces a great line...
Bunnie: Unhand me, you Yankee contraption!
Swatbot: Yankee? I'm an Orioles fan!
No wonder the swatbots keep getting their ass beat XFD. Anyway, the bots are driving a truck that's also a portable roboticizer, and she's promptly tossed inside. Sonic, praying there's time to save her, goes into Sonic Spin mode, decapitates the swatbots, and cuts into the roboticizer. He shuts it down, but a little too late; Bunnie's legs and left arm have been roboticized. Rotor is skeptical of bringing back to Knothole, thinking Robotnik can track her, but a passionate Sonic puts her health and safety first.
Sonic: Are we MICE or MEN?
Rotor: Neither!
They bring her back, and she joins the FF, just in time because a giant Burrobot is tearing down the Great Forest. Sonic races out of the tree stump entrance, but Bunnie pulls him back down just before he's run over by the Burrobot's treads. I'm only mentioning this because of this line from Sonic, "I was almost a Sonic Pancake!" I always love these kind of lines, and it's entirely because of Jill Sandwich. Anyway, Sonic is lured into a trap because he doesn't think before he acts, but Bunnie lifts the Burrobot with her robotic arm and drops the badnik on its head. Sonic finishes the job by burying the bot in a trench, and that's all folks.
Ministory displaying Robotnik's Rules (such as "No Fun"). Nothing exceptional though.
Well this write-up went long but it had to be. The first story had some great jokes and I just had to make that confusing paragraph. As for the 2nd, Bunnie Rabbot is probably my second favorite character in the series behind Sonic (it's mostly because I liked her in SATAM, especially that Southern accent), so any story emphasizing her is likely going to be more detailed. Overall this was a good issue. The first story you knew right away that the bomb was not going to be a bomb but the execution worked. Second story I already detailed, and the ministories weren't bad.
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