As always, a group of Mobians are being led to a Badnik Processing Plant. One slave, Tekno the Canary, isn't looking forward to her life inside a Badnik and a Trooper is about to hit her for speaking out of line. However, Shortfuse the Cybernik arrives to destroy the patrolling robots. He easily dispatches most of them, but a self-destructing Trooper ploughs into Shortfuse. The watching civilians are terrified, but Shorty escapes unharmed. Tekno wonders what Shortfuse is and he replies that he was an ordinary squirrel until he was forced to become a Cybernik. Fortunately, he resisted the brainwashing but is still a slave to the armour. Shortfuse reveals that he came here to request Tekno's services - he needs a bomb to blow up a Chemical Plant Zone factory. In Citadel Robotnik, Grimer remi