D-D-D-Danger, watch behind you...

[viewfromuphere]

It was a nice night for flying. After spending most of her life told that being a Demon was something she should be ashamed of, Rapunzel still felt insecure about taking any form other than her human one - but with help from all the friends she'd been making, she was getting steadily more comfortable with who she was.

And flight was amazing, especially out here. Birchpointe was a little too smoggy and bright, especially for nighttime flying, but now? The air was clear and crisp, and the forested outskirts of Duckburg were quiet below Rapunzel. She weaved through the trees, feeling free as a- Well.

And then an odd sound, accompanied by a flash of light, caught her attention. It came from beyond the forest's edge, and Rapunzel - no longer the frightened young woman she'd once been - hurried over to check it out. It was a good thing she did, though what she saw left her feeling sickened. Unconscious bodies of unfamiliar creatures littered the ground, as men scooped them up, laughing cruelly all the while.

She managed to go unnoticed by those men as she landed by one of the creatures. A deep breath, and she focused her energy on shifting to a different form so she could make a stand - and start healing the little guys. The only problem? She didn't change. It wasn't the first time Rapunzel had been stuck, but it was certainly the worst moment for it. The next things she knew, she'd been picked up along with the creature she stood beside, apparently unnoticed in her very small current state.

And then she was thrown in a cage.

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[gobetween]

The cage was attached to a large, strange machine with a digging spike and a sloshing tank, and as the assorted men climbed back up on it, it rumbled with the motor coming on. Soon it began down its track, facing away from the city.

As for the creatures in the cage with her, they were damp- from the water in the tank -and unconscious, one of the men having attacked them. As the vehicle went along though, they started slowly waking up one by one, in different states of panic within themselves and with each other. One of them, noticing someone hadn't woken up yet, went over to him and gently shook his shoulder.

"Gobo? Hey... Gobo, wake up..."

Thankfully this brought him around, and he sat up with a low moan, putting a hand to his head.

"Ohh, what happened-?"