Rabbid Guy

At The Door

His heart had gone back to a reasonable beat. He checked his arms. They were just the same as last night. He started to check the rest of himself. A fuzzy face, cute mitten hands, long expressive ears, a big old mouth to shout with. His mouth was pretty big wasn't it? Besides his ears it was the only thing bigger on him as a rabbid than a human. He walked up to his mirror on the basement door to make faces.

He didn't open his mouth all the way often. It kind of reminded him of something like a hippo. He didn't often have a clear mirror to look at himself with so he was glad he had a little time to look into this one. After being a confused and paranoid human all day it was nice to be charmed by the fact that he currently had the body of a rabbid. No other person understood what it was like to see through the eyes of a completely different species. To look into a reflection and not see a human looking back but something else.

In a lot of ways he was lucky, but it was starting to dawn on him how many problems he was going to have based on what his human self had figured out. Doug was stuck in traffic now but he was bound to reach Guy's house eventually, and then the next couple of nights for two weeks. How was Guy supposed to keep him from finding out? If Doug figured it out he was bound to tattle to his human self, or maybe worse, Doug would tell his boss and Guy would be put in a lab and stripped of his rights for being too rabbid.

He was the first and perhaps only human rabbid. Pioneers didn't exactly have a safety net when met with opposition, especially from humans. If humans knew what he was, the world would change. If a human could be a rabbid then what was the difference between the two? Guy knew there was a difference but it was too abstract to define. Still, they had more things in common than most humans gave rabbids credit for. If people were forced to see rabbids as more like themselves because of him, a lot of them would probably want him dead. Especially verminators.

He supposed that made it even more important to keep his secret. Keep the drama to a minimum. If only he didn't shift back and forth. Before he was questioning whether or not he wanted to be a rabbid forever, but with the conflict his human half was causing it was becoming easier to wish he'd survive after dawn.

There was nothing left for him as a human. Ok, well he still wanted his parents and old friends to know he was ok. They wouldn't like what he had become but he wanted them to know he was safe and happy anyway. There was a present he could say goodbye to as a human, but no future. He wanted to move on and discover all the ways he could be more adventurous, more playful, learn more about the people he loved so much, but his human half was keeping him tethered to the twelve hours he had to experience each night.

Eventually he'd be limited in how far he could travel. What were rabbids like around the world? If Guy wanted to keep himself a secret, he'd never know. His human self didn't have much of a reason to travel besides visiting family. That would definitely be a challenge, but if he pulled it off he could see how rabbids were like around his parents house. A surprise visit from Manmade for all those rabbids. Would their friends believe they saw him? He smiled at the thought. He wondered where all the robot combat rabbids were. What was their meta like?

A better question would be to ask where Tie and Stickers were. They were normally pretty punctual in making sure Guy had a smooth transformation. He didn't need them to always be there immediately after becoming a rabbid. He was grateful for everything they had already done, and they had their own lives to live even if being alone made him.. lonely. Maybe they were on their way. Maybe they had even caused the traffic jam that saved him from Doug, although that would be an incredible feat given the information available to them.

Maybe they were watching him all day, playing a snare drum as some sort of prank. Stickers had suggested Tie and themself watch Guy together. Maybe they had their own rabbids vs human adventure that would put everything into perspective soon enough.