The Bunny and the Hunter

Throughout the trash filled wasteland, nothing could be heard except for the random breaking of glass, the decomposing of waste, and the distant rumbling of collapsing piles. This is until this ambiance was broken by explosions, shouts, and opera music.

"GET BACK HERE RABBIT!" Skulker from Danny Phantom screamed as he fired his ghost lasers and missiles at his running prey. "YOUR PELT WILL HANG ON MY WALL!"

The opera music continued to play as a comically large pony with tiny legs frolicked through the cardboard and plastic hills, gracefully avoiding the hunter ghost’s attacks. On that pony was a figure wearing golden armor/bra and magenta skirt. On their head was a winged Viking helmet over braided blonde hair.

"Hunters have tried for decades, doc. Ya ain't special." Bugs Bunny sang back at Skulker.

“You dare mock the ghost zone’s greatest hunter!?”

“If you are the ghost zone’s greatest hunter then I’m a Virgo,” Bugs countered.

“I won’t let a mere rabbit make a fool out of me!” Skulker chased after the famous cartoon rabbit into a tunnel in a trash hill, only to immediately crash into the fake tunnel painting Bug had quickly drawn up.

“Hehe, you can’t beat the classics,” Bugs Bunny laughed as he took a bite out of a carrot. He takes off his opera costume and tosses it away as he walks off. “That would teach him that there is nothing mere about this rabbit. Hehe.” He walked up to a hole in the trash fields with a mailbox and a sign saying ‘Hole Sweet Hole’.

“What in the w–” Bugs got out as he was hit by a circular, blue ray and faded away. Another ray picked up the knocked out Skulker.

“Oh boy,” you cheer as the computer confirms the capture. “The bonus from Bugs is going to pay for my kids’ college.”

“Why would the bunny be worth so much,” Diana asks, not being familiar with Bugs Bunny nor the Looney Tunes.

“Let me put it this way, they are usually extremely difficult to capture and are notorious for being escape artists.” You reply in a sing-song voice as you quickly google some information. “And according to google, there are only around 40,000 Original Generation Bugs Bunnies recorded to have been sold due to capture difficulty.”

“Then how did you catch him?” Gogo asked.

“Well in his shows, he sometimes temporarily lets people catch him only to mess them up a little while later,” you speculated. “Or he knew that anything is better than this place and let himself get caught to hitch a ride.”

“Will the device be able to hold him?” Diana asks jokingly, as she still doesn’t realize the skill of Bugs Bunny.

“Probably,” you say nervously. You flew off to follow the next ping the scanner detected in the area. It kept appearing and disappearing, making it difficult to figure out where it was coming from. You kept changing direction as the signal would constantly change direction, nearly impossibly so.

“Where are you?” You grumble as the signal now says it was coming from a couple miles to the northwest.

“Hey, are we losing altitude?” Gogo asked as she looked outside.

“Huh?” You looked away from the scanner and looked at what she was looking at.

“Oh crap!” You shout as you swerve the shuttle away from a massive crane you swore was not in your way before. Alarms started blaring as errors appeared on all your screens. “Gogo, reset the thrusters.” You ordered, trying to get the shuttle under control. Nothing was responding as it should’ve and you were getting contradictory information saying that you were going too high and then too low.

The shuttle descended into a massive crack in the landscape. You were able to get the shuttle flying straight but you couldn’t get enough lift. Gogo finished resetting the engines and you were starting to fly back out of the crevice when several things flew at the shuttle.

“What the heck!” You jumped back as several spears pierced through your windshield and demolished your controls. More alarms blared as you lost control and the shuttle crashed through mounds of trash, tossing you and your girls around the shuttle. You black out as the shuttle smashed into the ground with a bone scattering crash. The last thing you see before you lose consciousness is Diana crawling towards you.