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Skippy the Rabbit
One mid November morning, there was rabbit named Skippy. He came out of his burrow, and smelled the fresh cut grass by the farmer. His burrow was located behind the farmer’s old tractor. Skippy was known as a very likable bunny. Everyone in the local rabbit community knew him, and knew that he was adventurous. He was also incredibly smart. His fur was grey and he had sky blue eyes, and a tail as white and fluffy as a cotton ball. He then went over to his best friend Hopper’s burrow.
Hopper was not the brightest tool in the shed. He is what was known as a dud. Dud rabbits are rabbits that didn't mature correctly. Hopper’s fur was a rusty color with little white spots on his back. His eyes were a deep forest green color.
“THE FARMER!” screamed one of the rabbits. All of the other rabbits scurried as fast as they could back to their burrows. Now, Skippy’s burrow was all the way across the field from Hopper’s. So Skippy just went down into Hopper’s burrow. The farmer was not very happy with the community of rabbits. He found them as an infestation that ruined his crops. On a weekly basis the farmer tried to destroy them. The farmer decided if he ran over their burrows with his tractor it would destroy them. He tried to run over their homes; however, that didn't do much because their burrows went down into the ground.
After the farmer drove over the rabbit community, all of the rabbits came out of their burrows. Skippy said to Hopper, “Man, someone really needs to teach that farmer a lesson.”
“Yeah, someone should hit him with a shovel and bury him” said Hopper very mysteriously.
“Woah! Hopper, I don’t mean kill the guy. I just mean someone needs to trick him and humiliate him.” Skippy exclaimed. Hopper and Skippy decided to get a carrot and come up with a plan.
“Hopper, I've got a plan, but it’s quite risky.” Skippy explained.
“Yeah, what is it?” asked Hopper. Skippy then started to explain his plan to Hopper.
“This is what’s going to happen,” Skippy started, “ first we need to sneak into his house, then we will steal his keys to his brand new tractor and we will drive it and he will have to chase it to catch us.”
Hopper and Skippy then went home. The next morning, bright and early, the two of them were off to the farmer’s house. They were traveling for quite a long time, because the farmhouse was about an acre away from the rabbit community. Once the two rabbits got to the house they needed to get inside the house. Hopper jumped up on the window sill, to see if he could find the keys to the tractor. Skippy went in first while Hopper kept watch.
While Skippy went into the house, Hopper noticed a faint humming noise. He started to look around, and then out of the corner of his eye, on the horizon he saw a big tractor coming towards them. He frantically started trying to get Skippy’s attention. Hopper started thumping his foot on the window trying to get Skippy’s attention, but no reaction. It was like Skippy was deaf. The next thing Hopper knew, the farmer had arrived. He tried one last time to get Skippy’s attention, but then Hopper had to bail, leaving Skippy alone in the farmer’s house.
THUD! Skippy hit the floor of the farmer’s house. He started looking, searching, harder and harder. Skippy heard BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP against the window. Ahhh, it’s just Hopper being superstitious, Skippy thought. So he started looking for the keys again. As Skippy was in the kitchen, he started to hear a jingle. Yes! Skippy thought, I found them, but then his stomach sank. The sound he heard was the farmer unlocking the door. The farmer was home. Skippy was frantically running around finding somewhere to hide. CREEEEK, The door opened painfully. Skippy was in the middle of the room. With the farmer’s hatred of rabbits, Skippy knew that this was really bad. He started running towards the door and then everything went pitch black. I’m dead; i’m totally dead, Skippy thought.
Then he opened his eyes and he was in a cage. The farmer walked over to him; Skippy was quite antsy. The farmer then spoke, “Don't worry, i’m not going to kill you…….yet. I’m going to let you run back to your stupid burrow with a bomb strapped to you so you can blow up your little rabbit community.”
Man! I can’t blow up my burrow and all my friends’ burrows, thought Skippy. I’ll do what ever it takes to save my community, even if it means sacrificing myself. I will run in the opposite directi…His thought was interrupted by an unsettling noise. It was pretty dark in the room that Skippy was being held in, so it was hard for him to see objects. When he looked up he saw a really weird looking object. It almost looked like another rabbit, no, thought Skippy, it can’t be a rabbit; it looks too fat.
“Skippy? Is that you?” asked a familiar voice.
Wait, I know that voice, thought Skippy, “Hopper is that you?” asked Skippy.
“Yeah it’s me. I’m here to rescue you,” explained Hopper. Hopper then started kicking the door to the cage, until finally…KLANCK the cage door busted open.
“Okay, let’s get out of here,” claimed Hopper.
“WAIT!” screamed Skippy, “I need to do something first.” And Skippy pointed to a pair of keys on the counter.
“Let’s finish what we started.” Skippy said excitedly. Skippy then jumped up on the counter and got the pair of keys. They darted out the door, and jumped on the tractor. Just as the sun started to rise, they started the tractor. With the incredible power of the tractor, it gave a loud grumble as the tractor started to move. The grumble was so loud it woke the farmer up. The farmer ran out in just his pajamas. Hopper then dropped a big rock on the gas peddle, and Skippy and Hopper jumped off the tractor and scurried into the sunrise towards the rabbit community. However, they looked back at the farmer and he was running after his tractor. And the two of them turned and continued to go back to their burrows. Once they got back, all of their rabbit friends came out to congratulate Hopper and Skippy.
Skippy then leaned to Hopper and said, “ We’ve done good Hopper; we’ve done good.”

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