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Everything was quiet and peaceful. But there was a strange smell in the air. Something foreign was in the forest. He can smell it. He strained his long ears to try and hear it. Then when his one ear flicked the other way. BANG! The little gray forest rabbit jumped but couldn't get out of the bullet's way. It pierced his leg, embedding into the muscle, and made him fall to the ground.

The hunter grinned, feeling very proud of himself. Even though he wasn't even supposed to be hunting. It wasn't the season to, not even close. But this guy didn't care. So he got up and picked up the unconscious rabbit by the ears. He walked to his pick up truck, threw the rabbit in the back with various other things of his. Like hunting equipment, antlers, other small animals, etc. Then he began driving off. Back to his cabin in the woods.

Down the road, a truck sped. It was from TCRI. It's cargo was mutagen. The truck was transporting it from one base to another. The hunter drove lousy and the two trucks got closer. Until the hunter swerved but still ending up crashing into the TCRI truck. Things flew from each truck. The hunter and seemingly people in the TCRI truck all got minor injuries. The hunter angerly got out and began yelling at the TCRI people.

The rabbit landed on the ground, the antlers on top of him, and a canister of mutagen breaking open on both. Then the rabbit began mutating. It became bigger, legs and ears getting longer, the antlers fusing to it's head, and the bullet made it's bones as strong as metal. The new mutant jackelope woke with a gasp.

He looked around as much as he could. Road, truck, human, forest. He couldn't believe he was alive. All of his instincts told him to run away and hide. But he had no idea how to control his new body. His paws weren't paws anymore and his leg was in such pain. But when he heard loud noises all of a sudden, adrenaline kicked in. He managed to get on his hands and feet and clumsily leap away.

He kept going and going until the adrenaline wore off and he collapsed.

"Huh?" He voice let out when he woke up hours later. It surprised him greatly. He could talk human?

He touched his hands on his throat, then at his stomach when it growled. He felt so hungry and thirsty, but mostly confused. At least he was safe in the forest, away from any of those dangerous humans. But now he had this new body.

Since he managed to calm down now, he finally took a good look at his new body. He was so much bigger than any of those foxes or wolves. He put his paws on his face, it felt so different. And his paws felt weird. He pulled his paws away to look at them. His front paws were more like a humans now. He felt up his face to top of his head where felt the antlers that were firmly attached. What in the world was he now?

His little cotton tail twitched as he looked down. He suddenly felt exposed, but not in the prey kind of sense. He never had issues with body exposure before. It just didn't occur to him. All animals are like that. Being a young buck of a rabbit, he's already mated a few times. But now it just didn't feel right. This was strange. His mind was now able to comprehend things he never had before.

It would seem his body was now made for walking on his hind legs only. That shouldn't be too hard to do. So the new mutant pushed himself up onto his feet. But when he tried to walk, he fell. But he knew he had to keep trying. He was unsure of time, but it felt like it took forever to learn how to walk with this body. He winced and wobbled for a moment as new pain shot from his leg. He'll have to take walking slowly for now. That will take a while to get used to. Not to mention he doesn't have to be scared of predators anymore cause he's so much bigger and stronger now.

So the rabbit turned mutant walked slowly. He took each step carefully but still limped. Until he reached a cabin. It was decently big, like for a family to stay at. Something in him told him to go inside and search for things he would need. What he needs besides food and water and shelter, he has no idea. Well if it belongs to a human, then there would be food and water in there. He listened for a moment, but didn't hear anything, so maybe there's no humans there. That decided it, he was going in.

Once he was inside, he was immediately disgusted. Guns, stuffed heads and camouflage print, This was a hunter's home. But the mutant was just so hungry and hurt and tired, he couldn't care for long. He tried not to look at anything around the home while he rummaged for things. It hurt with his slightly bleeding bullet wound. But he did get something to eat and drink. He found a pair of cameo pants that he decided to wear. It got bled through from his wound of course. He also found a machete. He stared at the weapon for a while, he wasn't sure if he should take it or not. It was a hunter's weapon. But he can't fit in burrows anymore. So he'll need some way of defending himself from those stupid hunting humans.

So he took it with him and left the cabin. As he left he saw something out of the corner of his eye. He turned and looked at the green and yellow thing. John Deer? What kind of human thing was that? Oh well, better keep going. He wasn't sure where he was going, but he felt he had to keep going. He followed the road, staying hidden in the trees, making sure to avoid any humans that were driving down. Now he just needed to find a shelter, a home for him.