The local colony had to move a few kilometers to the west. It was about the second-largest colony, and the rabbits were here in hope that people wouldn't break it down because of their buildings. The rabbits have found a home in an abandoned land, where it was originally supposed to be built, but it was not built because of money. It started to rain and the road began to be dangerous - not only because of the rain, but also the predators.
"How long will this journey take? It's almost night." Martin said. It would take him less time as a human, but because he had the rabbit power activated on his Creature Power Suit, the road took him as much as a rabbit. No big fun when you risk being hit by a car or being eaten alive.
"Just 20 minutes away," Sunshade said and he looked around wet ground and forest "I wouldn't expect in life that there are humans who are trying to protect us."
The youngest of the group's rabbits was the Swing and he was the youngest member of the patrol. He was black and white and had brown eyes.
"I swear I'll help you." Martin added
Swing was also the most curious, and so he buried Martin with heaps of questions; "What's it like to be human?" or "What are the human leaders? Are they as cruel as General Woundwond?" or "Are there animals that fear people themselves?"
When Swing mentioned general Woundwond Martin again hasn't any idea, about who is Swing talking about. Later he learned that it was a cruel leader of one colony, where the brutal regime eventually came to him. He was probably killed by a domestic dog in the battle for the legendary Watership Down Hill, which was in the area.
Everything was quiet, about ten minutes. There was something that the Captain himself didn't expect. Martin had to think quickly to understand what was happening.
"Someone's here. Do you feel that smell?" Martin added and looked around. Around trees and forests, but no one at the beginning.
"Like if I didn't feel it man." said ironically captain and he looked with a sharp view on the Martin. Captaim Sunshade muttered something about humans under his whiskers.
"I can feel the human sweat and the smell of steel." Crescent said "I don't think it would be you, Martin."
The ground began to shake heavily from the rabbit's point of view. Terrified birds flew out of here, and the insects tried to escape as quickly as possible.
"H-humans!" Swing suddenly shouted and he wanted to run to the colony and warn his relatives, but Sunshade stopped him.
"You're part of the defense of this colony. Desserting is not allowed."
I have to think up something quickly. They have families there and when I came here they were suspecting me because I'm human, now they think I'm different from others and I have to prove it to them. Martin thought.
Martin suddenly became one of the witnesses to the death of this young rabbit. Apparently it was intended to rebuild it from the ground up, because a series of dynamite blasts followed. Everything was suddenly confused: pieces of earth, stones and grass were flying in the air, and from the rabbit's point of view, the earth shook and rippled like sea waves.
"SWING!" Dawn shouted and everyone who was there tried to save him. It was a horrible moment. He was literally at the center of one of the explosions, and before he could say his last word, the fire explosion turned him into bloody bits. There was red blood and pieces of bones and organs everywhere that the local wolf pack might not even eat after this human crime from the point of view of animals.
At that moment, so many things came that Martin thought he was seeing the rabbit's death-Black Rabbit of Inlé. Although he is a man! For a moment he saw the black rabbit's face with red eyes. Whatever it was, hallucination, or indeed a ghost, it just looked at him and (maybe he knew it wasn't a rabbit) it faded.
Dawn looked around and he for the 2nd time saw Martin going again. His sister Morning Star joined him in this question; "Where are you going, Martin?!"
Martin turned and he deactivated his Creature Power Suit. He knelt down and looked at the two brown bunnies who looked at him with a half-serious, half-curious look. He looked at them and began to tell them quickly.
"I have an idea. This is definitely related to why I came here to England. People don't want to be built here and this is definitely the beginning of an illegal construction. I'll try to stop them." Martin said and he went to do his plan.
Dawn and Morning Star looked at each other and they ran to warn colony.
Martin hid in the tall grass to find out who was behind it. He saw British workers going to work and a company representative who started to build here trying to persuade the mayor of the village to give the green to the meadows of the books that made this countryside famous.
Mayor agreed, for the sake of earning it for selling new land to other people. The citizens of the town protested angrily. Martin noticed that the colony wasn't that far when his suit was activated. Now he saw the surroundings, but only a few hills, small farms and a small town. He decided to approach the venue. Among the protesters he saw other nature protectors, including his younger brother and friends with whom he came to the United Kingdom for the same reason: to avoid this.
He heard curses and one old-timer who remembered the British politics of the 1970s even brought his old radio and in protest, released the album Animals from the British band Pink Floyd, specifically Pigs. The song also known as Three Different Ones has just played its second part.
Hey you, Whitehouse
Ha, ha, charade you are
You house proud town mouse
Ha, ha, charade you are
You're trying to keep our feelings off the street
You're nearly a real treat
All tight lips and cold feet
And do you feel abused?
You got to stem the evil tide
And keep it all on the inside
Mary you're nearly a treat
Mary you're nearly a treat
But you're really a cry
Martin sneaked in and after he had experienced and knew what the animals were doing during such constructions, he intended to sabotage. He looked around to make sure no one was watching him. He could have guessed what would follow if they had caught him. Don't even think about it! Working laborers managed to lure and quietly began to destroy the machine and to do this for the first time in his nature had to behave as an "amateur" pyrotechnic and would prevent further explosions. He knew that if it went on like this, it would take away other animals in the area, not just rabbits.
His heart beat quickly and sweated. Everything seemed to happen in seconds. Everything went well until one bricklayer caught the attention of other masons, as well as his ordained, mayor of this small community, protesters and nature protectors when he called; "Someone's here!"
Just then, he ran away, barely realizing that all this was physically and mentally debilitating. Even more challenging than a trip to Alaska for salmon at the time of friction. No, it is not yet two days, and moreover, he is a nature protector who loves these adventures. This is nothing.
He intended to return to his rabbit friends and help them as he promised. For a moment he ran around the town's borders with nature and when he was almost there, he was suddenly stopped when he heard a very familiar male voice.
"M-Martin?"
Martin was shocked. After finding animal friends here in this English wilderness, he almost forgot his younger brother and crew. In shock, he turned and looked at his younger brother. Chris was in the same, perhaps bigger, shock than he was and stared at him with shock in his eyes. He looked like he saw a ghost.
Martin was dirty against him, and he had a little tattered clothes. Apparently he allowed himself to be comforted in the countryside, perhaps too much. He had forgotten that if he was gone long he would be missing. The biting thought that after Chris had won in their sibling argument for love in his sibling had stopped him again, as if he hadn't existed for him. He bit his lip nervously.
They both remained silent for a moment. Chris seemed to miss him and he wanted him to forgive him for not paying attention to him and get back to the crew. Martin has not changed his mood all the time, but it has changed a bit when he fell in love in England here. He wanted to meet her again, to see her, to meet her and to be with her like his younger brother Aviva and ignored him. Falling in love was another reason he didn't want to leave England.
"Martin, will you forgive me? I promise I won't forget you again, just please understand that I really love her and come back." Chris said and he in the short looked at him.
The expression on Martin's face didn't change. It wasn't the first time he heard his younger brother begging. When Chris looked back at his sentence, he heard footsteps in a moment and when he looked back quickly, Martin was gone. He glanced back and said with a thoughtful voice.
"Martin?"
Martin rode back to the British wilderness, he followed his memories. No, he gave up on me, Chris has to find out what it's like before he realizes it, so I won't forgive him, he thought. He managed to stop the building, yet. When he returned, he found out in a cruel way what damage the dynamite had caused and what had happened to the animals that had failed to escape. It wasn't a nice look at the torn pieces of the body that fly flies. Fresh meat attracted ravens and a few smaller carnivores were also interested. They lost interest when they knew there was a human.
Unfortunately, if he wanted to activate the suit, he had to touch the dead animal. It was the young rabbit killed by the explosion whose death Martin witnessed. He might find the animal friends again.
Now he walked back and forth in the woods. The rabbit's animal power eventually led him to one place at the edge of the forest. He knew there was definitely someone he knew. He got into the surroundings of rabbit nests he had never seen before. It was five o'clock in the afternoon and he didn't know if he was heading to that rabbit colony where Dawn was going to introduce him. He didn't know the way! He simply went in the direction of Captain Sunshade. He barely got into the surroundings of the rabbits when two rabbits suddenly jumped on him. One was mottled, the other black.
"Captain Sunshade! It's the human-rabbit you know thanks to Dawn!?" 2nd rabbit said and first prevented Martin from escaping. Martin originally wanted to escape and deactivate the suit, but it changed when he heard two familiar rabbit names.
Captain Sunshade held him with his paw, looked at him and said; "Welcome to the Golden Hole colony, man."
"You command them?" was the first words, which Martin said
"Sure, when I'm captain, you idiot! You probably think I'm just playing the captain. You know what? You won't see the General and the Officer anymore - I'm the top rabbit now." captain Sunshade said with anger in his voice and he continued
"In attacking people, this colony has lost it's leader and I have become a new leader! What did you expect at Holy Frix? The tyrant of the same as General Woundwond? It's about colony security. Because of your kind, I lost my wife and young! They buried them alive, then when they choked, they blew them and I couldn't help them!"
"Why are you doing this, Captain? Are you crazy!?" shocked Martin asked
"The officer betrayed me. Previously he worked for Woundwond and maybe he was here in this colony, before the battle at Watership Down Hill as his spy! You people don't even know what it's like when someone you've been friends with for a long time caught on you and then you lose everything and stay alone!"
Martin now realized that the rabbit was going crazy because he was in a situation like him now.
"Hey, buddy, I know what it's like and I know what you're talking about. It just doesn't always have to go this way brutally - did you think an officer might regret it and long for you to forgive him as a loved one?" Martin said
"The officer, after finding out how it all was, disappeared shortly before the attack. I wish him die in falcon claws."
"Why is your minions what the hell holding me here? What do you need me for?"
"To destroy the freshly opened fur farm at the original colony site. As a nature conservationist, you could help me to avenge my family."
"And then what?"
"I'll let you go and then run to your family. You will be the tool of my revenge. And now."
He was released. Of course, when he went, he was supervised by two powerful rabbits who were ready to bite and scratch if he tried to escape. They didn't want him to deactivate his suit. Yes, he could deactivate it and run, but that was out of the question. He had rabbit friends here and didn't want anything to happen to him. Apparently Martin was worried unnecessarily, because Sunshade was interested in him and not in the rabbit he had learned about him.
The rabbits got to the fur farm in the dark. It was risky. For predators. On this dangerous mission, Sunshade took his best unit, which was driven by it for the same reason as him. When they arrived in the moonlight, they allowed him to deactivate the suit, but Martin didn't risk taking his rabbit friends to it. After all, the captain just wanted him to do his job.
He had to sneak again. Now that this was happening, he sincerely wanted to go back to the crew. It was rough. The animals, according to the agreement, managed to free, but the fifty-year-old man noticed.
It turned into a shotgun chase. He was shot in the foot, and just after that part of his deal he could reactivate his suit. The power of a rabbit.
It started to rain and Sunshade was still watching Martin. Martin had a foot shot after the chase, and he blew and limped. Sunshade insisted on taking him to his family with his helpers. A million thoughts were blowing in Martin's mind. It was only two days since he was like this in the wild, but after all that happened, he realized he hadn't eaten for two days, he wasn't drinking, and he was injured. Sunshade ordered a break at the place where Martin and Dawn stayed overnight. It was a wonderful night view of the surroundings, even in the rain.
"Captain, aren't you crazy? You don't want to give up on that Frix's goddamn human and hide somewhere or go back to the colony. It's not safe here. His blood will attract night hunters" lieutenant Crescent said
"Let me go. I'll get it there alone." Martin said and groped for breath. His head wandered, and he was exhausted plus bleeding, threatening to get an infection. In an activated suit it was even more suffering.
"If you went there alone, you bleed out..." Sunshade said, he camed to Martin and with a heavy scratch he got a piece of shot from his body. Martin screamed lightly in pain. Sunshade had a paw from his blood, and drops of water ran down his paw.
"It's just a scratch.." fell out from Martin
"I didn't go with you to commit suicide with you, I'm leaving!" lieutenant Crescent said and she hid in the nearest rabbit hole
Martin waited for a fight. A part of Sunshade's unity didn't want to die, so the rabbits split into two groups and a bloody fight took place. Martin was too exhausted to attend, so he had to look at how cute little rabbits were brutally killed at first glance.
Martin watched the fight attract one of the night predators-owl. When the surviving rabbits noticed it, they stopped biting and scratching to the their blood, looked up at the sky and called before they escaped.
"At Frix! There's an owl, owl! Stop fighting each other and run away!" one rabbit shouted
The rabbits ran, only the captain didn't care. One of the rabbits even warned him before his escape, but Sunshade said he wanted to stay here, even though it was a clear suicide.
"The Black Rabbit of Inlé, come for me.."
Martin heard captain Sunshade's last words, before he was caught in the moonlight in sharp owl claws.
This was the end of this harsh adventure between rabbits. Martin was after he was willing to forgive all his younger brother among the rabbits. So in the end, after all he was exhausted, tired and wounded, he deactivated his Creature Power Suit and decided to go back to his friends and younger brother in the dark.
The last time he met Chris, he knew his departure hadn't given him sleep. He was lucky to get into town. There was darkness and a few lights, but the music was still playing.
Deaf, dumb, and blind, you just keep on pretending
That everyone's expendable and no-one has a real friend
And it seems to you the thing to do would be to isolate the winner
And everything's done under the sun
And you believe at heart, everyone's a killer
The crew took this as the last day in this British village, so they decided to spend it in town. Or maybe it wasn't the last day here. Martin was already beginning to become a missing man, and it already seemed that the British police would be involved in his search.
Martin was recovering, so he began to ignore his painful leg, though he was still limping. He knew his younger brother was worried. He is definitely in depression and stressed because of him! Martin saw him telling his friends and his love that he would rather be alone now. They didn't notice him, but he did. Chris was so worried about his sibling, and he thought it was his fault he'd rather close. Chris didn't notice him, but Martin came up to him and spoke to him. His favorite message fell out of him.
"Hey, bro."
Before Chris turned for he for a moment, thought that he has hallucinations, and his older brother was dead. He turned and was shocked again.
"What are you looking at me? I'm back, brother. And I forgive you all. "
Chris immediately hugged his older brother and he started crying.
"That's good Chris, just cry. I want to apologize for how I treated you and Aviva. You know we were both in love with her and you just got her heart and I was jealous of you. I acted like a complete selfish. Can you forgive me? This is all my fault, you can't do anything."
Chris had his face pressed against the shoulder of his older brother and wept quietly. When he heard what he said, his sad and happy voice sounded like that.
"I forgive you. You don't even know how I missed you."
"The siblings must stand together."
"Where have you been Martin? You look like a bear attacked you." Chris asked and he continued in crying
"Well, while I was gone, I learned a lot of interesting things about the wild rabbit that no zoologist on the planet knows except me yet."
Chris began to calm down and Martin continued his speech.
"I'd like to be here for a few more days. I want to help stop that damn construction and..."
Calmed Chris stopped crying and hugging his older brother. When he noticed, that Martin stuck at his sentence, so he asked.
"And what?"
Martin realized, that he doesn't know how to explain what is job of his newest love.
Nevermind. I'll deal with this when it happens, Martin thought.
"A-and I fell in love here in England."
"So, I wish good luck to you!" Chris said suddenly with happines
"I would like to know her even more and hope that, she will love me too." Martin said and both brothers talked to each other when they went back to the crew
"Someone shot you Martin." Chris said, when he noticed, that his older brother has a left leg of blood and he is limping
"It's alright. Especially after I've experienced among the animals, especially rabbits.."
Music played it's last part and it gived atmosphere to this night.
Who was born in a house full of pain
Who was trained not to spit in the fan
Who was told what to do by the man
Who was broken by trained personnel
Who was fitted with collar and chain
Who was given a pat on the back
Who was breaking away from the pack
Who was only a stranger at home
Who was ground down in the end
Who was found dead on the phone
Who was dragged down by the stone
Here are songs used in this crossover.
Pigs by Pink Floyd from the album Animals and Dogs also by Pink Floyd and too from the their album Animals.
