A revamp of the original chapter 14. Considering one of the story points in that version (Bunny transforming with chocolate) was negated by a new picture, and I'm trying to be as canonical as possible with these... I do not own RotG or GoC.

"Something must be done." North boomed. "There are still too many Nightmares about, even with Pitch gone for now."

The Guardians were clustered at the Pole, looking at a tiny, frightened Nightmare writhing in Sandy's grasp. The Nightmare bucked and squealed, trying desperately to escape from the sandy fellow's clutches.

Bunny gave a snort. "And who's going to take care of that?" he asked. "None of us have the time for it!"

"None of us?" North questioned. "Sandy and Tooth can deal with whichever ones they find every night, and you, Jack and I can take some time hunting down the tricky ones. Will be piece of pie."

Bunny spluttered. "But-but my eggs! North, I have no idea how far they got in the warren, and I still have way too much chocolate to clean up!"

"Then take Jack." North said, looking at the young Guardian. "Work will go faster with two sets of hands, yes?"

Bunny frowned, and then sighed. "Fine. I'll be back as soon as I can."

Jack looked between Bunny and North. "Don't I get a say in this?"

Bunny smirked, and tapped a foot on the floor. "Consider it payment for Easter."

The tunnel opened underneath Jack, and pulled him in. With a whoop, he skidded down the ancient mossy tunnel, Bunny hot on his heels. As he tumbled onto the grass, Jack looked up at Bunny in confusion.

"I thought we were cool!"

"We are, no fear." Bunny hauled Jack upright. "But North was right. Pitch or not, you did help to make the mess, and it's only fair that you help clean it up. Besides…" The pooka gave a grin. "I don't think you've seen the rest of the warren. This'll go faster than you think."

"Then why make a big fuss out of it to North?" Jack asked. "If it's not hard to clean up, why complain?"

"Because I'm not just cleaning up the mess." Bunny said, walking down one of the tunnels. "I've got a lot of stuff that went offline, stuff that would have made it hard for Pitch to take even one of the eggs. But, I let it go without getting fixed, so that's on my head."

Jack looked around. "What kind of stuff?"

They emerged into a giant hall, shaped sort of like an egg that had fallen over. Along the walls and floor, hundreds of well-labeled eggs were lined up on shelves and fixed in replica nests.

Jack whistled. "You…might have an egg problem, Bunny."

"What, this?" Bunny dusted off an odd pair of green, egg shaped spectacles, and put them on. "I collected all of these years ago, back before I became a Guardian. Hmm. I should probably dust." He ran a finger across one of the eggs, and snorted at the layers of dust that he disturbed.

"Before you became a Guardian." Jack remembered North saying something about Bunny, back at the Tooth Palace. "You mean the cute little bunny that you turned into?"

Bunny burst out laughing. "No. I wasn't…" He bent double in laughter. "I was…" he tried to choke out the words between giggles. "That 'cute little bunny'… I haven't, not in years!"

Jack swirled up a snowball, and chucked it into Bunny's face. The cold seemed to startle the Pooka, who looked up at Jack.

Giving a nod of thanks, Bunny took a deep breath. "While I was that 'cute little Bunny' at one time, that's not who I was before becoming a Guardian."

"So…what is up with that 'cute little bunny'?" Jack asked. "Was that you as a kid?"

"Right in one." Bunny nodded. "Pookas live a long time, Jack. And we grow up fast. I'll admit, getting turned into a kid was more than a little humiliating."

"Yeah, my shins heard you just fine." Jack said. "So, how fast do Pookas grow up?" he asked curiously.

"Takes about a day for us to grow out of childhood." Bunny replied, pulling Jack into another room. It was as egg-shaped as the first, but filled to the brim with egg shaped robots of every shape, size, and degree of completion. "We'll start by getting some of these buckos running again." Bunny said. "That'll seriously help us get things cleaned up quick."

"All of them?" Jack asked. "And you just let these lie here? When they could have been helping or managing your Easter prep?" he snickered. "You poor, deprived thing."

"How am I poor or deprived?" Bunny pushed a handful of eggs into Jack's arms, and then started stuffing them in the hoodie pocket. He paused for a moment, nose twitching furiously. "Is that a crack about my childhood?"

"No." Jack replied, shifting uncomfortably as Bunny started piling eggs into his hood. "That's me taking pity on you for having such a pathetically short childhood."

Bunny just laughed. "Please. I'll have you know that I had a very satisfactory childhood. Not sure I'd want more than one day." He looked at Jack, nearly covered in robotic eggs. The pooka picked up a couple more, and hooked their feet around Jack's ears. "That should be enough for now."

He scooped up a handful of eggs in his arms, leading a very wobbly Jack back to the main room of the warren.

For his part, Jack was very glad to put down all of the eggs. Bunny had fetched a bucket of water from somewhere, and passed it to Jack along with an old rag.

"If you wipe them down, I'll get them running again." He said.

"Kay." Jack said, before snickering again.

"You're not going to let that kid thing go, are you?" Bunny asked warily.

"Nope. Not for a long, long time."

I'm actually liking this version better than the original. The scene flows better, and I feel like I have a better grasp of the characters. This entire chapter was rewritten, but I did try to keep most of the beats the same. This one is actually closer to the original plan that I had for the chapter, so I'm glad of that.