Zee had a bit of a problem at the moment. "What do you mean the rabbit sitter's not coming!?" She screamed at her assistant a bit undeservingly, but to be fair, she was caught REALLY off guard by this. "She never bails on me like this!"

"I called the number as you said, and they told me she gained an allergy to rabbit coat... Which is kind of a shame. I mean, never touching rabbit fur again... That's just cruel."

"What about the backup sitter!?"

"College exam, couldn't make it."

"The backup backup sitter!?"

"They touched the wardrobe labeled 'cleanse later,' and a man made of cards walked out."

"The backup, backup, backup!?"

"Run in with one of Toy Man's robots. He'll be out for a while."

"Damn it!" She grumbled as she stomped her foot on the ground, a spark of magic coming out of her wand.

"Please don't blast me." The cutie squeaked as he ducked behind a tree.

She looked at him and sighed, taking a moment to reign in her anger. Control your magic; don't let it go out of control again. "Sorry, sorry, Iruma, I don't mean to take it out on you, it's just…I had this perfectly planned out, perfectly, and there's very few people's hands I can leave Blackberry Hazel Von Osle III and Dandelion Pipkin Da Heisenplay with."

"Surprised you never gave them a nickname." He spoke.

"I like saying the full name; it gives them more character, and I thought long and hard about them." She picked up her two precious babies. "They're made out of pure magic, and they're super, super, super important. Like no jokes, it's a matter of life and death." She shook the boy seriously. "I can't ask Daddy to do it. He's busy with his own show. It's too last minute for me to ask one of the girls… I might just have to cancel the birthday party…"

"I can watch over them." Iruma offered with a hand raise. "I already work at the animal shelter, and I've helped feed and groom the rabbits over there."

Zee blinked. While it would cover most of her problems, there was a slight issue that concerned her. "And you DIDN'T eat any of them, right?" Iruma was helpful… but he also ate raw meat, which, for most people, would be a dealbreaker.

"No, I know the difference between eating a wild animal and eating a pet. Jess can vouch for me on that." He nodded.

… Well, it would have to do. "Okay then. Some rules. First, they must be given only organic vegetables, cut into segments of no larger than an inch cubed. And I'm afraid I'll have to ask you to limit the cruciferous vegetables, as little Blackberry Hazel Von Osle III has had some issues with stomach discomfort recently. Then, of course, they'll need access to fresh water at all times, no cooler than 57 degrees Fahrenheit, which is around 13.5 degrees Celsius. Ooh, and very important, when it's time for their brushing-"

"Hold on, still writing this down." He scribbled on a piece of paper rapidly.

"-Three strokes gently to the left, then five strokes gently to the right..." She continued, gently placing the cages in his hands. "And whatever you do, NEVER let them touch each other," Zee said. "Ever."

"Why?"

"They combine eldritch powers and multiply indefinitely until the entire universe is nothing but bunnies."

"… Why does every magic user I meet have such terrifying pets?"

"Actually, they're less pets and more evil gods. Daddy couldn't destroy or banish them, so he sealed them into smaller and more controllable forms," Zee explained, before giving them the sparkly look with cute voice. "Even if they're the most adorable little bundles of fluff ever. Yes you are, yes you are." The two fluffy balls of joy and destruction grinned as they patted her face. "You understand completely, Iruma?"

"Yes, Ma'am."

"I'm completely serious," Zee stated firmly. "If you can't handle it, I can always cancel the show-"

"Zee, you shouldn't. Somewhere in that crowd could be someone who NEEDS to see your magic to make them smile, and I know that's what you like doing." Iruma nodded reassuringly. "I can handle these tasks. I'll make sure one bunny always stays caged no matter what. That way, I can follow every rule, even the brushing one."

"Oh really? Then you know-"

"-Three strokes gently to the left, then five strokes gently to the right," Iruma repeated. "I'll guard them with my life, I swear."

"Aww, I appreciate this cutie." She hugged him tightly. "I promise afterward, there'll be a little bonus for you." Zee presented him with another chocolate rabbit from out of her hat.

"Yum!" He chomped off its head as the two living rabbits stared with wide-eyed horror. "We'll be back in three hours. See you then, Zee!" It was best to leave a LITTLE fear in their minds. It would probably prevent them from even attempting the big, mopey beady eye trick on Iruma.

"Good luck Iruma, and thank you!" She waved off. Con, she would be missing an assistant, pro, the little cutie was going out of his way to help her, giving her that little warm feeling she had all those years ago in Gotham.

Now, then... performance time. "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, introducing... Zatanna Zatara!" She appeared in a puff of smoke, getting dozens of claps, already off to a great start.

"Whoa, she really is magic!" Yes, a crowd of actual believed and not little cynical jerks! Everything seemed to be going alright!

"Thank you, thank you, you're too kind." She chuckled. "Now, would the birthday girl like to suggest a first act?"

"My daddy left to get milk a year ago and got lost. Can you magic him back?"

... And the sinking feeling already began filling her stomach… It didn't help that it hit WAY too close to home.

Jessica grimaced as she watched her new friend, Kara, practically inhale a bucket of fried chicken like it was a bowl of soup. "Shre youg dond wand sum?" Kara asked as she kept stuffing her face full of the greasy and… fleshy food.

"The grease alone barely makes it edible to swallow." She gagged. Jessica decided that she needed to get more comfortable with her friends if they were going to spend most of their time together now, which meant also getting used to their… less than savory habits.

"Mmoorrr for me hen." Kara shrugged, continuing to devour. Jessica wasn't sure if an answer that this was normal to a Kryptonian's diet would help or not. "The one thing that this planet has over Krypton is definitely all the ways you can fry stuff. Like seriously, fried chicken, fried steak, fried Twinkies, literally everything is made better when it's fried."

"Did you... fry stuff on Krypton?" She asked.

"Oh no. We got so advanced every scrap of food was synthetic. Couldn't taste anything but plastic." Kara gagged. "I mean, sure, nobody ever went hungry, but there was barely any flavor to it. And everyone kind of dressed up like a nerd. You definitely wouldn't be seeing leather jackets and ripped jean shorts on Krypton either." She shook her head. "… Other than that, everything was just... breathtaking to view in action, you know?"

"I kind of can… occasionally the Green Lantern corp takes me off the planet so I can be 'trained properly'..." Aka, learn all the ways you could punch and hurt somebody needlessly. "While I don't like the methods… I do get to see sights I could never see on Earth, like passing nebula with a collapsing star… so many colors in space I didn't even know existed."

"It's a crazy universe." Kara nodded. "So, you got an entire corp of those guys. Any other earthlings in the mix?"

"Two. John Stewert, my mentor... and a guy who really... really irritates me on a personal level." Not that she didn't think Hal could be a good person, but… he could be such a dense jerk!

"Know-it-all show off?" Kara guessed.

"Like you wouldn't believe." She groaned. "Why can't boys be more like Iruma? He at least has class!" Someone who was at least understanding of other people's life choices and not rudely mocking them.

"I have class!?"... They both turned to the blue-haired boy carrying two caged bunnies. "I thought it was a Saturday!"

"He apparently exchanged it for his brain." Kara snickered a bit rudely but somewhat justifiably.

"Kara, don't be mean." Jessica rolled her eyes. Kara was an example of how some girls definitely needed more class. "It was metaphorical Iruma. I meant that you are kinder and less abrasive than most boys I've met."

"I see. Thank you for the compliment." He smiled, his watch beeping. "Oh, brushing time. Hey Jessica, can you hold onto this one for me?" He offered a caged bunny.

"Sure." Jessica nodded with a grin as she accepted it. "Awww, they're so adorable! Did you adopt them from the shelter?"

"No, I'm watching them for Zee while she's busy with her show today," Iruma explained. "All her bunny sitters quit, so it's up to me to keep them in check." He pulled one out of its cage, pulling out a brush. "Now then, three strokes gently to the left, five strokes gently to the right." The boy repeated the actions with a calm tone and steady hand. "I promised to follow her instructions to the letter. I had to walk everywhere to find the organic carrots she asked for."

"Don't you mean run?" Jessica asked.

"Walking's faster."... Suuuure. "Now then, back you go." He locked the rabbit in the cage, switching it with the one in her hand before pulling out the other one. "It's your turn."

"Wouldn't it be easier to handle them at the same time? I can hold one of them while you brush the other." She offered.

"I can't. Zee told me if they touch each other, they'll multiply." Iruma explained.

"Ahh, she's being conscientious about population, I see." Nice to know her friends were thinking about the environment as much as she was.

"Yep, that's why she trusted me to make sure I follow every step to the letter." The one in his hand desperately reached into the other cage with big, wide eyes. "No, none of that." It turned to stare at him with those cute, adorable eyes. "You know, Zee said nothing about losing a foot. I heard they're lucky." And the little guy freaked out, curling back.

"...A bit more threatening than I prefer, but as long as you never follow through." It was what Zee wanted, so she couldn't judge too harshly. "How about..." Jessica glanced at Kara who, for some reason, was still there and not looking bored. "I'm surprised you haven't flown off by now."

"I mean, we're all friends... right?" The girl responded, keeping an eye on the caged bunny, her hand twitching.

"Anyway." Iruma grabbed back the other cage as he finished. "I still have about two hours before her show ends. I'll just head on home and keep a watch till then."

"Say…" Kara spoke up. "Why don't… we keep an eye on them for you while you get something to eat… or something." Kara awkwardly offered.

"Really?" Jessica blinked at the out of nowhere offer.

Iruma looked less suspicious but just as surprised. "You sure? I mean, I am hungry, but I'm pretty sure I can just take them with me-"

"You shouldn't get your hands dirty while watching over them. I mean, it's only ZEE's rabbits after all, not like she's this big old neat freak or something." Kara insisted.

"True..." He conceded, looking down as his stomach gave a grumble. "Alright, here." He handed each of them a cage. "And here are the carrots and water." He placed them on top of each other. "And for the love of life itself, do not let them touch each other."

"I swear on my life we won't let anything happen to them," Jessica reassured him. "No helpless creatures will be harmed under my watch." It's what she lived for, after all.

"Great. Good luck!" He walked off, leaving the two of them, or more like the four of them, alone.

"Huh. Got to admit, Kara, I didn't expect that out of you." Guess that goes to show what judging a book by its cover does to people. "I really didn't think that you'd do this-" She blinked, looking around… at the empty area. "Kara?" She didn't see her OR the rabbits anywhere. "… I was holding a heavy cage-how did I not notice the missing weight?" She was pretty sure Kara's powers did not include weight displacement. "Kara, this isn't funny!" Jessica groaned as she activated her ring. "If you do anything to those bunnies, I swear to God-!" Who knows what brash, reckless, and probably inhumane torment Kara would put those poor creatures through?

Kara was a complicated person. Her home was ripped from her hands from a freak explosion and a coup from a military nutjob. She hated Earth but enjoyed the small, minuscule, hard-to-find things on it that could be found to an immense degree. She loved her cousin but hated looking at his face. She wanted to help people but hated the people she NEEDED to help. She enjoyed fried foods but hated how expensive they were. She liked having friends but hated it when expectations were thrown at her.

She hated how they ruined her image... "Aren't you two the most adorable little gems the world has to offer?" But she loooved bunnies. "You are SOOOOO CUUUTE!" Kara held them close. One of the things she loved about being in Smallville, in spite of Kal's 'helpfulness', was the practically unlimited amount of fluffy and cute animals she could cuddle and snuggle with pretty much daily and nightly. Before Krypto crashed down to Earth, the farm animals and the bunnies that would eat the crops were the closest things to friends she had.

One of the rabbits stared at her face with its beady little eyes... and licked her nose. EEEE! "SO FLIPPIN' CUTE!" She was lucky that Bluey was naive enough to just leave them in her care. She couldn't resist their beady eyes, especially when they just begged to be cuddled and cuddled and hugged all day.

"What you need now are some names!" She didn't recall if Blue said they had names, which was why she now had the honor of naming them herself. "You look like a Merlin, and you look like a Harry Houdini." Perfect names for bunnies that belonged to a magician. "And we will be the best of friends and have all the fun we could ever have. Yes, we will, yes we will!"

They responded by putting their teeny, tiny little paws on her legs before they began reaching out for each other. "Awww, you two just want to hug each other, don't you? Does that Mean ole Zee not give you enough cuddle time?" They shook their heads. "I knew it. Group cuddles are necessary for adorable little fellas like you."

She recalled Blue saying something about keeping them apart, but she figured that was just a dumb rule Zee gave the boy for no reason other than the fact she was an uptight, rich girl. Kara was one hundred percent sure there was nothing wrong with cuddling these creatures out in the open fuzzball to fuzzball. "Well, we don't need dumb rules." She opened up their cages, pulling them out for hugs. "Aww, you two are so super duper adorable..."

"Kara, where are you-? What are you doing!?" Oh crap, she forgot Jessica was here.

"I... uh.." Come on, dumb solar-powered brain, come up with an excuse. "...The cages broke open, and I was catching them." Perfect.

"Uh-huh." Jess crossed her arms.

"What, it's true. Why else would I be holding bunnies like this?!" She called out.

"... You like them, don't you?" The girl gave a condescending smirk.

"...No, nuh uh, not at all. I'm a tough girl. I don't do bunnies!"

"Oh yeah... Then put them back in the cage." Jessica dared.

"Sure... sure..." They began hugging each other. "... Aww, it's too cute!" She embraced the fluffy glory.

"Ah hah, I called it!" Jessica chuckled. "You have a soft side for animals!"

"Tell anyone, and I'll knock your head off." Kara threatened.

"Come on, it's nothing to be embarrassed about. People love animals." Jessica reassured her.

"Yeah, but... I'm the tough girl."

"Even diamonds are brittle for all their hardness. It's nothing to be ashamed about." The lantern girl waved off. "Now, how about we-"

"Hey guys." Bluey walked up to them. "I didn't see you at the corner and-" He turned to the hugging rabbits. "No, you fool!" Bluey shouted suddenly, shocking Jessica. "What have you done!?"

"What? They're just hugging." Kara rolled her eyes as she looked at the seven adorable bundles of-Wait. Seven? "... Oh my Rao... Harry Houdini's a mommy!"

"Aww." Jessica cooed. "Zee must have wanted them separated for a better imprint."

"No, she wanted them separated because they're magic rabbits that'll multiply endlessly until they cover the Earth!" Bluey shouted.

"... What now?" They asked, looking at the seven-seventeen bunnies.

"You have to separate Blackberry Hazel Von Osle III and Dandelion Pipkin Da Heisenplay before they get out of hand!" Bluey cried out, trying to reach for them.

"Hold on there, grabby. I'm sure it's fine." She held him back. "One or two extra rabbits ain't going to hurt anyone." Kara waved off.

"Didn't you hear me!? Cover the Earth! We're talking trillions of rabbits!" He shouted. "They'll end all life! We'll drown in fluff!"

"Okay, little ones, let's just gently..." Jessica blinked. "Um... which ones ARE the original?" She asked, staring at a large pile of bunnies.

"I have them right... nope, just cute baby bunnies." Kara looked at her hands, and only baby bunnies were shown. "So… what are the chances that Zee will notice?"

"She's going to notice, and she's going to get mad and blast me into another dimension!" Iruma shouted with a freaked-out voice. "... You know if we survive the endless waves of bunnies slowly suffocating us to death."

"Okay, I know this is bad, but calling it a wave is a bit of a stretch-"

Splash

A giant white wave of fluff covered the three of them, washing them out into the street like they were being carried away by flood water. "...At least it's the cutest way to die?"

"Okay, that's it!" Bluey reached into his pocket and pulled out a knife. "We have to destroy them faster than they can multiply!"

"No!" Kara grabbed his hands before he could do anything stupid. "We're not going to harm something this adorable and helpless!"

"They're going to drown the whole city in their fur!"

"Well, yes, but I'm a firm believer in animal rights and peaceful solutions!" Jessica shouted. "We'll simply separate them. That should stop the chaos."

"With what!? How are we going to find them!?"

"Duh, X-ray vision," Kara smirked proudly. "I'll just scan the streets till I find Merlin and Harry Houdini."

"Actually, they're called Blackberry Hazel Von Osle III and Dandelio-"

"I'm not memorizing that long and dumb name. It's Merlin and Harry Houdini." She deadpanned, diving into the pile of bunnies, flexing off her clothes as she flew out. "Yo Jess, round them all up, would you?"

"Humanely scooping up and rescuing poor innocent creatures, now that IS up my ally." Jessica grinned as she flashed into her suit and made a giant vacuum cleaner that began sucking them all up. "Don't worry, little sweethearts. This'll all be over soon before you know it."

"Wow, a vacuum cleaner... that would've helped me on so many maintenance jobs." Bluey nodded as he kept getting swept away.

Kara rolled her eyes as she scanned the sea river of bunnies. Alright, Merlin and Harry Houdini, where are you two... where were those lovable and adorable scamps- "Aha!" She cheered as she spotted the cuddling couple. "Aww, they're even cute when they're trying to destroy the world."

"Could you hurry up and grab them? I can't swim forever!" The kid shouted. "I barely learned how to swim as it is!"

"Calm down, it's not going to kill you-"

"IT LITERALLY IS!"

"I got it handled." Gessh, she remembered him being less of a worrywart.

"I got you, Iruma!" Jessica reached down and pulled him out of the swarm as she made a giant garbage bin to catch the wave of bunnies. "Also, not to rush you, Kara, but at this rate, the bin's going to reach the atmosphere, so you might want to book it!"

"Right, right!" She rushed through the swarm, quickly grabbing the two bunnies, hugging each other, and flying out. "See, piace of cake. Now I just pull them apart, and the roaring sea of fluff..." She paused. "Why isn't it roaring?"

They all turned to the bunnies... that weren't swarming the streets but were instead blankly gazing at Kara... before they began hopping, crawling on top of each other. "Grrraaaaaah…"

"...Are bunnies supposed to do that?" Kara asked the two uneasily.

"Nope." They both answered at the same time.

"GRRRRAAA!" The… giant bunny made out of bunnies roared as Merlin and Harry Houdini were pulled out of her hands by an invisible force, going right into the chest area of the… cute but slowly growing in terrifying presence bunny.

"... So... can I hug you?" She asked.

"GRRAAAA!" The giant bunny grew larger and larger in response.

Iruma had an interesting relationship with magic. As a kid, he was fascinated by it. The idea of people bending the universe around them to create a show to inspire smiles... warmed Iruma's heart. It's probably why Zee's show stuck with him all these years. She did so many amazing things that Iruma was left starstruck for ages upon ages.

And then he lived in London for a year and saw a dark side of magic he wished he had never seen. Magic that left you drained... Magic that left you feeling empty. And cold… and cynical. Magic that did the opposite of inspire. It didn't help that the bastard who shall not be named did nothing to try and change his mind about it.

So, seeing a giant ten-stories tall bunny that multiplied in size every second didn't necessarily rank as 'mind-blowing and shocking' or 'pants-wetting terror' as it were. At most, he was just kinda... annoyed. "I still wanna know how this happened. I told you guys don't let them touch each other. It was very clear instructions." Iruma asked as the monster formed. "Jessica's too responsible not to follow other people's instructions, and Kara doesn't seem like the type to like bunnies enough to hold them."

"Yeah. I'm too tough for them…" Kara chuckled as the monster smacked her into another building. "Gah! I hate it when magic's used against me!"

"Kara has a soft side for animals," Jessica explained as she pulled him out of the way of an incoming foot, trying to use her ring to create a brick wall to seal the beast inside.

"Wait, she does?" Iruma blinked. "Wow, talk about not judging a book by its cover."

"I know, right?" Jessica nodded. "That's exactly what I thought."

"Can we not talk about this!?" Supergirl shouted as she crawled out of the building.

"You caused this, and the one chance you had to fix the mess, you let the giant bunny monster suck it back inside." Iruma deadpanned.

"Hey, Magic and Kryptonians don't exactly mix. It's a little harder than it looks!" Kara shouted. "And you could've told us up front this would've been the end result!"

"I said that if they touched, they would've multiplied!"

"Oh really! Nothing along the lines of 'they're magic bunnies that multiply endlessly because magic people have weird pets' came to mind!?"

"That was implied in 'they would've multiplied-'!"

"Okay, you two, knock it off!" Jessica shouted as she created more walls that were getting more and more smashed with each passing minute. "Shouting at each other's not going to solve anything. We know where the two are. We just gotta get through that big, fluffily bulky armor!"

"I'm on it!" Kara dashed at them... only for the rabbit monster to make a giant hole in its chest to let her harmlessly pass through. "Come on!" She tried again and again, with the same result. "Green Lantern, keep 'em still!"

"On it!" Jessica shouted as she set him down. "Get somewhere safe Iruma, this'll be easier if I had both arms to concentrate!"

"Right." Somewhere high up enough to watch but not immediately get demolished by shockwaves or rubble... Oooh, the water tower seemed nice. "Okay, Iruma, you didn't survive one year in Lian Yu without your tree-climbing skills coming into use," Iruma muttered as he began climbing up. Even if he was completely unprepared for something like this, it was still his job to watch over these bunnies. Thus, it was his job to make sure they went back into their cage.

Once he was on top he got a better look... oooh, they were actually doing surprisingly well. Jessica was making a massive cage with a carrot on the inside to bait them in, which would limit mobility and allow Kara to grab the two bunnies easier. "Kara, you have your opening!" Jess shouted as the monster began pressing against the cage, sounds of cracking starting to be heard. "Do it, I don't know how much longer I can contain them!"

"Alright, you adorable freaks of nature, it's time to take out the super cute trash!" Kara shouted as she dove in, ripping through the chest and going for the growing pink heart. "Cuddle time… is over!" She shouted… as they still kept together. "It's over!" She shouted again as the whole thing began to close, with her still inside. "Aggh! Their love is too strong for me to break apart!"

"Right, magic." Okay, Iruma, you were left with two options. Run in there and hope all your limited training was capable of tearing the bond of two eldritch gods stuck in the forms of bunnies... or ask Zee for help... "Hm.. face two gods with little hope of surviving, or interrupt the show of a power magician that shares my classes and tell her I lost her bunnies... " Both seemed to be equally painful and terrifying options. "... Girls are scarier." He summarized to himself, taking a deep breath.

Iruma ran to the construct cage... and jumped inside. "Iruma!" Jessica shouted. "What are you-!?"

"Kara, get closer to me! I think I have a way to loosen them up!"

"Bluey now's not the time to play around-!"

"You're too distracted by their cuteness, I'm not, so just bring them over here before we all drown!" He shouted as the cage buckled from the constant increase of bunnies. "Do it, or everyone will know Superman's cousin lost to a pile of bunnies!"

"...I would be a lot more mad at you right now if that wasn't such a compelling point!" Kara shouted as she forced her way out of the hole. "Okay, Blue, show me what you got-" He took out his salt shaker and began pouring it all over them. "...Your plan better not be to eat them!"

"Krrraaaaaa!" The monsters screamed, smoking in pain as they were purified and burned.

"Pull them now!" He shouted.

"You are the strangest kid I know!" Kara shouted as she pulled, and pulled, and pulled-

Pooof

..and the entire monster disappeared, leaving just the two in Kara's hands. "Wow, nice-!"

"Falling!" Iruma shouted, no longer able to swim in any sea of rabbits. "Falling!"

"Don't worry, this is my specialty!" Jessica called out as she shot out her ring, and the next thing he knew, he landed on a soft cushion of green pillows.

"Seriously, those rings are the most practical tools I've ever seen." He noted. Iruma was almost tempted to get one himself.

"All the items I could ever need, with responsibility to a corps resolved around things I never wanted to be a part of." Jessica nodded, dissipating the cushions. "What exactly did you do?"

"I just used salt." Iruma held up his shaker. "A condiment and fighter of evil spirits. I picked up that trick in London." It won't solve everything, but a pinch of salt can get you out of a pinch. "It weakened the grip long enough for Kara to pull them apart."

The two bunnies finished coughing, looking at each other, before slowly reaching out. "Oh no, you don't, you adorable bundles of horror." Kara held the two apart as Jessica put a cage around the two with her ring. "So… sorry about the nearly drowning the city in fluffy bunnies thing." She said weakly.

"Just promise Zee never hears about this, and we'll be even, alright?" He asked.

"Finally!" They turned to see Jimmy Olsen smiling as he looked at his camera. "Superhero girls, stop giant bunny monsters! Front page news for the school!"

"…" Iruma took out his shaker again and threw it into the kid's eyes. "Fly away now!"

They were so close! So close to blotting out the worthless things in the universe and filling it with important things, themselves! So, so close! And they thought the blonde one was an ally, actually preferring the world covered in their fluffy glory! "Aww, do we have to put them black in the cages? I can just hold one-"

"One, not taking that chance." The blue-haired one, their 'master's' chosen mate, had taken the time to glare as he placed them in the cages. "Two, the point is to not let Zee find out they got loose."

"Exactly. We just fed the rabbits, and said creatures stayed in their cages. That was all that happened." Jessica nodded.

"Awww, but they're so precious..." Kara sighed.

"So precious it nearly destroyed the world." Iruma reminded her. "I don't even know how you could want to hug them after all that. It's only Zee's promise to keep them safe, preventing me from tearing off their feet." Their master's mate is terrifying.

"Lucky rabbit's feet are just superstition that inexplicably gets ripped into the field of 'good luck.'" The green one sighed. "An actual foot can't bring you luck."

"Of course not. You'd need a black cauldron and ginger ale to begin the spell for that." The blue one waved off. "I just refuse on principle because that justifies the bastard who shall not be named."

"Would they really appear if you actually said their name?" The blonde asked with a raised eyebrow.

"He's a jerk, so probably just to tick me off, he would." He shrugged. "Now then, here are your carrots. Enjoy you two monsters." He slid food into their cages. So humiliating... but so delicious, too! "Now just act casual and wait until Zee's show ends…"

Poof

And as dramatic as always, the purple-haired master reappeared in a flash of pink light. "Mama's baaaack!" The girl picked their cages up and smiled at them. "Were you two good while Mama was away?"

"Yep, they were no trouble at all…" The blue-haired one chuckled as he lying through his teeth. "Jess and Kara can attest to that."

"It was like a day in the shelter." The green one nodded.

"Harry Houdini and Merlin were nice enough." Kara shrugged.

"... " Zee took in a deep breath, looking like she was about to say something, but held it in. "Awwwwww..." Zee rubbed the boy's head. "I know they got loose."

The boy instantly dropped the smile and fell to the ground. "… I'm so so sorry-"

"I'm not mad. I figured Kara had something to do with it, given how much she's eyeing them right now, especially if she gave them terrible names like Merlin and Harry Houdini."

"They're better than the super long and boring names!" Kara argued.

"Yeah, and you gave the names of the most generic wizard in history and the man who famously didn't believe in the supernatural!" Zantana called out. "They're Blackberry Hazel Von Osle III and Dandelion Pipkin Heisenplay, two carefully chosen names I picked out after a week of careful consideration!"

"Who waits a week to choose a name for a rabbit!?" A girl with ego issues, that's who.

The blue boy sighed in relief, having avoided the wrath of an angry girl. "So, how was the show?"

"It was fine once I was able to distract the kid from feelings that are best left to a therapist." Zantana nodded. "Though next time something like this happens, just tell me. I'm a showman for a reason. Making rabbits disappear isn't an issue for me."

"Understood." The boy nodded. "Although, hopefully, there won't be a next time where all your sitters quit."

"Ooh, I can watch them next time!" The blonde raised her hand.

"No." The blue, purple, and green ones spoke at the same time.

"Come on, I'll treat them right!" They sent the girl a pleading look.

"You'll let them multiply again."

"No, I won't! I'll cuddle them only one at a time!" Maybe their plan to cover the universe wasn't completely dead after all.