Early the next morning the three Rabbids woke up, stretched, and climbed out of the big trash container. They still had noodles on their heads. And they were still wearing the odd bits of junk and clothing they’d found in the container.
The robot was just standing there, a little slumped.
One of the Rabbids raised his hand and greeted the robot. “Bwah bwah bwah!”
The Rabbid tried again. “Bwah bwah bwah!”
Still nothing.
Annoyed, the Rabbid gave the robot a whack. Without knowing it, he hit the robot’s wake-up button. Boop! Beep! Buzz! Whirr! Beep!
The Rabbids remembered these noises. They were the same ones that had kept them awake the night before.
They decided maybe they’d had enough of this weird Rabbid who didn’t talk and made such annoying sounds. They’d thought maybe it’d be fun to have around, but it wasn’t.
They whispered among themselves (“bwah bwah bwah bwah”) and then strolled away from the robot, whistling.
The Rabbids looked back and saw the weird Rabbid following them. They started walking faster.
The robot moved faster too.
The Rabbids started to run! But the robot kept up with them. Whirr! Beep! Boop!
The leader screeched to a halt. He whirled around and got in the robot’s face. “BWAH BWAH BWOH BWOOH BWEE BWAH!” he yelled.
But when he turned around and started to leave, the robot still followed him and the other two Rabbids.
Eventually the three Rabbids got so annoyed with the robot that they started screaming at it in the scariest voices they could make. They growled! They screeched! They howled! They barked! They screamed! “BWAAAAAAH!”
Nearby, a group of teenagers was hanging out in a small park. “Whoah!” one of them said. “What is that?!”
They listened to the crazy sounds the Rabbids were making for another minute or two. Then one of them said, “I think I know what that is. Come on!”
He got up to investigate. His friends followed him. They found the Rabbids, dressed in scraps of trash, sporting long noodle hair, screaming at the robot. The teenager smiled.
“Awesome,” he said. “This must be one of the heavy metal bands in town for the big concert at the amphitheater!”
Immediately he held up his phone to make a video. When they saw what he was doing, his friends held up their phones too. One of them asked, “How do they do that with their voices? I mean, without totally wrecking their throats?”
Another guy just shook his head. “Who knows, dude? They’re professionals.”
The first teenager smiled again. Two smiles in one day was very unusual for him. (He preferred frowning.) “This is going to get, like, a zillion views,” he said. When the Rabbids paused for a moment, he posted his video to the Internet.
He was right. The video of “Heavy Metal Rabbids” went viral instantly. Friends sent it to friends, until millions of people all over the world had seen it. And liked it.
Unfortunately for Agent Glyker, one of those millions of viewers was Director Stern. But he didn’t like it at all. . . .