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(Trigger warning for the mentions of death, murder, gore, body horror violence, parasites, diseases and a bit of OOC writing.)

Okay, so the name of the au I came up with is called "Rabbids infection: dementophobia" (I'm not the best at coming up with names. Forgive me) and the plot of the au would go a little something like this: Taking place after the events of Mission to Mars with the martian king and the humans going their separate ways, the rabbids (Scribbles, Disco, Mini, Cosmo, etc) are living on the island having a normal day (well at least the most normal day you could have when you're on an island of rabbids) and Scribbles is also trying to keep Nebula frozen at all cost, so he wouldn't end up escaping and Olivia trusted Scribbles enough to keep him frozen. (seeming that in the movie, the freeze ray wore off on the scuba rabbid after a while.)

One night though, Nebula unfreezes and somehow manages to escape from the island to Antarctica without getting caught (not sure how yet probably a raft) where he hides in a small abandoned research facility spending most of his time thinking about how the rabbids "ruined his life and reputation" but then one day while looking around in the ice he discovers an unknown parasite and unknowingly infects himself with the parasite causing his body to mutate and deform into something hideous, grotesque and deadly. Fortunately though since he was in the artic which is a very cold place it causes the parasite and him to slowly enter a stasis like state (similar to reptiles) but before he ended up in stasis, he saw a flying yellow submarine and inside were rabbids, the same creatures who ruined his life and when one of the rabbids hits the artic floor, Nebula sends some parasites to infect two unsuspecting rabbids before he ended up in stasis, creating patient 1 and 2.

Now, this is a good time to explain how the infection works and the history of the parasite before we continue the story.

You see, this parasite is as old as the "ancient ancestors" of the rabbids, in the age of when rabbids were intelligent beings (like Scribbles/Lapinibernatus) who's own ancestors conquered the ancient earth and had a rich society, the parasite was just mostly seen as a nuance to them because they mostly evolved to develop immunity against the parasite because unlike the rabbids of today who have high metabolism and waste a lot of energy doing crazy activities, ancient rabbids have lower metabolism due to the fact they focused their time on learning and evolving and because of their lower metabolism they had a lot of energy stored in them to help combat the parasite with the only worse thing it could do was make an ancient rabbid vomit it out like a hairball but they still end up fine after that.

In ancient rabbid folklore, it was believed that the parasite was actually a deceitful god turned into one as punishment and that one day he will try to get revenge through his spawn but only for a special rabbid to defeat them known as "the chosen prophet" but of course the parasite isn't actually a god or a descendant of a god. Eventually, all good things had to come to an end when an ice age came and ended up wiping out the ancient rabbids and due to it being too cold for the parasite to survive and a lack of a compatible host they all ended up dying except for one parasite who managed to stay in stasis for millions of years (which is unusual since they could only stay in statis for so long and depending on how cold it is it could kill them especially artic levels of temperatures but surprisingly this one managed to stay alive for a centuries.) until of course Nebula discovered it and got infected started the dementophobia infection and since the modern rabbids don't have any ancient traits including their immunity to the virus, they're more proceptible to the parasite and depending on how warm the temperature of the place they live in is, the infection could speed up.

Dementophobia (Rabbid ver)

Stage 1:

Slight stomach ache that's mostly bearable.

Small headaches but not noticeable to most.

Eyes look a tad bit of a bluish purple but it's not noticeable yet.

Fur is more rougher than usual.

Procedure: Safely get the rabbid quarantined in a cell as soon as possible.

Stage 2:

Stomachache starts to hurt more.

Headaches are more present.

Eyes take on a more red purplish color.

They start to get stressed and paranoia starts to creep in.

Fur loss starts to happen due to stress.

Claws which are usually hidden away in a rabbid's paw starts to come out and get unusually longer.

Fever like symptoms starts appearing.

Back feels sore.

Procedure: Just like stage 1 carefully get the rabbid quarantined but just with some extra protection.

Stage 3:

Stomachache starts to hurt to the point where it becomes unbearable.

Headaches become migraines

Eyes start becoming more red and less purple.

Stress gets intense and for the rare few it becomes aggression early on.

Half of their fur is gone because of stress.

Claws are half way out and more longer.

Fever symptoms dissappear a bit.

Spine starts to grow making the rabbid taller.

Warts, lumps and bumps start to grow on their body, some warts also tend to sometimes look like horns similar to shope papilloma.

They start to have hallucinations and depending on the hallucination it make them docile for a short period, aggressive, sad, etc.

Constant drooling.

Procedure: Stage 3 is unpredictable, so if they're aggressive, you'll have to fight them. If they're docile, then carefully catch them before they flee. After containment, it's preferred if they're put in cryo-stasis at a specific cold temperature so it slows down the infection and parasite but doesn't kill the patient since the parasite is in their body.

Stage 4:

Stomachache is now constant hunger.

Migraines still linger.

Eyes are permanently red.

Aggressive all the time.

Fur is completely gone.

Claws are all the way out.

Signs of Scoliosis appear as they get even taller.

Most Warts, lumps and bumps are now huge and some full of grayish black puss and parasite eggs except for the horn shaped warts, which only have gotten bigger but they're now more hard.

Intense Hallucinations.

Constant drooling out a mixture of saliva and blackish red blood.

They developed some strength.

Procedure: At this point in the infection it's better to kill the rabbid because it's too late to save a rabbid once they entered this stage due to the fact the parasite's virus reached the brain and has caused unrepairable damage to the body.

Stage 5:

Always hungry.

Migraines

Eyes permanently red.

Constant aggression.

Claws are very sharp.

At this point they reached their peak height at 5'0 inches.

Some of the warts and bumps have bursted while most others are still intact with the young parasites just squirming around in the bump/wart or just trying to bite out and making small holes to slip out of.

Intense hallucinations.

Constantly drooling out a mixture of saliva and blackish red blood.

They start to get weaker again.

Eventually when the rabbid loses most of it's energy depending on the amount they have, they will become dead.

Procedure: Just like stage 4, it's best to kill the rabbid to end their suffering.

Dementophobia (Human ver)

Stage 1:

Slight stomach ache that's mostly bearable.

Small headaches that aren't noticeable yet.

Eyes hurt a bit.

Hair is a little bit thinner than usual.

Procedure: Before you go to quarantine the person, ask them how they feel and make sure that it's something different and not the infection and make sure to get them check up by a medical professional before jumping to conclusions and make sure to carefully guide them.

Stage 2:

Stomachache starts to hurt more.

Headaches are still present.

Eyes start to bulge out a bit.

Stress and paranoia start to creep in.

Hair loss starts to happen due to stress from the parasite.

Fingernails become more dense and grayish.

They start to vomit out bits and chunks of their organs since they're not as durable as the rabbids.

Fever like symptoms.

Back feels sore.

Warts and bumps filled with grayish black puss appear on their body which are very tiny and appear more early than rabbids since yet again humans are not as durable as the rabbids.

Procedure: Make sure to carefully guide into quarantine and then have them put into cryo-stasis so it slows down the infection and the parasite since humans are very vulnerable to the infection.

Stage 3:

Unbearable stomach aches become hunger.

Eyes are completely bulged out.

For most humans, stress and paranoia become aggression.

Some of their hair is gone.

Fingernails are now bigger and some of them fall off.

They still vomit on occasions.

Fever symptoms dissappear a bit.

The spine grows a bit and cause the human to get taller but since the spine is fragile it could sometimes break in half.

Most of the warts and bumps have already bursted with unhatched eggs slipping out.

Some infected are weaker, some rarer ones are stronger.

Since humans are not as durable as rabbids, most of them end up dying in this stage with only 4% of them managing to make it to stage 4 and none ever making it to stage 5 and beyond. (*Cough* Except for Frank. *Cough Cough*)

Procedure: It's better to kill the infected human since the virus has already reached the brain, making it too late to save the person and the damage caused to the body is irreversible.

Stage 4:

Constant hunger.

One or both of their eyes have bulged out and exploded of their sockets.

Constant aggression.

Most of their hair is gone

Most of their fingernails are ripped off.

They don't have much weight on the body since they vomit out most of their organs.

Scoliosis starts to develop as the spine grows the infected person to roughly 7'6 inches causing them to hunch.

Holes, big and small form all around the body where the warts and bumps once reside.

Stage 4 infected usually have a some strength but eventually they'll lose it quickly.

Death.

Procedure: Just like stage 3 it's better to kill them then to let them suffer.

Now that we got that out of the way back to the story.

As I said before, Nebula ends up infecting two rabbids before going into stasis and the rabbid duo enters back inside the submarine and they both end up falling ill with Mad and Secure-X having to examine them and the other rabbids notice it and worry a bit but most of them including Mad and Secure-X brush it off and the reason why Secure-X is also strangely brushing it off is because since Secure-X was made in Scribbles' time he was programmed with some knowledge on ancient rabbid biology but not on modern rabbid biology plus as much as he would want to get an idea of what modern rabbid biology is like, he respects their privacy and is still programmed to follow orders except on occasions where things are becoming dangerous so he can't really go around and just randomly examine their biology without permission and rabbids aren't the best at staying still either, so even though Secure-X kinda brushed it off thinking the rabbid would be fine, he's kinda worried since he's not sure if they still even have the immunity to the parasite's virus so he's not entirely oblivious to both of the rabbid's condition.

As a couple of days past by the infection starts to escalate and the rabbid duo starts to mutate and become aggressive and some of the rabbids are starting to be scared of them, while some others taunt them in front of the cell windows for fun. But then one of the rabbids accidentally released one of the infected and they start going on a rampage and ends up killing and eating some of the rabbids and then out of panic Mad releases the door and ends up releasing the infected rabbid into the city during a very intense heatwave and some of the rabbids end up falling out of the submarine as well, ending up having to defend for themselves.

Before Mad and Secure-X could pursue the infected rabbid, it turned out during the rampage the submarine got badly damaged to the point it lost it's ability to go at hyperspeed and Mad and Secure-X tried to fix it but they couldn't get it to fully work, so Secure-X tells Mad that they have to use the last of the submarine's energy to slowy travel to the island where Scribbles currently lives on since he's the one with the knowledge to fix a certain area of the submarine that even Secure-X wasn't given knowledge of since it would be dangerous for a robot like him to fix and at first Mad's a little bit reluctant and tries to fix the area himself but then after many failed attempts and getting electrocuted, he gives in and travels to the island.

Meanwhile on the island Scribbles is very worried ever since a few weeks ago Frank Nebula managed to escape and with nothing about where Frank is and early on the first week of him being gone he manages to contact Olivia through a communication device he made along with the translation device for her to understand him and he tells her about his disappearance causing her to worry a bit especially since now she's the new Ceo of Nebulous labs and then as the weeks go by they slowly forget about Frank a bit but they both still have him lingering in their minds still wondering where he escaped too. Anyways a few weeks later Scribbles was doing things on the island like read, study and spending some time with some of the rabbids like Disco, Mini and Cosmo, then he hears a noise and sees the brutally damaged submarine appearing and landing on the island.

Mad, Secure-X and a few other rabbids come out and Mad tells Scribbles that a certain area of the submarine needed to fixed and Scribbles already knows what Mad means and tells him to lead away to area and as Scribbles past by the parts of the submarine he notices a cell with the infected rabbid and recognizes the parasite remembering it just only being an nuance to his stomach but now for some reason the parasite is back and is somehow mutating a rabbid and Mad tells him that the rabbid got the parasite after they left the artic and Scribbles wants to go run tests on them but Mad doesn't want to because he wants to be doing all the testing but then Scribbles decides to focus on fixing the area first then have the discussion on what to do with the infected.

When Scribbles is done fixing the submarine, however, the infected rabbid escapes from containment and ends up going around and eating, and killing half of the rabbids on the island. Scribbles panics tries to pack everything and evacuate every single surviving rabbid on the submarine including Cosmo and Disco but Mini gets lost in the chaos since they're so small it's hard to notice them. While Scribbles tries to save Mini, he ends up having half of his right ear ripped clean off in the process. Once everyone is on the submarine they fly away from the island and travel to the mainland only to find rabbids and humans infected with the parasite and Mad reveals to Scribbles that there was another infected that he accidentally released and Scribbles rightfully gets angry at him but then he realizes that it's too late to stop it now and he's got to save the people he cares for. So he manages to find John on one of the sunny love beach sets trying to fight off the infected and they manage to get John in the submarine along with Rodger Peacock and the last remaining crew members and actors. Then he goes to the formerly called Nebulous labs now under a new name I hadn't come up with yet and notices the place is all boarded up and protected with powerful technology and Scribbles manages to get in contact with Olivia again and allows Scribbles to bring everyone inside the building where there are some more people and rabbids inside.

Eventually Olivia tells Scribbles that there's not going to be enough room for more survivors soon and that they're currently getting in contact with the government to help create survivor bases to save as many people as they can and since Scribbles was starting to become more well-known because of the Mars incident and his intelligence, he decided to also help out get in contact with the government with info on the parasite by using the translator device he made and eventually after a month of trying to survive the infected, news of survivor bases being made arrived and planes and helicopters take most of the survivors to the base, while Scribbles and Mad take the people they know on the submarine to Antarctica as well.

As time goes on the bases start to develop more and more as certain roles are assigned to humans and rabbids (which will be a whole separate post in the future) and more survivors are found on the mainland by the rescue teams and brought to Antarctica and other bases. Scribbles also tells the government about the pretzel island and allows them to build more bases on the island since it's so well hidden that it took a very powerful compass to even find it much to the dismay of Mad who kinda wanted the island for himself. Both Antarctic bases and Pretzel bases are also segregated by humans and rabbids since there's still a lot a stigma on rabbids especially ever since the infection with Scribbles managing the rabbid areas of the Antarctic bases, Bridget Barnes managing the human Antarctic bases and Olivia running the entire Pretzel island base.

The rest of the au is probably going to be about the typical plot of finding the cure and the person who caused this, along with Scribbles being immune and trying to find out if his blood could be used to make the cure, maybe I might have Disco get infected for angst, I don't know. I might also make a post about the surviving people on the mainland and the different clans that have been created in the apocalyptic world.

That's all I have for now, I'm sorry if it was too long. This is my first time making an infection, au, so I didn't know how to format a few things. As always I would like to hear what you all think of this au and I would also like some constructive criticism because it could really help me a lot on making the Au the best as I can be able to, I'll also be accepting inbox questions as well.

Have a nice day/night!!

(A character so nice they headcanon him twice.)

Scribbles used to secretly stress-eat a lot because of the rabbids and was ashamed of his habit until after the Mars movie when he started to calm down a bit and Olivia noticed his habit and helps him get over it.

If Scribbles had to be any mythical creature, he would choose druid. (Ya'll saw his dreams.)

If he was human, he would have love handles, prove me wrong, I dare you.

He tends to be less active and more tired in cold climates. He also tends to eat a bit more in the fall because ancient rabbids had to store fat to survive the winter.

Scribbles can purr.

Scribbles is bisexual but he didn't realize it until he met Mad and the prisoner rabbid from the estate episode.

Scribbles has a really good singing voice, but he doesn't sing much because he gets a little shy about it sometimes.

He's in a polycule with Disco and Mad.

I feel like after the events of Mission to Mars or in an au where Scribbles becomes human for Gina, I think he would like to mess with John a lot like in the rabbid theory episode, especially in the human au.

Scribbles suffers from existentialism.

Scribbles would enjoy reading The Marching Morons.

Gift Scribbles a lab and a giant library and he'll start to go all fanboy crazy.

Even though I do enjoy the rabbid characters and the show mainly focuses on the rabbids, I wish there was more fan content on some of the human characters because I do find some of the humans enjoyable at times like Zak with his obsession with stopping the rabbids thinking they'll take over the earth or Gina with her seriousness and interactions with John. Heck even the granny character who sometimes has a psychotic side to her.

Tw for movie spoilers.