When I turned around to see the next murderous Bunny I would have to deal with, I was wildly taken aback. This thing was totally inhuman. She was glowing, radiating with energy. There was a rainbow sheen off of her, comprising all seven colors of the rainbow in addition to about two million more. There were spikes covering every centimeter of her body like a hedgehog, but they were so infinitely thin they were literally invisible. She didn’t even have feet. There was absolutely no way to tell where her legs ended and the floor began, it just seamlessly flowed like a waterfall. And yet, beyond every insanity-inducing trait she expressed, she was somehow just as Bunny as all the other ones.

She wasted no time in revealing her potential danger to me. With a whip-cracking twitch of her neck, two giant wings of blue triangles sprouted from her back. Each one was a dagger made of fractured time, pulsing rhythmically and erratically. Each shard looked like magical ice, and that’s pretty much what it was. When water, a fluid material slows down enough, it becomes ice. That’s what she did to little bits of time—she literally “froze” them.

I was stabbed with about twenty of those sharp triangles, but only retroactively. I was fine before she unsheathed her wings, but when she did, the shards struck me about ten seconds previous. I’ve seen enough shounen anime to be confident that’s her ability—all attacks have some amount of delay before they connect. Her attack delays are negative, they go backwards in time instead of forwards.

It wasn’t nearly as bad as the whole arm thing, but being pelted with chronoglass isn’t all that fun either. I tried running away from her, but she was in front of me. She was also behind me, to the side of me, above me, below me, and inside of me. There was no movement I could make that didn’t end with me being pelted with spikes from every angle (internal or external.)

That didn’t stop me from trying, though. Even though she was everywhere I looked, I could still see everything else too. I made a mad dash through the aisle towards the changing room, knocking off everything on the shelf as I did. Maybe it would distract her?

No, it didn’t.

There were about a thousand of her standing guard at the dressing room door. Forget about fighting through them, I’d never even fit through them. I quickly looked around for something, anything that could help. On the shelves were a bunch of Spacetime Bunnys. They were outside the store too, hundreds of feet away. I had no doubt that if I was outside and had a telescope, the milky black night sky would have been an endless waving sea of these Bunnys at every distance. She was totally inescapable.

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But that’s good for me, though. That makes this next part easier.

I reached out my hand and focused on it. Spacetime Bunny was resting on my palm, on the tips of my fingers, ten feet away, millimeters from my face, and even holding my hand in hers. I turned my head away and closed my eyes. She was even in there, staring at me with crazed eyes I couldn’t escape from.

I relaxed completely, or as completely as I could, and reached around. Not around Bunny, but around all the nothing I could muster. My sword is in here somewhere. The pain from the shards of frozen time lodged in my chest started to distract me, but I was able to keep my focus. There is so little nothing, it’s hard to find anything inside.

Of course, not even a zero-dimensional pocket of absolute nothing was enough to keep her out. The Bunny fused into the nothingness, becoming just as devoid of any and all aspects as a perfect vacuum. Perfect.

That was my plan, of course. I opened my eyes and looked around.

No Spacetime Bunny. She had fallen for it—hook, line, and sinker! I knew she wouldn’t be able to resist following my hand into the void. So she filled the void with herself, and actually became void. She’s no longer anything at all.

I chuckled to myself, pulled my hand back out of the… whatever it was, and wiped the silver residue off on my pants. I wasn’t letting my guard down for anything, though. I listened intently for more footsteps. I couldn’t hear any of those, for sure, but I did hear something. It was so quiet, it was basically inaudible. I could still hear it though, it was like very small breaths. I held my own breath to make sure it wasn’t my own. It was much too soft and quiet to be my breath, especially after such a dicey situation. I could hear it from all directions, like a million teeny-tiny sighs coming from… everything?

Oh.

Wait, that’s not good.

I guess… I kinda forgot just how much nothing there is. My mind flashed back to an innocuous comment made by my chemistry professor in college.

“Atoms may be small, but electrons, protons, and neutrons are even smaller. Much, much smaller. In fact, recent studies have shown subatomic particles are so small that a Hydrogen atom is over 99.9999999% empty space!”

Right. If an atom is more than 99.9999999% empty space, it logically follows that all of existence is 99.9999999% empty space. You know, the void.

I may have just—

I may have just turned Spacetime Bunny into all of existence.