Across the water, there was the other island, an island where it always rained and where thunder and lightning filled the sky. It was called "Pigland"... It was where all the bad animals lived... Hatred there was all that could be found...

There came a time when the animals who lived on Pigland (most were pigs) set their sights on Rabbit island. Jealous of the peaceful lifestyle and love that the animals had there for each other... And they ordered boats to be built... An invasion fleet was constructed... Soon as it was ready, it sailed forth to Rabbit Island with hundreds of hate filled pigs and other animals...

When the rabbits saw this boat approach they jumped for joy, thinking a new friend was about to join them... Their little hearts fluttered with the thought of sharing their love amongst even more friends. The boats came nearby, and the pigs and the other animals of hate came rushing out... And the rabbits rushed forward smiling and happy... when they met, the rabbits hopped into the air, paws outstretched expecting a warm welcoming hug from their new friends... Instead they felt the sharp pain of teeth on their necks and on their backs and on their legs... The Pigs had brought with them an elite fighting dog force... And they attacked, killing and maiming without warning, it was a all part of a not so secret "bite-to-kill" policy...
No rabbit was to be spared.

After the massacre of the poor welcoming rabbits, the dog pack went around making sure that every rabbit was dead, and they were, except one rabbit, who while injured, was still alive but played dead to escape the wrath of the dogs...

While the pigs ordered mud to be brought so they could wallow in it... The dogs rested... Later that evening, the leader of all the pigs, the worst pig of the lot, the hate filled and vile Oliver Crompig got up to speak...

"Fellow animals, today a great victory is ours! For we have begun the liberation of this land of the foul rabbits that live here! We will take this island and give it to more responsible animals who will take care of it in a proper fashion, unlike the stupid rabbits...

When our battle is done, those rabbits still alive will become our slaves! . They are unworthy of anything else anyway. All the rabbits on this island are not worth one of us!!! Tomorrow we march towards the capitol of this island, Rabbitville! Rest now and conserve your strength for the coming battle... For tomorrow you become soldiers of destiny!!! For tomorrow our land will not be just one island but two!!!

As the dusk fell and things fell quiet, the one rabbit remaining alive stirred and moved, limping not hopping, sadness in his heart not joy.. He knew he must warn the good rabbits of Rabbitville of the coming danger...

Although the little rabbit tried to reach the capitol, it was in vain for his injuries were so bad that he fell and hopped no more... Today a plaque marks the place where poor "Mopsy" fell never to hop again...

The following morning at dawn, Oliver Crompig ordered the pigs and dogs and other attack animals that he had brought from Pigland to march on Rabbitville... And they did... In Rabbitville the good bunnies were totally unaware of the impending doom and life went on as normal...

And when the warpigs attacks, doom for the rabbits was what it spelt... For the pigs and dogs attacked viciously! Ever rabbit, young and old, male and female was attacked in an orgy of violence never before seen on Rabbit Island... Thousands were killed outright! tens of thousands were crippled for life... The rabbits having no army, for they never needed one before, were savaged... The Pigs were in control, and their wardogs kept things that way! Soon the pigs began making new rules for Rabbits... They took their land!, Made them dig burrows in rocky inhospitable lands... Those that dared defy the will of the Crompig were killed... The Rabbits were enslaved, and brokenhearted... What could they do? They had no way of fighting back... Some young radical rabbits suggested fighting back. These rabbits became known as the "croppies" because of their short ears...but when they tried to stand up for the rights of rabbits, the results were always the same: Every rabbit would lay dead on the ground...

The pigs now content in their rule and wanting to harvest their new land for what they could pillage, began food removal... The rabbits that were spared were put to work digging up their carrot supply and it was shipped off Rabbit Island to the "mainland" as the pigs called it... Many rabbits starved to death in this time... Those that dared eat even a little carrot were killed...

In the few months that have passed since the invasion, fully one half of the whole population of Rabbit Island were dead... Those that were living were simply existing to serve the "master"... The rabbits knew they must do something or they will all die out under the harsh rule of the evil pig oppressor Oliver Crompig...

They sat in their taverns at night murmuring wistfully of plans of attack but in reality none had a viable plan... Many more months passed and things got no better for the good rabbits... Enslavement or death was the rabbit's lot... What was to be done?

And so it was... Many months went by and the rabbits, once proud loving little fellows were a shadow of their former selves... No more love reigned in their hearts.. They were sad and their spirits were broken...

Spring was coming, and it was near to the anniversary of the invasion. Crompig ordered a great celebration to take place. There was a huge hall hired for the party! Thousands of pigs and attack dogs were to be there... Medals for bravery were to be handed out to those pigs and dogs that put their lives at great risk attacking those vicious rabbits..

The pigs watched as the rabbits, now apparently totally submissive, began to make Easter eggs to be presented to their "saviors" on the anniversary of the invasion... Hundreds of eggs were made.

ON the day of the anniversary, the pigs gathered amid much pomp and ceremony... Trumpets blared out martial songs and flags filled the air... Thousands had come to celebrate the invasion..

Crompig made speech after speech declaring the pigs superiority of the rabbits and so on...

After the feast, the "Easter bunnies" arrived, and were escorted into the great hall, carrying their little bags of Easter eggs... They came forward, laid their little baskets on the floor, bowed (as they had been ordered to) and left...

While this was going on great cheers and jeers were heard, the pigs laughed at the patethic rabbits, and sneered at them for being so "unpiglike"... The poor rabbits could do nothing more... their little eyes didn't' leave the floor as they walked out sadly and slowly...

When all the rabbits had left, Oliver Crompig rose to take his gift from the little rabbits... It was not that he liked eggs but the fact that his enemies had to prepare them... That was what made them worth eating.. And he took the first egg and opened it...

The egg, though small, exploded with a huge explosion, little bits of Crompig were everywhere... Shock and amazement filled the hall.. Then it happened again...

The eggs were not cute little chocolate eggs as the pigs had ordered, but exploding eggs... And as one eggbomb exploded after another in rapid succession, the whole hall fell in on the pigs and the attack dogs, killing thousands of them in an instant...

The Easteregg Rebellion had begun!

For while the rabbits appeared to be enslaved a young idealistic leader named Pat "Thumper" Pearse had inspired a new organization, the RRB, the Rabbit Republican Brotherhood... Who secretly seemed to be enslaved during the day but at night planned to free Rabbit Island from the pigs... The universally hated pigs!

Outside of the now destroyed great hall the army and police RUC (Right Uncivilized Curds) outraged and confused began shooting at innocent rabbits, any rabbit would do, it was time for revenge... Or so they thought!. From out of burrows and fields came the rabbits, hurling eggbombs and driving back the evil pigs and their dogs...

Rabbitsville was ablaze with rebellion, and it spread like wildfire throughout the land... Rabbits everywhere were doing their part, they eagerly rushed to join the RRB and free their native land from the evil cancer of the pigs...

With Oliver Crompig and tens of thousands of other pigs and dogs dead or missing, the decision was taken by what remained of the pig leadership toleave, or as one pig leader was quoted "get me the f* out of here!!!!"

Those pigs and dogs that could, made it to the port and onto ships… The port being the only part of Rabbit Island that remained under their control... Then the rabbits came again, not in their tens, nor hundreds, but thousands!! Each carrying a pack of eggbombs...

They attacked and in panic what was left of the fleet of invading boats put to sea... All of 4 ships out of a grand armada of 80 ships made it out, the rest burned in the harbor... The rabbits had freed their land!!!!

Now the surviving pigs could not return to their homeland and say they were defeated by lowly little rabbits... and so they invented tales of magical fairies and of giant like creatures and monsters that no pig could fight... When the survivors told these tales, fear and shock made the pigs resolve to never ever attack Rabbit Island again....

Meanwhile in Rabbit Island... things were returning to normal... Rabbits played in the fields and love and happiness returned to the furry little fellows... The RRB was disbanded as it was not needed anymore... Within a short time it seemed as if the evil Crompig and his band of evil henchpigs and dogs had never spoiled the place...

Today Rabbit Island is a warm and beautiful place, where rabbits are free and safe...

And here ends the true story of the Easteregg Rebellion!