  âI donât believe this...â He grimaces. âI donât understand!! I Donât understand it at all!! Just how the hell did we wind up here?!â Mad Rat hisses, the sourness in his voice clear. Gripping onto his ears, he tries to make heads or tails of this all. Heâs been here only a few minutes and yet heâs panicking. This wasnât anything like the city he was living in before! This was new. Strange... There were humans around, but other things too. Other, non-human things. What the hell happened? He only tried to turn back time to save Heart!! Is this another trick from the parasite? Still trying to get in the way?! âThis... This is a hallucination, right?! Heart! Please tell me Iâm seeing things right now!!â He begs. âSlap me or punch me or anything!! Please!!â
  Floating upwards to get a good look around for himself, Heart shuts his eye, hesitant to answer MRâs question. It really made no sense. Just no sense at all!!
  âH-heart?â
  (Mad Rat... I can see it too...)
  âYouâre joking... Please tell me youâre-â Itâs a hallucination!! Thatâs what it was!! He... They want to believe it, to try and ignore the sight before them. âWait-!! We can- We can still fix this!!â Placing his paws on his chest, Mad Rat focuses. A quick little rewind should fix this right? âI still canât wrap my head around what happened, but this should fix this!! I need to get you back! I need to stop the operation!!â Heâs used it time and time again in the last few hours. To have it somehow take him to a new place entirely? If it couldnât shouldnât that have happened twice over by now? ...Deep breaths. One... Two...Â
  The sound of static. A familiar sound while doing this, but its strangely more deafening than before... Then it halts. âH-HUH?!â Opening his eyes again, it barely looks like time has changed much. Theyâre still in the city. Still sitting on the sidewalk. Time did rewind but only slightly. Mere seconds.Â
  Theyâre still in this place.... âD-DAMMIT!! What the hellâs going on?!â While Mad Rat tries to get even a slight grip on the predicament theyâre in, Heart notices someone nearby. Someone who might help provide some form of insight on whatâs going on. A Mouse.
  (H-Hey!! Mad Rat!! Mad Rat, look!!)
  âW-what?â
  Pointing not too far ahead of them, Heart singles out the small white mouse not too far from them. (There!! That mouse there!! Maybe they might know something?) Heart hopes so at least. For a moment, Mad Rat hesitates. The rats at the lab didnât really want to talk with him, but as he was hallucinating at the time, of course they didnât... and vice versa with the stray rats. They had been the ones to hallucinate. Whoâs to say this wouldnât be another repeat of that incident? Ugh... Swallowing his fear, the rat rushes over towards the lanky looking mouse, questions bouncing around his skull.
  âHey! HEY!! HEY YOU!!â
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