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"Somewhere Out There" - Part Six

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  Part Six             Along with the Mousekewitz family, Craig was gathered with several other mice inside a building that once belonged to a ‘Professor Digitalus’ and his ‘Museum of the Weird and Bizarre’. There was supposed to have been another rally, arranged by Gussie Mausheimer and Honest John; however, after ten minutes of waiting, something about this felt wrong to Craig. Adding to his suspicions were Gussie and John onstage, bickering back and forth about who called for a rally.             That’s when it dawned on Craig: “This is a trap!”             “What?” Tanya was the only one who heard him. “What do you mean?”             “Look at everyone,” he gestured among the crowd of mice. “Look at how confused everybody is. Nobody has a clue who called ...

"Somewhere Out There" - Part Five

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  Part Five             Rania could not tell how many cackling cats there were surrounding the cage in which she and her friends suddenly found themselves. She never would have imagined the Archivist to be one of those cats. He wasn’t laughing with them; instead, he merely glared at the mice he had trapped.             “Nice form you took,” Rania mocked him.             “It seemed appropriate, under the circumstances of my visit to this realm,” the Archivist said.             “And what ‘circumstances’ would those be?” Rania asked.             “The National Institute of Mental Health—or ‘NIMH,’ as the people of this world call it,” the Archivist disclosed. “The rats they have experimented on at the inst...

"Somewhere Out There" - Part Four

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  Part Four             “It may be out of your hands…but not mine .”             Those were the last words Aznavorian told General Yvette Dwonch while in their ‘Skeeta Jenkins’ incarnation. Skeeta was the one who first saw it coming—the literal backfire of the Global Lockdown Protocol. He found out about it during a UNIT ordeal that required his consultation—Neas wasn’t available at the time. Classified information that he obtained through a hack so small that no one in the Pentagon would even notice. Yvette was the only one he told.             They trusted her as much as she trusted them.             Unfortunately, that trust only went as far as Global Lockdown.             “This won’t go the way y...