The trio stared at the elevator door as it shifted into a white punkish door with chains holding up a bright golden neon sign that read "Do Not Enter". "Yeah... That seems like Rat." Ven said with a smirk as he went to open the door, but was stopped by Cheshire grabbing his hand.
"The Ratz mind iz rather unpredicatblez, even for mez. Never trust anythingz youz seez." He said before letting him open thee door. As the door swung open, it revealed a white room that had two cages. One containing a brown and white rat and one containing a snow white mouse, both rodents staring at each other almost longingly.
The trio stepped inside the rather barren room and began trying to figure out how to get out. Nvr was playing with the rat through the bars, though getting bitten in the process. "What if we put them together?" Ven asked with a snap of his fingers. Cheshire stared at the two before nodding. "Go forz it, rabbit."
Ven opened up two portals to connect the cages together. The rat quickly bolted for the mouse and the two snuggle up together, making Nvr feel a small warmth in her chest. "Awe, it's like Mollia's story. The rat and the mouse get to be together."
"Wait... Didn't Rat say that she hated Mollia in Ami's memor-" Ven was cut of by the sound of pained squeaking as the rat began mauling the mouse. Everyone stared at the scene with silence as the rat had somehow managed to chew off the little mouse's head and was feasting on it like it was a light snack.
"I toldz youz... Never trust the Ratz mind." Cheshire said with a sigh as the cages shot together and fused into a doorframe, leading into a room filled with snow globes. As the trio walked in, Ven couldn't help but question why Rat would ever think of something so... Bizarre.
Nvr began shaking some of the snow globes. "I've always wanted a snow globe. Splice never bought me one..." She mumbled before being lightly tapped around the head by Ven. "You get more distracted then Avis and Vinea." He chuckled before beginning to glance over the globes, seeing each one had Rat doing different things. From making phone calls, to sitting in Panila's office, their were to many to ever guess what they were meant to do.
Nvr was fiddling around with a snow globe with Rat talking to a centipede but accidentally dropped it, smashing it to the ground. The room went up in a puff of smoke, as they began seeing a vision of Rat and Senshi talking.
"So... You like that plan?"
"Y-Y-Yeah... B-But Arachne w-w-will kill m-me if she e-e-ever found out."
"Relax, bug. I'll handle the rest as long as you make me that ray. I need it for something important."
"L-Like what?"
"I wanna steal a big ass spire."
"O-Oh... O-O-Okay?"
The vision ended with another puff of smoke as the trio found themselves back inside the snow globe filled room. "That was Senshi... I remember Rat saying something about stealing a spire, but I never would have guessed that Rat was involved in what happened to Eido." Ven said with a casual sigh as Cheshire looked a tad confused, like it was new information to him.
The robotic cat boy began darting around the room, looking through snow globes that contained Domain leaders. He soon smashed one of Rat standing inside Tophi and Wendy's restaurant with a smug look. He smashed it to the ground as another vision played.
Rat was seemingly poisoning the food of the restaurant before laughing and leaving with a smug look, but not before swiping Wendy's journal on her way out. "And now we play the waiting game." She snickered to no one in particular as she made her escape, the vision once again ending.
Cheshire quickly smashed one containing Rat holding a video tape with a smug look. Rat was sitting casually on top of the church she first met Ven, staring out into an empty desert before staring at the tape. "You... I don't know what you were to Mollia, but she saw you as a threat. See ya never, Penumbra." Rat cackled before throwing the tape away and grabbing another. "And hello small fortune."
"Did... Did Rat accidentally throw away the wrong tape?" Nvr asked, seeming to be somewhat aware of what happened on the Memorial of the Lost. "Yeah. Seems like it. Seems even she didn't want to fight Peni." Ven laughed as he looked over some of the other snow globes before his eyes locked with one of Rat looking confused. His curiosity got the better of him as he threw it to the ground, starting another vision.
Rat wearily woke up, looking around at a destroyed forest as she was met by an angel and a young demon, who both seemed weakened and bruised. She awkwardly waved to them with a smirk. "Hey, where the am I?"
"Do... Do you remember who you are?" The angel questioned as it adjusted its dress, though the demon seemed to have killing intent despite her eyes being hidden by her blonde bangs.
"Yeah. Of course I remember who I am. I am... I am... Uh... Okay, I do not know who I am, it appears." Rat mumbled in a confused tone, now wondering who she was. The angel smiled and was about to speak, but was quickly interrupted by the demon; "You are a Rat. Servant of the Vincula family. You do remember, don't you?"
"Uh... Yeah! Yeah. I am the Vincula's maid or uhm... Servant." Rat said with a snap of her fingers. "And uh... Who are the Vincula's again?" The angel gave the young demon a scowl, but seemed to go along with it anyway. "We are, Rat. Now, come. Please."
"Yeah, serve your master." The demon said with a smirk as she summoned a chain around Rat's neck, leading her like a dog. Rat didn't seem to mind or care, since she just assumed this was how her life went before.
The vision faded and soon everyone found themselves back in the room, only to see a door made out of snow globes before them. Cheshire began getting more and more confused over the revelations. This was just a routine check up for him and it had turned into a bizarre trip out of nowhere.
Nvr opened the door to reveal Rat. The original Rat. Tied to a gigantic heart made of shadowy, light forged and rune carved chains, pinning her to the slowly beating heart as she remained still. Barely even breathing. Ven readied his blade to cut down Rat, only for Cheshire to push him away with a wave of his hand.
"I do havez to thankz youz for getting me herez... But I don't think I can letz youz leave." He said as he summoned a cat tailed scythe, readying to fight his way out of this dream. Nvr however, had snuck behind the two, who were getting ready to brawl.
"Uhm... Miss Rat? Splice said to give this to you." She said as she knelt before the heart, offering the heart up. Ven and Cheshire stopped looking at each other as they heard the sounds of chains breaking.
Rat fell to the floor with a thud before getting helped up by NVr2b. "Come on, Miss Rat. Let me get you out of here." She smiled, only to be shoved to the floor by her. Rat began stretching, before picking up the heart off the ground. "What do you think your doing, Bass? Do you think you can just press pause on my story?" Rat said in a calm, yet clearly irritated tone as she raised her tail.
Cheshire jumped back at the name before teleporting behind Rat and swinging for her head, but Rat slapped him away with ease. "Shut up." She smirked before punching the wall with the heart in hand, shattering their reality.
"W-Wai-" Ven yelled as they all faded into nothingness.