"Something really strange is going on here," Raoul said to himself as he was making his way home from the Opera Garnier, looking as the defeated loser might. "And it probably has something to do with those-"

Suddenly, the impostor Raoul whipped around the corner with a huge stack of cheese in his hands and hit the real one with a satisfying BAM! Cheese flew everywhere.

"-mice!" Raoul shouted, pointing at Benny. And on a second thought, he said, "Quite good-looking, I might add..."

Benny looked stunned for a second, gathered up his treasure in a panic, and bolted.

"Come back here!" Raoul shouted, making quite a scene as he tackled Benny to the ground, spilling cheese all over the place again.

Benny bit Raoul, and made an effort to stuff all the cheese into his mouth. "Stupid human body!" Benny said with Raoul's voice. "No cheek pockets!"

"Of course not!" Raoul said. "Now quit being me!"

"Talk about your crazy twins," a passerby muttered to his partner as they turned the corner.

"Never!" Benny squealed, smearing a hunk of emmenthal on Raoul's coat.

"My dinner jacket!" Raoul boomed in rage. "This was so expensive!" While Raoul was distracted, Benny leapt up and tried to run, but Raoul grabbed his ankle. "Oh no you don't!"

Benny tripped and splayed out on the ground.

"You're not leaving until I get some answers!" Raoul shouted, giving a war cry and throwing himself on top of Benny in a wrestling stance.

"Ouch! All right!" the impostor squeaked. "But at your place!"

"Why?"

"Because you have more cheese! Just, in mouse form, I couldn't reach the cupboard," Benny explained.

"Fine, just as long as we get to the bottom of this," Raoul growled.

Benny kicked Raoul off of him and stood up, brushing himself off. "Come on," he said.

"Yeah, yeah, I don't need to be told to come; YOU'RE the only animal around here," Raoul shot.

Benny rolled his eyes and started walking in the direction of Raoul's house. "Yes," he said to himself sneakily. "And you'll be experiencing what real animals can do... MUAHAHAHAHAHA-"

"Why are you laughing like that?" Raoul asked, following along curiously.

"Oh," Benny replied slyly, "no reason... MUAHAHAHA-"

"Well, stop it, you're attracting attention!" Raoul muttered as the pair turned onto his street. "Besides, as a respectable member of society, evil laughter is- hey! You're laughing evilly! As if you have something evil planned!"

"I DO!" Benny shouted in triumph, and dragged Raoul the rest of the way to his house.

"Ow, ow! Help!" Raoul shrieked to his neighbors. "The impostor is a mouse! A MOUUUUSE!" The door slammed behind them.

A child stared; jump rope forgotten. "Mousie?" she wondered aloud.

Inside Raoul's house, Benny shoved the real him up the stairs.

"You tricked me!" Raoul shouted.

"Of course I did," Benny replied. "I can't just let you go ruin a perfectly good relationship!"

"Me and Christine had a perfectly good relationship!" Raoul said.

"Bah!" Benny answered, giving Raoul a final push into his bedroom. "Piper! Commence emergency procedures!"

"Emergency procedures! Emergency procedures!" Piper said importantly, pulling a lever under the fop's bed.

"Hey!" Raoul protested as a giant mechanical mouse wheeled it's way out of the shadows and hugged him. "Get it off!"

"Ha ha!" Benny and Piper laughed together.

"You'll be safe like this," Benny confirmed, nodding once. "I must be going... Have to wreck more havoc... Oh, and Raoul; if the police come by to arrest you, it's no biggy. I just stole a bunch of cheese; that can't be too much jail time."

"Hey!" Raoul objected. Benny started to leave, but before he could get out of the bedroom, he was engulfed in a cloud of purple smoke, and with a small 'pop!' he was a mouse again.

"Crap!" Benny said, snapping his claws. "Twenty-four hours is up!"

"Ha!" Raoul said triumphantly. "Now you can't eat the cheese in the cupboard."

"Fool!" Benny said, rolling his eyes. "I already HAVE eaten that cheese! I was just telling you that as an excuse to get you here."

"Oh. Darn," Raoul said, snapping his fingers much like Benny snapped his claws.

Meanwhile... back at the Opera Garnier...

"Squeeeeeeeeeee!" George cried as his wings disappeared. He fell fifty feet into the underground lake with a small splash.

Christine and Erik pulled away from making out with each other momentarily to glance at the lake strangely. Both shrugged and continued their thing.

Back at Raoul's house...

"But I don't understand," Raoul said. "What's going on here?"

"Look, fop," Benny grunted. "We've helped Christine to see the inner beauty of people to make her life better. Anything wrong with that?"

"Yeah, there is something wrong with that," Raoul replied. "Christine has fallen in love with a crazy man who lives underground!"

"That's the way it's meant to be," Benny said smugly, crossing his paws and ruffling his whiskers at Raoul.

"Do you ruffle your whiskers at me?" Raoul asked dangerously.

"So what if I do?" Benny retorted.

"Ak! Just - nevermind!" Raoul said, rolling his eyes. "I just want my girlfriend back!"

"She would come back if she really loved you," Benny said simply.

"But you've played with her mind," Raoul protested. "How can she really love someone if all she sees is something that's not real?"

"It is real," Benny explained. "It's what is on the inside..."

"Inside, schmimside," Raoul mimicked. "If you take the spell off her , THEN we'll see who she TRULY loves."

"Hey, he's right!" Piper agreed.

"Shut up!" Benny shouted. Then he gasped and covered his mouth. "Sorry, boss... Guess I got a lil' carried away, huh? Heh heh..."

"Benny, you little rodent," Piper squeaked, bopping him on the head. He turned to Raoul. "Now, uh... What was your name again? Fop?"

"Raoul!" Raoul said, hurt.

"Quite, quite," Piper muttered. "Yes, well; I know a way to unbreak the spell I cast upon Christine..."

"DON'T DO IT!" Benny pleaded, rolling around on the floor in protest.

"You have to say to her-"

"NOOOOOOOOO-"

"You have to say-"

"-OOOOOOOOOOO-"

"SHUT UP, BENNY!" Piper shouted, stuffing a sock down Benny's throat.

"Shut up, Benny? Is that what I have to say?" Raoul asked.

"No, no!" Piper spat, shaking his little head. "You have to say-"

"Mmmmmfrrrrmmm!" Benny cried.

"-Shallow Christine, read a magazine!"

"Shallow Christine, read a magazine?" Raoul repeated. "But... why? That... That doesn't even make sense! And what's a magazine?"

"Just... I couldn't find anything that rhymed with Christine, okay? But that's what you have to say to her to snap her out of it!" Piper said. Benny lay sprawled on the floor.

"Mrrrrrfffmmrrrmmmm!" Benny said. he took the sock out of his mouth. "How could you dooooo this, Piper?"

"It's the only way to see if she really loves Erik!" Piper assured him.

"So will you let me go?" Raoul asked hopefully.

"Ha! Yeah right!" Piper hooted. He and Benny slapped a high four.

"Right on, boss!" Benny cried.

"Ha ha ha!" Piper cheered.

"Arrrgh!" Raoul growled. But the mechanical mouse was too fuzzy to really protest much, and it was getting very cozy in it's clutches... "I think I'll just take a little nap..." Raoul yawned. He was asleep immediately.

"So, Piper, are you coming back to the opera house with me?" Benny asked.

"Of course!" Piper grinned. "I wouldn't want to miss out this time! Besides, isn't George still there?"

"Yeah, let's go find him!" Benny crowed. And both mice scampered off, shutting the door behind them.

The neighbor girl watched as two mice scurried out of Raoul's house. "Mousies?" she wondered aloud again. She blinked. She shrugged. She picked up her jump rope again.

A/N: Long awaited? LOL... Wow, I haven't updated this in SO LONG! Hope you enjoyed!