Location: 'Europe's Highest Security Prison' - Denmark~

~Date/Time: 2 Days Prior to Event 'S', Midday~

The small female mouse lounged nonchalantly on the shabby bed, staring up at a dull-grey ceiling. Her cell was small and secure. The constant video surveillance, an hour-long window of 'freedom' from her cell, and the employment of guards with actual brain cells made any chance of escaping this prison a near-impossible feat.

The mouse did not care. She wasn't doing anything to escape. Most of her daily routine was now devoted to staring at the ceiling and recalling where she went wrong.

It started when she officially met Le Paradox. They first met anomalously shortly after the mission regarding the Cooper Vault was resolved. Le Paradox somehow learned that Bentley was producing a time machine. Le Parodox's plan initially involved black-mailing Penelope with details about the ACES Tournament. Once she gave him the blueprints and designs at the skunk's request, he knew that he needed someone to design a prototype suited for the blimp. The mouse was starting to get a headache, recalling that a need for weaponry became her motivation. Following her hostage experience, she felt a need to retaliate against the world. She had taken charge, crafting her own involvement in Le Paradox's scheme.

The skunk still won, pulling the rug out from under the mouse's feet and leaving her to waste away in prison.

So now she lay on her shabby little bed in her dull grey room, staring up at the ceiling. A guard patrolling in front of her cell glared and laughed at her. She saw that he had a regular RC car in his hand. It made her burst up from her bed and call the guard back.

Whatever foul things she said to the guard got his attention. She made a grab for the car and he dodged it, pulling out a baton and swiping at her hands. The timid mouse immediately apologized, but promised to behave if he gave her the car. The guard slid it half-way behind the bars and she reached for it. The guard immediately pulled it from her grip and smashed it on the ground before walking away. Penelope could only reach through the bars and collect the broken parts, crying softly. She heard the guard laugh in the distance.

When he was out of sight, she smiled and set the pieces along with something extra off to the side. "Geez... Even in a place like this, guards are still brainless."

Under the cover of the night, she made her escape. A hidden toolkit in her glove made rebuilding the car as simple as like child's play. Adding the guard's electric fire-arm to it was still too easy. Reprogramming the music player (that she previously bargained for) to serve as a controller took some time, but it was a success. Before the camera that monitored her had enough light to see what she was doing, Penelope tested her car's weapon out on it before taking it for a drive.

Around the holiday season, there was a limited number of guards in the Prison, all of them silenced and robbed of supplies. She was able to unlock her cell before hacking the security footage for that night. As a final touch, she broke the bars and left her mark on her cell wall, making it look like she escaped that way. The cameras reset on her way out, guards regaining conscious some time afterwards and having no idea what happened.

Penelope had escaped prison.

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