"But I~~~ just wanna play it right. We~~~ we're gonna get there tonight!"

Raven lay on her small, new bed on her back, listening to more of Dead Mau5's tracks. Mau5 had given her some strange memory back-up chip and a pair of old speakers for the time being so that she could listen to his stuff. If she was going to be his dancer, she needed to start getting familiar with each song. The more she listened to it, the more she began to fall in love with the unique sounds. It was incredibly addictive. But as Guy had said; it could just be that she still had the red liquid in her system. Mau5 also had said that 'drug' enhanced those feelings you get when listening to his music. She could tell… she could not possibly keep still while listening to the music. Her head, foot or hands had to be tapping to the beats. The rhythms were pulling her on invisible strings, forcing her to move.

"It is great music… but damn... whoever came up with the lyrics isn't that great."

Each time a singer was featured in one of Mau5's songs, they had a good voice. But she found all of the lyrics to be just okay. There was nothing very creatively striking about them.

Well at least they could sing; she'd give them that.

Raven shut her eyes and continued to bob her head and twitch her feet back in forth to the beats. She tried to visualize what kind of dancing she would do to the music. She was beginning to get so lost in the electronic synths, that she didn't hear someone creep into the room. It took her a minute to sense the feeling that someone had their eyes on her. She slowly opened her eyes and flinched to see a big red Mau5 looming over her with an idiotic grin.

"Oh shit.." She said under her breath as she quickly sat up and scooted away from him.

"Still listening to my music? You must really like it~" He said, still giving her that pleased grin.

Raven was quiet for a few seconds. She then nodded. "Yeah.. I won't lie. It's brilliant music."

"Oh~ thank you." Mau5 said, shutting his eyes and giving a dramatic bow.

Raven sat awkwardly away from him. "So.. wots up?"

"Nothing, nothing… I just… thought I'd stop by and see how you were doing," Mau5 replied, now putting his fingers together perfectly. This was a habit that she noticed he had. It was sort of an interesting habit. "If you don't mind… I'd like to show you something."

"Yeah? Wot's that?" Raven asked, suddenly feeling nervous.

Mau5 gave a soft frown as he observed her. "Don't worry… it's nothing bad. Stop being so nervous~"

"Well, it's kinda hard to after the last thing you showed me was a needle with drugged liquid."

His ears drooped slightly. "I'm sorry if I scared you. But Raven, I didn't want you to go. I was afraid you wouldn't come back."

Raven sighed. "You're right, I probably wouldn't have."

Mau5 looked down at the floor, his large, white eyes blinking dramatically. "I just want to show you something. And I want you to know I'm not going to hurt you."

"Okay.." Raven replied. She relaxed her pose and sat at the foot of the bed now, waiting.

Mau5 squatted down in front of Raven and lift his hands slightly in front of him. He took in a deep breath and released it slowly. His gaze seemed to be fixed on the ceiling above her. Raven waited patiently to see what exactly would happen.

It was soft and low at first. Then it grew steadily. At first, she thought she heard something. But as time went by, she became sure; there was a bass line humming deeply in the room. Raven blinked curiously as she looked about the room. She couldn't tell where it was coming from. A smile crept up Mau5's face as he watched her. She looked at him, her eyes rounding with surprise.

"Is that… coming from you?"

"Mhm~" Mau5 looked very pleased.

"But you aren't plugged into any speakers…"

"I know," Mau5 said, his smile growing. "I just figured this out a few minutes ago. I can make my music very faint in the air~"

Raven studied his strange face as she listened to the pulsing music. The reddish fur around his eyes were sticking straight out, as if they were statically charged.

"Touch my hands," Mau5 told her.

Raven's eyebrows lowered. "Wot?"

"Take your hands and touch mine."

Slowly and very cautiously, Raven lifted her hands and placed her fingertips on the Dead Mau5's palms.

"Oh.." She said simply. She felt the vibrations of the music's bass pulsing off of his body. "It's so…" Raven began, but she could not find the word to describe it.

Mau5 gazed at her as his smile softened. "Alone…"

"Hm?" Raven asked.

"It's called.. Alone with you."

Raven's face suddenly got a little hot around her cheeks. "You mean the name of the song?"

Mau5 nodded. His hands slowly folded down on hers. The vibration was stronger now that his hands were wrapped around hers. She felt the music melody clearly as the vibration now pulsed in the back of her jaw and neck.

"Uh…" Raven said, blushing. She was starting to get uncomfortable again. But the music was soothing. It whispered softly to her to not be alarmed. It must be the signals that Mau5 was sending her with this song.

Mau5's ears curled back slightly and his smile became sheepish. "You're going to be a pretty raver for my show," He told her.

Raven awkwardly pulled her hands free from his. "Yeah.. I'm sure I will be."

Mau5 blinked dramatically at her. "Sorry~" He hummed.

"It's fine…" Raven said.

…

"Now where is that bloody bathroom?" Raven mumbled to herself.

It was late. It was cold. And she felt disgusting. Nothing seemed better than a hot shower right about now.

Raven continued down the maze like hallways, searching for the bathroom that Thomas had mentioned. He had called it 'Mau5's bathroom.' Which made sense, the robots wouldn't need it.

"Oh please, don't make it near Mau5's room," Raven whispered nervously. She recalled when she was in his room that there was no other door. So the bathroom wasn't attached to the inside of Mau5's domain. Thank god…

Raven walked through the beautifully lit hallways of blue. As she passed a door on her right, she heard a very odd sound. It was constant. It sounded like ambient noise of some sort. She walked back up to the door and put her head close to it. She listened.

She couldn't tell what the bloody hell that noise was. It was very strange. She gripped the door handle and thrust it open.

Observing the room, it had a very large chamber-casket that was lined up vertically against the wall on her left. It had several cables plugged into it that were then plugged into several extension wires.

Damn… This must be where one of the robots, either Guy or Thomas, 'recharged'. The other side of the wall had several newspaper ads taped to a board. She didn't bother to look at them. She still heard that strange noise… And wondered what it was.

Raven saw that the room went farther back and took a turn to the right. She slowly crept over to look around the corner.

To her absolute horror, she saw something she couldn't quite describe.

There was a mattress. On it, lay Marie. Instead of being fully clothed in her professional looking dress shirt and skirt, as Raven remembered, she was completely bare. Leaning over her was Guy. He too, didn't have that black suit he usually wore on. Instead, his metallic, black coating was revealed, and small lines of cyan blue lights traced his features. The sound was coming from Guy, and the more he continued to make these noises, the brighter the lines of light glowed. And as far as Raven could tell, they were up to some sort of sexual activity.

But what exactly… There were cables from the walls plugged into Guy. And then another cable that was plugged to Guy's chest extended down and was up inside Marie's cunt.

Raven pulled her head away from the corner, tightly gripping a hand over her mouth. She felt ashamed and disturbed for walking in on such a situation. Even worse, it took her too long to react and look away.

"Ah! Oh god, I feel it!" She heard Marie's voice gasp. Raven's face flushed badly. Oh dear god, I need to get out of here.

"Kkkkzt OH THE ELECTRICITY… Kkzt" Guy's voice echoed in their small space.

Raven hastily but quietly returned to the exit, still gripping her mouth to prevent any sound from coming out. She made it out the door, closed it and immediately let out a loud shudder. "Gyuuuuagh. The… the fuck? I don't even wanna know..." Raven shook her head slowly. She was sure it was some sort of way that the robots have found to sync with humans to share pleasure. But the last thing she wanted was to witness it. Well, its good to know that Marie is closure to the robots, particularly Guy, than I thought…

Raven moved down the hall more until she came upon another door. This time, she knocked. And loudly. But there was no answer. No noise.

Raven thrust the door open by the handle, and to her relief, she found the bathroom. Opening the door all the way, and flicking the light switch on, the bathroom was a beautiful surprise. The tile was a silver-white color and looked spotless. Well, except the small amounts of short red hair that was scattered in the corners; Mau5's fur. The sink was rather large and deep. She couldn't help but smile when she looked to the toilet. The seat lid was closed and on top laid folded up clean clothes. A note was gently placed on top:

"RAVEN, HERE IS THE SMALLEST PAIR OF CLOTHES WE COULD FIND IN MAU5'S WARDROBE. –THOMAS"

There was a very large bookshelf that they had converted to be a holder for towels and soaps. Raven looked at all the bottles. The shampoo was all different brands of dog shampoo. "Really?" Raven huffed with irritation. Did they not have any normal shampoo? Guess not… Dead Mau5 didn't have any normal hair… just fur.

"Well it looks like I'll just have to wait on washing my hair. At least there is soap." Raven picked up on of the bottles of liquid soap, opened it and gave it a sniff. Smelled very musty. It was your average guy's soap. She shrugged. It didn't bother her. Musky smell was better than body odor.

Raven turned and closed the bathroom shut. She frowned when she saw there was no lock on the handle. Better make this quick.

Raven slipped off her tube top and bra, placing them on top of the other clean clothes. She unzipped her tripp pants and danced to fling them off. She came up to the shower and turned both knobs. Water came out immediately. She placed a hand under it to feel the temperature. She grinned, thankful for warm water. Removing her undies last, she quickly jumped in and shivered under the warmth of the water. She quickly scrubbed her hair to get it as clean as possible. Then she took the bottle of the musky soap and scrubbed her body.

She took this time to really think on her current situation:

I am now living with an overgrown mouse man and two robots. Both the robots are from outer space.. or where ever. And the mouse is completely insane. I can't go home to my mom. I can't see any of my friends ever again.

She frowned. She would miss her mother. She would miss her best friend, Austin. And now she was sure she'd never get a chance to be with Michael. She stuck her head under the waterspout and grumbled. My new lover is a rat… She grunted at this sarcastic thought.

She then began to think of Psycho. Mau5 wasn't the only crazy animal that wanted to be close to her. Her newest friend, the laboratory grown kangaroo lizard had become desperately dependent on Raven. She had only known him for a month now, but she was beginning to grow fond of his company. She at least kept him out of trouble. The first time she found him, he had just killed an innocent man who happened to get in the creature's way when he was on a blind rampage. Psycho would never want to hurt anyone. But if he got pissed off, or snapped, it would be hard to stop him without getting your throat torn out. She had started to help him control these fits and prevented other people in her neighborhood from getting harmed. This meant, however, that the kangaroo usually tried to visit her every day. He had grown so attached to her company.

Wot's going to happen to Psycho when he realizes I'm gone for good? Will he go mad and kill himself? She didn't like that idea… She could only hope he'd hold out for a while, until she found a way to get out from this situation. She might have to just make a run from it when she had the chance.

A sound broke her out of her thoughts. She heard the door squeak slightly as if someone had opened it. Raven's face began to burn pink again. She poked her head around the curtain to the shower. She came face to face with that grinning, fiendish smile that Dead Mau5 usually wore. Her eyes went wide.

"Oh Raven~ I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were-" Before the mouse DJ could finish, Raven let out an ear-piercing scream.

"Get out! Get out get out GET OUT!" She yelled, her whole face now red and hot as ember coal.

Mau5 jumped back, startled. He was completely unaware of such a reaction and confused. But he quickly pulled the door wide open and scurried out, almost slamming it closed on his long, red tail.

Raven gasped loudly. "Please knock first from now on!" She shouted at him through the door.

"Okay…" She heard him squeak, probably still shaky from Raven's uproar.

Raven took a deep breath. Living with this guy was probably going to kill her…

After showering, Raven turned the water off. She grabbed on of the towels that was folded up on the shelf. She roughly dried her short, black hair and the rest of her body. As she did this, she heard mumbling out side of the door. Mau5 must be waiting for her to get out...

Raven pulled her undies and bra back on, then poked through the folded clothes Thomas had left for her. She pulled up the pair of pants first. They were much too long… and definitely were going to be too loose around her waist. Oh well, she didn't mind wearing her tripp pants again. They shouldn't be too dirty. She quickly dressed her lower half, and then picked up the t-shirt. She slipped it over her head and observed in the mirror above the sink. The shirt was large on her, but it wasn't too bad. It just made her look smaller than she appeared to be. She grinned at the design of random colored arrows zigzagging all over the front of it.

She opened the bathroom door and stared down at Mau5 who was leaning up against the wall. He blinked up at her and grinned.

"Finished? Oh~" He said, observing her appearance. "You're wearing one of my shirts."

"Yeah… but, please, now that we are having to share bathrooms, knock, okay? I like my privacy," Raven said.

"Okay, lil Raven. I'm sorry, I really didn't mean to scare you that time." He lowered his ears looking down at the floor. "Guy and Thomas weren't kidding when they said that human females don't like to be walked in on when naked…"

Raven couldn't help but chuckle. He sounded like a little kid, realizing a moral that he was taught. "Yeah, that's a given for almost everyone, actually," Raven replied.

"Is the shower okay with you?" Mau5 said, looking back up at her with a new smile.

"It's very fine. However, let's talk about getting some new shampoo for me, shall we?"