DESMODENA: …why tho
DESMODENA: those things are tiny
DESMODENA: and it's not like a couple of brainless monsters would know know how to use it
DESMODENA: right?

HAKEEM: Wrong. Ridiculously wrong.
HAKEEM: They have the power of numbers on their side, and are more intelligent than they look.
HAKEEM: How do you think I got shrunk down?
HAKEEM: I made the idiotic mistake of using the 666 code on a cupcake I teleported into my lab, and it ran off into the walls. I messaged you to warn you, but while my back was turned, it was back with a bunch of mutated mice, which hijacked the Multi-Use Beam Gun I developed, shrunk me down, and dragged me off into their lair.

DESMODENA: damn. well that explains a lot :/
DESMODENA: how many mice exactly?

HAKEEM: Like a dozen. I think they must have gained access to a Mouse-o-Matic somewhere and cloned a bunch.

DESMODENA: well shit
DESMODENA: how did you get away???

HAKEEM: I got lucky I guess. It seems like they were all distracted by an oversized laptop they pilfered from one of the labs, but I couldn't get a good look at what they were doing. It almost seemed like they were having a text conversation with someone, but I can't imagine with whom.
HAKEEM: So I snuck away, and as soon as I found this lab and got cleaned up, I did what I could to barricade myself inside.
HAKEEM: But I don't trust them to not find a way through eventually, so removing the MUBS keypad was an additional precaution.
HAKEEM: You know the sheer breadth of what those beams can do!
HAKEEM: That's a big part of why I don't think this place can possibly be real. Most of those beams defy all rational scientific explanation, and yet obviously their effects are very, very real to us.
HAKEEM: At least the Multi-Use Beam Stations are too big for them to really use effectively. I don't even want to think about what would happen if those nightmare abominations got a more portable version or something.
HAKEEM: Using the 666 code on a bunch of cloned mice is probably only the start.