Due to the massive theft of the supermice shutting down the Supermice Project, Dean was allowed to go home to his apartment a couple of hours later, getting off work much earlier than usual. This was mostly on Father’s orders because his dad had said that there was no more work for Dean to do that day due to the theft of the supermice.
Dean, however, suspected that Father was giving him the rest of the day off to let him recuperate from the life-threatening situation he’d been in. That was probably a good idea because the situation had shaken Dean, even if he had suffered only minor injuries. Dean had also been treated by the ambulance workers when they showed up, but he only had a couple of bruises from getting slapped in the face and punched in the stomach by Hybrid. Both bruises were
