Time.timeScale is always equal to 1

Unity Engine
1

I have a character that slows down time whenever the player presses the X key and reset the timeScale back to 1 whenever they release the X key.
The method that slows down the time and resets it is being called correctly;

void Update() {
    if (InputGetKeyDown(KeyCode.X)) SlowMotion(true);
    if (InputGetKeyUp(KeyCode.X)) SlowMotion(false);

    Debug.Log(Time.timeScale);
    Debug.Log(Time.fixedDeltaTime);
}
void SlowMotion(bool _timeState) {
    if (_timeState) Time.timeScale = 0.5f;
    else Time.timeScale = 1f;
    Time.fixedDeltaTime = Time.timeScale = 0.02f;
}

When i press X, the console displays 1 and 0.004 and when i release, it displays 1 and 0.02
for some reason the timeScale is always resetting but fixedDeltaTime is updating correctly

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Line 11 above assigns 0.02f to both Time.timeScale, then to Time.fixedDeltaTime, always overwriting whatever you set before that.

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