A few minutes later a fleet of police cars arrives with lights and sirens blaring, just like in the Blues Brothers, and this clearly upsets the creature. It bolts down the road, shaking the earth and squashing squad cars with every step, until it disappears into the trees in the direction of downtown Mount Vernon.

I desperately want to drive after it and see what happens but my car is smashed, and the road is blocked with others like it. I have to catch a ride in the back of a cop car, and it takes us an hour to get back. By the time we arrive, the creature has crushed a few downtown businesses but the damage is light, and the creature has already been brought down by a S.W.A.T team with high-tech weapons not yet known to the public. It lies in the center of Main Street, as dead as King Kong.

The creature is in every headline for a few months, as scientists study it and are caught completely without explanation. Its DNA does not appear related to any species or phyla in the known animal kingdom. Neither can anyone explain where it came from, or how it suddenly appeared deep in a populated area without anyone noticing it until my 911 call. Rational people are outraged, and only grudgingly allow it to be mentioned in school curriculum-- as a flat-out anomaly.

For a while I feel sad for the creature, wondering if maybe he appeared to me because he trusted me and wanted to befriend me and I let him down, but then I remind myself that the first thing it did was smash my car, and I sleep better.

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