I can’t believe I’m going to do it. My fingers are shaking with nervousness. A little sweat started to come down my forehead. My God she is beautiful. I told myself that there are certain boundaries I would not cross but… how can I not? Am I a selfish person? Can I answer that? Because I do have a bias. Really dude, she is like your best friend. Are you going to screw up your friendship and throw it away because of greed? The green monster has planted the idea that I want to be greedy and want more than friendship. Just ask her out. Worst she can say is no. What are you waiting for? But she is your best friend’s ex. That’s just awkward. Not as awkward as Oedipus’ dinner table, but awkward. I swallow my doubts, here it goes...

“Hey,” Good, started. Now we need some other words to come out of our mouth here. Let me think… Nothing. Great, now she's looking at me like I’m an idiot.

“What?” She looked at me and smiled playfully.

“Um…” Say it you numbskull! I like you and I want to date you. Good, now say it to her you dumb-head.

“Ah!” She screamed and ran off. Hmm, maybe I did say that out loud. Not the reaction I hoped for but it something. While on the subject, everyone is running. I wonder why? Turning around to face people running from... oh, that’s why.

Standing at a hefty twenty feet tall was a giant lizard monster. The scaly spawn of Satan roared. Evil yellow eyes shined with a souless pupil-less stare. Standing on two feet like a man. It walked the streets with it arms on either side with sharp pointed nails of knives. The knives were placed on the ends of its toes and fingers. The blade-like teeth contained in its mouth could bite through a Buick. The green scales that covered its body were a dark depressing green. The beast roared and threw a car. Beating his chest it shot flames from its evil mouth.

“Reptar!” Some random kid yelled at the beast. That’s not reptar kid.

Well my goose is cooked. No cover and nowhere to hide. I am going to die. She will never know how I feel… Crunch. the steel frames of the cars bend and break under Scary Reptar’s weight. Goodbye cruel world. As the lizard’s flames are coming closer and closer...

“Move!” Some random man came and tackled me out of the flames. “Are you an idiot?” He asked me.

“I… I… I was frozen,” That’s about all I could muster.

“Don’t worry I got this.” He stood and faced the lizard. The man was dressed in a leather trenchcoat and sun glasses. The outfit with complete with a ski mask to hide his identity… a superhero. Finally I am saved. I do not have a mutant power. But there are a lucky few that are blessed to carry this amazing talents. He has to have one. “Hey! Stupid lizard, eat this!” The stranger reached into his jacket and pulled out a wheel of cheese throwing it at the beast. Splat. Ha! That will show him! Direct hit on the monster’s face. Whoa? Wait a minute. Cheese? What the hell?

The overgrown lizard stumbled back and blew flames. The stranger jumped out the way.

“Take this!” he screamed as the behemoth started to swat at its face. The “hero” came running to me, “time to go.”

“Cheese?” I had a million and three questions I could have asked but that was the only word to leave my lips.

“Not just cheese, my friend.” He pulled a small block form his jacket. “Watch,” he pointed at the cheese and it transformed.

“A gerbil?”

“No,” his shoulders fell, “It’s a hamster. Why does everyone guess gerbil? Any way here you can have him.” The hero hand me the gerbil, “Just keep him refrigerated.” He went back to work throwing cheese at the giant, making gerbils run all over the beast’s body. The lizard swatted the tiny gerbils off himself. The scaly creature ran away from the tiny fur balls. As he ran out of the city, the people started to emerge from hiding.

Citizens crowd the spot of the evil. In the center was this masked hero. A small child tugs on the coat of our deliverer. The disguised stranger takes a knee to meet the kid’s gaze.

“Thank you Gerbil Man.” The hero patted the small one on the head. He stood thinking, “They’re hamsters!” as he walked away a hero.