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couldn’t see much skin on him, except for his bald head. The mask covering his nose and mouth came down below his ears, and seemed to join into the armor covering the rest of his body. What I could see of his skin looked real tan, maybe, and his eyes, man, they were wild. They were solid black, no white to them at all. His ears where showing, and they were pointy, like some sort of Star Trek alien. The armor was like nothing I’ve ever seen before. It was yellowish-brown, beige I guess you’d call it, and looked like it was made of metallic plates. It covered everything on him, and the forearms had lights, or buttons maybe. Anyhow, like I said, he may have tried to speak, but I couldn’t hear anything over the nurse hollering. The doctor tried to get the door open, but it swung inward, and she was all up in the way. I was tangled up in the blankets, and got myself scooted up the head of the bed trying to get free. I was about to bolt too, but then…” Delmont stopped, looking between the agents. “I’m just gonna tell you what I saw next the best I can. This whole thing went down in like thirty seconds, tops, and I’m still not sure what the animal was, or even how to describe it.”
    “You’re doing fine,” Agent Donaldson reassured him. “Everything you’ve told us correlates to what was on the hall surveillance. Now, as to the animal, tell us what you can about how it got there.”
    “Well, like I said, I got myself shoved up to the head of the bed, and I saw something else down through that corridor in the wall. It was a dull green color, and furry all over, looking kind of like one of those little foo-foo dogs the celebrities carry around, but it had to be at least three hundred pounds. It wasn’t cute, either. It had a snarl that made every hair on my body stand up, and more teeth than shark week. It hunkered down in that other room, and did this huge leap. I couldn’t take my eyes off the thing, I thought for sure it was coming for my throat. It hit that passage between the rooms, and it hung there, like it was being stretched . The guy that tore down the curtain must have heard the thing coming ‘cause he turned around just as it passed through. The dog-thing looked like it was moving in slow motion between the rooms, but when it cleared, it slammed into that guy like a warhead. They both hit the doctor and nurse, and blew the door right off its hinges as they crashed out into the hall. There were ceiling panels and dust raining down, more people screaming, and the noises that thing was making out there as it laid into that guy,” Delmont paused, and visibly shivered. “I ripped my IV out and got my feet under me. I was getting ready to make some tracks out of there, when I took one more look down into that other room. This was the first clear view I had of it, without anything in the way.”
    “Once you had an unobstructed view, what do you recall seeing in that ‘other place’?” Agent Donaldson prompted.
    Delmont’s eyes were huge as he recalled what had transpired. “It was circular, I could tell that much, with machinery and equipment lining the walls. There was a console, a control area of some sort, with another man like the first, lying propped up against it. He had on that beige colored armor too, but there was something…I think blood, maybe, splattered all over it. It was coming out of his mask and running all over him. There was another fellow too, a smaller guy in blue armor kneeling beside him. The blue one had his head bent down, like he was saying something, or maybe crying. He looked up, right at me, and his eyes…I couldn’t see his face, he had one of those masks on too, but his eyes were solid blue and they were burning . He had short white hair that was sticking up all over, with a blue streak in the front, the same color as his eyes. I swear it looked like it was burning too, and I could feel something coming from him….”
    “Feel what, exactly?” Agent Donaldson