Makin my way downtown, [open]

"Gah ahhh so hunggryy", the whale blubbered, eyelids half drooped as he slowly thudded down the city street, feet making a bit of a shake as he almost cracked the concrete with each heavy step. The poor whale, it'd been so long since he'd eaten everything in this weird new world was starting to look like food, the long pole things, the pretty wall things, the changey lights, the paper boxes, the people... especially the people, they even smelled like food.

It was getting hard to resist them, the people walking around just waiting to be gobbled up, there were so many who would miss just one... wait no! No he couldn't think like that! He shouldn't eat a person, not unless he was super hungry, he was only really hungry right now. To be honest he didn't have too big a qualm with eating someone, sure it probably would make him seem like a monster but the way everyone watched him sauntering and drooling his way down the street he kinda felt like one already. Might as well do as they expect... but nah not yet, it'd be too much trouble.

"Maybe I could find a job... if only I could get paid to eat things", he groaned and stopped walking not really thinking as he grabbed a parking meter, easily tearing it from the ground and shoving the top half in his mouth as he chewed on the metal whatever it was drooling a bit, still out of it from the hunger of not eating for like, 6 hours. "Meh not bad, tastes like pocket lint and rust", he mumbled between chews feeling a bit more alert after a few swallows, starting to notice the people staring at him from a distance all around, his eyes widening. "Errr woops, thish ishn't shoshally accheptable... *Gulp* is it?", he mumbled to himself stopping his eating for a second to look around then just shrugged and took another bite.

"eh, a guysh gattah eat... *GULP*

"Whale? Yeah I see it. Looks downright bloodthirsty. And there he goes eating a parking meter," said Panik. Panik had received a call from animal control to personally take care of this particular specimen. Seeing the creature destroy public property was more than enough of a reason for Panik. Panik revved up the engine of his van and drove straight at the whale with the intention of running it over.

Zip's tail wagged gently around shoulder height as he munched on the parking meter, it wasn't very filling, he'd probably need something else, maybe one of those bins, or the blue things with the bird on them, they looked pretty big, and people always filled them with stuff, plus it did smell better... or maybe just one person.

He thought it over more facing away from the street not really minding the staring tasty smelling people anymore as he stood and finished off the meter with a small "Uhh.. -UrRup!... heh," and putting a hand on his ever hungry tummy. He was about to head for a mailbox, not knowing what it was called though when something did catch his attention.

He didn't have time to react really, he just suddenly felt something slam into his rear end hard making him slip and fall backwards onto the vehicle probably causing much much more damage to the car then was caused to him, in fact he wasn't very pained by it, just knocked over really flailing in surprise, nearly belching up half the parking meter.

"GAHAHAH HEY!!! WHUH IN THE!? ERP?!"

Panik noticed the hood of his van had a tiny dent in it. "Thank god this thing is a tank, I woulda killed that whale if it had done anything more," thought Panik. Panik drove into a nearby alleyway and got out of the vehicle with his backpack and t-ball bat. "I don't need a shotgun to take care of a whale, that'd be just silly," Panik thought. He took a peek at the creature from his hiding spot and noticed that it was no whale. It had shorts and legs.

"Pants?! If it has pants, maybe it's intelligent," said Panik aloud. Panik grabbed a handfull of smoke bombs from his backpack and readied himself for an attack.

Zip didn't really know what was happening now, he got hit in the but by a vehicle of sorts and now it was driving with him on the front of it, not much of a dent left it seemed. The world was a blur around him as he was driven, he wasn't used to moving so fast, he liked walking slow and fighting slow and swimming slow. The only thing he ever did fast was eat, so he was getting dizzy from the speed of the car until it stopped suddenly, making a yelping as he would suddenly go falling forward off the vehicle.

Zip groaned and pushed himself up to see one of those human things approaching with some sort of stick, the whale blinking and standing fully "Hmmm? Oh hey... ", zip would just stare at him mostly not sure about much to do other than say hi, humans were usually too scared to talk to him so he wasn't good at interaction.

"Hey, yo, do you speak the english?" asked Panik. Panik assumed the noise he heard was a "Hey" judging from the pants. Panik swung his bat in a threatening manner, and said "I see you've been causing quite a panic around here,". "Disturbing the peace and destroying public property, not to mention denting my ride," continued Panik.  Panik dropped a smoke bomb and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Panik then proceeded to drop a few more so he could make his way in front of the creature.

As Panik appeared in front of the whale-thing, he raised his bat and looked the creature dead in the eyes and said, "Friend or Foe?".

English? Friend? Foe? what the heck did these words mean? "Err, maybe... I speak but what does English mean?", the big thing asked simply standing a thick finger to it's mouth as it attempted to think.

"Public property Panic? Well I know what panic is I was taught that it was bad, and you shouldn't do it", he nodded watching the man with the big stick as smoke suddenly started to fill the air, seemingly form some round thing the guy threw. He mostly wondered how those tasted. "Wait I was causing a panic... erf... you mean I was making people panic or I was almost... but.. I'm confused", zip groaned. "And your ride thing is only dented cause you bumped into me with it! , he argued. He wished he knew more of the words the guy was asking. Especially. "And what is a friendoorfo?", he didn't seem frightened or nervous at all, just curious and confused.

"Listen, Friends help each other. In order to help me, you need to tell me what you are doing and why are you here?" asked Panik slowly so that this creature could understand. "If you are foe, you will be vaporized instantly by my anti-matter wand!" shouted Panik. Panik felt the creature would believe him without a doubt. Besides, Panik was a master of BS.

Zip seemed distraught, so may big words and he had no clue what they meant. Was vaporize a good thing? "Well I guess I could help you, so I'm a friend... but i'd prefer to get food for helping", he nodded standing and staring at the stick, wondering what properties vaporizing meant it had, it didn't look special.

"Well I'm an Atlantar'e from another world and I'm having lunch... until you hit me, then I was belching up lunch... Buurp...", he groaned a bit at the end before he belched and held his stomach, it didn't settle right since he swallowed while being hit by the 'ride'.

"Aight," said Panik. "I supposed you aren't a threat, judging by your reason for eating this wondrous artifact known as the PARKING METER. But you have not yet answered why you have come up to the surface. I highly doubt that lunch was your objective," said Panik. Panik looked around at the confused and/or frightened onlookers and decided that the two of them should continue their conversation else where.

"Listen whale, if you're hungry, just buy a pizza or something. There's probably a place where you can purchase food nearby. But tell me, what are you doing here?"asked Panik in a stern tone.

”Parking.... Meter?”, zip asked seeming quite happy to learn the new word ”Heh that's what the little metal saplings are called right? And they grow into those metal light trees right?”, Zip asked at first ignoring most of the other questions thing he was smart and figuring something out about how this world worked.

”Wait surface? What do you mean, I wasn't underwater, and yea actually the goal was lunch.. “, yes indeed zip knew about lunch, and was a bit distraught humans only believed in three meals a day.

”Pizza? Purchase..  you mean making the green stuff into food? Erff... well I don't really have any green stuff, and I don't know how to make it into food ya see, and I'm getting really hungry...”, he groaned rubbing his tummy, still not explaining how or why he got here.

"I have a 20 dollar bill, you can use it to purchase food," said Panik. "I need to patrol the area, so tell me one thing. What are you?" Panik said as he handed the creature a 20.

Zip was quite happy to finally have some of that green stuff. And apparently this one was worth twenty green stuff! What a high number he could probably buy mountains of food with this "Woa! thank you sir! twenty whole green ones!!! I cant wait to go turn it into a ton of food! ", he smiled and let his thick tail shift along the ground like a wag but more draggingly.

He stared at the little piece of paper for a bit more before realizing the other guy asked him a question. "Oh? Heheh well I'm an Atlantari! dunno what else you'd wanna know... I mean Im pretty much just what I look like unlike you humans you guys are full of surprises!"