Karzelltath scratched one of his heads. He was puzzled as to why the monitoring device in Number 422360 had failed. Not just any number 422360, but the 422360 at Hegal place in Alexandria, Virginia! That was the apartment of the biggest danger an extraterrestrial race (such as Karzelltath's) could face. He was a paranoid fanatic. Even worse, he was a paranoid fanatic with power. A government employee, no less! Karzelltath's fifteenth head sighed. He was getting behind schedule. He would have to leave 422360 alone for now. Karzelltath could at least wait until his free day. He turned all of his heads to the large board. This was the monitor for normal people. It was called the big board, but (unfortunately for Karzelltath) the fanatic board, in which he had observed the strange matter of 422360, was getting bigger by the darsegth. He hated this job!

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Mulder woke up at exactly 2:28 a.m. He had taken to noting the exact time of everything lately. Just in case. They knew he knew now. They might come for him any time. 2:29 now. He sat and tried to figure out why he had woken up. Suddenly there was a flash of light. Mulder gasped. They were here! He didn't try to resist. This was his dream, after all. He calmly waited to meet his destiny.

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Mulder faced the creature. It was not what he had imagined. He had always thought of little gray men. Not big, slimy things with multiple heads, and tentacles, that waddled around on tiny legs. He had thought of mysterious, wise beings, that were graceful. Not things with whiny voices that had promptly introduced himself as a secretary. A secretary? Mulder had never thought that they would have desk-jobs!
Karzelltath was confused as well. When this thing (was it number 422360? Karzelltath hadn't thought the paranoid creature would be that odd) had come into his office, it had begun hailing him! It had called him Master of the Universe, and Great One, and other such nonsense. Karzelltath had told him his job, and the human had looked, well, disappointed! What strange creatures these humans were! It had not accepted his offer of thling'tlashta, hadn't asked him how his montishatu was doing, hadn't even asked for tlakthashed! Instead, when he had made the offer, it had asked for something called so-da. It had asked to go to the bath-room. Karzelltath didn't understand what this meant! Was it some evil plot to confuse him? A test made by his boss? This odd thing was giving him an ache- in all of his heads!