[ WP ] The New York sanitation workers have always secretly had the job of ridding the streets of cryptid monsters . Time to take out the trash !

It was n't always easy being a sanitation worker, always having to clean up after others. Of course, they never told you that was the easy part. When I first signed up for the job I figured I would be by myself, driving around in the middle of the night picking up trash, at least it pays the bills right? My first day I was assigned an `` experienced'' partner. He did n't say much, which made roaming the streets at night awkward and creepy. Every time I attempted to engage in conversation he gave short, vague responses, which pretty much killed any conversation. His face seemed expressionless most of the time, as if he were a zombie which admittedly creeped me out. We drove around in the middle of the night in an old white van with no windows. Our attire was thick white jumpsuits with a small blue emblem designating us as a `` Sanitation Officer''. That would be the only thing that they gave me was this white jumper. I always thought it was a bit suspicious considering that we were never actually cleaning up trash, we were just patrolling the streets. I never actually had a look in the back of the van to see what utilities we had at our disposal, little did I know.. 
 
 It all started at roughly 4 in the morning, as we rode through a small residential block. It was pretty quiet, the streets were dead. There were long alleyways which ran beside the large apartment blocks. We came to an intersection, and waited for the light to turn. There was no other traffic, which made it tempting to run the light, as it seemed like ages we waited. It turned green and we began to make our way down the street, before we saw a large figure come out of the shadows and run across the street into the alleyway. It was too large to be a person, it had to have been at least 7 feet tall and as wide as two people standing beside each other and moved with great speed. I turned to my partner and asked `` What the hell was that? ``, however he gave no reply and instead decided to floor it, the tires screeched and it echoed throughout the empty city. He came up to the alleyway and slammed on the breaks, sending me forward in my seat, the seat belt violently jerking my body. He hastily left the van and proceeded to the rear, where he slung open both doors and entered. I fumbled with my seat belt and joined him, I tried to ask him what he was doing but he ignored me. He removed a pure black suitcase from the van and released the latches, opening it. There was a black disc, a bit bigger than my hand with a handle attached to it. There was a small red button on the top of the handle. Next to the disc was what appeared to be the hilt of a sword with a small switch affixed to the side of it. He grabbed both of the items and tossed them to me unexpectedly, causing me to fumble and almost drop them. The only thing he said was `` You'll need that'', and hopped out of the van, wielding what appeared to be a small black hand gun in his hand. He quickly ran down the alleyway as I stood there looking at the items he had given me. I held the disc by its handle and rotated it around in my hand, observing it. I gave the button a try and the disc expanded with a blue beam of light, like something out of the movies. I tried the button again and the light vanished. I then clutched the `` hilt'' in my other hand and flicked the switch, causing a beam of blue light to erect from the top. 
 
 I sat there for a moment, astonished by this technology which had been given to me by some weird stranger that I barely knew. It was then apparent that I was given some sort of energy sword and shield, as if I were a futuristic knight. I was then interrupted by the sound of gunfire, however this was not ordinary gunfire, as I looked into the alleyway I saw my partner firing at large shadowy object scaling the side of the apartments, blue bolts of energy being hurled in its direction, glowing in the night. One of the shots hit the creature, causing it to fall from about 40 feet in the air, crashing into the ground with a large `` thud''. It quickly scurried to its feet and smashed into a nearby trashcan, hurling it into the direction of my partner and hitting him, causing him to be thrown back a fair distance, skidding the ground. I clutched my weaponry in both hands, activating them and charged into the scene of the battle. I watched as the creature fixated on me and began to charge towards me. It was at this moment that I had realized that I made a poor decision, and not a second after I realized this, it collided into me. I was sent flying, smacking my head into the brick wall and falling to the ground like a sack of potatoes. The pain was excruciating, however the creature was unaffected, and proceeded to run out of the alleyway, crashing into our van and tipping it over onto its side. I got to my feet and began to follow it to the best of my ability, however by the time I had gotten to the street, it was gone. Fortunately my partner was already a step ahead of me, and moved towards an uncovered manhole in the street, presumably the creature had entered the sewer system. 
 
 I removed my phone and turned on the light, peering down into the sewer. There was at least a 20 foot ladder we would have to scale to enter the sewers. My partner had entered first, quickly scaling down the ladders, I followed. The pungent smell ensued us, however we pressed on into the darkness. There were channels about 15 feet wide with walkways on either side, the roof of the sewers was about 10 feet tall. There was a trail of green oozing liquid on the walkways, presumably blood from the creature. We followed the trail for 10 minutes before coming to a large intersection, there was a large circle in the middle of the intersection where all the channels meet. We looked around for the trail, however we could not find where it had gone, until we looked at the wall. We stood there for a moment and then began to listen, as the sound of heavy breathing began to emerge. We then realized where the creature was, however it was too late and it jumped from the ceiling, pouncing on my partner and crushing him. This was the first time that I had gotten a good look at it. It was roughly 7 feet tall and humanoid with glowing red eyes, green skin, and large muscles. It was the width of 2 humans and had large pointy ears and two long fangs sticking out of its mouth, and walked on all 4 limbs, instead of upright. 
 
 It quickly began to tear my partner apart, his screams echoed throughout the sewers before he was picked up and literally torn in half. The creature then threw him aside and gazed at me, my heart was racing and my palms were sweaty. I dropped my phone and engaged my weapons, the light emitted from my weaponry illuminating the scene. The creature charged at me, and I raised my shield and thrust my energy sword into its chest, the creature letting out a deafening roar which echoed throughout the sewer system. It collided with me and my shield pinning me against the wall. I dropped the shield and grabbed the sword with both hands and began to thrust downwards, slicing the creature in half and causing its green blood to ooze out and bubble, quickly layering myself and the surrounding area. The creature then fell limp, crashing into the floor with a large thud. I slid down the wall, and let out a sigh of relief. 
 

