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Chris the hobo

It was a normal day for the homeless man in New York City. He was a tall man with bushy brown hair, dirty clothes, a big beard and glasses. He lived with his dog under a bridge outside of the city. The man, also called Chris, woke up under a bridge which protected him and his dog Rango from rain and bad weather. He got up and went down to the little dirty river, which wasn’t far away, to wash his face. After he was done cleaning himself a little bit with dirty water, he took his dog Rango and started walking into the city. He was hungry like every morning but he doesn’t have enough money for fresh food. Because of that he searched for food in trashcans and most of the time he was lucky and he found different kind of food. Sometimes some people felt bad for him and gave him some money to buy food or new clothes. But today he wasn’t really lucky and because of that he decided to go to the garbage dump and search there for something to eat. The smell at the garbage dump was horrible but Chris didn’t care about that, he had to come so often to that place that he was already used to the smell and he started smelling the same way, because he wasn’t able to take regular showers. But today Chris felt different than any other day; he had a weird feeling in his stomach when he entered the garbage dump. But he was so hungry that he ignored his bad feeling and he started searching for food in the trash. After searching for about 10 minutes, Chris found a half of a cold hot dog laying there on the ground. He was happy about that and he started eating it. In the same moment his dog Rango started barking. Chris got up and wanted to know why Rango was barking. Then he saw why Rango started barking. He found a little box with buttons on it, which made weird sounds and had flashing lights on it. Chris was curious what the little box was and picked it up and he accidently pushed some buttons. The box started shaking and the sun got dark. It got so dark that Chris couldn’t see anything anymore. Than he felt a cold feeling on his back and he fell asleep.

The next thing he could feel was a wet tongue licking his face. Chris opened his eyes and saw his dog standing over him licking is face. The homeless man recognized immediately that something was different. The air smelled a lot better, and there was no smog in the air. When he sat up he found himself in a forest with huge trees. The feeling in his lungs was new for him, he wasn’t used to such a big amount of oxygen in the air. He got up and felt really good because of all the oxygen, which got into his bloodstream. But at once he heard a loud cracking noise behind him. He jumped around and he saw some trees falling over. He knew that this isn’t good and he started running. He ran through thick bushes and he passed some plants that were new for him. After a little while he couldn’t hear that cracking nose anymore and he stopped running and set down. It felt weird but he wasn’t out of breath. He was confused and he didn’t know where he was. Sitting there and starring in the wilderness he discovered something flying in the air. It looked like a big Bird without feathers. In the first moment he didn’t know what that was but he remembered an advertisement he saw at the time square. It advertised a museum with a lot of different dinosaur skeletons. And the animal up there looked exactly like the Pterodactyl shown on the advertisement. Now it started to make sense for him. All the huge plants he never saw before, the high amount of oxygen in the air and the clean air. He realized that he wasn’t at home anymore and the only possibility in his eyes was that he time traveled in the dinosaur era. At once he heard something cracking again behind him. He turned around and saw a bunch of people coming through the thick bushed, armed with weapons. It looked like they were hunting because they carried a few dead pigs with them. In the first moment he was confused and didn’t know what to say, but the people started to ask him questions about him and where he came from. After a little while, Chris got some more information about the things happening here. All the people got in the same way to this place. They found a little box and they time travelled. Later in the day they were walking through the woods but a creature that looked exactly like a pig that walked on two legs attacked them. Chris was curious and wanted to know what they were and what they do. Now the people told him, that the pigs tried to overtake the humans. The pigs started getting together in groups and attacking and eating people. But the people had already a plan how to escape from here. They were working on another time travel machine to travel back in the normal time, in 2098. After 3 months of surviving in the wilderness the people were finally done with the machine. Everybody was excited about the results and they came together in a group and they tried it. This time it was a different feeling, he felt warm and he got in a good mood. And he also didn’t pass out while he travelled. After a short time they were back again in the year 2098. They started telling people the things they have seen and done, but nobody believed them and the other people thought they were crazy. But the hobo Chris started to write a book about his experience and the things that happened to him. Because of that he got a lot of money and had a good life.