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Whoosh! Once again, I'm hearing the unmistakable sound of a fireball launching from one of Bumpkin's paws. This time, the target was a seagull. She must have been well over 100 feet away: no matter. Bumpkin toasted her. She fell and landed in a parking lot in front of a CVS store. Next sound I heard was a police siren. Bumpkin and I were being pursued.
"What's that noise?" Bumpkin asked me.
"That's the police, Bumpkin. They're going to want us to pull over."
"What is pull over?"
"That's when the police stop you to give you a ticket or arrest you."
"What are these things?"
"They're not good. They're punishments."
"Bumpkin knows about punishments." Right after she said that (telepathically, of course), she fired another fireball from her left paw. She fired it out the window without even looking. The fireball found its way to the target: the police cruiser. It caught fire and soon exploded.
"Wow! How did you do that? You never even looked at it, right?" I asked.
"Once I let it go, it's completely under my control. I programmed it to hone in on that annoying sound."
"Incredible."
"Yes, it is. Isn't it?"
A driver suddenly cut us off. "You damn bozo!" I yelled. I have a road rage problem. So, apparently, does Bumpkin. She wasted no time firebombing the car of the guy who cut us off. It was right in front of us though. I frantically tried to avoid the burning mass of metal. I wasn't going to be able to avoid it. Amazingly, my car went airborne and jumped over the crispy car. It landed ever so gingerly onto its wheels again. It was an incredibly smooth landing. There was only one possible explanation: Bumpkin. This is a very powerful groundhog indeed.
"You did that, didn't you?"
"But of course," she responded.
"Incredible."
"I'm very close to mastering all of time and space. I'm no longer interested in being the county executive or the governor. I'm ready to rule the world."
From mayor of Rochester to grand supreme ruler of the Earth; perhaps she'll make the biggest leap anyone, either human or groundhog, ever made in this world. If one read it on a resume, would he or she believe it?
I believe it. All hail Bumpkin.
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