I'm pulling a truckload of cabbage. There's bunch of the little guys tucked underneath. 

"Hey quit eating that cabbage!"

There's no telling what it would do to their metabolism. I mean, they can breathe our atmosphere, and the gravity seems to suit them. Maybe they'd be OK. But too much sunlight is bad for them -- they wither right up. 

"Chomp chomp chomp"

My friend says the federal cops round them all up in pens, or camps, or something. Some place with barbed wire and cages. Which is the opposite of what anybody needs because then they're stuck here.

"Hold your horses! We're almost there."

The trailer's got a lift in it, so you can empty it like a dump truck.

These guys I dump in the ass end of a farmer's field. That's where they told me the portal was.

"mmmmmerfffff!"

"C'mon you guys! Into the bus!"

"mmmmmerfffff?"

I had four of them with me, all dressed in trench coats so they wouldn't be recognized. They're short, as I'm sure you've seen in the pictures, so the trench coats were really dragging. But the sleeves were long and the collars turned up and they had fedoras on so you couldn't see their faces.

"Alrighty guys. Now just follow me."

They shuffled along behind me off the bus and into the mall. These ones got mixed up in the revolving door like they always do so that took some sorting out, but soon we made it to the atrium and the little service door behind the fountain.

"Have a good trip you guys!"

"mmmmmerfffff!"

Anyway, like I said. They were just passing through. I'm not sure why this wasn't clear to everybody. I guess a lot of humans are more of the "shoot first and ask questions later" when it comes to the unknown. But the three behind my shed, they were just looking for another portal.

See, they didn't have spaceships or anything. That was all the media and government disinformation. They just came through their little portals, like the one behind my shed. And they had to leave through another portal. It usually wasn't too far away. Mostly they could just walk. Sometimes they had to hop trains.

But they were just passing through. For some reason they just had to come through Earth. Come out of one portal, leave through another. If there hadn't been portals in such populated areas, nobody'd probably spotted them at all, and there wouldn't have been all this trouble.

There were three behind our shed that night. Hiding, but not exactly scared of us. More like they just weren't sure how to approach us. Awkward.

I guess we're all lucky they weren't scarier looking.

The aliens were just passing through. They never had any intention of staying, or taking over, or consuming our planet and eating us.

"mmmmmerfffff?"

That's one from behind our shed that very first night.

Yeah I m one of the kids who helped the aliens. And it made everything a lot better than it would have been if I hadn't, OK? That's gotta b clear. I don't know why so many r h8ting on me