Finn sighed as he guided his work van through the rubble and wreckage that used to be the central part of the city.  He gritted his teeth as he occasionally heard broken branches or downed inert power lines scraping across the already heavily damaged and dented vehicle’s once-white paint.

He stopped here and there, shaking his head and rolling down the window to take snapshots of the destruction.  The cream colored goat straightened his tie and ran his fingers through the messy mop of red hair between his short, curled horns.

“Third time in two years.  This is getting ridiculous.”

As soon as he reached the address indicated on his location tracker, the short goat clambered down out of the van and almost tumbled right into a massive hole.  One of several, actually, in the shape of a gigantic paw print.  Taking advantage of his natural nimbleness, he hopped his way across the thin areas of dirt left between them to reach an area cordoned off with hazard tape.

Ducking under the tape, he made his way through the utter destruction of another Trivial Matters Industries testing laboratory.  A cheetah police officer came jogging up towards him.

“Sir?  Sir, you need to be behind the tape, please!”

He tapped the ID card on the front of his shirt.  “Finn Chuul, assessor for Macro Destruction Insurance Association.”

“Ah, Mr. Chuul, right this way, please.”

He followed her along a path cleared through the rubble where he found a blue haired Calico cat in a lavender jumpsuit having an animated discussion with a doberman officer.  He was apparently trying to get her to tell him just what had happened here.

For her part, she was trying to explain some very technical processes to do with the one undamaged piece of equipment in the building.  For his part, the officer was just trying to get her to slow down.

Finn shook his head as he listened in, starting to make notations on his clipboard about the level of destruction.  His floppy ears twitched now and then as he tried to pick up any needed information.  Finally, seeing that the officer was getting flustered and having had some experience with this kind of thing, the goat made his way over to them.

“So, this thing went off by accident, right?”

The feline suddenly turned in his direction and smiled, nodding, “Exactly!”

“And it made a giant monster?”

She rubbed the back of her head, touseling her short blue hair.  “Uh, kinda?”

“And how did that happen?”

Before he could even react, she just said, “Like this!”

She kicked the base of the machine and there was a sudden blinding flash of green light.  Finn threw his hands up in front of his face, staggering back, trying to clear his vision.  He felt like something was crushing him, squeezing him tightly, then a bursting sensation all over his body.  He was losing his balance, falling backwards, but it all seemed to be happening at a slower and slower speed.  It seemed to take forever to hit the ground, landing flat on his back and feeling something crunch beneath him.

He blinked up at the sky to clear his vision before slowly pushing himself up into a sitting position.  Looking down at himself, he clapped his hands over himself, in embarrassment as he was totally nude.  Glancing around, he saw both of the officers and the feline scientists, similarly nude and all crushing the remains of what looked like a model city beneath their collective rears.

Looking down at the “model” beneath him, he could see ant-sized furres fleeing, tiny cars racing down cracked streets away from the four of them.  He swallowed hard as he realized what had just happened.

“I…  am SO fired…”