00001: Fear is a crazy thing.

Have you ever had the feeling that something isn't right? You aren't sure what it is but your gut is screaming at you, telling you something is wrong. He had that feeling for the past few months. It took a while, but he finally noticed it happened whenever he saw a truck on the street and not just a simple pickup truck either.

It needed to be a diesel truck. Sometimes it was a big rig with a full load on the freeway. Other times it was a cement truck or even a big moving truck. But whenever he saw one, he had this crazy urge to get away from it as fast as possible. The really crazy part was he had the feeling even if he didn't see the truck, he just needed to be near one.

He told his friends about it and they made fun of him like any good friend's would. They told him he was reading too many online novels and taking the recent news too seriously. So he decided to tell his family about it. His parents were concerned and told him to go see a shrink about it.

It was reasonable. Heck it even made sense to do it. So there he was laying on a nice couch. Staring at the ceiling as he paid some woman a few hundred dollars an hour to listen to him talk about how big diesel trucks made him want to run away in fear.

"And when did this start?" She asked as she wrote a note down.

The man let out a sigh as he rubbed the top of his head and thought about it. After a few moments he said, "Maybe three months ago at this point. But I only really noticed it was diesel trucks about two months ago." 

The woman who sat across from him wrote something down on her notepad again before she asked, "Did anything unusual happen around that time? Lose your job? Break up with a lover? Did someone close to you die?"

"No, everything's been fine. I have no girlfriend currently and I've had the same job for over five years. And as far as I know, no one has died, or even been sick in the last few months."

She nodded her head and wrote down another note before she asked, "How was your childhood growing up?"

"Why are you asking about my childhood?"

It looked like she underlined something before she said, "It's a standard question. Please tell me about your earliest memories."

As the man thought about it for a moment, his eyes widened. He quickly shot up and glanced around the room in a panic. His instincts were screaming at him to run. But they were almost seventy floors up in a skyscraper, it made no sense to him.

The woman studied him for a few seconds as he was panicking, before she asked, "Did you remember something? If you did it's okay. No one can hurt you here, it's just me and you. I promise."

The man was breathing heavily, so she gave him a reassuring smile as she said, "I want you to take a deep breath and hold it."

The man stood up as he said, "No, I need to leave. Now."

The woman raised her hands slowly in a non-threatening way as she said gently, "It'll be okay, I can help you through this. You just have to trust me, okay?"

The man turned to look at the woman before his eyes focused on what was behind her. Shear terror ran through his body as his eyes widened in shock as he realized what was behind the woman. Outside the window flying through the air towards them was a diesel truck. But it looked a little different from a normal truck. It was all black with a green goblin face on the front of it. He had seen it before, in a movie once.

His body reacted before his mind could really think of what to do. He rushed forward, grabbed the woman from her chair and pulled her out of the way of the truck, which was about to smash through the window behind her. She let out a scream as he pushed her fully out of the way of the truck, towards the door as he followed only a step behind.

There was a loud smash and time seemed to slow down. He heard the glass shattering slowly, it sounded like ice creaking on a frozen lake for a moment. Then time seemed to catch up and there was a massive sound, louder than a thunder clap next to his ear. The next thing the man knew was pain and it became his whole world.

More pain then should be possible for a split second before nothing. Everything around him faded away and he felt himself going to sleep. He didn't want to sleep, but it was so warm and inviting. He couldn't help himself as he closed his eyes. He relaxed his mind and just embraced the warm darkness, his last thoughts fading into the ether.

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A news report came on TV later that day, the reporter smiled slightly at the camera. She was light skinned, with auburn colored hair that highlighted her striking green eyes. Her yellow top was opened slightly in the front showing off a little cleavage.

Her smile was infectious as she said, "Good evening everyone, I'm New York's favorite reporter April. I am sure most of you have already heard about the tragic incident that occurred downtown earlier today."

Some video pulled up on the screen, it showed a black diesel truck stuck in a high rise. Its green goblin face looked menacing hanging just out of the building. The reporter's voice was heard again as she said, "This is the tenth abnormal truck related death in the last few months. While luckily there's only been one reported death from the incident. It is still tragic and our hearts go out to the victim's friends and family."

The video changed to a woman wrapped in a blanket, her hair was disheveled and her makeup was ruined from crying. As the woman was huddled in the blanket, she rocked back and forth as she mumbled, "He was right, he was right, he was right, he was right, he was right."

The reporter was heard over the video, "Just like the other abnormal truck related deaths, the victim of the accident, heroically saved this woman's life as his last act. We are still trying to determine if she is unrelated to today's victim like all of the other people that have been saved. When we find out, we'll let you know."

The video cut back to the reporter, she gave a pleasant smile as she said, "I am happy to report that our news team was able to find out what caused the abnormal tragedy that took place earlier today."

Some pictures came up on the screen next to her face and she said, "The incident today was caused by some faulty harnesses while a crane was lifting up the truck. The truck was meant to be part of an exhibition taking place at a nearby building next month."

Some more information pulled up that showed info about the exhibition. Afterwards the reporter said, "We were also able to acquire footage of the truck being lifted into place. It also includes what happened after the harnesses broke. It's not graphic, but we do recommend caution for younger viewers."

The screen changed to show video of the truck suspended in the air. As the crane was slowly spinning to move it towards the building, the front harness snapped. Which caused the load to unbalance and swung the truck backwards. The crane jerked slightly with the weight before it reached the apex of the swing.

When the truck swung back the other way it ripped the harness off and flew towards a different building. It somehow stayed in a perfect arc as it shot through the air. Before it smashed into a building, and came to a stop sticking out of the other side.

The video switched back to the reporter as she said, "I know how you feel, that doesn't look real at all. I personally thought it was from a movie the first time I saw it. Just like the video's from the other abnormal accidents recently, they all seem to defy physics."

She shook her head slightly causing her hair to sway as she said, "We still don't know the name of the victim at this time. But we wish to let their friends and family know, our thoughts and prayers are with you."

She gave the camera a radiant smile before she said, "That concludes our special broadcast for tonight. Once we find any more information about this or the other abnormal accidents, we'll let you know. It was my pleasure to be your host for this program, this is April signing off."