A small thingie entered the studio one morning. They were all standing up and doing nothing. I guess they were on their break. The thingie was quite extraordinary and Paul and John were the first to discover that. Paul started laughing insanely with John because they both thought they had snapped to see a small lizard thing with Ringo’s face and fan-like ears! The thing smiled at them nicely and wagged.

"Are you seeing this?" Paul muttered in his laughter. John was fumbling with his words, but got you:

"Yeah." George had seen the thing, but was uninterested. He thought Ringo had turned into something. He shrugged and turned to walk away, but the real Ringo was standing in his way in his real form! George jumped in surprise and the three amazed Beatles huddled back to back looking at both the real Ringo and the strange double with a lizard body and funny ears. Ringo smiled at the thing.

"Pet!" Ringo said. Paul and John then knew it was real and started spitting and sputtering. Ringo kneeled down and picked up the funny thing. George looked at Ringo surprisingly.

"You know this thing?" George asked.

"Yes! I went to Australia and some guy cloned me with a lizard and I got Pet!"

"Really? When did you go to Australia without us?" Ringo, realizing George was off track, went away with his Pet. Paul and John saw Ringo carrying it away.

"Oh no! We really are insane! Its still there!" Paul cried. John started bawling. Pet’s lip went up and he growled.

"Don’t call him "it"! He gets angry!" Ringo said. George smiled.

"It," George said.

"No! Don’t! You’ll be sorry!" Ringo yelled.

"It, it, it, it, it, it, it!" Pet jumped down from Ringo’s arms and started growing. He grew to an enormous height and towered above George’s head and drooled viciously. Ringo, Paul, and John looked away, but when they turned back, George was gone.

"Where’s George?" Paul asked.

"Oh, he must’ve been eaten," said John. Pet moaned. Ringo pulled out a collar (from who knows where) and pulled Pet along.

"Can we come home to see you get George outta him?" Paul said skipping after Ringo.

"Yeah yeah! This’ll be cool!" John said running after Paul.

"I guess, but stay away from his mouth," Ringo said. "I don’t want to go after more people in Pet." They followed Ringo and Pet home to where Ringo led Pet into the observatory room (don’t ask where he got an observatory). Pet laid down and looked sad as Ringo got a jack ready to hold his mouth open. Pet moaned and turned away. Paul saw the sadness in the thing’s face.

"Ringo, let’s wait a while until he’s asleep. He’s scared," Paul said. Ringo saw the sadness too.

"Okay, I guess, but he’ll shrink back to his normal size again," Ringo said. He led the others out of the room and closed the doors.

An hour later, Ringo and the other two came back. Their mouths dropped. Pet was still in his huge state, but he had laid an egg! A giant egg! Pet looked proud of himself. Ringo went up to Pet’s face.

"Pet! You’re a male! But how’d you do this?" Ringo was confused. Paul smiled.

"Let’s see it hatch," he said. John grinned fiendishly.

"Then we can sell it for money!" John said. Pet growled and drooled at John. John cringed behind Paul. The egg started to crack and Pet looked at it. In face, everyone did. the top flew off and George crawled out of it gasping.

"Air!" He yelled. Ringo and the others’ faces fell.

"Who expected this?" Ringo asked. Everyone raised their hands. Pet shrank back to his normal height and fell asleep. George drove John and Paul home. Ringo collapsed on his bed in confusion. Barbara came up to him.

"Have a nice day?" She asked. He looked at her and threw a pillow in her face.

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