Timothy Diep
Ms. Kinney
ELA Honors Period 6
23 April 2019
The Restoration of a City
	Because the eerie night had just begun, the city grew quiet. This place looks like any ordinary living area, but humans should not grow confident to live here as the city has a society that is unjust. The year was 2039, mid-summer, this city had once been a perfect place to settle by and work in, but many criminals had showed up and had caused major problems throughout this city, causing people to move out of this place and the city population had dropped from about 1,200,000 citizens down to only about 100,000. I was born with a very serious ability, that ability was to stop time for around five minutes, after the five minutes, it would recharge in around three minutes, this condition does not have a cure for it as I am the only human alive to be born with this power, I figured that I can use my powers to my advantage and save a whole city.Me and my sidekick, Rob have an objective, that objective is to take out all criminals and return this city back to its old state.
	My sidekick, Rob says, “The helium in the sunlight here could something to work with” I reply back, ”It hurts my eyes terribly, and it also weakens my ability down, such as taking away time when my ability should last about five minutes” Rob replies back to me saying, ”Yes, it is pretty dark out though, so I think that you are fine working with crimes at this moment”
	The day that my parents get taken away, it makes me realize why my powers could be useful, but I just did not know how to use them. That same day I was trying to fight back the criminals invading my house, I was just 14 years old, I was just too weak to take them out myself, they had armor that was not penetrable. Before they knock me out, the last times I ever saw my parents was when they were getting dragged away, as I was getting taken out. Twenty years from that moment, and I still wonder if they are still alive, or in captivity.
	Rob had just told me that a bomb had been planted around a bank not far from my homebase, and that it was going to blow in approximately sixty seconds and was counting down this very moment, so I had made my way down as fast as a supercar could speed, and as soon as I made it, I had to catch my breath, then I sneak in, activate my ability, then attempt to defuse the bomb. I have had some experiences with defusals because I had done it many times but I had to work quick as I had three minutes left of my ability. After many mistakes, I had finally defused it as my powers were gone. The policemen took care of the wicked criminal and drove him to the prison. Many citizens comes up to me and the bank manager says, “Thank you very much, without you, this bank would have fell” I reply back, “No problem, just keep a higher security here”
	I feel proud that I had just saved a bank from a bomb from blowing up with my abilities, but it just was not enough yet.
	The sun had just risen, and the thoughts had came to me, “If I do not make something to protect me from the sun, I could not take out any crimes.” So i decided to come up with a helmet that was scientifically able to not take in anything harmful for my eyes, and is also strong enough to withstand my ability without breaking down. This was to protect me from any flaws of my ability while the sun was out.
Rob came up to me and asked if I need help with anything, I reply back, “Yes, Rob, I do need help designing and building a new helmet” I then explain to him why I needed these goggles. Before we could get started making a new helmet, a problem had occurred in this city, which was a very tall, strong man looking yells out loud, ”$500,000 in US cash, otherwise I would take out the ten hostages using an ak-47!” This was a very easy case, the problem was that, I needed something to protect my eyes while the sun was out. I couldn’t really do anything about the sunlight except work on the helmet just because the helium in sunlight is usually everywhere in sunlight. So I could either not do much about the criminal, or I could very quickly design a helmet that should have taken weeks to design and make. But I should not have worried as the government had given the criminal $500,000 in cash, and the hostages were set free. I was relieved, but also felt bad because I couldn’t have done anything while the sun was out.
I go to my workshop with Rob, we then design and make a helmet that can give me oxygen whilst blocking me from the sun, it weight about 15 pounds, which was pretty light for a pretty strong material.
This new helmet brings me to stop crimes in an efficient, time-saving manner, and as the crime rates drop, I felt a bit accomplished changing the city whole, although it was not done yet, it is almost guaranteed that we can clean up this city and bring it back into its normal state. After many years, many new helmets, and taking out many crimes, the city had a fresh start and people were moving in left and right.
I watch as the governor come up to me and says, “Thank you very much, without you, this city would still have been a hell to live in” I replied back, “Thank you, I am happy to hear this and I will continue to monitor this city until it is clear”
Epilogue
Jimmy had protected thousands of people from crime with his abilities with Rob, and lived his life until he naturally dies in his homebase at the year of 2112 at the age of 72.