Okay, so this is a story I wrote in my Sophomore Year Creative Writing class. My teacher called them shuffle stories, you might have heard of them, it's where you are given the begining of a story, basically the first sentence, then you add onto it and pass it around the table and other people that you sit with add onto what you wrote. That day, though, I got this idea and wrote it myself, I didn't want to pass it around. This was also written around the time Iron Man 3 came out in theaters. I love Iron Man 3 so much, it's my favorite movie. And thus, this story was born. It may be crappy, but you still get the idea, I pretty much speed wrote this to finish before class was over. That said, Enjoy! :)


*10 Years From Now (2013)*

While at the beach, my friends and I decided to have a swimming race. We were half way through the race when I looked to the left of me and in the water was a glowing orb-shaped thing. I stopped and called my friends attention to it. When they asked what it was, I replied that I did not know. We decided to swim down to see what it was. When I had reached it, I grabbed it and we swam back to the surface.

When we got back to the shore, we sat on the hot sand and looked at it. "What could it be?" one of my friends asked. I stared at it, it looked familiar, like I had seen it in a movie or something.

"What should we do with it?" another friend asked.

"I think I'll keep it for a while." I said, turning it in my hand while looking at the design on the front of it.

"Alright, you should, since you found it." They nodded in agreement. With that we headed back to our hotel in Malibu, near the beach.

Back at the hotel, I found myself sitting at my laptop with the glowing thing I found sitting next to me. I clicked on a picture that looked similar to what I had found. I read the article that went along with the picture:

'Former Iron Man, Tony Stark, has had his Arc Reactor removed in early 2013. The Arc Reactor kept the shrapnel in Tony's chest from puncturing his heart. The Arc Reactor was put in his chest in 2008 when he had been kidnapped in an Afghanistan desert.
Mr. Stark has not given a reason to the public as to why it was removed. Sources say after recovering from the surgery to remove it, he threw the Arc Reactor into the ocean behind his house in Malibu, near the beach. The Reactor has not yet been found.'

My Jaw dropped as I read on. "I knew I've seen this before!" I said to myself. I picked up the Reactor, again, and was amazed. "How did I get so lucky to find something owned by a billionaire, superhero; 10 years after it went missing?"