Chapter 2: The Secret Unleased
After about 20 minutes the boy decides to open his eyes. The second he does he looks around the room, he notices that it is all white, four walls, nothing on them, just white. The second the boy turns his head to see were the two men were, or what they were doing, the man sprints over grabbing the boy by his wrists and says come with me. The boy attempted to struggle, but he just wasn't strong enough to overcome a man of his size. When the boy walked into the hallway he looked around, on the blue walls was hundreds of pictures all of different things. It was hard to remember any of them seeing how the man was forcing him to walk fairly fast. The boy did manage to notice a picture of a car. Much like the one his sister was driving once she died. On the car was a weird emblem though, it was that of a scorpion. Now there are many weird things people put on cars, but the boy thought that was one of the weirdest.
The boy finally reached a very bright, white room, after he walked for what seemed like years. When he did the old man walked into the room, and said sorry that I had to do that to you, it was only to protect were this place is. I hope there is no hard feelings about that, I didn't mean to hurt you if I did. The boy was thinking how could you hit me and not mean to hurt me, that don't make much since. Under these circumstances he decided to keep his comments to himself, in fear of getting another swipe to the head. The old man said something but the boy didn't catch it, and then the old man asked do you understand, now of course the boy didn't want to ask what did you say again so he just nodded his head. The old man then said good, now follow me so the boy got up off the hard chair he had been sitting on and followed after the man, like a lost puppy dog. They walked down this narrow hall into this room; in the center of the room was this huge circular thing. The boy looked at it, and wondered what is it that might be under that, because boys do wonder, and curiosity can kill. The boy not thinking asked the man, what is under that, the man did a sort of half laugh and said you will see.
The man walked over to this control center, and pushed a button. The circular thing then made a noise, a very loud screeching noise, like one of two cats fighting, the boy covered his ears, at fear he would loose his hearing. After a couple minutes of the noise, the boy uncovered his ears, and to his surprise it was gone. In the center a car had came up. This car was not like that the boy had ever seen, and the boy had seen many because his uncle owned a used car shop, and he used to go down there every summer to help him out. The man asked do you like it. The boy said yes it is very nice, where'd you get it? The man said oh, from an old friend of mine. Would you like to test it out? The boy said yah, sure, why what's the catch. The man stated there is no catch I told you I'd tell you a secret, this car is it. The boy at first didn't get what the man had just said so he turned to him and asked him, what do you mean? The man said give it time son, and you will find out.
The boy said ok, and then the man through him a set of keys and said get in. the boy said alright and opened the drivers side, got in, put the key in the ignition and started the car. The car was very loud when it started, in fact so loud the boy once again covered his ears, and once again after about three minutes he uncovered his ears, and the noise was gone. The boy pulled out of the garage looking building and onto the street. He hit the gas and the car lifted off the ground, at first the boy was startled then, he was like this is pretty cool, what is going on? The man says, you are flying; now the real secret is in the glove box, the boy reached over and pulled out an control pad. The bad had many colors on it; the boy asked the man, what is this for? The man stated it is a control pad, it tells the car what to do. The red one makes the earth stop spinning. The blue one launches a nuke out of the trunk. The purple one makes the pipes spit fire. The boy says hold up. What did you say the red one did, the man restated, it makes the world stop spinning the boy said that not possible.
The man then said do you want to bet on that. The boy said yes, and then the man says push it, so the boy did and sure enough, the world stopped. Everything stopped, there was no more moving clouds, no more bird, no cars, no nothing. The boy was really startled now; the boy asked how do you reverse this? The man stated, re hit the button and simultaneously hit the purple one. The boy did and the earth then went back to its normal ways. Now the boy asked the man, why did you show this to me, what does this have to do with me. The man said I am dieing, at my old age, and I chose you to protect this car, and this control pad, because if this gets into the wrong had, earth as we know it will be different. The boy asked why me there is a million other kids just like me that you could have picked. I barely know you and you are going to give me something that can end mankind. Are you crazy, this is crazy this has to be a dream, did you drug me up. The man says boy calm down, no I didn't drug you up, and you do know me. I am your great uncle on your father's side.
The boy said no your not, he died when I was little, the man then said no he didn't because I am him, you were told that due to that I made everyone believe that I did so that this machine, would never get into the wrong hands. But now that I am really fading away, I must pass it on. You and only you can protect this machine. Now there is a trick to this, you must not let anyone find out that you have this, because if you do, let anyone, they will get greedy, and want it for themselves. And, if the wrong person finds out about a machine of this altitude, you may get yourself into something even god can't help you out of.
The boy was a little started, the man said let go back to the house, and we can get something to eat, and you can think about this. The boy nodded in agreement and then the man said you must close your eyes now. After about what felt like two minutes, they arrived at the boy's house. The boy was now wondering, how come it took so long to get there, but so little time to come back. So not thinking again he asked the man that question. The man just laughed and said, we never really left, it was all in your mind. So the boy then asked, is that car real, and what it does. The man then got very serious and said, don't even mention that.
The man turned and then said I'll come back two days, think about it. Decided whether you will take the responsibility, and great tasks in protecting this. The boy said alright, how I will know if I should. The man then said, look into your heart. It is rarely ever wrong. The boy said what does that mean, but he blinked and then the man, along with the car was gone. The boy then walked up to his house, sat down on his porch and rubbed his head, not sure whether to tell someone about what had just happened, or just think about what the man had said. The boy then heard the phone ring, and he jolts back into the house turns to the right, picks up the phone and then says "hello." Once again there was only a dial tone.