Star city home to an obscene amount of people, each with their own past and future, scurrying around not passing any heed to their life that's waving goodbye. Safe within their own personal bubble going from A-B with their heads down, hoping to avoid future mishaps. When they least expect it fate strikes, throwing a pebble into the carefully laid plans of the everyday Joe. He then sits back on his comfortable throne, I bet with his feet up, laughing at the consequences of his actions. I'm beginning to believe that Fate really enjoys chucking those pebbles my way.
Soaked to the skin and getting more and more agitated as the minutes ticked by. The image of the child being taken played over and over in my head not allowing me to get any sleep. I rationalised earlier on that there is no way a mother would allow a complete stranger to babysit her son, even if said stranger says it's for a good cause. Which is one of the reasons why I found myself in the parking lot of my vision, with ten minutes remaining before the incident occurs, when that familiar feeling came on me again "SERIOUSLY" I said. I found myself in a parking lot observing someone break into a car. "Oh jeez such an amateur" was the first thing that popped into my head, I know I know, I'm such a model citizen. I glanced at a clock that was conveniently placed above the exit this related to my other vision?
The click clacking of heels gained my attention. The lady in blue carrying the child was heading straight towards the newbie car thief, which should have given him enough time to collect his tools and run like any other smart thief would have done. But no, this man was cool as a cucumber; he just reached for his back pocket and pulled out a gun... A Gun... holy crap on a cracker. He grabbed the child from the mother and single shot echoed through the lot, not a witness in sight, that left only little old me, and I wasn't physically there. A weight hit the floor and tyres screeched out of the parking lot as if the bat himself was chasing him.
I blinked a few times and my eyes finally focused. I was in the parking lot, still soaked to the skin and cursing an even bigger blue streak. What the hell am I going to do! It was bad enough when it was just a man involved. Now he has a weapon that could actually kill me! The way I looked at it I had two options (1) ignore my vision and wish the lady luck in running with her child and dodging the bullet (which I know Hit) thus in turn leaving me with nightmares for the rest of my life or (2) run over to the parking lot that's about four floors up in the lashing rain, surprise the moran of a thief with my nonexistent fighting skills and receive the bullet instead. My feet were already running towards the floor before my mind was made up, two minutes left... Curse you fate you strike again!
I crouched down three cars away from the thief/future abductor, trying to control my breathing and rapid heart rate. The heeled lady made her appearance whispering to the child in her arms. This is it, the moment has arrived, I got up off the ground and crept silently towards the man picking up a bar that thankfully was in my path. Feeling slightly more confident now that I had some sort of defence I waited until he would take his gun out.
Now! I swung with all the strength I had knocking him unconscious... Well that was easy... and... what am I... disappointed? Did I want him to put up more of a fight? Get shot and die?
The woman continued down oblivious to what could have happened. I looked down at the man and shrugged. I did my part, disaster averted. I skipped back down the floors and whistled a happy tune. Delighted with myself and what I had accomplished.
I didn't see the see the security camera move and my first unselfish undertaking had unseen foreseen consequences. Funny how that works huh?
ELSEWHERE
A computer monitor replayed the actions of a girl knocking a man out. Interesting enough she was there way before anything happened. It's as if she knew what was going on. The chair swivelled around and a boy looked up to a man dressed in green that towered above him.
"It seems we have a new player in our city" he smirked.