The
story starts with a young boy, playing with superhero toys, his father comes in
to see what he’s doing and plays with him, while telling him a story of how
superheroes really exist, the young boy expresses his dream of becoming a hero
and helping people and his father gives him the motivation that he will do
someday, he knows it.
The
young boy is now a teenager, having forgotten his dream and is living out life
studying and achieving his grades so he can become a lawyer, he is studying in
his room when his father comes in and asks what he is doing and points out that
they will probably work together someday as his father is a police officer, the
father also points out that he is surprised his son doesn’t go mad with the
amount of work his son does. Nevertheless, the father leaves his son with his
work, while the boy is reading the news he sees that a local gang have struck
again the day before, having put a boy in critical condition for not bowing to
them as he walked past, this sickens the boy and this compels him to ask his
father more on the subject. His father tells him all about the gang, and how it
is impossible to charge them because there is just so many. The boy wishes he
could do something.
The
next day he is walking to school with his two best friends, he talks to them
about the gang and that he feels that his mind is nagging at him to do something
about it. His friends both steer him away from this idea because they don’t want
him doing anything stupid.
In
school, the boy and his friends are studying when a group of harsh boys walk in
and start making noise, one of his friends points out how much he hates them,
while the boy simple shrugs them off, stating that if they want to act like
children they can, as long as they don’t hurt anyone. Later, as the boy and his
friends walk past the harsh boys who are throwing a tennis ball at a group of
younger children and being in general intimidating, the boy approaches asking if
they could leave the kids alone, the harsh boys are puzzled asking what he is
going to do about it when one of the boys friends interject saying that he’s not
going to do anything, to forget it and prompting the boy to leave, as the harsh
boys exclaim that the boy should heed her advice cause he was about to get hurt.
The boy and his friends turn around and begin walking when the harsh boys throw
the tennis ball and hit a kid in the head, the kid starts crying and the boy
lashes out in rage. When both parties pull the two fighting boys off each other,
the harsh boy swears that he will get him back. On the walk home with his
friends, they call the boy an idiot for getting into the fight, the boy who is
still bleeding responds saying that he doesn’t like how some people are treated
and that he had to do something, he says that he deserved what he got. They are
stopped by a gang of five teens stating that they heard about what happened with
the fight, they ask if the boy if he is afraid of them, the boy simply ignores
them and walks past, not batting an eyelid. A gang member punches him for not
respecting him and this causes the boy to respond a fight ensues where one of
the boys friends are stabbed. As the gang runs off, the boy and his friend panic
and call the ambulance.
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