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What if you saw your mother getting mauled by a strange creature?
You were awoken by gurgled and strangled screaming coming from outside of your treehouse. You had slept away from home due to an argument with your parents.
After you pull yourself up and wake yourself up, you groggily peek outside of the opening in the wooden walls. There, in your backyard, was an ugly human-looking creature, limping and groaning towards your mother. She had a horrified look on her face as she backs away from the zombie, holding a shoe out in front of her for defense.
"Stay away!" Your mother shrieks, aggressively throwing the shoe at the creature...which ends up bouncing off. Now there was no form of protection against this strange creature. Though not powerful, the shoe was at least some sort of weapon.
Her back was against the fence of your backyard, unable to inch away further from the slowly but surely approaching creature. The tremble in her legs, her short but loud breaths, and her wide-blown eyes told you that she probably didn't have the capability to think straight and run away.
You freeze, not sure what to do in this situation; unless... You look around your treehouse, wanting to help your mother, and notice that there's a potted plant, a empty bag of chips and empty 20 oz soda bottle, your sleeping bag, a baseball bat, a few baseball balls, and your shoes.
Then you remember you're supposed to still be mad at her. The argument that had ensued last night was because your parents had falsely accused you of cheating on a test. You were filled with indignant rage as you stomped out of your home, frustrated.
As of right now, she still hadn't noticed you.
So...the choice is yours. Do you hold onto the grudge against your mother? Or save her? Was this creature even lethal in the first place? And if you did decide to save her, how would you go about it? What would even you do after you save her?
What if you received a remote able to control time? What would you do with it?
One sunny afternoon, breezy and warm, you stumble across a remote in a park. Lying smack dab in the middle of lush green grass, is a TV control remote. No directions, no sign, just a remote.
You pick it up out of curiosity, turning it in your hand and checking it out. It's just a normal remote, the usual dark-gray-almost-black base, rectangular shape, with clickable buttons. You hold it up in the air under the beaming rays of sunlight, checking if anything's wrong with it. It's odd stumbling across a random remote out in the wild, no? Still, you can't see anything wrong with it.
After confirming it's normal, you decide to press some buttons for fun. Your finger grazes across the pause button, and the people in the distance stop walking. Is this some sort of sick joke? You squint your eyes to see if they're really not moving anymore or if it's just your imagination. Yeah, no, they're definitely unmoving. One woman was literally in the middle of taking a step, while another man who was presumably on a call had his mouth wide open - like screaming or yelling open - with no sound coming from it.
Hurriedly, hoping that this wasn't illegal or anything, you press the play button. Everything goes back to normal. The woman continues to walk, and the man keeps on yelling at his phone.
...Except it's not. Not with this possibly felonious discovery. You now had the power to pause and un-pause time with this old measly TV remote. And you assume that you're also able to reverse and forward time, with the respective buttons.
Now...what will you do with your newfound power? Use it for good? Or become a tyrannical villain who uses fear to reign power over humanity?
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