THE SUPER HERO
by K.S. | 4th Grade
Mr.Steam lives in a quiet neighborhood away from the city. Everyone in the neighborhood always likes to have a clean environment. Mr.Steam lives in a tiny cottage. Inside there was a bed, a small bathroom, bedroom, and kitchen. In the family room there's a small television, a house phone and a desk right beside the window. He works in the city where there is noise happening everywhere around him. In fact, he used to live in the city so he can be closer to his work, but he decided there were too many people, too much arguing, and too much trash. Once he tried to help the city get into a better shape. He tried telling people to throw their trash away and not just leave it. He also tried to tell people to just stop arguing and solve it with patience. But nobody ever listened to him, so he gave up.
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One day Mr.Steam was driving in his baby blue colored car, but just then he got stuck in traffic and the clouds started to get dark. He saw a lot of leaves flying in the air, but nobody noticed but him. Everybody was either arguing with someone or being lazy watching tv. He saw a big fluffy cloud that looked like a lot of cotton balls dropping very low. He had never seen this cloud before, but he was a straight A student so in 3rd grade he learned all about the weather. It was called a cumulonimbus cloud. At this point he knew a tornado was coming.
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It was coming closer to him like a predator attacking its food. The car started to shake.
Mr.Steam’s car started to lift and every other car lifted too, but still nobody noticed. Mr.Steam called for help at least three times, but everyone ignored him as though they were deaf. The car went up and he could see everyone in his neighborhood. Weirdly, everyone was in the tornado, but they were in a bubble and standing in a bubble. Mr.Steam and the people in the neighborhood were on one side and all of the city people were on the other side. This was not a normal tornado.
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He started to notice a pattern. Mr. Steam convinced a boy named James to help them convince the other side, and if he did he would get a lolly pop. When Mr. Steam and his neighborhood convinced somebody to help them they would magically appear on their side which is the right side and lower toward the city, but if somebody started to argue then they would go up higher up towards space.The neighborhood and Mr. Steam started to think they had to get everyone on their side with out any arguing to go back to their home.
First one guy from the neighborhood said “We can work together and have clean environments when we get back home’’. Everyone just ignored him. A guy on the opposite side said “What if we get money from gods in the sky, but the only way is to go up.” Everyone else on the left side agreed. Everyone just kept arguing with the side that wasn’t theirs and agreeing with their side, and the people Mr.Steam liked in his neighborhood actually were arguing without knowing they were arguing.
He knew he had to do something before he started to argue and tell everyone to stop talking or his whole neighborhood would turn into city people. Mr.Steam did a quite unusual thing though. He started to sing country music and line dance. He thought if wanted to stop all of this war against them then he might just do it happily. Everyone just stared at him like they were paralyzed. Until someone said, “O-M-G I remember this song, and started to dance too. Soon everyone started to dance and remember the times when they would dance and sing, and have a great time.
Then Mr.Steam saw everyone as a group, not just two separate bubbles. Every time they moved the bubble would move like little hamsters in a little wheel.They would also lower back to the city. In a short amount of time they were back home. Mr.Steam couldn’t believe he did it. After only dancing, doing what made him happy and made other people happy by watching him be happy.
When the people who got back to the city saw their community with new eyes. They decided to clean up a little more. They started to throw away trash, sweep the floor and maybe apologize to other people for what they have done to them in the past. Most people just used rock paper scissors shoot to solve problems now. Mr.Steam finally had the city he always wanted. Now he could live in the neighborhood or live in the city. They were both very clean and quieter. Mr.Steam was now glad that there are a lot of people in the city because now it’s one whole community not just two separate communities. Mr.Steam had always had a creative mind of his own, and since he was a journalist he wrote an article about himself and how the people in the city changed, and named the newspaper The Super Hero.