The Red Room: A Short Story

“So, you really want to know?” The thought of the era made the old man shiver. “Please Gramps! I wouldn’t have come here if I didn’t want to, please, I need this!”
Vince begged desperately. He needed to use a resource for his history project over the Vigilante Years in the 2030s, which his grandfather Juan would remember greatly.
“You would give me an instant A, and I would work for it. All I need is a few quo--” “Fine, but hurry before I change my mind,” Juan reluctantly answered.
As soon as Vince heard the words he scrambled for his BookTab across the room, causing him to almost knock Juan’s favorite lamp off the nightstand. I remember it well . . . . It was January Twenty-Second, 2032. Frigid Temperatures plagued Manhattan. I, a waiter

Before Vince departed during that day he uploaded a file to the internet. In it was all the evidence Vince had been collecting whilst in the NYPD. It was twenty Gigabytes encompassing just pictures and text logs. A quick summary of what was in the file is the Guardian and the higher-ups at the NYPD formed a coup, and then illegally took out and cleaned up gangs and street thugs in a violent and twisted vision of justice. They wrote down a list of people who could be a threat and expose them. Daniels was one of them and was blamed when the bomb was set in his apartment. There were text logs collected in the file that showed that officers knew and willingly acted as the janitors to the murderous slaughters that the Guardian brought into being. Vince was innocent. Nonetheless, there was a problem. Nobody knew who the Guardian was, and with no identifying features to go off of he could slip back into society, without anyone

Only people with wants, and those wants contradicted each other’s. Mikey wanted to protect people, however his thought process on how to do it became flawed when he started believing that no one changes. He concluded the only way was to kill, and if he could kill criminals to protect people for the greater good then innocents could also die in the name of the greater good. Daniels saw the flaw in this logic, as did the other officers. When Mikey heard, he believed that if he disappeared the city would fall into chaos, and he blew up a building full of people to make sure that it wouldn’t happen. You want to know the craziest part about those three months? Everyone-- Me, the public, and even the government-- trusted him for almost five years. Really makes you wonder what kinds of atrocities are happening now, only because we don’t bother to