Somewhere, time didn't move.

In a completely empty space sat a boy, his young eyes filled with curiosity as he glanced at the expansive white space he was currently in.

"Hello!" He shouted, but all he received was silence.

He sat there looking around, but it was all the same.

He itched his head as he stood up and looked in one direction.

He deliberated over whether he should walk.

Chances were he could find somebody or he would just exhaust himself.

"You can't exhaust yourself here," an aged voice suddenly came from behind the boy. Startled, the boy hurriedly turned his head towards the noise, only to see a tall man in a tuxedo, holding a black cane and wearing a black top hat over his white hair and beard, standing there.

His eyes and cheeks wrinkled as he gently smiled, looking at the boy.

"Locke, how are you doing?" The man asked the boy.

"Hi, I am doing fine," Locke replied. "But where are we?" He asked, looking around.

The man chuckled as he watched the young Locke look around with confusion.

"It's just a little place for our meeting, don't worry about it," the man said.

"Oh... Umm, who are you?" Locke asked.

"Me?" The man pointed to himself, "I am Mr. Time," the man responded with a smile.

"Hello Mr. Time, could you please send me back to normal? Mom must be getting worried, I have been here for a while now," Locke requested, causing the smile on Mr. Time's face to falter a little.

"Little one, I am so sorry," Mr. Time said.

"Sorry for what?" Locke asked with a little bit of naivety.

"There was an accident with Mrs. Time, you see, and that caused time to freeze for a little over 500 years."

"What?!" Locke asked as he failed to understand why Mr. Time was telling him this.

"Unfortunately, in this, you were the only one not affected by this shockwave in time," Mr. Time said. "If I didn't come here, you would go about living your life in a world—no, universe—where everything was frozen for 500 years. By 70 of those years, you would most probably die."

"But..."

"Hold on, boy, I'm not done," Mr. Time said as Locke interrupted him. "I don't want you to pay for mistakes on our part, so I am here to grant you some abilities as well as a choice."

"First, I will tell you the abilities I will give you:

First, you will not physically age.

Second, you can unfreeze things or people for a certain amount of time, but once something or somebody is unfrozen, they will age like normal.

That is, of course, if you freeze them again, but this can only apply to one item and one person.

You will be able to use amenities that were already switched on, basically the same as unfreezing one item but broader—for example, a computer.

And you will not physically age," he said with his index finger pointing up, "but you can change your body—for example, increase muscle. But this also means you can get injured and quite potentially die. Consider it partial immortality," Mr. Time said.

"So here are your options: either accept this or just ask me to freeze you in time just like everybody else. Wake up 500 years later and the world will resume as if no time had passed," Mr. Time said as he approached closer to Locke. "So which one will it be, Locke?" he asked.

"I don't want to be frozen for so many years," Locke muttered to himself, falling silent for a few minutes thinking it over.

"Won't I lose my mind living for that long?"

"No, you won't. It's a perk of partial immortality," Mr. Time said with a smile.

"I want my body to be able to grow up until I am... 25 years old," Locke asked.

"That's not a problem."

"Okay, but what was the incident that caused this?" Locke asked, causing Mr. Time to laugh out loud.

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"Mrs. Time had our first child," Mr. Time said with a happy smile.

"Well, congratulations," Locke, who was only 12 years old, currently said.

"Oh, thank you," Mr. Time said. "When the kid grows a little, I'll bring him around to meet you, I hope you wouldn’t mind," Mr. Time said with a smile.

"I wouldn’t," Locke said. "So when can I get back to the world?" he asked with a flash of excitement.

"Right now, if you want," Mr. Time said as he raised his hand up in the air and snapped his fingers.

Locke blinked at that moment, and when he opened his eyes, he was in a completely different yet familiar place.

He was back in his room.

He looked around the room as the bright sun outside lit it up and the rays landed on Locke, warming him up.

The soft bed he was sitting on, the white study table beside his bed, the familiar decorations on the wall, and the fan pointing towards him that seemed to have been switched off.

"Yep, this is my room, alright," Locke confirmed to himself as he jumped off the bed, slipped on his home slippers, and ran towards the brown wooden door, which he swung open and entered a small hallway.

He rushed through the hallway and down the staircase into the circular living room, where, throughout that, his mom stood with her back facing him in the open kitchen behind a counter.

"Mom!" Locke shouted as he rushed past the soft leather sofa in the living room into the kitchen and appeared right by his mother, who was frozen in place in the middle of cleaning a plate.

"Right... Mom is frozen, like everybody, but that's fine," Locke said as he extended his hand towards his mother, laying it upon her arm.

His eyes closed as he wished for his mom to resume.

He felt something leaving his body and the sound of cleaning appeared for a second before he felt his mother move away from his touch in surprise.

"Locke, when did you get down here?" she said with her palm covering her heart.

"Mom, you would not believe what just happened," Locke said excitedly as he began explaining everything that had just occurred to him.

"Locke, what are you talking about?" His mom said, failing to believe a word that came out of Locke's mouth.

"Did you get enough sleep?" she asked, a little worried, as she removed the glove she was using to do the dishes and placed her palm on Locke's forehead to check his temperature.

Locke stood there feeling a little frustrated but knew that he had to prove it to his mother for her to believe him.

"Mom, come on, I'll show you," Locke said as he pointed towards the outside window.

His mother just looked at him and the outside, which was only her backyard covered in short green grass, a little stunned not knowing what to do. But when she saw how persistent Locke's eyes were, she decided to simply let Locke show her.

"Fine, then," she said as she took off her apron and headed towards the main door right in front of the stairs to the upstairs, along with Locke.

Locke followed excitedly as they changed into their outside shoes and stepped out.

They didn't even have to step outside the house as there were two cars on the street in front of their suburban house.

These two cars were completely stopped in place; the drivers inside them didn't move an inch.

She found this to be a bit odd but still didn't believe what Locke had said, so she stepped out and approached the closer blue Prius.

She reached the driver's side window and knocked on it.

But the driver inside seemed to have not heard the knock at all.

His eyes still faced the road ahead, and his hands held onto the steering wheel.

"See Mom, I told you," Locke said as he too looked inside the car.

"But Locke, this is not possible," she said in disbelief.

Her eye looked at the pedal, and the man's leg was pressing down on the accelerator, yet the car didn't move.

She ran over to the next car, and it was the same case for that car as well.

She ran over to her neighbor's house and knocked, but when she got no response, she peeked through the window, only to see the woman inside, who she knew very well, frozen in place just like the people who were driving the car.

"Locke," she said a little out of breath. "How is this possible?" she said as she gently held Locke's shoulders.

"I already told you, Mom, it was because Mrs. Time gave birth to a baby," Locke responded.

"So everything you said, is it true?" she asked with shock.

"Mhm," Locke nodded.

"Oh god," she exhaled with a deep breath. "Locke, why did you agree? What are you going to do for this long?" she asked with worry.

"I can do everything!" Locke said with wonder as the possibilities of what he could do with these abilities and time flooded his mind.

But his mother could not help but feel extremely worried for her son right now.

As Locke was going through the amazing future, his mother was filled with worry about Locke and how lonely he would feel.

"I need to sit for a while," his mother said with a sigh as she sat on the ground.

"Hey Mom, we can go get that dress you really liked yesterday!" Locke suddenly exclaimed in excitement.

Yesterday, as it was a Saturday, she had taken Locke to the mall to have some fun, but as they were walking past a clothing store, Locke remembered how his mother's eyes lit up when she saw a purple dress. Locke remembers how his mother enthusiastically asked how much the dress cost but when the sales person told her how much locke still remembered how the light in his mothers eyes dimmed a little.

"Locke, that would be stealing" His mother forbade him however.

"But Mom, We can't don't need to pay for it" Locke said causing her to go silent.

She thought about it for a while before she shook her head as she stood up.

"We dont need it, we will pay for the things we take" She said.

She knew she had give Locke some guidelines.

"But eventually we will run out of money" Locke said.

"Then create a system, Save a person or animal and in exchange take some money from that person, how does that sound?" She said.

"But why?" Locke groaned.

He could go anywhere, do anything and eat anything, why should he restrict himself like this.

"That's just unfair!" Locke exclaimed.

"Locke, We are humans because we follow rule, because we have morals, if we didn't have rules wouldnt we be just like a beast?"

"Tellcme Locke are you a beast?" She scolded.

"No..." Locked softly said with his head down.

"Good then" She smiled, "let's eat some breakfast, I was going to make pancakes" She said as she headed towards there two story light blue coloured walls with brown tiles on the triangular roof house.

Locke could only sigh to himself, he felt his stomach growl which made him quickly follow his mother inside the house.

In there Locke used his ability on the electricity being provided to the house and switched on the Ac and the electrical stove allowing his mother to cook.

This also powered up his Tv which he used the "Specific Item" part of the second ability on the TV allowing him to watch the current and previous programs on all of the channels.