Letter: 40

Leroy was waiting at the bus stop for me. I barrly just got out of my house and he was ready to go. " You're on time! ". Leroy yelled at me. " C'mon I see the bus, lets go. ".

We took the bus to the town of Providence in Rhode Island. The bust ride was silent except for Leroy's camera as he took pictures of the fields. " You never will get a good picture on a moving bus like this. ", I told him as I rested my head on my seat. " You are just waisting perfectly good film. ".

Leroy snickered at me with haste. " You have no sense of Photography! ", Leroy scolded me. I jumped back a little bit in my seat from his sudden change of movement. " It's not how good the picture turns out, Its about the meaning and poetry of the photo! ".

Leroy looked at me with serenity. I only sat there to think about what Leroy said. Have ai been looking st photos wrong? " Like Eric, the earliest photos look like ass, but its not the actual photograph that makes In beautiful. Its the fact that it was a representation of a time in the world where we didn't exist yet. ".

I kinda zoned out on Leroy's tangent. I guess I'm glad that Leroy takes something so seriously like photography. We finally arrived at the town and Leroy rushed to get out.

Leroy ran into a nearby forest until I could not see him. " Leroy! Don't leave! ", I yelled at him. " A serial killer could be in there! ". I ran to catch up with Leroy. But the forest was so dark from the tall oak trees that were blocking all of the sunlight.

Eventually, I caught up to Leroy, He was kneeling over a cliff right on the edge. " Motherfucker, you suicidal? ". I yelled at him panting. I was gonna scold him some more, when I actuallyy looked over the edge.

Oh nah nah nah!

It was another MIC base. It looked abandoned, but you can never know. " This is where we gonna go! " Leroy chuckled. " I wanted you to come just in case my ass got obliterated by some janitors in there. ". I shook for a moment.

We made our way down the cliff and over to the entrance to the base. Suddenly, two big guys jumped up on us. " What are you-" the guy cut off. " You are the anomaly! ", the guy yelled. Suddenly the men's body became covered in electric covered rocks as they started prepare. " Eric! Lets get the fuck out of here! ", Leroy screamed trying to get away. But Leroy couldn't before being socked in the face. Leroy's face was bloody and his known was broken. I had to fight off these guys.

The ice forming on my palms became ice knives. I threw one at a guard and slid down with my ice under the other guards. I stabbed the guard in back. But that didn't seem to faze him. " We are not the same guards as before! ", the guards yelled. The guards grabbed both of my arms fiercely. They kept on pulling my arms. I was crying in pain.

The ice formed in around my arms as I was quickly losing breath. Suddenly, the guards began screaming. " Ah! ", the guard yelled. " What the fuck is this? ". The guard was getting covered in ice slowly. When the guards became fully covered in ice-

POP!

The guards broke into big bloody icy chunks. My arms had become big beefy ice arms and with a single touch they both died. As soon as this power had entered my body, it came out a d the arms meleted returning to my regular arms.

Leroy was still knocked out. I checked and he wasn't dead somehow. I was about to leave when I saw that the door to the base was open.

Well yolo

I entered the base and saw barely any guards. The guards that I did see were brutes towerinng the doors and walls. I could overhear a conversation going on in a nearby room. " Number 42, Explain to me what happened on that night? ". A mab's voice asked.

The room went silent for a second. The only thing you could hear was the ventilation and the droplets of a sink. " I-I ki-lled them! ", another voice muttered. This must've been this so called Number 42.

Number 42 started to cry and sniffle. " It was me! I-I did it! ". 42's cries slowly turned into a maniacal laugh. I tried to sneak away from this encounter but I accidentally tripped on a metal chunk. " Huh who's-"

BLOP!

The door's window became covered in blood and brainmatter as a body smacked on the door. " Don't let your guard down, Mr. Ronaldo! ". Number 42 laughed. This man was insane. I have to get away.

Byt suddenly the door of the same room began to open. Put came a frail man with long uncombed hair and lacking body fat. He was wearing a sweatsuit that said Number 42. " You and me are…". Number 42 said silently.

" Listen, we are alike, look at my forehead! ". I said while showing the emrald at 42. " Number 42, let me set you free! "

" All I want is hospitalization! ", 32 muttered. " I want to stay at your house. ". I thought this question was weird and uncalled for, But I agreed.

I pressed the building's self destruct button and we ran out of the building. I could see Leroy's body srill unconsious.

I immediately grabbed Leroy's almost lifeless body. We ran to the forest to escape the explosion. Suddenly,-

BOOM!

Urk

I awoke on the ground covered by fire. Leroy was somehow still alive even though the blast radius stretched out to the forest. Number 42 was ok with only tatters to his pants. My shirt was missing and Leroy had teared clothes.

I got up weakly and grabbed Leroy and helped 42 get up. We went to bus stop and awaited for the buss back to Tulip.