Jonny waited and waited for any sign of a bus to come. The second he was going to give up he heard a noise.
The doors opened.
A man with big muscles and a cigar hanging out from his mouth stared at Jonny with this demonic stare.
He wanted to run away, but plank reminded him that Captain Melonhead showed no fear.
The boy climbed the steps. He couldn't even reach the collection box. Plank told him to lift him up and the quarters slid off the piece of wood.
There were so many people on the bus. One man looked up from his newspaper, looking at Jonny dressed up in his melon constume.
Good, there was a seat right up front. The less people there were was best.
The bus jerked and Jonny went tumbling down the aisle into someone's legs.
"Sorry, mister."
They were all staring at him.
Sweat dripped off his head.
He hated when people did that. Everyone thought he was weird. Nobody in school would talk to him and he'd hear them talking about him.
These people were immence. All their faces were hidden by hats or magazines. Were they whispering about him?
"Buses sure pack a wallop, huh, Plank?"
The hunk of wood wasn't in his hands.
Where did he go? He he wander off? Well, wander wasn't the right word because he didn't have any legs.
Jonny walked through the sea of legs calling out for his pal.
Was it him or was he getting smaller?
"Plank, quit freaking me out!" Jonny called out.
He walked into someone. Then walked back into another. He stepping on another's foot. More and more people were appearing out of nowhere.
"Oh, sorry! Excuse me! Parden me! Has anybody seen my pal?!" He shouted as he ran through mazes of people's legs.
They were all talking. How could people have so many conversations? They all kept staring at him. Jonny feltas if his heart was going to jump out of his skin. Where was Plank, the front of the bus, the door to outside, anything?!
Jonny grasped a pole. He held it so tightly as if it were one of his parents. Why did he talk himself into this? He never left on his own. His parents and therapist worried about him if he ever went somewhere by himself. What did they say would happen? Oh yeah, that his mind would go in-
Something caught Jonny's eye.
The hunk of wood was driving the bus.
"Plank, is that you?"
The bus's horn honked.
They were heading into the city!
Jonny screamed as everything crowded around him until he had an insane look in his eyes.
"Fear not, Splinter, we will get out of this bus alive! We'll find the Ed's even if we have to kill all these monsters!"
Jonny let out a maniacal laugh.
Little did he know that he was going insane. All the people on the bus were cowering into the back. They were only trying to help until he started acting this way. That hunk of wood he called Plank lay on the side of the bus as the driver had no idea what to do.
He just kept driving as he was commanded to into the city.
