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Chapter 60: Vent Boy Makes an Entrance

For the rest of the day, I feel like I'm barely there with the others. I had no motivation to do anything, or even move.

That night, we were back in the cafeteria. More people were called up, but nobody that I knew.

Thomas tried to sneak out, but a guard stopped him. Despite Newt warning him not to moments before, he starts causing a scene, yelling and shouting, while the others attempted to hold him back. Because of that outburst, we got taken back to our dormitory.

I climbed into bed, exhausted, while Thomas and the rest argued. I tuned their voices out as I drifted to sleep, just wishing that I was still in the Glade before Thomas had came up in the Box.

I was rudely woken up from people shouting at Thomas while he attempted to barricade the door.

"They're coming! Come on! We gotta go!" Thomas says. "They're coming for us. Paige is still alive"

"Aris, what happened in their?!" Fry yells. "WHAT HAPPENED?!"

"Thomas, can you just calm down and talk to us?" a frustrated Newt asks.

"She's still alive" Thomas explains.

"Teresa?"

"Ava!"

"Ava?" Newt repeats in disbelief. "Will you just turn around and talk to us?!" he snaps.

"It's WCKD!" Thomas shouts. "It's still WCKD" My eyes widen. We hadn't escaped. We weren't free. I was right to be suspicious about this place. "It's always been WCKD"

We quickly scramble into the vents, letting Aris and Thomas lead the way. We come out into a corridor, but Aris and Winston split up because Aris needed to do something.

"You sure we can trust this kid?" Minho asks.

"You don't wanna know where we'd be without him" Thomas replies.

We suddenly bump into a suspicious Doctor Crawford. She asks what we're doing, but gets her answer when the alarms sound. We take her and force her to lead us to the Medical Wing.

Guards start shooting at us, so we hurry up, refusing to fail now, after we'd come all this way. Too many people had died, had suffered, just for us to be taken back to WCKD.

Minho suddenly ran and attacked a guard, knocking him out. Thomas took his gun for protection, and we carried on moving.

Third Person's Point of View

As the group hurried to get to Teresa, Janson and the guards stayed in hot pursuit.

After getting her, it was only a matter of getting out of the facility.

They all sprinted, and soon came to the corridor they recognise as being the first one they ever went in when they arrived.

All was going well, until the keycard that Thomas has swiped from a guard wouldn't work.

That's when Janson's smug face appeared as he strutted towards them. He tries to convince them to stay, but had no such luck; they knew the truth, and wouldn't be farmed for a cure that might not even exist.

Their saviours came in the form of Aris and Winston. They had opened the door from the other side, and the previously trapped Gladers make a run for it. After running out of ammo, Thomas joined them. He slid under the door, only just about making it. After flipping Janson off, he and the others went outside into the dangerous, dreaded and doomed world.

Sand blew in their eyes once they were out, but they had the benefit of darkness masking them from their hunters, who were anxious to get them back.

After Teresa convincing them to since WCKD were hot on their tails, they entered a broken building that looked like it used to be a mall. It was completely destroyed and abandoned by now, but there were still some useful supplies.

Teresa demanded to know what was happening, so Thomas explained everything that he and Aris knew.

"Ok, so what's the plan?" Newt asks. "You do have a plan, right?"

"I don't know" Thomas admits.

"Well, we followed you out here, Thomas, and now you're saying that you have no idea where we're going or what we're doing?"

"Wait" Aris catches the attention of the group. "Janson said something about people hiding in the mountains. Some kind of resistance, or army"

"The Right Arm" Thomas fills in. "The Right Arm. If they're really against WCKD, maybe they can help us"

"People. In the mountain. Mountain people?" Newt looks like he's in disbelief. "That's your plan?"

"It's the only chance we have"

Soon, they started gathering things that they might need. Fresh clothes was a start, and Newt had to knock Frypan's arm as a warning when he watched Teresa and Olivia get dressed.

Olivia was alarmed as lights suddenly turned on after a while, but tried not to think anything of it.

However, her attempts at calming herself were pointless as Minho and Thomas ran towards the group, yelling and screaming at them to run. The sight of Cranks meant they didn't need much convincing.

A Crank landed on Newt, but with some help, he managed to fight it off, get up, and catch up with the rest of them.

As they struggled with a lock on a door, Winston started shooting Cranks that were getting far too close for comfort. They made a grab for his leg, but as the others dragged him to safety, he got free.

They hid underneath a rock that provided them a fair amount of protection and security, so it meant they could sleep reasonably peacefully that night.

When they awoke, they were tired and scared and confused.

Winston was in obvious pain, but no one thought much of it because of what he went through last night with the Cranks. To be honest, they were a little surprised that Newt wasn't the same.

Their surroundings were alarming; huge buildings were crumbling, windows smashed, big chunks of them missing, debris littering the ground. It was not a pretty sight. However, they had to kept moving, so they started to walk through the city.

"Woah, woah, woah. Do you hear that?" Thomas asks.

A/n: Happy new year guys!! Hope you all have a great 2022 :) <3

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