Finding Hope - Newt x Reader | Book 1

Chapter 7

Thomas turns to look at us as he continues walking forwards, "You guys ever seen this place before?"

"No," we answer simultaneously, our voices reverberating around the big room. Towards the end of the room, where the big wall stood, a hole opened up to the sky. "W.C.K.D. Loading Ramp" painted onto the wall above.

"Agh," Minho groans as we reach the end, "it's just another dead end."

Suddenly, the clicking sound from the Griever device stopped, the light on it turning green. We look over at the wall as gears start to shift, bringing the wall upwards, and a series of walls following it from behind. A spiral circle is on a wall at the end of the hall, slowly opening up and revealing to us a tunnel of darkness.

The three of us glance at each other as I look over at Thomas, "You sure about this? You know, before we go and possibly kill ourselves?"

The boy gulps, "Nope." Then starts walking forwards.

Minho and I follow behind the brunette, making our way over to the large tunnel. The asian boy walks over to the edge of the circle, wiping his hand on it and showing it to us--yellow goo coming off of it. "Grievers."

Suddenly, a red light appears at the end of the tunnel, making a beeping noise. A red laser shoots out from it, scanning us up and down. Then a loud beeping goes off, sounding like an alarm. Gears begin shifting from around us, the walls of the hall slowly coming back down.

"Let's go, we gotta get out of here," Minho tells us, as we start running out. "Give me the key," he repeats twice to Thomas, who tosses it to him.  The boy reaches behind him and puts it back in his backpack as we start sprinting out back into the Blades. The skinny, metal structures start turning, becoming walls.

"We gotta go," I shout before running into a sprint again, "Run Thomas! We're gonna get trapped!"

We run between blades, barely making it through each time. The three of us keep running, making tight turns every now and then.

"Minho! Clementine," Thomas shouts. I look behind me and realize he's not there, only to realize that the boy is on the other side of the blade wall on our left.

"Come on, Thomas," I yell at him, "you gotta cut through!"

He runs close to the blades, frantically flailing his arms as he attempts to push his way through. Eventually, he succeeds, his body being thrown into Minho as he does.

Minho catches him and puts him upright on his feet as we keep running, "Come on, keep going."

We make it back to the outer part of the section, but slowing down as the ground in front of us starts shaking and accelerating upward. We turn, sprinting and running for our lives as walls shoot up from the ground or fall to our sides.

"Don't look back," I shout to Thomas, who ran behind Minho and I. We jump through the exit, the floor already moving back up. Having to squeeze through and army-crawl, we finally make it out, landing on our backs as we escape.

Loud breaths escape our lungs, the three of us laughing hysterically.

Eventually, we get back to our feet and run back to the Glade--a large group of boys waiting for us at the entrance.

"Well what the heck was going on out there," Newt asks as we cross over into the Glade, Thomas and Minho walking ahead of the group while I walk alongside Newt.

"What've you done now, Thomas," Gally pushes, insinuating he messed things up.

"We found something," I explain, "it was a new passage or something. It opened up with that thing that was inside the Griever."