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The group is now hanging upside down with their feet tied together with a rope hanging from the ceiling.
"Good plan, Thomas. 'Just hear what the man has to say.' Really working out for us." Minho remarks sarcastically.
"Shut up, Minho!"
Katherine looks straight down to see that there are several levels to fall before hitting the floor and embracing death. "We're screwed. Aren't we?"
"This isn't bad. I mean, this is better than getting eaten by a gang of cranks." Chris says, swinging his rope to his sides.
Katherine rolls her eyes at his optimism. "We can't hang like this forever, Chris."
"Maybe I can reach the rope." Minho says and tries to pull himself up and reach the rope but fails.
"Enjoying the view?" Jorge steps in with an amused grin.
"What the hell do you want?" Minho's sarcastic voice is now full of annoyance.
"That is the question. My men want to sell you back to WICKED. Life has taught them to think small. I'm not like that. Something tells me that you're not either."
"Is the blood rushing to my head or is this shank not making any sense?" Minho asks and Katherine chuckles.
"Tell me what you know about the Right Arm." Jorge demands and pounces his walking stick into the floor.
"I thought you said they were ghosts." Newt states.
"I happen to believe in ghosts. Especially when I hear them chattering on the airwaves." Jorge places his hand on the lever that controls the ropes attached to their feet. "You tell me what you know, and maybe we can make a deal."
"We don't know much." Thomas mutters and with that, Jorge pulls the lever causing them to drop a few feet down. "Okay! Okay, all right. They're hiding in the mountains. And they attacked WICKED. They got out a bunch of kids. That's it. That's all we know."
Jorge opens his mouth to speak when one of his men appears. "Yo, Jorge. What's going on?"
"Me and my new friends were just getting acquainted. We're done now." Jorge says and tries to walk away but Thomas stops him.
"Hey, wait. You're not gonna help us?"
"Don't worry, hermano. We'll get you back to where you belong. Hang tight." Jorge states before leaving them and the guard leaves behind him.
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"Come on, Minho. Push her harder!" Katherine yells in irritation as Teresa loses the railing.
"I'm trying, woman!" Minho yells back as he swings and pushes Teresa harder than his last attempt. This time Teresa finally got a grip of the railing.
"Yes!"
Startled shouts come from everyone as they drop another foot as Teresa pulls the lever just enough so she can sit on the edge and swiftly untie herself.
"Okay. Teresa, hurry!" Thomas shouts when a familiar voice project outside the building and a faint sound of a chopper is barely audible through the metal walls.
"Good evening! This is the World Catastrophe Killzone Department. We have your compound completely surrounded. You find yourselves, through no fault of your own... in possession of WICKED property."
It's Janson. They've found them.
"Shit!"
"That ratman is really obsessed over us." Katherine mutters.
"Return them to us unharmed and we'll consider this a simple misunderstanding." Janson continues when the group helps each other to get back into solid ground. "Or you can resist and every last one of you will die. It won't be long before the Flare wipes out the rest of us. The hope of a cure lies in your hands. The choice is yours."
"Okay. Let's go, let's go!"
All of them, finally making it back into their feet, begin to run where Jorge disappeared before only to come face to face with one of Jorge's men and his gun straightly pointed at them.
Thomas puts his hands up. "We're not trying to cause any trouble, okay? We just got to get out of here."
"Is that so?" He smirks, showing his missing teeth and pulls out his radio to his face. "Janson, I got 'em for ya. I'm bringing 'em down. Don't shoot us."
He then lowers his radio and waves his weapon, signaling them to move. "Come on. Let's go."
"I said let's go." Thomas thrusts forward and jams the arm of the man upwards. A gunshot echoes through the air but luckily, it never hit on anyone.
Chris and Minho quickly manage to push him back but loses control as he raises the gun at them again.
"You little bastard!" The man snarls and loads his gun again before a loud bang takes its space in the air.
Blood seeps through the man's clothes before he collapses to the ground, revealing a girl with a gun in her hand.
"Okay. Come on." Brenda says and walks out of the doorway in a hurry. When she realizes that no one is following her, she speaks again. "Come on! Let's go!"
The group is following Brenda behind as a cheerful song blasts through the speakers. They make it up the stairs and stop to find Jorge rummaging through his stuff.
"Brenda! Hurry! We don't have much time!" He pushes a window open, revealing a tightrope connected to a building on the other side.
"You gotta be kidding me."
"Plan B, hermano. You kids wanna get to the Right Arm? I'll lead you to them. But you're gonna owe me." Jorge pulls out a strip of cloth from the zipline and loops his hands around the cloth before pushing himself to the edge of the doors.
"Follow me!" He yells and slides down the zipline.
"All right! Let's go!" Brenda pulls out more strips of clothes before handing them to Glader one by one as they follow down Jorge's path on the zipline.
When Katherine's about to take her turn, Brenda curses under her breath before she jogs towards Jorge's room.
"Brenda! Where are you going?" Thomas calls out urgently. But it's too late. She has disappeared.
He turns to me. "Just go. I'm right behind you."
"How about no? I'm not leaving without you." Katherine crosses her hands over her chest in a challenging manner.
Thomas scoffs at her arrogance. "Fine. Let's find Brenda."
Both the twins make it to Jorge's room to find Brenda digging around in Jorge's desk drawer.
"Brenda, come on. What are you doing? We gotta go!" Thomas reminds when Brenda finds a trinket through the stuff.
"I got it."
"Come on." She pockets it in and the three turn to run back to the zipline, only to find multiple WCKD armed soldiers closing in.
"Shit."
"Take cover!" Brenda shoots the guards as they run into another way only to get trapped by another team of soldiers. She leads the twins across support beams in the warehouse to escape, sliding down poles leading to a sub-basement area when the song stops and a bomb detonates. She locates a grate leading to the underground tunnels and jumps in dragging the twins along with her.
