I Promise | The Maze Runner

Chapter 8: Escaping ✔️

Aris, Thomas, and I rush back through the vents. We get to Thomas' room and quickly get out of the vents.

"We gotta go!" Thomas yells, grabbing a sheet from one of the bunks. The boys ask him questions, confused. "We gotta go! They're coming for us!"

A few of the boys round on Aris. "Aris, what is he talking about?!" Aris stands there in a confused daze.

"Thomas!" The blonde yells. "Will you just calm down and talk to us?!"

"She's still alive!" Thomas yells.

"Who's she?!" A black boy asks. "Teresa?"

"Ava!" Thomas yells, grabbing a mattress and putting it against the door. "It's Ava!"

"Ava?" The blonde boy asks confused. "Just turn around and talk to us!"

"It's WICKED!" Thomas yells, finally turning to his friends. "It's still WICKED, it's always been WICKED!"

"What did you see?" The blonde boy asks, cautiously. 

"There's no time to explain...we need to leave, now." I say, stepping forward.

The boys all glance at each other before slowly nodding. "Aris, lead them in the vents!" I say.

Aris perks up a little at his name before nodding and going into the vents. I push the guys in. Thomas goes first and everybody follows. I push the blonde in before following.

We rush through the vents, getting out in a hallway. After we all get out Aris hangs back.

"You go ahead, I have something I need to do." Aris says.

"What are you talking about?"

"Trust me, it's important. You wanna get out of here, right? Just go!" Aris says, getting back in the vent.

"I'll go with him!" One of the boys says, following Aris.

"Yeah, okay! Go, Winston!" Thomas says, starting to run down the hall.

I guess that kid's name is Winston.

We all run down the hall, taking a sharp turn. One of the doctors from when I came in, Dr. Crawford, stops when we come around the corner. "What are you kids doing out?" She asks, suspiciously. 

An alarm starts blaring in the background. Thomas grabs the doctor before continuing down the hall. We turn another corner where a guard is running towards us, shooting at us. We go back around the corner, but the Asian kid turns and gets ready to run. At the perfect moment he runs and hits the guard into the wall, knocking the guard unconscious. 

We run over to him and Thomas grabs the gun before continuing down the hall again. Thomas opens a door before pushing Dr. Crawford in. We all follow in. A few doctors put their hands up and hide against the wall.

"Where is she?!" Thomas yells, the gun pointed at the doctors.

Thomas hands the Asian kid the gun before almost tearing a curtain off it's rod by opening it to reveal a bed. Thomas finds a girl laying on the bed. The blonde kid and I start wrapping the doctors hands together with bandages. The black boy finds a boy laying in a bed on the other side of the room.

"Uh, guys!" The black kid yells, looking out the window of the door. "They're coming, where do we go?!"

"Move!" I yell, knocking a table down before pushing it in front of the door. Right as I push it in the way of the door, the door is tried to be pushed open, but stopped because of the table. Somebody grabs my arm and pulls me back. I realise it to be the blonde boy.

"Someone help!" I turn to Thomas who's holding a chair. He hits the chair into the window, trying to break the glass. I grab another chair and also hit the window. It shatters, glass falling to the floor. Thomas and the blonde boy jump over before helping me and the female. The rest of the boys follow us.

Thomas throws open a door to reveal another guard. Thomas uses the gun he has and shoots, electrifying the guard who falls to the floor. We run past him, and through the halls towards the door we came in. We get to the door and I pull the key card out of my pocket before handing it to Thomas. He starts frantically swiping it, but it doesn't work.

"Thomas!" 

We all turn to see Janson walking towards us. Thomas drops the key card and picks up the gun, pointing it towards Janson. "Open the door, Janson!"

"You really don't want me to." Janson says, still walking towards us.

The Asian kid grabs the key card from the floor and swipes it again and again, hoping it would work. "Open the damn door!" Thomas yells, slowly walking towards Janson.

"Listen to me! I'm trying to save your life." Janson says, trying to explain. "The maze is one thing, but you kids wouldn't last one day out in the Scorch. If the elements don't kill you, the cranks will. Thomas, you have to believe me. I only want what's best for you."

"Let me guess." Thomas says, the gun still pointed at Janson. "WICKED is good?!"

Janson lowers his hands and sighs. "You're not getting through that door."

As if on cue, the door behinds us opens to reveal Aris and Winston. "Hey, guys." Aris says with a small laugh.

We all rush through before turning back towards Thomas. "Come on, Thomas!" Blonde yells, motioning for Thomas to follow.

Thomas turns back to Janson and starts shooting the gun before running out of ammo. He throws the gun to the floor before starting to run towards the door. The door starts closing as all of us yell at Thomas to run faster. Right as the door is closing he slides under, into safety. Aris uses a piece of metal to break the door circuit as I bend down to grab a gun from a guard laying on the floor, unconscious. We all run away from the door towards the large doors we came in from. Thomas pulls the door open to reveal the sandy wasteland.