I Promise | The Maze Runner

Chapter 30: Bloody Inspired ✔️

Bad idea.

"What are you doing?!"

I turn around to find a guard walking towards me. Damn, I left my gun by the door where the guard is standing.

"I, uh, was...looking for a cure." It can't help to tell the truth, can it?

The alarms start going off. Dammit, this probably has something to do with Thomas.

I can tell the guard doesn't believe me, but he continues walking towards me. He gets up to me and has me turn. I grab another syringe and whip around, sticking it in the guard.

He stumbles back, trying to figure out what was in the syringe. I grab the gun from him. Before he can comprehend what's happening, I shoot him. He falls to the ground with electricity as I throw the gun to the ground.

"Sorry, bud. The syringe didn't have anything in it." I say, truthfully, as I turn around, grabbing a new syringe. I stick it in my pocket before running towards the door, grabbing my gun on the way out.

I continue running through the halls, looking for anybody I know. I hear shooting from the hall next to me. I look and see Thomas, Minho, Newt, and Kat running down the halls.

"Newt!" He looks up and sees me. He gives me a faint smile as Thomas grabs his arm.

"Come on!" Thomas yells, pushing Newt in a door before following. I run towards the door, seeing Janson running towards me. I point my gun at him before shooting him. He points his own gun at me before shooting. Somebody grabs me by the arm and pulls me in the room before slamming the door shut and locking it.

There's banging on the door. "Somebody get this door open!" I hear Janson yell from outside the door.

"Come on, Newt." Minho says, going over to a shelf. The two knock it over and push it in front of the door.

"Spencer?" I turn to see Kat. She pulls me into a hug. "You're such a dumb-ass to come help me."

"That's the thanks I get?" I ask with a small laugh.

She smiles. "Thanks."

We all turn around at the sound of a chainsaw whirring. We back away from the door as sparks fly into the room. "Any ideas?!" Minho yells over the whirring.

"Maybe." Thomas replies, looking back at us after looking out the window.

The three boys grab an air tank that's in the room and through it out the window. We all go to the edge and look out. We're 20 stories up, but there's a fountain at the ground. "Just get a running start." Thomas says, looking up at us.

We all back up, getting ready to run and jump. "Are you sure about this?" Kat asks, glancing at Thomas.

"Not really." Thomas replies, truthfully.

"Great prep-talk." Minho says, sarcastically.

"Yeah, I'm bloody inspired." Newt says, glancing at me.

I put my hand on his cheek, giving him a kiss on the lips. "Love you."

He nods. "I love you too."

The whirring stops and we all turn as the door is thrown open. "Jump!" Thomas yells, running towards the window. When we get to the edge we jump.

"THOMAS!!!" Minho yells as we start falling.

"Oh, shit-!" Thomas is cut of as we hit the water, sinking under.

I swim to the surface and gasp for air. I'm the first one followed by Minho, Kat, Newt, and Thomas. We all look up at Janson who's leaning out of the window, looking at us madly. Thomas flips him off as we start swimming towards the edge of the fountain. I get out and help Kat out as Thomas helps Minho. Both Thomas and I both help Newt out.

"You good?" I ask, putting my hand to his cheek as he stands up.

He nods. "Yeah, I'm o-"

"You five! Don't move!" We all turn around to see four guards walking towards us, their guns drawn.

"You've gotta be kidding." Thomas mumbles, looking at the guards.

"Take it easy!" A guard yells as they get closer. Thomas slowly reaches for his gun. "Ah, ah, ah, don't even think about it. Get on your knees, your hands in the air-"

The guard is cut off by getting hit by an electrical bullet from one of the other guards. Another guard shoots the other guard. The two look at each other before running towards us. They pull off their masks to reveal Gally and Theo.

"Gally?!" Minho asks in disbelief.

"Theo?!" Kat matches Minho's disbelief.

"Minho." Gally says, nodding to Minho.

"Hey, Kat. Spen." Theo says, throwing her mask to the ground.

"You guys are idiots." Gally says, shaking his head.

"We'll tell you later." Thomas and I both say to our two, very confused, friends.

We run off, hiding behind some walls. "Well, there goes our escape route." Gally mumbles, angrily as WICKED guards with their trucks block our way.

"How far are the tunnels?" Thomas asks, looking at Gally.

"Uh, maybe twelve blocks from here." Gally guesses before looking at Thomas. "We can make it."

I get up and go over to Newt, Kat, and Minho. Thomas and Minho had put Newt leaning against the wall. "Hey, how you feeling?" Minho asks.

"Terrible." Newt replies. "It's good to see you, though."

Minho nods and gets up, making his way to Thomas. They have a short conversation before Thomas comes back over to us. "Com on, Spencer. Help me." Thomas says, helping Newt up. Thomas puts one of Newt's arms on his shoulder, I do his other arm.

We all stop as the wall blows up. Gally looks at the wall, surprised. "We're supposed to take down WICKED, not the whole damn city."

We look at the wall as it goes up in flames after the explosion. "Gally, come on." Thomas says, pushing him to get going.

"Tunnels are right up ahead." Gally says.

"Get low, stay low, stay low." Thomas says, pushing us to hide behind a wall.