The group of seven are on the run again. Except this time it's not in the maze. The scorch trials begin. Malia and her friends escape from the place they were brought to after finding out information they weren't supposed to know.
(Book 2 out of 3)...
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We heard a shriek which made me jump and grab a hold of Thomas. Thomas flashed his light towards the floor only to discover it was a rat. It fell down from a tunnel, Brenda kicked it away, it made a noise before scurrying away.
Suddenly, a hand came from the wall, behind the vines and grabbed the rat. The crank bit off the rats head, making me grimace at the sight. Loud screeches erupted from the cranks throat, making more cranks appear. Shit.
We all stumbled backwards, only to be faced with another crank. I screamed as Thomas quickly grabbed a crowbar from Brenda's backpack, hitting the crank on the head, it stumbled backwards giving us a chance to get out, Thomas grabbed my arm, pulling me away, towards the other tunnel.
We all ran through the dark tunnel, still hearing the noises of the cranks running behind us. We finally reached the light, only to be stopped when we reached a dead end, a cliff.
I turned to Thomas to see him looking upwards somewhere, I followed his gaze to see two large buildings that looked like they had crashed into one another. I heard the screams of the cranks, they were getting closer.
Thomas grabbed my arm again and dragged me up the broken building, Brenda was ahead and Thomas was behind me as we climbed up the broken, collapsed building.
"Watch out!" Brenda yelled as she pushed a filing cabinet down, knocking a crank down, flying out of the window that laid beneath us.
I turned my head to see Thomas's hand slip, causing him to fall down. "Thomas!" I yelled, as I watched a piece of concrete collapse, almost collapsing on top of Thomas until it got stuck. I sighed in relief as I grabbed his hand pulling him up.
The distance grew between us and Brenda, she was a whole two floors higher than us. We had to act quickly as the cranks were getting closer. We managed to reach up near Brenda. Thomas yelled out and I whipped my head towards him to see a crank grabbing his ankle, trying to pull him down. I kicked the crank in the face, making him fall back to the bottom.
I shouted on Thomas as I realised he hadn't moved since the crank grabbed his ankle, snapping him back to reality he continued climbing.
Brenda then grabbed onto a metal beam to pull herself up, but the beam broke causing her to fall many feet, until she landed on the thick glass that looked over the ravine.
"Brenda!" Thomas and I called out her name. Brenda didn't move or answer us. Shit. "Brenda" I called again and her eyes flickered open before looking down beneath her.
"Hold on, I'm coming down." Thomas called out. Brenda slowly began standing up, making the glass slowly crack beneath her. "Don't move, we're coming!" I yelled out as I slowly began following Thomas.
Thomas reached his hand out, and so did Brenda. I heard a loud screech and turned my head to see the crank running through the doors. "Thomas, Brenda watch out!" I yelled as the crank came running through straight towards Brenda, knocking her back onto the glass.
