𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐑, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗲 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿

16. always

𝘍𝘶𝘤𝘬. 𝘍𝘶𝘤𝘬. 𝘍𝘶𝘤𝘬.

That's what Bea thought the whole time she's running. Now that the girl, Brenda had saved them from Barkley, the Perv. (Vicky names him that), The group finally gets to freeing themselves as they follows Brenda through the halls and up the stairs.

As they followed behind Brenda, Vicky couldn't help but notice how Brenda kept her hand in hers the whole time. What a weirdo. That's what Vicky thought, but slowly she accepts her embrace. Music began to play as they run halfway through the building, meeting Jorge in process.

"Come on, Brenda! We don't have much time!" Jorge ushered them to follow, pushing some doors to reveal a building on the other side with a zip line connected to it.

Nancy's eyes widen, "You've gotta be shitting me. Do we really have to get through this.. thing." She's afraid of heights.

"I'm afraid we don't have another choice, Nancy." Newt reminds his twin.

"Listen to your brother, hermana. Don't worry, there's a net on the other side."

"Plan B, hermano. You kids wants to go the Right Arm? I'll lead you to them. But, you're gonna owe me." Jorge tells them, grabbing a piece of cloth hanging along the line. "Follow me."

They watches with wide eyes as he jumps off the side off the building they were on, gripping the cloth as he slide down towards the other opening of the building. "See? What's the worst that could happen?" Thomas laughs nervously, trying to assure the girl. But Nancy did not find it comforting, "Uh, I don't know? Maybe fall off and die?"

After hearing Nancy's words, Vicky turned to look at Bea. "Youngest first." She said with no guilt. Bea's expression twisted, scoffing. "Nuh-uh. You're older." Bea argues back.

Somehow, they all managed to get down safely, except Nancy, Brenda and Thomas.

Nancy she runs off to Brenda who was wandering around. Noticing this, Thomas found himself letting go off the cloth that he was holding, and runs off to his- Nancy instead.

When he reached both of the girls, he found Brenda rummaging through the drawer and Nancy behinds the girl. Just when they turns back to the direction they had ran from, they stopped at the sight of WICKED's guards roaming the level they were on.

Brenda realized that they wouldn't have enough time to go back to the window and follow the others, Nancy noticed this also when Brenda had grabbed her gun, shooting right at the guards. "Go! Go!" Brenda shouted to the duo. But Nancy won't budge, the replaying image of Winston suddenly playing on her mind. "I'll hold them with you!" Nancy shouted, holding out her gun as well.

The guards started to shoot back, knowing they wouldn't have the chance to win, Brenda stops shooting and grabs Nancy by her arm, pushing Thomas away from the area and started running downstairs.

Once they stopped at the bottom of the stairs, they were running down, Brenda took notice of some guards running their way from the front, knowing others were behind him. She turned to the right side, stepping on a pipe and demands the two to follow.

Without hesitation, Nancy did just that as her arms slipped away from Thomas, arms spread out to keep balance as she tried to be as fast as possible, her leg isn't really helping as it almost slips out. The guards were following them around, one following after them on the pipe. Hearing a cocking gun behind her, Nancy turns to look over her shoulder, seeing Thomas doing the same as they noticed a guard was just as close to them.

"Brenda, where are we going?" Nancy yells out in question.

"Hurry! The songs almost over!" Brenda calls back, climbing over the railing.

Nancy turns around to look at Thomas, both wearing a confused looks but follow Brenda anyways.

What will happen if the song's over?

Shouting for Thomas to follow, she was moving to the railing just as loud and echoing sounds dramatically explodes behind her, making her stumble. Noticing that Thomas is freezing, not knowing what to do, Nancy feels irritated and pulls him back in, almost too aggressively. Brenda's voice yells out for them when everything's started collapsing.

Nancy jumps over the railing, Thomas behinds her, grabbing her hand without the girl noticing. The three teenagers stumbled in their spots before running in the opposite direction of the collapsing building.

Seeing an elevator shaft infront of them, the three of them jumps into it as they grabbed the ropes that had been dangling from inside and slides down onto the ground, towards the bottom. Brenda and Thomas fells on their butt as Nancy lands wrong on her foot, hearing a lot of noises from above, they looks up to see many things started to fall down the shaft.

They were quick on their feet and jumps out of the elevator, throwing themselves on the ground, leaving themselves in the darkness.