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"So I guess today ain't the day?" asked Frypan when he gave Allie her portion of breakfast.
"Hopefully Thomas gets through the Changing quickly. He got the Serum in like five minutes of him getting stinged."
"He was stinged like dozen time Tori."
"Yeah, but the difference is, he is here just few weeks, whatever they do to us to suppress our memories... His shouldn't be that deep down to retrieve. And... he wants to remember. I have this feeling he will be awake before the day ends."
"So we should be ready? To get out of here?"
"Always Fry." Allie finished with a slight smile.
And Allie was right it wasn't long before Chuck came running over to her, Alby, Newt and Minho telling them Thomas woke up and that he wants to call another Gathering. Newt made his way to Thomas while Allie and Minho gathered the Keepers.
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An hour later, Thomas sat in front of the Keepers and Allie for the Gathering, just like he had a week or two before. Allie refused to have Teresa there, she wasn't a Keeper, they didn't know her that well. She was a Greenie. Newt and Minho trusted her now, but the others still had their doubts.
"All right, Thomas," Allie said, as she sat in the middle of the semicircle of chairs, next to Newt and Alby who looked much better. The other chairs were all occupied Dave sitting in Gally's chair. "Cut to the chase."
"It's a long story," he began. "We don't have time to go through it all, but I'll tell you the gist of it. When I went through the Changing, I saw flashes of images-hundreds of them-like a slide show in fast forward. A lot came back to me, but only some of it's clear enough to talk about. Other stuff has faded or is fading." he paused, gathering his thoughts one last time. "But I remember enough. The Creators are testing us. The Maze was never meant to be solved. It's all been a trial. They want the winners, or survivors, to do something important." he trailed off. Allie found Thomas little weird taking he did not look at her once since he woke up. He was hiding something from her. What he was saying though. It didn't surprise her, not that much. She figured they were part of something more a long time ago.
"What?" Newt asked.
"Let me start over," Thomas said, rubbing his eyes. "Every single one of us was taken when we were really young. I don't remember how or why, just glimpses and feelings that things had changed in the world, that something really bad happened. I have no idea what. The Creators stole us, and I think they felt justified in doing it. Somehow, they figured out that we have above-average intelligence, and that's why they chose us. I don't know, most of this is sketchy and doesn't matter that much anyway."
"The Flare." Allie whispered, only Alby and Newt hearing her.
"I can't remember much about my family or what happened to my mom and dad. But after we were taken, we spent the next few years learning in special schools, living somewhat normal lives until they were finally able to finance and build the Maze. All our names are just stupid nicknames they made up- like Alby for Albert Einstein, Newt for Isaac Newton, Thomas. As in Edison."
