Girl Who Ran the Maze • Thomas

13. Surviving

They found an abandoned bunker. Minho turned on his flash light as everyone stumbled down. "Where the hell are we?"

"We gotta go."

"No, Thomas stop!" Teresa calls out. "Tell me what's going on." Sylvia silently groans as they turn around to face Thomas and Teresa.

"It's wicked. It wicked they lied to us. We never escaped. We found bodies. Too many to count."

"What do you mean? Dead bodies?" Minho asks.

"No but they weren't alive either. They had them strung up. With tubes coming out of them."

"They were being drained okay? Wicked wants our blood. We have to get as far away from them as possible." Sylvia sighs.

"Okay. So, what's the plan?" Newt asks.

"You do have a plan right?"

"Yeah. I don't know."

"Well we followed you out here Thomas, and now you're saying that you have no idea where we're going or what we're doing."

"Wait. Janson said something about people hiding in the mountains. Some kind of resistance or army" Aris says. "Yeah, the uh, the Right Arm." Sylvia nods.

"The right arm. If they're really against wicked maybe they can help us." Thomas says.

"People in the mountains. Mountain people. That's your plan?" Newt asks. "Newt, it the only choice we have." Sylvia says.

"Hey guys. Check this out. Minho give me a light" Winston calls them over. "Someone's been down here." He says as Minho shines the light on footprints in the sand.

The group silently walked through the abandoned bunker. Minho flashed his flashlight at a room. "Come on. Open it up."

They walked inside to find supplies. Like water, clothes. Flashlights most importantly. "Looks like people live here."

"Where are they now?"

"Let's pack some of this stuff up. Anything you think you might need. We'll split up, see what else we can find. Meet back here" Thomas says.

"Thomas." Sylvia tosses a flashlight over as he clicks it on. "Let's go."

Sylvia stayed back with Newt. They rummaged through the piles of supplies. Sylvia tied up some boots she found to her feet. And stuffed a water bottle into her pack.

She found a knife sharpener. "Ohhhh, newt look at this." Before Newt could walk over the lights clanked on.

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The group of kids still in the room ran walked out. Suddenly hearing Thomas yelling. They saw Thomas and Minho running and behind them, looked like zombies. "Oh shit." Sylvia hissed jumping to put the other strap of her pack on.

"Thomas." Sylvia tosses over his pack as they all broke into a run. They ran up an escalator. Everyone's flashlight wailed around. "Thomas Minho what the hell are those things?"

"I don't know. Just keep going!"

They turned a left being stopped a one crank. "Aris!"

Aris wacked the cranks feet causing him to trip into the kids. Teresa and Thomas stood on another escalator with a crank in front of Teresa and one crawling on the side. Sylvia whipped her sword out. She grunted as her sword collided with the cranks neck. His head fell limp next to her foot.

Teresa kicked the other crank down the escalator as Sylvia quickly ducked out the way. "Sylvia come on!" Thomas yelled. They ran up the escalator. Sylvia saw a crank pinning down Newt.