You're not Him

Escape from Wicked

Newt was walking back and forth after a while, waiting for Thomas to come back.

"What if he gets caught?" Frypan asked.

"That's not helping, Fry." Newt asked. After about 7 minutes, the vent door was on the ground and Thomas followed. He looked freaked out.

"Thomas!" Minho said. Thomas looked around. Aris came in, just in shock.

"We gotta go. We gotta go right now." Thomas said.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Minho asked

"What do you mean, "We gotta go?" Newt asked.

"They're coming. Come on. We gotta go." Thomas grabbed a sheet from a bed."They're coming for us." Thomas started to tie the door handle and a handle next to the door.

"What happened in there?" Winston asked.

"Aris, what happened?" Frypan asked.

"Thomas, can you just calm down and talk to us?" Newt asked.

"She's still alive." Thomas said.

"Who?" Newt asked.

"Teresa?" Winston asked.

"Ava!" Thomas said.

"Ava?" Frypan asked.

"Will you just turn around and talk to us?" Thomas looked at Newt.

"It's WICKED! It's still WICKED. It's always been WICKED." All the boys froze.

"Thomas. What did you see?"

"Bodies." Thomas said."Go into the vents!" All the gladers went into the vents and escaped. They crawled for a while until they got to a hallway."Come on, come on."

"You guys go ahead. There's something I gotta do." Aris said.

"What are you talking about?" Thomas asked.

"Trust me, it's important. You guys wanna get outta here, right? Just go."

"I'll go with him." Winston said.

"Okay, Winston, go! Go!" The two went back into the vent.

"You sure we can trust this kid?" Minho asked.

"You don't want to know where we'd be without him." Thomas said. They kept on running. Suddenly they ran into the doctor earlier.

"What are you kids doing out?" She asked. The boys looked at eachother. Then the alarm went off. Thomas grabbed the doctor and made her lead them to Teresa. Thomas raised his hand and made a barstool fly into a window, breaking it. Thomas helped the gladers climb over the ledge and they ran to a door. Thomas tried to open the door with the card, but it wasn't working.

"No, no, no!"Thomas said.

"Thomas!"The gladers saw Janson with armed guards. Thomas grabbed a gun.

"Open this door, Janson!"Thomas yelled.

"You really don't want me to."

"Open the damn door!"

"Listen to me! I'm trying to save your life. The maze is one thing, but you kids wouldn't last one day... out in the Scorch. If the elements don't kill you, the Cranks will. Thomas, you have to believe me. I only want what's best for you."

"Yeah, let me guess. WICKED is good?" Thomas wanted to say more but he didn't. Janson smiled.

"You're not getting through that door, Thomas." Janson said. After he said that, the door opened. Aris and Winston were standing there.

"Hey, guys."Aris said." Come on!"

"Thomas!"Newt said. The gladers ran to the other room. Thomas started to fire the gun, while running backwards. He threw the gun and started to run.

"Stop him! Shut the main vault door!"Janson yelled. Thomas saw the door closing and he ran faster, and he was able to slide under it before it closed. He turned around, seeing Janson glaring at him. Thomas flipped him off and they started to run through the warehouse. They got to the huge door and Thomas opened it. They ran outside, where sand was blowing all over the place. Teresa led them to an abandoned building. They ran in and stopped.

"We gotta keep moving." Thomas said.

"Tell me what's going on." Teresa asked.

"It's WICKED. It's WICKED. They lied to us. We never escaped. Me and Aris, we found bodies. Too many to count."

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

No, but they weren't alive either. They had them strung up. With tubes coming out of them. They were being drained." Aris said.

"There's something inside of us that WICKED wants. Something in our blood. So we have to get as far away from them as possible." Newt sighed.

"Okay. So, what's the plan?" Thomas looked at Newt."You do have a plan, right?"

"Yeah. I don't know."

"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."

"The Right Arm." Aris said.

"The Right Arm. If they're really against WICKED, maybe they can help us."

"People. In the mountains." Newt said.

"Mountain people. That's your plan?" Minho asked.

"It's the only chance we have."

"Hey, guys. Check this out." Winston said."Minho, give me a light!" Minho shined his light at the floor. They saw footprints. "Looks like someone has been down here." They looked around. They saw some supplies.

"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 said. Thomas and Minho left. The others looked for clothes. Newt grabbed a backpack and grabbed some knife and a flashlight. Suddenly the lights went on. They started to head back until they heard some screaming. They looked behind them and saw Minho and Thomas were running away from cranks. They started to run away from them. They kept on running. Winston got scratched by them. After running for a while, they hid until they fell asleep.