Runner Runner (Newt)

tunnels

"Brenda, come on! What are you doing? We got to go!" Thomas shouted pulling on her. He turned around to face me standing behind them. People with guns were closing in on us.

"Ember I told you to go." He yelled at me. Um. Does this shank know who I am?

"Too bad. I'm hard headed and stubborn." I shouted.

"I got it. I got it. Come on! Come on!" She yelled pushing us a way but found some WCKD people that hand guns. She started shooting them.

"Go! Go!" She yelled at us as we duck our heads and ran.

"Come on, hurry! We're running out of time!" We climb down the stairs as shoots rang out. Bullets flying each way towards us.

"Here, follow me. Come on!" We started to cross a metal beam high in the sky. Oh shit. I think I want to get shot at now then cross these things. WCKD was behind us it was our only option.

"Ember come on." Brenda yelled after me as Thomas started to get on the beam.

"Kids, don't move!" The guy on the beam behind us yell. He held up his gun.

"What do we do?" I yell. My breathing and heart rate start to pick up.

"Brenda, where are we going?" Thomas questioned.

"Hurry, the song's almost over!" She climbs on a higher beam I climbed up with her.

Heights will be the end of me. You just watch. Why is music even playing? It sounds like a great song and all but why? The Music stops then the explosion erupted throughout the building. Everything stopped. Beams were falling down the building was caving in on top of us. We had to keep going to get out or else we'll be buried underneath everything.

Come on! Thomas! Come on!" The building was falling down behind us.

"Ember go first!" Brenda yelled after me. I take off running in front of them. Over to the elevator or what seems to be an elevator. There's a cord latched on to the bottom so I jumped on it and hit the ground. Rolling out from under it. Thomas and Brenda come down. Then everything comes down. I couldn't see a thing.

"You guys okay?" Brenda asked waving a flashlight.

"Oh yeah, great." Thomas responded.

"I'm fine." I coughed. Brenda shines the lights all a round the room and it seems like all the exists were closed up. Newt. Luna. No I have to get to them. We have to.

"No no no. How are we going to get back to the others." Thomas panicked.

"Relax. I'm going to get us out of here.
Here." She hands us flashlights out of her bag as I click mine on standing up. I have to find a way out to get to Newt and Luna.

"Why are you helping us?" Thomas asked still sitting on the ground with Brenda.

"That is a good question." I added. Shining my flashlight to the walls.

"Trust me, it's not my idea. Jorge seems to think you guys are the ticket to the safe haven." She responded.

"The what?" I asked.

"You know. Paradise. Safe from the sun, free of infection. Supposedly the Right Arm's been taking kids there for years. The immunes anyway." She gets her pack on and stands up.

"And you know where that is?" Thomas asked getting up too.

"No. Jorge knows a guy, Marcus. He used to... He used to smuggle kids up into the mountains. If Jorge made it out, that's where he'll be taking your friends." She walked over towards a wall digging through it throwing things places.

"If he made it out?"

"Where else would he be? I mean he went down the line with the rest of our friends." I started to get angry. If she and Jorge lead them into a trap I will personally rip out their throats.

"Hell, you both ask a lot of questions. I'm sure your friends are fine. Can y'all just, come over here and help me with this? Please." She looks over at us. We lifted a metal bars up that was covering a hole. Once it was up their were screams coming from it.

"Well, that doesn't sound good." Thomas said.

"Down here they'll be full term." She replied.

"No shit. But if it gets me to Newt and Luna, you bet your ass I'm going." I replied. Putting the flashlight in between my teeth. Jumping down first. Brenda comes down then Thomas. We travel through a tunnel and shine our lights down a hall.

"I think it's this way." Her voice echoed. As she turns right.

"You think?" Thomas mutters.

"You better know." I whispered. We traveled down in the tunnels. The water was ankle length. Going through the dark hollow walls only hearing the sound of water dripping and occasion of the creature screaming.

"So you are taking Luna as your daughter?" Thomas asked.

"She might as well be. She started calling me mommy." 

"Well at least you got a kid. I'm sure Newt is thrilled." Thomas smiles.

"Totally." I sighed. To be honest I don't even know if he wanted this child. I didn't even ask him. I just took her as my own.

"Do people live down here?" Thomas asked.

"The solar storms forced people underground. Jorge said there's settlements all over these tunnels." Her voice grumbled.

"What about Jorge? Is he your father?" Thomas asked. I heard screams coming from behind us but they were distant.

"Close enough. Truth is, I really don't know what he is, he's just always been there. And I always done what he asked me to do, no matter how stupid." She sighed.

So, you don't think the Right Arm is real?" The scream came louder that time. We all turned around to shine our lights but nothing came. We kept going.

"I think, hope is a dangerous thing.
Hope has killed more of my friends
than the Flare and Scorch combine. I decide Jorge was smarter than that. Damn." We stopped at a section of were the tunnel splits up. We each take a tunnel to our selves not think we split up. My tunnel was empty there was no writing on it either. Kind of weird because each tunnel we've been through has had at least some sort of writing on it.

"Brenda? Ember?" Thomas called out for us. I leave the tunnel I was into, go with Thomas.

"I'm right here." I said.

"Over here. Look at this." We follow the sound of your voice.

"What is it? What the hell is this?" Thomas ask.