A Coalition of Chaos: The Scorch Trails

Other Mazes

Each of us enter our shower cubical, strip and allow the water to cleans us. I watch as all the dirt and sand fall from my body, mix with water and dissappear into the drain.

When I'm finished I find a fresh set of clothes, neatly folded and waiting to be worn.

I exit my cubical to see most of the other gladers all finished, I beeline straight to Winston for warmth and wait for the rest to finish.

When the last person comes out we're lead to a room, in which plenty of test tubes and needles are dotted around each section, containing suspicious looking liquids. Pale blue curtains dividing the large room into various small sections.

We are each led to out own section for tests. 'Wait, what is that?' I hear Newt ask someone in the cubical next to mine. I wonder what he's talking about, when the woman in the cubical with me picks up a needle containing an unrecognisable liquid and I consider the same question. The doctor lists the contents of a 'cocktail' including 'calcium, folate, vitamins A through Z' and pretty much everything we've been deprived of out there.

The man instructs Newt to relax, as the woman does for me and then inserts the contence of the needle into my arm.

As I stand and walk out I spot Newt leaving as well. We walk and see Thomas, he's having his blood taken

'Sure you got enough there,' he says as be pulls the needle out of his arm then I see the test tube holder containing many viles with what i assume to be Thomas' blood in it.

A doctor walks by and Thomas follows her with his eyes untill she stops and pulls the curtains of Teresa's cubical closed.

A man comes up and walkes directly past me and Newt, as if we weren't even there, he didn't acknowledge us, rude.

'Thomas?' he stated more than asked.

'Yeah?' He looked down to his pocket and Me and Newt followed our eyes along and saw a loaded gun nesting in the armed guy's trouser leg.

'Come with me, please.' Thats all that was said, they just walked off to who knows where?

We shortly after Rat-man Janson heads in the same direction that Thomas was just lead to, no doubtedly to the same location.

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Before Thomas got back we were told we were to go meet the others.

'Wait, others?' Everyone asked.

'Other what? Rat-people?' What! If I can't have my sarcasm then I got nothing.

'No, the people from the other mazes.' He appeared to be amused somewhat with my comment, knowing whom I was talking about. That was it, with that he started walking away, expecting us to follow leaving us too shocked to move, wide mouthed and unable to comprehend anything. Other mazes? I hadn't considered there being other mazes, I don't believe anyone had. We hadn't seen any other people but the ones under the comand of Rat-man.

After we settle we begin to wonder where Thomas was, then Minho stood and left, heading for the door, then i realised Thomas had just walked in.

'Hey, Thomas,' Minho walked up to him and they had an unaudible conversation from where I was sat.

They walk over to us as and Thomas sees that unfamiliar people from other mazes have joined us.

'and what about the rest, the other people left behind in the maze, what happened to them?' I knew Newt was hoping that Gally and the others we left in the glade weren't still there.

'I don't know. I guess WICKED still has them,' those words seemed to discomfort us all, even those who didn't know the ones left behind to well, because they had gone through what we had, and now we're out and they're still there, suffering.

'That kid over there has been here the longest,' he informed us, indicating to a kid sat not too far from him, 'almost a week.'

'His maze was nothing but girls.' His friend inquired, he's been pretty quite throughout our interaction with the pair.

'Really?' Minho seems intrigued, I could say the same thing; really, Minho, what thoughts could possibly be running through your head?

'Good evening, gentlemen. Ladies. You all know how this works,' Rat-man enters. Although I'm pretty sure I don't know how this works, but okay, continue 'if you hear your name called please rise in an orderly fassion, join my colleagues behind me where they will escort you to the eastern wing.' He indicates to his colleagues behing him.

Interesting, if we all know how this worked, which was a damn right lie, then it was pointless explaining how it in fact did work.

'Your new lives are about to begin,' I do recall him saying that out new lives begun when we entered this place but I guess it's susceptible to lie around here.

He proceeds to read names off his list, each time a person grew with relief and basically skipped to Rat-man's colleagues. They were led off and everyone loningly clapped them off.

'Where thay going?' Minho spoke all our minds.

'Far from here.' Whats wrong with being so close to here?... Is it not what it appears to be?
'Some kind of farm. A safe place, they can only take in a couple of people at a time.'

'What the hell,' Thomas rises from his seat and rushes to the door that I see would have lead to Teresa, whom was being guided down a corridor. 'Hey, Tersea.' He continued to call for her, additionally calling the attention of the other mazes as well, but she continued, seeming as though she couldn't hear him.

He gets close to the door and is instantly prevented from going throught by a man guiding it. An unaudible conversation took place between the two. He walked back to us, then we were lead to our room.

Frypan called top bunk, but Minho got there first 'Too slow,' he triumphantly sat on his bed. Winston took the bottom bunk while I contunued down to the end of the room where I assumed me and Teresa would have to share a bunk.

Everyone claimes their bunk and let the momentary time of relaxation sink in.

'I could get used to this.' Me too Winston, me too.

'Yeah, it's not bad.'

'It's not bad? as apposed to what Newt,' I mocked him, 'the 5 star, worthy of a king hammock you've been sleeping in, in the maze?' I joked. Others listening laughed as another glader fell victim to my sarcasm, but seriously, what's he got to compare to, what have any of us?

'Very funny, Ray.' Newt laughed along with the others. They had come accustomed to my sarcasm over the time spent in the maze together.

'Hey, what do you think those guys want with Teresa?' Thomas broke off into his own conversation with Newt about Teresa and I lost interest.

Whatever they do to her they better fix that brain of hers; Before I even spoke to her in the maze she tried to tell the boys rumers about me. She hates me and everyone can see it, yet no one knows why.

'Now if there's one thing i know about that girl is she can take care of herself.' Newt says just as I zone out. I think to myself; she wouldn't have to be able to look after herself if she didn't get herself in so much trouble.

With that in mind, I fell to sleep.