Fall² The Death Cure [REWRITTEN]

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"Vince, we couldn't have left earlier," I said annoyed at him.

Vince, Thomas, and I were driving to train tracks. We were late. Jorge and Brenda were already waiting for us.

It was a normal hot day out in the Scorch. Of course it'd be hot. We call it the stupid "Scorch" anyway. I saw what everyone sees when they're out. I saw dead bushes, dead trees, abandoned buildings, a few decently plants that were alive. The sun was beating down on us.

Well, it was breezy because one, we were in a moving automobile that drove more than 60 miles per hour with no windows. Two, it was still a partially windy day, which I enjoyed dearly. We don't get much of a cool day. It's usually just heat, heat, and more heat.

It felt nice, but we couldn't dally in our plans. We had a job, and we intended to follow it to save our friends.

Vince grumbled, "Cass, we had to refuel."

"Which we could've done earlier," Thomas agreed with me.

Then we heard the train. It was there. Jorge and Brenda were chasing the train from the side while we went to the back. They were giving us cover and a distraction. I still love those two because they're an unstoppable duo no matter what.

"Hey, Brenda, you got company," I notified through the walkie-talkie. There were WICKED trucks chasing Brenda and Jorge.

"Open fire!" We heard the guard shout.

"Watch out!" Thomas screamed at us.

"Thomas, you're on your own." Brenda said since her car was shot at. "Don't die. Good luck!"

With that, they drove away to the others who were hiding. There was more to the plan. We weren't plain or simple. We planned on taking more than just some immunes. Well we had to have someway to take the immunes.

I had my 9MM pistol and my M16 rifle with me. I left my backpack back at the base. This was going to be crazy, stupid, and daring.

"Ready?" I asked the two with a smirk.

"This is crazy, Thomas!" Vince mumbled a few more words to himself. "Hang on."

"Get me closer!" Thomas shouted.

Thomas got out of the truck to the front. He had the hook in hand and tried to hook it onto the back ladder of the train.

"Got it!" Thomas shouts. Then he jumped off the car and onto the train.

I then went to the front of the truck. The high speed wind blowing on my face. I put my hair in a ponytail.

I jumped and made it. My foot slipped but I caught back on the train. I went up on the roof so that Vince could have room to get on.

Vince made his way to front of the car. The hook on the train wouldn't last long.

"Come on, Vince!" Thomas shouted. "Vince! Jump!"

"Jump, Vince!" I shouted.

The truck moved slightly which threw him off balance. He regained his balance and was about to jump.

Thomas shouted, "Vince! Jump now!"

Vince jumped and barely made it. The hook unhooked and the truck toppled over. Vince has his feet dragged on the ground from the train but Thomas brought him up.

"Let's go," I said.

Thomas and Vince climbed to the roof of the train and we started running. We stopped because Vince was about to unlink a part of the train that had WICKED immune kids. Then WICKED army people were making their way to us.

"I'll stay on top for backup," I yelled because of the wind blowing.

Thomas and Vince went down, and Vince was setting up a bomb to unlink the train. Thomas and I were ready to shoot WICKED. I laid on my stomach on the top of the train while shooting them.

"Take cover!" Vince shouted at us.

The bomb ignited and blew up with some of the WICKED soldiers too. The boxcar we had stopped.

Thomas whistled towards some rocks. There, Newt and some others popped out. Thomas and Vince went down to check if Minho was in there. I stayed up top to shoot down anyone coming to us.

"Minho!" Thomas shouted as he banged the boxcar walls.

Other kids inside shouted for help. Then we heard Minho's voice in the boxcar.

"It's this one!" Thomas alerted.

Newt came with something that could cut the boxcar from the bottom of the train. The other guy did the other side.

I was still on top of the boxcar. Thomas came back up on top to help me tie some ropes to the corners of the boxcar. I was the look out. Then I saw WCKD people coming out with guns, ready to attack us. They were pretty far for now but they would get to us eventually.

"Uh, guys?" I said. I pointed to WICKED soldiers coming closer.

Thomas said, "Newt, you almost got it?"

"I'm trying." Newt said.

"How you doing?" Thomas asked a bit more anxiously.

"Don't rush me," Newt said annoyed.

"Shit! Newt, get up here," Thomas said as the soldier grew closer.

I began shooting at the soldiers. Man, were they pissing me off.

"Newt!" I shouted for him to get up.

"Almost there!" After a few seconds, "Done!" He climbed up the ladder and stood on top with the rest of us.

"Where the hell are they?" Vince questioned.

"I don't know!" Thomas screamed.

"There's too many of them!" Newt shouted over the shooting.

"All right, boys, we're here!" It was Harriet with the hovercraft.

They lowered the chord for us to hook the boxcar to the hovercraft.

"All right, we're clear!" Thomas said to Harriet and everyone else on the hovercraft.

"Okay, we're going up." Harriet announced.

"Vince, get up here!" Thomas shouted at Vince.

What the hell was he still doing down there? There were soldiers shooting at him. Newt, Thomas, others, and I began shooting the soldiers to help Vince.

Once it calmed down, Thomas shouted, "Now, Vince!"

He climbed up the ladder, and Thomas helped him up. I shot the soldiers.

Bang! One fell. Bang, bang! There went two more.

"We're going home, baby!" Thomas cheered with everyone else who screamed and hollered happily.

"All right, guys!" Vince spoke through the walkie-talkie. "We're going home, baby!"

We all clapped and cheered. We got our friends back.