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Chapter Twenty Nine: "I Don't Like Sand" - Anakin Skywalker (and Jules)

Sand blew in my eyes and I kept nearly face-planting the ground as we did our best to run through the sand without getting caught by WCKD, who were desperately chasing us.

The sand blowing in our eyes really didn't help, however we had the advantage of darkness masking us so it didn't have too much of an impact that we were moving slower than we usually would be.

"In here!" Adam called as he ran into a broken, abandoned-looking building. I followed him straight away, with the others only coming in after a lot of reluctant consideration. It looked like it used to be a mall but it was desolate now; however, it luckily had some supplies in. Someone had clearly been living in here.

"Okay. What the fuck is going on? Someone better explain right now." I folded my arms.

Thomas looked at me. "You were right to be suspicious about this place. It's WCKD. Aris and I discovered the place where the kids get taken. It's a farm, Jules. They're farming us-"

"For a Cure," I finished, realisation hitting me. "They must be really out of options if this is what they've resorted to."

"Yeah. We were next. I wasn't going to let that happen. Oh, Ava Paige is alive as well. She faked the suicide."

"Holy shit," I said.

I couldn't believe the luck we had to leave that place before something bad happened. Panting and looking around, I saw who we had with us: Thomas, Minho, Newt, Frypan, Winston, Michael, Adam Jack, Aris, Alyssa, Teresa and me. With all these people, we could actually make it.

"Okay, so, what's the plan?" Newt turned to Thomas. "You do have a plan, right?"

"I don't know," Thomas admitted, looking slightly guilty.

"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?" Newt raised an eyebrow; he clearly wasn't impressed.

"Wait," Aris interrupted, catching the attention of the group. "Janson said something about people hiding in the mountains. Some kind of resistance or army."

"The Right Arm!" Thomas hurriedly explained. "The Right Arm. If they're really against WCKD, maybe they can help us."

"People. In the mountain. Mountain people?" Newt scoffed and looked like he was in disbelief. "That's your plan?"

"It's the only chance we have," Thomas shot back.

"Yeah. Besides, we've had plans that were a lot more shit. What was it that Thomas said when we were fighting the Grievers? Get out or die trying? Something like that? At least now we have an idea of where we're going. What could go wrong?"

"Jules, you're not being helpful," Newt huffed.

I shrugged. "Wasn't trying to be."

"The way I see it, we need to stick together and not get caught because it's either have a chance of dying out here or definitely die back there," Michael chimed in.

"Alright, well, let's see what we can find here to help us. Clothes, food and water should be our main priorities and we'll figure out what to do later, okay?" Michael said. We all nodded and went off in small groups to search the place.

I was with Alyssa and Teresa.

"So... Alyssa, do you remember anything before the Maze?" I asked.

Alyssa shook her head. "Nope. In all honesty, I don't really want to. By the looks of things, pre-Maze me along with everyone else went through some pretty bad shit. In what world would I want to know what happened?"