The Maze Runner Newt x girl Glader

Chapter 5: Brenda

I woke up, I felt Newt's arms wrapped around me. Dang, what a night. It actually felt good getting all those struggles off my chest. And Newt was right. It is good to let out emotions than bottle them up the rest of my life and I'm glad that I have the support that I need from Newt and the others. When I woke up, it still looked dark out. Thomas also woke up and noticed that we're getting close to the city that we saw earlier.

"Guys. Guys, wake up. Look. We're almost there." he says as he wakes us up. Then we hear thunder. We look behind us and see a storm cloud approaching. Then we see a lot of lightning. This is not good.

"Oh no. Let's go! Let's go!" Thomas yells as we run. I try to run as quick as I can to catch up with the others. Newt sees that I'm trying to catch up. He holds my hand tightly and it's helping me run faster. The lightning was almost close to striking me. I scream at that. Newt squeezes my hand tighter.

"Whoa. You okay?" Newt asks in concern.

"Yeah. For real this time. But if that lightning was any closer I'd feel even more traumatized than I am now." I respond while we're still running. We're getting close to a building, all of sudden, lightning struck Minho and Thomas. Minho was unconscious and Thomas survived. We carry Minho and we run inside as quick as we can. We lay Minho down gently and hoping he comes to.

"Minho! Oh God, please wake up!" I say as my voice breaks and feel tears fill my eyes.

"Minho, come on, man. Don't die on me." Newt says as his voice also breaks.

"Minho, wake up!" Thomas yells.

All or sudden, Minho finally comes to and looks at us curiously as if he doesn't remember what happened. And he didn't.

"What...What happened?" he asks in confusion.

We chuckle at his reaction when he woke up.

"You got struck by lightning." Thomas says while chuckling.

"Oh...ohhhhh..." Minho reacts and rolls his eyes.

We laugh at that reaction.

"Don't ever scare me like that again, man." I say to Minho, feeling relieved.

"Don't worry about it, girl." Minho replies which I chuckle.

All of a sudden we smell something rotten.

"What's that smell?" Teresa asks.

Frypan shines his flashlight to see where the noise is coming from. Then a Crank just popped out of nowhere and almost got a hold of Frypan. Frypan backed up in fear. And then another Crank almost got Thomas in which he backs up. Then one more Crank almost got me. I scream and cling onto Newt in which he holds me protectively and tightly. We see a lot of Cranks chained up for some reason.

"What the...?" I yell in fear and confusion.

"I see you've met our guard dogs." a female voice said in the dark and then she turns the lights on. We see a petite girl, who was about my height, with very short black hair, a red sweater and a coat. She walks through the chained Cranks and walks to us.

"You guys look like shit. Come. Follow me. Unless you'd rather stay with them." the girl says. I don't know if we can trust her. We follow her anyway cuz we don't wanna stay with these hideous Cranks. She leads through a gigantic area with lights and fires.

"Keep up. Jorge wants to meet you." the girl says while we're walking.

"Who the hell is Jorge?" Thomas asks the girl.

"It's been a long time since someone escaped the scorch. It's got him curious. Me too." she answers.

"I'm starting to get a bad feeling about this place." Newt says worriedly.

"Same." I back him up.

The girl led us long ways and then up to an area with furniture, lights, and a radio.

"Jorge. They're here." she says to a man who must be Jorge and then sits down on the couch. There's a group of men surrounding us. I start getting uncomfortable and cling onto Newt. He wraps an arm around me protectively.

"I don't like this at all, Newt." I whisper.

"I know. Me neither." he whispers back.

Jorge turns to face us.

"Do you ever get the feeling the whole world's against you? Three questions. Where did you come from? Where are you going? How can I profit?" he asks us. I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion at what he meant by how he can profit. None of us answer except Thomas.

"We're headed for the mountains. Looking for the Right Arm." Thomas answers hesitantly. The group of men and Jorge start chuckling. And just what was so funny?

"You're looking for ghosts, you mean. Question number two. Where...did you come from?" Jorge asks us.

"That's our business." Minho answers. Jorge gave us a facial expression as if he were saying "alright". But then the group of men started grabbing us.

"Get the hell off me!" Thomas yells at the men, struggling to release himself from their grip.

"Ow! Leave me alone!" I yell at one of the men trying to grab me and I struggle to push the man away.

"Hey, don't touch her! Let her go!" Newt yells at the man trying to grab me.

The girl grabbed a gun and walked to Thomas and then me.

"Relax, you big babies." she says.

Oh, I'm a baby now? I thought.

She then scanned the back of Thomas's neck. It looks like he has some kind of symbol on his neck or something.

"You were right." the girl says.

"What? What are you talking about?" Thomas asks.

"I'm sorry, hermano. But you've been tagged. You came from W.C.K.D. Which means...you're very...valuable." Jorge responds in an unhappy tone.

*time skip*

Jorge and his men tied our ankles together and hung us upside down. I literally feel nauseous. We try to pull ourselves up and hopefully untie ourselves. We fail. Then, a bright light was shining out the window. A man on a loudspeaker was talking. I immediately recognized the voice. Janson! It's W.C.K.D.! I knew we couldn't trust the girl and Jorge. About a minute later, jazz music started playing which was unusual. Teresa was able to swing herself and reach the railing and then untie herself. She then unties the rest of us and we run to break free until a big intimidating man stopped us. We put our hands up in surrender. He let Janson know that he got us. Uh oh, that guy works for W.C.K.D.! He aimed his gun at us. I closed my eyes tightly, thinking that this was it. We're gonna die. Before he could shoot us, the girl sneaked behind him and shot him to death. Why did she do that? Is she literally saving us?

"Okay, come on. Come on, let's go!" the girl urges us to follow her. As we follow her, the jazz music continues playing. We meet up with Jorge at a large window where we need to use a zip line to get across. Jorge went first, Minho went after him, then Frypan, then Aris, then Newt, and then me. Teresa was the last one. We realized Thomas and the girl were missing.

"Wait. Wait a minute, where's Thomas?!" I ask in realization.

"Brenda?!" Jorge calls out to the girl in fear. So that's the girl's name.

"They were right behind me!" Teresa says, not knowing what happened to Thomas and Brenda.

We looked around and there's no Thomas or Brenda. I'm getting a bad feeling.

"Maybe they got caught up. I'm sure they'll find another way out." I say worriedly, but with hope.

"Yeah. Okay, let's go!" Jorge urges us. We get inside his truck and he drives us somewhere safe while we wait for Thomas and Brenda. I hope they make it and find us.