"Good Evening!" The voice boomed.

I looked over to the fellow Gladers, fear and concern written all over my face.

"This is the World Catastrophe Killzone Department" 

The abbreviation registered in my head as Janson's voice said that. WCKD. They're back...

"We have your compound completely surrounded. You find yourselves, through no fault of your own in possession of Wicked property."

A man walked into the room, the same one that had come in when Jorge was talking to us. This time though, he walked in with a shotgun and walkie-talkie.

"Janson, I got 'em for ya. Don't shoot" His voice snarled through the walkie-talkie. "Come on, let's go!" 

I looked at the rest of the group, were we really going to follow him, just for him to sell us back to Wicked?

"I said let's go! You little bastard!" The man shouted at us as he grabbed ahold of my arm.

"Let her go!" Newt's voice spoke up, but his grip didn't loosen, it just tightened.

A song had begun playing in the background, all of us looking at each other, questioning why?

The man stuck the gun up to my head, yelling at the rest of the group to follow us. 

"Let me go!" I said as I squirmed through his grasp.

A bullet rang through the group as my heart began to race, faster and faster. Our eyes widened as we looked at the rest of our surroundings, checking ourselves for bullet holes.

The man behind me collapsed to the floor as everything fell on him. His walkie-talkie fell, his gun did, and so did his body.

"We don't have much time! Let's go!" The same brunette girl yelled at us. 

We looked at each other for a quick second before sprinting right after her. She lead us through multiple hallways, leading back to the same office space where we met Jorge. 

"I'm Brenda by the way" She panted.

"Right this way!" Jorge said to us as he grabbed a piece of fabric from overhead as it dropped down multiple more pieces of fabric. 

I looked out the large hole in the wall, it revealed a zip line that strung from our building to a second one that was run down.

"You gotta be kidding me!" Minho shouted.

"You kids wanna get to the Right Arm? I'll lead you guys to them, but you're gonna have to owe me! Follow me!" Jorge said to the group as he went flying down the zip line.

"Alright come on!" Jorge shouted from across the ravine.

I watched as one by one, the boys went filing out. 

"Aris, go!" I shouted to him. He quickly gave me a nod before he went flying.

"Teresa, you're next!" Thomas yelled to the girl. She went by quickly too, now it was just me, Thomas, and Newt.

Newt was the last one left, but he looked at me before pulling at the cloth.

"Newt, go!" I yelled at the blond.

"No, you go first!" He yelled back.

"One of you love birds go before all three of us die!" The brunette shouted.

By now, I had put Newt's hand securely on the cloth, pushing him out of the room.

"Y/N!" I heard him shout, but I couldn't respond. Brenda had begun running off.

"Wait! Brenda!" I yelled as I followed behind her "Brenda! Come on! We've gotta go!" I Grabbed her arm as she was shuffling through a drawer.

"I got it!" She exclaimed as she held up a large locket of some sort.

"Come on!" I shouted as we tried running through the haze.

"Shit! Take cover!" She yelled as she passed me a pistol. We both began firing at the group of men that were near us. They had black suits on that covered their whole bodies.

"Come on hurry! We're running out of time!" Brenda yelled at me as we were now walking on scaffolding.

We were inbetween multiple Wicked guards now, all of them having their guns pointed at us. We somehow got out of our situation.

"Brenda! Where are we going?" I asked.

"Hurry up! The songs almost over!"

She shuffled me into a tunnel of some sort as we watched the building fall up and explode into flames. My mouth slightly opened before I felt a hand land on my shoulder gently.

"Are you okay?" Brenda asked me.

"Yeah, I'm fine" I responded. "No, but how are we supposed to get back to the others?" I asked, my anxiety running.

"Hey, it's okay, I'm gonna get us back to them" She said reassuringly.

I followed her down the tunnel as she held a flashlight.

"Why are you helping us?" I spoke up.

"Trust me, It's not my idea. Jorge thinks you guys are our ticket to the safe haven" 

"The what?" I asked curiously.

"You know, paradise? A place away from the infection and the sun" She begun. "Apparently, the Right Arm's been taking kids there for years. Immunes anyway..." Brenda mumbled the last part.

"Oh! So you know where they are?" I asked.

"No, but Jorge knows a guy. Marcus" She said. "He used to smuggle kids up to the mountain. If Jorge made it out, that's where him and your friends are headed"

"What do you mean 'If he made it out?'" I questioned.

"You ask a lot of questions" Brenda said to me, a smirk growing on her lips.

"If you think I ask a lot of questions, you wouldn't be happy talking to Thomas then" I said with a laugh.

We kept going down the tunnel. Groans and movement could be heard slightly.

"Down here, they'll be full term, so be careful" Brenda said to me. "I think it's this way" 

"You think?" I asked.

Brenda and I quit talking as we continued to walk down, walking quickly but quietly on our feet. I prayed and wished for my friends to be safe and okay.

"So... What about Jorge? Is he your father?" 

"Close enough" She said simply. "Truth is, I'm not really sure what he is, he's always been there, and i've just done whatever he's asked me to do. No matter how stupid" 

Our walk seemed to last for eternity, but I stopped paying attention... Until it hit me, I wasn't with Brenda!

"Brenda?" I called out in the empty black void.

"Brenda?" I called out again, pacing through random corridors in the tunnel. It reminded me of the maze.

"I'm over here!" She yelled to me. 

I quickly sprinted after her voice, seeing her down a corridor two entries before mine. Black liquidy vines were draped on the wall, but I couldn't fully make it all out.

"What is this?" I asked as I got closer to the vines. 

A scurrying noise came from near us to the right, we turned our heads to the right to see a small rat, running around like it was on drugs.

"What the hell?" 

It passed by us, looking us dead in the eye before running towards the vines. A hand grabbed onto it through the veins and quickly bit its head off.

"Shuck!" I shouted 

"Go! Go! Go!" Brenda yelled at me as we both began sprinting. 

She lead the way, leading us to a ladder at the end of one of the corridors.

"Go up first!" She yelled at me. I followed her orders, basically flying up the ladders if that was even possible. 

A Crank grabbed at her leg in the tunnel, trying to bring her down. 

"Brenda! Move forward to the ladders a bit!" I shouted, aiming my pistol at the Crank and shooting it off of her. 

As we both fully situated into the building, we sprinted up the flight of stairs, hearing more Cranks file below us.

We both ran into a room, I held onto the door, but Brenda went flying down, landing on glass...

She let out a loud groan as her the glass cracked slightly. The Cranks began to moan from outside.

"Brenda! Are you okay?" I asked her.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine" She said as she got up slightly. The glass began to crack below her a bit more.

"No! Don't move!" I shouted. I held out my hand for her.

"Brenda! Grab it!" I pleaded.

"I can't!" She said as she tried to reach for my hand.

I moved my body forward as I made my way down slowly. A noise of a Crank came closer. The Crank made its way into the room, sliding down roughly, being inches away from Brenda.

I did what I had to do, I grabbed Brenda's hand and quickly made my way up the steep glass as it cracked from below us. I sent down a crate, making the whole room shatter and The Crank falling to his death.

"You alright?" I asked her.

She looked down to her leg. I gaze down too, seeing blood and a hole. 

"Shit" She muffled through sniffles as she took our bandages from her backpack, wrapping her leg securely.

"Brenda..." My voice cracked as I got a better look at her injury.

"Yeah, yeah, I know. Let's just find Marcus" She said to me as she got up.

I nodded, following her lead out into the Scorch. I really needed a miracle. I needed Newt, I needed the Safe Haven.

A/N : hi! i hope you enjoyed this chapter!! mwah i love you and thank you for all the reads!!