Lizzie and Minho were laying on her bed. He had his arm wrapped around her shoulder while they had their hands intertwined with each other. They were enjoying the comfortable silence between them and the quiet chatter from their friends when all of a sudden the door of the vent was knocked off. Thomas scrambled to get up and the couple shared a look of confusion as Thomas quickly went to the door. 

"We gotta go. We gotta go right now." He spoke in an urgent tone and the two of them stood up along with the others that were sitting.

"What do you mean?" Lizzie asked him, furrowing her eyebrows as she started to worry about what was happening.

"They're coming. We gotta go. They're coming for us." Thomas continued saying, grabbing some bedding and tied it around the door handle.

"Who? Janson?" Lizzie bit her lower lip nervously.

"Paige. She's still alive." Thomas muttered and Lizzie's eyes widened.

Lizzie looks over at Aris who had a blank stare, and she wondered what they saw. "Aris, what happened?" Frypan asked him, but got no reply which only worried Lizzie more. If Aris wasn't saying anything she knew what he and Thomas saw must have freaked them both out and that didn't mean anything good.

"Thomas, can you just calm down and talk to us?" Newt asked Thomas, trying to get Thomas to calm down.

"She's still alive." Thomas replied.

"Who's she? Teresa?" Frypan questioned.

"Ava." Thomas answered.

"Ava?" Newt asked with furrowed brows.

"Ava Paige." Lizzie muttered, letting go of Minho's hand as she crossed her arms.

"It's WICKED!" Thomas suddenly shouts, turning around to face them with an upset expression on his face. "It's still WICKED. It's always been WICKED." He then grabbed the bed he got the bedding from and pushed it up against the door. 

Newt steps forward to Thomas, stopping Thomas from doing anything else. Newt furrows his eyebrows. "Thomas, what did you see?"

After Thomas told them what they saw and what was going to happen to them if they didn't leave now, they decided to go through the vents to escape. Thomas was the first to get out of the vent and once he made sure no one was around the others quickly followed.

"Okay, let's go, let's go!" Thomas exclaimed.

"You guys go ahead. There's something I gotta do." Aris said.

"Wait, what?" Lizzie asked as she looked at Aris with confusion.

"Trust me, it's important. You guys guys wanna get out of here, right? Just go." Aris told them.

"I'll go with him." Winston spoke up and went back into the vents with Aris.

"You sure we can trust this kid?" Minho asked while the group started running down the hallway.

"Yeah." Lizzie nodded.

"You don't want to know where we'd be without him." Thomas replied.

The group ran around a corner, but immediately stopped when they saw Dr. Crawford in front of them. Lizzie nervously bit her lower lip as she stared at them with wide eyes. 

"What are you kids doing out?" Dr. Crawford asked them.

Lizzie looked around them as an alarm went off and as she looked back Dr. Crawford, she looked very angry. After a lot of arguing, Thomas then held Dr. Crawford's arm, making her lead them to where Teresa was.

They ran down the hallway, only to be stopped by a guard at the other end of the hallway with a gun aimed at them. They all ducked just in time as he shot at them and they went down the hallway they just came from. Lizzie stopped when she realized Minho wasn't with them and turned around to see Minho a few feet away from them.

"Minho, what are you doing?" Lizzie inquired.

She watches Minho run  towards the end of the hallway as a guard came around the corner. Her eyes widen when Minho kicked the guard against the wall, knocking him out. "Wow." She mumbled, staring in awe at what just happened. She was definitely impressed by Minho knocking out that guard. 

After the group ran forward, Thomas grabbed the gun that was from the guard and then put it against Dr. Crawford's back, making her show them where Teresa was. They get to the room Teresa was kept in, having Dr. Crawford opening the door so it was as if it was just her. Thomas then opened the door all of the way, walking inside aiming the gun at each of the scientists demanding to know where Teresa was as the Gladers walked in.

"Thomas, try over there." Lizzie suggested, pointed to a curtain that was covering something. Thomas glanced at her and then at the curtain. He handed the gun to Minho and quickly opened the curtain. While Thomas got Teresa, Lizzie and Newt tied the doctors and scientists hands. Frypan looked at the small window at the door, noticing Janson and his guards were on their way. 

"Guys, they're coming. What do we do?" Frypan questioned, worriedly looking at the Gladers.

"Frypan, move!" Newt exclaimed as he knocked over a table. He then pushed it up against the door just as Janson and his guards arrived.

"Guys, get back!" Minho told them. The Gladers immediately moved back away from the door as they tried to get the door open. They backed up towards the window that was in the room. 

"We gotta get out of here!" Minho shouted.

Thomas then grabbed a chair and started hitting the window, trying to break it. Newt grabbed a chair, and helped him. They eventually break the window, glass shards falling.

Everyone climbed over to the other side while Minho threw the gun back to Thomas as they started running. They opened the door just as a man that worked there walked up to them. Thomas quickly pulled the trigger and Lizzie's eyes widened as electricity came out of the gun, electrocuting the man.

They run around the man that was on the floor and down the hallway to a door that was at the end. "There it is!" Thomas yelled, pointing at the door. They get to the door and Thomas tries opening the door using the key card he had, but it wasn't working.

"Thomas."

They all look over to see Janson and guards walking towards them. Thomas drops the card and grabs the gun. He walks a few feet away from his friends, aiming the gun at Janson and demands, "Open this door, Janson!"

Minho picks up the key card and continues to try and open the door as Thomas and Janson talk. "You really don't want me to." Janson told him.

"The maze is one thing, but you kids wouldn't last one day out in the scorch. If the elements don't kill you, then the Cranks will." Janson explains. "Thomas, you have to believe me. I only want what's best for you."

"Yeah, let me guess, WICKED is good?" Thomas asked.

"You're not getting through that door, Thomas." Janson replied as he shook his head.

Lizzie looked over with the others when the door opened. She let out a breath of relief she didn't realize she was holding when she saw Aris and Winston on the other side. She was so glad Aris and Winston had left because maybe without them they wouldn't have been able to get the door opened.

"Hey, guys." Aris smiled.

"I'm so happy to see you guys." Lizzie admitted.

"Come on!" Frypan said to the group, running to the other side and everyone follows him. "Thomas, come on!"

Thomas shot at Janson and the guards a couple of times before the gun was empty. He threw the gun on the ground and ran towards the door. Her eyes widened when the door started to close and just when she thought Thomas wasn't going to make it, he slid under the door just in time.

Aris then went over and broke the key pad that opened the door while Winston went over to a guard that was unconscious and grabbed a gun he had, and Minho even grabbed a backpack.

"Come on!" Minho called out to Thomas. Once Thomas joined the group, they all started running. They ran throughout the facility and to the door that they first came in.

Thomas pulls the lever on the door that opened it. "Come on, come on!" Thomas urgently told them, gesturing them to follow him. They all ran outside to see that it was dark. Lizzie knew that wasn't going to be helpful for them since it was harder to see in the dark, but she and the others couldn't worry about that now. Being able to see was the least of their worries, their main goal was to get away from WICKED. 

They climbed up the hill and the sand did not make it any easier. They got on their stomachs, hiding from the guards that were searching for them. Once they were sure they were okay to leave they moved out and continued running. Along the way, Teresa ran over to something which confused them.

"Teresa, where are you going?" Lizzie asked with furrowed eyebrows, following her along with the others. She then realized Teresa found some windows that were a part of an old building somewhat buried in the sand.

"Come on!" Teresa exclaimed and got inside.

"Teresa, wait! No, don't go in there!" Thomas tried to stop her but failed.

Lizzie followed Teresa, thinking it would be better to be in there then outside with all of the dust flying because of the harsh wind. "Get down here, guys!" Lizzie shouted at them as she stood besides Teresa.

The boys eventually went inside and they looked around the place. Minho got the backpack off and found a flashlight. He turned it on and shined it around so they could see better since it was dark. Around them most things were broken, and ruined. Lizzie was pretty sure it was an abandoned mall because there were rooms that looked like they could've been stores.

"We gotta go." Thomas said as he started to move.

"No. Thomas, stop!" Teresa shouts, getting Thomas' attention. He then turns around to look at her. "Tell me what's going on." She demanded.

"It's WICKED. It's WICKED. They lied to us. We never escaped. Me and Aris, we found bodies." Thomas explains to her and she looks at him with wide eyes. "Too many to count."

"What do you mean? Dead bodies?" Minho asked him.

Thomas shakes his head. "No, but they weren't alive either. They had them strung up. With tubes coming out of them. They were-they were being drained." He continues. "There's something inside of us that WICKED wants. Something in our blood. So we have to get as far away from them as possible."

Newt sighs, putting his hands on his hips. "Okay. So, what's the plan? You do have a plan, right?"

"Yeah. I don't know." Thomas admitted, shaking his head.

Newt stares at him in disbelief. "Well, we followed you out here, Thomas, and now you're saying that you have no idea where you're going or what we're doing."

"Wait," Aris speaks up. "Janson said something about people hiding in the mountains. Some kind of resistance or army."

Thomas nods. "The Right Arm. If they're really against WICKED maybe they can help us."

Newt looks at both of them with wide eyes. "People? In the mountains? Mountain people? That's your plan?"

"It's the only chance we have." Thomas replied.

"Hey, guys." Winston gains everyone attention when he speaks and the group all look at him. "Come check this out."

Lizzie walks over to him, seeing he was knelt on the ground looking at something. She couldn't exactly see what he was looking at since it was dark. "Minho, give me a light." Winston said to Minho. Minho knelt besides Lizzie and shined the light to where Winston was pointing at.

"Someone's been down here." Winston pointed out. 

Lizzie's eyes widened when she saw the footsteps and her heartbeat increased. If there were footsteps did that mean they were recent? Maybe people were still here. Or maybe it has been a long time since people were here. It did look abandoned so she assumed no one was there which was a good thing for the group.

Minho walks to one of the stores that was in the abandoned mall that had all kind of supplies in it. "Come on, let's open it up." He suggested. They all opened the gate and Lizzie was surprised to see all kinds of stuff in there.

Frypan found a bigger flashlight and turns it on while Lizzie and Teresa found some smaller flashlights to use. She looks over her shoulder at Minho as he cleans a dusty jacket off. "Looks like people lived here."

"Where are they now?" Newt wondered out loud.

Lizzie turns around, looking at Thomas when he picked up a nearby green colored jacket, and put it on. "Let's pick this stuff up. Anything you think you might need."

Lizzie picked up a denim jacket and put it on over her dark purple tank top. She then grabbed a nearby backpack and filled it with supplies she thought she might need.

"We'll split up, see what else we can find and then meet back here." Thomas announced.

"Wait, Thomas." Newt then threw Thomas a flashlight.

"You going with us?" Minho asked Lizzie. She nodded as she put the backpack on her shoulders, and followed them out.

The three of them walked down a hallway and to the main part of the abandoned mall. She shined her flashlight around, looking at all of the makeshift homes that were scattered around.

"Thomas." Minho suddenly spoke up.

"Yeah?" Thomas asked.

"All of those kids that were left behind back there. I don't want to end up like that." Minho admits. "Hey," When Thomas didn't respond, Minho speaks a little louder and gets his attention. "Do you hear me?"

Thomas nods. "Yeah, I hear you."

"Good." Minho said.

"Okay, I don't wanna end up like those kids who were left behind either." Lizzie chimed in.

"We won't let that happen." Minho reassured her and Thomas nodded in agreement.

"I knew you guys wouldn't," Lizzie nods, and her lips forming into a small smile. She shrugs. "I just wanted to let you guys know that. So, what are we looking for exactly?" Lizzie questioned as she glanced at Thomas.

"Signs of life. People. Survivors. Anyone who can help us." Thomas answered as he looked around.

"Does he count?" Minho asked as he shined his flashlight on what he was looking at.

Lizzie and Thomas turn around to look at the skeleton Minho was looking at. They walk over to it, seeing it was in a chair that had a lamp near it and a small table next to it.

"This is definitely creepy." Lizzie commented and Thomas nodded in agreement.

Minho then tried turning on the lamp. "They had power." He realized and the three of them shine their lights on an electrical outlet where all of the electrical wires were plugged into.

Lizzie looked at a fence that was trapping something. There were stuffed animals pined to the fence, and a sign on the fence that said 'danger. high voltage'. There were even some kids toys in front of the fence. She looked forward to see what was on the other side of the fence, and saw makeshift beds. Lizzie  turned around when she heard the rumbling of a power generator and saw Minho in front of one.

"Hey, Minho, wait!" Thomas exclaimed, but it was too late.