A/N: This chapter is crap, but enjoy!

The next day we were walking trough the Scorch. It was really hot outside (probably because of Newt).
We were almost out of water, since nothing was left in our water bottles. The sky was slowly turning darker and darker.

We've been walking almost the whole day now and my legs were hurting like hell.

'Can we rest?' I sighed and looked at Thomas, who's face was covered in sweat.

'Alright then. I guess we can go to sleep, we've been walking all day already.' Thomas put his backpack and sat down on the ground.

'Night.' I used my backpack as a pillow and closed my eyes.

~

'Guys, wake up!' Thomas shouted at us and I opened my eyes. It was still dark outside and I was wondering why Thomas woke us up. Before I could ask him I saw lights coming from the mountains. It was about one mile away from us.

'I see lights!' Thomas motioned at them. 'That's were we should go.' He started grabbing this stuff and so did we.

Suddenly I heard a loud thunder noise. I turned around and saw lightening.

'We've got to hurry!' Frypan shouted and we all started running.

The lightening started getting closer to us and we had changes of getting hit.

'Keep going!' Thomas shouted. We were close to the building where the lights had came from now.

Lightening started to hit the ground dangerously close to us now.

'Watch out!' The boys screamed. We almost got to the door of the building, but suddenly I fell on the ground.

~

I heard a loud bang. What made me fall onto the ground. There was a weird feeling going trough my body, it felt like I was being electrocuted again. I lay on the ground in shock for a few second, my ears were pounding.

I turned my head and looked next to me. Someone was laying on the ground. I quickly got shaken out of my trance and rushed over to the person.

'Minho!' I shouted. I grabbed him by the shoulders and tried to wake him up, but he didn't. He got struck by lightning.

'Guys, help!' I said almost in tears. The Gladers rushed over to me and dragged Minho towards the door, to enter the building.

Once we arrived we carefully laid him down on the ground. 'Minho?' I asked worried. He didn't move and I couldn't see if he was breathing.

Thomas leaned closer to him and suddenly I heard a sound coming from Minho his mouth.
'Thank god.' The boys sighed in relieve went Minho opened his eyes.

'What happend?' He looked at us.

'You got struck by lightning.' Thomas explained.

'Oh.' Minho seemed a little impressed by it and let out a light smile.

'You got us worried.' I said once we pulled him up.

'What's that smell?' Teresa shined her flashlight trough the room we were in. I had noticed it too. It smelled like rotten fish and I didn't know what it was.

Out of sudden a man screamed and he ran towards us. It scared the hell out of me and I took some steps back.

Luckily the man, or Crank, was attached to a chain. More Cranks started to scream as they were all tied up to chains.

A light went on and I could see the shadow of a person.

'Who's that?' Thomas mumbled and looked at the person.

They started walking towards us and they didn't seem to be scared of the Cranks. The Cranks reached out for them, but they couldn't reach the person.

'You guys look like shit.' The person walked trough the light and I could see that it was a girl. She had short dark hair and her clothes were ripped a little.

'Come on, follow me.' She turned around and started walking away. 'Unless you wanna stay here with them.' She turned her head.

~

We walked into a big room. People were sitting everywhere and they gave us weird glances.

'Jorge wants to meet you.' The girl said.

'Who's Jorge?' Thomas walked up to the girl.

'You'll see.' She turned her head at us slightly as we kept walking. I didn't completely trust the place yet. 'No one's come out of the Scorch in a long time. You've just got him curious.' She looked up and down at Thomas. 'And me too.' She added.

Me and Newt looked behind us and I saw a man with ugly teeth grinning at us. 'Anyone else starting to get a bad feeling about this place?' Newt said quietly.

'Yeah.' I replied.

'Let's just hear him out. See what he has too say.' Thomas said as we walked up some stairs.

'Jorge, they're here.' The girl walked to a desk.

'Shh, shh.' A man sat on a chair and he held his finger in the air. 'Quiet.' He was listening to some kind of radio. 'Damn it.' He said after a while and he pulled the plug out of the radio.

We all stood there a little uncomfortable until the man turned around.

'Do you ever get the feeling the whole world against you?' He had his hands on his hips. His hair was dark brown with a few tints of grey.

Trust me, we do.

I gave Newt a glance.

'Three questions.' The man started walking towards us. 'Where did you come from?' He grabbed a bottle from a table and started pouring some kind of drink in a cup. 'Where are you going? How can I profit?'

We all stayed silent. 'Don't all answer at once.'

'We're headed for the mountains. Looking for The Right Arm.' Thomas said. A few guys chuckled.

'You're looking for ghosts, you mean.' The man said and he took a sip of his drink. 'Question number two.' He started to raise his voice. 'Where did you come from?' He moved closer to us.

'That's our business.' Me and Minho said at the same time.

The man made a small motion with his face and three men grabbed me, Minho and Thomas.

'Get the hell off me!' Thomas immediately started to resist.

'Shut up, you big baby.' The girl had some kind of scanner in her hands. She grabbed Thomas by the neck and scanned it.

'What is that?!' Thomas shouted.

'You were right.' The girl looked at the dark-skinned man and handed him the scanner.

'Right about what? What is she talking about?' Thomas asked confused.

'I'm sorry, Hermano. Looks like you're tagged. You,' He pointed at Thomas. 'came from WICKED. Which means, you are very valuable.'

~

'Good plan, Thomas. Just see what the man has too say.' Minho said.

Our feet were tied to a rope. We were hanging upside down over an high abyss.

'Really working out for us.' I added to Minho's sentence.

'Shut up.' Thomas sighed. 'Maybe I can reach the rope.' Thomas groaned as he tried, but failed. Out of breath he hung back down.

'Enjoying the view?' All of sudden Jorge walked into the room.

'What the hell do you want?' Minho asked clearly annoyed.

The man sighed. 'That is the question. My men want to sell you back to WICKED.' He looked at Thomas. 'Life has taught them to think small. I'm not like that. Something tells me that you're not either.'

'Is the blood rushing trough my head or is this Shank not making any sense?' Minho asked.

'I think in your position it's both, Minho.' I replied.

'Tell me what you know about the Right Arm.' Jorge held some kind of pole in his hands and pointed it at Thomas.

'I thought you said they were ghosts.' Newt said.

'I happen to believe in ghosts.' The man looked at Newt. 'Especially when I heart them chattering on the airwaves.' He gave all of us a glance and walked to a handle that was connected to the rope we were tied on. 'You tell me what you know, and maybe we can make a deal.'

'We don't know much.' Thomas said.

Jorge didn't seem to be satisfied and he pulled the handle. We were pulled further down.

'Okay, okay! All right!' Thomas quickly shouted. 'They're hiding in the mountains. And they attacked WICKED. They got out a bunch of kids. That's it. That's all we know.'

Do I need to tell this man about what I know? No, I can't. I'm not supposed to do that.

Jorge was about to say something, but he got interrupted.

'Yo, Jorge.' The man with the ugly teeth and beard walked in. 'What's going on?' He asked.

'Me and my new friend were just chatting. We're done now.'

'Yeah, it was nice to meet you!' I shouted before Jorge wanted to walk away.

'Hey wait, what? You're not gonna help us?' Thomas asked Jorge.

'Don't worry, hermano. We'll get you back to where you belong.' He smiled. 'Hang tight.' He walked away.

~

'Okay, I got it.' Minho grabbed me by the waist and tried pushing me to the handle. 'One, two three here we go.' He pushed me forwards. I tried to reach out for the handle, but I was too far away.

'Oh, shit.' Thomas cursed.

'Come on!' Newt said to Minho.

'Just push harder, Minho.' I looked at him.

'One, two, three.' Minho pushed again and I grabbed the steel metal.

'Yes!' They celebrated.

I reached out for the handle to get myself on the ground. When I pulled it the others fell down even more. 'Sorry.' I quickly said as I untied the ropes that were on my legs.

Suddenly I heard a loud noise coming from outside.

'Quick, Raven!' I started to untie Teresa and then she helped me with the others.

'Good evening.' I heard trough a speaker. 'This is the World In Catastrophe Killzone Department.'

Are you kidding me? Not this guy again. I thought when I recognized the voice.

'Return them to us unharmed, and we'll consider this a simple misunderstanding.'

I continued untying everyone and ignored all the bullshit Janson was blairing out.

'Let's go, let's go.' Thomas said once we all got out of the ropes.

Suddenly the man with the beard and teeth was standing in front of us. He had a gun in his hands and he loaded it.

'We're not trying to cause any trouble, okay? We just need to get out of here.' Thomas said as he held his hands in front of us.

'Is that so?' The man said.

'Janson,' He grabbed a telephone. 'I got 'em for ya. I'm bringing 'em down. Don't shoot us.' He said trough the device. 'Come on, let's go.' He motioned at us. 'I said let's go.' He repeated when we didn't react.

Thomas jumped forward and tried to get the gun out of the man's hands. Thomas gave the man a punch when he didn't let go off it and the man took a step back. Thomas wanted to attack again, but the man was holding the gun at us again.

'You little bastard!' I heard a gunshot and thought that the man had shot at us, but he fell onto the ground. Behind the man was the girl with a gun in her hands.

'Okay, come on.' She said trough her breaths. 'Come on, let's go!' She raised her voice when we didn't react. Suddenly a song started playing trough the speakers.

What the-

~

'Brenda, hurry! Jorge said once we got to him. 'We don't have much time. Let's go.' Jorge walked towards a big door. 'Right this way!' He pushed against the door and it opened.

'You gotta be kidding me.' Frypan looked a little shocked when he saw the big abyss. There was a zip line accorded to it.

'Plan B, hermano. You kids wanna get to the Right arm? I'll lead you to them. But you're gonna owe me.' Jorge grabbed one of the ropes and putted his arms around me. 'Follow me!' He shouted before he zipped down the line.

'All right, let's go!' Brenda grabbed another rope and handed it to Minho. Then Aris and Frypan.

'Teresa, come on!' Thomas handed her the rope. 'I'm right behind you.'

'Newt, your turn.' I said when Teresa zipped down.
Newt looked at me worried. 'Don't worry, I'll go after you.' I smiled at him and he left.

'Brenda! Where are you going?' Thomas shouted when Brenda suddenly rushed over to a table. 'Brenda come on!' Me and Thomas ran over to Brenda.

'What are you doing?' I asked. Brenda was opening drawers in a hurry, looking for something.

'I got it!' She grabbed something out of the drawer.

'Come on.' Thomas rushed back to the zip line.

'Oh, shit.' I said when I saw the guards blocking the way to the zip line.

Me and Brenda grabbed our guns and started to shoot the guards. 'Go, go!' Brenda stopped shooting and ran away from the guards. Me and Thomas gave each other a look and then started running too.

The guards shot at us.

'We're running out of time!' We ran down some stairs, still following Brenda. Bullets were still being fired at us.

Guards blocked our way to the hallway so we had to go to the right.

'Here, follow me!' Brenda started walking over steel beams. I didn't know if it was a good idea to go on the beams, since we wouldn't make it if we fell, but eventually I got on.

'Stop! Stay right where you are!' Guards started shouting at us. I quickly walked over the steel beams.

'Kid, don't move!' A guard pointed his gun at us.

'Brenda, where are you going?' Thomas shouted at Brenda, who was already further away from us.

'Hurry! The song is almost over!' She shouted at us.

'Just go, Thomas!' He was blocking my way.

The song stopped playing and bombs started to go off. I almost fell down but I grabbed one of the beams above me and managed to stay on it.

The bombs stopped after a while and I thought that it was over, but the beams started to fall down. Almost the entire building collapsed.

We started running forwards and the three of us grabbed a rope. We fell down into something. I looked above me and saw things coming down, almost falling on top of us.

'Thomas!' I pushed him out of the tunnel before all the stuff and stones landed on us.

Lots of dirt flied trough the small room. We started coughing heavily. After a while it was over.

The girl putted on a flashlight because it was completely dark.

'Are y'all okay?' The girl that Jorge had called Brenda said.

'I think so.' I got up. Thomas shined his flashlight towards the place where we had fell down.

'How are we gonna get back to the others?' Thomas asked worried.

'Relax. I'm gonna get us out of here.' Brenda gave us a flashlight.

'Why are you helping us?' Thomas asked. He never stopped asking questions. It was like he was still a Greenie.

'Trust me, it's not my idea.' Brenda replied. 'Jorge seems to think you guys are our ticket to the safe heaven.'

'The what?'

'A safe place. Basically the Right Arm.' I answered him. 'The Right Arm takes kids there.'

'How do you know?' He looked at me.

'Can you guys just help me with this?' Brenda tried to pull a very heavy grate off the floor.

We walked over to her and with lots of noises we managed to get it off.

'Jorge knows a guy, Marcus. He used to smuggle kids up into the mountains. If Jorge made it out, that's where he will be taking your friends.'

'If he made it out?' Thomas asked.

'You ask a lot of questions.' Brenda said.

'I know right.' I said.

When we opened the grate a deep dark hole appeared. We shined our flashlights in it and it seemed to be some kind of tunnel. I heard a scream echoing trough the walls.

'Are we going in there?' I asked in disgust.

'We have to.' Brenda jumped into the hole.

Once we all jumped down we could go left or right. 'I think it's this way.' Brenda motioned to the right.'

'You think?' Thomas said, but I slapped the back of his head.

'Just follow her.' I said and we started walking.

I hope Newt and the others are okay.

'Do people live down here?' Thomas asked something, again.

'The sun flares forced people underground.  Jorge says that there are settlements all over the tunnels.'

'What about Jorge? Is he your father?' Thomas asked.

'Close enough. Truth is, I don't really know what he is. He's just always been there. And I've always done what he asked me to do, no matter how stupid.' Brenda replied.

'Damn.' Brenda shined her flashlight when we passed a intersection.

I turned my head to Thomas. 'Do you think the others will be okay?' I asked quietly.

'We're gonna find them, okay? They can take care of themselves, there's nothing to worry about. They're gonna be okay.' He comforted me.

'Okay.' I gave him a small smile and turned around to follow Brenda again, but she disappeared.

'Where's Brenda?' I asked Thomas confused.

'I'm here.' I saw that Brenda walked towards us. 'Look at this.' She motioned for us to follow her.

'What is that?' Thomas asked in disgust. Brenda had showed us a weird place, that gave me an odd feeling. I didn't know what was on the wall, but it looked like something rotten.

Suddenly I heard a sound coming from a pipe that was next to us. I jumped slightly and took a step back. A rat crawled out of the pipe.

Seriously, Raven?

I followed the rat with my eyes as it was walking trough the tunnel. It got close to the rotten stuff and suddenly a hand grabbed the animal. I gasped in shock and moved closer to Thomas and Brenda.

A Crank had grabbed the rat and it was eating it. I looked at it in disgust. Suddenly I heard cracking sounds and I shined trough the tunnel with my flashlight. More Cranks climbed out of the rotten stuff.

'We gotta get out of here, let's go!' Brenda started running away and me and Thomas followed her.

At some point I could see light at the end of the tunnel, so we kept running. At full speed I rushed over to the light.

'Woah.' Thomas quickly held his arm in front of my body so I wouldn't fall. I looked down and saw a deep abyss.

The Cranks were close to us.

'We have to go!' Brenda started climbing up some rocks and me and Thomas followed her, just like we did the whole time.

The Cranks were fast. When Brenda was climbing she wanted to grab an object to hold onto, but the object fell down almost on top of Thomas, who quickly bend down before getting hit. The Crank did get hit and I saw it falling into the abyss.

'Keep moving!' Thomas shouted at me and Brenda. We started running up some long stairs and the Cranks were almost catching up to us. It was hard to keep balance. The building we were in was laying on it's side, so we had to hold on to something the whole time.

When Brenda got on top of the stairs she wanted to grab something so she wouldn't fall, but the thing seemed to be loose. Brenda fell down trough a door and landed on glass.

'Oh shit.' Me and Thomas slid down the wall and held onto some objects. Brenda slowly got up from the glass but it already started cracking.

'Don't move!' Thomas shouted. He tried to reach out for Brenda, but they were too far away from each other.

'Brenda, come on!' I gave her my hand so she could grab it, but she was still too far away. If she moved, the glass would break. I got dangerously close to her.

When I moved a little bit more so she could grab my hand I lost my balance and fell down.

'Raven!' Thomas shouted.

I landed on the same glass as Brenda.

'Thomas, just-.' I was cut off by a Crank jumping down from the door, right on top of Brenda.

'Brenda!' I didn't know what to do until I felt the gun in my pocket. I quickly grabbed it and tried to shoot the Crank that was still fighting Brenda. I was scared that I would accidentally shoot the wrong person, but eventually I pulled the trigger.

The Crank fell down on the glass when I hit it in it's arm. The glass slowly started to break more.

I jumped towards Thomas and grabbed an object to hold on to. It was just Brenda on the glass now.

'Brenda!' Thomas screamed when the glass broke. He reached out and was able to grab her hand before she could fall.

Brenda looked down into the deep abyss and then looked up at Thomas again with a terrified look on her face. He quickly pulled her up.

'Let's go find Marcus.' Brenda wiped the dirt off her clothes.