"Oh shit, okay," Mara starts to ramble taking out her knife, "we're doing this now. Alright gimme a sec." Mara hits the man who had a grip on her, "sorry man thought I was gonna have to hit you later not right now, so, my bad."
Samadhi huffs before elbowing a man's face that stood behind her and pulling out her knife after. "How come she gets the gun?" Samadhi questions Jessie while motioning towards Rosie.
Jessie took out her knife slashing the man's wrist who had gripped her arms. The man took his hands away appalled and scared for the blood running down his arms. "She grabbed it without asking!" Jessie explained.
Minho watched the curly headed girl slash the man's wrist with no hesitation. She looked so fearless with her fingers twirling the knife. He was in awe of the beauty in front of him. Even if Jessie ever threatened him with a knife against his neck, his eyes would sparkle in amazement. He saw her before he saw anything else in the room.
Jessie glanced towards him trying to get a quick glimpse. She could feel her breath get caught in her throat when her eyes landed on him already looking at her. He didn't look at her like she was a disease like many have before. No, because when he looked at her, he looked at her like there was something worth looking at.
"Okay," Mara stood next to Rosie asking her, "what's the plan, Rosie?"
"I don't have one." Rosie replied shortly.
Mara's eyebrows furrowed in her confusion turning her head to look at her, "what do you mean you don't have one?"
Rosie shrugged her shoulders not realizing the risk of danger she was putting her friends in. "I just didn'tβ"
"We're dealing with armed men! We only have knives and one gun! And you're telling me you have no plan?!" Mara raised her voice at the girl as Samadhi scanned the entire room trying to count how many armed men there was.
"I wasn't thinkingβ"
"Oh my god, you sound like Thomas." Mara muttered palming her forehead in frustration.
"We can take em." Rosie reassured.
Mara looked towards the girl again, "obviously we can," she replied before explaining and motioning to the gladers, "unfortunately thought, it's not just us we have to watch out for but also your buddies over there who have guns pointed at them."
Rosie looked over to where Mara motioned and realized she was right. The gladers were huddled together with the men pointing their guns at them. "Oh shit." Rosie muttered.
"Yeah, oh shit." Mara's voice dripped with sarcasm.
"Put down the gun," Jessie whispered to the girl as she glanced around, "someone's gonna help us."
Samadhi furrowed her eyebrows in confusion after hearing Jessie. "Who?" The girl asked in confusion.
"I don't know." Jessie shrugged her shoulders, "but usually in the movies when the group gets caught in a pickle like this somehow someone ends up saving them."
"Okay, but we're not in a movie Jess!" Mara replied rolling her eyes.
"Right. Right." Jessie mumbled rubbing the back of her neck, "we gotta surrender, no?"
"Yes, we have to." Samadhi responded turning her head towards Rosie to reprimand her, "next time, have a plan."
Rosie didn't say anything as she understood she didn't fully think this through. She handed the gun to Samadhi who took out the bullets before dropping the gun and sliding it far away from their own reach. Two of the several men grabbed a hold of Rosie pushing her farther away from the group. The rest followed behind as they watched Rosie being forced down onto her knees next to the edge.
One of them crouched down at her eye level a creepy smile forming on his lips with a rope in his hands. "What a waste of a pretty face." He murmured before grabbing ahold of her chin pulling her closer to him. "Maybe I'll make you the exception and take you with me."
"Get your hands off her." Newt spoke up trying to pull away from the guard. "Before Iβ"
"Before you what?" The man questioned the young boy. "You can't do anything. Remember?" He reminded Newt. "But I can."
Newt tried to take a step forward before being stopped by another man, "take another step and we'll make sure she falls in." He pointed towards the dark abyss and Rosie kneeled on the edge of it. "Those cranks down there are hungry."
The man turned back to face Rosie as he continued to talk to her. "So what about it? You coming along with me? I'll show you my favorite place. You can show me yoursβ"
Rosie spit on his face. Saliva scattered all over the man's appalled face. The smile that was once on his face turned into a disdained frown as he used his shirt to wipe the saliva off him. Before the man could comprehend what he decided to do, he stood up before kicking Rosie in the stomach.
"Hey!" Many protests left the gladers lips. Rosie fell to the ground clutching onto her hurting stomach. She felt the air leave her body but before she could realize what was happening. Her body started to roll towards the dark abyss as the man pushed her body towards it.
Gasping for air, Rosie could feel half of her body leaving the concrete and in a swift second Rosie gripped onto the side of the concrete with one hand. The rest of her body was hanging in the air being held by one hand. She could hear the yells coming from her friends who had tried to help her but couldn't.
"Form a line!" One of the guards demanded as they started to tie the gladers up by their ankles.
"What the hell are you doing?" Thomas questions demanding for one of them to help Rosie, "get her back up!"
"Who?" Rosie struggled to keep herself up reminding her about a few days prior when she was holding onto the edge back inside the maze. "Oh! You mean her!" Rosie let out a small scream as the man placed his foot on the girl's only hand that was holding onto the edge.
Thomas started to convince the man, "hey! She's worth a lot! More than the majority of us! If you end up letting her go then you're losing a lot of value! Jorge wants us alive and you know that! Now get her back up!"
The man moved his foot away before mumbling, "y'all can grab her."
Rosie could hear the sound of rushing footsteps and in a few seconds could feel two pairs of arms pulling her up. The first person she saw was Minho who had reached for her arm that couldn't get a hold of the edge. The other person was Newt who already knew what she was thinking about when he helped pulling her up. The girl had a few tears running down her face as the only thing she could think about was Ander getting killed for helping her.
"Hey, hey, hey, it's okay," Newt murmured using his thumb to wipe away her tears, "we're okay."
Rosie took a few breaths before letting herself rest on Newt's comforting shoulder. The boy ran his hand over her back trying to comfort her. He knew she was thinking about Ander and all he could do was simply comfort her. The girl pulled away from his shoulder before placing a soft kiss on Newt's lips leaving him stunned.
"I'm sorry." Rosie whispered apologizing for her actions and the venomous words she had cursed at him before.
Newt nodded feeling his heart beating faster from the sudden kiss as he replied quietly, "it's okay."
"Your turn, big guy." Rosie lifted her head to see the gladers tied up by their ankles and the only ones left was them three. "C'mon."
The men tied everyone up before handing them over the dark abyss. Rosie muttering curse words under her breath as her hand started to painfully ache. "Have fun!" One of the men say before all of them walked away leaving the gladers alone in silence.
Samadhi cut the silence that lasted for a few minutes, "this is the first and last time I try to help any of you." The girl could feel the blood running down to her head.
Teresa let out a quiet scoff, "you were the one who followed first, remember?"
"Yeah, and then I changed my mind! I said we should have left." Samadhi reminded the group as she was mad they didn't do as she said.
"Then you had the audacity to put that man to sleep!" Teresa added, "and causing Rosie to act this way!"
Samadhi clicked her tongue before letting out a scoff, "you know what? You are really lucky that you're at the opposite end but I will gut you like a fucking chicken too if you don't shut the fuck up!"
"Oh! Really? Try me then!" Teresa responded
"Come here!" Samadhi demanded trying to somehow get to her. "I'll still beat the shit out of you upside down!"
Frypan let out a loud frustrated sigh, "oh my god! Can you guys stop for the love of god!? All you two can do is argue and threaten each other! Can't you guys get along?"
"No!" Teresa and Samadhi yelled in sync.
"Of course you can't." Frypan muttered
The group became silent once again as they thought to themselves wondering how the hell they're going to get out of this one.
"Mara?" Jessie whispered trying to be as quiet as she could but everyone could hear her.
"Yeah?" Mara replied
"I'm not feeling very well." She mumbled feeling herself starting to get nauseous and her heart starting to beat at an uncontrolled speed.
Mara started to stress out as she didn't know what to do. There wasn't much she could do. "Okay, let me just try to see what I could do."
"Nice plan, Thomas." Minho complained starting to stress himself over the fact that Jessie was starting to not feel well. "Let's just see what the man has to say. Really working out for us."
"Shut up, Minho." Thomas argued back as he tried to figure out a way, "maybe I can reach the rope."
A few of the gladers attempted to also do so before giving up rather quickly. "Enjoying the view?" Jorge asked appearing out of nowhere.
"What the hell do you want?" Minho questioned in annoyance.
"That is the question," Jorge walked further towards the gladers, "my men want to sell you back to WICKED. Life has taught them to think small. I'm not like that." He went quiet for a few seconds before adding, "something tells me you're not either."
Minho raised his eyebrow up in confusion, "is the blood rushing through my head or is this shank not making any sense?"
Jorge pointed towards Thomas demanding him, "tell me what you know about the Right Arm."
"Thought you said they were ghosts." Newt cut in.
The man turned his gaze towards the blonde boy, "I happen to believe in ghosts. Especially when I hear them chattering among the airways." Jorge walked over to the lever, "you tell me what you know and maybe we can make a deal."
"We," Thomas spoke, "we don't know much."
Jorge took a few seconds to study the group before lowering the lever. Screams left out of all the gladers lips before Jorge pulled the lever up again. "Woah! Woah! Okay! Okay! They're in hiding in the mountains. They attacked WICKED. They got out a bunch of kids! That's all we know!"
Jorge opened his mouth about to speak before being interrupted by Bart. "Aye yo, Jorge, what's going on?"
Speaking so nonchalantly, Jorge replied, "me and my new friends were just getting acquainted. We're done now."
"Hey, wait, you're not gonna help us?" Thomas questioned in disbelief before hearing Mara and Samadhi groan all the way back.
Bart glanced at Jorge suspiciously as Jorge responded before walking away. "Don't worry, hermano. We'll get you back to where you belong. Hang tight."
Bart looked back at the gladers taking a good look at them before walking the opposite way of where Jorge went. "Could you have kept your mouth shut for a just a second?" Mara grunted at Thomas.
"What?" Thomas asked dumbfounded, "Can't you see he just left usβ"
"Dude," Mara replied, "he was probably going to help but that other guy showed up. And let me remind you that his men want the opposite!"
"We don't know that for sure." Aris added in trying to defend Thomas.
Newt stopped the argument by turning the conversation elsewhere, "guys let's just figure out how we can get down from here."
"Teresa's the closest to the lever." Rosie explained pointing towards Minho. "Maybe Minho can help and try push her see if it helps her reach it."
The gladers worked together to push her towards the lever. It took them quite a while as working upside down was harder than it looked. After several minutes, Minho grabbed a hold of Teresa, "here we go, one, two, threeβ" the boy did his best to push Teresa who missed the railing.
The group of friends groan in desperation as their anxiety started to form in their bodies. Samadhi turned her head towards the large window pane behind her. The girl could hear a distant sound of a helicopter. Her eyes widening once she realizes what it was.
"Guys!" Samadhi raised her voice, "they're here! WICKED's here!"
Aris questioned her, "how do you know that?"
"Just trust me! We have to hurry!"
"Come on, Minho, push her harder!" Newt stressed.
Minho grabbed a hold of Teresa again, "this is it. One, two, three!" The boy pushed her as Teresa swung towards the lever and was able to grab onto the railing. The girl lowered the level being able to untying herself.
"Good evening!" A helicopter shined their lights through the building. Teresa untied Thomas as they worked together to untie the rest. "This is the World Catastrophe Kill Zone Department. We have your compound completely surrounded. If you find yourselves with no fault of your own in possession of WICKED property,"
"Hurry up!" Mara yelled as she was still tied up as Newt was helping untie Rosie.
"Please return them to us unharmed!"
Minho grabbed Mara from her arms pulling her closer to the ground. The girl held onto his arms as he untied the rope around her ankles. Everyone yelled at each other to untie faster. "Each and everyone of you will die! Won't be long before the falte wiped out the rest of us! The home of the cure lies in your hands! The choose is yours!"
"You alright?" Samadhi asks as Mara nodded standing in her two feet.
"Okay, come on guys," Thomas stated as the group circled around to leave, "we have to figure out a way out of this placeβ"
The sound of a gun clicking caused all of them to stop. Minho immediately pulled Jessie behind him without giving it much thought. Rosie's hand reached for Newt's who gladly accepted. "We're not trying to cause any trouble. We gotta get out of here." Tomas informed Bart who had his shotgun pointed at them.
"Is that so?" Bart brings his walkie talkie up to his lips, "Janson I got 'em for you. I'm bringing them down. Don't shoot us. Come on let's go. I said let's go!"
Thomas hesitated for a second before grabbing a hold of the gun trying to get it out of Bart's grip. Thomas pushed the man away who fell to the ground but stood up rather quickly walking towards them ready to shoot at them. The group of friends walked backwards in fear. "
"You little bastards!"
The sound of a gunshot went off installing immense amount of fear and anxiety as they all jumped in fear. All of them checking for any bullet wounds. Minho glanced towards Thomas to make sure he wasn't shot as he figured the girls behind him weren't shot.
The group turns their attention to Bart who fell revealing the short haired girl with a gun in her hand. Smoke coming out of the gun as she motioned with her hands, "okay, come on! Come on! Let's go!"
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