The Scorch Trials 125-225

They continued their journey into the town and just on the outside a old man was laying on the ground looking up into the sky. They tried to get his attention by talking to him and trying to figure out what he is doing on the ground. He was unresponsive then Thomas decides to get a little physical and yell a little then the old man looked at him. He told him they need to leave because something bad was going to happen. He also said that they like to come out at night and this worried Thomas. The wind picks up and lightening starts to strike the ground very violently so they run to building that was about 20 minutes away. Thomas runs and here screams and shouts and lightening striking very close to him. He finally makes it into the building along with other stragglers. He could not hear anything and his heart was about ready to pound out of his chest. Time passes by and he could hear the rain outside the lightening went away and Thomas's hearing began to return to him. They sit there in silence and Thomas and Minho decide to get things rolling again so they take a role count of everyone who survived and they were down to eleven people left. When they were discussing what to do next a strange man came down from the top of the building and leaped into the middle of them and introduced himself as Jorge. He tells them that he has been sent here awhile ago and have been living here since then and he was a Crank. Minho and Jorge start to argue about something and they get in a scuffle and Jorge kicks Minho and he goes down to his knees then Jorge kicks him in the same place. Then Minho kicks him back and puts Jorge onto the ground and gets ontop of him and starts wailing on him with his fists then Thomas tackles him off of him. Everybody settles and Thomas invites Jorge to listen to why they are here and tries to get him to help him. He explains the situation to Jorge and promises him the cure if he can help him across the plains. He agrees to the plan but does not want everyone to know about it just Jorge and another girl by the name of Brenda. Jorge agrees to the plan but on one term and it was that Minho dies. Thomas did not agree with this plan and convinces Jorge that is not worth it. He agrees and they both go out to the room where everybody was at. He tells all of the other Cranks that they are going to share their food with the Gladers and to not hurt them. Brenda had a knife to Minhos neck and Jorge says that he wants to cut off one finger on each of Minho's hands. They lead them down to the food storage deeper into the giant building. Brenda takes a huge liking to Thomas and sits with him as he eats and talks to him for a long time. As they were eating the roof of the building explodes and everything comes tumbling down and Brenda and Thomas run off into the tunnels of the underground away from the explosion to get away but are cut off from everyone else. They decide to keep going through the tunnels because it was the quickest way out into the city. They move farther into the tunnels and stop to take a break. They sit against the wall and then all of a sudden they hear a light bulb break down the tunnel. They wait then they hear another. A far gone Crank approaches them missing half of its face. They run away from it and find a place to hide in a small crawl space under a table. They wait there for the Cranks to leave then one grabs Thomas in the small space and he tackles it to the ground. Brenda pins it up against the ground face first and Thomas grabs the dagger and stabs it through the heart and kills it. They make it out to the streets and find shelter in a old vehicle and decide to crash there for the night. They fall asleep holding each other and wait for morning to come.