The Scorch Trials 152-251

Thomas talked it over with Jorge and he decided to help him and the rest of the Gladers try and get to the cure. He figured if he helped them then he could get it too. He then decided that only him and one other person, Brenda, would go with them to try and help them. They then all had a meeting in another building to discuss the plans. The building then started to fall to pieces out of nowhere, nobody knowing what is happening. Thomas is then cut off from the rest of the Gladers and has to follow Brenda. He follows her down below the city into tunnels that she has explored before. They are afraid that somebody is chasing them so they keep running until they are halfway to the other side of the town. They then walk for awhile, but here a noise and think somebody actually is following them. When they turn around they see a Crank. He is missing most of his skin on his face and is looking at them crazily. He then tells them that he wants a new nose because his is gone and they begin to run. A bunch of other Cranks then appeared and began to follow them. Brenda led Thomas to a secret passage that had a little cubby hole in it that she thought the Cranks would never find. They did however, and Thomas ended up killing one of the Cranks. They then left and hid in an old truck. While there, they talked for awhile and then Thomas left with Brenda following him. They then ran into some other Cranks that weren't as far gone as the last ones, so they actually talked to them. They then forced Thomas and Brenda to go inside the party they were having them, and one had a gun holding it to Thomas's back. Once inside, they forced them to drink a drugged drink and Thomas and Brenda both passed out. Before then though, Brenda wanted Thomas to kiss her, but he didn't, telling Brenda that she would never be Teresa, and then he passed out. When he awoke, him and Teresa were taped down to chairs. Thomas then explained everything to the Cranks and when they about cut him loose, they heard noise upstairs so ran up there. A few minutes later, the sounds discontinued and somebody came downstairs to Thomas and Brenda. It was Minho. He then cut them loose and they followed him upstairs. It was daytime now, and they went outside and the Crank with the gun shot Thomas in the shoulder. It then got infected, but the people from WICKED saved Thomas and fixed his shoulder, then returning him back to the place where he had been. Thomas had overheard that the gun was not a variable they were counting on, so they saved him in order for him to survive and lead the rest of the people. When he got back he explained everything to everyone else. They then went to bed knowing they had a long, five day walk ahead of them to get over the mountains. When Thomas fell asleep, Teresa for the first time in a long time, spoke to him. She told him that something horrible would happen to him tomorrow, but that he shouldn't try talking to her and the he wouldn't talk to her until they were together again. Thomas wanted to say something, anything, but she slipped away, leaving him empty once more.