Prologue

Early Year 2064 W.I.C.K.E.D

"Subject A-5 Isaac Newton, please head to the medical station to prepare for the Maze Trial."

Everything got quite as a short dark brown haired girl with olive skin with freckles watched through her round glasses as a boy got up from his viewing station. Isaac Newton, sandy blond hair, pale skin and on the slim side but fit. Isaac had a grimace on his face a he moved to the two medical officers that were standing near the entrance of the control room. She didn't blame him for not wanting to go. No one want to go through the Maze. No one.

She watched as he got closer to the entrance and Isaac hesitated, he looked back.

Her brown eyes meet his.

For Alice Ball this was will be physically the last time she would interact with Isaac Newton for a while. Not that she knew of course. But until that day comes that boy would haunt her.

Same year 2064

Alice Ball has always been 5'4, intelligent, quiet and awkward towards anyone but mainly to the male species. She couldn't even talk to the boy setting next to her, Thomas Edison. Both of them were watching the subjects through their computer screens. Alice looked around to make sure no one was looking mainly Thomas and she moved her monitoring on a certain boy.

Subject A-5.

After Isaac went into the Maze, Alice regularly checked on him, she thought he was cute to look at and it was just a bit of fun for her. It was like having a candy apple for the day to brighten her day up. Personally Alice had only interacted with Isaac when she had to and when she did Alice got flustered and so nervous that she would spit out random scientific facts. He probably thought she was weird. Alice's job was to monitor all the subjects vital signs and brains along with checking on where subjects where in the "glade" as they called it. For that she used a bot that can fly, the subjects called it a "beetle blade." Which was kinda true it looked like a beetle.

Isaa-A-5, Alice wasn't allowed to call them by their names so that way they don't get attached to them. A-5 was currently a "Runner" for the other subjects, it seems they wanted to map out the maze to find a way out it was smart but it would fail. Alice felt a poke on her shoulder, she looked to her right.

"Janson is coming. change your screen." Thomas whispered to her and she blushed for being caught, Alice quickly changed her screen. Good time because Thomas was right Janson walked by checking on them.

"Thank you." she said quietly to Thomas and she gave him a shy smile.

Thomas gave her a smile back but it was sad. "You shouldn't get to attach."

"I know." She did know the subjects could die at anytime but she couldn't help herself it was those brown eyes of A-5.

Late 2064

Alice stared at her reflection in the bathroom mirror and it showed her a girl on the brake of sobbing. Her eyes were watery and her nose was runny, Alice sniffed to hold her self back. A-5 tried to kill him self but ended up with a broken leg instead. Alice had watched the whole thing go down with the other monitors watching too.

Alice had quietly left the control room quickly and fast on her heels was Thomas and Teresa. Over the course of the year she had grown close to them. Little by little W.I.C.K.E.D was taken the kids up to the Maze it was sick to watch them suffer though this. Even though the employees of W.I.C.K.E.D had ingrained that they were good and that this was all for the greater good, Alice was starting to doubt that. She didn't voice it for she was afraid to be sent up to the Maze herself and Alice may have become close to Thomas and Teresa. Alice didn't know if she could trust them or not. So she keeps quiet.

Teresa was rubbing her back and Thomas handed Alice a towel to wash her face before going back.

"He'll live Alice, may not walk the same but A-5 will live." Thomas said for her comfort and Alice nodded with her bottom lip trembling.

"This is sick." Alice whimpers to her self, Thomas and Theresa looked at one another as Alice washed her face.

2065

Alice figured that if she made her self important to these sick people then Alice wouldn't enter the Maze. She had been able to develop at patterns in subjects brain waves, it was her mission to be medically more knowledgeable then those in W.I.C.K.E.D and Alice did it right under their noses. Did it so well that Thomas had cornered her alone.

Something had changed in Thomas and Teresa. She didn't know what it was but it seem to be serious.

"I'll be going into the Maze soon and I'm going to need your help." Thomas said very serious to her and it made Alice straighten her back.

"Okay." Alice didn't question.

Thomas laid down the plan to her. He wanted Alice to steal a bot fly that hasn't been released into the Maze, she was to take total control of its system. The boy fly would be smuggled into the Maze when Thomas goes in. But in order for this to work Alice needed to implant an chip behind Thomas's ear for her to track and communicate to him and Thomas had to make sure Alice absolutely will not be participating in the Maze Trails. It wouldn't be hard since Thomas was favored by the Head of all of this. He also told her if she found anything different inside his body from the other subjects, Alice was to hide it. She agreed with it.

Alice was going to be his silent guide in the Maze.

2066

Alice's hands trembled and she and the others placed Thomas into the cage. She vary carefully place the boy fly in his pocket and a note that she wrote. Silent tears rolled down her cheeks, she was losing her friend and he wouldn't really remember her. It will be only Teresa and her left until it was Teresa's turn to go into the Maze and by some miracle Thomas was able to convince W.I.C.K.E.D to not send Alice in the Maze.

"Say your goodbyes, Alice." A woman in white told her. Alice bent down to Thomas's ear and whispered.

"I'll be waiting, I promise."

Few months later Alice was saying goodbye to Teresa.

When Thomas first was in the Maze he could turn the bot on because he didn't know what it was not that she could blame him, his memory was gone. But Alice knew they where Literally running out of time so she wrote another note but this time she cut her finger and used the blood to make a thumb print to show she was human and not a trick. As she watched Teresa dissent up into the maze, Alice prayed for Thomas to turn on the bot.

A few day after Teresa left her, Alice was very lonely and scared be around mad people. She was starting to lose hope in Thomas. She looked to her personal pad and noticed a red dot blinking, Alice broke out into a wide grin.

Thomas turned on the bot.

"Is it on?" Alice heard from the other side though her implant. A small tear fell from her eye, Thomas was talking and in that moment Alice didn't feel so alone anymore.

"Hello Thomas."

Okay so this is the prologue I have to type up the first chapter lol. This will have a bit of romance and some rated M but not a lot. Also Didn't want to make this a cliché fanfiction about a girl who goes up into the maze I've read too many of those and thought maybe trying something different. I hope you enjoy.