Scarlet

by Karanna

When the Greenie alarm goes off, everyone is expecting just another frightened, MALE newbie. Boy were the Gladers in for a shock. And what was even weirder was the fact that unlike everyone else, she remembered nothing. Not even her name. Newt names her scarlet, after her red hair, and soon a friendship between the two grows. And as does the threat of the maze.

1. Prologue

The sound of jolting and rattling made me snap my eyes open. I looked around myself, before realising that I was in some sort of metal box that was steadily moving upwards. Everything was dark, save what the tiny lights in the walls of the box illuminated.

Just as I began to come to my senses and start freaking out like any normal person would, the box stopped moving. It just froze. Everything was silent.

Cautiously, I stood up as a small screen appeared to light up on one of the box's walls out of nowhere. An older looking, white haired lady clothed in a lab coat appeared on the screen. I recognised her as the head of the department I worked for. I didn't know her name though, as I had never been in an important enough job to actually communicate with her. I stopped my pondering as the lady on screen began to speak.

"I'm sure you're wondering where you are and what is happening. Do not fear, as you will not be harmed. Over the past month or so, my team has been studying you without your knowledge. To see if you had what it takes. They have reported that You do, so you shall be sent into the maze that you have helped to build and navigate, to join the boys trapped in there and assist them. It may speed up their process of finding the way out.

You have a good mind. Lead them to the exit.

Of course, you won't remember this message. Or anything else. We must treat you the same as the other boys and take your memories away.
But you must remember. WICKED is good.

Good luck."

The screen flickered off and seemed o disappear the same way it had appeared. Into thin air. It left me to wonder what the lady had been speaking of. I knew that I had helped with the control and construction of the maze, but why did they feel the need to send me in?

A buzzing sound broke me out of my thoughts. I turned my head to the right, where it had come from, and saw the small circular hole that had been made in the side of the box. A mechanical arm holding a syringe containing a strange blue liquid shot out of the hole towards me.

I backed away, not letting my eyes leave the syringe. That was, until My feet seemed to bump into an object and I looked down to see what.

I felt a sharp pain in the back of my neck.

Then everything went dark.