"There has to be somewhere we can rest from this heat!" Newt exclaimed as they trudged through the wasteland.
"Maybe through there!" Winston said and pointed to a large building that was sunken in the sand.
"Let's go!" Thomas said and they started towards the building, as they were running they heard the sound of an engine in the distance.
They turned and saw a military style cargo plane heading their way.
"Shit! Everyone get down!" Teresa said and they all ducked under the sand.
The plane landed and the engine blew sand all over them, covering them from sight.
Thomas was closest to the plane he could see through the sand as the plane opened up and a group of men walked out.
"Spread out! They're here somewhere! Find them!" the person who was obviously the leader ordered and the forty soldiers nodded and spread out.
As the leader walked closer Thomas nearly gasped at who it was.
"Sneaks?" Thomas whispered in a barely audible voice, but the deranged teenager perked his head up and looked around.
As he walked closer he saw that he was wearing a crown made of human fingers that dug into his skull. His chest plate was made entirely of interlocking human ribs, and his shoulders were covered by two connecting collar bones. His arms were protected by a number of scapula bones that were cut in half and knit together to cover his entire arm, blood trickled under his arm as the bones dug through his skin. His hands were two fully formed hand bones knit together, sandwiching his hand almost like a glove and allowing it to move with unnatural flexibility despite it being bone. His legs were the same as his arms except it was fibula bones instead of scapula. He got some sand in his mouth and he put on a mask that was made from someones lower jaw, he had a a sword strapped to his side made from a tibia bone, sharpened to a razor sharp point.
He looked around and grit his teeth and Thomas saw that his teeth were sharpened to points almost like...a Grievers.
"Grieves!" Sneaks yelled and a small Griever scuttled over to him and climbed up onto his head with it's tail in the air.
"Where are you Thomas? Where are you?" he asked himself as he walked over to a few soldiers.
"No sign of them sir!" one said.
"Oh really? NO SHIT!" Sneaks screamed and then pulled off the mans helmet and then tackled him, biting his neck.
"GO!" Thomas screamed and they all burst through the sand and made a mad dash for the building.
"GET THEM!" Sneaks shrieked as he wiped the blood from his mouth and Grieves jumped off him and started towards them, it made a small roar sound as it lunged and stabbed Winston's leg.
He screamed and fell to the ground from the venom of the Griever.
Sneaks caught up with the fallen teenager and grinned widely as he grabbed him by his hair and looked at the running group.
"Oh Thomas!?" Sneaks yelled and said man turned to see what he was doing.
Sneaks took out his sword and put it to Winston's neck "I'm so thirsty!" he yelled.
Thomas stopped and looked at his friend being held hostage, Winston gave him a silent message.
Run!
Thomas nodded and started running again Frypan started back towards the sadistic cannibal but Newt grabbed him and pulled him back.
Sneaks saw that he was not running back and growled viciously as he grabbed Grieves and shoved it's stinger into the teens stomach.
"Feel that pain? I felt it for days! Oh, how I screamed and howled, it was amazing!" Sneaks said as he dragged Winston back to the plane.
"Tie him up! You men with me!" Sneaks said as he grabbed an assault rifle and started after the others, ten men followed him while the others stayed at the plane and tied up Winston.
"They have Winston!" Frypan yelled as they ran into the building.
"We can't go back for him! Sneaks is too clever!" Teresa said.
Frypan grabbed her and glared at her "We can't just leave him!"
"We will save him! I promise!" Newt said calmly and Frypan put her down.
"Come on I see Sneaks heading this way!" Thomas said as he looked out the window.
"We might be able to take him out, I mean this building is unstable." Newt said and as if on cue the building creaked and groaned immensely.
"This building seems to be an old construction building judging by the signs, maybe their is some C4 somewhere." Thomas said looking at the destroyed and faded signs on the ground.
They all set out and checked the rooms then they moved onto the second floor, then the third floor.
"Found some!" Newt yelled from the first floor and the others looked down from the railings of the upper floors and smiled.
"Set them at the base of the building, throw me one. Just in case we need some later." Thomas yelled and Newt threw a C4 brick up to him.
Newt ran over to the corners of the first floor and he had just set the third charge when a bone hand grabbed Newt by the throat.
"You say anything and I eat your vocal chords." Sneaks spat out as he tightened his grip on the blonde.
Newt gulped hard as he dragged him to the center room where you could see all the way up to the top floor.
"Thomas?! I have your friend here and you know what chasing you guys has worked up quite the appetite!" Sneaks yelled and his voice echoed through the building.
Thomas and the others looked over the railing and saw the murderous Glader smiling as he had his hand at the Brits throat.
"Well? Come on down and suffer my wrath or your friend will." he said licking his lips as the bone fingers drew a small amount of blood from Newts neck.
He looked at the blood and was so busy trying hard not to take a bite that he hadn't noticed that Newt took out the detonator from his pocket.
"Wait WHAT?!" Sneaks yelled as he saw the detonator and reached for it.
Thomas fired a bullet and struck his hand, causing him to howl in pain and let go of Newt.
He coughed loudly as he ran down the hall to meet with the others, he started up the stairs before he ran into a soldier who smiled and raised his rifle.
Then Frypan came up behind him and punched him in the head and threw him over the railing.
"Come on!" Frypan yelled and led him up the stairs just as Sneaks kicked open the door and started after them.
"Sir what about him?" a soldier asked when he saw the dazed man on the ground.
Sneaks fired his rifle and killed the soldier "What about him?" he asked and started up the stairs.
Newt and Frypan ran up the stairs and the soldiers fired up the stairwell to try and injure them.
They made it to the fifth floor and kept running until they met up with the others.
"Still have the detonator?" Teresa asked as Thomas aimed his rifle at the door.
Newt nodded and brought it out again "What do we do? We blow apart this building we die!"
"I have an idea. Hopefully it works!" Thomas said as he heard sounds coming from the stairs.
"Not exactly a morale booster, but whatever." Frypan said as they started down the hall and found the other stairwell.
They ran all the way down the stairs and heard the soldiers chasing after them.
Thomas opened the door and came face to face with Sneaks, who grinned wickedly.
"Hi Thomas." he said and put his sword to his throat.
Then a deafening BOOOOOOM caused them all to clutch their ears and scream, Sneaks shrieked like a wounded animal as the others pushed past him.
The building started falling apart as Newt hit the detonator again an set off the other two C4 charges.
"THOMAS!" Sneaks screamed as he went after them with his men behind him.
A pillar fell and Sneaks dove to the side as it fell on top of his men, crushing them all.
He ran after them and started to gain when a huge explosion knocked him off his feet and through a glass window.
Sneaks landed on his back and felt blood trickle down his cheeks from the glass, the building started falling to the side and he knew he would never be able to catch them if the collapsed building was in the way.
He got up and limped back to the plane where his men were waiting for him.
"In the plane now!" he ordered and they all got in, Grieves jumped onto his masters head and Winston groaned in pain through his gagged mouth.
"Give him the serum!" he said as the teen was annoying him.
"Why didn't you ever take the serum?" a guard asked curiously.
Sneaks growled viciously and then grabbed the soldier and snapped his neck in a split second.
"Anymore questions?!" he asked baring his sharpened teeth.
"No but you have a call from Ava Paige." the pilot said as he started up the plane and closed the cargo door.
He limped over and grabbed the headset "What!?"
"We saw the explosion from here! What the hell are you doing?!" Paige's angry voice said.
"Hey! I promised to get you Thomas and Teresa and I get to kill Thomas so that's what your gonna get!" Sneaks growled.
Paige sighed heavily "Fine, but try not to destroy the city."
"The Scorch beat me to it." Sneaks said and hung up.
The plane lifted up into the air and then Sneaks had an idea, he grabbed some rope and tied his leg and Winston's leg to a bar on the plane roof and then walked over to the control panel.
He hit a button and the cargo door opened and the soldiers screamed as they were all sucked out.
Sneaks laughed in delight as he shut the door again.
"You take orders from me now!" he said to the pilot and then put his rifle to his head.
"O-Okay." he said worriedly.
Sneaks looked out into the Scorch.
"I'm coming for you Thomas."