A/N Hey guys so I saw Scorch Trials yesterday and to quote newt now "Im bloody inspired" can't wait to get to the scorch trials in the story and enjoy this new chapter !
Newt woke up to the sounds of the doors opening while Em for once slept through the grinding noise. He slipped out of his bedroll and rolled it up before going off to find the greenie. After checking the homestead he remembered that Alby liked to show the greenies the name wall to tell them of the dark days and how you have to mind the rules of the glade. He grabbed a water skin and began to make his way towards the name wall as the rising sun woke the rest of the glades inhabitants. At the name wall he saw Thomas finish carving his name in the wall.
"Day one of trails greenie, you start in the fields with me and then move on to winston and the slicers, gally and the builders and so on." Newt said as he approached the greenie at the name wall. He traced his own name carved on the wall and then looked at Thomas.
"Come on shank, I can't leave Em in charge of the fields forever, she would kill all our food" He laughed as he finally began to lead Thomas towards the fields.
"Hey Gus you keep Em in line while I was gone?" Newt asked with a chuckle as the made it to a small part of the field they were working on that day. The other boy just laughed and pointed to the slight girl standing on a tree stump to try to finish tying a bean plant to the trellis. Newt snuck up behind her and reached around her to finish the knot that she could barely reach.
"There you go Em, all secure." He said as she turned around with an exaggerated frown on her face. The duo turned to Thomas and the other gladers and Newt began to issue the orders of the day, today they were weeding and caring for the beans and some other plants in the trellis area. And so the work in the fields began and everyone worked quietly for the first few hours of the day, and then thomas began with the questions. He asked about ways they could get out of the glade and everything he suggested they had already tried or thought of.
"What about climbing the walls, going down with the box?"
"We've tried it, that and every other thing you could possibly think of we've tried" Newt said looking up from the plant he was weeding around.
"Now go get us more fertilizer, Em go help the greenie find it" The girl's head snapped up to look into the brown eyes of her keeper.
"Why do I have to show him around newt?"
"Cos the others will try and pull tricks on him and I know you won't" He said with a smirk before ruffling her hair and pushing her in the direction of the greenie. As she walked over to thomas she pulled a silly face making some of the other track-hoes and the keeper laugh. She dropped the silly attitude when she was closer to thomas.
"Come on greenie" Em said in a commanding voice that instantly made thomas think that the slight girl spent too much time around newt and alby. He desperately tried to follow her as she wove through the forest towards the fertilizer heap.
"Wait, slow down" Thomas called after he lost her around a turn. She peeked out from behind a bush
"Slow down? I won't slow down, slowing down gets you killed in the maze greenie"
"Is that what happened to newt?" He asked and he watched as she froze and faced him, she should have expected an observant boy like him to notice the slight limp newt had.
"Don't you ever bring up newts injury in front of me ever again you hear, he will tell you about it when he's good and ready" She said in a low deadly voice. She stopped her threat when they both heard the trees rustle and saw Ben appear.
"Ben?" Em asked inquisitively as she approached her former running mate. He seemed a little off and she gasped when she recognized the symptoms.
"Thomas run" She said quietly as she gestured for him to go back the way they came. She could lead Ben away from the gladers if he left. The gladers would be safe.
"He started it all. Why are you with him Em?" Ben ranted and he threw Em to the ground and tried to make his way towards thomas when Em managed to grab Ben's ankle making the boy fall to the ground and Thomas took that moment to run past him and grab Ems hand and pull her to the homestead shouting for help.
"Help!" Newt's head shot up as he heard Thomas shout. The shank shouldn't be in trouble, he was with…. "EM!" Newt shouted as he turned towards the woods to see the two bolting towards the homestead with what looked to be ben following behind them. Thomas tripped and brought Em down with him and then Ben fell on both of them and tried to grab their necks. Newt ran forward and with no hesitation he whacked Ben upside the head with his shovel. He pulled em up and threw her into Albys arms before helping some of the other gladers hold Ben down.
"Pull up his shirt" Albys voice rose above the cries of Ben. The gladers watched as one of the boys pulled up his shirt revealing a ugly puncture wound.
"Griever sting" Em whispered as newt's eyes went to the scar on her shoulder. It was a visible reminder to the gladers of what was out there in that maze and it did its job well. Ben began to struggle as he realized what this meant. The box hadn't sent up any grief serum meaning he would be sent out to the maze.