Chapter 12
The battle was reaching its final stages and everything was slowing down. Most of the creatures were defeated and the few remaining ones were almost dead, too. Both groups were slowing their fighting as well, the weariness of the long day beginning to set in. The thunderstorm was also beginning to die down.
With the dying storm, it was easier to hear the Berg approaching in the distance.
It clearly wasn't stopping and everyone seemed to start running all at the same time, heaving themselves up onto the open hatchway and into the warmth of the ship, although "warmth" was a relative term. It was warmer than outside, but not actually warm.
The hatch closed behind them and they all started to examine their surroundings.
"What're they doing here!" someone growled and everyone else spun around to see Teresa and Aris sat in the corner together.
As one, the Gladers all marched up to them.
"Where's Thomas?" Minho was surprised that Frypan spoke first. Not that it mattered. Minho didn't think he'd be able to speak right now.
"It's too late for him," Aris said. So cryptic and confusing.
"That explains a lot, doesn't it?" Minho snapped. "But I don't think it answers the question! Where. Is. Thomas."
"WICKED took him," Teresa answered. "He's been infected with the Flare and he's beyond the point of help."
Back at the main base of WICKED, set just outside the Scorch, Thomas was just waking up in a room by himself. Everything was pure white and it made it hard to define where the walls started and where the floor and ceiling ended. It was all messing with his head and causing his eyes to go funny each time he tried to focus on one particular point in the room.
Chancellor Ava Paige sat observing with a hidden camera, taking notes of Subject A2's initial responses to the new environment. The Phase Three Trials had begun.
(A/N: Idid actually do a really long apology oneshot to make up for my lack of activity, also explaining my long absence, but then I decided that I really really hated it and that it was rubbish, so now you're just getting the two chapters instead of three.)
