Once they had taken off, it was a race against time. The city was catching fire quick and they didn't want to lose any chance of finding their friend. They decided best course would be to follow any path toward the research building they had gone to originally to save Minho.

Mel hadn't paid much attention once they were in the air as she couldn't stop staring at her brother. Minho was sat beside him taking care of him and helping him clean up. She could see the pain Newt was feeling, and that he still wasn't one hundred percent yet as the serum continued to do it's job. After having almost killed his best friend and hurting his own sister, she knew he wouldn't be ok for awhile. She wanted to go over to him, but what would she even say?

Her line of sight was interrupted by a figure. Blinking and looking up she saw it was Elise. Relief flooded her as she saw her friend was safe and not involved in the chaos that was happening below.

"Your here. How?" Mel asked as the woman sat next to her and began to clean and bandage her arm up.

Elise smiled, "I was one of the very few who stayed behind, not wanting to be part of Lawrence's army. I was packing up all of my stuff and was going to leave, see where I could find any shelter, then I saw your friends almost fall out of the sky in one of the buses. And not long after that he was flying over and picked everyone up, offered me a ride." She nodded toward Jorge who was at the controls flying them around.

Once she was done being patched up, Mel wrapped her arms around Elise and hugged her tightly. She whispered a soft "thank you" before pulling away and glancing at her brother once more. Elise followed her line of vision and placed a gentle hand on her shoulder making her look at her once more.

"He'll be ok. I promise once your friend is back on this ship, and I have his permission, we'll use that serum and help Newt." She explained, having been on the ship when they all heard Teresa and her announcement to Thomas about his blood.

Mel nodded and gave a small smile in return. Elise gave her one last pat before getting up and going back to the children to make sure they were alright still. Gally took his chance to sit with her next. Mel could only sigh as she laid her head on his shoulder, his arm wrapping around her in return. He rested his head on top of hers for a moment before looking down at her.

He could see her fighting her own internal battles and knew it would be useless if he asked her to rest. They still had to find Thomas and their window of opportunity was slowly closing as the flames grew. Buildings starting to crumble as they flew past.

"There, right there!" Someone shouted grabbing everyone's attention as they saw two figures stumble out onto the roof of a building. Jorge started to carefully move that way as Minho, Brenda, and one other named Vince started to move towards the back of the Berg and ready to open the hatch. Gally stood up ready to offer any help he could along with Frypan. Meanwhile Elise had moved over and made sure Newt stayed where he was, knowing he wouldn't be ready to do anything yet until she could properly take a look at him.

Mel stood as she watched, the hatch slowly opening as Jorge turned the Berg around to reveal Teresa carrying an injured Thomas. Everyone was ready to help and get them on board however they could. Vince had a safety line attached to himself and was leaning over the edge of the ramp extending out his hand.

"Get closer!" Gally shouted over all the commotion at Jorge. Teresa got as close as she could from her position, Thomas reaching out his hand and grabbing hold after a few tries, Minho coming up to offer an extra hand and making sure they don't lose their grip on him.

Finally Teresa gathered as much energy as she could and shoved Thomas into them and onto the ramp. Everyone was quick to grab him and help him get further in. Once he was on and secure they reached out again for Teresa. All negative feelings for her pushed aside.

She was just about to jump when one of the nearby buildings fell over and everyone watched as it crashed into the one she was standing on, landing not too far behind. She could feel the rumble beneath her and knew that it was going to collapse any moment. She looked at everyone who was shouting at her to hurry. But instead all she did was give one last smile before the ground beneath her gave out and she was falling.

Everyone was silent as they watched the building fall into pieces, Teresa disappearing inside of it. She was gone. Thomas had cried out for her, her body now consumed by the rubble.

They all watched in shock as Jorge pulled away. Slowly they moved Thomas onto his back and saw the gunshot wound in his stomach causing worry in all of them. Gally called for Elise who was over there in an instant, her bag right beside her as she pulled out gauze and had Minho putting pressure on the wound as she got to work.

Newt's eyes were filled with guilt as he watched everything happen before him. Mel saw it and she moved to stand next to him where Elise had been a moment before, she wrapped her arm around him and let him lean into her. She lifted her hand and ran her fingers through his hair to provide any sort of comfort to him.

"He'll be ok. We all will.." She whispered to him. Convincing not just him but herself as well as Jorge started toward their destination. Meanwhile Elise was still working on Thomas, she had managed to get the bullet out and was now stitching up the small wound, everyone finally giving her space as she finished up. Thomas had passed out so it made it easier for her to work. A bandage was wrapped tight around him and secured with tape.

They made him as comfortable as they could for the rest of the silent and tense ride. Only Jorge, Brenda, and Frypan knowing where they were headed.