The beetle made a whirling sound and it wings started to flutter in Thomas's hand. The beetles system was checking it self over. All the other boys plus girl moved back. The beetle didn't do anything at first.
"Is it on?" Thomas said more to himself out loud. Suddenly on the beetles eyes open and Alice was able to see all the gladers on her side of her pad screen. Alice smiled and greeted Thomas even though he couldn't see her.
"Hello Thomas."
All of sudden Thomas dropped her beetle and he clenched his right ear. She panicked when her beetle fell and Alice quickly gained control and made it fly.
"Thomas!""Tommy!" The gladers yelled in concern as Thomas clenched his ear in pain. Damn, she must have had the volume to loud, Alice realized as she lowered the sound.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know the volume was too loud. You okay Thomas? I turned it down. I'm-" Alice started talking nervously and fast, when she was going to apologize again she was interrupted.
"It's talking. I can here you! You can talk!" Thomas was pointing at her well the beetle not really her. Rude! Alice was not an it.
The other boys where looking at Thomas in concern. "Shuck face gone crazy." One boy said.
"No no I'm not, I heard it! Wait you guys can-"
"They can't hear me, Thomas only you can. There is an implant under your ear that I can safely communicate to you with out getting caught." Alice explained to him. Safely was an understatement, she was currently in a trap door that she made underneath the control room so that way Alice had more power to work with. And damn it was hot down here. She watched through her screen as Thomas stared at her in awe but also questioning look so she knew she had to get some trust in him and also the others.
Alice moved the beetle closer and Thomas backed up a little, suddenly a boy charged at her and she easily got out of the way. The boy was swatting at her like she was a fly with a shovel. "Thomas! Please! Tell him to stop! If he hurts the beetle then I can't help any of you!" At first Thomas didn't do anything thing but then she said "please!" Alice said in a helpless tone.
"Frypan! Stop." Thomas got in front of him taking the shovel from his hands. The boy Frypan looked at him weirdly.
"That thing is making you shucking crazy man!"
Thomas ignored him and looked at Alice with a serious look. He pointed to him self. "I can hear you but they can't. How do I get them to believe me." It was more of a statement then a question. Alice didn't know the answer to that too. She was sweating literally too. What to do. What to do. She looked at Thomas and the others though the screen and noticed one boy that stood out to her.
"Subject A-5." She whispered.
Thomas raised an eyebrow at her. "Subject A-5? What's Subject A-5?"
Alice sighed. "Isaac Newton also known to you as Newt. I'm sorry, I sound rude, I was told to not say your names to not get attached. " when she said not to get attached something in Thomas clicked.
"I know you don't I? You know us? Who are you?" He questioned her. The other watched in awe as he talks to the beetle.
"Yes but not all of you. I'm Alice Ball."
"Alice." Thomas repeated. "Okay Alice, tell me something that will make them believe me."
The beetle had gone silent as Alice try's to come up with something and then she looked at A-5 again. "A-5..I mean Isaac I mean Newt. I'm sorry I'm nervous I have bad social skills."
This made Thomas chuckle at her awkwardness and then got serious when she started to continue.
"He broke his leg by trying to kill him self. No else knows but Albert Einstein maybe Minho too. I watched through my monitors when it happen. Two years ago he broke it falling from a cliff but the vines saved him ."
Thomas's eyes went wide and was in shock at the information that she gave him. Alice now felt bad it seems Isaac didn't tell him. Thomas turned to Newt and was speechless. Newt on the other hand was confused. "What?" Newt asked.
Thomas swallowed and spoke. "Two years ago you broke your leg from a cliff. You lived because the vines got tangled on your leg, you never told me that."
Everyone suddenly had a look of shock and some confusions because a few didn't know about it.
"That bloody thing is really talking to ya." Next was astonished beyond compare and Thomas nodded. Newt limps forward to Alice and Thomas. "You said it's name is Alice right?" Thomas nodded in a yes, then newt looked at Alice in what seems to be a little hostility but she wasn't surprised by it Alice was expecting it. She was an outsider to them. Newt shifted his standing awkwardly. "Why aren't you in the Maze like Teresa? Or why we aren't getting supplies anymore?"
Alice went quite for a minute also to long what Thomas thought she didn't hear Newt but she told him she did. Alice was just hesitant, the old Thomas told her not to give to mush information not that she had much anyways. The less she knew or gave the better for her if she got caught by someone or worse Janson.
Alice turned the beetle to look more at Newt. "I was supposed to go before both of them to a different Maze but I was scared and I begged the old Thomas to some how make it not happen and he needed my help anyways." Thomas that to repeat what she had said. This made Alice realize this was gonna be a pain if she need to communicate to the others but Thomas and her did not really think about that at the time.
"That doesn't explain why there is nothing coming up from the box." A boy from the crowd sneered. Alice blew a strand of hair out of her face and signed knowing what she was going to say was going to make them panic and Alice didn't want that.
"There won't be anymore shipments." Alice said with regret in her voice. Thomas eyes went wide and his mouth parted open a little.
"W-what do you mean?" Thomas asked in and fearful voice and Alice frowned. All the boys started to come forward more they talking demanding what was going on. It didn't matter if they got loud Thomas could only hear her anyways.
"When you and Teresa entered the Maze it meant things where going to change. No more supplies, no more sending people up to you. This is it Thomas, this is what we have been wait for. What I really been waiting for." Alice had been waiting for a month and it was scary but also kinda relieving to her she's been so alone and had no desire to be with people like Janson.
"What do you mean waiting for, Alice?"
Alice moved her beetle to face the entrance of the Maze and then turn to face Thomas, Teresa and the boys.
"Thomas , when you entered the Maze you set our plan in motion. It's time to end this to leave the Maze, no more deaths. Thomas it's time for the Maze trials to begin once and for all."
Everything went quite.
