It's been soooo long. I'm sorry ;A; I didn't have any internet. OTL. But here you go ;u;

"Holly, wake up"

Holly groaned as she felt Newt gently shook her shoulders. She didn't want to wake up just yet. Her head ached and her eyes stung with all the crying she did the night before. But Newt shook him some more, whispering for her to wake up. She forced her eyes to open and could see that the council hall was already vacated—only she and Newt remained. She sat up rubbing her puffy eyes and was confused as to why Newt was slipping her bag on to her shoulders.

"We're leaving the glade now" Newt told her.

"Right now? Are the others coming?" Holly asked while tying her hair up in a bun.

Newt sighed and pulled her up to her feet. "We're not sure. Gally thinks that he's banishing Thomas and Teresa but, we already made a plan this morning to leave. You do want to leave with us, with me, right?"

"Of course, you don't even have to ask such a stupid question"

Newt smiled and pecked her lips while holding both her hands, "Just double checking. Anyway, let's go now"

They both ran across the courtyard to see a few builders conscious on the ground with Thomas, Minho, Teresa, and other few gladers standing in front of the maze pointing spears and weapons towards Gally's group. Like what Newt said, they have finally decided to leave the Glade and a few gladers on Gally's side got encouraged to go out with Thomas' team. Holly and Newt ran toward Thomas' side and was still trying to persuade Gally to come with them. But Gally didn't want to come. For him, he belonged to the maze and not in the outside world. Without any other choice, Thomas' group finally decided to leave.

With Minho and Thomas leading the group, they ran through every corner of the maze to reach the secret passage they have found. Holly and the non-runners couldn't help but to look at the maze in awe for it was their first and last time seeing it.

"Just a few more blocks away, you guys!" Thomas shouted as he ran faster towards the blades.

Holly held Newt's hand as she ran, worried that his limp was making him uneasy. The blonde guy squeezed her hand to let her know that he was doing alright. He ran as much as he could like the rest of them just to reach their destination. Thomas slowed his pace down and hid behind a stone wall, panting, with the gladers right behind him. He slowly took a peek and could see a griever guarding the secret passage. He grasped the wooden spear in his hands and told them they would charge the griever and fight till the end until they get out.

The gladers shouted as they charged the griever with all their courage and tried pushing it out of the way with their spears. The griever made screeching sounds and wasn't very happy to see them in its territory. Its long metallic arms stretched forward, its pincers crushed one of the spears that tried to stab it. All of them ducked as the wild griever moved vigorously, pincers moved about searchingly for a prey to catch. Minho charged and pierced its head with his spear and pushed it back to the cliff as he shouted. Just as they thought it was over, they began to hear more clicking sounds crawling up the cliff. Two new grievers just arrived and caught one boy who got thrown off the cliff with his cry fading as he fell deeper. Chuck, Teresa, and Holly ran towards the wall while the others distracted the two grievers. The metal key Chuck was holding beeped and blinked a green light, revealing the griever hole. The three of them ran inside and found out that they needed a passcode to open the passage. Holly quickly ransacked her backpack and grabbed the small notebook, flipping through the pages until she found what she needed.

"Here. Quickly!" Holly ripped the passcode from the notebook and handed it to Teresa.

Teresa didn't waste another minute and tried typing the code written on the paper. Holly looked back and saw that more grievers were coming. She looked up and could see a griever sneakily descending towards Minho who was busy fighting off the rest of it. She quickly ran pass by the gladers and pushed Minho aside, holding her dagger upward with her eyes closed and pierced through the griever's bulbous body and spurted out slime until it was dead. Minho got back up to his feet and saw the dead griever that he didn't see coming. Newt pulled Holly back and stood on guard just like the rest of the gladers, pointing their spears at them as they entered the hole. Teresa managed to punch in the last number of the code and slowly, the secret passage closed and squished the remaining grievers.

They stayed still in the dark, panting, until a new door opened. They went out on guard and were quite puzzled to see themselves standing in a dim hallway. They were expecting to see themselves out in the open, maybe in the middle of a forest but, they found themselves in a building. Thomas walked forward followed by everyone else and slowly pushed another door open. The place was a mess as if it had just been raided and saw people with guns and people wearing lab coats lying on the floor, lifeless. The room looked like it used to be a laboratory with the most advanced technology. Some of the monitors were still open and showed scans of brain activities and the Glade. The gladers got startled when they heard a woman's voice. Thomas had pressed a button that had opened a video from a woman named Ava Paige. The curious gladers stood in front of the monitor to watch and listen to what she had to say about the Maze and the outside world but, Holly stayed behind.

The words that came out from Ava's mouth angered Holly making her roll hands into balls of fists. She didn't want to listen to the lies for she knew too well that the Flare wasn't exactly from the Sun Flares but was actually created by humans. Because of it thousands, even millions, of people died. She wanted to tell Newt and the others not to listen but, she couldn't. Suddenly, Holly felt a presence from behind. She quickly hid behind one of the tables to see who it was. When the video stopped, the gladers turned around and were startled to see Gally with a gun pointed at them. They also noticed that he had been stung by a griever.

"We can't leave" he mumbled beneath clenched teeth.

"B-but we're almost out, Gally" Thomas replied, not making any sudden movement to prevent any harm.

Gally didn't listen and pointed the silver gun at Thomas, "This is your entire fault. If it wasn't for you, we'll all be safe!"

Bang!

The single gunshot echoed in the room. Chuck had thrown his body in front of Thomas to protect him and fell down on the floor while the others were startled and covered their ears. Thomas nervously got to his knees and quickly checked on the stubby little boy. He looked at his body and was relieved he didn't see any bullet wound but it left Chuck still in fear. Everyone looked at Gally and was surprised that he was tackled by Holly who jumped out from where she was hiding. She had grabbed his hand just in time for the bullet to go through the ceiling. Minho ran to them and quickly took the gun from Gally and pulled Holly away from him.

"You can still come with us" Thomas went to his side and tried helping him up even though he almost killed him.

Gally pushed his hand away and lay down still on the cold floor with tears trickling down the corner of his eyes. The sting was spreading through his body and he knew that sooner or later he wouldn't be able to control it anymore and would be driven mad.

"You should leave before I kill any of you" Gally retorted without looking at him.

The entrance to the laboratory opened with armed men running towards them. Without a word, they grabbed the gladers and took them outside leaving Gally all alone. Holly squirmed from the men's clutch but was still dragged outside. The rain was pouring down heavily and she made her way inside the bus, soaked. She sat on a seat beside Newt, watching as the surviving Gladers took their respective seats and the armed people joining them. The bus door closed and began to move at high speed without stopping to get to wherever they were headed to. A majority of the Gladers were relaxed, thrilled to be out of the Maze and thought that they were finally free. But Holly knew that it wasn't quite done yet and she wasn't sure what to expect next.