Notes: So this Chapter was actually quite difficult to write. Its not my best work, after all, it is quite hard to write someone explain something so far fetched and have the others believe them. Alas, I hope you guys enjoy it anyway. Comments and suggestions are always welcome! If you have any ideas on what to do next for the story or anything you want to see, let me know and I might just make it happen! :)

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Thomas, Minho, Newt, Winston, Zart, Alby, and Frypan all sat in the homestead in a circle around the table. Thomas had found Frypan looking around the glade, trying to figure out what was going on just like them. Apparently Frypan could remember, but Frypan had spoken to one of the Gladers that had survived with them and the Glader had no memory of anything.

'But why would only the three of us have any memory of what happened?' Thomas wondered.

"So are you going to tell us what I called this bloody gathering for and why the Greenie is here, or are we going to continue sitting in silence for the remainder of the day?" Alby asked, annoyed.

All eyes turned to Newt and he took a deep breath to calm his nerves.

"Okay, I know this is going to sound crazy, but all of this happened weeks ago."

"What was weeks ago?" Zart questioned.

"All of this," Newt answered seriously. "What I mean is, we have been through all of this before, that girl has shown up here before, Thomas arrived here weeks ago. I know it doesn't make any sense, but a few weeks ago weird things started happening here at the glade. The girl arrived and a few days later the sun suddenly disappeared. Then later the supplies we were supposed to get as usual, didn't come. Then one day, the doors to the maze didn't close. We boarded up the homestead and stayed in there while we tried to figure out a plan. Thomas got stung and went through the changing where he remembered that he used to be forced to work for the creators. They made him help build the maze and going through the changing made him remember how to get out. The way out is the cliff, there is a hole in the middle of it that you jump through. Inside there is a room with a computer, we figured out the code to enter into the computer to shut down the grievers. We all gathered together with weapons and tried to fend off the grievers while Thomas and Teresa, the girl, could enter the code but many of us died. Outside the world is in chaos! It ain't anything like we remember. Years ago there was this thing people called the flare. It burnt half the world and somehow unleashed a virus that makes people go crazy and violent, they call the infected people cranks. There are cranks all over the world and very few well people. The creators that built this maze and put us in here are making us go through these trials, they make us do things and they say somehow in the end it will help them find a cure. They made us travel through the scorch, a huge area of burnt land. By the time we got where we were supposed to go, only a few of us had survived. They picked us up in this thing called a Berg, and we fell asleep, but when we woke up, we were back in the maze again this morning, and only Thomas, Minho, and I remember anything!" Newt explained rapidly.

There was silence for a moment where everybody looked at the three of them, almost as if waiting for the punch like to some kind of sick joke, but it never came.

"That sounds like a pile of klunk. Even if what you are saying is true, if this all happened weeks ago and we somehow got our minds wiped or something, then why are we all still alive? You said nearly all of us were dead, but if you haven't noticed, we are all alive and kicking,"Alby pointed out.

"Obviously,"said Minho, coming to Newts defense. "That's why we are so confused and shocked. The thing is, when we got out of the maze, the creators took us to this bunker for a night. When we woke up in the morning and came out of our room, we realized there were a ton of dead bodies strung up by their necks. We bumped into them, could feel and smell them, but when we came back just a few minutes later, they were gone. It was all an illusion. One of the creators said that we should never trust our eyes because what we are seeing may not be real, so there is a possibility that the whole thing was fake, an illusion. But there is also a chance that this is the thing that's fake. We don't know, but what we do know is things are happening all over again. Teresa arrived today which means soon the sun will disappear, and that everything else will happen soon. We need to come up with a plan."

"I know how crazy it sounds, and I know that all any of us have ever wanted was to get out of this shuck maze, but out there is horrible. Nearly all of us will die, we have to find another way. I can't see all of you die again, I can't,"Newt said, and Thomas was shocked to see tears in his friends eyes.

Apparently Alby realized that his friend was serious, as well as Zart and Winston.

"Okay, I believe you,"Alby said tentatively, and it felt as if a giant weight had been taken off of Newt's shoulders.

Alby took a deep breath. "Why don't you start from the beginning. Explain everything that happened, and I mean everything. If we are going to do things different the second time around and make a plan, we need to know what happened, who died, where we went, and more about these creators."

Everybody nodded, apparently agreeing, and Thomas felt a surge of gratitude from how quickly their friends would believe something so impossible, just because they swore it to be true.

Thomas sat back and made himself comfortable as Newt began to speak. They were going to be here for awhile.