The hallways were quiet, guards occasionally being seen walking through after they had sent all the teenagers back to their dorms for the night, those teenagers from the different mazes having no idea what was currently happening with the new arrivals. They knew that Janson and the people who were heading to their dorm would find out that they weren't there in a moment, but the group had to leave as quick as possible. They had to find Y/n and Teresa before they could leave. They just hoped they wouldn't get caught or have any people stopping them along the way, even if they knew they would.

Thomas pushed open a vent door to an empty hallway, stepping out as he looked around to make sure no one was coming while the others all rushed out. Seeing that they were only peaking out until he told them it was all clear, the brunette ushered them out of the vent as they glanced around with panicked gazes, hoping that the two girls of their group weren't too far from where they were right now. As they all went to run off, Aris had found himself staying planted by the vent.

"You guys go ahead. There's something I gotta do." Aris calls out, making them walk back to him.

Thomas furrows his brows. "What are you talking about?"

"Trust me, it's important." Aris assures as he looks between them. "You guys wanna get out of here, right? Just go."

"I'll go with him." Winston offers.

Thomas only nodded before ushering the others to follow as they rushed off in the other direction while Winston and Aris moved back inside the vent. Just as they were turning the corner to go down a hallway, they all came to a stop at the sight of a woman standing in front of the them, a woman Thomas was quick to realize that it was the doctor he had seen Y/n with. Dr. Crawford jumped at the sight of them before she let her gaze look between them in suspicioun.

"What are you kids doing out?" Dr. Crawford asks.

Before any of them could say or do anything, an alarm was blaring throughout the building, making the teenagers look at the lights flashing before looking at each other, then looking back at her. They watched as realization came across Dr. Crawford's face before she spun around and started running off. However, the boys were faster as they stopped before. Next thing she knew, Thomas was holding onto her arms as they speed walked through the hallways as Dr. Crawford had told them where to go.

The alarms continued blaring all around as they turned the corner and were rushing down a hallway. When they reached the end, the sound of a deep voice shouting for them to freeze had their bodies tensing up, quickly running back when the guard began shooting at them. Stopping halfway, Minho felt himself turn back around as a glare came upon his face. He ignored Thomas and the others shouts as he started speeding back in the direction they had came from, grunts escaping him while doing so.

When he was reaching the end, the guard had finally turned the corner just as Minho lunged at him, jumping up and knocking him unconscious. While the Asian boy stared down at the unconscious man, the others rushed right back to him until they stopped beside him to stare down at the man in shock at the actions Minho had just done, clearly showing that hadn't been expecting that. Thomas was quick to bend down and grab the gun the guard have, checking for ammo before he was pushing the woman forward once he saw there was ammo.

It wasn't long until they reached the room, Dr. Crawford opening up the door, making one of the doctors inside look at her. The doctor's sentence was cut short when Thomas pushed Dr. Crawford inside, aiming his gun at all the doctors in the room, screaming in question about the girls they were looking for, especially the one he loves. Seeing two curtains, Thomas quickly handed the gun to Minho, who aimed it at the doctors while the brunette rushed to one, opening it up.

Instead of Y/n laying there, it was Teresa. Thomas looks over his shoulder, making eye contact with Newt. The blonde watches as his friend motions to the brunette girl, nodding as he rushed to Teresa while Thomas opened the other curtain. Much to his relief, Y/n was laying there, unconscious just like her sister. He was quick and gentle as he tried to shake her awake, one hand moving some of her hair out of the way while the other cupped her cheek as her e/c eyes slowly opened.

"Oh, baby. What did they do to you?" Thomas whispers.

Y/n frowns in confusion. "Thomas? What's going on?"

"We gotta leave right now." Thomas tells her. "Come on, baby."

"Guys! They're coming!" Frypan announces while looking through the window of the door. "Where do we go?"

Thomas was helping his girl up to her feet as they disconnected the wires from her body. He was quick to hold her when she stumbled after getting up to her feet until he heard Frypan's words. Newt flipped over a table, pushing it against the wall and in front of a door to give them some time of escape just when the door opened, the table blocking them from fully coming inside. Y/n made eye contact with her sister, rushing over and wrapping her arms around her older sister while Teresa quickly held her. Thomas was right behind his girlfriend, not wanting her to leave his side.

The group found themselves moving to the opposite side from the door as Minho was aiming the gun at the men on the other side. Seeing a glass window behind them, Thomas grabs ahold of a stool while Teresa and Frypan pulled Y/n away from the window when he slammed the stool against the glass, but it didn't break. He did it a few more times until Newt joined in, both holding stools as they slammed them against the window, the glass finally breaking. Teresa placed a blanket over the window as Thomas jumped over.

After Teresa climbed over, Thomas quickly helped Y/n over while the others followed in suit, Minho handing Thomas the gun so he could jump over. He opened a door, just about to step out when they all stopped at the sight of a guard standing there. Before the guard could do anything, Thomas pulled the trigger on the gun, making the man go flying back a bit as he was shaking from being electrocuted. Frantically, they were running by him and through the hallways once again.

After turning a few corners, they caught sight of the same door they had came through when they first entered here, running down to the end. When they reached the door, Thomas placed the gun underneath his armpit while grabbing the keycard from earlier, sliding it along the machine beside the door to open it, but it kept denying it, only making the group panic even more than before.

"Y/n! Thomas!" A voice yells out.

This had all their heads snapping behind them to see Janson and many guards at the end of the hall, walking towards them. The boy drops the keycard to the floor, gripping ahold of the gun while he started moving towards them with the gun aimed up, cocking it that had Janson aiming his arms up in surrender, but he was still walking towards the teenagers. While they did that, Minho bent down and grabbed the card, sliding it on the machine in hopes of getting it to work.

"Open this door, Janson!" Thomas exclaims.

Janson shakes his head. "You really don't want me to."

"Open the damn door!" Thomas shouts.

"Listen to me! I'm trying to save your life. The maze is one thing, but you kids wouldn't last one day out in the Scorch. If the elements don't kill you, the cranks will. Thomas, Y/n..." Janson calls out, looking over Thomas' shoulder at the girl. "...you have to believe me. I only want what's best for you."

Thomas clenches his jaw. "Yeah, let me guess. WICKED is good?"

Janson drops his arms, smirking with a sigh. "You're not getting through that door, Thomas."

All of a sudden, a beeping sound had the group looking towards the door as it was opening up, revealing Aris and Winston standing there. They all stepped through, except for Y/n as she was looking at her boyfriend while they all began shouting for him. Wasting no time, Thomas shot at Janson and the guards until there was no more ammo left. At that, he decided to just throw the gun at them before spinning around and running in the direction of his friends as Y/n stepped to the other side, her voice and everyone else's shouting for the brunette to hurry up when the door started closing.

It was almost closed, making them panic more when they found themselves crouching down to try and get a better look to see how close Thomas was. The boy quickly fell down towards the floor, sliding along it and underneath the door just as it closed when he reached the other side. He was quick to get to his feet as Aris slammed a metal object against the machine beside the door, making sure they wouldn't be able to open it. Janson reached the door, slamming his hands against it while Y/n gripped Thomas' hand as they stared at the man, who found himself looking between the couple after he saw the door wouldn't open.

His glare hardened when the couple both raised their hands, sticking the middle finger out at him before Thomas was pulling Y/n along with him and towards the exit with everyone else with them. The room they were in was large, but it didn't take too long until they were at the same large doors they had ran through to get in here when they first came here. Gripping the handle on the door, Thomas pulled on it before stepping back and coming beside Y/n when the doors opened up. They raised their arms up to cover their eyes when wind and sand was blowing everywhere, wanting to see instead of getting sand in their eyes.

Y/n felt Thomas bring her forward as he shouted for the others to follow while they all quickly ran out into the storm, sand continuing to blow everywhere, in their faces, in their hair, on their clothes. It was a bit struggle to run in the sand, but they were able to make it halfway up the hill when they heard shouting voices a long way behind them, lights being seen as the guards were now outside and looking for the group. Thomas placed a hand on Y/n's lower back, continuing to usher all of them to continue up towards the hill.

"Come on, go! We'll lose them in the storm!" Thomas tells them.

As the group continued on running up towards the hill, trying not to slip from the sand, it wasn't all too long until they reached the top as they tried to search for somewhere to hide. But when they did reach the top, all they saw was sand.