A terrible, piercing scream ripped out of the cranks throat as he charged towards Minho. Minho fought back and Alexis felt helpless just standing there and watching. She noticed that all the laughter behind her had stopped and before she had time to turn around and check out the situation, warm breath tickled the back of her neck. It sent shivers through her whole body despite the sun pounding down on them. Alexis froze and gripped her spear even more tightly which she didn't think was possible.

"You're one of us right?" A woman's voice whispered into her ear. A quick glance at Minho showed that he had almost defeated the other crank. It was her time to fight. She slowly turned around and noticed six other cranks along with the woman inching towards her. Four woman and two men. Other cranks hadn't noticed what was happening and went along with whatever they were doing.

Alexis could never get used to this. What the world had become. She couldn't even imagine the people before her ever having normal lives. Once upon a time, they would of had jobs and families. Now, they were all insane and had no lives.

Before Alexis could properly react, the woman had jumped on top of her and tried to rip the spear out Alexis's hands. Alexis fell backwards and the wind was knocked out of her chest. Luckily Alexis had such a firm grip, otherwise she would of given up the spear, the only thing that made her feel safe. The other five cranks joined along and jumped on top of her, grabbing for the spear and clawing away at Alexis. Alexis fought futilely, ripping away the spear from the crank's grasps and kicking her legs to try and get them off of her. It was useless but funnily enough, this wasn't the first time that cranks had been lying on top of Alexis. In fact, it had happened many times before and somehow, Alexis had still survived. It took all of her strength to pull the spear out from underneath all the ragged bodies on top of her. She pushed the end of the weapon into one of the woman's faces which gave her a few seconds to pull out her left leg from underneath the group. Alexis groaned from the effort as she wiggled, kicked and pulled her leg free. As soon as her leg was out in the open, she kicked it into another woman's face and shoved the spear's top right through a man's chest. This gave her enough freedom to wiggle out from underneath everyone and scramble to stand upright.

The cranks didn't stop there.

They too all stood up and attacked again. Alexis swung one of her fists and felt it connect with someone's jaw. A man kicked her right in the stomach which made her keel over. So many things were happening at once but Alexis had no time to think about what was happening and plan her next move. She stood up straight which made her stomach twist in pain but Alexis couldn't stop now. The same man was about to throw a punch at her when Minho came out and punched him first. Alexis shot him a grateful look but returned her attention quickly to the brawl in front of her. With the help of Minho she swung her fists, kicked her legs and swung her spear until eventually all remaining five cranks were on the ground. Before other cranks could catch on, Minho and Alexis dived behind the nearest building. They found Newt, Aris and the others all hiding there.

Alexis bent over to catch her breath.

"That was pretty amazing." Newt whispered.

"Thanks." Minho puffed.

"He was talking about Alexis." Another boy sneered.

Alexis almost let a laugh escape her lips.

"We need to keep moving." She said, taking charge of the group, once again.