NOTE: I'M GOING TO SAY THIS NOW, I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE MAZE RUNNER, I AM TRYING AND IF I MAKE ANY MISTAKES, PLEASE LET ME KNOW! I LOVE YOU ALL!

THE MAZE RUNNER STORYLINE AND CHARACTERS BELONGS TO JAMES DASHNER. KATRI, HER STORYLINE AND ANY OTHER CHARACTER BELONG TO ME<3 HAPPY READING!

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Katri was now hanging by her feet with everyone surrounding her above a giant hole in the ground. Katri was annoyed.

"Good plan Thomas," Minho spoke up with sarcasm. "'Just hear what the man has to say' Really working out for us..."

Thomas scoffed grumbling under his breath that Katri could barely hear it. "Shut up, Minho," Then he tried grabbing the rope that was tied around his ankles. "Maybe I can reach the rope..."

After a little while of him trying to grab hold of the rope and making Katri get even more annoyed with him. He gave up and he sighs in frustration.

"Enjoying the view?" asks Jorge walking into the room they were in.

A groan left Katri's lips as she rolls her eyes. "What the hell do you want ya klunk?"

Jorge chuckles a little bit. "That is the question!" He spoke pointing his cane towards her making her growl. "My men want to sell you back to W.I.C.K.E.D," He admitted making her growl again. "Life has taught them to think small. I'm not like that. Something tells me, you're not either." He points to Thomas making Katri glance over to him.

"Is the blood rushing to my head or is this shank not making sense?" Minho sarcastically said.

"No, he's not making sense to me..."

Jorge ignored the both of them and continues looking at Thomas. "Tell me what you know about the Right Arm."

"I thought you said they were ghosts." Newt reminded him.

"I happen to believe in ghosts," Jorge said. "Especially when I hear them chattering on the airwaves." He walked to the lever, laying his hand on it making Katri frown. "You tell me what you know, and maybe we can make a deal."

"We don't know much," Thomas shrugged to Jorge.

It was evident that Jorge didn't like the answer that was given to him, and he pushed the lever down making them drop a foot. Katri groans in pain from the yank while closing her eyes tightly. Everyone else grunted as Thomas yelled out, giving in.

"Okay!" Thomas shouts in defeat. "Okay, alright. They're hiding in the mountains, and they attacked W.I.C.K.E.D. They got a bunch of kids. That's it! That's' all we know!"

Jorge walked forward, opening his mouth to speak but someone beat him to it. "Yo, Jorge!" Jorge turns around seeing a bald, bigger man walking in. "What's going on?"

"Me and my friends were just getting acquainted." Jorge answered him. "We're done now." He then began walking away from the group of kids hanging upside down.

"Hey, wait!" Katri yells out, stopping him before he could leave fully. "You're not gonna help us?"

"Don't worry hermana," Jorge doesn't turn around or stop walking. "We'll get you back to where you belong. Hang tight." And with that, he left the room.

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They quietly came up with a plan to free themselves. Thomas pushed Katri towards Minho, so then Minho would push her towards the lever considering she was the closest. Thomas pushed her towards Minho once more as he pushes her towards it, but not hard enough. They all groaned in frustration that she wasn't able to reach it. Minho pushed Katri again. And sadly, again she couldn't reach it.

"Come on, Minho! Push Kat harder!" Newt encouraged Minho.

Minho grabbed Katri gently by the waist again, "Ready Kat?" Katri nods. "This is it... One... Two... Three!" He pushed her hard making her finally grab the railing while everyone silently cheered with words leaving their mouths like 'yes!' Katri turned herself upright and reached for the lever.

"Kat, hurry up!" Thomas exclaimed.

"Thomas, I swear I'm gonna pummel you later. I'm short! Not a miracle worker!" Katri growled at him finally grabbing the lever and setting everyone down more than a foot. Letting out a huge breath as she turns around to sit on her butt untying the ropes from her ankles.

Katri rushes to help Teresa and grabs her quickly and brings her closer to the edge and she slowly turns around to get her untied. Then, while Teresa was untying herself, Katri ran to Thomas and grabbed him and did the same thing for him, then to Newt to do the same thing. Then, a whirring sound of a helicopter was outside of the building was heard, before a familiar voice spoke up.

"Good evening!" Oh shit... It was him! "This is the World Catastrophe Killzone Department."

"That damned man found us!" Katri exclaimed angrily.

"We have your compound completely surrounded. You find yourselves, through no fault of your own, in possession of W.I.C.K.E.D property. Return them to us unharmed and we'll consider this a simple misunderstanding. Or you can resist and every last one of you will die. It won't be long before the Flare wipes out the rest of us. The hope of a cure lies in your hands." Katri was glancing at everyone, wondering what they should do. "The choice is yours!"

As Janson was speaking, everyone was able to get free from the ropes around their ankles. Katri rushes to Thomas and he touches her shoulder as he punches him in his right shoulder making him wince.

"That was for earlier."

"I deserved that, I'm sorry..." Thomas whispers to her and rubs his shoulder as they look at everyone. "Okay, let's go! Let's go!" He then ushers everyone quickly.

They all started to run out of the room, but only to be stopped by the big bald man that had walked in earlier when Jorge was interrogating them. Thomas puts his hands up slowly.

"We're not trying to cause any trouble, okay? We just got to get out of here." Thomas told him.

"Is that so?" He pulled out a radio, holding it to his face. "Janson, I got 'em for ya." Katri deeply frowns. "I'm bringing 'em down. Don't shoot us." He put the radio away. "Come on, let's go."

Instead of obeying, Katri lunged at him, the two of them fighting over the gun. The kids behind her calling her name worriedly. The two struggle for the gun harder, and then a trigger went off. Katri gasps but didn't feel anything on her and she turned around seeing nothing on the group behind her.

Katri grunted when the man pushed Katri off him and she fell to the ground hard, and he aimed the gun at her. "You little bitch!"

Before he could shoot her or her friends, another gunshot rang through the air. Katri had wide eyes as she watched the man fall to the ground with a loud thump. Katri looks up seeing the girl from earlier standing there with her gun down and smoke leaking out of it.

She shot him.

"Okay, come on!" She ushered, expecting them to follow her as she started walking away.

Thomas slowly walks to Katri and gently helps her up while she stands up holding onto his arms. They still didn't move from their spot and continue looking at her with wide eyes. She saw they weren't and groaned in annoyance, rolling her eyes.

"Come on!" She snapped. "Let's go!"

This time, without thinking, they run behind her. Thomas gently had Katri's hand in his as they were running, Katri heard music playing throughout the building making her look around in confusion.

"Brenda!" Jorge shouted from above them. "Hurry! We don't have much time! Let's go, let's go, let's go!"

They run up some stairs as Jorge ran to the glass door, them following. Jorge opened it, revealing nothing but another building on the other side. A zipline was held between the two buildings.

"You've got to be kidding me," Frypan commented.

"Plan B, hermano." Jorge started. "You kids wanna get to the Right Arm? I'll lead you to them. But you're gonna owe me. Follow me!" Jorge explains before he had grabbed a piece of cloth, sliding down the zipline across the other building.

Katri freezes a little bit looking at the zipline. Pressing her lips together, she shakes her head. "Alright, let's go!" Brenda ushered, handing everyone a piece of cloth.

Everyone had gone except Teresa, Thomas, Brenda and Katri. Teresa takes a deep breath and goes and then Katri was next, but she was scared. She looks down and quietly whimpers as she now closes her eyes again. Thomas touches her shoulder gently and she looked at him.

"Thomas... I can't..." Katri whimpers quietly as tears fill her eyes.

"Don't worry, I'll be right behind you." Thomas assured her quietly making her slightly nod. "You got this, remember, you're not scared of anything. You built the tower at the Glade." Katri frowns, thinking of the tower and slowly nods.

"Okay, you'll be right there, right?"

"I promise."

Katri nods and takes her cloth and slides down the zipline without looking down. Sure, she built the tower, and she would climb trees, but she was still terrified of heights. She hated them.

When she made it to the other end, Newt helped her, and she looked back trying to find Thomas and Brenda to see if they were following them. When she didn't see them, she was frantically looking for them as she went to the edge and looked for him. She turns to Newt worriedly.

"Newt..."

"Don't worry, Kat, he'll be fine." Newt assured her. "We got to follow him, come on." Katri looks back again trying to find Thomas once again, but Newt gently grabs her hand, and they begin heading out and following Jorge.

"Come on, Kat." Minho encouraged her as she lets out a small sigh.

She then heard an explosion which makes her turn back and gasp. No... Newt keeps a hold of her hand gently keeping her running, so she didn't run back to find Thomas. He wasn't going to die so easily. Katri kept her head back watching the building continue to fall, but she knew she had to keep going.

Especially for him.