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 sits next to the cage, sleeping. The sun was out and shining brightly but – Katri was more worried about Thomas. He hasn't woken up in a few hours and it was concerning. Teresa was in the cage beside him as they were put in there by Gally. Newt, Chuck and Minho were all standing there waiting for Thomas to wake up.

A groan came from Thomas's lips when Katri opened her eyes. Katri looks back seeing Thomas sitting up holding his head.

"Hey..." Teresa softly spoke to him, touching his shoulder. "Are you okay?"

Thomas slowly nods while he gently shakes his head as he fully opens his eyes.

"What the hell were you thinking?" Chuck asks him while Thomas looks over seeing that it was just him and Teresa in the pit while Chuck, Newt, Katri and Minoh stood outside the door, all of them staring at Thomas.

"What happened?"

Looking back quickly seeing Gally talking to people, and then back to Thomas. Katri frowns. "Gally's taken control..." answers Newt. "He said we had a choice, either join him... or get banished at sundown with you."

"And the others agreed to that?" asks Thomas.

"Gally has everyone convinced that you're the reason all this has happened." Teresa spoke to him.

"Well..." Thomas starts standing up. "He's been right so far..."

"What are you talking about?" Minho questions while Katri raises a brow.

"You can't be serious if you think he's right..." Katri adds to Minho's confusion.

Thomas gently raises a hand to stop them. "This place..." He starts with a frown. "It's not what we thought it was. It's not a prison, it's a test." Katri looks at Newt who looks back at her and they both look back at Thomas. "It all started when we were kids. They would give us these challenges. They were experimenting on us, and the people started disappearing. Every month, one after the other."

"They were sending them up into the Maze..." realizes Newt.

"Yeah, but not all of us..."

"What do you mean?" asks Katri.

"Guys, I'm one of them." Thomas admits looking at everyone. "The people who put you here, I worked with them. I watched you guys for years. The entire time you've been here... I was on the other side of it." Thomas then looks at Teresa. "So were you."

Teresa was confused by this. "What?"

"Teresa, we did this to them."

"No. That can't be true..." Teresa shakes her head while a tear falls down her face gently.

"It is," Thomas sighs quietly. "I saw it..."

"Why would they send us up if we were with them?" questions Teresa now looking at everyone.

"It doesn't matter." Thomas told her.

"He's right, it doesn't matter." Katri told her. "Any of it."

"Because the people we were before the Maze doesn't even exist anymore." Newt adds touching Katri's hand gently as she looks at her best friend with a small smile. Newt takes his hand off while she looks back at the two in the pit. "These creators took care of that. But what does matter is who we are now, and what we do... right now." Newt looks at Thomas. "You went into the Maze, and you found a way out."

"Yeah, but if I hadn't..." Thomas pauses, now making Katri frown deeply. "Alby would still be alive."

Katri swallows thickly and stifles a small sob building. "Maybe. But I know that if he were here, he would be telling you the exact same thing. "Pick your ass up and finish what you started"." Katri told him.

Newt nods. "Because if we do nothing then that means Alby died for nothing, and I can't have that."

Thomas lets a sigh of relief escape his lips as he stares at Katri who gently smiles his way. A look of confidence crosses his face while he walks up touching the door of the pit while he looks at everyone. "Okay. Okay," Katri looks at him questionably. "But we gotta get through Gally first,"

"I think I might have a plan..." Minho states quietly as everyone looks at him as he tells them the plan.

After doing so, the three boys began to leave, Katri gets up and starts but then she fells Thomas grab her wrist gently. Katri felt something weird crossing her veins and her heart pounding against her chest as she looks back seeing him staring up at her.

"I remembered us, too..."

"..." Katri releases a breath turning around looking at him, seeing a sincere look in his eyes. He wasn't lying about it. Pinching her lips tightly as he squeezes his hand against her wrist gently. "...Thomas..."

"Hmm?"

"You're a buggin idiot..."

Thomas gently smiles while letting her wrist go while she walks off.

~

Hours passed and now Katri watched from a distance while two boys dragged an 'unconscious' Thomas and Teresa walking with her hands behind her back. Pinching her lips tightly, she frowns.

"This plan better work..." While watching Gally finishing crossing off Alby's name on the wall as he turns around while the two boys lay Thomas down.

"This is such a waste..."

"Gally," Winston begins with a frown. "It doesn't feel right, man."

"Yeah," Jeff started as well looking at Gally. "What if Thomas is right? Maybe he can lead us home."

"We are home. Okay." Gally argues to both of them. "I don't wanna have to cross anymore names off that wall."

"You really think banishing us is gonna solve anything?" asks Teresa her voice in a sneer.

"No." Gally shakes his head, glaring at her. "But this isn't a banishing. It's an offering."

"What...? Wait!" The boy yanks Teresa back making Katri widen at Gally's words. Never in the three years she has been here, they've never offered humans to the Grievers. The boy begins tying up Teresa. "Gally, what are you doing?"

"You really think I'm going to let Thomas back into the Maze after what he's done?" Gally shouts in response. "Look around you! Look at our Glade! This is the only way and when the Grievers get what they came here for... Everything goes back to the way it was."

"Are you listening to this?" Teresa exclaims to the Gladers. "Why are you all just standing there? He's crazy!"

"You shut up!" Gally replies harshly.

"If you stay here, the Grievers are going to come back." Teresa ignores Gally while continue. "And they're gonna keep coming back until you're all dead!"

"Shut up! Tie him up!" Gally demands but no one touches Thomas, confused on what they should do. "Did you hear me? I said tie him up!" They finally began walking to him to pick Thomas up.

As soon as they started lifting Thomas, he 'wakes up' and elbows one of the Gladers in the gut, grabbing the stick from his hand and hitting the other one in the face with it. Newt grabs his blade and knocks one of the Gladers out while Minho grabs his blade, aiming at Gally. Katri rushes over, taking her knife cutting down Teresa while Katri gets to her side as they both walked towards Thomas.

All the other Gladers stared at them with wide eyes clearly not expecting any of that. As they fought, Chuck had trotted over with all the stuff they'll need while Minho slowly made is way towards them with his machete aiming at Gally making sure he didn't move from his spot.

Gally looks at Thomas who glares at Gally keeping his stick up in defense. "You're just full of surprises, aren't you?"

"You don't have to come with us, but we're leaving," Thomas announces to everyone. "Anyone who wants to come, now is your last chance."

Gally holds up his hand before the Gladers could join them. "Don't listen to him, he's just trying to scare you."

Katri takes a step forward. "No, he's not trying to scare you." Katri softly tells them. "You're already scared. Alright, I'm scared, and you all know me, I'm rarely ever scared." The Gladers look at her while looks at every one of them. "But I'd rather risk my life out there than spending the rest of it in here." Katri looks back at Thomas and her friends and then back at Gally. "We don't belong here. This place isn't our home, we were put here. We were trapped here. At least out there we have a choice. We can make it out of here." Katri steps back towards Thomas as he slightly smiles at her as she smiles back. "I know that."

It was silent as the Gladers seem to take in Katri's words. Conflicted, some of them stayed where they were, but others seem to contemplate their own decision. Finally, Winston walks towards them, passing Gally. Jeff trails behind him, murmuring a small 'sorry' to the green-eyed boy. A few more boys followed, and Gally glanced around who was left afterwards nodding with a small frown.

"Gally, it's over." Thomas tries to reason with the Builder. "Just come with us."

For a quick moment, Gally stares at him shaking his head. "Good luck against the Grievers."

Katri shakes her head at his words, frowning deeply that her friend was going to stay in the Maze while they try to escape it. Releasing a breath, Katri looks at Thomas before he gently grabs her hand, and they all began running in the Maze leaving the Glade behind. Thomas led the group while Katri was behind, occasionally looking back at them while she ran.

"It's not worth it, Kat..." Newt reminded her quietly as she quietly nods looking forward and follows Thomas.

As they ran, they passed all the sections Thomas and Minho had run by and found the exit just the day before. Soon enough, we stop behind a Wall, the exit so close by. Thomas peaks over a wall, then looking back at Minho with a knowing look. Minho carefully peaks over seeing a Griever on the other end.

"Is it a Griever?" questions Chuck.

Thomas nods. "Yeah,"

"Klunk..." Chuck mumbles quietly.

Minho looks to the youngest, holding out the key. "You take this, Chuck. Stay behind us."

"It's okay. Just stick with me." Teresa assures tying her hair up in a low ponytail.

Katri nods and looks at everyone. "Once we're through, it'll activate, and the door will open." Thomas informs everyone as they nod. Katri glances to Newt seeing him nod as she nods back.

Katri looks back at Thomas who glances back at her and then to Minho. "Ready?"

He slams his stick down to the ground as the Gladers agree. Minho reaching behind his back and bringing out a machete to fight with. Katri grabs her knife and keeps it close to her.

"Aright. Let's go!"

All of them let out battle cries as they ran forward, catching the Grievers attention. The creature screeches loudly rushing to them. Thomas, Newt and Minho and the other boys all use their poles to push it back and away from them, leading it towards the edge of the skinny path they currently stood on. The Griever uses its stinger, swinging it in their direction to which they were quick to duck but one boy was unlucky as he was grabbed and thrown over the edge. Everyone kept stabbing the Griever and finally getting its eye.

"Thomas!" shouts Chuck

Thomas looks over at the sound of Chuck's voice seeing Chuck and Teresa running in their direction, two Grievers trailing behind them. Katri gasps a little bit seeing them rush by the group and into the tunnel. Katri quickly follows them so she could protect them while everyone else was stabbing the other Grievers as the three stop and look back at the group as the Walls open up.

"Teresa, go!" Thomas ushers to the three.

The trio run in ignoring the chatter behind them. They end up at the end of the tunnel looking around for a way in.

"There's gotta be a way out! Come on!" Teresa shouts looking for a way out.

Katri looks around while Chuck rushes around them looking for a way. But then something lit up in their faces.

Teresa looks at Katri who looks back at her and then Teresa turns back to the group of boys trying to keep the Grievers out.

"Thomas! There's a code!" Teresa calls out making him look over. "Eight numbers!"

"Eight sections of the Maze..." Katri mutters. "Minho!" Katri calls out to her friend. "What's the sequence?"

"What?" Minho calls back, not looking at her as he tries to stab the Griever. "You should know that?"

"You've been in here longer than I have ever been!" Katri reminds him. "The sections though, what's the sequence!"

Minho thinks for a quick moment. "Seven! One! Five! Two! Six! Four!"

"Heads up!" shouts Newt as they all look up seeing a Griever coming down.

The next thing they knew, Minho was pinned down by the Griever as he held his pole in its mouth to keep it from eating him. Katri gasps taking a step but before she could, Jeff lets out a cry, lunging at the Griever and stabbing it in the head. Minho quickly backs up, Newt and Thomas helping him up as the Grievers mouth suddenly latched onto Jeff, causing him to cry out in pain. Winston shouted for his friend as the said boy was taken away, his cries going distant.

"Minho, what's the sequence? Come on!" Chuck urges while Katri stands there in shock. Not again...

"Six! Four! Eight! Three!" Minho finishes as Teresa types it in. "You got it?"

As he shouted, the boys soon found themselves inside the tunnel, stabbing creatures in front of them. All of a sudden, the Walls began dropping either crushing the Grievers or trapping them. Katri stood there watching as the last one lunge at them, but Thomas threw his spear at it sending it back as the sharp end stabbed into the Grievers eye.

As it stumbled back from the impact, the Wall went right on top of it crushing the disgusting creature killing it instantly. All of them letting out sighs of relief just as the tunnel closes. Darkness filling their vision.