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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It was a few hours before they made it to the entrance of the City. Jorge stopped the vehicle and they all piled out as they began walking a little bit. There were so many people around that it made Katri feel claustrophobic. The people didn't look like they were doing so great. Swallowing thickly while Thomas holds her hand gently while they walk in. Katri had taken off her coat and tied it around her waist while they walked.

"This place has really gone through hell..." commented Jorge

Thomas doesn't look at him but continues looking forward. "We just gotta stay together."

They continue their walk for a little while until they heard a voice speaking in the distance. "We are the voice of the voiceless." They stopped walking seeing a truck slowly driving through the crowd. There were men in masks sitting on top of it while someone was driving the truck. One of them had a megaphone.

"They hide behind their walls, thinking they can keep the cure for themselves while they watch the rest of us wither and rot." Katri looked at all the men on the truck until her gaze landed on two people making her raise a brow as if she knew those two people. When the truck was passing by them, one of them leaned forward still keeping his gaze on her as she kept hers on his. "But there are more of us than there are of them!"

The people listened intently to the words. "And I say, we rise up and take back what is ours!" Katri saw the man lean away from her as the truck finally was further away from them. "Let's bring back a victory!"

After everything was said and done, Katri's neck was burning a little bit and it was tingling a little bit. Katri raises her hand to her neck and looks back and then up seeing drones right above them. Katri's eyes widen as it seemed to be pointing right at Thomas. W.I.C.K.E.D knew they were here, didn't they? Thomas followed her gaze and then saw the drones flying away and he began walking through the crowd more. Katri glanced at Newt and Frypan who both looked at her. They began following Thomas until they all made it near the front of the gate.

"That's it..." Thomas exclaimed. "That's our way in!"

"Thomas," Jorge began as they all began walking further. "This is not what you're looking for. All these people trying to find their way in; you think you're gonna find something they can't?"

"Came this far. I'm not turning back now." Thomas shouted back into the crowd.

Jorge was up with Thomas as they continue through the crowd. Everyone else was behind them a few feet from them. Finally, they made it in front of the big crowd, looking at the wall in front of them.

"Thomas, this doesn't feel right..." said Jorge looking at the boy beside him. Then, Katri puts a hand on Thomas's shoulder, letting him know she was there. Newt did the same thing as Thomas looks back at both of them.

Thomas then wraps an arm around Katri's shoulder and brings her close then something just didn't sit right with her.

"We gotta go, now." Katri ushered her friends as they look at her. She looks over her shoulder as did everyone else seeing two men walking towards them. The same two men that were watching her and Thomas on the truck earlier. Jorge brought out a gun just as they heard sound coming from the walls, making everyone go silent and the group slowly turns to the sound seeing W.I.C.K.E.D guards on top of the walls and machines that looked like guns aiming right at the crowd. "Shit... We need to go, and we need to go now!"

As soon as she said that they began shooting making everyone jump and start running away.

"Go! Go! Go!"

Katri was running and then she feels pain in her thigh making her gasp and fall down to the ground, moaning in pain.

"Kat!" Someone, Newt she thinks, shouts.

Katri looks up seeing Newt and Frypan coming towards her, they lift her while she groans again in pain. "Are you okay?"

"Let's go! Come on..." Katri ignores the question and groans out in pain as they both drag her away from the shots.

Katri looks down at her shirt, having an idea when they were finally out of the firing zone of the guns, going thru an alleyway. When they finally made to the end of the said alleyway, they were stopped by one of the men in a mask who stood in front of them. He roughly grabbed Katri from Newt's and Frypan's grasp throwing her into a van making her grunt in pain. Then, they threw Thomas and everyone else in the van before driving off.

Katri sits up and takes the bottom part of her shirt and rips it til it reached the top of her stomach, and she began wrapping it around her wound making her grunt again in pain. Taking a deep breath, hoping that'll settle the pain for right now, Katri then leans down on Thomas's shoulder as he stares down at her worriedly. She gently looks up at him with a small smile on her face.

"I'll be fine, Thomas..." She whispers to him touching his hand lightly. "Just a flesh wound."

"..." Thomas didn't say anything, he just put his forehead on hers and they both close their eyes. Before they could do anything else, the van suddenly stopped and then the door opened making them look over.

"Get out!"

Thomas and Brenda got out before helping her out as she holds on to both of them. Another van came and they heard some commotion going on in there. Suddenly, the back doors opened and a man with a mask was tossed out before Jorge jumped out and started punching the guy.

Thomas let Katri go as did Brenda.

"Where is she, you son of a bitch?"

"Hey! Hey! Hey!"

Thomas and Brenda both all for Jorge to stop, running towards him. Katri stayed in one spot trying not to move 'cause of her thigh. One of the men grabbed Thomas by the collar and tossed him back.

"Okay, okay, okay." He said raising his hands.

Brenda was assuring Jorge that she was right there, but something about the two men just was setting Katri off.

"Everybody, relax!"

"That's right! We're on the same side here!"

Katri takes a step forward, and then stumbles a little bit as Newt catches her. "What the hell do you mean, 'same side'? Who the hell are you both?" Katri was annoyed by these two.

They both glance at her and at Thomas before they both took off their masks and Katri's eyes widen and she quietly gasps. It was both faces she'd never thought she'd see again. Tears begin to form in her eyes, but they don't fall down. She brought her hand to her mouth in shock. They were... alive...

"Hey Greenie..." Gally spoke.

"How's it goin', Kat?"

"J-James..." Katri stuttered out.

"Gally?"

Before Katri could react, the next thing she knew, Thomas lunged himself onto Gally and started punching him. Katri's eyes widen as she continues looking at James. His black hair was pushed back and clean, his brown eyes held happiness in seeing her, but there was no love for her as he knew she had found her one.

Katri then heard the guns surrounding Thomas as she gasps as Newt kept her from going and stopping what was happening. "Stop! It's alright!"

Newt gently hands Katri to Frypan while he takes her as he walks up to Thomas and stops him from punching Gally further.

"Stop..."

"He killed Chuck!"

"Yeah, I know," Newt told him. "I remember, I was there too, alright? But I also remember that he was stung and half out of his mind. Just calm down. Alright."

Katri then moves her eyes towards James who was staring at her. "H-how..." Katri started mumbling as Frypan looked at her as a lone tear fell down her face. "I didn't think you survived the Maze... You... you didn't come back..."

"I found a way out." James spoke to her. "Then, I found Gally when I was coming back for you guys, and if we hadn't found him when we did, he would've died too." James pointed at Gally making Katri just stare.

Gally rubs his chin. "Kind of had that coming." Gally spoke looking at everyone. "Anybody else? Fry? Newt? Kat?"

"I..."

"Do you know these guys?"

"He was an old friend..." Frypan replied.

"How..." Newt said staring at Gally. "How is this possible? We watched you die."

"Like James said – you left me to die. And if we hadn't found you when we did, you'd be dead right now."

"What the hell are you doing here?" snapped James, looking at everyone.

"Minho," Newt stated simply. "W.I.C.K.E.D has him here. We're looking for a way in."

"We can help with that, follow us." Gally spoke to them as they turned around to walk.

Thomas glared at Gally. "I'm not going anywhere with you."

"Suit yourself, but we can get you through those walls." James told Thomas, glaring at him right back.

Everyone was skeptical on following Gally, but Kat was the first to go. She was limping behind him with James following her. Thomas clenched his teeth tightly and then followed James with Newt, Frypan, Jorge and Brenda following them.

"After the Maze, I got picked up by a group heading to the City," Gally started. "They realized I was immune, they patched me up and brought me here to Lawrence. This group's been at war with W.I.C.K.E.D ever since they took control of the City. But W.I.C.K.E.D can't hide behind those walls forever. Day's gonna come and they're gonna pay for what they've done."

Gally came to a stop, looking ahead of them and then turning to his friends, a somewhat unsure expression laying on his face. James knew that look.

Taking a deep breath, James spoke. "Listen, he doesn't get a lot of visitors. So, let us do the talking, alright?" James looked at everyone. "And try not to stare."

They all share a glance before following Gally and James walking down the stairs and into a room, looked like a garden. Two men stood there, one was playing with the flowers, mumbling something to himself. Thomas gently grabs Katri's hand making her look up at him with a curious look on her face.

"Gally! James! Glad to see you both made it back," The man spoke up. "Jasper told me what happened."

"It was a slaughter," replies James with a slight shrug of his shoulder. "There's nothing we could do against those guns."

"No, but they can only poke the hornet's nest so long before they get stung," The man, Lawrence, said. Then, Katri heard him sniff a rose he twirled in his hand. Thomas looked closer at him since he was a little more ahead of her now. Then, he realized...

He has no nose...

"Now, who are these people? Why are they here?" Lawrence asks.

James takes a deep breath. "We need to get into W.I.C.K.E.D." Katri spoke up making James and Gally look at her with wide eyes. They had forgotten how blunt she was, Lawrence stared at her slightly amused. "Gally and James both said they could help us and get through the walls."

"Well," Lawrence spoke to her. "Gally and James should know better than to make promises they can't keep. Besides, the wall is only half our problem." Katri pinches her lips together. "Getting inside W.I.C.K.E.D is impossible."

"There might be a way now," Gally stook up for Katri, taking a step forward. "But it doesn't work without Thomas."

"Is that so?" Lawrence walks towards Thomas making Katri grip the back of his coat gently. "Do you know what I am, Thomas?" Lawrence walked out of the darkness revealing his face. He looked like Crank. Just then, he was in front of Thomas thinking he could scare him, but Thomas didn't flinch. "I am a businessman. Which means that I don't take unnecessary risks." He then glances at Katri who stands in her spot near Thomas. "Why should I trust you?"

"Cause I can help you," Thomas replies to him with no emotion making everyone stare in shock. "You see, if you get me through those walls... I can get you what you need."

"And what is it that you think I need?"

"Time." Thomas looks at him dead in the eye without missing a beat. "Every last drop..."

Lawrence looked at Gally and James, who Katri could see glancing at Thomas with raised brows. "Is that what I need?" Lawrence asks, looking back at Thomas who still doesn't move from his spot. Katri grips his coat even harder, knowing what he was planning, and she didn't like it one bit.

"W.I.C.K.E.D has something we both want."

"I'll tell you what." Lawrence spoke to him. "Two can go for now, the rest stay here with me." Lawrence smirked a little bit. "Just a little... insurance to make sure you find your way back."

Thomas glanced back at Katri who looked up at him and then he looks back seeing Lawrence holding out a hand. "We have a deal?"

Reluctantly, Thomas puts his hand in Lawrence's, shaking it firmly. Which made his smirk widen and chuckle slightly, making Katri release a quiet breath.

"Gally, James, show him the way."