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chapter iii

Tiago made it to Jorge's office his own way, and he found Kim there along with Brenda, Jorge, and the teens.

"Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go!" Jorge chanted, heading for the window. Tiago huffed as he landed on the ground from a beam above them. He startled the teenagers, which made him smirk slightly.

"Could you stop doing that?" Minho muttered.

"Right this way!" Jorge said loudly, pushing the window open to reveal a zipline connecting the main building to a lower building outside.

"Oh, you gotta be kidding me," the black teenager murmured, mostly to himself.

"Plan B, hermano," Jorge said. "You kids wanna get to the Right Arm? I'll lead you to them. But you're gonna owe me." He yanked a makeshift harness down. It didn't seem like much support, but Jorge gripped it tightly and launched himself out the window. "Follow me!"

"Alright," Brenda yelled as she pulled down another harness. "Let's go! Come on!"

"Kim, go," Tiago said, pushing her forward to Brenda. She glanced back at him.

"What about you?" she asked, concern clear on her face. Tiago gave her a small grin.

"I'm coming, I promise."

Kim searched his face, before turning back fully and planting a shirt kiss on his lips. Tiago pulled away form her in surprise. She reached a hand up to brush his hair out of his face.

"Just in case you break your promise."

Tiago nodded before pushing her towards the window again.

One by one, the teenagers followed Kim and Jorge down the zipline. Soon, there were only four of them left upstairs. Tiago could see Jorge and Kim at the bottom of the zipline, pulling the kids in as they arrived. Suddenly, Brenda looked panicked and took off to the other side of the office.

"Brenda?"

"Brenda, where are you going?" Thomas called.

Tiago ran after her. "Brenda!" He found her searching through a drawer in Jorge's desk. "What are you looking for?"

"George, I left George here somewhere," she muttered distractedly.

"Brenda, come on, what are you doing?" Thomas said frantically from behind them. Brenda kept opening and closing drawers. "We gotta go!" Thomas yelled. She finally found the tin container that Tiago knew she kept her brother's picture in.

"I got it, I got it," she said quickly, turning around and following Thomas back to the zipline. Tiago followed, a hand on Brenda's back. Suddenly, Thomas halted to a stop in front of them. He stuck out an arm to stop Brenda from falling at the sudden stop.

"Shit," he muttered, and Tiago finally saw why they'd stopped.

There were three or four men coming up the stairs, Tiago couldn't tell how many. He looked up instinctively at the support beams, but before he could even think of climbing up, he heard gunshots. He looked back down to find that Brenda had fired them, aiming at the WCKD men. She turned back around and yelled, "Go! Go!" at Tiago and Thomas. Tiago wasted no time, grabbing Thomas' arm and dragging him backwards. The trio ran out of the office, down a narrow walkway, all while shots were being fired at them. Tiago kept looking up, trying to find a safe place to climb into the ceiling.

"Come on, hurry! We're running out of time!" Brenda yelled.

They met a staircase and ran down it hurriedly. When they got to the bottom, Brenda stopped. There were WCKD men coming from the other side of the walkway, and the only other way down was the open support beams; they hadn't been covered in this part of the compound, Tiago never knew why. He could skirt these beams easily now, having done it for years.

"Shit," Brenda murmured.

"You go, I'll catch up," Tiago muttered quickly, pulling his bow over his head. He turned back to face the men.

Brenda didn't waste any time; she clambered onto the closest beam and looked at Thomas.

"Here, follow me. Come on!"

The other group of WCKD men had reached the top of the stairs. Tiago let an arrow fly, hitting on of the soldiers directly in the chest. He backed up slightly, knocking into Thomas.

"What the hell are you still doing here? Go!" he yelled.

Thomas finally snapped out of it and started following Brenda across the beam. Tiago could hear them making noises of caution and surprise as they walked across, but he couldn't focus on them. The soldiers were coming down the staircase. Tiago managed to fire one more arrow, hitting another soldier in the leg, before he jumped off the edge of the platform he was on. He was aiming for a beam further away, but he miscalculated and ended up on the concrete floor. He landed harshly on his right arm, bow still tightly clutched in his left hand. He rolled over, facing up at the men who were staring down at him. One of them was going across the beam, following Thomas and Brenda. Tiago wasn't their primary focus at all.

Using this to his advantage, Tiago managed to haul himself up and grab another arrow. He readied it and backed into the shadow of the building as he fired. He had no idea whether it had landed or not, and he didn't stop to check. Tiago had only just realised that a song was playing; he had to get out of the building.

As fast as he could, Tiago bolted for the only window he could see. He heard explosions going off in the next two seconds, jolting him forward onto his hurt arm. He let out a cry of pain, scrambling to push himself up off the floor. He could hear things collapsing, but he knew he couldn't turn and watch. He only had his eyes on the window ahead of him.

As Tiago jumped through the window, shattering the glass around him, he felt part of the building follow him out. He blacked out before he hit the ground.

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ahhhh i suck so bad at writing action scenes, so i hope this was readable lmao. this chapter took me a total of like 3 days to write, so please leave a vote if you enjoyed!! you can comment too if you want lol i always enjoy reading them :)

i might try and do a double update today, who knows, but i'm definitely going to start the next chapter while i'm still in my groove right now. if i don't keep going, i might not remember how i want the next few scenes written.

anyway, hope you enjoyed!! see you in the next chapter ;)