How to Save a Life: Newt x Reader (EDITED)

Chapter 41: Finding a way out

Brenda shined a light. "You okay?"  she asked. "Oh yeah, great." Thomas replied. "Just dandy." you say sarcastically in mid-cough. Brenda shined her light to the fallen debris. "Oh shit. How are we gonna get to the others?" you ask.
"Relax. I'm gonna get us out of  here." Brenda said semi-calmly. "Here." she passed you  flashlight, then handed one to Thomas. You ignited yours.

"Why are you helping us?" Thomas asked. "Not totally my idea. Only a bit, however." 
You looked at her curiously. "Jorge seems to think you guys are our ticket to the safe haven."
"-The what?" you ask. "You know, paradise."
"Since when is that a word in anyone's vocabulary nowadays?" you ask. "It's supposed to be safe from the sun, free of infection. Supposedly the Right Arm's been taking kids there for years. Immunes anyway." she stood up.

"And so you know where that us?" Thomas asked. "No." Brenda replied. "But, Jorge knows a guy. Marcus. He used to smuggle kids in the mountains. If Jorge made it out, that's where he'll be taking your friends."

Newt fell into your thoughts.

Newt. He must be worried sick about me. Especially because I'm wounded. 

"-If he made it out?" Thomas said uneasily. "You ask a lot of questions." Brenda said, kneeling over a vent. "Can you just come over here and help me with this?" she asked. Thomas helped her remove it while you stood there, shining your flashlight as their light source. As the lid dropped, you hear screaming of what sounded like Cranks. "I don't like that sound." you say. "Yeah, down here they'll be full term." Brenda replied. "Let's go."

She jumped down into the hole. Thomas followed her, then you followed Thomas. You landed with a painful "Oof!" as you landed. You looked around you. Where you were lead you into a graffitied tunnel. You took a right as Brenda said "I think it's this way."
"You think?" Thomas replied."Do people live down here." he asked.

"The solar storms forced people underground. Jorge says there's settlements all over these tunnels."
"-Is Jorge your father?" you ask. "Close enough." she replies. "Truth is I really don't know what he is. He's just always been there. And I've always done what he's asked me to do, no matter how stupid.
"-So, you don't think the Right Arm is real?" Thomas asked. You hear distant screaming and the three of you turned around. "I think..." Brenda said turning back around. "...hope is a dangerous thing. Hope has killed more of my friends then the Flare and the Scorch combined. Just thought Jorge was smarter than that."

You get to a corner. "Damn." Brenda said. You looked around, shining your light. "Hey, I think it might be this way." Thomas said. "Brenda?"
"-Over here!" her voice echoed. You and Thomas found her. "Look at this." she said in a disgusted tone. "What is it?" Thomas asked.

 They were like black vines covering the wall tunnels. It reeked of rotting flesh and something else you couldn't imagine thinking about or saying aloud. "What the hell is this?" you asked. "I don't know." Brenda said uneasily. You hear what sounded like a screeching from a tunnel entrance and shine your light in the tunnel, only to see a rat appear and fall out of the tunnel.

 You sigh in relief. You see the rat head to the corner as  you see an arm move from the black vines. You gasp in surprise as you see a face tear away from the black vines and bite the rat's head off. You cover your mouth in disgusted fear. 

Cranks started to tear away and emerge from the black vines. Except, they didn't look anything like the Crank's you've seen. They have no eyes and their flesh is rotted to the bone. One starts to limp towards you, Thomas, and Brenda. It's snarls sounding like a belching. Thomas hit it's head, then told you to run.

You do so and follow Brenda who was leading. Taking twists and turns every corner you run into, you eventually found daylight. It's magically day already? Wow! 
The screams were getting louder. "We're almost there. Come on!" Thomas yelled. You run out, but there was a cliff causing a dead end. You stopped on the tip of your toes to stop yourself from falling over. 

You see the shadow of the Cranks getting closer. "Come on, this way!" Brenda yelled, going towards dome broken concrete. You follow her and Thomas follows you. You could hear the Cranks falling up behind you. The climbing of the concrete got steeper and more difficult. The pain in your shoulder almost couldn't bear it, so you were screaming in pain within each step. Thomas yelled at you and Brenda to keep going. Thomas got on your nerves and you wanted to yell at him, but you couldn't because the pain in your shoulder was preventing that. 

You could feel that the Crank was rearing closer to you. "Watch out!" yelled Brenda  as a piece of metal fell and hit a glass window. You gathered up all your strength to  and tried to climb faster. 

Once you got up to the top, there was a flight of stairs. "Come on!" Brenda yelled. You and Thomas followed her. The stairs creaked as you climbed the broke stairs. You could hear the Cranks climbing as well. They were getting close enough to you, Thomas, and Brenda.

One came and popped out at you like a jump scare in a horror movie. You kicked it with your right leg and it screeched as it fell.

As you and the other two almost get to the top, you see Brenda grab a handle that broke off and she fell. "Brenda!" you scream. She harshly lid and fell onto a window that slightly cracked as she landed on top of it. "Brenda! You okay?" Thomas asked. "Yeah." she responded, breathing heavily. "Hang on, we're gonna find a way down!" Thomas told her.

Brenda tried to get up, but as she did, the glass cracked a bit more. "No, Brenda! Don't do that!" you tell her. "If you put pressure on that glass, it'll shatter and you'll fall!"

You grab the door and slide down, gripping a pole (Oof! Work that pole! JKJKJKJKJK)
Thomas went down after you while Brenda tried to stance herself. As Thomas goes for her hand, one of the Cranks appear and clumsily slide down. You scream as it reaches the bottom and grabs Brenda and pushes her back. "Y/N! Thomas!" she yelled. "You've got to get to us!" Thomas yells. "I can't reach!" Brenda yells as the Crank grabs her and pulls her back again.

You pull off a piece of sharp, broken metal and hand it Thomas.
He slides to Brenda to grab her hand, then uses the metal to break the window, causing the Crank to fall to it's death.

You help Thomas get Brenda up, using your good arm, then you three carefully find a way you the side. "We can get down here. Come on." said Thomas. You climb down another flight of stairs and got to ground safely.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A/N: OOF ANOTHER UPDATE! And another week of school gone by. How is school for you? Hope it's good. If not. Don't worry, you'll get through.

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