Book #9 Completely Finnished!!

The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
45 pages
Popular fiction
I finished the book after I last blogged but I was too tired to blog again. So Thomas, Aris, and Theresa made it across the mountain pass and they see that the two groups are walking together so they run to catch up with them. By the time they catch up with the Gladers and Group B, the groups are stopped, surrounding something. None of the Gladers seem to be too surprised about Thomas being here and it later explains that one of the Group B girls told them what all happened. So the groups are surrounding a sign, it says, "Safe Haven" but it's just a sign in the middle of the desert. They can't decide if they should stay here until times up or if they should go explore, most of them think that this was too easy and something bad is going to happen, they are right. With about half and hour left, things start popping out of the ground. Giant white pods, resembling the ones that the Grievers slept in during the Maze Trials, come out of the ground, about thirty in all, surrounding the groups. Then they open. Everyone thinks that Grievers are inside but it is something even more terrifying. They have the general shape of humans but are floppy and disfigured. They have no hair or faces and their skin is yellowish and wrinkled. The creepiest part is that they have light bulbs under their skin at all the joints and virtually everywhere else and they are flickering. They also have knives somehow attached to their hands and feet. There is one creature for every teen. With only minutes left the creatures charge but when attacked they don't slow down, unless the bulbs are broken. When Thomas is finished with his creature a lightening storm comes, the one that strikes people down, dead. The only thing that Thomas can think of to save him is to get into a pod. Theresa, Jorge, and Brenda get in it with him and he hopes the others caught onto the plan. The lightening is striking the pod and just as their time runs out they hear something. They open the pod and a big helicopter like thing is lowering a ramp to the ground, they know it is WICKED. Thomas' group and most of the others make a run for it but have to fight more light bulb creatures to get there. The whole time the ramp is rising and they have to lean down and rescue their friends. A man from WICKED yells at Thomas for bringing two non Trial kids with them and that Thomas has to choose one to die. Thomas, thinking it is another test, chooses Brenda. But when the man starts taking her to the still open ramp he stops him saying that no on else will die. The man tells them that they will be safe now and they can rest. When Thomas wakes up he is in a padded white room with a voice in his head, not Theresa but Brenda, she says that things are going to get weird. Theresa then connects in his head and tells him that WICKED took him away because he was, "too far gone with the Flare." And that's the end of book two.
The creepy light bulb creatures really freaked me out when I imagined what they would look like. They were even in my dream last night, if these books ever become movies I think the thing I would be most scared of would be those creatures, definitely.