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The Death Cure Chapter Fifty-Four

By James Dashner

Chapter Fifty-Four

The Right Arm gives Thomas a newer van, and Lawrence is put behind the wheel again.
The plan is to make it to the hangar without dying. Thomas is equipped with a pistol.
Lawrence decides to take a highway to the hangar, seeing as it's the fastest way. On the way, he sees a bunch of cars driving in circles. Now, that's not good.
Lawrence thinks the best way to get through is to, well, just drive through. His co-pilot goes crazy, telling him it's a bad idea. But Lawrence does it, anyway.
Just as our heroes are about to thread the needle in between two of the cars, a third one crashes into the van's side, spinning the van out of control.
Luckily, no one is hurt. The van is pretty banged up, but our heroes should still be able to make it.
But then the strangest thing happens to Thomas: as he's looking outside the window, he sees a Crank about twenty feet away staring at him.
It's Newt.