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Rade gasped for air as the clicking of the robotic insects' legs echoed around the tunnel, seeming to make the air pulse and shimmer simultaneously as the boy raced onwards, hoping desperately he wouldn’t trip over his own two feet. About two hundred feet away from him was a humongous crack in the dull, gray plaster, spanning twenty feet from top to bottom, which seemed to be where the hideous monsters were emanating from as more poured forth from it like silvery blood from a gaping wound. The walls had disappeared long ago, covered by the bodies of the metallic bugs whose numbers fluctuated the farther he ran. Rade’s panicked brain was able to form a half-thought of there needing to be more than one source for the robot’s irregular numbers when he ran head-long into Shane, who quickly recovered from the slam and grabbed Rade’s arm so he could tow him behind til he got his feet back again. Rade’s lips cracked open to begin to form a question but Shane shook his head and put a finger to his mouth. The subsequent clanking of the thousands of metal bugs had followed an ominous churning sound from deep in the walls, scaring the remaining trapped boys into flight ten minutes before. Cracks had appeared in multiple walls since then, noticed Rade as he ran alongside Shane, who had let go of his arm. The boys turned a corner and came face to face with a solid concrete wall, sixty feet tall. As Shane scrambled to find a way out, Rade watched wide-eyed as the magnitude of the metal insect army came into view.
small Maze Runner spin-off story ig def dystopian
