the maze runner is a great series that takes place in the future when the flare hits causing the flare virus to make cranks very few are immune to the flare Thomas being one of them. Thomas wakes up in an elevator going up to the glade where the other kids or gladers live the first person he meets is gally (the glade bully)
and then Alby (the glade leader). fast forward he decides he wants to be a runner, running through the maze trying to find the exit until Teresa shows up and figures out the code the escape and Thomas and Minho find the exit, the griever hole after they escape Gally tried killing Thomas and instead killed chuck the youngest gladder then Minho being an absolute champ shoved a spear through gallys left lung thinking they left him to die. after chuck dies wicked comes in and kidnaps the kids again to take them to a building far away from the maze claiming they are saving them when really over 30 gladers die