The three take Thomas and Teresa into the outside world, only to be caught by WICKED security officers and thrown into the "Crank pits" (except for Newt, who is taken to be tested for the virus since he is not immune), where they encounter the founder of WICKED, who is nearly past his sanity and writes on a chalkboard, "WICKED is good." They start exploring the complex every day. Newt reveals that his sister was renamed Sonya and is part of Group B. They start sneaking out and meet Newt, Minho, and Alby.
Paige, who acts as a parent to him, and he soon becomes her favorite. He has to go through blood tests and advanced classes and soon meets Dr. He meets Teresa, who, like him, is kept separate from the others. He is under the care of WICKED in its main complex in the middle of an Alaskan forest.
Thomas is only five years old, and since his father has a bad infection of the Flare, his mother has given him up for his safety. Killzone means the brain, (the kill zone of the Flare). In the narrative' main plot, Stephen is introduced and has been renamed Thomas by the people in the organization WICKED (World in Catastrophe Killzone Experiment Department). Since Newt and Lizzy are now orphans, WICKED takes them both with Newt as a control subject. However, Newt and Lizzy's parents put up a fight and so are killed. In the prologue, soldiers from WICKED arrive to take Newt's sister, Lizzy. The Fever Code is the second book, chronologically, set in between the events of The Kill Order and The Maze Runner.
It is the second prequel book in The Maze Runner series and the fifth and final installment overall. The Fever Code is a 2016 young adult dystopian science fiction novel written by American author James Dashner and published on Septemby Delacorte Press. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book