Antar
"So mighty king do you have a plan to get us outta this mess? Cause this isn't exactly the kind of homecoming I had expected."
Max looked up from his sister to where Michael was leaning against the far wall of their cell.
"No Michael I don't have a plan. I'm sorry but I don't know what we can do especially since our powers don't work in this containment center."
With a sigh of disgust Michael shoved himself from the wall and started to pace the small cell.
Two weeks! Him, Maxwell and Isabel had been in this cell for two long fucking weeks and he was getting pissed. He needed to find a way out of here before he went crazy. Why did he ever leave Earth. If he had stayed he could be at this moment curled up alongside Maria. Maria God he missed her. He wondered how she was holding up and worried that she was moving on while he couldn't. He didn't know why he thought he could be without her because right now being separated was causing him to ache.
A loud bang had Michael jerking from his thoughts. When he looked up he saw that their cell door had collapsed. "What the hell?"
"Come with me, we have to get you out of here fast." The man in the now open doorway who was speaking was vaguely familiar to all three of them. Max came to his feet and turned toward the man in the doorway. "Who are you and why should we trust you?" "I'm Larek. Hurry we don't have much time. Kivar will know you are missing shortly and we don't what him to recapture you." Outside of the containment walls the four of them could hear shouts and running footsteps coming towards them.
"Follow me!" Larek ran out the door followed by the others.
Larek's home planet
Darkness had fallen by the time Larek escorted Max, Isabel and Michael into his secret chambers under his palace. Larek was exhausted and irritated. The plan had been going so well until the Royal's had decided to unexpectedly show up. "Okay tell me why you came back and ruined the plan?"
With Larek's words Michael had a sinking feeling in his gut. "What plan? What are you talking about?" Larek was surprised that they didn't know what he was talking about. "Tell me did your protectors not return your memories?" Michael scoffed, "Our protectors were never around and what are we supposed to remember?"
Larek gestured to the setting area, "Have a set I see this is going to take awhile." At his request Max and Isabel sat on the plush couch while Larek sat across from them. Larek raised a questioning eyebrow towards Michael. "I prefer to stand." Larek chuckled seeing his old friend Rath in Michael's attitude. "You are still stubborn as ever I see."
"First your ship didn't accidentally crash on Earth it was all planned. You were to be sent there if somehow Kivar was able to overthrow the royal family. Kivar wanted to control Earth and it's people. You see Earth has many natural resources that we need. But you Zan," Larek pointed at Max, "would have none of it. You wanted a peaceful alliance with the humans of Earth. But we knew that Kivar would stop at nothing to obtain what he wanted. So we gathered and planned that if you should be killed that your essences would be sent to Earth in order to protect it."
Michael had to find a seat. How could he be responsible for all of the people on Earth. He didn't think he could handle the burden. "How are we supposed to protect Earth if there is only three of us?" Yeah him, Isabel and Max all trying to protect Earth when every government would just love to get their hands on them.
"Michael, there were hundreds of your's and Zan's most loyal and trusted warriors sent to Earth with you. Even my own sister, Aiyana, went." Hearing Larek utter that name made Michael shiver. It sounded so familiar, Aiyana, he had a feeling that he should not have forgotten it or the person it belonged to. "Well we have yet to run into these warriors, as you call them. Don't you think that hundreds of alien crashes would be noticable?"
"We planned for that. None of the warriors were sent in incubation chambers like you three. We planned for them to be reborn to humans. They were also programmed to have their previous life memories intact so that when the time came that they could be of help."
Max stood up and walked to the mantle. Turning around he looked a Larek. "So you're saying that..." taking a deep breath and exhaling, " that we knew all along something was going to happen to us?" "Yes Max, we guessed as much but after Aiyana came to us and told us she had heard them plotting did we really start planning."
Michael couldn't stand it anymore. He had to know who this Aiyana person was to him. "Larek why did your sister come with us?" Larek looked straight at Michael and said, "She went to be with Rath and you all have met her. She goes by the name Maria De Luca."