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I loved her…

She was mine…

She was my confidant…

I saved her; she saved me…

Then why was it all a lie, all a lie…

Everything was a blur after Alex came to us, I tried to heal him, but he just shoved my hands away, his voice weak. "Run, take Isobel and run," but in no way was I leaving him here to die. Isobel and Alex pack two bags; he was coming with us now that he is healed. My room looked normal leaving no trace of the urgency I was in, not that they are coming this very moment, but time was not on our side with having to be one step ahead of them.

"Michael, you have your bag?" my sister called out her voice filled with the dread we are all feeling from the betrayal, she had to live far from here. To do this, we had to go home. Antar would be safe for us after we took it back over in this choice we had to bring Tess too, I loathed her she was just not trustworthy, but she was one of us and would be beneficial in the downfall of Kivar.

Michael snarled, "We trusted them, we trusted them after everything we have done for them they stuck a knife in all of our backs. Maxwell, we have to go," he was starting to rage, it was boiling up in him. I never thought this would happen well at least like this; we are in the last few months of our freshmen year for once we're all happy. I was on cloud nine with Liz, Isobel had Alex, and Michael had Maria, Kyle was with Tess but now everything was gone.

I knew our parents would miss us, but it was always best they never knew about us about who we are. I answered, "Meet us by the off-road before the chamber, go get them we're leaving now," they have to come that was all there was too it, they would be ready with funds and each with a packed bag. We will never be back to this planet, Earth is like an infant too young and naïve to be trusted with the power we have, the peace we could have brought them.

Michael just gave me a look, "Be there,"

I just looked at Isobel with her bag in hand we are always in this together, and that wasn't right she was so happy here, and now it has been ripped from her. Our eyes locked, "I will make this right, I don't know how but I will. My fault this is all my fault," and like the protective big sister she has always been her arms come around me, her long silkily dirty blonde hair tickling my nose.

She spoke, "Never think you are at fault, you, all of us have been betrayed. They were our friends," her voice hitched before going back to the stern Christmas Nazi.

She gave me a weak smile, "Come on," hands intertwined as we leave the house we have loved and been loved since we were four years of age. We never thought at sixteen and seventeen respectively we be running for our lives with the friends we made here on Earth. I turned back looking at the house one last time before I dropped my bag into the back driving off in my Jeep leaving the house behind. Leaving the town behind along with every single memory we have ever made, our home, our school, our life is now gone as we drive further and further away from it.

The wind whipped her hair as she gazed out at the passing bridge, the jagged rocks behind it. I spoke, "We will have to destroy the Jeep after we have to trek the rest of the way between Pohlman Ranch and the Mesaliko Reservation. The unknown will mean we have to stay in the chamber until the Granolith is ready to transport us home, I have the crystal," she just smiled at me like I wasn't at fault.

The ravine was our best bet to ditch my Jeep it would be a few hour walk, but we would make it by nightfall. Soon enough we stand with palms outstretched the fireball was massive in size we left right after smelling the gas leaking out from the wreck. Soon Deputy Peirce would be coming to locate the source of the fire and smoke fortunately by then we will be out of their reach by at least an hour.

The sun was beating down on us for most of the hike the jagged rocks jutting out into the now darkening sky, the stars starting to show themselves. "I hope we see the stars on Antar," we are regaining our memories but very slowly, so some things are very unknown.

Now as we continue our trek, the dust kicks up a little bit, the red sand moving faster as if bidding us a farewell, this would be our last walk through this desert our first was so long ago. In the distance we see Michael waiting with the others, Isobel was smiling, but we still had another twenty-four hours ahead of us. "You need to start the countdown," Isobel, her tone worried as we entered the pod chambers heading to the very back on the left was a small door, we only recently found another entrance to the Granolith chamber. The Granolith is a black, cone-shaped object of immense power that I think was here long before we came, it was more potent than we understood since so many desired it, they can't duplicate it, or they wouldn't want this one so badly. I insert the crystal into the base of the granolith, and it acts as a 'starter key' that activates the Granolith this alone will take twenty-four hours so, for now, we keep watch and stay inside the chambers.

We just sit and wait at times none of us speaking all too wrapped up in our self-pity or with Michael hate; he was a time bomb waiting to go off. He paced the room mumbling horrid things while Tess just sits close trying every so often to talk, but right now we are all so shell-shocked by the last few hours that nothing was going to make sense.

"I need air," I figured at one time they would need fresh air, the air circulating in the chamber was filled with dirt, I was in need to move more than a few feet, we had an hour left so this was doable. My body sore, but standing to let them out when I came face to face with the barrel of a 9mm.

I snapped, "You do not want to go this route," letting the anger seep through into every word, Michael and Isobel both stood with raised palms.

With a smirk, "You both put your hands down and don't try it, you will kill me but not before I pull the trigger and kill Max. All of you get back in, even you Alex," a tone filled with hate and bitterness.

Alex covered Isobel moving her back in, Michael looked at Maria, I looked at Liz thinking how could have happened to us all.

I questioned, "Why,"

Liz smiled, it was not filled with love, "Simple, your species is a threat to us. We fooled you all well all but Alex it seems," this was too hard to believe everything was flipped upside down.

"You were our friends," but nothing I was going to say was going to make things right, they had to die, or we escape to the Granolith. "You know damn well we have never been a threat to anyone, we just wanted a normal life," all this falls on deaf ears.

Alex cut in, "You killed Jim and Kyle, why?" another two unnecessary deaths, more friends gone from us. This situation was going to get nasty, and we had to be ready, I can still see the dead bodies of Sherriff Jim Valenti and our friend and his son Kyle, we burned the decaying corpses, but the vision never left my mind.

Maria answered, "They found out about us, a little slip up that we fixed. Other than that we didn't know it was you who was the one who found out about us. But no worries, Alex, you'll have fun in the white room since their powers have manifested in you somewhat," my ear's not entirely taking in the words as my heart was beating and anger was pulsing all around me.

Tess moved to come closer to me, and the sound echoed off the walls, we all dropped as Tess was on the floor, dead, her eyes glossy and to our surprise, her body became covered in webs before it vanished like Nadeso's.

We stood watching as Maria and Liz looked at us, "Max, I would never. Please, she was mind-warping us. Maria and I would never have killed Kyle and his father, or betrayed you," her voice so sincere. But now was the time to make the had choice, to trust them, but we knew the Government was now on us due to them.

Alex spoke up, "You killed the only person to confirm your story; we can't believe you anymore. You two were my best friends, and now you're nothing, I will never risk Isobel," I agreed as much as it hurt me.

Maria sobbed, "Micheal, please,"

But he just turned from her, "You're the single worst thing that has happened to me, everything was a lie. You betrayed me, my family, and killed people we cared about,"

I touched the Granolith, Isobel, Michael, and Alex are next each hand lighting up allowing us passage. "Maxwell, you know me,"

But did I?

I forced the words out. "I thought I did but it seems I was mistaken. The Liz I loved and knew wouldn't have ever hurt her friends and now one lays dead, we burned their bodies, but they're still gone. If this was all Tess, then I wish you well Liz Parker. But if it was not there are more of us on Earth, and they will be looking for you," her face paled the gun dropped as the vision of her face was the last I saw until we landed into an empty field, this was not home, this was not Antar….

Alex sighed, "We hit a black hole, Michael and I were ready for this, we have funds now we need to find out about our new home,"

The Granolith was hidden in another old mountain so very close to what looks like a small town, Michael gave me a look, "Maxville, sounds like a town from Superman," a little smile tugged on his lips.

Isobel spoke up, "We get a hotel, Alex get us some files on the web, Max and Michael get us food, I am starved," she ordered, she was a mother hen and was top in the pecking order.

It was late at night when the computer downloaded the files that could tell us about this Earth; I stood with Isobel and Michael looking at the stars that were the brightest we have ever seen. Alex broke up our silence, "You three need to get in here now and lock the doors," his voice so urgent and he had our full trust as the door was locked and we stood ready to hear whatever he had to say.

Why was he smiling?