The group kept trying to blend in with the crowds to no avail

The group kept trying to blend in with the crowds to no avail. Isabel felt an arm grab her and pull her into the alley. Michael saw her and grabbed Tess, who then alerted Max and Liz. They ran into the alleyway to see a man holding Isabel's arm. "Get your hands off her!" Max yelled with fire burning in his eyes. The man let go of her arm.

"Hey I mean no harm Zan, or should I say Max?" The man explained. The group looked confused that this stranger knew not only who the were but who they are. "I guess you don't remember me. I'm Larek. Our families used to be very close. You and I practically grew up together. I watched as you, your sister, her fiancée, and your fiancée die in battle. Kivar has enslaved us. He knows he can't enslave an entire planet so he is basically the president of the world. There are curfews and if your not inside by curfew, you die. He forces people to work extreme amounts of hours to keep people under control. He is also trying to build a big enough army so he can one day take over Earth and kill all the humans." They all gasped, but Liz was the most pained by this truth. Her home is being threatened.

"Wait a minute, we were kidnapped by skins. Our government said that if they gave us to the skins, the skins agreed that they wouldn't take over Earth." Tess interrupted

"Well of course they told the humans that. Can you actually believe a man as evil as Kivar would spare a planet just for you? He's smarter than that. He was using them since they already had taken you before." Larek explained.

"How do you know all this and how do we know we can trust you?" Michael asked defensively.

"Well you can't. I know all of this because secretly I, along with others, have been working to get you up here. We have been watching you for some time. I'm sorry we couldn't aid you in the battle. We couldn't interfere. We had spies down there making sure that nothing drastic happened to you. If you couldn't handle those skins then we knew you were of no use to us up here, not worth the risk of the skins finding out that we are working against them. Why do you think they didn't find out about Liz here sooner? They would have gotten those lab results before Liz realized it herself if it hadn't been for one of our guys screwing up the tests." Larek said.

It all started to make sense to Liz. She felt dumb that she hadn't figured it out sooner. The skins used the government to get them. Then when they took her blood one of Larek's men screwed up the test so that they had to delay the results. 'Good thing too, cause otherwise they would have killed me without anyone being able to stop them.' Max heard her thoughts and thought back to her, 'I can't believe how often you are getting into serious danger. I love you so much, I wish you didn't have to come with us here. I can't lose you.' 'You won't and I can't lose you either.' Liz thought back and gave Max a smile.

"On behalf of the people of Antar I want to welcome you four home and you Liz, it is an honor to meet you. I hope that one day when peace is restored that you might consider Antar home." Larek said as he bowed to the royal four and Liz. They all blushed.

"So what do we do? Everyone around here is starting to realize who we are." Liz finally spoke up.

"For now we are going underground to meet everyone else. We need to speak further with you and we also need to train you five better before we set out in battle. No sense on getting you all killed on your first day home." Larek said with a laugh as he took them to the sanctuary.

Max couldn't help but feel nauseated when Larek kept saying the word home. Earth was the home he knew up to this point. However he knew that wherever Liz was, was home to him.

Liz kept thinking about what Larek said, 'you might consider Antar home'. She didn't know what to think about that. Earth had her parents and Maria, Alex, and Kyle. She couldn't abandon them. But she also knew that this was her grandmother's planet, and hopefully if everything went right she would be queen of this planet, and she couldn't be queen of Antar while living on Earth.

Tess was over the whole idea of marrying Max, but she couldn't help but feel jealous that this mostly human girl is supposed to be queen of Antar one day. Tess decided that she wasn't going to say anything though because she knew that it was fate, everyone would hate her if she said anything, and as much as she hate to admit it, Liz would make a great queen.

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When they arrived at the sanctuary they were greeted to people bowing and saying your highness. No one knew what to do, should they say thank you or just stand there? Larek introduced everyone to the royal four and Liz.

"So what now?" Michael asked impatiently. He hated being here with all these strange people treating him like royalty. 'I suppose I'll have to get used to this.'

"Ah Michael, you are much like your former self, Rath. Always impatient and wanting to get out there and kill. Well I thought about giving you guys a history lesson before explaining our plan." Larek assured. Michael just shrugged and everyone gathered around Larek.

"Zan and Vilandra's father was a great ruler. He knew though that he was too old to rule anymore. Zan was only 20 when he assumed throne. Zan's parents, Vilandra, and Rath had faith in Zan that he could rule. Unfortunately a lot of people didn't believe in his ruling capabilities. Kivar saw this opportunity to assume thrown so he took it. He won himself in Vilandra's heart. She secretly saw him when she could. Kivar used this to get valuable information. Vilandra didn't realize what she was doing; she was basically handing over her family to Kivar. Zan was advised of a leak, but decided to continue along with his plans to attack the rebels. Little did Zan know that one of his own advisor's, Kivar, was the leader of the rebels. When Zan, Rath, Ava, Vilandra, and the royal army showed up to battle they were ambushed. They didn't stand a chance. Vilandra was heartbroken that the man she secretly loved betrayed her and her family. Kivar wanted to keep her alive so that she would feel the ultimate embarrassment, but a stray blast accidentally killed her. The Queen was told of their deaths and was devastated. She assembled her top scientists. They took blood from their bodies. The Queen knew better than to re-create them on Antar because Kivar would definitely find out. Earth is the only planet that was the closest in species and where Kivar wouldn't think to find the royal four. They took their blood and mixed it with human blood. The Queen couldn't go with the ship so she sent her top security agents; I believe you call them Nasedo and Claudia. Somehow Kivar found out about the launch and sent out ships to attack the ship your DNA was on. Kivar's ships finally managed to hit the ship hard enough. The ship crashed into the Earth's surface. Kivar sent men down to make sure that they had been killed in the crash. The problem was they couldn't find your pods.

We didn't know if you were alive until a few years ago. When you sent off that beacon last summer you alerted us to your presence. We were excited until we realized that we weren't the only one that got that signal. You know the rest." Larek explained the long story.

"Wow, where are mom and dad? What happened to everyone?" Isabel spoke up. Everyone gave grim faces.

"We are not exactly sure. The last we heard they were taken prisoner in the palace. They wanted to humiliate them. When Kivar was notified that you were all alive many possibilities popped into his head. He realized that he could take you prisoner and kill you four in front of the people of Antar. It would prove how powerful he was. Then he was told that the legendary hybrid was also located on Earth. He began a new plan. He wanted to create armies of these super aliens as you might call them. He was uneasy that the legendary hybrid might know of his or her powers and would kill him. So Kivar sent down men down. He used the government to locate you. Our sources think that he hasn't found out about your escape and what you did Liz. At least we hope not. The less he knows the more advantage we have over him." Larek said.

Max gripped Liz's hand; he could tell she was nervous. 'It'll be okay Liz.' 'I know Max, I just I hope I can do what is expected of me.' Max gave her a smile. "I don't know if your men told you or not, but last time I tried to do that blue light thing it nearly killed me. How can I do it again?" Liz asked quietly.

"First off we want to thank you Liz, we were shocked when we were informed you were able to do that. We know that you just discovered your alien side. You were never taught how to properly to do that attack, so when you did that it came from the core of your energy draining it quickly. I will personally teach you how to better use that energy so that you can kill more efficiently." Larek looked Liz right in the eye. Liz just nodded and squeezed Max's hand. "For now though I think it is best that you rest since, you must be tired from your travels." The pod squad and Liz just nodded and followed Larek to their beds. Max insisted that Liz sleep in his bed. Larek just smiled and told him that they expected that. Max smiled back.

Everyone fell asleep almost instantly hitting the bed. Traveling took a lot out of them. Liz put her head on Max's chest and fell asleep. Max sat there just thinking. He was worried about Liz and everyone else. Could they really do this? Was he really a bad leader before? His former self was young but he is even younger now. Max didn't know anything about ruling a planet or battling a huge mass. Even if he managed to pull this off, what is he going to do with Liz? He knew he wanted to marry her, but one planet needed a queen and another planet needed their daughter and best friend. Max just sighed and looked down at his goddess sleeping on his chest and fell asleep.