Part 1
After Destiny
Liz climbed out her window and breathed a sigh of relief. To be home, away from the desert, away from the Czechoslovakians, away from Tess, Isabel, Michael, and even Max. While the Czechs thought that Liz had walked away from Max and their relationship, she hadn't. It was something much bigger than that. She had walked away from it all. The good, the bad.everything. Liz had been put off when she had heard that Max was destined for Tess, but she was more confident than that. If Tess had been some skanky new girl after her boyfriend Liz would have flattened her in a second. Liz had walked away because, like Tess said, she was just a human. She could never help them; she would only be a burden. All Liz wanted was to help. While these thoughts clouded Liz's mind she didn't realize that there was a green glow beginning to form in the corner of her balcony. The light grew brighter and brighter until it was almost blinding. "Elizabeth?" a kind voice asked. Liz snapped her head around and was speechless to see Max and Isabel's real mother standing in a circle of light. "Yes dear it's me," she said with a sympathetic smile. Liz took her sleeve and wiped all of the tears, that had been sliding down her cheeks with ease. "Why? How?" Liz choked out. "Listen closely to me dear," Liz nodded to show that she was listening with rapt attention. "Today you heard a lot of things, some of those things I said were true, some of it is just something I needed to tell the Royal Four, so that they would leave you three humans alone," Max's mother held out her hand to stop Liz from objecting, "The Reason that I need the Royal Four to leave Maria, Alex, and yourself alone is because the war that is going on, on my planet is lacking leaders. I know that the three of you are human, but so are we. Max, Michael, Isabel, and Tess are just advanced humans. Aliens aren't green and slimy or anything stupid like that." The woman stopped for a short while to let Elizabeth process everything she had already told her before she continued. "This is what I want to do, I want to take Maria, Alex, and yourself to lead the three greatest armies the world has ever seen. You will be trained, educated, even programmed to do things you absolutely never thought possible. The question is, are you willing to leave your entire life behind for this?" she sighed as she finished laying this burden on Elizabeth's shoulders. Liz knew she would ask for time to think about this, but she didn't want to talk herself out of doing something she knew she was dying to do. "Yes," Liz said clearly. The woman embraced Liz as though she were her own daughter. "Zan always had such amazing taste in women, I see that Max is no different. We leave now. Rule number one is don't ask questions. I will take care of everything. Liz again nodded her understanding, but she wished she had asked this woman's name before she had told her that asking questions was forbidden. Liz packed nothing, left no notes, told no one what was happening. She only did one thing before she left, which was burn the waitress uniform with the bullet hold in it, burn the order pad with her blood on it, and lastly burn her journal. Walking out of the Crashdown doors felt unlike any other time she had ever exited those doors because she didn't know when she was coming back, or even if she was coming back. When she got inside the spaceship, on the top of the pod chamber, Liz was only slightly surprised to see her two best friends, Maria and Alex, strapped into chairs for take-off. They were not afraid as the spaceship began hovering over the cliffs, or when the spaceship was rocketed at lightspeed out of the Earth's atmosphere. They only kept one thing in their minds, and that was that they were helping their friends. The three of them were only 17 at the time.
After Destiny
Liz climbed out her window and breathed a sigh of relief. To be home, away from the desert, away from the Czechoslovakians, away from Tess, Isabel, Michael, and even Max. While the Czechs thought that Liz had walked away from Max and their relationship, she hadn't. It was something much bigger than that. She had walked away from it all. The good, the bad.everything. Liz had been put off when she had heard that Max was destined for Tess, but she was more confident than that. If Tess had been some skanky new girl after her boyfriend Liz would have flattened her in a second. Liz had walked away because, like Tess said, she was just a human. She could never help them; she would only be a burden. All Liz wanted was to help. While these thoughts clouded Liz's mind she didn't realize that there was a green glow beginning to form in the corner of her balcony. The light grew brighter and brighter until it was almost blinding. "Elizabeth?" a kind voice asked. Liz snapped her head around and was speechless to see Max and Isabel's real mother standing in a circle of light. "Yes dear it's me," she said with a sympathetic smile. Liz took her sleeve and wiped all of the tears, that had been sliding down her cheeks with ease. "Why? How?" Liz choked out. "Listen closely to me dear," Liz nodded to show that she was listening with rapt attention. "Today you heard a lot of things, some of those things I said were true, some of it is just something I needed to tell the Royal Four, so that they would leave you three humans alone," Max's mother held out her hand to stop Liz from objecting, "The Reason that I need the Royal Four to leave Maria, Alex, and yourself alone is because the war that is going on, on my planet is lacking leaders. I know that the three of you are human, but so are we. Max, Michael, Isabel, and Tess are just advanced humans. Aliens aren't green and slimy or anything stupid like that." The woman stopped for a short while to let Elizabeth process everything she had already told her before she continued. "This is what I want to do, I want to take Maria, Alex, and yourself to lead the three greatest armies the world has ever seen. You will be trained, educated, even programmed to do things you absolutely never thought possible. The question is, are you willing to leave your entire life behind for this?" she sighed as she finished laying this burden on Elizabeth's shoulders. Liz knew she would ask for time to think about this, but she didn't want to talk herself out of doing something she knew she was dying to do. "Yes," Liz said clearly. The woman embraced Liz as though she were her own daughter. "Zan always had such amazing taste in women, I see that Max is no different. We leave now. Rule number one is don't ask questions. I will take care of everything. Liz again nodded her understanding, but she wished she had asked this woman's name before she had told her that asking questions was forbidden. Liz packed nothing, left no notes, told no one what was happening. She only did one thing before she left, which was burn the waitress uniform with the bullet hold in it, burn the order pad with her blood on it, and lastly burn her journal. Walking out of the Crashdown doors felt unlike any other time she had ever exited those doors because she didn't know when she was coming back, or even if she was coming back. When she got inside the spaceship, on the top of the pod chamber, Liz was only slightly surprised to see her two best friends, Maria and Alex, strapped into chairs for take-off. They were not afraid as the spaceship began hovering over the cliffs, or when the spaceship was rocketed at lightspeed out of the Earth's atmosphere. They only kept one thing in their minds, and that was that they were helping their friends. The three of them were only 17 at the time.