Chapter 1

Dear Diary

I've been wondering a lot lately why I give basically everything up for the people that sit next to me and often I don't even get any acknowledgement or appreciation for my sacrifices. I'm not asking for a thank you or even a sorry but can't I at least have a shoulder to cry on or a friend to talk to especially after Alex died. How come nobody was even interested about how Alex died? He was one of their own and everybody seems to have just forgotten about him. How come Maria didn't care about her best friend? How could Max just let his murderer go?! He never even asked what the rest of us wanted to do with her. So many questions that I just don't have answers to. All Max can think about now is getting his son back. What's the use anyway when he delivered the granolith to Khivar? Max could have very well have caused the world to end AGAIN!! His son is better off where he is if he can stay alive. If this is how he ruled Antar how did he even live as long as he did? Maybe Antar is better off with Khivar because none of us really even know if Zan was a good guy or if HE left their planet to be destroyed too. Not even Max, Michael, and Isabel have these answers and Future Max's story may have been a lie. I guess only time will tell but where does that leave the rest of us for now? Absolutely nowhere...

Liz sighed as she placed down her pen on the table in front of her of the rather empty UFO Center. Her sad expression only noticed by Michael. He wanted to say something to her but he didn't know what. People looked at Michael as a troublemaker that never noticed anything but this was the furthest thing from the truth. This was a person who took his job as a protector very seriously and was continuously on the lookout for threats from outside sources to his small group of friends. He alone was the only one that noticed the bond between Liz and Alex and he knew how much he meant to her. Michael had often wished for that closeness with his own best friend Max but you can't have that kind of relationship with someone that looks down on you.

"Isn't anybody listening to me." Max demanded looking straight at Michael and Liz with a furious expression on his face.

"Sure Maxwell we're just all ears." Michael smirked at his own attempt at humour looking pointedly at Max's rather large ears. It was so unlike him that everybody looked stunned by his comment except Kyle who was turning red in his effort to hold back his laughter.

"Michael, I called this meeting to discuss how to get my son back, not fool around!" Max spat out contemptuously.

Michael put his hand on his head to try to ease the pressure of his sudden headache. Why couldn't Max just see the obvious? "That's just it, there may be no way home. Your girlfriend took the only way back with her when she left!"

"There may be another way back we just have to look."

"Yes, but where?" Isabel said quietly.

"And what's with this we?" Michael asked.

"Unless I miss my guess, you are a part of this group."

"I think what Michael is trying to point out is that you are the one that's been making all of the decisions for us." Liz finally decided to speak up but Max ignored her and kept on arguing.

"I am the leader of this group."

"Says who?!"

"I sure don't remember voting on it." Kyle said to nobody in particular but Isabel heard and she gave him her Ice Princess glare which caused him to shut up.

"If anybody doesn't like it, they can just leave!" Max shouted.

Before Michael could respond, Maria decided that this was a good time to interrupt. "SHUT UP! Michael why don't you just shut up and listen to what Max has to say, at least he has a family to find?!" Maria shouted out realizing too late what she said.

Michael's face turned from white with shock to red with rage. He felt like he wanted to hit her but he held back because he was scared of becoming like his foster father Hank. He had often wished for a family that would accept him as he was, but for Maria to point it out that he had no one was just plain cruel.

Michael turned to storm our but before he could get to the door they all heard an explosion outside distracting them. Before anybody could go investigate this, the door to the UFO Center and several soldiers dressed in black carrying rifles and dart guns came in. The Pod Squad all tried to run for cover but the soldiers were waiting for this and with a signal from their leader all of the teenagers were taken out with tranquilizer darts.

As quickly as they had come, the soldiers disappeared carrying six bundles that they had not come in with.

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Liz felt herself come awake from her drugged slumber and she heard a moan coming from her left in the metal room that she seemed to be in. Liz slowly turned her head and the hunched figure made her gasp in recognition. "Alex?..."

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Does Michael know who his human DNA donor is? Do they ever mention Pyro's father? His name or age? I have never seen X-men or Roswell but in several fictions that I have read they are portrayed as kind of alike. I was thinking of making them related.