Hey people, here's the next chapter and I know that it is out early, I was already half way through with this one due to mind block on last chapter so enjoy. BTW, Liz gets close to someone in this chapter.

Chapter 6

Liz was lying on the couch, her head on Alex's lap holding Max's shirt to her body while Alex ran his hand through her hair, comforting the young woman on his lap.

"What are we going to do?" Maria asked.

"We need to find out where Max is as soon a possible." Michael stated as he turned to Isabel. "Can you dream walk him?" Isabel nodded as she moved into her bedroom and lay on the bed while placing her fingers over Max's face. She took a deep breath before closing her eyes, calling out to Max as she slipped into the dream walk.

It was dark and she looked around.

"Max?" Isabel called out as she walked; there was no answer until she saw a light, curious; she walked over to it only for a shadow to enter the light.

"You have no concern to be here." The voice snarled as it's hand came up and blasted Isabel out of the dream walk.

Isabel sat up in her bed, breathing shallowly as she ran a hand through her sweat soaked blonde hair.

"What happened?" Tess demanded.

"Some was in the dream with me, they blasted me out of Max's mind." Isabel stated out and locked eyes with Michael. "I think it was an alien."
"Damn!" Michael swore as he slammed a fist into the wall, "We are not ready to face our enemies yet, Liz is not ready."

"If she can face the F.B.I, I think she had no problem facing your enemies." Tess remarked, snootily and everyone rolled his or her eyes.

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"You have been a bad boy." The female hissed as she backhanded Max across the face. "You weren't allowed to let Vilandra into your mind."

"Go to hell." Max hissed out between pained breaths.

"Oh, mighty words from the highness." She remarked sarcastically before laughing. "Oops, I was wrong, you're not the king anymore."

"They will kill you and I don't think Liz will be merciful when she finds out that you were the one who killed Naseco." Max stated and the female laughed even harder.

"And what is the little whore going to do to me?" she demanded. "Order me to my death, I don't think so. You all are nothing but a pathetic bunch of wannabe royalty."

"Go to hell." Max snapped and groaned when she backhanded him once more, slamming the back of his head into the wall, knocking him out briefly.

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Liz was lying on the bed, clutching Max's shirt and pillow close to her body; she felt the bed shift slightly and someone pull her into their body.

"I can't lose him Alex, I love him." Liz whispered.

"You are not going to lose him Liz." Alex promised. "We are going to get him back, right here with us and you."

"I just don't think I could handle it if I lost someone else Alex. I hate losing everyone close to me." Liz sobbed out and turned over so she could bury her face into Alex's shoulder.

"Shh, Max is coming back and he'll tell you how much he loves you and will protect you." Alex stated and pulled away slightly so he could look Liz in the eye and raised an eyebrow. "Do you really think his highness is going to leave his queen behind when he can be here himself?" Alex asked, "He'll move heaven and Hell, he'll even go to the edge of the earth to get back to you, not matter what."

"I know, I would do the same for him but I just can't help but feel that I'm going to lose him." Alex pulled her into a hug once more and kissed the top of her head.

"Go to sleep sweetie, Max will be back with us soon." Alex soothed. Liz closed her eyes and took several deep breaths before her breathing evened out as she fell into a deep slumber.

Alex looked up from watching Liz and saw Isabel standing at the doorway with a proud smile at Alex for being there for her sister.

"Thank you." Isabel mouthed before heading back into the living room to discuss with the gang how they were going to get Max back to Liz.

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Liz found herself in the U.F.O Centre; it was dark as she looked around.

"Hello?" Liz called out as she walked a few steps, she heard groans and soon a bright light filled a corner of the room. Liz turned to it and gasped when she saw a bloodied Max sitting in the corner, bind. "Max!" Liz cried out as she hurried over to his side, she lifted his head gently and gently tapped his cheeks.

"Liz?" Max whispered as he silted his eyes open to meet the brown gaze of his angel.

"Max, who has you?" Liz asked.

"Con…gress…Whit…a…taker." Max stuttered out between pained gasped. Liz gasped as she felt herself going inside of Max's head and all his memories of his capture flew at her, enveloping her in pain and anguish.

"Oh my god Max!" Liz gasped out; she leaned in and kissed him gently on the lips. "I'm coming Max, hold on, I'm coming for you." Liz stated then found herself thrown out of the dream plane. "Congress Whitaker has Max!" Liz cried out as she bolted up in her bed, clutching the sheet to her chest as sweat dripped down from her forehead on to the bed.

"What? Why?" Isabel demanded.

"How do you know?" Tess snapped.

"Where are they?" Michael asked.

"How is he?" Maria wondered.

"Whoa, hold on." Alex chimed in, holding up his hands. "She can't answer everyone's question at the same time. Give her a break to get her breath back."

"Congress Whitaker is holding Max because she wants revenge and she wants something but it isn't clear. I know because Max and I have this connection to each other. He is at the U.F.O Centre and he is beaten quite badly." Liz explained, answering everyone's questions.

"We need to get him out of there now!" Tess exclaimed and Liz shook her head.

"We can't, Whitaker is obviously stronger than we are and I have no doubt she'll be able to kill us all with one wave of her hand. We need a plan so we can surprise her and corner her before she has the chance to attack any of us." Liz explained and everyone nodded in agreement apart from Tess.

"I'll call Valenti, maybe he can get us the blue prints for the U.F.O centre." Michael stated as he headed toward the living room to collect the phone.

Maria and Alex headed down the stairs to collect the healing crystals from Liz's locker just in case Max had been hurt badly and needed the healing crystal. Maria looked at Courtney's locker with interest, she walked over it and it spun the combination, she had the locker the year before so she knew the combination.

"Maria, what are you doing?" Alex hissed.

"I think Courtney is more than she seems." Maria replied as she opened the locker and gasped when she looked inside, there were pictures of Michael and what looked like a snakeskin. "Oh my god." Maria gasped out, Alex just paled.

"She's a skin, we need to tell Michael." Alex stated but Maria shook her head.

"No way, knowing Michael, he'll think we are making this up or something, we need to get her ourselves and show them her." Maria stated and Alex rolled his eyes.

"And just how are two humans are suppose to manhandle an alien?" Alex asked.

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"You know, this is totally on the death list." Alex muttered as he followed Maria to Courtney's apartment. Maria rolled her eyes as she reached Courtney's door.

"Be quiet Alex, we'll be fine." Maria whispered back and Alex threw a disbelieving dumbfounded look at the back of her head.

"Are you kidding?" Alex hissed. "We are going to an alien, possible murder, house and you are saying we'll be okay?"

"Relax!" Maria hissed back as she grasped Courtney's door and picked locked it, she quickly stepped in, pulling Alex in with her and brought a finger up to her mouth. "Shh." Maria mouthed as she moved toward the bedroom.

Courtney was sleeping on the bed as Maria creeped up, pulled out a white hand chief from her back pocket, and placed it over Courtney's mouth and nose. Courtney gasped slightly before falling back to sleep and Maria nodded to Alex.

Alex stepped forward, lifted Courtney up and over his shoulder, and followed Maria outside the apartment with a roll of his eyes. He should have never asked Maria how they were going to get Courtney; it meant death for him.

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"Has anyone see Maria and Alex?" Isabel asked as she looked around the room, Liz looked around the room in confusion.

"They went down the stairs to collect the healing stones, they should have been up here ages ago." Liz admitted as Jim and Kyle entered the building with the blue prints.

"We never saw them downstairs and I have the blue prints." Jim stated, Michael took the blue prints and laid it over the table, everyone leaned over and studied it when Maria and Alex came barging in, startling everyone almost to death.

"Courtney is a skin." Maria exclaimed as she and Alex pulled a now-awake Courtney into the Parker's living room. Liz stood up and looked at Courtney and understanding dawned on her.

"You're Rath's followers." Liz stated and Courtney looked at her stunned.

"You're Lilly?" Courtney asked and Liz nodded, Courtney bowed down in front of Liz. "My Queen, you have no idea how glad I am to see that you are alive." Courtney stated, Liz walked over and pulled Courtney up.

"Please, I do not remember my life except what my dad told me, please do not treat me the Queen I used to be." Liz stated.

"Do you know about Whitaker?" Alex asked and Courtney paled.

"Yes Whitaker is a skin but she works for Khiva, how do you know of her?" Courtney asked.

"She has Max." Tess snapped out.

"Whitaker has the king." Courtney asked and Liz nodded. "He's still alive."

"Yes, why?" Liz asked.

"It's a trap, she must be wanting something if she still had him alive." Courtney explained.

"What does she want?" Liz asked and Courtney asked.

"I don't know, I haven't seen them in a long time so I'm out of the loop." Courtney stated; Liz looked at her carefully, for some reason the Skins can mask their emotions and she couldn't really feel anything from Courtney, which kept her on her guard.

"I don't care, we need to find out how we are going to get Max back as soon as possible without Whitaker harming him anymore." Liz stated and everyone nodded.

Courtney headed toward the map and looked at it while everyone surrounded Liz, wanting answers to her statement.

"What do you mean that she is a Rath follower?" Maria asked Liz, everyone looked at her.

"When Zan made the mistakes in our past life, a lot of his followers started to doubt about their choices of accepting him as their king so they looked toward Rath as he was more in control and fought Zan, trying to get Zan to wake up from his depression over losing Lilly." Liz explained to the gang.

"Wow." Michael stated and Liz nodded.

"But you need to be careful, those followers want Rath, not you Michael. Ever since you can't really remember your past, you have no idea what to expect from them or what they expect from you." Liz warned and Michael nodded.

"Hey guys, there is this air vent, maybe you could slip into it and sneak up behind Whitaker?" Courtney suggested, pointing to the map, everyone hurried over to it and looked at it and Liz nodded.

"Okay, Isabel you go through the front door, Michael, you, Courtney and Alex will go through the Vent. Maria, Tess and Kyle, you'll go through the back door, this way we can corner Whitaker from all sides, giving her no chance to escape." Liz stated and everyone nodded, no this was no time to protest and Liz was the queen.

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Isabel hurried into the U.F.O Centre, she gasped when she saw Max lying in the middle of the Centre and ran over to him.

"Max?" Isabel asked as she gently shook him, Max groaned slightly and opened his eyes to meet his sister's eyes.

"Watch out of her Izzy, she's…" Max started but slipped out again; Isabel turned around and glared at Whitaker who was standing behind her.

"Why did you take him?" Isabel demanded.

"To get you for here. Especially you my dear." Whitaker hissed as she lifted up her hand and blasted Max a few feet away. Isabel gasped.

"Oh, God. What is it you want from us?" Isabel demanded as she hurried over to Max.

"Where's the granilith?" Whitaker demanded.

"The what?" Isabel demanded; her face covered in confusion.

"The granilith. Don't pretend you don't know. We've been looking for it. We can't exist here like you...not in our natural state. We don't have the DNA. All we have are these...uh, skins. Our limit is 50 years. My time is almost up. I need to find the granilith if it's the last thing I do." Whitaker snapped.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Isabel exclaimed.

"You're hiding it. The four of you. The royalty they tried to save by sending you here. You're gonna help us." Whitaker smirked confidently.

"Never." Isabel whispered, shaking her head in denial.

"You did before. You will again." Whitaker whispered.

"You killed Naseco, didn't you?" Isabel demanded, finally realising who killed Liz's dad and knowing that Liz would become unpredictable once she knew.

"To save you." Whitaker stated with a shrug.

"From what?" Isabel demanded, wondering how killing someone who was like a dad to Liz was saving them.

"The other 3. You belong with us, our race. We're in charge now. Your kind doesn't rule anymore." Whitaker snapped out, getting frustrated.

"I'm not one of you." Isabel hissed out.

"You don't remember, do you?" Whitaker asked with a disbelieving tone. "Let me give you a piece of history about your planet. Your name was Vilandra, and you were beautiful...even more beautiful than you are now. You had a great love...and for him...for us...you betrayed your brother, your race."

"No." Isabel stated, shaking her head as fear clutched her heart.

"You sacrificed him. You sacrificed everyone...even yourself. And history, my dear, always repeats itself." Whitaker warned.

"God, you liar. We're leaving." Isabel snapped as she tried to lift Max up.

"Not until you tell me where you're hiding the granilith." Whitaker snapped out.

"I told you before, I don't know what you're talking about." Isabel snapped out, getting frustrated and annoyed.

"Well, maybe this will help jog your memory." Whitaker said as she raises her hand and an invasion force knocked Max into the air. Max landed with a thud

"Uhh! Unh!" Max groaned out in pain.

"Stop it! Stop hurting him!" Isabel demanded.

"I'll stop when you tell me what I want to know." Whitaker compromised. Isabel hurried over to Max, helped to his feet, and then hurried off the display that Max had landed. They start making their way to the exit and Whitaker gives chase.

"Come on." Isabel whispered to Max as she helped him.

Isabel and Max make it to the main part of the U.F.O Centre. Whitaker makes it to the main part too. She tears off an electrical cable. Liz sees them from the doors of the U.F.O Centre.

"Isabel!" Liz called out as she made her way over with the gang following hot on her heels.

"Where's the granilith?" Whitaker demanded.

"Get away from us!" Isabel snapped.

"I'll destroy you. I'll destroy you all if I have to." Whitaker shouted out, irrational as she uses her power to start sending a stream of electrical sparks through the cable towards Isabel and Max.

"No. No! Get away from us!" Isabel shouted, Liz managed to get in front of Isabel and Max and held up her hand as her eyes went black with fury.

Whitaker went flying backward and crashed into the wall behind them and slumped to the ground while everyone watched Liz in a stunned shock. Max had managed to wake up in time to see Liz attacking Whitaker.

"You'll see, Khiva will kill you all and take over the planet." Whitaker hissed as she got up, Liz level a cold glare at her.

"I don't think so." Liz hissed out as anger formed in her body, making her powers pulse. "Khiva will die and our betrayers will perish in the flames that they have made while Zan will rise from the ashes as the true king he is." Liz stated in a melodic tone, which stunned Whitaker to her core as she looked at Liz.

Liz cocked her head then disappeared, she appeared at Whitaker's back, leaned in to whisper into the woman's ear. "How is Khiva?" she asked. "Frustrated cause he couldn't rape me?" then she plunged her fist into the woman's small of her back, everyone watched as the husk fell apart in front of him or her with a stunned/shocked look on his or her face.

"How did you know how to kill her?" Tess asked. Liz looked at her.

"She was a skin, it's kinda easy to see where the plug is." Liz remarked before walking toward Max, she stopped when she reached Courtney's side and looked at the young skin. "Zan made mistakes because Lilly died. Don't hold it against him." Before moving on and helping Max up, she wrapped an arm around his waist while he wrapped his arm around her shoulder. "Come on, let's go and get you fixed up."

Max laughed slightly as he leaned on Liz and Liz leaned on him, both happy that the other one was safe and alive. Liz turned to the others. "Go home and get some rest, she was the first and won't be the last so we need to build our energy up if we wish to survive them." Liz commanded before helping Max out of the U.F.O Centre and heading him to the jeep.

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"Wow!" Maria stated as she and the gang walked into the Crashdown.

"So you keep saying." Alex stated with an amused smile at his best friend who seemed to be a stuck record.

"I can't believe everything." Kyle muttered, causing glares from Maria, Michael, Isabel and Alex.

"Live with it!" Maria snapped. "We had to go through this last year and Liz had to go throw this since she was six years old!" The gang was beginning to get annoyed with Kyle attitude to the pod squad, especially Max and Liz.

"I shouldn't have to!" Kyle snapped back. "Evans is the reason I'm stuck in your crazy world in the first place!"

"If you had stayed behind like Max had told you to, you wouldn't be stuck in this 'crazy world' as you put it so it's no one fault but yours." Michael snapped out.

Maria came forward and held up her hands, playing peacemaker because she could see that Isabel was about to lose her patience with Kyle too.

"Calm down the pair of you, this is no time to be arguing," Maria stated.

"Tell him to get over himself and accept that it was his fault that he got shot." Michael growled.

"Yeah, and Max didn't have to heal Kyle but he did because that who he was." Alex jumped in, defending his best friend.

"Like the hell I will be grateful to Evans for getting me shot in the first place!" Kyle growled out and Isabel lost it.

"Oh Kyle get over it!" Isabel snapped, her patience finally worn out. Everyone took a step back because he or she knew that once Isabel was mad, there was no stopping her from claiming her prize. "If you had just kept your big fat nose out of our business and did what Max told you to do, stay behind, you wouldn't have gotten shot in the first place and had to get Max to heal you then get stuck in our world. If you recall, you are the one who gave Pierce the gun, the alien hunter that Raped and Killed Liz's mom in front of her!"

"What the hell are you on about?" Kyle demanded and Isabel stood in front of Kyle, coiling up like a snake, ready to strike at any moment.

"You heard me, when Liz was eight years old, she and her mother were kidnapped by the F.B.I, Pierce raped Nancy right in front of Liz then killed her in front of Liz. Pierce made Liz watch as he took her mother apart, piece by piece." Isabel stated, emphasising the last sentence.

Kyle paled when he heard this and realised his mistake of getting on Isabel's bad side.

"You're lying!" Kyle snapped and Isabel glared at him.

"Trust me, I never lie about anything like this, Pierce was going to rape Liz in order to get her pregnant in front of Max." Isabel spat out. "So if you dare to even talk to Liz like she is lower than you, I will transfer her memories into you and make you feel everything that she felt so watch your move from now on otherwise, forget trying to survive school, you won't survive us!" Isabel promised before spinning on her heels and storming up the stairs to the apartment. Maria and Alex followed Isabel while Michael glared at Kyle once more then following the rest, leaving Tess and Kyle standing in the Crashdown, stunned at what they just heard.

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"You know, I could kill you for scaring me like that." Liz exclaimed as she helped Max into his bedroom and headed into the adjoining bathroom to get a wet cloth to wipe away the blood.

"I'm sorry." Max called after her and Liz came into the bedroom.

"Why didn't you use your powers?" Liz asked as she cleaned the blood and the wound before healing them.

"I guess I was just stunned that she actually got into the house then she brought her hand up and blasted me before I actually had a chance to do anything." Max explained.

"You really scared me Max." Liz whispered as she looked off to the side. "I thought I was going to lose you like I lost my parents."

"Oh baby, come here." Max whispered as he pulled Liz into his arms and on to his lap; he kissed the side of her head before tucking her head under his chin. "You are not going to lose me, I promise."

"You don't know that." Liz whispered as she turned her face into the crook of his neck, inhaling the safe scent of him, tears falling from her eyes.

Outside she had been strong, been the queen that the gang needed in order to bring Max back from where ever he was and to annihilate the enemy, but within the safety of their house and in Max's arm, she could finally let go the fear that she had been holding in.

"No, I mean it Liz, I'm not going anywhere without you." Max promised as he lifted up her face and looked into her eyes. "You are my life and I swear that I will not leave you behind."

"I made that promise to you and I broke it." Liz whispered as she looked away.

"What happened?" Max asked. "How did you die?" Liz sighed.

"I was killed." Liz whispered.

"During the war?" Max asked and Liz shook her head as she gazed into Max's eyes sadly.

"I was the reason why the war began." Liz corrected.

"How?" Max asked.

"I was going to see you when I was ambushed and killed. You tried to save me but it was too late as I had lost a lot of blood." Liz explained.

"Liz, please tell me everything." Max pleaded and Liz nodded.

"Okay." Liz whispered, agreeing.

TBC

Second Author notes: There will be chapters where you see Liz getting close to each person in the gang. I wanted to spread it out so there will be an occasion for it. I know that Kyle and Liz were close in the show but I have to make Kyle hostile now, but don't worry, he will get his time and see that the pod squad is completely human.

Next chapter: Liz tells Max about their past and how she died, but you will feel that she is leaving something out and that will be revealed later on in the story. Someone comes to someone in the gang with a terrible story of their future, who is they are who will they go to?

Leave a review if you know whom it is and whom they are going to and tell me what you thought of this chapter. The next chapter will be out soon as I have written most of it and just need to add a few more.