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Chapter 10: Wipe out
"Phillip!" Diane shouted as she placed the platter on the table, Liz looked at it with a raised eyebrow before rolling her eyes while Max and Isabel grimaced at the sight of the food.
"What's this mom?" Max asked.
"It's a frijoles frittata. Martha Stewart serves it to her guests in the Hampton's. So. Um...Phillip! It's gonna get cold! Get in here!" Diane informed her song eagerly as she cut the pie into pieces and handed them all a bit. "Phillip!" Diane shouted once more as they took a bite of the pie and began choking. "I'll go and see where your father is, enjoy it."
"Who needs a nice big glass of juice?" Liz asked as soon as Diane was out of ear shot and everyone nodded eagerly, they all stood up and handed their plates to Max while Isabel took their glasses to get more juice
"I'll get it." Isabel stated.
"I warned you about getting her a subscription to that magazine. How long are you gonna keep avoiding me?" Max demanded and Liz looked at the both of them, worried.
"I'm not avoiding you. We destroyed a race of people. I'm just trying to get past it. Juice?" Isabel stated.
"You sure there's nothing else?" Liz asked and Isabel nodded.
"I'm sure. Thanks." Isabel stated.
"Would you step on it, please? Liz is gonna implode if we don't get this thing back by the lunch rush." Tess stated and Maria rolled her eyes.
"You are not even in the uniform so you don't have to worry beside, we have one break in an 8 hour shift, and the girl sends us 30 miles out of town on an errand." Maria muttered.
"Well, she let you stay on the clock." Tess stated with a teasing smile and Maria smiled back.
"I'm sorry, Tess. I love Liz dearly. I do. However, this is totally Kathie Lee." Maria stated and Tess had to nod in agreement, as they passed the sign for the U.F.O Centre, it had a glowing green rod stuck through it. A green pulse from the rod was shot at Roswell.
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Liz was glaring at the Frittata that was only her plate while Max and Isabel took tiny bites, making sure it wouldn't choke them.
Diane Evans went to get another serving of frittata, the plate that she was carrying dropped to the floor.
"Mom?" Isabel asked as she, Max and Liz stood up and looked around for her.
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Tess and Maria arrived in town to find that the cars have stopped in the middle of the road.
"Why are all these cars stopped?!" Maria demanded.
"What's going on? Maria, w-what's going on--Maria!" Tess shouted as Maria swerved into a baby stroller.
"Oh, God! I didn't see it! It was just...it was just there, and I was going too fast." Maria stammered as they both hurried out of the car and checked the stroller, only to find that it was empty.
"Where is everybody?" Tess asked.
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A bus arrived in Roswell. Tourists start stepping out of the bus, including Nicholas.
"Welcome to Roswell, New Mexico, folks...UFO capital of the world and last stop on our tour. Everyone, remember their sunscreen while you're out and about." The tours stated.
"Thank you." The tourists replied.
"Let's find some aliens." Nicholas stated as he looked around with a proud smile on his face.
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At Michael's apartment, Courtney had successfully changed into the new husk in the bathtub.
"You put the husk on." Michael asked.
"The fit is ok." Courtney explained.
"Feels like real skin." Michael stated as he ran his hand over his skin.
"For now. The husk wasn't fully mature, and I don't know how long it's gonna hold up. You saved my life...by stealing this." Courtney stated and Michael shrugged.
"Well, you helped us by telling us what was in Copper Summit and to save Max, Liz, Isabel and Tess in time." Michael stated and the phone rang. "Here's a towel, and here's a robe." Michael handed them to her before picking up the phone. "Yeah?"
"It's me. Meet us at the Crashdown right away." Max stated into the phone.
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"Where is everyone?" Maria asked as she and Tess held onto each other while they walked around the deserted town.
"I don't know, we need to get to the Crashdown, if anyone else is still here, they are more likely to be there." Tess explained and Maria nodded as they both hurried. Tess tripped up and fell to the ground where she saw something.
"Tess, come on." Maria hissed as Tess picked up what looked like a skin only for it to disappear in front of their eyes.
"This is not good." Tess whispered as she got up and both of them made a break to the Crashdown, hoping like hell the gang was there.
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The gang was standing in the middle of the Crashdown.
"It's empty, there's no one here!" Isabel exclaimed, Liz saw something on the counter and picked it up.
"It's Alex's cd, he told me he was bringing it by today to give it to me." Liz stated and Isabel choked back a sob.
"This is just great." She muttered.
"Looks like it's only us aliens who are still here." Michael stated to Liz. Courtney looked out of the window and saw Maria and Tess running toward the Crashdown.
"That idea just went out of the window." Courtney stated as they hurried into the Crashdown, Maria ran into Michael's arms and he hugged her back while Courtney looked off to the side.
"What's going on?" Tess demanded.
"It seems like everyone had disappeared." Max explained and Maria gasped.
"You mean they're dead." Maria asked and Liz shook her head.
"No! They are still here, I can feel them but it feels like we are in some sort of limbo. We can't see them and they can't see us." Liz explained.
"We'll figure it out later, get in the toilet." Isabel commanded as she hurried everyone over to the toilet and locked the door before slipping her hand into Liz. "There are two skins heading toward us," Isabel whispered. "Make them think the door isn't there." Liz nodded and closed her eyes, tighten her hold on Isabel's hand and mind warped Ida and Nicholas as they stepped into the Crashdown.
Nicholas looked around.
"Go into the back." He ordered to Ida and she nodded as she went into the back room while Nicholas walked around the room, he walked over to where the toilet was, it was a wall with a mirror on it, he looked in it and picked at his face while Liz's breathing began to get shallower as sweat formed on her forehead. Everyone looked at her, concerned and worry as Max slipped his hand into her other hand while Michael placed a hand on the small of her back, all three of them added their powers to keep her energy going.
Ida came over and slapped Nicholas's hand away from his face.
"Mom?!" Nicholas complained.
"Don't pick. There's nobody back there or upstairs, sir." Ida reported.
"Look in the mirror. You're shedding." Nicholas stated and Ida looked.
"Ohh...it's the heat. Why couldn't those brats be from Seattle?" she snapped.
"Let's get you back to the moisture chamber. This haphazard searching is going nowhere." Nicholas muttered.
"What's plan "B"?" Ida asked.
"We'll search the town...street by street, building by building, inch by inch. I'm not stopping till we find them." Nicholas ordered as they leave.
The gang waited for a few more minutes to be on the safe side before letting Liz drop the mind warp.
They exited the toilet and Liz made a break for the seat at the counter, because she was feeling light-headed and sick with a pounding headache.
"God that felt like trying to get into a metal wall." Liz muttered as Max helped her over to the stool and rubbed the back of her neck, healing her headache.
"They must have done made everyone disappear." Maria stated and Isabel looked at her.
"And how could they do that? We don't even have that kind of power." Isabel asked.
"No, but they have the technology to do it remember, they are the ones who made the husks so doing something like this should be a piece of cake." Courtney explained.
"Why make the humans disappear?" Tess asked.
"To single us out, this way it's easier to kill us and not have anyone to worry about." Liz explained as she took a sip of the water and Tabasco in order to sooth her dry throat.
"Where were you when this happened?" Courtney asked Tess and Maria.
"We were out of town at the time, Mr. Evans sent us on an errand to get something for the Crashdown." Maria explained.
"So you slipped through a window, the reason why you are still here but it won't last that long so we need to hurry up and figure out what you are going to do." Courtney explained, looking at Max who looked back at her.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Max asked.
"Well you are the king aren't you, so be one." She snapped. "You'll just make a mistake like always." She muttered under her breath and Liz lost it.
"It was Zan who made the mistakes, Max is not Zan!" Liz snapped at Courtney. "And I have told you, Zan had lost Lilly and went into depression when he made the mistakes so lay off him!"
"He shouldn't have forced the war in the first place!" Courtney shouted back and Liz shook her head, disbelievingly.
"I don't believe this, Zan wasn't thinking straight when he made the mistakes, he wanted revenge on his wife's death." Liz shot back and it hit her. "It's you isn't it?"
"Excuse me?" Courtney asked, fear creeping into her soul.
"You're Vilonia." Liz stated and Courtney drew in a sharp breath, which told Liz that she was right. "Oh I so can't believe you're still alive." She muttered.
"Vilonia?" Max asked and Liz turned to him.
"She was one of Zan's follower, in fact, she was obsess with him at the time and hated Lilly for being the one who was in his bed." Liz explained.
"That doesn't explain why she hates Max right now." Isabel stated and Liz looked at Courtney.
"I'm guessing she tried to bed Zan after Lilly's death but he refused and pushed the war, she hated the reason why he started the war. It was because of Lilly and she wanted Zan for herself but he was still hung up over Lilly." Liz stated with a shrug and Courtney glared at her, which caused Liz to smirk. "Don't pout, Zan was flattered that you liked him, he was in love with Lilly at the time."
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Everyone is up stairs in Liz's old room, Max and Michael are checking out through Liz's old telescope while the girls are talking in the bedroom; Liz and Maria went down the stairs to get some drinks when they saw a skin.
Sheriff Valenti appeared and shot the skin in the back.
"Oh. Careful, Sheriff! He's a skin!" Maria shouted.
"Yaahh!" The skin shouted as he knocked the Sheriff to the ground and made a quick escape.
"Oh, my...oh..." Liz stuttered and Kyle ran in and over to his dad.
"Dad! Dad, you ok. You ok. You all right?" Kyle asked as he helped his dad up.
"Ohh!" Jim groaned.
"If guns don't work, how do we kill them?" Max asked, Liz pulled Courtney up and spun her around; she lifted up Courtney's top and pulled up a piece of skin to reveal what looked like a metal bolt.
"Take the hardest thing or even punching or kicking to here, it's break the husk and they die, permanently." Liz informed them.
"Bitch." Courtney muttered as she pulled herself out of Liz's arm and glared at her,
"Don't piss me off." Liz snapped back with a warning anger glare in her eyes.
"What about Nicholas? What can he do?" Isabel asked Liz.
"All the things you can...times a thousand. But the thing you should be the most afraid of...is this." Courtney jumped in and pointed to her head. "He can get inside of your head and take anything that he wants. Basically, he rapes you of your memories and your thoughts."
"We've gotta get everybody to a safer location." Jim stated to Max and Max nodded.
"The UFO centre. It's a former bomb shelter. There are no windows and fewer ways in and out. After we get everyone situated, you, me, Michael, Isabel, and Liz will start picking them off one by one." Max stated.
"What about me?" Kyle asked and Max nodded, Kyle had hurt Liz and hadn't proven himself yet.
"You're not someone I trust. Let's move." Max stated and they found themselves in the alley across from the U.F.O Centre.
"There's not much cover, so we should split up into groups." Max stated and Jim nodded,
"Good idea." Jim stated; weakly and Max looked at him.
"You ok." Max asked.
"Yeah. Michael, Kyle, take Courtney. You guys go first." Jim stated.
"When you're in, we'll send the next bunch." Max explained.
"All right, go." Jim exclaimed, Michael and Kyle took Courtney over to the U.F.O Centre with the rest of the gang looking out, they made it to the centre and Michael opened the door with his power.
"I'll take Tess, Liz, and Maria. You two OK bringing up the rear." Jim asked and Max nodded as he kissed Liz's forehead and told her not to worry.
"Ready?" Jim asked; the girls clutched arms.
"Ok." Jim stated and all four of them hurried over to the U.F.O Centre.
"We're gonna be ok." Max stated and Isabel turned to Max.
"Max, if I ask you to do something, will you just do it, no questions asked?" Isabel asked and Max nodded. "You go. Make sure everyone else is safe. I'm gonna find Nicholas." Isabel stated.
"No." Max denied,
"Max...you don't understand. He's after me." Isabel protested and Max looked at her.
"Why, Isabel? What really happened in Arizona? We're stronger together than we are apart." Max explained.
"You're right. I'm sorry." Isabel stated, Max turned around and Isabel walked off.
"Don't worry about it. I'm gonna make sure it's safe. Then we're up. Ok. The coast is clear. You go ahead, and I'll follow you. Ready?" Max asked. He turned around and found that Isabel had walked off. He goes to look for her.
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Isabel walked around and found the tour bus. Someone was playing with a remote-controlled car. As Isabel walked up to the bus, the car ran into her. Nicholas appeared.
"Boo." Nicholas stated with a smirk.
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Back at the U.F.O Centre, Michael hurried over to Courtney.
"I brought you some water if you want. We're gonna pull together the ingredients for another bath. Ok?" Michael stated and Courtney shook her head.
"It won't work. It's...I'm dying." Courtney whispered.
"No. No. No, that's not an option. Ok, there's...there's gotta be something that we can do. Courtney, what?" Michael asked.
"You won't want to do it." Courtney warned.
"Just say it. What is it?" Michael asked and Courtney looked up at him.
"The granilith." She whispered.
Max arrives at the UFO Centre, where Liz hurried up to him; Max took her into his arms.
"Did you find her?" Liz asked and Max shook his head while looking around.
"Where's Michael?"
"He's in the back." Liz pointed and Max walked off to meet him
Maria paced around. She walked by an exhibit with a mannequin in a window. She turned around, walked back, and noticed the mannequin is missing now. The skin stepped out and blasted Maria with an energy blast.
"Liz!" Maria called out; Liz hurried up behind the skin and kicked it in the small of the back then helped Maria up.
"They found a way in. We've gotta go." Liz stated to Maria and hurried over to the gang. "We gotta move, they found a way in!"
"All right. We'll head for the school. It's our turf. Get your dad." Max stated.
"I can't. He disappeared right in front of me." Kyle stated and Liz cursed.
"The skins' time dimension must be catching up with those of us that are..." Liz trailed off.
"Human. Who's next?" Maria finished. Kyle saw a UFO Centre postcard and recognizes the sign in it. The same one he and his dad saw earlier was defaced.
"That time field is coming from the billboard out by Chaparral Turnout. My dad spotted a green rod stuck through it this morning. We thought it was a prank. I'm heading out there." Kyle stated and Max shook his head.
"No. We stick together." Max ordered.
"Hey, I've been really nice about following your orders, Senor Presidente, but if I can do something to help bring some people back or ensure that Tess, Maria, and I live to see another day, I'm gonna do it." Kyle snapped back and Max gave in.
"Kyle. Look...take Bradford Alley all the way out of town. It's a straight shot. You can't get boxed in." Max state and Kyle nodded.
"Thanks." Kyle stated as he and Tess hurried out of the building in.
"Um...I know how you hate when things get all goopy, so..." Maria started off and Michael nodded.
"Yeah. So I'll see you soon." Michael stated.
"Yeah." Maria stated, unbelievingly and Michael shook his head.
"No. I will." Michael promised and Maria leaves.
"Ok. It's the four of us on foot. If we stick to the side streets, we can..." Max trailed off as he looked around.
"What's wrong?" Liz asked.
"Where's Courtney?" Max asked Michael.
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Nicholas had found Courtney who's lying on the ground.
"When my soldiers told me what they had found, I had to see for myself. What's the matter, Courtney? Too weak to run?" Nicholas taunted.
"Leave me alone." Courtney snapped.
"You always were the social butterfly, Courtney. Always the first to make new friends. But what I want to know is...where are yours hiding?" Nicholas asked.
"I think I see a chest hair, Nicholas. Way to go." Courtney taunted back and Nicholas gave up.
"Fine. We'll do this the hard way." Nicholas stated as he grabbed her mind and starts looking in her mind.
"Ohh! Ohhh!" Courtney cries out in pain.
"Let's see...you had scrambled eggs for breakfast. Then you slipped into that husk that punk stole from us." Nicholas remarked. "Boring. Boring. Boring. Aha!" Nicholas cried out, triumphed.
"All right, we'll head for the school. It's our turf." Max stated to the gang and Nicholas came out of the rape.
"School? On a Saturday? What a drag." Nicholas stated and Courtney glared at him.
"I hope they kill you." She spat out.
"You've become awfully chummy with them, haven't you? Courtney? Are you hiding something else? You are. You have a secret. What do you know?" Nicholas asked in a singsong voice. And grabbed her head once more.
"If anything happens to me, Max, or Tess, I want you to be able to save yourself. Now, if I tell you where the granilith is, do you swear never to tell anyone?" Michael asked.
"I swear." Courtney swore back.
"The granilith! That is a bonus! I hope he gave you detailed directions." Nicholas stated as he went to place his hand on her head once more, but she had pressed her husk seal and she disintegrates in front of them. "Now, that's a soldier." Nicholas stated with approval.
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At the School.
"You sure you don't know where Courtney went?" Max asked and Michael shook his head.
"Your guess is as good as mine." Michael lied.
"Isabel. Isabel." Max hurried over to Isabel, who is lying against the lockers.
"Ahem!" Nicholas cleared his throat causing the gang to look around them and see that the skins surround them.
Max, Isabel, Liz, and Michael are tied up to the pillars that have come out of nowhere. Nicholas walked up to Max.
"What happened to you, guy? You used to determine the fate of entire armies with the flip of a coin. Luckily for me, you continue to put your faith in the wrong people. Does this scene feel familiar, Vilandra? Moreover, your trusted second...the boy who spilled the secret of the granilith to one of our exiled members. Rule number one of war: keep your big mouth shut. Courtney knew that. That's why she killed herself before I could get its exact location. By the way, love the hair. Hope you win. There's one more thing I need to know before we can all call it a day. Where's the granilith?" Nicholas stated and Max scoffed.
"I'm not telling you." Max stated and Nicholas smirked.
"Oh...you will." Nicholas remarked as he lifted his hand to Michael, Isabel and Liz; the three of them started screaming in pain
"Wait! I'll take you there! Just you and me. This has nothing to do with them." Max shouted, not bearing to see Liz and his friends in pain.
"Max, don't." Liz shouted, weakly as she tried drawing her powers together.
"This is too easy. In the old days, I would've been no match for you. But...now..." Nicholas stated and grabbed Max's head and started looking through his memories. "Either way, you're going to die, Max. So why don't you just make this easy on yourself?" Nicholas asked as Max focused to push Nicholas out.
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At the Billboard, Maria is standing on the ledge, muttering to herself as she clings to the cables.
"Keep it together, De Luca." Maria muttered.
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"Ready to tell me now?" Nicholas asked as he placed his hand on Max's head once more, Max let out a groan of pain as Maria hooked the cable clamps to each other and places it on top of the green pulsating tube. She disappeared shortly afterward. The cables destroyed the tube and Roswell glows green again as the effects of the tube are reversed.
"Stop it!" Liz screamed as she closed her eyes and the skins looked at her. A wall of fire suddenly appeared behind Liz, Liz opened her eyes and they could see pain and fatigue shining through her eyes. The fire cut through the ropes that was holding her then enveloped the skins, causing them to scream out in pain and there were a huge blast. Soon the foursome found themselves in a shower of skins.
They heard a thump and found Liz slumped on the ground, pale and shaking from the huge amount of energy that she had used.
"Liz!" Max gasped as he hurried over and checked her out, he sighed in relief as he looked up at Isabel and Michael. "She's okay." Max assured and they sighed in relief as Max lifted her up then looked at the others. "Let's go home." They heard a noise, saw the cleaner cleaning the hallway, and smiled. Everything was back.
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Maria and Tess squealed with excitement when they saw each other and hugged before squealing when they saw Kyle coming up behind them.
Isabel rushed into the Kitchen and hugged her mother as hard as she could, her eyes closed in relief and happiness that her mother was still here.
Alex took a bite of his food only to start complaining that it was cold.
"Hey, these are freezing!" He saw Michael coming in and was surprise when Michael gave him a hug. Michael led him over to a booth and the pair of them started laughing, just feeling happy.
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"How did you manage to do that?" Max asked Liz as he and Liz walked down the street, Liz was cuddled into his side while he had his arm wrapped around her shoulder, she had her arm wrapped round his waist.
"I don't know Max, all I knew that I wanted them to stop hurting you so I thought I send them a mind warp then it just came real." Liz explained as she rested her head on his shoulder. "How long was I out for?"
"About an hour and a half." Max replied, "You really gave us a scare." Max stated as he kissed her forehead and Liz sighed.
"Sorry." Liz whispered back to him. "Good thing that everyone came back."
"Yeah, Isabel was glad when Mom came back." Max explained and Liz nodded.
"It's every child's nightmare to lose their parents, no matter what happens." Liz stated knowing and Max kissed her gently.
They both looked up into the sky and caught sight of the V constellation winking at his king and queen as they walked back home.
Next: The dupes arrive.