Chapter 9

"Tough job" Liz whispered as Max kissed her.

"Yeah but someone's got to do it" Max replied.

Max and Liz were in Liz's bedroom. Liz's parents were out so no one would disturb them.

A man with a camera was following Michael. Another two were outside the Crashdown. Another was following Isabel and another was trying to follow Rie (but was not doing it well as she kept vanishing).

The one following Michael was reporting back to base.

"The instnt their all together, shoot to kill. Kill civilians if you have to."

Liz gasped.

"What?" Max asked.

"I heard them. The killers" Liz said shaking.

"What did they say?" Max asked.

"Max there's someone following each of us. They said the instant the five of us are together, they're going to shoot, even if there are humans there too." Liz said.

Max was shocked. Why do humans hate them so much? And now they couldn't even get together to discuss what to do!

"We have to stop everyone from getting together, but we need a plan." Max stated.

"Yeah, but no matter what the plan is, they're still going to kill us!" Liz said knowing that she couldn't escape her fate.

"I won't let anyone hurt you, ever." Max vowed.

Liz gave him a small smile.

There was a loud knock at the door. Max and Liz jumped up. Liz crept to the door and opened it a crack.

"Oh Rie!" Liz said thankfully.

"Hi. Look, sorry to disturb you and everything, but I've just seen someone following me" Rie said looking frightened.

"Yeah, we know, Liz just had another vision. The moment the five of us are together, we're going to be killed" Max told her.

"My God" Rie whispered.

The three of them stood in silence.

"We need to draw them out" Rie muttered.

"What?" Liz said alarmed. "And get us all killed!"

"How did Tess destroy the base before?" Rie asked Max ignoring Liz'z last comment.

"She blew it up killing herself too. But we don't want to die!" Liz said to her angrily.

"DO YOU THINK I PLAN ON DYING!" Rie screamed ate her.

The room fell silent. Rie breathed slowly in and out.

"Sorry, I'm a bit stressed" Rie said

"Yeah I know, don't worry." Liz replied, more shaken than she looked.

"So what did you have in mind?" Max asked her.

"We draw them out. Get them to follow us somewhere where there are no humans around."


"Do you think this will work Max?" Liz said smiling.

"I don't know. Laugh like I said something funny." Max replied beaming.

Liz laughed loudly.

"Max do you think they're still following us?"

"Definitely" he replied.

Max's car kept heading down the bumpy desert road.


Meanwhile…

"Why the base?" Isabel asked Rie.

"Because we have a good reason for going there; to search through the rubble."

"But it would have been cleared by now!" Michael exasperated.

"Yes, but we still have a reason to go. We have no where else."

"I don't trust her" Michael said loudly.

"Well Max and I do, so live with it!" Isabel snapped.

"Don't I get a vote then?" Michael enquired.

"Look you know we couldn't all get together to discuss it, we have to just… go for it." Isabel said. "If you have a problem, take it to Max."

"But I can't take it to Max!"

"Well then deal!"

Michael cursed as he continued to drive Maria's jetta down the road.


"This is the general, please report!"

"This is bulldog, our targets are moving toward the base"

"This is terrier, our targets have arrived at the base"

"All agents surround the base. I want no room for escape!"


Rie, Isabel and Michael dashed into the base.Rie chose a suitable spot where there were plenty of fuel tanks.

"I'll check that the agents are all here. You start heating up the molecules, make sure it's almost ready to explode, and Michael" she said turning towards him "make it big!"

Rie lifted her arms and went.

Michael was not happy about taking orders from Rie, but he knew that it was too late to go back. He and Isabel set to work. A few moments later, Max and Liz arrived. Max went and joined Izzy and Michael while Liz started to look through the rubble.

"Almost there" Max muttered.


Rie ducked behind a rock as bulldog and several other sharp shooters got in position.

"Where's the fifth?" Bulldog asked.

"Don't know." One of the sharpshooters replied. "We have clean shots of the others. Should we take them?"

"No! We must wait until there all together! We must follow the General orders. You know what he does to people who don't!"

"Yes sir. Which is missing sir?"

"The offspring"

Rie's foot twitched at the word offspring.

"What was that?" Bulldog said turning to face Rie.

Bulldog saw Rie and shot instantly, fearing his life. Rie whipped up her hands….


Liz heard the shot.

"Oh my God" Liz said. "What id they killed her? How are we going to get out alive without her!"

"I don't know but we'll have to wait and hope. There's no other way." Max said.

"Done" Michael announced. "Any more and she'll blow"

"What do we Max? We can't wait for ever or they'll shoot." Liz asked.

"She'll come, she has to." Max answered. "Pretend we're searching or they'll get suspicious."

Suddenly Rie appeared.

"HANDS! NOW!" she screamed at them.

They grabbed each others hands as the general gave the command to shoot.

They whisked up there hands as the first shot sounded.

The bullet hit the fuel tanks triggering an explosion that wiped out a half mile radius of land.

The special unit was gone.


The others appeared around three miles away.

"What happened?" Max said. "We should be in Roswell…"

He turned towards Rie.

Rie had collapsed to the floor. The others had not noticed the blood soaking through her top.

Bulldogs bullet had found its target.

"Max!" Izzy cried.

Max without hesitating moved towards her and put his hand over her stomach.

A white light surrounded them.

Liz was terrified that someone would see it, but Rie had managed to move them far enough to somewhere fairly secluded. Liz kept thinking about how Max healed her in the Crashdown. Would this have a happy ending too?

The light faded.

Rie opened her eyes and looked around.

"Thanks" she muttered.

"Don't worry about it. Besides, you just saved our lives, thank you!" Max said smiling.

Michael strode over to them. He held a hand out to Rie who took it gladly. He pulled her to her feet.

"I shouldn't have doubted you." He said.

Rie smiled at him.

"Let's go home to Roswell" she said smiling. Rie finally had their trust.


A silver brand new jaguar raced down the highway. The scared driver drove erratically, causing her to be several kilometres per hour over the speed limit.

Horns blared at her.

"Yo! This is an emergency!" she said as she overtook several cars.

"Cmon! I need to save those aliens behinds"

The girl with the pink and blond hair drove on, passing a sign that said "Roswell - 100km".