First
Wave: "The Lost Prophesies"
Chapter Ten – Demolition
Woman
Summary:
An unknown person watches as Max is rescued and then takes matters
into her own hands
Disclaimer: See Chapter One
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"Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?"
- Cinderella
Liz stood over the unconscious body of the Gua and stared at the building, every nerve ending in her body alive and tingling…she could feel Max, he was close now.
Her attention was drawn away when she heard the van rumble to life, everyone was obviously inside waiting for her and the three still in the building.
She turned back towards the building, that's when she noticed the object on the ground, lying where the Gua that the Sheriff had shot had once stood.
Liz bent down to look at it closer, it was the same object that they had pointed at Maria, did that mean it was a weapon of some kind? It didn't look like one, but who was to say that alien weapons didn't look like square boxes?
She reached for the object gingerly, grasping it firmly in her right hand she slipped it into her pocket and stood up.
From the corner of her eye she noticed movement and began to turn, her mouth open to shout out a warning to the others, but the Gua was lightening fast and on top of her in a second, holding her prone to the ground his hand over her mouth stifling her cries.
Liz's eyes rolled in the direction of the van, hoping that someone had seen the movement, but knowing that she was out of sight of the occupants at the back of the van because the door was on the opposite side of where she now struggled.
However, she was still in sight of Mr. Evans and the Sheriff who were sitting in the front of the van…neither were looking her direction.
Max!
"I'm curious as to why a couple of humans would be assisting Foster and the Royals?" It whispered in her ear.
"Hmph" she replied.
"Oh, right, sorry, forgot you can't talk right now…maybe later."
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Michael led Isabel and Max out of the building and into the open compound; a few metres ahead lay the hole in the fence that they had created a half hour earlier.
"We're in the open now, so anything can happen. Make sure he doesn't do his doodle thing 'cause then we might not be able to catch him before something happens" warned Michael.
"It's not like I personally let him go before Michael, he's stronger than me and if he wants to go, he'll make it happen" snapped Isabel.
"He's in a drugged stupor Isabel, he can't be that hard to handle" replied Michael, still not looking at her but at their surroundings to make sure they were unobserved.
"In case you hadn't noticed, he's also slightly crazy…not all that easy to control."
"Whatever, just hold on to him 'cause we're going to have to move fast."
Isabel glared at her friends back as he began his crouched jog, before holding fast to Max's arm and starting after him.
Except Max wouldn't budge, he lifted his head and stared into the distance ahead.
"Max" he whispered.
"Yes, that's right, you're Max and you have to run now okay?"
"Okay" he said before ripping his arm out of Isabel's grip and sprinting into the night.
"Not again" groaned Isabel as she took off after her brother.
"Men!"
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Michael looked behind him to see if Isabel was following and what he saw made him groan in frustration.
Max was running full tether towards the fence with Isabel a couple of seconds behind but loosing ground fast.
Not wasting a second, Michael sprinted after them before they got themselves into even more trouble.
"I told you not to let him doodle" whispered Michael to himself "but Michael, he's so strong and crazy" he replied to himself in a high falsetto, imitating the earlier conversation with Isabel.
"Women!"
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Gaiea watched the rescue attempt with interest, it was uncoordinated and clumsy, they'd even allowed one of the Gua to escape. As usual she was going to have to clean up their mess.
She looked at Zaan Hu who she had trapped in a circle of energy.
"How did you find them?" She demanded, her black eyes entrapping him with it's powers.
"We have some of our people undercover as Agents, that's how we found the King and we knew the rest would come for him, it was just a matter of time, so we waited." Replied the petrified Gua.
Gaiea nodded, her gaze returned to the building. There was no doubt that the Agents of the Earth Government and the Agents of the Gua would come after the Royals, especially if the people in the building were allowed to live…and to talk.
The Royals were becoming too human, leaving behind witnesses, something they should never have done.
But if Gaiea thought back to the past, they had always been that way, most probably because Antar was such a peaceful planet. The people had no knowledge of wars and thus, were loathe to kill, even their enemies, which is why they had died.
Gaiea shifted into her natural state, a state which most humans would recognize as a 'grey', although the correct name was 'Mawan', a name given to her species millennia ago meaning 'The Guardians'.
For the task she now had to complete, she could not remain in a human state as her powers were limited and right now, she was going to need all of her powers.
Her black almond shaped eyes returned to the struggling Gua and with her mind she contracted the energy circle around the Gua, turning him into dust as his husk collapsed and his energy returned to his ship.
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Max's befuddled mind knew it was hopeless – that he wasn't equipped with the powers for attack, but rather for defence, but Liz was in danger, rational thought did not enter into the equation when she was involved and combined with the drugs still in his system there was no way he would take time to sit down and think the situation over.
Liz needed him.
Liz is dead.
Liz was in danger.
His mind kept telling him that he was being irrational, that his girlfriend was long since dead and this was another simulation, but his heart argued that his love was calling out to him in desperation and terror.
Liz's grandmother once told her that she should always follow her heart, the deathbed advise had always lived with him, helping him whenever he needed to make difficult decisions and had never let him down, so he decided to follow the advise once again, hoping that Grandma Claudia would not fail him.
Max slowed his pace by a fraction to climb through the hole in the fence before picking it up again to continue in the direction he could feel Liz.
She was close.
In the distance he could make out the rented van and just past it the struggling figure of Liz and her attacker. No one in the van appeared to notice the struggling figures.
Max shot past the van and tackled the man straddling Liz, both men fell to the ground and rolled, each one struggling for control over the other.
Unfortunately for Max, his reflexes were slowed down drastically from the intravenous drugs and he was no match for the stronger Gua who quickly took the advantage and pinned Max to the ground.
Liz was desperate, she had just gotten Max back and now she was about to loose him again, with no options available, she screamed for help as she reached in her pocket for the object she had found minutes earlier on the ground, hoping and praying that it was some type of weapon.
Pointing the small box at the Gua she pressed the button and closed her eyes.
A bright light shot out and hit the Gua directly in the chest, and then he was gone.
No dust, or explosions, just one minute there and the next minute not there.
She didn't care how or why, only that Max was right in front of her alive and well.
"Max" she whispered.
She pocketed the box and ran towards his side, falling to her knees as she reached him and wrapping her arms around his neck as she sobbed.
All the pain and loneliness and fear she had bottled for three years came pouring out as her arms finally found their way around Max again.
"Liz" came the equally as pained reply as Max squeezed her body towards him tightly, holding on to her fearful that if he let her go he would loose her again.
He didn't care if he had finally gone crazy and was hallucinating the entire episode, it didn't matter anymore, so long as he could be with her even if it was an imaginary Liz, it was better than no Liz, better than the utter desolation he had lived with for the past couple of years.
Max pulled out of Liz's arms and grasped her around the shoulders "Liz, we need to get out of here before they kill you again."
"What? Max no, I never died, it was all a trick. Look at me I'm okay!" Said Liz, speaking softly, trying to calm him.
"No, you were dead, I saw you, and now you're alive I'm not sure why, but it's okay, we'll run away and they won't find you and kill you again."
Max pulled Liz up off the ground and began pulling her away from the clearing.
"It's okay Max, we have a van, it'll take us away from here and we'll be safe." Gently she began to lead the nervous Max towards the van where everyone was now gathered watching the exchange between the two.
Liz looked up at the concerned faces of her friends "we need to get him out of here, I don't think he's feeling very well!"
Phillip Evans cautiously approached the son he hadn't seen in more than three years, a son whom he'd thought to be human the last time he saw him, and so to Phillip this night was like meeting his son for the very first time.
Choking on his greeting, Phillip pulled Max into his arms and cried.
"I'm sorry to do this to you guys, but we really have to get out of here, there is at least one more Gua wondering around and who knows how many Agents running around looking for Max."
Phillip nodded, still holding tightly to his long lost son as they all began to walk towards the van.
Gaiea watched from a distance as the rental van pulled away with the Royals and their accomplices inside before turning back towards the building and her unfinished business.
She would have to do what they could not…destroy all the evidence.
Gaiea raised her elongated hand towards the building and let go of her awesome power turning the entire building into huge fireball.
