Continued from previous chapter, the gang is finishing their lunches talking about their task at hand.
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Sam spent the rest of their lunches telling them about her visions from last night.
"Wow" John gasped, "So what shall we tackle first Sam?"
Sam sat up straight and leaned in "I think all this leads back to that guy I saw digging on Metachem property. Lucas did you commission anyone to do an archeological study out there?"
Lucas shook his head no, "But it is protocol to survey the surrounding area especially Roswell with all the Nuclear testing from the military in the 1950's we would be foolish to bring in any medical equipment or samples without full knowledge of what the environment around the plant is like."
Sandie leaned forward a bit too. "But why would Sam get visions of him digging, and then of Michael being in Prison. She gets visions that are to aid us in helping the POD squad I say we should go there today right now and squash the situation before it gets out of hand. Michael is liable if he's in prison."
Sam held up a hand Sandie was silenced.
"The sheriff's on their side he'll do what he can to help them. What I'm worried about is this Congress Woman that Liz is trying to work for. I mean she gets all huffed up about the Special unit and is made a total fool of by Naseado and then she ends up here in Roswell New Mexico and inquiring about our Liz Parker for a Co-op."
It was John's turn to lean in a bit.
"No coincidences in Roswell especially with that woman we've been following the broadcasts as much as them I sense something's up with her."
The gang nodded in agreement.
John continues, "the thing is that they buried Pierces' bones out there in Frazier woods where Sam saw the man digging. What you may have seen Sam was.."
Sam interrupted, "that guy's going to find the bones! We have to get out there before this escalates and deal with Frazier woods before the cycle is in motion."
They all stood up John threw some bills on the counter and the rest followed him. Sam led the way out of the Crashdown waving to her Uncle calmly. They all piled into the Passat and headed for Frazier woods.
Sam was in the front seat next to John as he drove down windy roads to the destination.
"Lucas I will need you to make me look like my Mother she'll be heading his department since they're all part of the prep crew Sandie will be your mother."
Lucas nodded and looked to Sandie with a sly smile.
"Sandie we'll need to do the best we can on our own."
Sandie nodded and begun to transform herself into her Mother the best way she knew how. She changed her clothes into a formal lab coat with official badges and security clearance and gave herself her mother's haircut and eye color. Sam did the same, John looked at Sam and wavered in his steering a bit she looked so different he was still amazed by their powers every day.
Sam looked at John "If he has the bones already I'll need you to get them while Lucas keeps the mind warp going with us, the last thing he needs is extra details."
John agreed and pulled into a vacant dirt lot right on the outskirts of Frazier woods. You could see Metachem looming in the distance. Sure enough there was a 4X4 vehicle parked close to the side. Far along you could see black tote bags lumped with equipment. A man was hunched over a hole he looked like a regular anthropologist gritty and his skin had become the same color as dirt.
Same looked to Lucas, "Make him expect us he had a message from Metachem saying to expect the head of field research facility to come for an inspection."
Lucas nodded and closed his eyes John pulled to a soft stop while Sandie and Sam hopped out of the car and made their way to the man.
Sam stepped close to the man and cleared her throat. He turned around, he was good looking in his mid-20's, he stood up.
"I wasn't expecting you this early."
He wiped his hand on his pants and held out his hand "Sorensen, Grant Sorenson."
Sam held out her hand, "Simmons." They shook hands and Grant looked to Sandie with a perked eyebrow.
"Oh this is my colleague she's just here for observation purposes only from the rehabilitation facility."
Sandie spoke up with a hand in the air palm facing him "I'm only an observer don't mind me."
Sorenson shook his head like he like understood. He then motioned toward the hole he was gazing into. "I seemed to have found something."
Sorenson knelt down again and pulled out a large human femur bone.
I knelt down next to him, "looks like coyote."
Grant tilted his head to the side and scratched it a bit. "Yeah you're right it does."
He put the bone down and clasped his hands together to remove some of the dirt. I steadied myself on the ground and got a flash*
I could feel water rushing in a slow moving current beneath us.
"Sorenson!, is there an underwater current running under Metachem property?"
Grant nodded and led us over to his files he had a laptop and maps all over his campsite.
"I was going to sample the water supply tomorrow."
He handed Sam the water table maps, Sam could see out of the corner of her eye the bone Grant had dropped disappear she knew John had it and felt calmer. If it was gone then Lucas had erased Sorenson ever finding it from his memory.
I steadied myself on the ground again and cleared my mind while Sorenson was explaining in detail to Sandie his procedures from the past three weeks. Flash*
I saw this blue liquid seeping from the crash site years ago and blending with the water supply here in Frazier woods. It was slowly making its way into the main water shed of Roswell.
"We've seen enough Sorenson your work here looks about ready to be taken to the lab you'll be working with me from now on in the main facilities. Clean up here while we finish with our report, take a room at Roswell Inn and we'll see you bright and early on Monday."
Grant began cleaning up after himself and Sandie and I
walked around when we were out of earshot Sandie asked, "What's going on?"
"There's something infecting the
water supply under here. It's
something from the initial crash."
Sandie nodded and we watched as Sorenson packed up his car and left as he did
John and Lucas came out of the car and Sandie and I changed out selves back to
normal.
"So," Lucas asked "what do we do next?"
John had the bone in his hands he lifted it up, "How about we take care of Pierce here before Michael gets pinned as a killer."
We all agreed and walked over to the grave we put our hands over the site and willed the rock and earth to loosen and brought the bones up from it's grave. The rib cage was fused together melded with cadmiumX.
"These are the bones Max was changing in that vat I saw him in."
I raised my hand again and changed the molecular structure everyone helped, we turned the bones into that resembling a dog, turned the DNA into something canine as we could and removed all traces of the cadmium. I then aged the bones 20 years to keep suspect completely off the PODsters. We buried it again the bones sank into the earth as the dirt and rocks seeped back into it's original place like water.
I stepped back and turned to my group.
"There's something strange that has contaminated the underground water supply here."
John scratched his head, "So what did you see then?"
Sam looked to John and smiled he knew she had another vision it was impressive. "The crash must have leaked out fuel from the power cells it took some time but it's contaminated the water supply here."
Lucas spoke up first, "We're 20 miles away from the crash site, do we know what kind of fuel was used for the ship?"
Sam shook her head, "we'll deal with that after we find where it's gotten to in the supply, let's split up and search underground just go on feeling and listen for water."
We split up in all different directions I found my way at the bottom of a hill and could hear water. Kneeling on the ground I put my hand out to feel for vibrations they were faint but there. I called for the others and they came running to me.
"It's here"
I put my hand out and so did they we used our powers to open the earth and a large blue squid thing sprang out. I used my force field as a shield to pin it to the ground and sealed the hole open with another force field. I looked to the others who were in shock.
"Well it looks like we found it," I sighed.
"These are what fueled the power cells on the ship." Lucas nodded to Sandie.
I stepped up to the squid thing that was being held under my power.
"It's the queen has to be, they needed fuel great enough to spring the ship out of a black hole they would have used the strongest organism known to our people."
I looked to the others they were still not on it.
"Gandarium, it's the highest charge particles known, in a non-controlled environment it becomes it's own organism with a queen that reproduces alone but is interconnected with her clan."
John nodded his head, "Right when Gandarium is released into an ecosystem like Earth it becomes parasitic, searching for a host."
I nodded, "yup it was evolved to do that remember Pete told us it's the element that fills in the genetical gaps for human and, our people's DNA to form chromosomes, or hybrids."
Sandie looked down at the queen who was thrusting itself at my force field making it flash bright red every time it did so. "Well it looks pissed."
Sam laughed "Don't worry it senses our DNA defect that was passed on by our mother but once it tests us it'll know it can't inhabit us. To humans though it'll take over the body and use it's energy always looking for those with the chromosomal defect that we have."
They all understood and shook their heads in unison.
"Unfortunately we have to kill it or Earth will be compromised."
I lifted the queen in the air and took all the oxygen out of the bubble that it was encased in. The Queen dissolved into a water like substance then into water, we looked down the hole we had created and it was the same in there only water where there once was blue crystallized Gandarium.
It was silent on the drive back, we all felt a bit shocked and sad. I knew for the group I had to kill the queen but it still felt odd to do so. Living in Florida was pretty simple we never had to do things like this. It was becoming apparent that here in Roswell killing things and using our powers more than once a day was going to be the norm. We had trained for years we could do it physically, that wasn't what I was afraid of. I was more afraid that we would be drawn inwards and out of the human world, it was something I wasn't willing to give up yet. We were part human and I always wanted to feel that connection, if I had to do certain things alone I would to protect the others. I guess that's what being a leader is all about.
John dropped off Sandie and Lucas and drove me back to my house parked the car in my drive way as we sat there for long silent moments.
"We're changing aren't we Sam?"
"Yeah it's this place, I guess we've been lucky the past few years."
"I mean, we've only been here two days and already we've used our powers more than we did in a week."
I looked at John "We train more vigorous than this John."
He sank back in his seat, "I know but we've never killed an alien species or changed DNA structures of human bones."
I put my hand on Johns "It's being so close to the Granolith and the others." I laughed as John leaned in to kiss me.
What seemed like an innocent kiss turned into a intense teen hormone session. John was grasping to Sam holding her close to him. The two were moving fast and with no cares of the world, John's hands started to roam and shirts were being unbuttoned. Sam opened her eyes and took a huge breath in; she pushed John gently away he sighed.
"Sam."
"I'm sorry John." She started to button up her shirt and fix herself. She couldn't let herself get too caught up in the last two years. Things were getting intense between her and John moving forward and it had been easy to stop herself before, but since they had been in Roswell it was becoming impossible.
John looked over to Sam and began buttoning his shirt as
well.
"It's just Sam, I mean we've been going out now for over 4 years. It's our senior year, we love each other we
trust each other why can't we be together?"
Sam looked at John he could be such a typical guy sometimes. In Florida he played all kinds of sports the real jock, Sam on the other hand spent all her time in voice lessons and choir. To the outside world they were opposites but they had been together for so long that it didn't matter.
Sam smiled softly to John "I know, it's just we don't know what will happen."
She laughed at herself trying to lighten the mood. "I don't want to be the ones to pioneer the exploration of Hybrid sex."
John shook his head in disagreement. "I bet you anything that those Dupes in NYC have done it."
"I don't care John, I don't want it to be like this, here, does it feel this way because we're so close to everything and everyone the Granolith the POD Squad?"
John shrugged and leaned in again to kiss Sam, she returned his kiss but broke away again. John sighed and began to bang his head on the steering wheel.
"Hey come on stop!"
John laid back and smiled.
"Look we have less than two days before school starts. We'll have a new life, new teams to join and take out this sexual aggression out on, we can make it through this."
John nodded and kissed Sam goodbye, she made her way to her house waved to John as he pulled out of the driveway and went inside the house.
It was my first real day in Roswell and I felt as though we had been there forever. Lucas was silent for most of the day I think being near Tess has got him confused. On one hand he has Sandie as a sister but I know that deep down he wants to be close to Tess. Despite all the pent up anger from our other life she's still his sister. He would be mind warping his own mother tonight and mine, I'm guessing things are weighing heavily on his mind.
I felt pretty calm though, I was in my element and this was an adventure for me something I've been craving all my life.
Sam made her way over to her kitchen where her Mother was taking a stab at domestication with a apron on and everything. Since her parents worked such long and hard hours Sam was really the only one who used the kitchen on a daily basis for cooking. There was always some kind of takeout for dinner brought home by her parents on their working days. Sam perched herself on one of the benches in the kitchen's Island and closed her eyes relishing in the idea that her mom was cooking.
"A penny for your thoughts."
Sam opened her eyes her mother had just set the timer on her backed ziti and sat down across from her daughter with oven mitts still attached to her wrists.
"Just thinking about the day Mom."
Her Mom nodded, "So how did it go?"
Sam shrugged, "IT was good, I'm a pretty fast learner got some nice tips all in all good first day."
Talking to my Mom always helped me put things into prospective I mean she didn't know about my whole, situation but what I could tell her or didn't she understood on some level and made everything tolerable.
"So, your uncle Jeff was telling me that, um boy Michael I think, works as a cook at the Crashdown?"
Sam nodded her head, "Yeah he sure does."
Her Mom smiled, "So was he working today?"
I knew what she was getting at but I didn't understand where all this was coming from.
"Oh to be 17 again"
Sam scrunched up her face, "What was that Mom?"
"Well," she flushed and stretched her arms along the table pulling the table cloth slightly as she did so she shrugged and answer, "he's not bad looking."
Sam rolled her eyes, "No he's not, he's Maria's ex boyfriend too."
Sam's Mother looked surprised, "So I'm guessing Amy must love that, well like Mother like daughter."
Sam smiled her Mother and Amy had been best friends when she lived in Roswell but since she had moved they had grown apart they still talked once in while but not as much.
"Maria's Dad had that dark intense, James Dean thing going on too."
Sam shook her head in mock surprise at her Mother's words.
You know the fact is my Mom has a point, I had been going out with John so long that our incompatibility was no longer an issue. I mean during movies that my Mom and I would watch I'd always drool over the bruiting bad guy image. I was a Marlon Brando, James Dean, Paul Newman kind of girl. John to the outside world was the hopeless goofy jock, to those he really let in he was different but mostly he fell under this category.
"Well it's too bad then."
Sam looked at her Mom, "What do you mean?"
She shook her head, "Nothing honey why don't you go check on your brother and make sure he's finishing up that book on his reading list.
"Where the Red Fern Grows, Mom."
Her mother nodded her head as Sam went to check on her brother.
Dinner was uneventful, with mind numbing conversation about work and the grocery store there wasn't much I could do but shuffle small pieces of pasta in my mouth. There was the occasional trivia question for Miles about his book, this went on until we all found ourselves watching some TV and playing scrabble. It didn't take us long to make our way up the stairs to our rooms for some sleep.
Sam puts down her diary and turns the overhead light off. She closes her eyes and awaits the calming light blanket of sleep to take her away. It does however take her from this world to another.
