We see Sam is in the midst of one of her dreams she tosses and turns before
the mist clears.
Macaria is at the dinner table eating with Rath, Zan, Vilandra and the Queen quietly.
"The cook has really outdone himself tonight Mother."
The Queen nods at Vilandra and continues to take small bites of her roast. Macaria is restless watching everyone eating. A small commotion can be heard outside the palace. Macaria looks to Zan and Rath and leaves the table with the men to see what's wrong. Outside of the palace men have rallied to speak to Zan.
"What is it?"
An older man of the group in his forties speaks up to Zan.
"It's Kivar your highness he's pulled out of the allied army along with several small fleets from the allied planets."
Zan looks to Macaria and Rath before leaving to send word for a meeting.
Later that day they are all seated in court the leaders of the planets along with the leading men of the allied army are all seated together waiting. Zan looks down and clears his throat.
"I suppose you have all heard the news, I know it is late, but it seems that time is of the essence for this matter."
"I agree."
Zan nods and smiles at King Rasmus of Rathania.
"As do I but the question is what to do about my..."
Everyone looks to the King Averus of Acheron and lowers their eyes.
"I guess there's no need to hide that Kivar is my first born son..."
"Yes well your highness, there's no need to bring the past here. That's not the point the point is we are to rally the allied army back together as one."
Everyone nods and agrees.
"The idea that I had would be to negotiate."
Everyone looked from one to the other and shook their heads."
"Do you disagree?"
King Sero of Serion nods.
"I purpose we fight this, if we open it to negotiation Kivar will think he's been given diplomatic power. Which we haven't granted therefore he, as well as his men should be charged with treason and treated so."
Many of the men nod and agree, Macaria whose gaze has been following Zan's and the other men lowers her eyes to the table as Zan's gaze meets hers.
"Very well, I vote that we send a warning to Kivar that he has broken all sanctions with the Allied planets and threaten any member that aids his treason to be punished. But I also think this can be settled without a war gentlemen. My coronation is this week, all invited if he makes no mends by that time, your vote whatever you say shall be passed. How does that sound?"
All the men nod and agree the meeting is adjourned Macaria meets with her father for a few moments.
"Hello love, how are you?"
"Oh, well, I'm where I want to be, head of defenses for the Allied Army father."
The king smiles and nods his head as he kisses his daughter gently and leaves for his ship home. Macaria stands with her back against the door when all has fallen silent she turns to see Zan still sitting in his seat. Sighing she goes to sit next to him.
"Worried?"
"Yes."
Macaria nods.
"What do you think she would have said about all this?"
Macaria takes a deep breath and smiles.
"She would have told you to follow your heart, where ever it took you."
Zan lifts his head and looks into Macaria's eyes they are bright but then they turn sad.
"My heart, it died with her."
Macaria slips her hand into his and squeezes it gently.
"She would be saddened to hear you speak like that."
Zan nods and slowly wipes a single tear from his eye.
An approaching Rath jolts Macaria to stand up and leave Zan alone as Rath enters and Macaria leaves.
"Are we ready Zan?"
Zan nods and they all go back to their ship for home.
As they near the ship it's beeping loudly, Macaria looks behind her to see Zan and Rath trailing the beeping becoming more sharp and louder doesn't seem to affect them until.
Sam sits up with the sun burning her eyes and swats near her alarm clock missing it completely it sizzles to a halt and Sam rubbing her eyes tries to get ready for school.
John's walking with Sandie to his car as she's complaining about some tv show from last night that went badly.
"John? Are you even listening to me?"
John shrugs and gets into his side of the car Sandie follows on the opposite side.
"Is there something, going on?"
"No, I don't think so?"
"Cause you and I haven't, well..."
"I'm fine Sandie, just our relationship isn't all about sex right?"
Sandie nods and smiles as John pulls out of his driveway and down the street passing Alex who's slightly late picking up Isabel. When he gets to her house she's talking to Max who still has to swing by and pick up Liz before heading to school. Isabel filing her nails tosses her long blond waves to one side and pats her brother's old jeep goodbye as she heads to Alex's green rabbit.
"Slightly late Alex, but that's okay..."
She smiles and gives Alex a soft peck on the lips and a smile that radiates her beauty.
"I forgot my book at the last minute and if you had been on time, I would have gotten a zero in Calculus."
Alex smiles and drives away as Max follows him down the street.
"Alex are we really going to be driving this slow?"
Alex laughs and speeds up ten miles over the speed limit, Isabel chuckles.
"I'm dating a speed demon."
Alex nods and tickles her at the next stop light as Max turns right against their left to school.
Pulling up the Crashdown Liz waves goodbye to her Dad and smiles at Max's bright face in the morning.
Sam late and hopping around her room with one pant leg in her new jeans is yelling out the window to Lucas to wait up.
As Liz closes the door of Max's jeep they greet each other with a kiss. Liz's heart skips a few beats but settles some when she rubs the amber pendent that lays near her heart.
"Max?"
Max smiles over at Liz as they idle at a stop light.
"Yeah?"
"I have to talk to you later today so don't let me forget."
Max nods and grabs Liz's hand gently.
"Sure no problem."
Liz nods and looks forward when Max pulls ahead.
Sam running ramped yells goodbye to her family as she heads to Lucas's car.
"Sorry, I know, I know."
Lucas just smiles and pulls out of the driveway.
"I still have to pick up Maria, her Mom took the Jetta this week."
Sam nods and sits back trying to fix her hair and shirt.
"So has she talked to you about...?"
"What you and Michael, no, I actually think she's fine with it."
Sam nods and smiles.
"Are you fine with it?"
Sam looks over at Lucas and smiles with a shrug.
Lucas nods with complete understanding.
"Another dream last night?"
Sam nods and keeps her eyes straight ahead as they pull into Maria's driveway.
Maria scrambles out of her front door as Sam slips into the back seat.
"So you guys, I hope you haven't forgotten where we're going this weekend."
Maria looked better than ever and completely excited. She looked from Lucas to Sam and then rolled her eyes.
"Hello, Debate team, New York City...."
"Yeah well we're going, we're all signed up did it a few months ago."
Lucas looks at Sam through the rearview mirror and smiles with a shrug.
"I think we all forgot."
Maria shrugs.
"My Mom's on board she got a letter in the mail like a month ago, talk to your parents I'm sure they've handled it for you."
Sam sat back, New York City, this weekend. She was excited and happy, a little adventure in the big apple.
When they got to school Maria had the most fun reminding everyone about the trip. She also was slightly annoyed by Michael and Max coming along despite her knowledge. Michael stood close to Sam as they talked when the warning bell rang the B team stayed since Sam looked slightly taken back.
They all looked on waiting for her to speak.
"The Dupes, we forgot about them."
John shrugged, "It's a huge city, we'll be fine."
Sam gathered her books and started to make her way to her homeroom she looked back before leaving the group.
"I don't know guys, we'll talk later."
Sam entered her homeroom to Liz reading, Kyle drawing in his notebook and Alex waiting to fill her ears with one of his new lists.
By the time study hall came along Sam welcomed the calmness with open arms and sat down to day dream for the entire period. As her eyes fluttered Sam's mind wandered into a vision.
She saw, well it looked like Max on the ground of a busy street, and a big truck coming fast to squish him. She shook off the vision at the sound of the bell and grabbed her books and beelined out of the cafeteria. She ran into Michael who had come to meet her before History class.
"Hey, what's wrong?"
Sam shrugged and continued to walk. Michael followed.
"Look do we need to talk about it now or...?"
Sam just walked straight into the janitor closet and set her books down she turned around to Michael who looked both surprised but excited.
"I had a vision..."
"Oh.."
"Yeah of Max, I mean I think it was Max, getting hit by a truck."
"Okay..."
Sam nodded and then looked up.
"Come on Michael, my visions I get them to protect us you know and this one was so vivid."
Michael nodded seriously and then looked at Sam deeply.
"Look lets just get to class and we'll all talk about it later after school."
Sam nodded and went to grab her books, Michael stopped her before she could pick them and playfully swung her around to him.
"But first I think we need to ..."
Sam smiled as Michael pulled her into a kiss, she laughed as they pulled away from one another a few minutes after the late bell rang.
"Well this should be an interesting lie."
Michael nodded and pulled out a piece of paper and changed it with his powers into a late slip for both of them to class. Sam shook her head but followed him out of the closet.
In history class Sam's mind kept wandering to Max and what she saw, her eyes began to twitch and she closed them for a second and it brought another vision. This time she could see more, she looked around her vision and saw a street sign, 22nd street. So she was in New York City. Good that helped a little she kept searching finally she saw a bank, she waited for the digital sign to switch to the date and time when it did, her heart skipped a few beats. It read November 10th 8:30pm, her name shook her out of the vision as she looked up Michael was shaking her lightly and smiling. It was the end of class.
Sam avoided Michael's questions with slight answers when she met the B squad outside of her piano class they looked slightly worried. Lucas was the first to speak.
"You had another vision?"
Sam nodded. She went on to tell them of her two visions and then lead them to her locker.
"I thought it was Max first, but then I was thinking, what about..."
"The dupes..."
Sam nodded at Sandie and looked to see Michael coming her way the group dispersed to their respected lockers as Michael greeted Sam with a quick kiss.
"So are we going to have a meeting I haven't talked to anyone yet so.."
Sam shook her head and smiled at Michael.
"False alarm I had a more clearer vision it's not Max, so no worries."
Michael stopped Sam from stuffing a book in her locker and turned her attention towards him.
"So what does it mean then?"
Sam smiled slightly and nodded at Michael.
"It means, on Saturday November 10th at 8:30pm we should be on 22nd street next to a federal bank to save someone."
Michael nodded and smiled he licked his lips as Sam threw all her books in her locker.
"So do you need a ride to work?'
Sam shrugged, "I don't have to work for another two hours do you need any tutoring?"
Michael shrugged and the two walked out of the school towards Michael's bike. Meanwhile Max met up with Liz. They walked silently to his jeep where he drove her to the desert right outside of the pod chamber.
"So I'm supposed to remind you to tell me something pretty important today, remember?"
Liz nodded, and looked down her heart was racing like it always did when she was with Max. This time she wasn't sure if she was going to go through with it. She swallowed hard and took a deep breath at first she knew he was going to freak be really angry, then she had to trust that the pendent would help somehow. As Liz turned again to look at Max she saw his face and all her courage melted he smiled and leaned in to kiss her. Lost in each other they just kissed and giggled for a few hours. As the sun hit the side of the mountain that housed the pod chamber and granolith Max smiled at Liz and started his engine of the jeep to get Liz to work on time.
Liz feeling as if she had failed to tell Max everything also felt relieved a bit. She had more time now.
It's Monday November 5th 2000,
I'm Samantha Simmons, and this weekend I'm going to meet the Dupes in New York City. Sounds strange right, but I have the feeling that everything's going to turn out relatively well. I mean it could be bad, but who knows. Of course Liz is pregnant which makes me freak out from time to time. And the whole drama that's going to ensue when Max finds out the whole truth and nothing but. I guess time will tell, but the fact remains this Friday Morning I'm going to be in New York City. That alone cannot be overshadowed by alien doom.
Macaria is at the dinner table eating with Rath, Zan, Vilandra and the Queen quietly.
"The cook has really outdone himself tonight Mother."
The Queen nods at Vilandra and continues to take small bites of her roast. Macaria is restless watching everyone eating. A small commotion can be heard outside the palace. Macaria looks to Zan and Rath and leaves the table with the men to see what's wrong. Outside of the palace men have rallied to speak to Zan.
"What is it?"
An older man of the group in his forties speaks up to Zan.
"It's Kivar your highness he's pulled out of the allied army along with several small fleets from the allied planets."
Zan looks to Macaria and Rath before leaving to send word for a meeting.
Later that day they are all seated in court the leaders of the planets along with the leading men of the allied army are all seated together waiting. Zan looks down and clears his throat.
"I suppose you have all heard the news, I know it is late, but it seems that time is of the essence for this matter."
"I agree."
Zan nods and smiles at King Rasmus of Rathania.
"As do I but the question is what to do about my..."
Everyone looks to the King Averus of Acheron and lowers their eyes.
"I guess there's no need to hide that Kivar is my first born son..."
"Yes well your highness, there's no need to bring the past here. That's not the point the point is we are to rally the allied army back together as one."
Everyone nods and agrees.
"The idea that I had would be to negotiate."
Everyone looked from one to the other and shook their heads."
"Do you disagree?"
King Sero of Serion nods.
"I purpose we fight this, if we open it to negotiation Kivar will think he's been given diplomatic power. Which we haven't granted therefore he, as well as his men should be charged with treason and treated so."
Many of the men nod and agree, Macaria whose gaze has been following Zan's and the other men lowers her eyes to the table as Zan's gaze meets hers.
"Very well, I vote that we send a warning to Kivar that he has broken all sanctions with the Allied planets and threaten any member that aids his treason to be punished. But I also think this can be settled without a war gentlemen. My coronation is this week, all invited if he makes no mends by that time, your vote whatever you say shall be passed. How does that sound?"
All the men nod and agree the meeting is adjourned Macaria meets with her father for a few moments.
"Hello love, how are you?"
"Oh, well, I'm where I want to be, head of defenses for the Allied Army father."
The king smiles and nods his head as he kisses his daughter gently and leaves for his ship home. Macaria stands with her back against the door when all has fallen silent she turns to see Zan still sitting in his seat. Sighing she goes to sit next to him.
"Worried?"
"Yes."
Macaria nods.
"What do you think she would have said about all this?"
Macaria takes a deep breath and smiles.
"She would have told you to follow your heart, where ever it took you."
Zan lifts his head and looks into Macaria's eyes they are bright but then they turn sad.
"My heart, it died with her."
Macaria slips her hand into his and squeezes it gently.
"She would be saddened to hear you speak like that."
Zan nods and slowly wipes a single tear from his eye.
An approaching Rath jolts Macaria to stand up and leave Zan alone as Rath enters and Macaria leaves.
"Are we ready Zan?"
Zan nods and they all go back to their ship for home.
As they near the ship it's beeping loudly, Macaria looks behind her to see Zan and Rath trailing the beeping becoming more sharp and louder doesn't seem to affect them until.
Sam sits up with the sun burning her eyes and swats near her alarm clock missing it completely it sizzles to a halt and Sam rubbing her eyes tries to get ready for school.
John's walking with Sandie to his car as she's complaining about some tv show from last night that went badly.
"John? Are you even listening to me?"
John shrugs and gets into his side of the car Sandie follows on the opposite side.
"Is there something, going on?"
"No, I don't think so?"
"Cause you and I haven't, well..."
"I'm fine Sandie, just our relationship isn't all about sex right?"
Sandie nods and smiles as John pulls out of his driveway and down the street passing Alex who's slightly late picking up Isabel. When he gets to her house she's talking to Max who still has to swing by and pick up Liz before heading to school. Isabel filing her nails tosses her long blond waves to one side and pats her brother's old jeep goodbye as she heads to Alex's green rabbit.
"Slightly late Alex, but that's okay..."
She smiles and gives Alex a soft peck on the lips and a smile that radiates her beauty.
"I forgot my book at the last minute and if you had been on time, I would have gotten a zero in Calculus."
Alex smiles and drives away as Max follows him down the street.
"Alex are we really going to be driving this slow?"
Alex laughs and speeds up ten miles over the speed limit, Isabel chuckles.
"I'm dating a speed demon."
Alex nods and tickles her at the next stop light as Max turns right against their left to school.
Pulling up the Crashdown Liz waves goodbye to her Dad and smiles at Max's bright face in the morning.
Sam late and hopping around her room with one pant leg in her new jeans is yelling out the window to Lucas to wait up.
As Liz closes the door of Max's jeep they greet each other with a kiss. Liz's heart skips a few beats but settles some when she rubs the amber pendent that lays near her heart.
"Max?"
Max smiles over at Liz as they idle at a stop light.
"Yeah?"
"I have to talk to you later today so don't let me forget."
Max nods and grabs Liz's hand gently.
"Sure no problem."
Liz nods and looks forward when Max pulls ahead.
Sam running ramped yells goodbye to her family as she heads to Lucas's car.
"Sorry, I know, I know."
Lucas just smiles and pulls out of the driveway.
"I still have to pick up Maria, her Mom took the Jetta this week."
Sam nods and sits back trying to fix her hair and shirt.
"So has she talked to you about...?"
"What you and Michael, no, I actually think she's fine with it."
Sam nods and smiles.
"Are you fine with it?"
Sam looks over at Lucas and smiles with a shrug.
Lucas nods with complete understanding.
"Another dream last night?"
Sam nods and keeps her eyes straight ahead as they pull into Maria's driveway.
Maria scrambles out of her front door as Sam slips into the back seat.
"So you guys, I hope you haven't forgotten where we're going this weekend."
Maria looked better than ever and completely excited. She looked from Lucas to Sam and then rolled her eyes.
"Hello, Debate team, New York City...."
"Yeah well we're going, we're all signed up did it a few months ago."
Lucas looks at Sam through the rearview mirror and smiles with a shrug.
"I think we all forgot."
Maria shrugs.
"My Mom's on board she got a letter in the mail like a month ago, talk to your parents I'm sure they've handled it for you."
Sam sat back, New York City, this weekend. She was excited and happy, a little adventure in the big apple.
When they got to school Maria had the most fun reminding everyone about the trip. She also was slightly annoyed by Michael and Max coming along despite her knowledge. Michael stood close to Sam as they talked when the warning bell rang the B team stayed since Sam looked slightly taken back.
They all looked on waiting for her to speak.
"The Dupes, we forgot about them."
John shrugged, "It's a huge city, we'll be fine."
Sam gathered her books and started to make her way to her homeroom she looked back before leaving the group.
"I don't know guys, we'll talk later."
Sam entered her homeroom to Liz reading, Kyle drawing in his notebook and Alex waiting to fill her ears with one of his new lists.
By the time study hall came along Sam welcomed the calmness with open arms and sat down to day dream for the entire period. As her eyes fluttered Sam's mind wandered into a vision.
She saw, well it looked like Max on the ground of a busy street, and a big truck coming fast to squish him. She shook off the vision at the sound of the bell and grabbed her books and beelined out of the cafeteria. She ran into Michael who had come to meet her before History class.
"Hey, what's wrong?"
Sam shrugged and continued to walk. Michael followed.
"Look do we need to talk about it now or...?"
Sam just walked straight into the janitor closet and set her books down she turned around to Michael who looked both surprised but excited.
"I had a vision..."
"Oh.."
"Yeah of Max, I mean I think it was Max, getting hit by a truck."
"Okay..."
Sam nodded and then looked up.
"Come on Michael, my visions I get them to protect us you know and this one was so vivid."
Michael nodded seriously and then looked at Sam deeply.
"Look lets just get to class and we'll all talk about it later after school."
Sam nodded and went to grab her books, Michael stopped her before she could pick them and playfully swung her around to him.
"But first I think we need to ..."
Sam smiled as Michael pulled her into a kiss, she laughed as they pulled away from one another a few minutes after the late bell rang.
"Well this should be an interesting lie."
Michael nodded and pulled out a piece of paper and changed it with his powers into a late slip for both of them to class. Sam shook her head but followed him out of the closet.
In history class Sam's mind kept wandering to Max and what she saw, her eyes began to twitch and she closed them for a second and it brought another vision. This time she could see more, she looked around her vision and saw a street sign, 22nd street. So she was in New York City. Good that helped a little she kept searching finally she saw a bank, she waited for the digital sign to switch to the date and time when it did, her heart skipped a few beats. It read November 10th 8:30pm, her name shook her out of the vision as she looked up Michael was shaking her lightly and smiling. It was the end of class.
Sam avoided Michael's questions with slight answers when she met the B squad outside of her piano class they looked slightly worried. Lucas was the first to speak.
"You had another vision?"
Sam nodded. She went on to tell them of her two visions and then lead them to her locker.
"I thought it was Max first, but then I was thinking, what about..."
"The dupes..."
Sam nodded at Sandie and looked to see Michael coming her way the group dispersed to their respected lockers as Michael greeted Sam with a quick kiss.
"So are we going to have a meeting I haven't talked to anyone yet so.."
Sam shook her head and smiled at Michael.
"False alarm I had a more clearer vision it's not Max, so no worries."
Michael stopped Sam from stuffing a book in her locker and turned her attention towards him.
"So what does it mean then?"
Sam smiled slightly and nodded at Michael.
"It means, on Saturday November 10th at 8:30pm we should be on 22nd street next to a federal bank to save someone."
Michael nodded and smiled he licked his lips as Sam threw all her books in her locker.
"So do you need a ride to work?'
Sam shrugged, "I don't have to work for another two hours do you need any tutoring?"
Michael shrugged and the two walked out of the school towards Michael's bike. Meanwhile Max met up with Liz. They walked silently to his jeep where he drove her to the desert right outside of the pod chamber.
"So I'm supposed to remind you to tell me something pretty important today, remember?"
Liz nodded, and looked down her heart was racing like it always did when she was with Max. This time she wasn't sure if she was going to go through with it. She swallowed hard and took a deep breath at first she knew he was going to freak be really angry, then she had to trust that the pendent would help somehow. As Liz turned again to look at Max she saw his face and all her courage melted he smiled and leaned in to kiss her. Lost in each other they just kissed and giggled for a few hours. As the sun hit the side of the mountain that housed the pod chamber and granolith Max smiled at Liz and started his engine of the jeep to get Liz to work on time.
Liz feeling as if she had failed to tell Max everything also felt relieved a bit. She had more time now.
It's Monday November 5th 2000,
I'm Samantha Simmons, and this weekend I'm going to meet the Dupes in New York City. Sounds strange right, but I have the feeling that everything's going to turn out relatively well. I mean it could be bad, but who knows. Of course Liz is pregnant which makes me freak out from time to time. And the whole drama that's going to ensue when Max finds out the whole truth and nothing but. I guess time will tell, but the fact remains this Friday Morning I'm going to be in New York City. That alone cannot be overshadowed by alien doom.
