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Meanwhile at the Crashdown
Maria was pacing while Liz was wiping the tables.
"I can't believe you're so calm about this, they can be in some serious trouble."
"Maria, they have their powers, and Max can use his protection shield now. They'll be fine."
"Yeah, at least your Czechoslovakian is good at using his powers, mine would probably blow up a rock or something…"
" Someone needs to sniff some oils", Kyle joked, coming out of his seat.
" Can it, Buddha boy!" Maria said, while putting her hand in her apron, just to find out that there was nothing in it. She knew she was overreacting a bit, but her gut told her this was no normal alien fieldtrip.
"We just have to wait and see", Liz said, also a little bit worried, because Maria could be a drama queen, but she usually went with her gut feelings.
"Wait and see…" Maria repeated as some sort of mantra.
The caves
"Michael! Where are you?"
"He can't just disappear", Tess said. They were getting really worried. The explosion hadn't been that hard. Everyone was a little shaken and had minor bruises, but nothing serious.
"Max, look! Over there, it looks like the explosion came from here", Isabel said while carefully walking over there.
"Watch out Iz, if that's were the explosion came from it could be dangerous."
A loud gasp from Isabel could be heard, "Max, Tess, he's over here, o my god!"
The two aliens ran over to where Isabel was standing.
And met a sight they never wanted to see, their brother was laying on the ground with a huge gash marring his forehead. Blood was flowing freely from it.
"Max, you have to heal him, hurry!"
With the combined efforts of Isabel and Tess they dragged Michael from the hole he was lying in to a place a little further from the hole.
Max surveyed the injuries of his almost-brother, this wasn't going to be easy…
There was the gash on Michaels forehead, and he could also see some other injuries on parts of his body. And he didn't even know if there were broken bones.
"Max hurry!" Isabel yelled, breaking Max out of his reverie.
Putting his hand on his brothers head, he started making the connection, it was harder because Michael wasn't awake, but luckily he was able to start a connection.
Although he was quite experienced with healing, he wasn't prepared for the flashes that hit him.
Flash
Michael pulling back his hand from the two kids. Feeling fear for the huge lights coming at them…
Flash
Michael in different foster homes, always in the background, and finally in Hanks trailer. Hope that this would be his real home, like Max and Isabels home…
Flash
Fear and pain as Hank was looming over him with his belt ready…
Flash
Feelings of love for a small pixie girl…
Max smiled inwardly, he knew it, if only Maria could see it.
But now he had to concentrate on healing his friend, just a few more bones to mend.
Isabel and Tess were watching fearfully how Max was healing their friend.
Suddenly Max took his hand from Michael, a low moan could be heard from the newly healed alien.
"Jeez Max, didn't know you liked the touchy feely crap", he said while rubbing his head and getting up.
"Michael!" Suddenly he was bowled over by two screaming girls.
"What happened, you were standing with us, how could you end up over there?" Max, always the reasonable one, asked.
"I don't know, I was standing with you guys, but suddenly I thought I heard something and I turned. And that was when everything went black."
"We're just really happy you're okay!" Isabel said, finally letting go of him.
"Did you find out what caused that big bang?" Michael asked.
"No, but let's take a look," Max replied.
Walking over to the whole where the explosion came from, they started looking for something that could tell them what the hell happened here.
"Wait a minute, Max. Where did that boy go?"
Three heads shot up, in all the confusion, no one had thought of the boy they saw right before the explosion.
"I don't know, it's like he just disappeared", Max said.
"Do you think he was an enemy?" Tess chimed in.
"I don't know, but we should be careful. And that also means that Liz, Maria, Alex and even Kyle should be informed", Max decided while looking at Michael who was uncharacteristically quiet.
"Yeah they should", he finally said.
Everyone looked at him with strange faces, they did not see that coming.
"Wow Michael, I never saw you as a following type", Tess said. Michael smirked at her.
"I just think we should protect them, they can't get hurt because of us." He said.
"Well, I don't think we can find something in the dark, so let's come back here in the morning, all right?" Max said, trying to change the subject. He knew what Michael meant by protecting, an he didn't want Maria to get hurt again.
Everyone agreed to that, they were all a bit shocked by their little clash with reality.
The Crashdown
The restaurant was completely empty, except for four people sitting in one of the booths of the café.
"They should have been back hours ago," Maria said while rolling around the ketchup bottle.
"They will be back soon, I promise," Liz said, trying to comfort her friend, while she was also beginning to get really worried for their alien friends.
Suddenly the front door flew open and 4 sullen looking aliens walked in.
Maria was up in a second and jumped in Michaels arms, "Are you all right, it felt like something was wrong?"
Michael looked surprised, could she have felt it? Did they have that strong a bond?
"Well…" Tess started, but Max cut her off. "Everything went fine, but we all have to be careful," he said.
"Why, what happened?" Liz asked, suddenly getting nervous.
"We did find something," Max started, " There was someone there, but after ehh.. Well we got distracted, and after that he was gone. But he could be dangerous. So everyone has to be careful."
"What distracted you Max?" Maria asked. She had noticed Max' hesitation and she wanted to know what went wrong.
Michael looked at Max and nodded ever so slightly.
"Well," Max continued, "there was an explosion…"
"A what?" Alex asked, suddenly realizing the seriousness of the situation.
"An explosion," Max repeated, "and we all got knocked out."
"Oh my god, Michael are you all right, you weren't hurt were you?" Maria said while running her hands over Michaels body.
"It's okay,"" he said, "Max fixed it."
"Fixed what?" Maria asked, getting suspicious.
"Well…" Tess said again.
"Michael was closest to the explosion."