The boy they had seen earlier just stood there and watched them. Michael was about to get out of the car when Maria suddenly clasped on to his arm.
"What are you doing?" she hissed, afraid the boy would hear her.
"I'm going to step out and find out who he is and what he's doing here. You stay put!" he replied, unclenching her hand from his arm.
"Not without me you're not," she mumbled before also stepping out of the car.
Michael slowly got out of the car, giving Maria glare she tried to avoid, knowing she pissed him off by ignoring him.
Both Michael and the boy slowly raised their hands.
"Who are you?" Michael shouted.
Maria, despite the possibly dangerous situation, rolled her eyes. God, how could he be so blunt. Especially since the boy looked ready to bolt. She decided to but in.
"It's okay, we're not going to hurt you. We're the good guys…" She thought for a second, "Are you?"
She studied the boy for a while. He was tall and lanky, had a long face with grey blue eyes and pitch-black hair which stood up at the ends. He couldn't be much older as 16.
Michael was standing as still as a statue, like he was expecting the boy to bolt any minute. And suddenly, he spoke…
"Y-Yes, I mean, who are you?"
Michael spoke up, "We are asking the questions here. So who are you and where are you from?"
Meanwhile Maria had slowly approached the boy, until she was just a few feet away. With careful moves she put a reassuring hand on his shoulder, causing him to lower down his still outstretched hand.
"So I'm guessing you have Samantha-genie powers?" she asked him in a soft tone. The boy gave her a confusing glance. Maria explained, " You're alien right?"
"How do you know?" he asked, sudden panic evident in his voice and face.
"Well, the whole hand thing is a little obvious, you see my Spaceboy over there? Guess who also has powers…"
The boy got an understanding look on his face, actually he looked relieved. He turned to Michael, "You… You're like me?" he asked him.
"Look, if you mean if I'm from outer space, then yeah… Now answer my friggin question would you! Who are you!"
Michael was getting frustrated. So they knew he was alien, he seemed frightened and he 'said' he was on their side.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I'm Robin, on my planet I am known as Cirdan," and as an afterthought he added, "we have to run…"
Maria snorted, "Ofcourse not, you're safe with us."
"No," Robin said, "We have to run, now! Someone is after me, or rather something."
Maria's eyes widened, she frantically searched the area, as was Michael.
"It followed me, that was where the explosion came from the other day, but I'll explain later, now we have to go, and fast!" he said while they all heard footsteps. The jumped in the car, including their newly found alien and took of like a bullet leaving the gun.
Leaving an unknown figure standing in their dust…