Night Falls upon Roswell, all is quiet, too quiet
They sluber deep, unable to hear th crashes, the ship, the troops. There is chaos and non can hear it. They are searching now. Ever so patient to catch their live prey. They are the armies under Kivar, he has come, along with every ally Antar has. They are all coming, to take over Earth.
Max, Isabel and Michael lay awake, they can hear it, smell it, even taste it. They knew that this is it. They also know, because Tess is gone, so is the four square, their greatst power, already defeated.
Michael jumps on his bike and rides to Max's. Then they both meet up at Isabel and Jesse's. She speaks in whispers. Too afraid to wake her ill informed husband.
If only Max knew, what Liz knew. If only she'd tell him, but she won't. If he knew what was about to take place, all the people dear to him that he'd loose, he'd want her to say something. But right now he's afraid to say anything to her, too afraid to move.
They can feel the armies inch closer to their doorstill, ever so quiet in the morning hours.
As they await their fate
Michael griped the doorknob, keeping it from turning. His body was too tense, he knew he couldn't win. Max paced in the background. Isabel followed both their motions, observing this very anxious situation.
Isabel sighed, breaking the comfortable silence. No one wanted to admit what they already knew. They needed Tess, and now they were doomed.
They knew that it wouldn't happen over night, that wasn't Kivar's style, he'd let the night go by, with the thick silence growing.
The next morning
Liz walked into Max's room, he had moved back into his parent's, just until he found his own place.
"I don't understand, whats wrong?" Liz asked Max whose face said it all. He sighed looking up. "It's as simple as this. We're doomed. We.. ah... Izzy, Michael and me, we, ah... Kivars here." Max said, leaning his head on his hands. Liz stepped back, remembering what Future Max had told her. "Oh... God." Liz murmmered. "Tess isn't here..." Liz whispered.
Max had begun to talk over her. "If I only knew what made them come, now, of all times?" Max asked, not intentionaly to Liz, just needing to express his frustration. Liz's guilt was getting to her. She sighed and took Max by the hand.
"Max..." Liz said, leading him to a chair. "You better sit down for this." Liz explained. Max looked dumbfounded. "What?" Max asked. Liz looked up, sadly. "I know why he's here." Liz explained. Max looked horrified. "Why?" He asked softly. "Tess... I mean... Okay let me begin at the start." Liz took a deep breath.
"It all began when you can to my window... not you you, but a future you. We'll call him Future Max. Well... Future Max told me that the world had been over run by aliens, all because we had gotten married, and drove Tess away. It was because Tess was no longer with you three that Kivar and EVERY other kind of alien attacked. Future Max also said that we had been married... thats the only good thing that happened. We were nineteen." Liz gasped for air, that huge speech, only half done.
Max soaked it all in, barly believeing what he was earing. "Me.. I mean, Future Max he, ah, what was the bad stuff?" Max aasked, unable to put a complete sentence together.
Liz saddened by what she was about to say, sat down. "Future Max told me that 20 minutes before he came here, to our time he held Michael in his arms... dead. That 2 weeks before that Isabel died. Both of them in battles against the aliens." Liz looked up. Max was choking down the lump growing in his throat.
"I see..." Max mummbled. Liz looked down, a shamed. "Futue Max told me to keep it all from you, to not even let you see yourself. It would cause all this stuff to happen...
Max interupted. "Wait!" Max said. Liz was silent. "Huh?" She asked. Max thought about it. "How did he get to our time, how did he travel in time?" Max asked. Liz breathed. "You can't go back to fix it... Future Max used the granolith..." Liz said. Sadly putting her hand on his knee. He grasped it. "Wait..." Liz breathed. Max looked up, a spark of hope gleamed.
"He said that it was acually not meant for time travel, that it was it's power they used... that means the granolith itself was just the transport device..." Liz explained. Her itellect going at full speed.
Max sighed. "It's our powers..." Max said. Liz looked up, confused. Max clearified. "Our powers are what make it go, mine made it shift into a ship... If Michael or Isabel used theirs maybe it would be different..." Max explained. Liz shook her head. "But we don't have the granolith, we don't even know what the granolith did to your powers to make it turn into a ship..." Liz said, frustrated. Max sighed.
"No... but I have a hunch..." Max said, jumping up and leaving to get Michael and Isabel.