Tess
looked at Dawn and Buffy and said,
" I wish I knew what my
purpose as the Second Key is"
Before Buffy or Dawn could
answer her Giles came into the room with Spike behind him and said,
"
We got the information and it seemed that Tess can be responsible for
an apocalypse if we are not careful. She can be dangerous in the
wrong hands"
Tess looked at the group and said,
"Is
there no way to avoid them?"
"No, unfortunately not.
There is one way, but I want to ask Buffy is she wants to do
it"
"What?" Buffy wanted to know
"Well, I
thought about asking Angel and Cordelia to come and help us"
"Well,
you know how I feel about them, but now we need all the hands in this
fight. So contact them"
Giles picked up the phone and dialled
Angel's office numberLA
Angel
Investigations.
Cordelia was sitting at her desk deep in thought
over the previous case they just solved when she heard the phone
rang,
"Angel Investigations. We help the needy"
For
a while there was silence then she screamed,
"Angel phone for
you!"
"From who?" he asked
"Um, Giles"
she replied
"Patch him through" he said
"Will
you hold on? I'm placing your call to him"
Angel was sitting
in his office doing the last report of the day when he answered the
phone,
"Angel here.
"Oh, hi Giles how may I be of
help to you?" he asked
For a while he listened to the person
on the other side then said at long last,
"I'm on my way.
Tell Buffy that I'm looking forward to see her"
He placed the
phone back and said to Cordelia,
"Get your stuff ready, we
are going to Roswell"
"Why there?" Cordelia wanted
to know
"It seemed that they are having major Glory
trouble"
"Oh. No! Not that bitch again"
"It
seems that way?'
They decided to take the next flight to Roswell and try to help the gang with that trouble again.
ROSWELL
Night
came expeditiously and Max decided to go too bed earlier than normal,
he didn't know what has happened to him. It felt like his energy was
tapped and as he placed his head on his pillow he drifted off to
sleep,
Outside Max's Window
"Okay, it is time. You can go
and place that miracle crystal on his head and see if it will work"
Liz whispered to Nicholas
Nicholas climbed into the window and
went over to Max. Gently he placed the crystal on Max's forehead and
activated it. After the activation he climbed back out of the bedroom
and said to Liz,
"We have a monitor at the lair so let's go
back and see what Max remembers"
"OOOOH, I can't wait!"
Liz screamed
They climbed into Nicholas's '67 Sedan and drove to
their base of operation. Kivar and Glory was already there waiting
for them and when they saw the two Kivar knew that it was time for
Max to remember Vilandra's treason, death of Rath and Ava, but most
of all his own death.
MEMORY FLASHES
ANTAR
Zan stood next to the war counsel asking them if they
have resolved the Kivar situation,
"Rath, what news do you
have for me?"
"Sire, I fear that the news isn't
good"
"Spill it" Zan ordered
"Well, it
looks like Kivar seduced your sister and she decided to work against
you and support Kivar"
"That can't be! She won't betray
her family!" Zan screamed
"Oh, but it is the truth. Your
Majesty!" they heard a voice answer from the door
"Kivar,
what have you done to my sister?"
"Nothing, she just
decided to follow her heart and by the way. Look at the monitor"
Zan
turned his face towards the monitor and saw how some of Kivar's men
drive a dagger into his wife's heart. As he saw her fell he could see
the anguish in her eyes. He bowed his head and sat there motionless.
Then he heard another scream coming from the monitor, this time he
saw his sister die and as she fell he saw her lips forming a
phrase,
"I'm sorry"
He looked up and looked at Kivar
and asked,
"What are you going to do?"
"Just
what I wanted to do since the day you became King!"
First he
drove a sword into Rath's heart and saw him die, then he walked over
to Zan and drove the same sword into the King's heart. As they left
the room Zan's mother came into the room and when she saw her family
mutilated like this she decided to do the noble thing and that is to
take the four's essences and combine them with another specie's DNA.
So that one day her family could claim the throne again. She called
the best scientists and ordered them to do it.
END OF MEMORY FLASHES
Evans House
Max woke up in cold sweat, he looked
out into the sky, but still that image couldn't fade. He went to
the phone and dialled the number Tess gave him,
"Dawn here"
he heard a person answer while yawning
"Dawn, sorry to wake
you"
"No, what can I do for you?" she asked
"May
I speak to Tess for a while?"
"Sure" Dawn walked to
Tess's room and knocked
"Go away! I'm trying to sleep here!"
Tess screamed
"Sorry to wake you sis, but Max is on the
phone"
Tess stood up rapidly and walked over to the
phone,
"Max, what is it?"
"Um, Tess. I think I
remember the last confrontation I had with Kivar on Antar"
"Are
you sure about that?"
"No, I'm not. That is why I called
you, could you please come over?"
"Sure, I'm on my way.
I just have to tell my family where I'm going"
With that they
said good-bye and Tess walked to the group who was awake by now. She
looked at Buffy, Dawn and the others and said,
"Max needs to
speak to me for a while. I'm going to see him"
"Don't
you want us to come with you?" Angel asked
"No, that
won't be necessary" with those words she left her new family and
went out the door to went to Max. As she knocked on the door she
thought about what Max could have remembered,
"Coming"
she heard Max answer
The door opened and she saw Max standing
there with a shocked expression on his face, as she stepped into the
room she noticed the crystal on his head and pulled it off,
"How
did you get this?" she asked and showed him the crystal
"I…I
don't know. It wasn't on me when I went to bed"
"I think
I know who is doing this"
"What do you mean?" he
asked
She sat down and asked him what he remembered and as he
revealed the memories she sat there expressionless, but said,
"Kivar
just wanted to make sure that you remember your last encounter with
him. He wanted to make sure that when the fighting starts that you
will be able to fight him"
"Do you remember that
incident?"
"Yes, I do. It was one of the first memories
Nasedo told me to remember"
"I know that I must've asked
sooner, but Liz told me that you killed Alex. Now I want to know did
you?"
"No, I could've never done that. I think there is
more to Liz that meets the eyes"
"What do you mean?"
"I
don't know, but I'll find out"
She left
the house and walked around the town for a while before she went
home, as she walked passed the CrashDown she saw a bright light
within the café. She decided to investigate the anomaly and
walked nearer to the door, what she saw bewildered her. She saw a
person looking at its image in the mirror with its hand extended the
next thing Liz was looking at herself in the mirror. She heard then
this startling conversation,
"It's too bad that the royal
four doesn't know who I really am" Liz smiled and walked back to
her room.
Tess couldn't believe her eyes and ears when she heard
this, to know that Liz wasn't human stunned her. She walked towards
the house she shared with Kyle, Dawn, Buffy and the others. As she
opened the door the group was already there waiting for her
return,
"What happened?" they asked in unison
Tess
closed the door and sat down,
"It seems like Max remembered
our last confrontation with Kivar on Antar and then I have to find
out that Liz isn't who she seems to be"
"What are you
talking about?" they wanted to know
She told them what she
saw and that Liz was supposed to be part of the family. This news
shocked Max even more and he decided to confront Liz on this matter.
He called her and told her to meet them at the UFO Centre,
"Now
we are going to get to the heart of the matter"
They walked
to the Centre and waited for Liz to arrive, as the door opened the
whole gang waited for her and then Max said,
"Liz who are you
really?"
"What are you talking about?" she
asked
"Don't play dumb with me! Tess saw you"
"Oh,
this" she said and morphed back into her original form.
"You
are so dumb Zan, you couldn't see that the original Liz was dead and
all you have are those precious memories"
"What are you
talking about?"
"Well, won't you sit down and let me
tell you a story"
They sat down and 'Liz' began the tale,
"Do
you remember the day when Liz told you that Alex was killed?"
"Yes.
We all remember that. What has this got to do about who you are?"
Isabel said.
"Well, everything. Liz did go to Las Cruses to
find out who killed Alex, but she didn't return. I did. I killed her
and decided that it will be a victory for Kivar and the others. Ava
didn't kill Alex, it was Lonnie"
"What are you talking
about. I killed Lonnie in New York!" Tess screamed
"Oh,
no. You thought that you killed her, but she is a good actress and
she made you believe that you killed her, but you were too gullible
to notice that"
Tess sat down with bewilderment written on
her face and then said,
"You were supposed to be part of
us"
"Oh, but you are wrong. I went to Kivar before you
were born on Antar and told him about the power he could have if he
was king, but at that moment he was still loyal to Zan's father and I
decided to wait a few years. When I saw that Zan was going to be king
and that he will be more popular and powerful than Kivar I went to
him again and I told him that it was time to take the throne. It was
there that Vilandra came into the picture so innocent and we found
our power. What surprised us when your mother took your essences is
when we found out about the power Ava has and that another entity was
looking for her and her sister. That is when we decided to form an
alliance with Glory and the others"
With that Glory, Kivar
and Nicholas came into the Centre,
"Can I have you now?' she
said
"NO Bloody way!" Tess and Dawn screamed
Angel,
Cordelia, Buffy and the others formed a circle around the two sisters
and Willow and Tara started to recite a spell, but not just a spell
was performed that day Max held out his hands and a barrier was
formed to protect the two sisters. Tess stepped out of the circle and
looked at Glory and said while she sliced her finger,
"This
is the closest you will ever get to my blood or Dawn's blood. She
held out her hand and s drop of blood fell to the floor, suddenly the
room began to shake and Glory screamed,
"The dimension is
opening!"
"Get back!" Tess screamed and closed the
wound on her finger and said,
"You are useless. You think you
can order us around to do your bid, but you are nothing!"
