Author: Lexie M

Title: Say What?

Category: Sci Fi/Romance

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimer: Although I probably would be extremely wealthy by now if I did, but sadly I don't own them, and I don't claim to own them. This is fiction and I am not making any profit out of this at all.

Pairing: M/L

Summary: The pod squad and their human counterparts find out some disturbing news. How will it change the balance of their world as they know it?

Warning: AU. The Parkers are aliens as well from the same planet as the Pod Squad.

Author's Note: Thank you purpleant for you kind review, It's a great feeling to know someone likes your work.

"I'm Antarian." Liz repeated.

"That can't be you were born here on earth," Maria protested.

Liz nodded. "I know but that was the way it was suppose to be. My parents are hybrids." She looked at her three otherworldly counterparts.

"You mean you're....and you didn't tell any of us," Michael fumed.

Liz's head sunk to her chest and she shook it, "I couldn't. I was under strict orders."

"Whose orders," Isabel fumed, she was just as mad as Michael, Liz could feel it.

"Your protectors," Liz whispered starting to feel smaller by the second. She was relieved to know that Max hadn't said anything yet.

"Our protectors? What the hell? We only have one Nasedo. Remember him or have you forgotten?" Michael fumed some more.

Tears welled in Liz's eyes. She knew it was risky to come out with the truth now since so much has happened to them. "Nasedo was never chosen to be your protector," she continued as she started drying up the tear futilely with her hands. "He's Khivar's brother."

"Khivar, you mean the guy who Vilandra betrayed her brother for," Isabel asked.

Liz nodded, "Khivar is the current Antar king's second in command. He'll stop at nothing to keep Max from the throne, even attempt to have his niece seduce Max to produce the next heir to the throne." She said looking at Max.

Max looked at Liz, "You mean...Tess..."

Liz gave a weak smile and, "Yes, Tess and I back on Antar weren't exactly the best of friends. She just like her Uncle was ruthless. They wanted the "Skins" to take over the control over our species."

"Skins, what the heck," Michael asked.

"How do you know all this. Who are our protectors Liz?" Max asked calmly.

"My parents, Max, are your protectors. Because they are hybrids their alien DNA allowed me to become full Antarian here on earth. Just like you I have had two lives."

"My son will he be full Antarian?"

Liz shook her head, "Unfortunately no and because of that Khivar will be furious. Tess failed her mission and she'll have hell to pay at his hands."

"Why your parents," Michael yelled making Liz and Maria flinch. "Why do they have to be our protectors?"

Liz looked up, "Because of me..."

"What about you?"

"I was Zan's, I mean Max's, betroth back on Antar," she looked at Max.

Max looked at Liz with anger written all over his face once again making Liz flinch. "You're saying that Tess and Nasedo are in co-hoots with an alien dictator who wants to over throw my family? Tess was never my bride? Why didn't you say anything?"

"Mom and Dad needed it that way. I've tried to tell you thousands of times, but they wouldn't let me. They said you had to choose your bride on your own no matter what the price was, even if I lost you." She mumbled sadly.

"All the times when you and your parents were talking about stuff in whispers," Alex asked, "You were talking about them," he asked again pointing to the three other aliens.

"Yes."

"That time I caught you in a trance chanting in that language?" Maria asked.

"Antarian. I was trying to keep control of my powers since I have not been allowed to use them. They like to manifest and if they manifest enough I can lose control at anytime, especially if I'm stressed out or scared."

"In the lab last year...?" Kyle asked.

"I couldn't let you see what my blood cells looked like. They don't look anything like human cells or hybrid cells either."

"If you're full Antarian then how come you look like us. You're not a shape shifter are you?"

Liz laughed, "No I'm not a shape shifter. There's three species on Antar, the Skins, the Shape shifters and then us. The hybrids, human look a likes not to be mistaken as skins. Skins are parasites that take over another species outer shell, the skin. They're able to live for fifty years in the skin. Shape shifters can assume the identity of any living thing. The hybrids really don't have any of the weaknesses of shape shifters or skins. Well we have one weakness, our emotions and attachments."

"This is too much," Isabel blasted. "So you've known all along who we were and you didn't say shit because our protectors told you not to. Did our protectors let us know that they were alive? Did they know that we were separated? Why the hell would you play God with us?"

"It was your parents will Isabel!" Liz shouted. "I know you're angry and you have every right to be. You have only fragments of memory about your past. That's due to your humanity. I've been cursed for the last few years knowing everything that has happened to all of us back on Antar."

"So you lied to us all because of some aliens who we don't know insisted on it." Michael yelled some more.

Liz sighed, "Look, I know you're angry and you have every right to be because everything that you've learned about yourselves is only half true. Vilandra didn't really betray Zan. Rath was never Tess' brother. He was Aliza's brother."

"What...who's Aliza?" Isabel asked confused.

"That's my Antarian name," Liz looked sheepishly.

Michael was fuming, "You mean all this time. My parents were close? Really close? You guys never came forward about this."

"It was to keep us all safe. The King and Queen had you in the pod chamber with Max and Isabel for a reason. Mom and Dad had to deliver me once the crash was over. We were killed all four of us. They saved our life forces and sent us to be reborn on earth. Mom and Dad were trying to keep you guys from being noticed. They tried to get to the pod chamber before you hatched Michael but it was too late. Social Services had already picked you up and placed you in Hank Guerin's guardianship."

"How powerful are you," Max asked softly. His voice startled Liz. He had been quiet ever since he learned of Tess' part in all of this.

Liz gulped. Not really wanting to tell and knowing that if she didn't, she probably would never see any of these people again.

"How powerful are you," he repeated in a firmer tone when Liz didn't answer.

"I could destroy this whole town with a very powerful destruction orb if I was really angry," Liz said sadly. "I can put up force shields, energy fields, and anything you guys can do just on a more highly enhanced level. There're lots of powers I have that you guys have too. You just haven't tapped into them yet Mind warps are a piece of cake, changing clothes, car colors, hair colors, eye colors and nail enamel colors as well."

"Thus, the reason for all, the Tabasco sauce bottles being ordered every week?"

"Yeah," Liz answered Max cautiously.

"And the green sparks flying out of your hands in Vermont?"

Again Liz nodded. "Being around you like that was painful after learning you had been intimate with Tess. My powers had been manifested for about a month since I did my mantra and being around you stressed me out, so they went a little out of control."

"I didn't mean to hurt you Liz."

Liz smiled sympathetically, "I know Max. That day you walked up to Tess just as I was running away. That was Tess rubbing in my face that you and her slept together. That she was pregnant. She asked how it felt to lose and I would never be the mother of your children. That was the final straw. That was the day I pleaded with my parents to send me away."

"The shooting at the Crash Down did your parents...?"

Liz nodded, "They had to devise a way for you to approach me. It was clear that you would have just left me alone if they hadn't intervened."

"What about the shooter?"

"They hired the thugs that wrestled. The shot was meant to be for me. The shooter purposely missed the other guy."

"How about the police? Did your parents mean for them to get involved."

"No, not at all. It was their intension to have something drastic happen for Max to follow his instincts and act impulsively."

"Sounds like your parents are manipulative and calculating. So are you." Michael spat at Liz. "Thank goodness they didn't show up at my pod in time."

"You were safe up until the shooting happened. You should be grateful. You're safety was because of them. The Special Unit wasn't even after you because my parents distracted them. They've been looking for you...us ever since the ship crashed but couldn't because Mom and Dad hid all evidence of alien life being in Roswell," Liz stated angrily.

She was fuelled and she had to get out of there before she popped out the light bulbs.

Just then several light bulbs blew up. "Damn Maxwell I just replaced those two days ago," Michael muttered shaking his head. "You keep this up and they turn off my electric because I can't pay for it."

Max looked in the direction he felt Liz in. "It wasn't me Michael."

"Then who was it?"