Say What?

Author: Lexie M

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. The Timeline is also a bit scrambled in accordance to the show to make the story flow.

A/N; Ok First let me say thank you to my reviewers. 2nd, I want to say Thank you for your patience. I know it's been awhile since my last real update. I also know this is short it's better than nothing right? Also forgive me for the Xs the line breaker option isn't working on my browser this week.

Recap: Previously on Say What?

"You're resistance is futile alien," Pierce grumbled at Liz's stubbornness. He then motioned for someone or something to enter the room. "I'm sure you've seen the t.v. show the X-Files, if you say you been on this planet your entire life, can you imagine the torture they would unleash on their subjects? Well, if not, you're going to find out right now." He smirked.

Liz panicked. She couldn't use her powers now or she would expose herself as an alien and she wasn't certain if Max had heard her plea. She could be thirty states away from her friends and family for all she knew. Her visions never gave her the White Room's location for all she knew she could highly probably be in Area 51 just forty miles away from the crash site.

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Tess sighed. "I suppose this is somehow going to get blamed on me right," she said with a roll of her eyes.

Isabel glared at Tess' rudeness. "A lot of events can be blamed on you Tess. This could be one of them. I have a quick question for you. How could Khivar be on Antar when he was down here the whole time causing trouble for us? How could he have been up there when he was down here trying to kill Liz because she wouldn't submit to him?"

Tess' eyes widened. She didn't count on Khivar being down on Earth continuing to carryout his plan to bring down the Crown of Antar. She had been toiling with other plans on Antar. When tests proved negative alien powers for the baby, she knew it was over to begin with, the baby was human. She was positively angry that the odds stacked in favor of their human DNA. The current King laughed in her face for even thinking about the possibility of passing off a human baby as the heir to the thrown.

"Liz was right about you the whole time and we just shrugged it off as her being jealous of you. When in fact it was all about you being jealous of what she and Max had," Isabel continued. "Tell us Tess what really happened on Antar to make you want to return to a planet you deemed far less superior than an ancient intergalactic civilization?"

Tess just glared back at Isabel. She wasn't about to reveal herself as a liar. She did come to right her wrongs and hopefully redeem herself enough to convince Max to give their relationship another try. She was sorry for mind warping Alex to the point his body and brain couldn't handle it anymore. She was sorry that she killed countless people just to preserve her and her father's plans of revenge against the Royal Antarian Family. "I don't have to explain anything to you."

It was Michael's turn to disclose his opinion of Tess. "I never liked you Tess. I never trusted you either. I knew there was something off about you but you were my ticket home, so I pretended to tolerate you. Now I find out the reason why I wanted to go to Antar has been here on Earth the entire time right under my nose. Now a member of my family has gone missing. We have no clue as to where she is and you're worried about yourself. You aren't the only non-human in this room."

"I think I know where she is," Tess answered quietly.

The other three teenagers looked at her with disbelief. "Well…."

Currently on Say What?

Tess led Max, Michael and Isabelle to the site of her reentry to Earth crash. The baby was dropped safely at the Parkers' residence much to the dismay of Nancy and Jeff. They both had bid the teens a safe mission on retrieving their daughter.

"I can't believe this," Isabelle exclaimed. "Liz can't be here. This place isn't supposed to really exist."

Unfortunately to popular theory there really was a top secret, unmarked on any map, military instillation in the middle of the New Mexico desert known to all as Area 51. Rumored to believe Located in the middle of the Arizona Desert, three of the four teens in the car were shell shocked at the turn of events.

"This is where they are keeping her. They more then likely don't know we know about this. They probably think we'd be searching in the Arizona desert. They're also busy trying to investigate the crash site I made on reentry." Tess addressed them honestly.

Max went into reconnaissance mode taking in all possible dangers before leading his troubles to unfathomable battle recon mission. The danger would be unfathomable once inside the instillation.

"Electrified wire," Max murmured. "We'll have to melt the fencing." Then he pointed at the guard towers with swirling lights. "Need to mind warp the guards in those towers and dodge the light streams incase it doesn't work."

"Ok that will get us inside but what about the soldiers inside the facility," Michael asked in a spout of genius.

"That our dear friend is where you are going to come in," Isabelle interjected, "if Nasedo were still around he would say you need to use your shape shifting power."

Michael glared at Isabelle. After learning what Nasedo's role played in to Tess and Khivar's ultimate plans to overthrow the natural Antarian Royal Thrown. "Great just what I did on my rap sheet murder and impersonation of Government Officials," he grumbled.

"Quit the groining and just get going," Tess grumbled.

"Telling the troops orders is my job Tess," Max admonished. "With you two arguing, we're delayed. Every second we're out here, she's in there mostly likely closer to her death."

Liz was panicking. She had sent her mental message to Max almost an hour and a half ago. She wasn't submitting to Pierce's demands so he gave up left and just came back with a torture specialist.

The specialist took his time in preparing preparation table, taking each torture tool and placing them in meticulous rows on the steel metal table beside the chair Liz was strapped onto with manacles.

"Now," Pierce said slowly as if her hearing was deficient in normal listening. "My friend here is going to dissect you. I know you don't mind. It's not as if your home planet is in existence anyway." He sneered.

"I'm not an alien," Liz protested. "What even makes you think I am?"

Pierce smirked. "Your bio charts are off the graphs," he whispered in her ear. "Now why would that be?"

Liz glared at Pierce as if he were a mad man, "I don't know," she started sarcastically, "Could it be because a top secret government agent is so delusional he thinks I'm an extraterrestrial being and trying to kill me," she voiced louder, "and I'm scared out of my mind or could it be because a psycho mad scientist is about to use his maniacal tool to cut me open!"

She felt Max's presence which was calming her down slightly. She just wished he and the others would find her soon.

"Well, you do have spunk. It's a shame that you're going to have to take one for all humanity." Pierce stated. "Cut her open now," he ordered the scientist. "Take blood and DNA samples. I want to know every single molecule broken down and cataloged." He left the room the way he came and Liz now more then ever feared for her life.

Tess made quick work of the mind warping government agents and making the scene look innocent enough as not cause a raise out of the guards. Max and Michael knocked out a couple guards and Michael shape shifted into one of them. Isabelle tried dream walking Liz with out a picture or Liz being a sleep.

"She's in a white room," Isabelle relayed to her brother. "It's down that way," she said pointing towards Northwest wing of the military instillation. At this point they were already inside and Michael had gotten them past all critical check points.

The closer to the room they got, all their nerves were rumbled and any sound made them antsy. There always was a slight chance that not everyone fell under Tess' mind warps.

The closer they got to the room the more Max's connection to Liz strengthened. He felt her nervousness, he felt her fear and more then anything he felt her regret. He was going to make sure that once they got her out of there. He was never going to let her out of his sight again.

Michael and Isabelle got to the rooms door first instead of doing a security measure, they both opted for blasting the door down. Tess stood guard outside the door while Max Michael and Isabelle raided the room.

The room and its scene was bleak fear had been etched onto Liz's face, she didn't even flinch from the blast her eyes were trained on the needle the scientist was using. The scientist however dropped the equipment in his hand and began to cower into the corner.

Michael made sure he was pinned to the corner wall as Max and Isabelle made quick work of extracting Liz for the steel examination table. Max gathered her into his arms and ordered Isabelle to get out of the room.

"Michael take care of him," Max ordered. He wasn't one for murder, manslaughter or mayhem but this guy was about to kill his mate and he needed to be taught a lesson. He knew he'd regret it later and they all would be high on the top secret agency target list for the rest of their lives but desperate times call for desperate measures.

"Let's go I'm sure there are cameras everywhere and they'll see the extreme differences any second," Tess bellowed.

By the time Tess let out her distress, the scientist was already an unconscious lump on the floor, and the three unscathed hybrids were on there way out the room with one traumatized alien in tow.

With Liz in his arms Max started running towards the way they entered just as guards were waking for their mind warps. "Let's go!" He shouted all the hybrids followed as Tess was retrying to re-establish the mind warps again but by then the damage had already been done. The guards were now open firing upon the five teens. Isabelle and Michael lagged behind to stop as many guards as possible. Only a handful lay unconscious on the floor as they exited the installation.

They managed to get to the jeep unscathed, Max managed to get Liz settled into the front seat as the others settled into the backseats. After all were settled in Max slammed his foot onto the gas, after starting the engine and putting the vehicle in gear, stirring the jeep on to the open road.

During all the commotion Liz managed to slip into a deep sleep, as the others switched from watching her carefully to looking over their shoulder and above their heads to see if they were being followed.

"That was close," Isabelle stated, being the first one to break the uncomfortable silence. Adrenaline was still pumping through all their veins and all she got in return was slight nods of heads. "Do you know what this means?" She asked the others. "This means our lives are in even more jeopardy then they were before."

Max sighed as he looked in the rearview and side view mirrors of the jeep, "We're just going to have to be extremely cautious for now on."

"Easier said then done Max," Tess stated. "I may have been able to provide a few distractions but I doubt their cameras were touched by the cover. We have to go back there and destroy all evidence of us being there."

Max thought about what Tess was suggesting but he couldn't risk their lives anymore tonight. "That's just your adrenaline talking. We need to rest we used our powers a great deal today. We need to recharge."

The rest of the ride back to Roswell was quiet and no one dared break the peace.

It was close to three a.m. when they all arrived back at Michael's apartment, Max settled Liz on the couch tucking a blanket snuggly around her fetal positioned body and shook his head. Liz didn't deserve this. She had only wanted to be honest with her friends and it made her the primary target in their group.

He made himself comfortable on the floor near the couch she was resting on and made sure everyone else was settled in for the night before closing his eyes to fall asleep.

Two hours later Tess was up, she had made up her mind, she was going to destroy the secret base whether the others approved or not. She needed help though and she could only think of one person to ask.

Silently walking around Max and trying to wake Liz up without waking up her King, Tess reached over and gently shook Liz awake. When Liz woke Tess put a finger to her lip as if to say don't say a word. Then she motioned Liz to follow her.

They were outside Michael's apartment before either spoke. "I've got to do something Liz and I need your help. I know we have never gotten along but this is something I have to do to make amends for my wrong doings."

Liz looked at Tess for the first time in both of their two lives as a person who made mistakes like everyone else. Someone who needed forgiveness just as much as the next person, "Why do you need my help?" She asked slightly confused about why Tess couldn't have asked one of the others from the other worldly home.

"I need you to drive me back to the base. I have some unfinished business there. I don't want to do it alone either." Tess stated with genuine fear in her eyes.

Liz didn't know why but she some how related herself to Tess. "Ok Tess, I'll come along." The two young women took Max's jeep and started back into the desert to the military installation.

They parked on the outer perimeter. Liz shut down the jeep looked over her shoulder and Tess and the looming building, that only hours ago was going to be the last thing she ever saw alive. Somewhere deep down she knew Tess was going on a suicide mission, that this was the last time any one of her friends and family would ever see Tess again.

"Please do me a favor Liz," Tess said as she looked out the window to what would be in just a few short minutes her final resting place. "Tell Lucas I love him. Tell everyone I'm really sorry for everything. I never imagined everything would get so out of hand. I also just want to say I'm sorry for all the horrible things I've done to you in this life and the last life."

"I forgive you Tess. I tell Lucas all about his brave, honorable and courageous mother. I'll let everyone know you were truly sorry. I'm sorry too for not seeing you as a person with feelings. I'm sorry for making you feel as if you didn't belong with us or apart of our group. You'll stay in my heart Tess as someone who may have had the worst of intentions in the beginning but the best in the end."

Tears were rolling down both girls eyes as Tess started exiting the car. Liz couldn't help watch Tess take her death march towards the installations main building. She watched as Tess melted a hole into the barbed wire fencing and run the quarter mile from the fence to the building. A few sort minutes later Liz saw the whole building explode and go into flames, a burst of sorrow filled her.

"Good bye Tess," she whispered. She wiped her tears from her eyes, started the jeep and started speeding away back to Roswell and to her family. She would have a lot of explaining to do in the morning but right now she needed to mourn the loss of her mortal enemy just recently turned good friend. "I will keep my promise. You have my word," she murmured.

Well that's the end of Tess. I tried to keep it as much as I could to go along with the actually story line from the t.v. show. Not to worry this isn't the end of Say What? I plan on continuing the story so more.