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Forgotten

Summary: This story is about one day, in Michael's life, in which several things events will happen. A day that he thinks no-one remembers. It will be a long time before he can forget. A day that will be a long time before anyone could forget. Michael & Isabel centered Fic, Tess & Alex friendship.
AN: This chapter has a lot going on.

As he watched the unique group drive away, a malicious smirk formed on his face. 'This is going to be easy. Way too easy,' he thought as he slammed his prop closed. Unwittingly he draw attention to himself with the noise.

"In my time, a young man knew how to behave," commented on of the old ladies that sat next to him.

'I'll have you know, that I was around in your time. You humans were as barbaric back then as you are now,' he thought as he gathered his stuff.

"I think he's way too young to be driving," added another lady.

"I agree. He looks way to young to be driving. If he gets into the driver seat we'll call the sheriff, until then maybe he's late for meeting his mother," whispered the third old lady.

'I can hear you! You stupid old birdies! I hope you all croak. Maybe… yes that would do it,' he decided as he raised his hand.

"Now honey," soothed the woman who grabed his wrist. "You don't want to do anything that would draw attention to yourself."

"Yes mother," he sneered as he yanked his wrist out of her grip. "They just left." Moving away from the easy-dropping old ladies, he through away the prop. "They are without their leader, but remember Ava is formidable."

"Do we know where the king is?" she asked as she opened the door to a black sedan.

"Who cares," he answered.

"Nickolas!" she admonished. "I don't want to be stuck on this planet any longer then I have too."

"Ada, he's with his human," declared another man as he joined the group. "Yes, I'm sure. I saw her gleefully watching the group leave from the video store."

"Crane," greeted Nicholas. "All we need is for one of them to tell us where the Granolith is and we're going home heroes." Getting into the backseat of the sedan, he opened a silver case. Flicking a few buttons, he impatiently waited for the system to come to life. "Well, at lest the humans have progressed in their tracking devises."

"So where to?" Ada asked. .

"Somewhere in the canons," replied Nicholas.

"It would be something if they just lead us right to it," Crane huffed as they followed the group at a slower pace.

Meanwhile in the video store, Liz watched the laughing group peel out of the General store parking lot. 'Thank god, they left. For a moment there it looked like Max was going to follow Michael,' thought Liz before she turned around. Swinging her arms she quickly found Max standing in front of the sci-fi area talking on his cell phone.

"Right, I agree. Ok, do you have everything?" Max questioned as he turned his head and offered her a soft smile. "No, I'm spending the afternoon with Liz. What? Oh, yes, I'll be there. I know eight o'clock sharp. Yes, mom," Max laughed as he hung up.

"We have only until eight?" Liz asked as she pouted at max prettily.

"No, we have until about six-thirty," Max contradicted as he looked over some movie titles. "I have to do a little shopping for mom."

"Why don't we do that now?" Liz suggested.

"Because then we wouldn't have time for the movie. Liz do you have a title in mind?" Max questioned.

"But Max…" whined Liz until she saw that her plea was falling on deaf-ears. "I was thinking 'Princess Bride' or maybe even 'Sabrina.' What do you think?"

'Torture of the damned,' Max thought as he fought to keep a smile on his face. "Which-ever you choose." He watched her skip away, before he sighed. His eyes followed her as she plucked a movie off of the shelf. Max forced himself not to flinch when he that she had chosen Princess Bride. 'Great. Just great.'

Meanwhile Alex is shocked when Tess lets out a happy squeal as she clutched his side of the Jeep. He took in the happy faces over his companions before a bright smile bloomed across his face. He was prepared for the sharp turn that Isabel took but Tess crashed into him.

Looking down into her face, Alex saw how un-nerved she was. 'It must have been hard to grow up with Nasedo. I don't think she has ever had fun. He had no human side. She probably was never even hugged,' Alex thought as he let out a loud laugh. He watched in fascination as Tess instantly relaxed.

"Trying to be Daisy Duke?" Michael asked as Isabel took another sharp turn. "Where's Enos when you need him?"

"Isabel, are you sure you have your license?" Tess questioned as she felt the Jeep speed up. "Because I don't think…." Tess groaned as she covered her head with her hands. "I know! The instructor had a crush on you!"

"Wouldn't be the first time!" added Alex. "Remember Mister Rodes, our seventh grade math teacher?"

"Oh yeah, Mister Rodes, I had forgotten about him," laughed Michael as he watched Isabel flush. "He took one look at Izzy and started to stammer."

"It wasn't funny!" snapped Isabel. "He was old!"

Meanwhile in the car that was following them, Nicholas fumed. 'They're just having a joy-ride! I didn't come all this way for a damn joy-ride!' Grinding his teeth, he struggled to re-gain control of his temper.

"This is ludicrous!" snapped Ada as she slammed a hand down on the steering wheel. "She's just driving in circles."

Inspecting the monitor, Nicholas smirked. 'The only things around here are caverns and tunnels. If I don't get the Granolith at lest I'll be able to kill Rath again,' Nicholas thought.

"Crane, stop the car. With the sunlight, they won't see us until it's too late. When they circle back, we'll attack them," ordered Nicholas. Watching the monitor, Nicholas raised his hand. "They're coming around the corner now."

"Oh come on Izzy!" laughed Michael. "You liked have him under your sway." As he observed her face flush even redder, Michael smirked at her. 'Oh, yeah this is going to be fun!' Out of the corner of his eyes, he thought he saw a black sedan. 'Who would be out this way?'

Shaking it off, Michael heard Alex's horrified whisper, "What the hell?" before turning his head in time to see a wave of green rush towards them.

"Brace for impact!" shouted Michael as he raised his hand to create a shield. He knew that they were in major trouble when his shield crumbled under the impact. He heard Isabel scream his name before he felt power rush into him. Thick blue glass forms from Michaels' hand as he notices that the landscape changed from sunny skies to angry red flames.

"The Jeep's on fire!" screamed Alex. "Keep holding that shield!"

"We're going over!" cried Isabel as she latched onto Michael adding her power to his. "Oh my God! Michael!"


 TBC !