AN – Firstly, if you haven't read the revamped chapter one, may I suggest you do. The changes are minor but important. Secondly, I've been reading Roswell Oracle and looked up the shows history. Antares just doesn't match the V shaped constellation in the show. I'm going with Al Risha in Pieces. As this is AU after season one, I guess it really doesn't matter. All will be revealed as to why Liz's flashes in Heat Wave are deceiving.

The pulse went out. The moment Max, Tess, Isabel and Michael activated the orbs, the quantum particle wave sped through the Earth's atmosphere. It reached an unsuspecting farm house just outside Belleview, Kansas first. Milliseconds later an ordinary suburban home on the outskirts of Jefferson, Missouri received the signal. An inner city apartment in Chicago, Illinois became the next target. The final locations, an isolated lighthouse on the coast of Oregon and a car speeding across a bridge in New York City received the pulse last due to their distance.

The signals arrived within a single second of the initial call. Each activating the electronics in a small black box their owners kept hidden. At first one triangle flashed, then another in no particular sequence. Faster and faster, the lights throbbed while the device vibrated with increasing frequency and a pinging sound filled the air. Finally all five parts, one after another formed a complete pattern. A pentagon composed of five identical triangles illuminated by an unearthly internal light.

'It has begun,' Nasedo, still taking the form of Person, smirked as he observed the device in his hand. He didn't allow any emotion to seep onto his fixed expression. He knew what he must do next, how the plan changed with this event. In the back ground the New York Skyline lit up the night sky like a beacon. It might have been his intended destination a moment ago, but not now. 'I can only hope this time history will not repeat itself. Now there are five I must call the Alliance to Enclave.'

Changing lanes, Nasedo took the next exit. He needed transportation back to New Mexico immediately. Human devices wouldn't allow him to travel almost instantaneously and his powers left a trail if anyone knew how to detect it. After all, that's how he managed to get here so fast. Still he couldn't afford the energy expenditure often and then only in a desperate situation. He also required an isolated spot and the communicator in his hands. The others knew they'd be required to attend when he called but Nasedo had the master device and must activate it first.

'Finally,' he muttered under his breath as the car turned onto a desolate road.

Climbing from the vehicle, Nasedo walked a short distance into the lightly wooded area. Taking the alien device from his pocket, his thumb hovered over one of the triangles. With a deliberate jab at the button, he pressed it with all his might. It turned green as he made the unique connection. Taking the pressure from the pad, he waited for the return signals.

Yellow, orange, red, the triangles lit up one after another signaling an answer to the predetermined call. Barely seconds in between the others would be waiting in an isolated location for the next stage. The final pulse, one he knew may never come, completed the pattern and commenced the Enclave. It represented the final member of the Alliance, the most impervious and least willing to change the future. When it finally came, dawn broke over the mountains before him.

'It is done,' Nasedo let out a very human sigh to relieve the tension.

A blue light joined its companions on the device. Flickering they all returned to a bright white. Then it expanded to envelope him. Not the light of changing from one human form to another. This pure form of energy, generated by his link with the device in his hand dissolved Nasedo's molecular structure. Sucked into the black box only a few particles of dust had been left in its wake. Thousands of miles away Nasedo reformed in the healing cave he'd once shared with the Indian called River Dog. The five spokes of the healing circle still on the ground, he stood at one of the intersection points. Slowly, he became aware of the others materializing around him.

'Why do you call us to Enclave?' asked the woman to his right.

To an outsider, it appeared five very average human beings stood around a stone circle, gazing at each other. Not one of them displayed an emotion on their neutral faces. Indeed, they could get lost in any crowd. The eerie silence the only sign they weren't entirely what they seemed.

'They have uncovered the fifth,' the second woman in the group answered, 'or there would not be five of us and this meeting would not be necessary.'

'Then it truly has begun,' commented an Asian man with a serious expression.

'Why else,' the final member of the group glance at the others with disdain, 'would the device activate. It is what my people designed it for.'

'Stop bickering,' Nasedo demanded, 'and share your Earth names. We must act as one now, to stop the coming invasion. I am Ed Harding. On this world I have been father to Tess since she hatched from the pod.'

'That was not your position,' the first woman sounded slightly angry. 'We are here to protect and serve without contacting them. Their safety comes from anonymity, from being normal human beings. They were to be inconspicuous and blend in until we needed them. Besides, she is my ward and you had no right.'

'Where are the others?' the second woman asked, suddenly concerned. She held more responsibility with two representing her planetary system.

'They were designed to hatch together,' the Asian man stated, worried for his charge. 'The four should have formed an unbreakable bond, inseparable, two pairs as on Al Risha.'

'We all know the ship crashing changed everything,' the first woman sounded infuriated. 'Two were lost in the process and the humans found out about us through the third. These people of Earth were not supposed to uncover our secret until we are ready to unveil our presence. Only you survived to protect the four.'

'What has changed the plan?' the final member looked almost board.

'Stop,' Ed called. 'I cannot answer all your questions at once. I came to the chamber to bury the orb long after they should have hatched. The others had gone. Max and Isabel wandered the desert alone. Michael did not trust them and became separated after they hatched. They had already found human homes. You all know of their current whereabouts and history. Tess remained, trapped in her incubator. I could not leave her to an uncertain fate.'

Nodding sadly at this news, Nasedo captured each person's eye to gain their support for the next stage of their renewed plan. They understood the significance. Somewhere their stratagem malfunctioned. The four should have stayed together. Now the fifth appeared. Each wondered if she would bring balance to the battle that lay ahead.

'I am known as Sally Jenkinson,' the first woman spoke verbally to break the looming silence.

'Anne Fitzroy,' the second woman added, glaring at the first and returning to telepathy.

'Matthew Loh,' the slightly Asian looking man answered.

'Eshehell,' the final member all but whispered into the minds of the others. When they turned on her, she sent them a quelling look. 'I am not human and will not pretend to be. I am here against my better judgment to clean up the mess you have made. It is my people who suffer the most after your mistakes, Ed Harding.'

'That is why our worlds are in trouble,' Sally spat, 'why we have been forced to take this human form. Your people will not obey or take part in the Alliance.'

'Stop,' Nasedo held out a hand. 'These are old arguments left over from our previous lives. We cannot change the past. While you came to this Earth recently to replace those who were lost, I am the one who has stood by them all these years. I am the only truly independent. Each of you has someone to protect.'

'Meaning?' demanded Anne, feeling she had more right.

'We know of the crash and the loss of those onboard,' Matthew spoke. 'It is why we were sent to continue the plan. Your presence and dedication has been noted.'

'The three followed the plan until one year ago,' Nasedo closed his eyes and opened his mind completely. They communicated telepathically, allowing Ed Harding to replay the events of the last year instantaneous.

'Max woke the fifth,' Anne covered her eyes with a hand when Nasedo finished flashing the images. She understood the meaning only too well, just as her companions would.

'I will proceed from here,' Esthehell stated without emotion, 'alone. You have destroyed any chance to save this world, Ed Harding, with your interference. History must not repeat itself.'

'How can history repeat itself,' Anne challenged. 'Max has woken the fifth. That did not occur in our time. You showed us the bond between them. The change has been made so why have we been called to Enclave?'

'Because,' Esthehell's eyes flared with indignation, 'he holds back vital information. Ed Harding retains the destiny book and filled Tess's head with prophecy of the past. She believes Ed Harding to be her protector, originating from the same planet. Tess believes Max to be her destiny. She has betrayed Max once again and plays into Kivar's hands. The invasion of Earth will be successful if we can't contain this.'

'We could not save our worlds,' Sally mourned, 'but it is hoped we can stop Kivar's lust for power over the rest of the galaxy.'

'Then all is lost,' Matthew analyzed the situation, 'unless we act immediately. Where are they? We must know, Ed and go to them. Our standing back and watching is at an end.'

'They were at the pod chamber when I left them,' Nasedo stated, 'and determined to set off the orbs forcing this Enclave. Max refuses to relinquish the fifth.'

'He took her to the chamber,' Anne glared at Esthehell. 'She has no right. She is one of you, not us.'

'It is the reason we are here,' Nasedo appeared nonplused by the conversation. 'They are unaware of her true gifts or the issues her presence has caused.'

'Yet you deliberately exposed Tess to the book without giving her the knowledge to understand it,' Esthehell commented. 'Tess then used her powers to drive a wedge between Max and the fifth. We all know the events that lead to the down fall of our alliance, our civilization. He fights for the survival of humanity and through it the ability to save our peoples. Ed Harding is fighting for his world. He alone has no one to protect on Earth. He is not invested in the future the way we are. His actions are indisputable. He is a traitor to the greater cause.'

One glance at Nasedo and the truth unfolded. Nothing could be kept secret between the members of the enclave when linked telepathically. They'd been reengineered to ensure trust and cooperation between the five worlds they represented. Not only their individual survival depended on it, but the fate of all the known habited planets in the galaxy.

'What are your plans,' Matthew requested, turning to Esthehell as though the woman now took control of the group.

'You are going to the fifth?' Anne asked, slightly afraid.

'It is time Liz Parker met her birth mother,' Esthehell stated, turning and walking out of the cave. As she did so, Esthehell touched the upper right hand star in the formation on the wall. It began to glow with a faint blue hue without inserting the healing stone.

'What do we do now,' Sally asked, looking to the others.

'Follow the plan,' Matthew responded, stepping away from the circle, 'as best we can and await Esthehell's communications.'

As they approached the map on the wall, each lightly touched their world's stellar representation. Matthew's home began to glow yellow below Esthehell's. Next Anne caressed the indentation at the base of the V. It turned a vibrant red. Sally came next, contacting the dimple above and to the left which glowed orange. Finally Nasedo lit the final space with a soft green radiance.

Let me know what you think - is it worth continuing?