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.
Liz Parker smiled as she saw her boyfriend Max Evans walking towards her at the Crash down Café where she worked with her best friend Maria De Luca. She saw him smile back at her. Her heart soared just at that site.
"You really need to tone that down," Maria stressed the word really. "You're actually drooling this time. Just by that site alone you would never know that you've been dating for almost three years." She rolled her eyes.
Liz laughed and tucked her few loose dark brown hair strands behind her ears, "Maria," she exaggerated a giggle. "I am not that bad."
"Ask the Czechoslovakians," Maria stated about their friends, Max Evans, Michael Guerin and Isabel Evans who were the "Czechoslovakians" the blond haired 17 year old girl was talking about.
"I don't drool, Maria," Liz smiled rolling her eyes at her friend. Then as Max was coming closer Liz got lost in thought about her fellow, "Czechoslovakians."
They weren't Czechoslovakian at all. They were alien-human hybrids that crash landed in the desert near Roswell New Mexico in the late 1940s. With supernatural powers, they were on the run from the "Special Unit" which was a team of scientists and FBI Agents who were seeking them out and hoping to make them test/experiment subjects.
It was hard for the three aliens, whose home planet is Antar, which is in a different galaxy and solar system, to trust the girls with their secrets of being otherworldly after Max had heeled Liz after she got shot in the Crash Down three years ago. Since the shooting at the Crash Down they practically became inseparable from the "Czechoslovakians" as Maria so calls endearingly. All though Max, Michael and Isabel thought they had secrets it was nothing compared to Liz.
Liz had the biggest secret of all. No one but her parents knew and they were the ones you had sworn her to secrecy. She knew the real reason why she was so dangerously attracted to Max Evans, the proclaimed leader of the "Czechoslovakian" trio and future king of the planet Antar.
Liz knew why she was attracted to him because she herself was Antarian. Her parents were both alien-human hybrids that were involved in the spacecraft crash that happened over fifty years ago. The chances were fifty-fifty that she would be born full human or full alien because of her parents' genetic make-up but she had been born full alien with powers more powerful then her three hybrid friends' powers. Her parents were sent with the "Royal Four" which were Max, Michael, Isabel and a blonde Vixen by the name of Tess Harding, who's soul purpose according to herself, was (to be a nuisance and) to "produce" the heir to the Antarian throne along with being the king's "bride". Her parents' jobs were to protect the royal four at all costs. They were also to "produce" the king's real bride but not to let on what their real jobs entailed.
Liz was drilled on a daily basis not to let on to the four other hybrids what or who she was while growing up. It wasn't until the shooting, which her father secretly organized, that she really had any friendships or relationships with the other hybrids. Tess came last year just as Liz and Max were getting settled into their romantic relationship. Tess knew the truth she wasn't a stupid girl, Liz threatened the very basis of Tess' reason for existence.
Nasedo, who was a shape-shifting alien, was Tess' father. Nasedo had been the Antarian Royal Family's arch enemy who cut a deal with the current King's second in command to somehow "produce" an heir to the thrown that the second could have influence over.
Liz kept her mouth shut as Tess and Nasedo popped out of the woodwork to help the remaining royal three to regain some memories of their old lives back on their home planet, knowing full well that their motives weren't what her friends were anticipating.
Her thoughts continued on to an event that the three remaining hybrids had no knowledge of. It was around the time Tess had shown up in Roswell to connect with the first Royal Three. Tess had gone back to Antar a few short months after the event.
"You'll be sorry if you ever rat me out Liz Parker." Tess hissed at Liz. Tess was the only one out of the five teen aliens who was even remotely as in control of their powers as Liz is. Tess detected that Liz was one of them but knew that the others had know idea.
"Oh don't worry Ava," Liz hissed. "I wouldn't dream of it. Besides now that the natural queen is here to levy up the score I wonder how your dear Uncle Khivar's plan will go into action."
Tess gasped. "How'd you..."
"Tess, I'm the child of the "Royal Four's" protectors. The King and Queen knew of Khivar's disloyalty why do you think they sent protectors? They knew your father would come and try to deceive the crown prince."
Liz saw Tess begin to concentrate probably trying to do a mind warp or produce an electrical charge out of her hands. She laughed, "Try it and die Ava. You're part human you have vulnerabilities that I can really take advantage of."
"Stop calling me Ava."
Liz smiled, "Why it's your Antarian name isn't?"
"You may be more powerful then me Liz because you're full Antarian but your parents are still hybrids which means you can't be more powerful then Nasedo. You better watch out."
"Think what you want Ava. I'm not the one you should be warning. I know the truth. You're going to distort it to Zan, Vilandra and Rath. Zan hated you back when we were all on Antar. What makes you think he'll like you any more when he finds out the real truth?"
"Liz," Max's smooth low tone shook Liz out of her reverie.
She smiled, "Oh Hi Max."
"Where were you just now," he asked with one eye brow cocked up in concern. That expression brought visions of their past together to pop up in her front mind.
Aliza (Liz) had been out for a walk, it was two weeks before her nuptials to Zan (Max), when Khivar strolled up to her.
He used to be her fantasy man. With his well defined cheek bones, clear blue eyes, short spiky dirty blond hair. He carried a presence around him that was completely conquistador. He had his sights on Aliza too just for the soul purpose of ruining all chances Zan had for the throne.
His smiled sent unwelcome chills down Aliza's spine. "Aliza my sweet, sweet Grace, what are you doing out here all by yourself?"
Aliza smiled. Surely Khivar didn't think that her betrothed would allow her to talk a stroll by herself during a Civil War. Zan had been watching her from one of the towers of the Keep that they resided. Rath (Michael) was about a hundred feet behind her.
Khivar was well aware of the situation and sensed Zan and Rath keeping a watchful eye on the future Queen.
"Khivar you are not a simpleton. Surely you know that I'm being protected even if it appears that I'm alone."
"My Grace. I wouldn't let you leave my sight let alone allow you more then five feet away from me fourteen sunrises away from your ceremony."
Aliza smiled demurely. "Even a bridegroom knows when his betroth needs air to breathe Khivar."
Khivar glowered. "He's not worthy of your devotion to him."
"Need I remind you that you are a servant to him and his family Khivar. It would not be wise to betray him or speak vane of him. That would be high treason punishable by execution," she snapped angrily.
Khivar bowed his head. He wasn't going to led Zan get away with marrying anyone he was interested in. "I'm sorry Your Grace. I will learn to hold my tongue next time I have the urge to speak of my prince in vane."
Aliza nodded, politely dismissed herself and walked back up to the Keep where her betroth was expecting her.
"Did he harm a hair on your precious head," Zan asked with concern written all over her as he rushed to her to do a mental inspection of his betroth.
Aliza barely had stepped inside their chambers when Zan had come rushing towards her. "I'm fine my Love. Khivar was just being his harmless self."
Liz snapped out of her reverie again, "Nowhere Max. I just had to go over a list of things I had to do today after work mentally." She lied.
Max smiled satisfied with her answer. "Ok, well maybe if you have time you'd like to come and stop by Michael's? We're all planning on watching movies all night."
Liz thought about it for a few moments, "Sure no problem. I'll be there." She smiled. She was relieved too that Tess was on Antar no doubt getting a licking for coming home with a human infant in her womb. "It'll probably be late though. I have to close up tonight." She wondered how Tess was feeling right now in front of Khivar. She had sensed that Tess' child was full human, Khivar wouldn't stand for it, she knew what Khivar would probably do to Tess when the infant would be delivered and found out that it didn't have any powers.
Max smiled, "Ok, Then I'll see you tonight."
"You bet," she smiled back, hoping, Max hadn't caught her little glitch. She had said that she had a list of things to do after work. Then she turned around and said she would be closing the Crash Down tonight.