Roswell Fanatics

Title: The Guardians
Author: MagickFantasy86
Rating: YTEEN through MATURE
Category: CC M/L
Disclaimer: I don’t own anything. Try to sue me and the only thing you’ll get is my Physics textbook. So try, please. Take my phsysics textbook, Please take it away
Summary: It takes place right when Kyle gets shot, so Destiny hasn’t happened yet but there will probably be parts of Destiny in this.
Author's Note: This is my first fic so please be kind. But I love constructive criticism so please read and review. Thanks

The Guardians
Chapter 1
The gun exploded. The seven Pod Squaders and the sheriff rushed into the room. The bullet sped across the room and slipped into Kyle’s stomach. The others rused over to him, the sheriff yelling at Max to do something. As the connection between Max and Kyle flared to life for the first time and Max started to heal Kyle, none of the other aliens noticed the other three humans start to glow as a light shot out from both Kyle and Liz and connected the four. A connection was created and a rush of images, possibly memories, came into their minds amidst the flood of feelings of suprise and confusion that came from the four humans.
When Max finished healing Kyle, the glowing stopped. Yet the connection stayed strong even after Max broke the connection between him and Kyle. By wordless agreement, the four humans decided to keep quiet about the connection and images until the four could talk about it together. Though whether this was from some outside force or within their subconsious, none of the four were sure. They simply nodded their heads in agreement when the non-human counterparts of the Pod Squad stated that they were all going to meet later to discuss the new deveopments. As they left the building, Maria, Alex and Liz remarked that they would be at Li’s house trying to explain to Kyle what had happened in the last year, stating that most likely it would be easier for him to hear the story from someone who had gone through the shock of finding out that there are indeed aliens among us. However, little did the alines know that the non--extra-terrestrial meeting would be discussing something very different.
The four humans sat in silence within the confines of Maria’s Jetta, mulling over their own thoughts as well as some others which did not originate from their own brain. But once they reached Liz’s house, all hell broke loose.

A/N : So there it is. Please tell me if you like and I will continue.

Hi guys. I’ve had this part written for a couple of days, but I’ve been in this musical that has pretty much taken over my life, so I haven’t had a chance to post it. But here it is now.
Thanks for all the feedback
Disclaimer: I own nothing, except of course my Physics textbook. You’re still welcome to it. Want it? Oh wait, no I have to keep that stupid thing, darn those AP exams.
Okay here goes

Chapter 2
“What the hell was that?!!” shouted Maria at the top of her lungs.
“Breath Maria. You’re giving us a headache,” said Liz as she sat Maria down on her bed.
“How do you know that?” Maria asked sarcastically.
“Yeah, Liz, how’d you know Maria was giving me a headache” Alex asked, confused.
“Um you have a headache? I..I..I don’t know, I just did!” Liz stated. The connection that was still going strong was obviously Czechoslovakian related and quite amazing, but frightening all the same. They had no clue why it was there, any idea as to the depth of the connection or what this new aline thing might do to them. However, throughout this exchange, Kyle had stayed strangely quiet. Liz noticed this and went over to him.
“Kyle, are you all right? All of this has been thrust on to you kind of sudently.”
“Yeah, I’m alright, I sort of understand what’s generally going on, it’s just...”
“You can sense them too can’t you?”
“They’re half way across town and I can sense them! I can tell you exactly where they are, what they’re doing and feeling... I don’t understand what this is!” said Kyle, clearly frustrated.
“I’m glad you can too, I thought I was going insane,” Alex chimed in.
“Why us though? Is it because of our relationships with the Czechs, if Michael’s turned me into some weird alien thing, I’m gonna kill him. Or is it because Max healed Kyle and Liz? What if it’s some weird alien virus that gets into our heads and makes us...”
“Maria, you’re rambling,” Alex interrupted Maria’s rant.
“As much as Maria has a tendency towards incoherency, some what she said does make sense. Why us? And what about those images that we saw?” said Liz, with her scientific brain.
“I think... I think that they’re memories,” said Kyle pulling out of his reverie, while the scene between the Three Musketeers played out.
“What do you mean?”
“Well they’re aliens, right? And they came out of those weird pods. What if they were reincarnated or something?” The others gave him blank looks. “Look, I read a little about Buddhism at football camp last year. Some of they guys are into it, and some of it just made sense. I guess, even more so now.”
“Okay... Well, whatever it is, we need a plan. Why don’t we talk to the other three and see what they remember, since it doesn’t seem like much. But be subtle!” Liz looked at Maria pointedly. “I’ll talk to Max. Maria, you talk to Michael. And Alex, you go talk to Isabel. Just try to find out what they know. Oh and Kyle, you do some more research on reincarnation.” Kyle groaned inwardly at the thought of research, and the others chuckled at his pain.
“Wait, what about Tess?” Kyle didn’t know the girl ver well. All that he really knew about her was that she was a part of the group of aliens. But, nonetheless he was intrigued.
“I don’t know, something’s not right. I mean she’s got all these memories of her being married to Max.” (I don’t remember when Tess started that annoying idea that she was married to Max on Antar, but let’s pretend that it was before Destiny) Kyle looked up at Liz, startled.
“I don’t remember anything about those two being romantically involved.” Referring to his new set of “memories.”
“My point exactly.” There was silence around the room.
“I’ll go talk to her.” said Kyle. Liz looked at him questioningly, but decided to drop the idea brewing in her head for now.
“Okay so we each agreed to talk to one of the Czechs. I had another idea. If we can do the connection thing, is there anything else we can do?” The others looked up at Liz with this pronouncement. “I say we go out to the quarry and see if we have any powers.” Maria and Alex were startled by this, but Kyle was the most confused by it. Powers? He had just learned there were aliens and now he might have powers? It was too much, but he felt some reassurance flow from the other three humans.
“So I’ll see you guys then.” The others nodded and stood up to leave. Though unbeknownst to the four humans in Liz’s room, Jeff Parker also go up from his place at the door where he was listenig and went down the stairs into the café.

Disclaimer: I don’t own anything. I do have to keep my physics textbook but you can have my three, yes three, American History textbooks. Ooooo or my history teacher, can’t stand the woman, no one can. Some of the lines used in this chapter are from “Destiny”

A/N So I started this fic, not having seen Roswell in a really long time, and a few days ago I finally sat down and read the script. Wooops. I have a feeling you guys are confused about the whereabouts of Nasedo. Ok so here goes. After/while Nasedo helped to get Max out, he did not get hurt. Instead he went after a few agents, spliting up Pierce and some of the others that went after the Pod Squad. The PS ran until the whole Kyle thing happened, and after the humans split from the aliens, the aliens went off in search of Nasedo. So I hope you guys like this part. I’m really proud of it. It’s definately my longest chapter thus far. Sorry I haven’t posted recently. It’s the last week before Spring Break (YAY!!!!). Anyway I’ll be gone next week. ::Sniff:: no reading Roswell fanfic for Alex, but you can be assured that I’ll be writing my butt off, so hopefully I’ll have more than one part for you when I get back. Saturday at six in the morning I’m off to sunny Cancun! Away from cold, icky weather. But I’m rambling, I have a tendency to do that. Ask Dark Sorceress. Oh yeah, in this fic, Alex’s mom left around the same time that Kyle’s mom did. Hey it’s my fic. I can do what I want with it.

Ansleyrocks Thanks

Ladeia3 I’m definately a Dreamer. So don’t worry.

creativenickname Very intuitive

So onwards we go
Oh yeah Thoughts/sent(shared) thoughts are in italics. You’ll get it. Don’t worry.

Chapter 3

As they were standing up, the phone rang. Liz answered it.
“Hello?” she asked, knowing who it was already.
“Liz? It’s Max. We found Nasedo. We need to get him to the pod camber to use the healing stones.” Liz could feel Max’s fear that all the alien strangeness was pushing her away and his need to include her in everything in his life.
“We’ll meet you there.” And with that, she hung up the phone. “Guys, we’re going to the pod chamber.” Thoughts of agreement spread to each of their minds. The humans were getting more used to the connection, and the ability to communicate with it.
As they filed downstairs, through the cafe, Jeff watched as they made their way to maria’s Jetta. Once he was out of sight from the four, he too got into his own car and followed the Jetta out into the desert.
* * *
The four aliens stood around Nasedo, each with a glowing stone in his or her hands. The other watched on in awe. They could feel the energy pouring into the injured alien lying on the floor. The power hummed, resonating (sorry Rachelle, had to use it) throughout the room. The four humans could sense that some of the energy came from the alines themselves. But they could feel their own energy being pulled towards the healing stones, though something else was supplying most of the energy, somethig incredibly strong. And then it was over. The glowing power died and Nasedo sat up.
“I knew you wouldn’t leave us!” Tess cried as she ran to him, seeming to want to hug him. Nasedo just looked at her.
“You’re not ready to be left alone.” Nasedo turned to Max.
“You’re right, we need you. Show us how the orbs work,” said Michael. Nasedo did not even acknowledge that Michael had spoken.
“They don’t belong here.” Nasedo said to Max.
“They’re with us. We want to know. You’re the only one who can show us,” Max retorted.
“It’s not my job to show you. My only job is to keep you alive.”
“Your job?”
“Well if your only job is to keep us alive, then tell us. They’re communicators. They communicate with who?” nasedo still did not look at Michael. He only continued to stare at Max. The others noticed this and shifted uncomfortably.
“You’re not ready to know yet.” With each sentence, the four humans became more uncomfortable.
“They communicate with our home planet, don’t they? Why don’t you want us to contact them?”
“Because you don’t know who else you may contact in the process.”
“Who else is there?” asked Isabel. Nasedo hesitated for a moment and glanced around the room before his eyes finally resettled on Max.
“Set off those orbs, and you have no idea who you may be leading straight to us,” Nasedo finally said.
By this time, Max had had enough. “You don’t know do you? You don’t know how to use the orbs. If you knew you would’ve already used them. You’re here to protect us, but not to lead us, you said it yourself. But if you’re not the leader, who is?” The four humans, already subconciously knowing the answer looked at Max and then turned back to Nasedo. Nasedo noticed this, but said nothing. The other aliens continued to stare at Nasedo, as if commanding him to answer Max’s question, but Nasedo remained silent, avoiding the question as he continued his speech against the use of the orbs. ‘He’s starting to sound like a broken record player’ thought Kyle. The others snickered inwardly, but remained quiet..
“If you really want to know what the orbs do, you can find out for yourselves, I can’t stop you. But do it at your own risk.’ Max decided to change the subject, accepting Nasedo’s remark as a victory.
“If you’re really here to protect us, there’s something you ahve to do . The only way we can ever go back is if nobody’s hunting us anymore.” Michael glanced at Max, startled.
“Pierce is alread dead.” Max continued to stare at Nasedo. To the four humans it seemed as though the two aliens were playing a game of Road Trip. ( In honor of Splat and Dave)
“He’ll only be replaced, unless we replace him.” Nasedo nods and white light shines from the palm of his had, as he shape-shifts into Pierce. “The other agents are at an abandoned gas station in Hondo.” Nasedo/ Pierce nodded.
“Now that I’m the head of their Special Unit, we’ll have all their resources. You’ll be safe now.” With one last glance at Max, he slid out of the chamber, completely ignoring the four humans. The four humans breathed an inward sigh of relief. Max grabbed the two orbs, handed one to Michael and Isabel and held the other, cusping his hands with Tess so that they were both touching the orb.
“I want to know. Maybe if we just focus like Nasedo’s always said.”
They concentrated. As they did the orbs shot out a beam of blue light that continued to combine into one beam that reached the ceiling of the chamber before spreading out thorught out the rooom and gatherin again at the center of the room where it formed into the shape of a woman.
‘If you are seeing me now it means that you are alive and well. I take this form because it will be familiar to you, and it will help you to understand what I am about to say. You have lived before. You perished in the conflict that enslaves our plaent but your essence was du[licated, cloned, and mixed with human genetic materials so that you might be recreated into human beings. My son, you were the beloved leader of our people. I have sent with you your young bride. My daughter, the man you were betrothed to, and your brother’s second in command.”
“Oh my god Max. Our mother.” Isabel galnced at Max, but could not bear to tear her gaze away from the woman who appeared before them. The woman continued.
“Our enemies have comet to Earth. You will know them only by the evil within. Lear enough to use your skills, you knowledge, your leadership to combat the enemy so that you can come back and free us. An that I may once again hold you both in my arms. I live for that moment. Help us. I love you.”
“She’s so beautiful,” said Isabel.
The four aliens stared at each other in wonder. The four humans also stared at each other; they too, had heard the message from Max and Isabel’s mother, but they had also heard something else at the same time. Beside the image of Max and Isabel’s mother that had spoken to the four aliens, another image of the same woman appeared next to the first, this one facing the four humans.
“I have sent this message so that it may only be activated by the four Guardians of the Granolith. This message will only be heard by the Guardians. You are those four Guardians. You are hybrids like the Royal Four, but you were born rather than hatched from pods, so that none but your immediate protectors might know who you were. I have sent you this message because I fear the one I sent to the Royals has been tampered with. after the ship with the pods left for Earth, we discovered that there was a traitor who had caused the deaths of the Royals and was now on board the ship. After much debate, the council decided to send you to Earth, as well, but this time not in pods, but in wombs. By having a human parent, we were assured that your awareness would not awaken until all of you had connected to the Royals in some way. Protect the Royals, guide them, and when you find the traitor, destroy him or her. But above all protect the Granolith. You must not let our enemies get ahold of it. Either set of four may use the Granolith, but only by a truly joined effort by both groups may the true power of the Granolith be released. A fact our enemies do not know. One more thing before I go. What ever the other message may say, know that the Royals’ marriages were politcal alliances only. No true romantic love was ever between them, only friendship or sibling bonding. The four truly loved.... others. Protect the four and help our people both home and on Earth, but look out for yourselves as well. Trust your protectors, they are loyal to me, I know this for a fact. I hope to see you again one day. Farewell.” And the image faded.
Back to the present:
The four humans looked at the four aliens to see if they had heard any part of the other message. They hadn’t.
“I always knew there was something out there, but I had no idea how important it was.”
‘If only you knew.’ thought Maria. The others silently agreed.
“Things will never be the same, but whatever happens, we have to stay together. It’s the four of us now.”
‘The same goes for us as well, but we have to keep an eye on them. They do have a tendency to get into trouble.’ The others gave their assent to Liz’s statement.
“I knew this was meant to be.” said Tess, based on what she had just heard.
“No.” Max turned away from Tess to Liz. “Look, everything I told you before is still true.” Liz decided to play with the idea of destiny. ‘Just for now, until we can figure out which one is the traitor.’ The others sent their thoughts of sympathy at Liz’s sacrifice. Liz took them whole heartedly, knowing the next few days were going to be extremely difficult.
“Max, you do have a destiny. youjust heard it. I can’t stand in the way of it.” Max looked at Liz, his eyes tearing up at the thought of a life with out who he believed his soul mate to be.
“But you mean everything to me.” Liz smiled. And then kissed him, sheilding her most recent memories from Max’s mind. She broke away.
“Goodbye, Max.”
Liz looks at the others and as a group they leave the chamber and the confused aliens behind. Only to literally run into Jeff Parker on their way out.


A/N Sorry for all the little side notes. Unless you know what they mean, just ignore them. Hope you liked it!

Hi guys. I just got back from vacation yesterday, and my internet was down. So this was kind of the first chance I had to update. As I promised I do have a new chapter, but not two. Although Chapter Five will be coming very very shortly, I PROMISE. It’s already being written, but it’ll probably be a little shorter than usual. But oh well. I’m sorry about the second update. I couldn’t concentrate, damn Cancun sun. Anyway here it is. Oh yeah. Thanks for all the great feedback. I’m so glad you like this story. This is my first so I was kind of afraid that no one would like it but I’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback so keep it coming and I’ll keep writing. So here goes.

Disclaimer: As usual, I don’t own anything. I wish I did, but if I had, Alex would never have died, the whole Future Max thing would NOT have happened, and of course the annoying gerbil would not be evil, maybe even not exist but for this story she’s kind of necessary.

Yay I got Bumped!!!!!!

Chapter 4- Huh?

The four humans froze in shock. What was Jeff doing here? They had seen him at the cafe when they had left earlier that morning. He must have followed them. But why? How much had he heard, if anything? There were toomany unknowns, so the four remained silent, waiting for Jeff to make the first move.
Jeff regarded the four humans pensively for a few moments. Then he did something none of the humans would have expected. He knelt, bowing to them in a position of fealty.
“I have long awaited the awakening of the Four Guardians. I swear to protect you with my life and I hope you will accept this oath as proof of my loyalty.”
The others continued to stare in shock, not having moved at all through Jeff’s speech. Finaly Liz broke out of her stupor.
“Dad?” Jeff gave a small smile.
“Come on. Let’s go somewhere a bit more private. I’m sure you four have a lot of questions.
* * *
Further out in the desert, Jeff sighed as he began. “So... What do you want to know?” The others had managed to overcome their initial shock, all but Liz (understandably).
“So are you a shape shifter?” asked Alex.
“No nor am I a skin.” The other four gave him a blank look. “Your enemies, follower of Khivar, the tyrant. But I am from the smae plante as the Royals.”
“But you’re completely alien, right? Not a hybrid like Tess and the others or...” Kyle couldn’t yet group the four “humans” into the same category as the aliens.
“No, no I’m not.”
“Oh My God! I’m part alien working for an alien in an alien themed restraunt. This is so too much! I need my cyprus oil. Where is it? Oh, I think I need to sit down.” But even as these words came out of her mouth, Maria didn’t sit down, but continued her pacing until Alex finally forced her to sit down.
“The Royal’s mother said that there had been four protectors. Who are the others.?” asked Alex having calmed Maria down somewhat.
“They were Michelle Valenti, Felicia Whitman and Brian DeLuca.” The other three humans looked up, only small amounts of suprise evident in their eyes. Maria glanced back down at the dirt.
“So what happened to them?” she asked timidly.
“They were killed by skins, in the line of duty, protecting you. It’s how they would have wanted it, an honorable death. They didn’t see you only as a job, the loved you as parents...” All three heads bowed, and Liz could see a single tear run down Maria’s cheek. She suspected that Alex and Kyle’s eyes were a bit cloudy as well. They sat in silence before Kyle looked up, his eyes with a slight red tint visible in them.
“So who are these Guardian people, anyways? What do they do? I’m kind of confused. No, scratch that, I’m really confused.”
“You protect the Granolith and thus the Royals, and you can use some of the Granlith’s power.”
“But why us? If the shape shifter was already their protector, why go through all the trouble to make four more hybrids just to protect the Royals?” asked Alex.
Jeff hesitated slightly. “Well...” strated Jeff, but Liz interrupted him.
“We were there weren’t we?” The others looked at Liz. This was the first time she had spoken since outside the pod chamber. Some wires in her head must have been fried from the shock.
“What?!?” Liz looked at each of her three companions in turn.
“We have all of these memories that we thought had come form the Royals, but I’ve seen all th Royals in the memroies, often in the same place at the same time. So the memories can’t hav come from the Royals.” said Liz. The four looked at Jeff, hoping he would answer.
“It’s true. You were the Guardians at the time when the Roylas were killed. You died defending the Granolith just before the King, Zan, was killed. When the Royals were sent here the Granolith was sent with them>“
“But why send us later? If we were born we can’t have been in the crash.” remarked Alex.
“There was some controversy over whether to recreate you and send you back or not.”
“Why the controversy though? If the Granolith and the Royals were here and we were supposed to protect them both, well, I’d think that would be a fairly straight forward answer.” said Kyle.
‘This boy is not as unintelligent as the image he gives the rest of the wold appears to be. I can see what Lizzi saw in him, until she met Max....’ Jeff thought.
“Usually, when the Guardians become the Guardians, they cease to be individuals. They give up their name, relationships, etc. to be able to more effectivly guard the Granolith. And you four did exactly that ... at first. But then you became... involved with some people, and they helped you to rediscover your individulatiy.” Suddenly everything clicked.
“Oh..Oh...oh!” screamed Maria as she jumped to her feet. “The...Their mother said that those four had been involved with others besides the ones they were married to! We were supposed to have protected the Royals, so we must have been close them, and four and four, it works out perfectly, which means...”
Liz too jumped up excitedly. “Which means that we were involved with the Royals romantically. That’s why they split us up. They didn’t want us to get involved with them again.”
Jeff smiled. “Yes, but the Queen Mother wanted her children to be happy, so she insited that you be sent along as well.”
“But why don’t we have any memories of that?” asked Liz.
“Those memories will be unlocked only if you bond with your significant other. The Queen Mother wanted her children to be happy, but she also wanted them to have a choice in the matter of their hearts.”
“But what about the Destiny Book?” asked Alex.
“Destiny Book? What Destiny Book?” Jeff looked confused.
Liz faced the other three. “If there is no Destiny Book., it’s got to be one of the traitor’s ploys. And since Nasedo and Tess knew about the Destiny Book before any one else did and were the ones who actually retrieved it, makes me even more convinced that one of them is the traitor.” The four looked at Jeff.
“I don’t know. I never found out who the traitor was. No one was sure of anything, there was too much chaos... But let’s get back to town before someone starts worrying, or getting suspicious. Lizzi, you want to ride with me?” Liz nodded at her father. “All right, we’ll talk more later. Be careful.” Liz held up her hand.
“Wait, Kyle. When you get back to town, talk to your dad. Tell him the basics. We may need his help. Anything else you want to tell him is up to you.” Kyle nodded, unable to voice his thanks.
And with those final words, Maria, Alex and Kyle got into Maria’s Jetta and Liz and Jeff got into Jeff’s car and they headed back towards town, away from the pod chamber, the aliens and the place where their whole lives had changed... forever.


Hope you liked it. Please more feedback. I love it soooooo much
Alex

A/N Sorry this took so long to get. School stuff and it just didn’t want to be written. I apologize ahead of time for the soap opera-iness that makes up this chapter as well as the shortness of this chapter. I had to get all of the OH MY GOD’s out of the way. And I promise very soon we’ll be getting back to our beloved aliens and their couples.

Chapter Five- Conduiser (to drive)

For the first five minutes o fthe drive, Liz and Jeff sat in without speaking. Finally Jeff broke the thickening silence.
“Lizzi, sweetie, are you all right? You’ve been really quiet.”
“Of course I’m all right! Why wouldn’t I be?!? I just found out that my father is an alien, that I’m some half-alien hybrid and that not only am I supposed to protect this royal family but somehow I’m supposed to save some planet that I don’t even remember from an evil tyrant. It all sounds like a stupid sci-fi movie. So yeah, I’m just peachy.” Jeff simply drove on, not reponding, trying to keep a balnk expression permanently fixed on his face, but Lix could see small signes of sadness in his eyes. Liz sat quietly for a few minutes, trying to collect herself. She look up at Jeff timidly.
“Are you my father?”
Jeff turned his head, looking at Liz and then turned his gaze back to the road. They drove forward a few yards and pulled off the road before Jeff finally answered Liz’s question.
“No... no I’m not. My brother was. I never had time for a family, at least that’s what I thought. No duty, loyalty, my job came first. I was the king’s second in command, Zan’s father. I was a good soldier, but I failed in the end. Your father... Your father was one of the previous Guardians. It’s been tradition in our family that the first born becomes the king’s second in command, and the second born becomes a Guardian. Of course the Granolith chooses its own Guardians, but, it really seems to like our family, maybe something in our genes...?” before Jeff got lost in thought he mentally shook himself. He needed to get to the important points. “But when the second born were twins, we didn’t know what was going to happen. We expected the Granolith to choose your brother since he was the first of you two to be born, but the Granolith chose both of you.”
Liz sat in silence for a few moments. “So who is it. Is it Alex of Kyle?” Please not Kyle, that would justbe too weird, please not Kyle, please not Kyle, please not Kyle! Liz chanted silently to herself.
Jeff chuckeled to himself, seeing the conflict in her eyes. “Don’t worry, it’s Alex.”
“whoo..” Liz sighed. “ Wait. Don’t worry? You can read minds???” Liz’s eyes grew large in horror of the numerous thoughts about Max that her father might have heard.
“No! I raised you. I usually know what’s going on in your head.”
Liz breathed antoher sigh of relief. “Thanks Dad.” Jeff smiled when she said the word “dad.” They sat in silence for the remainder of the car ride. When they finally reached the Crashdown, Liz brought up the question that had been floating around in her mind.
“Do you know who the Royal Four are?” Jeff gave her a small smile.
“Ketchup over the blood really was a good idea. Zan was alway a clever one. What Max did for you was foolhardy, but understandable. I have a feeling he recognized you on some level.” Liz smiled at her dad.
She climbed out of the car aw she thought about the information she had gained in the last half hour. What was she going to tell Alex? She went over the twin idea and the whole second born thing and something cliked.
OH MY GOD! The exclamation blared through her mind.
Maria, who had already started her shift, came rushing out of the cafe.
“What is it chica? What’s wrong?” Maria asked her friend hurriedly. Liz took no notice that Maria had heard her exclamation even though she hadn’t actually said it out loud.
“You’re never going to believe this!” Liz grabbed Maria’s hands as she excitedly explained to her friend what she had just learned. Jeff smiled as he got out of the car and went over to the front of the cafe to try to calm the girls down.
Michael, also on his shift at the grill, had followed Maria to the front of the care when she had rusehed out. He watched the scene play out. suspicion shining in his eyes.
“Now what’s going on with them?” he asked himself.

Hey guys! I’m sooooooooo so very sorry this has taken so long to get written. It just did not want to get down on the page and I had so much to do. School, school and oh yes, more school. I just finished my junior year so life is hectic. Anyway, hopefully you guys will like this part. I had fun writing from some other points of view. Anyway, thanks for all your wonderful support. I’m so glad you like this so far. Hopefully I’ll be able to write more often. Can’t promise anything concrete though, but I will try. Anyway, here goes.

The Guardians
Chapter 6
Suspicious

“I’m telling you, something’s up with them!”
“Michael, you’re being irrational, as usual.” The alines, minus Tess, stood in Max’s bedroom, arguing about what Michael had seen earlier. Isabelle and Max sat on Max’s bed as Michael paced the room.
“Michael, Isabell’s right. there’s nothing to suggest that anything’s wrong with either Maria or Liz.”
“Fine, Maxwell, whatever.” Michael leaned back against the wall, shoulders hunched in frustration. “So what do we do now, fearless leader?”
“Nothing. Nothing’s wrong. We’ve seen nothing to actually alarm us, so why jump the gun chasing after phantom enemies?”
“Great.” Michael rolled his eyes, sarcasm lacing his voice. “So what do you want to do about this destiny crap?”
“I don’t know about you two, but I’m not feeling any sudden urges to jump Tess.” Max glanced at Isable and Michael in turn, who grimaced at each other, disgust quite evident on their faces. “Guess that means no then... I suggest we forget the whole destiny thing, do whatever we need to do to help up there, but otherwise live our lives as normally as we can.”
“Sounds great.” Isabelle replied, relief evident on her face. Michael simply grunted as he stood up and left through the open window.
“You know he’s not goin to listen to you.” said Isabelle lingering in Max’s room.
“Since when has he? But it’s not like he’s gonna find anything.”
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Kyle slammed the dorr shut, walking into the messy living room, magazines, clothers, and pizza boxes thrown haphazardly on the floor. Pausing in what could be called a foye but was used as a makeshift closet, Kyle slapped his pants, wiping the dirt of the desert off himself.
“Dad?” Kyle called into the silent house. A few pizza baxes fell from the couch as Valenti sat up with a grunt.
“How are you? What happened?” Valenti asked as his craggy face shifted into a worried frown.
“Well... Nasedo’s ok, he’s now posing as Pierce to disband the Special Unit. The aliens are royalty from their planet and according to a message from their mother, Isabelle’s supposed to get with Michael and Max with Tess. But the message wasn’t real, it was planted by a traitor, but the aliens don’t know that the message is a fake, and we don’t know who the traitor is. Oh yeah, Liz, Maria, Alex and myself are aliens.” answered Kyle at a speed that even Maria would have been impressed with. Jim stood there, his mout frozen open in shcok as his mind processed what his mind processed what his son had just told him.
“What was that last part again?”
“Dad, I’m an alien. I’m a hybrid, like the others. I’m still your son, my human DNA comes from you, but Mom was an alien, my protector. So were Mr. Delcua and Mrs. Whitman; and Mr. Parker is Liz’s protector.”
“Wh... why did they bring you here?” Jim blinked trying to wrap his thoughts around the fact that his son, his son was an alien.
“We were there, with the royals and we guarded this thing called the Granolith, don’t ask me what it is, I don’t know, and we were recreated, apparently to protect the Royals, find the traitor and defeat our enemies.” Kyle sighed wearily. “It sounds like a really bad science fiction movie.”
Jim cracked a smile at Kyle’s last comment. He took a breath before asking another question. “Do you know what you can do?”
Kyle shifted uncomfortaby. “No, not really, but we’re supposed to get together with Mr. Parker later today.” Kyle looked up sheepishly and kept his gaze from his father’s eyes. “You’re welcome to come, if you want...”
“Thanks, Kyle, maybe I will.” Jim shoved the remaining pizza boxes off the couch. “Hey! Game’s on.”
“Ooh!” And the two men plopped on the couch, focused on the game, forgetting all their troubles
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Later that afternoon the four new alines gathered near the quary with Jeff and Jim in tow. Far from Roswell they gathered in a circle, facing each other. The six shifted uncomfortably, not knowing where to start. Finally, Liz took control,
“I’m not exactly sure what to do, but I think we should start with this connection thing. I don’t know about you, but my head is starting to hurt. The other three nodded their head in agreement and turned to look at Jeff.
He threw his hands up in protest. Don’t look at me! I was a soldier. I could blast things to smithereens, but I was never very good at any of the mental stuff. Usually female’s powers are more mental, and male’s more physical. I don’t know... experiment.”
Jim and Jeff stood back away from the group as the four teens, together, tried to work out their first task. Often, one of the four would suddenly look up excited, as though he or she had an idea, and then suddenly glum again. Finally, after much time had passed, Liz stood up, frustrated.
“This is ridiculous. What about something simple, like an image of a wall or something. We need to actually try something; right now we’re just wasting time.” The others shrugged, wariness written on their faces. Gathering together the four teens concentrated on the image of a red brick wall, the four on one side and themselves on the other. One by one, the tentatively opened their eyes, at the same time searching their minds for the connection. Maria suddenly lept up from the ground, bouncing happily.
“Yes! It worked, sortof. They’re still there... sort of... but no more Michael in my head.” The other looked at her with amusement. “What? I can only stand so mcuh of that Neanderthal.” Liz tried to pull the conversation back to something serious.
“As wonderful of an accomplishment as this is, I don’t think the block’s going to last for long. W’re going to have to figure somehting better soon.” Liz looked at Jeff. “You said you had no expertise with mental powers?” Jeff nodded slowly, remembering his fallen comrades who were to have taught the kids all they needed to know. “Okay, then we me might have to let Isabel in on our secret.” Alex’s face brightened as a blissfully sill grin stretched across. “Alex, I’ll leave that to you. SO now we know what we’re gong to do abou the mental powers, Dad, why don’t you take it from here.” Jeff smiled at his daughter’s take charge attitude. Unbeknownst to the Guardians and friends, the mind blocks firmly in place, a motorcycle killed its engine, stopping the bike before coming upon the group.
Back at the quarry, the four teens had broken into two piars, Alex and Liz and Maria and Kyle, to practice blasting while Jeff tried to explain the situation to Jim, calmly. Thankfully, Jeff had hda a lot of experience with blasting, wo was quite qualified to teach the teens. The four, having mastered the theory of blasting, was now working on controlling the blast and aiming.
Having throroughly destroyed the boulders around them, nothing but dust left, Liz proposed that she and Alex should take a break. Sitting on the ground, they could hear the blasts off in the distance and Maria’s shrill cry of victory as she defeated another “enemy.” Smiling, Liz proceeded to tell Alex what she had learned earlier that day.
“... so that means you and Michael are my brothers.”
Alex sat back. “Wow... So... how’d Maria take it?” Liz gave a small laugh and smiled at her brother.
“Well... needless to say, she freked, but this time at least she didn’t run down the street, screaming.” Liz giggled and Alex smiled. In Alex’s oppinion, Liz had been far too serious recently. It was nice to see her unwind and able to laugh.
“So, sister dear, what are you going to do about Maxwell?” Liz snorted.
“You sound like Michael,” Alex shrugged and gave a mischevious grin.
“Yeah, well it must run in the family. I’m serious though.”
Liz sighed and shook her head, trying to hold in her emotions. Seeing this, Alex pulled his siter into an embrace. Sinking into his arms, Lez let herslef be comforted by her brother.
“I just... I don’t know anymore. I mean we don’t have that ‘from different worlds’ barrier anymore, but Tess isn’t going to give up on Destiny that easily and we have our job to do and...” The rest of her rant was muffled as she dug her face into his shoulder. Alex held her tighter and then pushed back, raising Liz’s chin until her gaze was locked with his.
“Hey.” he said calmingly, gibing her a small smile. “We’ll make it work. It’ll be all right.” Liz took a deep breath and nodded.
“So what are you going to do about Isabel?” Alex raised his eyebrows and smiled slyly.
“Oh... I’ll think of something.”
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Michael, in silent shock, crouched behind a rock as he listened to the crunching of Liz and Alex’s steps against the sand and stone as they made their way back to the rest of the group. What the hell? he thought to himself. Stil trying to grasp all that he had heard, Michael sat back in the dirt resting his head against the rock he had just hid behind. What the hell? He had folled the human counterparts, expecting to find something, he was ready for everything... except to find them blowing rocks to smithereens, alien style. They were aliens. How could they be aliens? It just didn’t make sense. He shoved his hand through his hair with a frstrated sigh.
Then another thought came to him. Alex and Liz. He had a brother and sister. Alex and Liz were his siblings. He had family, the one thing he’d wanted, never thinking was possible here on Earth. On whatever planet they came from, maybe, but here? A grin broke out across Michael’s usually stone chiseled face.
As he listened to the sounds of cars driving away, Mcihael stood up and brushed himself off. Looking over at Alex and Lix’s pratice area, Michael raced his hand and aimed. He smiled as he watched the dust settle on the ground around the ruins of his sibling’s efforts. He fetl complete for the first time in his life, whole... almost. But somethig was missing. He took a deep breath before heading back to town. He had a pretty good idea what that something was.
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She couldn’t help it. Curiosity got the best of her. She knew Michael was overly suspicious, make that down right paranoid, but she couldn’t shake the foreboding feeling she had had all day since their meeting this morning. Well, curiosity may have killed the cat, but no one had ever said anything about an alien. So now here she was, Isabel Evans, about to go snooping around in someone’s subcoucious. It wasn’t hard to decide who’s. Ever since the frist time she had dreamwalked him, before he had gotten dragged into the alien abyss, that dream of him dancing with her, well... Alex Whitman had intrigued her. Truth be told, he had trigued her long befroe then, but the Ice Princess was not going to admit that to anyone, least of all herself. But now, if anything was going on with Maria and Liz, Alex would know about it. Sighing she touched Alex’s picture and felt the familiar tug of being pulled into the dream plane.
Something was wrong.
Normally when she dreamwalked someone, she was pulled directly into their subconcious. But not this time. There was nothing... total darkness. Isable shrank back, hoping to get out of wherever the hell she was.
“Calm down, Isabel, nothing’s wrong.” came a voice out of the darkness. She knew she recognized it, the knowledge just beyond her reach.
“Who are you?” she called out, amazed that her small timid voice could fill such darkness.
“Sheesh, Is, calm down.” The void brightened and there, loungin in what loked like a booth from the Crashdown, was Alex.
Eyes startled wide, Isabel sank into the facing bench. “H..how? She asked in a shakey breath.
A small smiled appeared on Alex’s face. “Truth be told? I have no idea. I’m kind of winging it.” His expression grew pensive. “There is so much to tell you. I don’t even know whre to begin. I...” Alex galnced up to Isabel’s eyes from the table which he had been staring at while thinki9ng. He hesitated slightly and then stood up. Walking around the table he sat down next to Isabel. He reached out to grasp her hand and continued to stare at her, this time not with confusion but determination.
Isabel sat still, numb to everything but Alex’s had in her own, waiting for... What? Waiting for what? she thought to herself. Why should I be waiting for- Her thoughts were interrupted by Alex’s lips on her own. The familiarity was what surprised her the most. Tentatively she rturned the kiss, but then sunk deeper, giving in to her emotions. It felt as though she had wiated for this moment since she was born... well, hatched, as though, only now, was she whole. Fireworks were not enough to describe this kiss; it was exploding stars, balls of fire racing across the sky, it was...
Isabel gasped for air as the kiss ended. Images gloated through her mind of the day’s discoveries. Closing her eyes she whispered softly, “I remember you.” She opened her eyes and threw her arms around Alex. “I remember you!”
...Anyone who had, during that night, walked into Isabel’s room, would have found her on her bed, smiling as she slept.

A/N: Hey guys! Thank you so much for the wonderful feedback! I’m sooooo glad you liked the stargazer moment. I worked to try to make it right, and I’m glad that it was successful. I have a new part, yay! So keep with the feedback as I do enjoy it so much.. Anyway, enough with that. On with the next part.
- Alex (MagickFantasy86)

Chapter 7- What’s going on?

Kyle sighed as he sank into the couch. He could hear her shuffling around inside his room. Now where was he supposed to meditate, (not that anyone else know about that.)
Upon returning home from the quarry, his father had announced that Tess needed a place to stay while Nasedo was gone. And where else could she go but the Valenti household? Kyle though sarcastically. Sure he’d wanted to get to know the new girl with whom he now shared a secret but living with her? Girls with bath products, make up, underwear and bras and... Wait a minute, forget any complaints. Hey hew as a guy, an alien guy, but a guy none the less. But did she really have to take his room? He sighed again and pushed himself up off the couch. Guess I’ll go use dad’s office to meditate. Maybe, I’ll work on some of those powers.

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Tess signed as she glanced around the room filled with remnants of Kyle’s life. She didn’t want to be here, wouldn’t be if Max hadn’t practically ordered her. She didn’t belong here. She belonged back on her home planet... wherever that might be... Who was she kidding? She had no way of getting home, and her fellow aliens had all deserted her fro their humans.
The humans. There was something going on with them. When she had seen Kyle earlier that evening, she had sensed something, almost the same thing she sensed from an... but no. That was impossible. Although... something he had said earlier made her even more confused. He looked so confused and... well, she felt bad for him. She had walked in to find him laying on his bed. She had lowered her eyes before speaking softly.
“Hey. I just wanted, you know, to apologize for dragging you into this whole mess...” Kyle had shook his head.
“It’s not your fault.” He had rolled his eyes. “Besides if it weren’t for Max Evans, alien king, I’d be dead, right?” Tess had smiled softly, closing her eyes. Then they opened wide in shock. She could have sworn she had heard him say, ‘Besides, I was part of this long before, not that I’d change anything.’ He had sounded incredibly clear, almost as if he had whispered the words directly into her ear. But his lips hadn’t moved at all; he hadn’t opened his mouth. She must have been gaping at him, for scratching his head, confused, he had asked her if she was all right. She had tired to cover her faux pas.
“I’m sorry, I’m just kind of tired.” Kyle had stood up quickly and walked to the door.
“I’ll just leave and let you rest then.”
“But-”
“No, no, this is your room now.” And with that, he was gone.
Now she lay on the bed, right where Kyle had been a few hours ago, more confused than ever. Destiny. Destiny was what she wanted to follow, what she had to follow; Nasedo had always told her that, but now... she knew what her destiny was, the others knew what their destiny was, but they didn’t want it... and neither did she. Kyle... he... She sighed again. She needed to relax. A bath. That sounded good. She grabbed her stuff and then, only after opening the door, realized that she didn’t know where the bathroom was. Walking down the hallway, she casually opened each door and peeked into the room. Opening the second door on the right, she found herself in the Sheriff’s home office. Kyle was seated on the floor, meditating, (right, she thought to herself, the Buddha book under the bed) his hands glowing as he levitated a pencil. She smiled as she closed the door, not wanting to disturb him. She was still smiling as she walked down the hall to check the next... Wait a second. Hands glowing? Levitating? She rushed back to the Sheriff’s office and flung the door open with a loud crash. She raised her hand in front of her, ready to blast the impostor.
“All right, who the hell are you and what have you done with Kyle?” Kyle raised his hands palms outward to his chest as if shielding himself. he locked his eyes with Tess’s, urging her to believe him.
“Tess it’s me.” He grabbed her raised hand. “A lot has hap-” The rush of images hurled at them left them both gasping for air. “What the hell was that?”
“A connection...” Tess stared blankly at the wall behind Kyle, tears threatening to fall down her cheeks. “Why didn’t you tell me?” Kyle’s face melted into confusion.
“I... I’m sorry.”
“You’re sorry?” She took a step back from Kyle, her face scrunched up in anger. “Everything I was ever told, my Destiny, is all a lie!” Kyle’s face grew stoic.
“You’re destiny! My who life is different. I’m not even the same species I thought I was! I find out first that there actually are aliens in Roswell and then that I’m one of them!” Tess opened her mouth to say something, but found that she had no retort. He was right. In a day he had gone from being a normal human to an alien. Tess took a deep breath, swallowing her pride.
“I’m sorry. You’re right. I’m just so confused right now.” her heart raced as Kyle gathered her in his arms.
“Hey, you and me both,” he whispered in her ear. She smiled
“You never answered my question.” He blinked, confused.
“Hmm?”
“Why didn’t you tell me?” Kyle shifted uncomfortably but continued to hold on to her.
“I...” he started hesitantly and then sighed. “You saw from the message that there’s a traitor among us.” Tess swallowed and nodded her head slowly. “ We found out there is no Destiny Book, so since you and Nasedo gave it to the other three...”
“You all think I’m the traitor.” Tess finished for Kyle.
“No... I-” Kyle tried to console her. Tess struggled to break from Kyle’s grasp.
“I’m not the traitor.” She continued to struggle. Kyle held her closer
“Tess, I know tha-”
“ I’m not the-” Kyle grabbed the sides of Tess’s face, forcing her to look directly at him.
“Tess, I know you’re not the traitor. I would have seen that.” Tess collapsed in relief into Kyle’s embrace. After a few deep breaths to calm herself she looked up at Kyle again.
“ I need to talk to Liz in the morning.”

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Tap, Tap
Maria groaned as she rolled over and threw her pink fuzzy slipper at the window.
Tap, Tap
“Liz, go away! It’s the middle of the night!” She threw her pillow over her head.
Tap, Tap
Groaning, enraged, Maria rolled out of bed and stalked toward the window. “Liz, I swear,” She reached the window, “If this isn’t a matter of life and death,” She pulled the window open. “... then so help me God, I’ll bla- Michael!” Startled, Maria was now wide awake. “ What are you doing here?” Michael rolled his eyes.
“Can I come in?” Eyeing him suspiciously, Maria reluctantly let him enter through the window. Sitting on her bed, she looked up at Michael, determined.
“Now again, what are you doing here?” Michael kneeled down before her.
“Listen. I know you might believe I have this destiny thing that I have to follow, but I just wanted you to know that I’ll fight it. I know I have better things here than there.” Getting to his feet Michael gave her a quick peck on the cheek and exited through the window.
Maria sat on the bed, motionless with shock. where the hell had THAT come from? Better things here? Michael was always talking about finding a way home. That his family was up... there...
“Shit!” She stood up quickly. “He knows!” She escaped through the window and ran off into the night in search of Michael.

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Morning sunlight streamed in through the windows of the Crashdown as Liz finished taking the chairs off the tables and arranging them. finishing her task, she sat in a booth and stared at the door impatiently. She didn’t have long to wait. Five minutes later, the bell above the door rang as Isabel and Alex entered the cafe. Liz couldn’t help but smile when she saw their hands clasped together.
“So I’m assuming you thought of something.” She told her brother, but it was Isabel who answered her.
“he most certainly did.” She said with a sixty kilowatt smile. Watching Liz’s face become somber, she closed the distance between Liz and herself and surprised the smaller girl by giving her a hug. “Liz my brother loves you. He’ll always love you, no matter what anyone else says, even his own mother. He’s loved you since he first saw you on the playground. I think on a subconscious level he might have remembered you.” Liz, who throughout Isabel’s speech had kept her eyes focused on the ground, looked up sharply at Isabel in shock.
“You mean you remember?” If possible, Isabel’s smile grew even brighter.
“Yeah, I do. Oh, you should probably know that Michael-” Her sentence was cut short by the bell over the door ringing, as Maria walked in with Michael bent over as she led him by his ear. Inside the cafe, she released him.
“Ow!” he said, rubbing his ear and pouting.
“Well that’s what you get,” she said, tossing her hair over her shoulder as she turned towards the Isabel and Liz who had amused expressions on their faces and Alex who was snickering, trying hard not to laugh audibly. “Sorry about that. The Paranoid One over here decided to follow us up to the quarry yesterday. He saw us blasting stuff, heard you two talk, and put two and two together and miraculously got four.” Michael scowled and glanced over at Isabel.
“What’s she doing here?” Isabel rolled her eyes.
“They invited me.” Maria slapped Michael on the arm.
“We needed someone who actually knew how to control their powers. Not just blow things up.” The bell above the Crashdown rang again.
“Besides we already learned how to do that, yesterday.” Kyle strolled into the Crashdown followed closely behind by Tess. Liz sobered immediately.
“What is she doing here?!” Tess took a deep breath before approaching Liz.
“Liz... I-” The back door creaked as Jeff stepped into the dining room. He glanced around the room, noting the group that stood in the middle before giving Liz a questioning look.
“I thought we decided to only tell Isabel.” Liz folded her arms and sighed.
“We did. Michael followed us out to the quarry,” Jeff gave a wry grin at the thought, “and Tess caught Kyle using his powers. Now Tess, you were about to tell us something.” Tess took a step back, surprised at Liz’s commanding tone. She, Tess, was queen on Antar and Liz was just- actually she really didn’t know what Liz was, but... NO, she told herself. That sort of thinking will only get you even more alienated, no pun intended. Tess took a deep breath before speaking.
“Nasedo is the traitor. Yesterday I found this letter, about what I should do if anything happened to him.” She handed the note to Liz. “He made a deal with Khivar, our enemy. I come home with the heir and the rest of the Royal Four and I still get to be queen.” Maria tilted her head to one side, scowled and folded her arms across her chest.
“How do we know you still won’t take this deal?” Kyle stepped in front of Tess, coming to her defense.
“She won’t. We made a connection-” Liz glanced up sharply from the note she was studying intently.
“What? You made a connection?” Kyle and Tess nodded in unison. Kyle wrapped his arm around Tess’s shoulders.
“I was into her soul.” Liz raised her eyebrows in surprise. “She doesn’t want any of us to get hurt.” Tess nodded meekly, mention against Kyle’s arm. Her face paled slightly.
“I saw things from Kyle’s memories.” Tess swallowed. “All of us getting killed by Khivar. That pretty much dissolved any beliefs that Khivar might make me queen.” Maria rolled her eyes and sighed impatiently. Alex spoke up, perplexity visible on his face.
“Wait, from Kyle’s memories? You mean you don’t actually remember anything?” Tess bit her lip nervously.
“No, I-”
“What the hell is going on here?” Eight pairs of eyes turned towards the doors of the Crashdown, wide in shock. Max stood at the front of the cafe, silhouetted by the morning light coming through the windows.

A/N And there it is. Hope you guys liked it as much as you liked the last part.

Alex