Roswell Fanatics

Will they Ever Return?
Author: Roswelldesertsky
Email: RiverDog@web.de
Category: AU Max/Liz, Michael/Maria , Alex/Isabel
Rating: TEEN

Disclaimer: The characters of Roswell are the property of Twentieth Century Fox Television and Regency Productions. All original characters and concepts are the property of the author. No profit has been made from the distribution of this work of fiction.

Summary: Please read the prologue.

I started this fiction last January,but then,already after two chapters I've been taking a long pause...until now.I promise I'm going to post further chapters regularly and please leave much feedback with this fiction being my very first one!:)


Prologue


„Will they ever return?“ – Max woke up. It was one of those flashes that you do not know whether they are real or an illusion. It was around midnight and he was sitting in his jeep on a highway outside of Roswell. First he could not remember why he had driven there but slowly his memory came back.

“Isabel I’m going to get us some more tabasco, it might take a while since the supermarket around the corner was closed down.”
“Okay, but hurry, Mum cooks a surprise meal for dinner in about an hour!”

That was all he could remember, but why was he outside of Roswell around midnight?
With him coming home, Isabel looked at him surprised like she did not expect him to come.

“Max, why are you here. What happened?”
“Cannot we talk about my fault tomorrow, I’m really exhausted…I know, Mom is disappointed that I didn’t come to dinner.”
“What are you talking about?”
“I really feel very tired…”

Suddenly Max fell onto the floor being unconscious.

“Max! Are you okay? Oh my god, Maaaaaaaax!”

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Chapter 1


“Will they ever return?” – Max woke up. It was one of those flashes that you do not know whether they are real or an illusion.
He felt tired and exhausted, not knowing what happened he opened his eyes slowly.

“Where am I?” – He asked himself. Max believed himself to lie in his bed having become unconscious. As he recognized the steering wheel of his jeep in front of him, he wondered. Why is he sitting in his jeep in the middle of the night? Then he began to remember. Hasn’t exactly this incident happened to him before? Suddenly he started to feel cold around his heart, he got scared. What happened to him?


Alex picked up the phone.

« Hello »
« It’s Isabel, can we meet at the CrashDown? Something important happened…”
“Yeah, sure. What happened?”
“Max has just come in my dreams!”


With Isabel arriving at the CrashDown, Liz, Maria, Michael and Alex were already sitting at their table.

Alex: “Isabel, what happened to Max? You sounded so scared and unsecure on the phone. Is he okay? Are you okay?”

He hugged her with a worried look on his face.

Isabel: “I don’t know what happened to him, at least he’s certain to be alive now. We all haven’t heard anything of him for one week, so maybe this is a good sign and it’s almost over!”

Michael: “Or it’s a bad sign and his appearance in your dream was thought as a warning. We cannot be sure what happened to him after he had left Roswell.”

Liz: ”No, Max is alive. He told me that I’ve been changed with him bringing me back from the dead. I would feel it, if something happened to him.”

Michael: “But he hasn’t sent you flashes in the last few days like he used to do, has he?”

Maria: “Thanks Michael, that helps us a lot!”

Michael: “What? To say the truth? Maybe this story does not contain a happy end.”

Isabel: “Stop it, Michael. Liz is right, their deep relationship connected both, she would feel it.”

Liz: “What happened to him in your dream exactly?”

Isabel: ”It was strange, I was in my room with him coming home. I was surprised to see him because, well we all know that he’s left Roswell to follow the call, so I asked him why he’s here , and he answered as if he didn’t know anything about what’s going on. Then he became unconscious and I woke up.”

Michael: “Maybe that’s the truth. Maybe he doesn’t know what’s going on.”

Liz: “Michael, that’s impossible. Actually it wasn’t our, it was his plan to do that. So how could he not know?”

Alex: “Maybe someone erased his memory?”

Liz: “Isabel, I didn’t even know that Max has the ability to dreamwalk.”

Isabel: “He hasn’t.”

Liz: “Maybe it wasn’t himself in your dream, but someone else wanted you to see him like that.”

Alex: “Now I get scared, who could do that?”

Isabel: “I only know one thing: We need to find out what has happened to him, and we have to hurry.”

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Chapter 2


Max jumped out of his jeep, he still could not believe what has happened to him.
What was going on with him? This was just to real for a dream , but where’s the boarder of reality and illusion, he didn’t know, he couldn’t know.
Max decided to walk around in order to get his head clear again. He wasn’t able to think now, he definitely needed more time. Not knowing where he was drove him almost crazy. There were things he could remember…Liz. The girl who felt about him like he had never expected, the girl who made his stomach rumble every time he saw her, the girl who kept him alive in his darkest hours, the girl who made him feel human…the girl he loved more than anyone else, no matter from which world! He promised her to come back and he will, no matter which price he has to pay .
His head enjoyed the cool wind the desert usually had at night and finally his brain seemed to work normally again. Remembering Isabel’s strange reaction as he came home the last time, Max recognized that he had not been supposed to do that, but what was he supposed to do? What was he supposed to do here, and where was here?
He needed to know this, maybe it would answer the question where and why he was here.
Maybe Isabel could answer at least one of those questions if he asked the right questions.
Remembering that he didn’t have much time left before he becomes unconscious for the next time, he decided to drive back to Roswell again quickly.
With him coming home, Isabel opened the door with a surprised look on her face, exactly like she did for the first time.

“Max, why are you here? What happened?”
“Isabel, what was I supposed to do?”
“ You don’t know? Max, this was so important for you, how could you forget it?”
“Isabel! What have I been doing?”
“I don’t know, you told us about a call and that you have to answer it. We didn’t want to let you go but you did.”
“What? I left Roswell? Where did I go, Isabel, where?”
“I don’t know. Max, are you okay, are you save?”
“I don’t know anything right now…now…now”
“Maaaaaaaaax!”
She woke up.

Alex opened the door.

“Alex!”
“Isabel? Are you okay? What did you find out?”
“He’s lost anywhere and does not remember anything about what was going on. He feels so helpless…”
“When you’re talking about “anywhere”, do you mean here on earth or…?”
“I don’t know, I don’t know anything anymore…”
“Isabel, you’re really frightened, aren’t you?”
They hugged
“Everything will be all right, we can make it.”

The group met in Michael’s apartment

Michael: ”We should never have let him go, I’ve never supported this decision.”

Isabel: “Noone of us did.”

Michael: “Then why did he go? Why did we let him go? Why didn’t we go with him?”

Isabel: “Because he did not want to bring us in danger! Michael, I can’t tell you much about it because I simply don’t know. Max was really moved by this call, he considered it as very important.”

Maria: “When you’re talking about a call, you don’t mean a phone call, do you?”

Liz: “Max never told us in which way he had been contacted and by whom, he just took it very important to answer. He has never really talked about it, he had seemed very nervous during the last days before he left, too.”

Liz seemed angry and frightened at the same time. She couldn’t think of the question if she will see Max ever again.

Liz: “Back to Max’ second appearance in your dreams, Isabel. You told us that he’s lost anywhere. Where could he be when he still has the ability to contact you in your dreams?”

Isabel: “As I was saying, actually he cannot contact anyone in dreams. I’m not sure that he even wanted to contact me in my dreams. Maybe he didn’t even know he was there. He just came in my dreams and asked me what he was supposed to do and that he doesn’t know where he is. I have no clue where he could be ,not knowing what he did after he had left Roswell.”

She turned around to Alex with a worried look on her face. Seeing into his eyes made her feel not so frightened and a feeling of safety streamed through her body again.

Liz: “We have to find out who he was contacted by and in which way. Maybe the answers to those questions will help us to decide his location.”

Michael: “I think, it’s not very difficult to know who he was contacted by.”

Michael pointed up with his index finger

Michael: “He’s the future king of another planet!”

Liz: “Uhmm, yeah this question is clear, I guess.”

Liz seemed upset. The whole story that she didn’t know where her loved Max was and that she was not able to get in touch with him drove her almost crazy.

Alex: “Why could they have called Max?”

Michael: “Do we know what’s happening on our planet right now?”

Silence

Michael: “I’m sorry Alex, I didn’t mean to shout on you. I’m just confused…I don’t know how we can bring Max back, but I should have a plan. Max should be able to count on me, I’m his best friend!”

Maria walked in Michael’s direction.

Maria: “We’ll find a way to bring him back. We just have to stick together, then we can make it.”

Michael kissed Maria on her forehead and reaches over to hug her.


Liz felt lonely. Isabel had Alex and Maria had Michael, but Max was lost and she didn’t know if he will ever return to her again, if he will ever touch her face so tender again like he used to do. No, she mustn’t think of a bad end, they will make it, they just have to.


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Chapter 3


Liz slept restless. She saw her entire life with Max going past in her dreams. When he had healed her in the Crashdown last September and had established a connection with her for the very first time, the rush of images she had seen and his feelings for her that she will never forget, she could feel his loneliness and fear again. When he had helped her to say goodbye to her grandma Claudia and how it had felt lying in his arms, how anxious she had been with Max having this car accident, she saw their very first kiss on the roof after this stupid incident at the party and after she had been able to tell Alex the truth…finally. She remembered one of the most beautiful nights of her life after this blind date event, as Max had told her how he really felt and which role she played in his life. When they had started seeing into each other’s soul last February and she had started having those flashes about the crash of 1947 by touching him, how she had enjoyed the feeling to be together with him again.
How frightened she had been as Max had been caught by Agent Pierce and had been tortured in the white room…seeing these images Liz shaked. Max thoughts had been filled with pain and fear. You couldn’t describe her gratefulness, with him being saved from Agent Pierce. When Max had told her that she was the thought that kept him alive…Liz couldn’t think of a moment in her life when she had felt the same beautiful feeling as she did then.


Suddenly the rush of images stopped.

Everything turned black around her and it seemed she started falling.
Liz became cold and frightened. It was like she fell into an endless hole.

Finally she found herself in a room. It was large, the floor ,the walls and the ceiling seemed to be made of some kind of stone, but Liz could not remember seeing stones like these before. The walls had big windows and a strange wind blew from the outside.
It looked like a palace, but why was she dreaming about being in a palace? Liz couldn’t find an answer.

Walking through the large room, Liz discovered some persons in the middle of it. But she didn’t see what they looked like, she only felt their energies. Looking from one to another, she finally stopped…she couldn’t believe it, but one of them was Max!
He sat on the floor in front of some kind of throne.
Suddenly Liz heard a voice, she wasn’t able to understand he language but due to any reason she understood the meaning of those sounds.

“Zan, King of Antar and Leader of the Royal Four, this is your execution. You are not needed as the King of Antar anymore.”


Going past everyone, it seemed like they weren’t able to see her. Liz stopped in front of Max, he was looking down on the floor. Suddenly a guardian came towards him and Max looked up. He looked at Liz despaired and whispered “Help me…”, then he was shot.


Liz woke up.




“Stephan Davis, the Running Back of the Redskins did only 20 yards today, what’s up with him, Kent?”
“ I don’t know, Bob, it seems like his right knee was still aching against the San Francisco 69ers.”


Maria: “Please switch finally off the TV, I hate this stupid football stuff. Also, there’s something we have to talk about.”

Michael: “What, if we cannot figure out what has happened, Maria? What, if Max’ appearance in Isabel’s dream was really thought as a warning and Khivar has found some kind of trick how to come back here? What, if I fail as his second-in-command and find no way to rescue him? Maria, I have always been able to count on him. Former, as we didn’t know anything about our origin and just having us three, Max supported me in everything knowing that I had not hit the jackpot with Hank. He knew that us three belonged together in a special way and was always willing to show his loyalty. And now, where he’s lost anywhere and searching for help…the only thing I’m doing is watching football in order to hide my insecurity. I feel so irresponsible, and stupid and...”

Maria: “You know what, Michael, it is okay. You’re worrying with your best friend being in danger. You’re afraid of the great responsibility and that you won’t be able to handle it. But just remember what we all have gone through…what problems we could solve and if we keep sticking together we will manage this one, too.”

She reached for his hand and stroked it.

Michael: “ I know…but…it won’t be easy…”





“I’m not going to complain, but do you think it really helps always driving the same way from your house to the cave?”

“Something has to have happened on his way here, I’m sure we’re on the right track just overlooked something! Please Alex, please keep driving.”

Isabel was searching the surroundings for some evidence that could prove here suspicion.

Isabel: “Damn, not a bit, it seems like he just disappeared from earth.”

Alex: “Well, at first I have to get some gas anyway. Do you know any gas station here?”

Isabel: “Of course, just take the one in Lincoln. Just turn left at the next crossroads, it’s not on the way to the caves, but slowly I begin to wonder if there’s any track at all on the way there.”


Arriving at the gas station Isabel decided to get some food while Alex was getting some gas.
The sun set and a part of it was already behind the horizon. Isabel and Alex hadn’t been eating for the whole day yet, always busy driving around in search for a track. She decided to take some chips for both and a bottle tabasco for herself, of course. As she left the store, Alex ran towards her, excited to tell her something.

Alex: “Isabel, look!”


Not knowing what expected her, she turned her head around to the repair shop next to the gas station. The door of their garage had just opened, but Alex could read in Isabel’s confused look that she didn’t understand how Max’ jeep got there, either…

Chapter 4

„Will they ever return?“ – Max woke up. It was one of those flashes that you do not know whether they are real or an illusion. It was around midnight and he was sitting in his jeep on a highway outside of Roswell.
But this time something was different. Although still having his eyes closed he didn’t feel tired or exhausted, a breath of energy flew through his body and the flash continued. He saw himself driving through the desert…the sun was rising and the last star disappeared…Max knew this star, he couldn’t count the times he had been driving through the daybreak with Liz on his side….the surroundings became emptier and emptier…he could feel the nothingness around him…the jeep stopped…he saw himself standing in the desert surrounded by all the mysterious symbols of his home planet…staring at the sky…waiting for something…- Max opened his eyes, the flash was gone…the energy was gone.
Max knew that the situation was intense, heightened. He could remember the meanings of the symbols poured into the floor and he didn’t like how himself had been feeling driving through the desert. He remembered a rush of nervousness and fear of the unknown.
The symbols complemented one another and showed a way of transportation…


Liz met Michael near the Indian reservation. She knew that he liked walking around at the place where once the first parts of the entire truth about their origin had been revealed to them, particularly in times when they had to struggle with serious issues. To Liz it seemed as if he tried to withdraw, to gain a better insight by taking distance. She knew that he didn’t try to get rid of or forget his responsibility this way, he was aware of it and just searching for the best way to handle it conscientiously.

Walking through the entrance of the cave she saw him standing in front of the wall on which Nacedo had once drawn some words in their mother language about why they had been sent to earth. He was staring at them and as Liz called him, Michael needed some time to come back from his deep thoughts.

Liz: “Hey…..Michael?”

Silence


Liz: “Michael…are you okay?”

Michael: ”…what…Liz? What are you doing here?”

Liz: ” Something happened I have to talk with you about and I knew I can find you here when you’re not in your apartment. I know you like being here when…”

Michael: “…when I try to calm down.”

Liz: “Yeah….exactly.”

Michael: “ I hadn’t been allowed to let him go all alone, Liz. We both know that, so why deny it?”

Liz: “Michael, you know that Max would never have let you go with him. He felt that the call was meant for him…only for him.”

Michael: “ Yeah, I told myself this, too, but now Max got lost on his way to follow the call and we don’t know anything about the location. Maybe the whole thing with this call was a trap.Maybe this is just the beginning of…we don’t even know what or who we’re up against.
Of course, Khivar was the most probable solution, but….”

Liz: “It’s him….it’s Khivar. I saw him…..”

Michael: “What?! Where did you see him?”

Liz: “ Last night….I was dreaming of Max and…and me…but then something happened…the dream was interrupted and…and I started falling…I felt as if I was falling through the time…forward. but then I found myself in a room again, in a large room. Michael, it looked like a palace and everything was made of materials that don’t exist on earth! And the wind blowing through the windows didn’t feel like air…it felt thicker. As I decided to walk around in order to find out more about the surroundings I discovered some persons in the middle of tis room. But the amazing thing was, I couldn’t recognize their shapes….Michael, I only felt their energies! One of these energies belonged to Max….he was the only one of them being able to see me and….”


Liz couldn’t hide her tears anymore…

Michael: “Liz….you don’t have to….”

“He was asking me for help…but I couldn’t do anything more than watching….Michael, I watched him die….a guardian of Khivar shot him…Michael, it was….it was his execution.
Khivar plans to replace Max as the King Of Antar…and the only way for him to succeed is Max’ death….”


Her voice failed her

You could see in Michael’s eyes that listening to her words caused the same pain in him that she suffered from.
They hugged.

Michael: “Liz , I know what you’re going through and how you must feel being separated from Max. I wish I could ease your pain, but I can’t. I wish I had already found a solution but I haven’t. Time is running quickly and the future you dreamt about will fulfill , if we find no way to change the present…soon .
I just hope that somehow Max, wherever he is, remembers how he got to this strange place and gets the opportunity to come back.”

Chapter 5


“Michael, this is Isabel…”

“Isabel? Where have you been? I thought me met in the CrashDown…”

“Michael, listen…Alex and me found Max’ jeep!”

“What? Where?”

“ We drove to Lincoln in order to get some gas and Alex discovered the jeep in the repair shop next to the gas station.”

“Do we know where the jeep has been found?”

“Yeah, Alex talked to the man in authority and found out that the jeep stood deep in the desert…. In the middle of nowhere.”

“Do you suspect that Max was captured?”

“I did, but that’s strange about it…there’s no indication that the jeep was stopped by force. It just looks like parked…”

“What could Max have wanted that deep in the desert? I mean, it wasn’t the direction to the pods and the granilith….”

“We are not sure yet, but we decided to go there. Do you want to join us?”

“Yeah, sure. I got some news for both of you, too….and you don’t have to fetch me…I’ll just take the Jetta. Maria is doing that can inventory, it’ll probably take her whole shift…she won’t need it anyway today.”

“Good.”

“You both are still at the gas station?”

“Yeah.”

“Okay…meet you there…”

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Michael just wanted to walk out of the CrashDown hearing someone shouting. He knew this voice like almost no other…it was Maria.

Maria: “Michael, Michael! Where you want to go?”

He turned around not wanting to know what expected him.

Michael: “ Maria, I need the Jetta.”

Maria: “For what? Isabel called you, didn’t she? What have they found out?”

Michael: “They’ve found the jeep, okay? I gotta hurry…they’re waiting.”

Maria: “ And you wanted to leave us here?”

Only now they recognized that Liz had been following their conversation.

Liz: “ I’m going with you.”

Not being to put off she walked to the Jetta in front of them and all three left for Lincoln.



Michael, Maria and Liz are on their way to Lincoln.

Liz: “Michael, what do you expect is awaiting us at this place where the jeep was found?”

Michael: “ I have no clue. It kind of confuses me because this place is pretty far away from the crash site or the cave with the pods and the granilith.”

Maria: “ What was actually this call from Antar about? I mean, have you ever considered that they wanted him to come home?”

Michael: “Of course, we have. But Nacedo told us that you needed the granilith to leave for Antar with it consisting of different dimensions. As we were searching the pod cave for some evidence which could answer the question what Max had been doing, we also checked the granilith and it hadn’t been used….we would have recognized it.”

Maria: “This is just curious…I mean, what could they have wanted from Max?”

Liz: “I suspect, Khivar forced the Antarians to call Max for help, since I had this….this dream.”

Liz looked down on the floor, trying to get her dream about Max out of her mind, she wasn’t able to think of it right now.

Maria: “Don’t worry, Liz. Probably, your dream is going to fulfill in only 100 years if it’s going to become true at all…. “

Liz: “ I’ve tried to make myself believe this, too, but I just can’t forget Max’ emotions…I’ve got a funny feeling about it. We just don’t know at which point in time my vision will fulfill.”

Michael turned left and the Jetta disappeared behind the canyon…

The 6. Chapter isn't as long as I suspected it to become,but here you go:


Chapter 6


“Isabel, I know, you’re determined to have everything under control convinced that you’re the one in authority to bring Max back. But please, don’t put everything on your shoulders. I’m aware of how much Max means to you and how close your relationship is, but I also see how much you struggle with the situation and I can’t go on this way. I admire your sense of responsibility, but, please let me take the pressure from your shoulders and don’t hide the feelings inside from you.”

Alex and Isabel were walking through the desert waiting for Michael Maria and Liz.
The sun already set and the first few stars appeared. Both loved walking through the canyons
and watching the night sky with all its stars. Watching the stars became a part of their relationship having been one of the first situations they really connected to each other.
But this time it was different, the situation was intense and heightened. Both, especially Isabel were very tensed and Alex couldn’t bear to see her like that.

“I’ve been thinking about a situation like this a lot, you know, being separated from Michael or Max…I suppose everyone of us has, particularly after Michael became sick being in search for Nacedo. We’ve always known that we make a unit and can manage things as long as we just stick together. Being separated has been a thought none of us took into consideration or even could imagine….we suspect it would be our end. Before that shooting incident, I mean before Max healed Liz and let her in on our secret, us three was everything we had. Michael had been apart for three years until we found him, but Max…Max has always been there and tried to make life as easy as possible for me…he’s my brother…no matter if in this life or in my previous one.”

“I’m sure it hasn’t been easy for you three…spending your life always being on one’s guard….and not able to connect to other people.”

“It never was…..furthermore Max has always felt as if he was in authority for Michael and me. There was a lot of pressure lying on his shoulders…..healing and letting her in on our secret was like…”

“…a stroke of liberation for him.”

“Yeah, exactly….look, they’re coming. Let’s go back.”

Both took a last look at the stars and turned around.

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Maria: “Michael, look! Alex has already parked over there, let’s get off the car.”

Michael, Liz and Maria got off the Jetta and went to Isabel and Alex.

Michael:” Are we there? Is this the place where they found the jeep?”

Alex: “ That’s at least what the man, who had fetched it, said…yes, we’re there.”

Liz: “Mmmhhhh…okay, let’s see…Max tried to answer the call….we’re not near the crash site or the pod cave with the granilith….but there must be something special about this place.”

Isabel: “This is just curious….Michael, look! The V-Constellation hasn’t appeared at the sky yet.”

Maria: “How have you ever been able to see it? I thought you couldn’t see stars from other galaxies without using a telescope…”

Isabel:” Us three can….but only the V- constellation which includes Antar. I think, it’s part of our abilities, since Antar is our home planet.”

Alex: “But why shouldn’t it have appeared yet? I mean, come on….it’s not like all five planets died…”

Silence


Liz: “Michael, did you take the orb with you?”

Michael: “ Yeah, it’s in the Jetta….what’s your plan?”

Liz: “ I don’t know yet…probably it’ll happen nothing…but maybe it can prove that Antar is still there…”

Michael ran back to the Jetta and fetched the orb.

Michael: “Here you go.”

Michael and Isabel hold the orb together…trying to create a signal.
It took them more time than usual, but then a bright blue light, similar to a laser beam, shot up.


Due to any reason the beam was reflected by the sky and shot back to earth…

Alex: “What the hell is that?”

Liz: “Look! The beam leads to this canyon next to this hill over there!”

The group hurried to the canyon. Arrived they recognized that the bright blue beam stopped right on the canyon’s wall.

Isabel: ”What’s this about?”

Michael:” I don’t know, but we’re going to find out right now.”

He approached the canyon’s wall with his hand and a silver hand print appeared.

Everyone looked at each other being aware that they’re close to something …then Michael touched the silver hand print…and stepped back.

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Liz woke up…she found herself in the canyon …it was daybreak…she was standing next to alien symbols which were drawn on the ground around her….she stared at the symbols not being able to move her eyes…. seconds later the sun set and the V- constellation appeared at the sky…then she found herself next to their cars…and Maria, Isabel and Alex.

Liz: “What has just happened to us? I felt a flood of energy running through my body… lost my sense of time and found myself standing in the canyon surrounded by those alien symbols…then the sun set and the V- Constellation appeared at the sky…”

Alex: “ We all experienced the same thing…”

Maria: “ What were these alien symbols about…Isabel, what did they say?”

Isabel: “The symbols complemented one another…I had no chance to decipher the message…time was running too quickly.”

Only now they recognized that Michael was missing.
They turned around and saw him still standing near the canyon….still trembling all over of the flood of energy.

“Michael, are you okay?”, Maria asked him as they arrived at the canyon.

Michael: “Could you see it, too?”

Isabel: “Yeah, we all saw these symbols drawn of the desert ground…”

Michael: “I’m not talking about this…could you feel it?”

Alex: “Feel what?”

Michael: “ The different time dimensions…I saw images of what happened to him. Max wanted to follow the Antarians’ call, but he has never arrived …”

Isabel: “What…what happened to him?”

Michael: “Max is lost in a different dimension.”