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 “Maxwell, I don't want to stay here anymore. Let's go.” Michael said as he walked past the group to the van.
“Michael? Michael, where are you going?” Maria asked as Michael climbed in the van, slammed the door, and started it.
“Max?” Liz asked as Michael honked the horn. Everyone looked at Max for him to tell them if they were leaving or not.
“Well, let's go I guess.” Max answered, shrugging.
As soon as they got in the van and the doors were shut Michael peeled out of the parking lot. Squealing the tires, he did a sharp turn as Maria screamed. After running two red lights and almost running into three cars and a pedestrian Max decided that Michael wasn't going to stop any time soon and that he had had enough.
“Michael! Stop! You're going to get us caught!” he yelled angrily.
“I don't care Max, I don't ever want to see him again. He isn't my father and he never will be. I don't need a father!”
“Michael, stop the van now.” Max said through clenched teeth. He was trying very hard not to yell at Michael but he was pushing his luck.
“You may be the King Maxwell, but you don't order me around.”
Max finally snapped. He was tired of Michael being careless and doing things that could hurt them all. The van stopped as suddenly as if it had ran into a brick wall going 100 mph. There was no screeching of tires or slow stopping, it just stopped.
“Get out of the damn car, Michael! NOW!” Max yelled.
Michael yanked the door open and got out. Michael had a look on his face like he was ready to punch anyone who got in his way. Max got out and started up the hill. Michael followed until they had reached the top of the hill. Max turned on Michael with a look of fury on his face.
“What the hell were you thinking?!? We are trying to avoid the law, not get caught by it!”
“I don't know what I was thinking.” Michael admitted snapping out of his rage.
“That is the problem, Michael! You don't think! Someone pisses you off and you act irrationally! That's probably what got us killed in the first place!”
Now Michael was furious. He didn't like being blamed for something that happened in another life time. A life time that he couldn't even remember. Suddenly Max was flying backward and he landed on his back with a thud. He tried to get up but just as suddenly he got pushed back on the ground and held there by an invisible force.
“Michael let, me up! Let me go, Michael!” he yelled as soon as he figured out what had happened.
“No, Max. I'm not going to let you up. Not until you apologize. You had no right to say that! You were a crappy king and that is why we got killed! I had nothing to do with it!” Michael yelled, barely conscious of what he was doing.
“Max!” Liz screamed. She had followed them up with Kyle right behind her but Michael wasn't done. He pointed his hand at Liz and she flew backward. Suddenly, as fast as he had attacked Max, he went flying backward and was pinned to the ground. In a flash Max was holding him down.
“Get off me Max! Leave me alone!” Michael yelled.
“No, not until you calm down!” Max said struggling against Michael. After a couple minutes he stopped fighting and Max got up. Michael sat up and Max went to Liz.
“Liz, are you OK?” Max asked.
“Yeah, I think I'm fine. I might have a few bruises though.” she said.
“Let me take a look.” He said and he inspected her. He ran his hands over her inspecting her with both his human instincts and his powers. She seemed fine but he was still worried.
“I can heal you,” he suggested.
“Max, I'm fine, really. I'll be OK.” she told him.
“Are you positive?” he asked her.
“Yes, Max. I'm fine, you better check on Michael though.” she said.
He turned around to see where Michael was and saw him exactly where he was when Max had ran to Liz. He walked up to him ready for Michael to lunge at him again.
“I'm not going to hurt you, Max. I would never purposely hurt you.” He said.
“But you did hurt me Michael, you attacked Liz with your powers.”
“I know I did, and I'm very sorry, I don't know what got into me. I guess I was just pissed that my own father had been living in Roswell my entire life and had never once came to save me! You, all of you, are lucky. You had someone to love you for your entire life. All I had was Hank and he was a lousy father.” Michael explained.
“Yeah, Hank was a jerk, he wasn't a very good father but can you imagine what would have happened if Vindilo would have came to get you? You were a seven year old child, an orphan, found on the side of the road. You had no family, according to records, so there would have been an investigation if he would have shown up. We might have been exposed, they would have put us all in the white room. Vindilo was our protector, like Nasedo, he couldn't let anything bad happen to us, which meant not coming into our lives.” Max tried to explain.
“I know that Maxwell, but he could have taken me before they put me in a foster home. He could have rescued me right after I hatched.”
“Maybe he couldn't Michael. Maybe in order for him to protect us he had to protect himself first.” Max said and walked away to let Michael think about what he had just said. He looked at Liz and said “What happened anyway? Did you throw Michael off of me?”
“No, I did, Max.” Kyle said.
“You did it, but you don't have any powers.” Michael said most bewildered.
“I do have powers, I don't know exactly what I did, but I did something.”
“Max, I just figured something out. I can tell the future, you can heal but Michael can destroy. Tess can get into people's heads to make them make them think something is happening that isn't but Isabel can get into people's dreams and see what they are thinking. Do you understand?” Liz said.
“I think I am beginning to” Max said.
“Glad you are Maxwell, because I am completely lost.” Michael complained.
“All of you have opposites, Max you can heal, Michael you can destroy, Tess could change what people were thinking, Isabel can see what people are thinking. I'm the only one that doesn't have an opposite. What if Kyle is my opposite? What if he can change the past the same as I can see the future?” Liz explained.
“Sorry to burst you bubble, Miss Fortune Teller, but I don't think I changed the past. I used a power that wasn't my own. I borrowed it form someone.” Kyle said.
“OK I have an idea, Kyle I'm going to heal Michael's bruises and I want you to borrow the power, however you do it, from whoever you do it from and we will see what happens.” Max said.
“All right, if it works.” Kyle agreed.
Max went over to Michael and started to heal him while Liz watched. After a few minutes Max was done. “Did it work, is Michael healed?” Liz asked.
“No, he's not, but I am.” Max said.
“Kyle, you borrow power from the person using it and turn it back on them. Michael threw me back and held me down with his powers. You used his own power against him by throwing him back and holding him down. You use whatever power was done in the past couple minutes. I didn't use any powers since I stopped the van so there wasn't any power to borrow from me. You were in around here when Michael attacked me so you used his powers. You have to use whatever power is there when you are.” Max explained.
“I get it now, it is just so weird. Weird but cool.” Kyle said.
Liz looked at Kyle like he was crazy and said “We should probably be heading back to the van so that the others don't start worrying.”
“You go, Michael and I will catch up.” Max said.
After Liz and Kyle were gone Max looked at Michael and started to heal him again.
“Thanks Maxwell.”
“Yeah no problem.” Max said turning to walk away but couldn't hold back the words he words he was thinking.
“Michael, I want to know what that man did to you. I've thought about it but I can't seem to figure it out. We have had our differences but the only time you have ever used your powers against me was when you thought that you needed to be King. I just can't understand it.”
“I didn't mean it Max. I don't know what happened, I just… lost control. I don't even know what I was thinking. I wasn't intending to hurt you or Liz, it just happened. I'm very sorry Max, let's just forget it OK. Michael said.
“All right, we'll give it up but I'm not going to forget it Michael. Come on, I'm driving.” Max said as he started down the hill.
Once they were back in the van and everybody had heard every side of the story Maria said “So you could turn any alien's powers back on them? Like reverse it?”
“Yeah, I guess so.” Kyle answered.
“But can you control it Kyle? If Isabel were to try dream walking someone it wouldn't go back on her?” Max asked.
“No, it shouldn't. I've… I've actually been working on it for a while.” he admitted.
“What do you mean, you've been “working on it?” asked Michael. Max stopped the van and turned to look at Kyle.
"Are you telling us that this has been happening for a while?” Max asked.
“Yeah, that's true.”
“Since when?” asked Isabel.
“Since just after we left. You honestly didn't think that Michael was able to stop the van without frying the engine by himself, did you.”
“Well, I don't think that any of us gave it that much thought, Kyle.” Liz said.
“Actually, I thought I did it all by myself. I was proud too.” Michael said.
“You would Space Boy. I've experimented with your powers every time you've used them. I made them more powerful or less powerful. I can reverse them and tamper with them to make it do what I want.”
"Why didn't you ever tell us?” Michael asked.
“It was never the right time. I knew I had powers, I knew I was with my kind, but I didn't know anything else. Plus I didn't know how Buddha would like this new sense of direction we were headed in. There was nothing written in the books on whether or not Buddha favored worshipping aliens.”
“We're not your kind, we are aliens, you are human.” Michael said.
“Don't start, Michael.” Max said.
“Since you can control them, you could help us if we needed the help, right Kyle?” Isabel asked.
“Yeah, I could help.”
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