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 Max watched as Skylar headed to the window to leave. "Skylar"
Skylar turns to face him, "Sir?"
"We'll be having a meeting at 6:30 this evening at the UFO Center...bring Amanda and we'll start going through the files"
Skylar smiles at Max. "Thank you, sir."
Max smiles back at him. “Please, don't call me sir. I want to thank you for your help today.”
“It was my pleasure sir…Max.” Once again he turns to leave.
“Oh, Skylar, one more thing.” He reaches into his pocket and throws something to him. Skylar reaches up to catch it; opening his hand he sees it's the little back box to read the encoded files. He looks at Max, smiles then nods. Then he's gone.
 Liz looked at her watch, it was almost six, if her mother and Maria didn't get back soon, she wouldn't have time to change for the meeting. Sitting on the edge of the bed, she rubs the towel over her hair, hoping it would hurry up and dry, then she heard them, giggling like a couple of little kids. Maria sticks her head into the room.
“Hey Little Mama! We had a really good time, I think we bought out the store!” Nancy walks in behind Maria, laying bags all over the bed.
“Mom, what did you do? We can't afford all of this.” She starts looking at the things as Maria and her mother pull the stuff out of the bags. “Oh…they're so cute. But no, a lot of it has to go back!”
“This is a gift from your father and I. You can keep it all.” She kisses Liz's forehead.
“Thanks, Mom.” She picks up an outfit and heads to the bathroom. She hears more giggling. After she gets dressed she peeks around the corner. On the bed sits a stuffed green alien doll dressed in a baby outfit with a UFO on the front.
“We couldn't resist.” Maria was grinning at her.
“The next time I'm shot and brought back to life by an alien, I'm not telling you my secret.” She puts on a pouty face, then starts to giggle too as she picks up the doll. “I just hope this isn't accurate.”
Max was in the kitchen waiting for the girls. Leaning on the railing he yells upstairs. “Are you guys about ready? They'll start without us.”
Nancy and Maria come down the stairs. “Fat chance of that one.” Looking around and not seeing anyone in ear range, she whispers. “Your Highness.”
“Ready or not here I come!” Liz comes around the corner. Walking down the second step, she catches herself off balance and starts to fall. Max was talking to Nancy and Maria and didn't see her, until she screamed. “Max!” As she starts to fall, she feels like someone had grabbed the back of her shirt to steady her. Max rushes up the stairs to help her. “Thank you, I thought I was falling for sure.”
“I didn't do that, you had already started to go down when I realized what was happening.”
“I didn't do it either…what happened?” Suddenly she felt a hard kick. “No, no way…she couldn't could she?”
Max places his hand over the baby, then he got a sharp kick too. “I think she did.”
Maria just looks at them, she couldn't believe what she was hearing. “Come on you guys, this getting really weird. That baby didn't do that, Liz just caught her balance that's all, right?”
Max takes Liz's hand, then heads for the door. “Come on, we'll be late for the meeting.” Max didn't want to think about what happened…
When they walk into the back room, they see that everyone was already there. Kyle was the first one to notice them come in. “Liz! What happened?”
“It's a long story…everything is okay and we hope that she is slowing down a little bit.”
“She?” Isabel looks at her brother and smiles. “Have you told Mom and Dad yet?” She sees a guilty look on Max's face. “Max, they're never going to forgive you!”
Max sighs, “If it's not too late when we get done here, we'll go tonight.” She was right, their parents would be hurt to be the last ones to find out. “Well, are we ready to get started?” As the make their way up the stairs, Maria and Max watch Liz, they didn't want another close call.
Kyle was the first one to the top, placing his hand on the lock, it comes open. Amanda gives him a dirty look, she didn't think it was fair that this alien wannabe had the way in and she didn't. As the door slides open, the lights came on. “Hey Brody, that's new.”
“I did it last night, it makes things a lot easier.” He looks around, making sure everything was where it should be.
Skylar and Amanda see the stacks of files, looking at each other, they realize that they will have their work cut out for them. When Amanda sees the old computer she starts to laugh. “What in the world is this?” As she touches the front of the computer, the door comes open, revealing what's inside. “I've seen something like this before. It's from home, isn't it?”
Skylar walks over to look at it. Running his hand over it, he tries to figure it out. “Yes, but I don't know anything about it.”
“Then you really don't know about the chair?”
“Again with the chair. What's so important about it?” Amanda couldn't get over their obsession about a chair.
“Maxwell?” Michael's eyes get big…this was his chance. He had to go back.
“Michael, no! We said no more until we have a chance to figure it out.” Max didn't want to show it to the others just yet.
“This chair, what does it do? It seems very important to you.” Skylar's curiosity was now piqued.
Max looks at Michael. Then he sighs. “All right, they can see it, but you can't use it. If you do what you did the last time, you won't wake up for a week.”
Looking at Liz, they take the others to show them where the chair is kept. Liz takes the amulet from around her neck, then places it in the “lock”. Amanda and Skylar couldn't believe what they saw. Then the other door is ready for them to activate it. As they watch, the royal four place their hands on the door, causing it to slide open. “What is that? What does it do?”
Michael looks at Max again, “Just for one minute, what will it hurt? Maybe they'll see something that could help.”
“You don't know if it will only last a minute, we can't set the timer…what if you go and can't come back?”
“Go where, it's a chair, how does it go anywhere?” Amanda was going crazy listening to this chair talk, she wanted to work on the files.
“Max, I don't think the settings have changed, it probably resets itself after each trip.”
“Gee Brody, thanks a lot. No Michael, you can't go. Final answer.” Maria was worried, she didn't want Michael to get addicted to the thrill of the adventure.
“Well I for one am going to work on the files, this is all just crazy! Skylar, give me the box.”
“Alright Michael, but this is the last time. They should see this, it might be important to them.”
“Yes!” With the opening of the door, the electrical force begins, surrounding the room in blue light. Amanda and Skylar watch in amazement, they have never seen anything like this. As soon as Michael sat in the chair, they hear the humming of the control center.
“Come with us, you have to see this.” Max leads the way to the other side of the room, just as the screen appears on the wall. Brody checks on the timer.
“It's still set for one minute, he should be alright.” Then he points at the screen, Michael starts on his walk again.
“That's Antar, how did he get there?”
“He's still in the other room, he can't be seen, it's like a virtual tour. There see, they don't see him, yet he can see and hear everything around him.”
Skylar watches intently, this is the first time he has seen his home since the crash, almost sixty years ago. “I can't believe this…look over there. My sister used to live there…her house is gone now. I wonder where she is.” His voice becomes sad, this causes him to remember all that he lost all those years ago.
“That's not all, look. ... Kivar.” They all look; they need to know what their enemy looks like. Isabel glares at him, she remembers her threat to him on her honeymoon.
“If he comes anywhere near this place, he is a dead man.” She would not stand by and let this man hurt her family again.
As they watch, the screen starts to fade. “Time is up. Michael will be back soon.”
Michael comes around the corner “Well, did you see anything?”
“We saw Kivar, but we couldn't tell what he was doing.”
“Maybe I should go again.” Max looks at Maria and together they say “NO!”
They have pulled some of the files out, not knowing where to start. “Maybe if we start scanning them, then separate them by colors. Start with the new ones first, that would be our biggest threat.” Liz reached down and picked up a file, it's was Kyle's grandfathers.
“I was wondering what Hanson told you. It was you the other day, wasn't it?” Jim was looking at Skylar.
“Yes it was. How did you know?”
“I've been around this long enough to be able to pick up on things…besides, Max brought me back, too.”
“Gee Max, did you save all of Roswell?” Amanda was amazed that he hadn't been caught if he went around saving everybody in sight.
He ignored her question; there were more important things to discuss. “What about Hanson, good guy or bad guy?”
“From what I could tell he doesn't know much. I think he should be safe, we can run his file. Why, what's so important about him?”
Jim looks at Skylar, then at Max. “Max wants to bring him in…we may need him. I can't do them much good as a Deputy, but losing my job was worth it.”
Kyle and Liz were still going through the files. “Hey! Here's Hanson's file. What do we have to do?”
Skylar hands Kyle the little box. “Scan over it with this, then tell me what color it shows.”
Kyle holds the box over the file, pushing the button, the file begins to glow green.
”It's green.”
“Good he's safe. Yes Max, I think it would be a good idea to bring him in. Just don't tell him anymore than he needs to know for now.” Max nods his head in agreement.
Kyle picks up his grandfather's file, then runs the box over it. “What's it mean if a file is blue? Grandpa's is blue…is that good?”
Max, Skylar and Amanda exchange looks…
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