Never Underestimate Destiny

Part 4

The Meeting in The UFO Center continued as Max told Zan and Ava how they had grown up among humans, and had only found their protector Nasedo a few months ago. Then he explained about The Granolith, Nasedo's death, their run – ins with The Skins, and how Tess had killed a large number of them.

Zan nodded. "Well that explains why they are suddenly asking for a summit. Kivar has lost most of his troops on Earth, so he has to do something else to draw us out." He scratched at his beard. "But what about this Granolith? I've never heard of it. Why does Kivar want it? What does it do?"

"We don't know," Max said. "We'd never heard of it either, not until The Skins tried to get it from us."

"Do you know where it is?" Zan asked.

"Yeah," Max said hesitantly. "It's in a safe place."

Zan nodded.

"There's the book too," Michael said.

"Book?" Zan asked interested.

"It's a book our protector had," Isabel explained. "It's in our language, but none of us know how to read it. Maybe it tells about The Granolith. If you knew..."

She trailed off as Zan shook his head. "We never learned the language either," he said. "I guess our protectors thought we'd know it when we got our memories back from our other lives."

"So what's your plan?" Max asked, getting impatient. "What kind of trap do you have in mind?"

"It's simple really," Zan explained. "Ava and I won't go back to New York, and eventually Lonnie will start to panic because she can't find us. She needs a king to get into the summit, so she'll have to come here to get you to go. When they show up, we take them out."

Michael stepped forward eagerly. "And what about Nicholas and whatever Skins might be left?"

"I'm sure they'll come after you eventually," Zan said. "So we'll be ready for them."

"And how do we do that?" Michael demanded. "We don't know who they are, what they look like."

Zan raised an eyebrow. "We make sure we are in control of our powers so we're ready for anything."

He motioned to Ava and himself. "We've been trained since we were just out of the pods, so I'm sure we can show you a few things. And we got a place we can practice."

Max nodded. "How long do we have until Lonnie misses you?"

Zan shrugged. "A month, maybe a little more if we're lucky. Then she'll come here looking for a replacement."

"How does Lonnie know where we are?" asked Isabel.

"I didn't know," Zan said, "until you said that the Skins already knew you were here. Lonnie is definitely working with them."

"So when do we start?" Michael asked.

"Tomorrow," Zan and Max said together.

They looked at each other with a nod.

"We need to get in as possible," Max said. "We need to be ready."

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

When the meeting ended the nine of them walked out of The UFO museum.

"Okay," Zan said, "you've got our address, so we'll see you tomorrow."

Max nodded.

The Roswell group stood together watching Zan and Ava walk down the street and get in their car.