"Thanks Buffy." Max gave his cousin a pitiful hug as they left the airport and headed to the jeep. "You promised to explain." she said sharply. "It's not safe here. Wait until we get to the house." Max looked at her closely and glanced around to make sure no one was following him. They drove back in silence the cool wind feeling nice as they zipped along the highway. Isabel and Michael practically tripped each other getting to the door to greet her. She pushed past them and sat down in the living room. "Are you ready?" Max asked looking as his friends. "Show her." Isabel moved over to an armchair and waved her hand over it. It turned into a kitchen chair. "So you are witches and warlocks?" Buffy asked unimpressed. "No. We are aliens." Max said slowly, waiting for a reaction. "And Isabel accidentally went into your mind and found out about The Slayer thing. It was sort of a cross of supernatural wires if you will." Max said hurriedly. "Aliens?" Buffy repeated. "Vampires and icky things I understand. But aliens?" Buffy gulped a little unnerved. "We thought you could help us. We have an intergalactic problem that could end in the conquering of Earth. Your powers and knowledge could be beneficial to our fight." Isabel explained shakily. "But what if they need me to save the world at home?" "That's a what if. What about the here and now. Will you help us?" Leave it to Michael to cut to the chase. "Well. Saving the world is right up my alley. I'll take your case." Max's big brown eyes lit up with hope. "I'm here!" Buffy gave a questioning glance to Max when the overly perky voice was followed by a bouncy blond. "Who's your friend?" Tess asked in her bubbly, squeaky voice. "I'm Buffy. Max and Isabel's cousin. Who are you?" "I'm Tess. Max's bride to be." Buffy coughed loudly. "Don't say that." Max glared at her. "It's true. You can't deny it forever Max." Tess said. "Can you fill me in?" Buffy interrupted. "The basics are that our families crashed in 47'. We were hatched in pods 10 years ago. We were sent here so we could learn and then go to the home planet and free our people. We are reincarnations of ourselves from the home planet. I am commander and Michael is my second. In our past lives Izzy and Tess were our brides to be. Now we have bounty hunters from the conquering planet after us. Oh yeah we have another alien named Nessido from the home planet who survived the crash." Max took a breath and Buffy's jaw dropped. "So now we hold the fate of Earth and our home planet in our hands." "And on top of that our dumb destiny is keeping us from the ones we love. I really miss by boyfriend Alex, and Max is dying without Liz and Michael is all mopey about Maria." Isabel added sadly. "Ug. The whole preordained destiny. If there was ever a person to sympathize with it is me. Don't worry about it. Hey I am a Slayer and I fell in love with a vampire. How twisted is that?" "You did? Wow. What are vampires like?" Tess asked. Buffy rolled her eyes. She had taken an extreme dislike to the girl already. "They are bloodsucking undead demons." Buffy said slowly. "Chill guys. We can discuss our first course of action as soon as Nessido gets here." Max said going to the window. "Goody! I miss him." Tess bubbled. ************************************************************************************ "So boys. Are we going to tour in Roswell or what?" Howie looked at his fellow Backstreet Boys aka the other bounty hunters. "Duh. I mean finally after all these years they are still there. Who would have guessed?" Nick said. "I can't wait until we kill them. I want to go home." "I don't think earth is that bad. They are pretty ignorant though." Brian said playing with his Blaster gun. "So we go to Roswell next week?" Howie persisted. "Is there even a venue there?" Kevin asked thoughtfully. "Thanks not important." Howie reminded him. "There were 6(7?) people there when they contacted. 4 were alien. We only care about the aliens."