Title
All is not lost.
Reason for not writing fic
I actually wrote a few chapters of this fic but my heart was never in it. Originally the idea came to me while watching season one of Lost. I posted it as a challenge and it was taken but the author later said that she wouldn’t be able to complete it. I decided to write it myself then because I had come up with such a complicated plot and I was disappointed that it would never get written. But I never really got into it, plotting it was the fun part.
Here’s a
link to what I had posted.
Summary of fic
Basically it was a Roswell version of Lost. Our favourite Roswellians were all on board a flight that crash-landed on a mysterious deserted island. Over the course of their time on the island they would discover shocking secrets about themselves, each other and the island.
It gets very complicated and it’s been a long time since I even read my notes, which are …lost… and I’ve had new ideas since the initial one which I may be incorporating here but haven’t worked out properly, so bear with me.
In the first few chapters it was revealed that Max was an alien when he saved Liz’s life in the aftermath of the crash. Liz was being transported from Australia to the USA by an Agent Pierce of the FBI. She found him in the jungle, badly injured but alive. Instead of getting help, Liz suffocated the agent and hid his body. Later, she joined Michael and the two Valenti’s to trek into the jungle to find the front of the plane in the hope of signalling for help. They were astonished when they discovered that apart from the mangled body of a flight attendant and the co-pilot, there was nobody and no bodies at the site of the crash. And no sign of tracks to indicate that survivors had trekked through the jungle. Jim took Kyle aside and announced ‘they’re here’, flashbacks revealed that Jim had always been paranoid and spent a great part of his life on the run from ‘them’, Kyle spent the early part of his life on the run with his father and mother. When his mother chose to stop running, Kyle chose to stay with his mother.
On the way back to the beach, Michael, Liz and the Valenti’s bumped into Maria (pregnant) and Alex (musician with a drug problem and plagued by mysterious dreams.) They were being chased by something large and frightening in the jungle, luckily they manage to escape.
On the first night, very mysterious lights had been spotted scanning the sky from the middle of the jungle. A debate was on between the survivors, trek into the jungle in search of the source of the lights, or stay on the beach.
So that’s as far as I had written.
What next?
MaxIt has already been revealed that Max was an alien. He had been adopted by Philip and Diane. Before the adoption was complete they had taken Max to the park to get to know him and had introduced him to their new puppy. The puppy was hit by a car and would have died except that Max saved his life. Realising that Max was special, Diane and Philip changed their names and moved to the other side of the country after the adoption went through. They protected him but always encouraged him not to use his powers in public. However, as he got older Max began to use them more and more and even saved a couple of lives. One of these incidents occurred when he was twelve and a boy of about the same age fell from a tree and would have been killed but Max saved his life.
He went on to study to become a doctor but when faced with so many people suffering, he began to use his powers. This alerted the attention of the FBI special unit and other sinister organisations and Max had to go on the run. He spent the next few years on the run, always just one step ahead of the Feds and Agent Pierce.
Liz Although Liz started the fic as a fugitive in Australia and a murderer on the island, she wasn’t a bad person. She was a precocious child, graduated high school early, went to Harvard and was recruited by a top genetics company when she graduated. She began working with an elite team of scientists on a highly sensitive project on human cells. She began to suspect that something strange was going on, and with the help of a French Scientist, Serena, she began to investigate. She discovered that the company she worked for were abducting people and running tests on them. All these people were showing strange abnormalities in their cells and some of them were displaying incredible gifts such as the ability to manipulate molecules. They later discovered that the people who were being abducted all seemed to have had miraculous cures from fatal illnesses and injuries. And they all told the same story about a young man who put their hand on them and fixed them. When a young girl is brought in, Liz and Serena rescue her and run. The girl shares flashes with Liz, giving Liz her first glimpse of Max. Serena disappears and Liz is forced to go on the run. She ends up in Australia where she is captured by Pierce. The thing is, when she got flashes from the little girl, she also got flashes of Pierce and she knows that he’s a monster who is capable of torturing even little girls for information in his quest to get to Max. On the island, she knows that the only way to save Max from the clutches of Pierce and the company is to kill Pierce.
Kyle After choosing to stay with his mother, Kyle led a mostly normal life with little contact from his father. Occasionally, Jim showed up out of the blue usually with dire warnings about ‘them’. Kyle believed that Jim was crazy and paranoid. However, shortly before he turned twenty one, Kyle was abducted by strange men. He was kept captive for a few months then finally rescued by his father. During the breakout, he realised that the men who had abducted him were not normal. For one thing, they could blast with their bare hands. Later Jim revealed that his abductors and the people he had been running from all his life were in fact aliens – skins. At first Kyle doesn’t believe him but he shortly learned that his father wasn’t crazy. There really are aliens on earth. Jim was abducted when he was about Kyle’s age and experimented on. The skins are on earth to lay the foundations for a take over and Jim is one of the very few people who know about them and is fighting against them.
Alex At first, all was going well for Alex. He had been spotted playing in a bar and was offered a record contract. He recorded his first album and began touring the country. However he began to have frightening nightmares that left him too afraid to sleep and he developed a dependence on sleeping tablets.
What he doesn’t know is that when he was younger, Alex’s life had been saved by an alien when he had fallen out of a tree. Because of Max’s actions, Alex had developed powers in the form of prophetic dreams. The nightmares he was experiencing were actually from the future.
Isabel She’d always known she was different but she just thought that she was psychic or something so Isabel was horrified when a strange man approached her and told her that she was in fact an alien. He told her that he worked for an organisation determined to fight the evil aliens on earth. Isabel was asked to infiltrate the skins and get information for the organisation. She managed to find out a lot of information, including the identity of the leader of the skins who she tracked to Australia. There, she learnt that something big was going to go down. A large number of skins were planning to fly back to the US, so she booked herself on the flight. On boarding she was surprised to find that the entire first class compartment was full of skins.
Maria She was raised by her single mother, never met her father. She met her boyfriend Billy in her freshman year of college and ended up pregnant. When she told Billy, his reaction shocked her. He wasn’t surprised that she was pregnant, he was expecting it. In fact, he had deliberately got her pregnant. Maria was one of the very few people on the planet with an abnormal gene mutation. The thing about this gene was that it allowed her to get pregnant by an alien. Her child would be a perfect hybrid between the two species – he would possess the incredible powers of the aliens, but unlike the skins he would be able to breathe earth’s atmosphere without the aid of a husk. However, Billy had fallen in love with Maria and didn’t want her and their child to fall into the hands of the skins so he convinced her to run away with him. They fled to Canada and then to Australia. Then Billy met up with some renegade skins who agreed to help them. Unfortunately, Billy was killed, but the skins, pretending to be his friends got Maria on a plane and told her that others would be waiting for her in LA to help her and protect the baby.
Michael He had grown up in Roswell, he lived in foster care but a protector popped by every so often to check up on him. Michael knew all about the skins and spent his life honing his power. When his protector failed to show up as scheduled, Michael left Roswell and began to take on the skins. He met up with Courtney who revealed that although she had came as part of the initial skins, she and a small group of other skins had come to regard earth as home. They joined forces and ended up as a couple. They followed the skins leader to Australia. Courtney was killed in an attack. Like Isabel, Michael learned that something big was going down and made sure that he too was on the plane to LA.
Jim Jim had always thought his father’s talk of aliens was crazy. That is until he was abducted himself. Then he discovered the shocking secret. The aliens were chasing after him because of his blood, he and his family had something that the aliens needed, though he didn’t know what. He took his family and ran. He was heartbroken when his wife and son decided not to go with him any longer. Distraught, he returned to Roswell to visit his father, now a patient in a psychiatric hospital there. He met Amy Deluca and they had a brief fling before he was forced to run again. Unaware that Amy was pregnant with his daughter. He kept a close eye on Kyle and his wife over the years and when Kyle was abducted, he did everything to release him. Now he’s hell bent on destroying the skins once and for all.
Tess Although she wasn’t on the beach with the others, Tess had been on the plane. She was in the tail section and had crashed on another part of the island. Like Michael, Tess had known all about the skins, she was brought up by her protector and had spent her whole life helping with the fight against the skins. She had been approached by the organisation and knew exactly what was going on, so she made sure that she was on the plane too.
So what
was going on?
Well, here’s where it gets complicated.
Twenty years into the future, into the time that Alex dreams about, the skins have launched their attack and are taking over the world. It’s not an invasion from outer space, but an attack from every corner of the earth. They’ve been setting up cells on every continent and invading all kinds of powerful organisations. Including the FBI and other police and security forces around the world, the UN, the White House, and many powerful banks, utility companies and arms manufactures as well as having controlling interests in lots of scientific companies such as the one Liz works for.
They’re led by a young man named Daniel. Daniel is a human/alien hybrid. He’s more powerful than any other alien on the planet. He’s Maria’s son, stolen from her at birth and raised to be a ruthless, powerful leader of the skins.
Among the humans who fight in the resistance are the Valenti’s, Max, Michael, Isabel, Tess, Alex, Liz and her friend Serena.
Serena has figured out how to use the granolith to time travel. She has gone back into the past and mobilized the people who knew about the aliens. She’s the one who asked Isabel to infiltrate the skins. She was in contact with the protectors and with her past self and with them, she was leading the fight against the skins.
Uh, I hadn’t this part all worked out exactly. But hopefully you get the jist of it.
So anyway, the skins husks were dying and they needed new ones. Using the technology and the research from the scientific companies they owned, the skins had developed a new husk. All the skins were being called to an island in the Pacific where they would be fitted with the new husks and trained from the next phase of the take over. The idea was to board a plane, ‘crash’ it on the island. Kill any human survivors and then in a few years return to the real world and start the take over. As part of the plan they had set Billy up so that he’d put Maria on the plane with them.
The others were on the plane because of Serena. She knew about the plan and the crash and with her contacts, had arranged for them to be on board. Unfortunately, some of the people who she was working with were killed in the crash.
Serena herself, had taken a boat to the island a few months before the crash and set up a base while there. Unfortunately, as she was changing the future, it meant that things that had happened in her past, now never happened and so she was losing the memory of them happening and new memories were taking their place. So Serena is a little crazy at this stage. She doesn’t know what’s real anymore.
So the skins are on the island, they know Maria is amongst the survivors. One of their own was amongst them, a skin named Grant Sorenson, was planted on the beach to ensure Maria survived and to bring her to the skins when they’re ready for her.
Little by little, the survivors begin to share their knowledge of the aliens and the events and realise that they must band together to fight the aliens. They don’t know it but their actions will save the world.
Max and Liz fall in love but she’s afraid to get close to him as she is afraid that if he gets flashes from her, he’ll realise that she is a murderer and was involved in experiments on humans – the humans he risked his own life to save.
Alex is having a very difficult time without his pills as it means the nightmares have come back. Isabel uses her dream-walking powers to help him. She’s able to understand the dreams in a way that he can’t and they become the most important source of information.
Michael and Maria bond, and when she’s abducted he leads the party to find and rescue her. When she gives birth to the baby that they skins are desperate to get their hands on, Michael becomes their protector and of course they too fall in love.
Tess leads the tail end survivors to the beach. She and Kyle play and important part in the fighting and fall in love.
By the end, the humans manage to destroy the skins harvest and prevent the horrific future that Serena came back from and that Alex foresaw in his nightmares.
Finally they are rescued and are able to return to their lives. For the ones who spent so long on the run, they can at last settle down and begin new lives.
So that would have been my fic.