Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

The Human Strikes Back

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 20:

JPOV

The stage was set. Bella had been having a little trouble feeling comfortable with the suit which concerned me a bit but she was spot on with the rifle.

“Darlin are you sure you don’t want Serenity to take your spot. By the time they get up here it will be too late for them anyways.”

“Hell no Jason. That son of a bitch looked at me like a piece of meat in Italy. He’s mine.”

Guess that settles that. The house was empty. We had to lift the bed a couple inches to hide Animal underneath it. I hid in the closet. We were both suited up. Bella’s helmet was down and her body was under the covers up to her neck. As long as she did as she promised and put her helmet up before she started shooting she should be safe from any crossfire. Luckily for us those idiots decided to come at night. Vampires. So stereotypical. The pack was in human form about 3 miles away. The Cullens were around but that was to be expected as they were supposedly the ones who set this up.

Alice told us they would be entering the house at 9:02. That left us about a minute. Charlie was safely at Sue’s. We promised not to let his house burn down. I hope we could keep this promise.

I heard the door break in downstairs. I switched to infrared in my helmet and saw the spots with lower temperatures downstairs moving at vampire speed to the top of the stairs. They walked into the room. I could only see the heat signatures and the absence of heat through the door but I saw one was easily 7 foot tall. Big motherfucker must be Felix.

BPOV

I heard them walk in the room.

“Hello Bella” I turned over, not easily because of the thick blanket and the suit of freaking armor Jason insisted I wear. I pretended to be afraid, it wasn’t that hard.

“F… Felix what are you doing here? We were sent to determine why you’re not turned yet Bella. It has been a couple years.”

“I changed my mind.”

“Bella there is no changing your mind. I was told to either change you or kill you. There is no way I am going to kill you. It would be a waste. However I do plan on changing you. I don’t believe I will leave you with your precious Cullens though. As your sire I will take you to Italy and make you my mate. We will be very happy. In time.”

“Felix I don’t like you that way. But I am flattered.”

“Bella I wasn’t giving you a choice.” When it came to vampires they rarely did.

“Felix look into my eyes.” With that said I pressed though button inside my glove pulling my helmet up in a split second and sat up in the bed freeing my rifle. I heard the blast as Animal shot both Felix and Afton in the ankles. Before they could fall I shot Felix in the chest. Jason kicked open the closet door and shot Afton in the head. I watched fascinated. I had thought that they would blow to pieces but they didn’t. Felix looked at the gaping hole in his chest and fell to the ground. His feet were smoldering ashes. The hole in his chest was spreading like paper burning. He looked at me with confusion in his eyes.

“What the fuck did you do” He too in his surroundings and noticed being surrounded by robot like figures with guns. Animal had come out from under the bed. Felix slowly twitched on the floor as the fire spread up to his head. Afton was behind him his head already gone and the rest of his body following suit.

“Edward told me you had, I believe he called them inappropriate thoughts about me while in Volterra. So when I heard you were coming I called “Dibs”. Isn’t that what you said about me when I walked in to the throne room? Don’t worry though Felix, your friends will be joining you in hell soon enough. “

I dropped my helmet to see him slowly turn to ash. I was a bit concerned about the vampires leaving smoldering burn marks on my floor. When Felix finally was nothing but a 7 foot outline of a man made of ash and Ashton was the same, the rest of the team filed in with fire extinguishers. Serenity ran up and hugged me. “She knew you could do it, big sister.” My heart rate was going at an unbelievable speed and I concentrated on slowing it down by slowing my breathing. Jason wrapped an arm around me which was kinda awkward since it was metal on metal, or whatever this is. He told me it would be weird. This crap can’t be found on earth. I wonder if when this was over if we were going to be fighting aliens next. I hope not.

“Darlin I will replace the floor in your room” I heard Jason say as the guys vacuumed up the ashes to be saved . I suppose to study later.

“No leave it. I think Charlie will appreciate the burn marks of two vamps.” I know I did.

I heard the Cullens come running up the stairs and stand in the Hallway. I guessed the wolves were downstairs. Edward came up to me and went to put his arms around me for a hug. I jumped back. It wasn’t his place to do that. “I’m fine Edward.”

“Of course you are Bella.” I noticed the glare he gave Jason.

“She’s better than fine. Shot that big bastard right in the chest. “Emmett ran up to me and picked me up in a bear hug before I could step back. I really didn’t mind him so much.

“Bells you killed a vampire!” He yelled. “And not just any vampire but the biggest the Volturi had! You are awesome!”

Jason laughed at his enthusiasm. I don’t know how he is doing it but he is so calm and relaxed. I am still jacked up.

“Baby why don’t we get you out of that suit.” He said.

“Okay that sounds like a plan.”

He walked me to my dad’s room and helped me. I was shaking when he got the suit off.

“Darlin it’s just the adrenalin. You will get used to it. Combat is rarely a leisurely fire fight that lasts hours while you take aim at your enemy. It’s fast and dirty and you did perfect. “

His pride was obvious. I calmed down a little bit. Deep breathing was easier without the suit on. I was ready for the next round but first there was something I needed to take care of. “Darling we need to get this house cleared of everybody quickly.” I was wearing the skintight white spandex body suit that the team wore under the armor and the way Jason was eyeing me I knew the perfect way to burn off adrenalin.

“Listen up everybody. I need the house cleared in the next minute. Let’s all meet at the headquarters in an hour. We need to debrief and go on to the next stage. It’s going to be time to make a call. Overseas.”

Within 5 minutes the house was empty. Jason took his armor off and slowly stripped me out of my bodysuit. “I know the perfect way to burn off that adrenalin.” He said.

“You must be reading my mind” I told him.

JPOV

We arrived at the temporary headquarters 2 hours later. I can imagine what we smelled like to all these super smelling folks. Oh well. They can get over it.

We began the debriefing. Charlie was there and had rushed Bella as soon as she walked in and hugged her for about a minute. Listening the debrief, the others were showing respect in their eyes, not only for Bella but for our weapons and team.

“Jason I was under the impression that the lasers broke up the vampire and began to immediately burn him or her. From what it sounds like it definitely causes a hole but the burning process seems slow. Was this expected. I understand Felix was in a great deal of pain.” Carlisle commented.

“Carlisle this is the first time we have shot a vamp this close. I can’t explain why it happened like that. Most of the time they catch fire very quickly. We would do more tests but unfortunately all of our tests are live fire tests. Edwin can certainly volunteer if he would like to help us study the effects.”

Charlie and the Wolves began laughing. Even Bella had a small smile as she hit me lightly on the arm.

“Seriously Carlisle, I understand your concern but my focus is killing vamps not how much pain they are in. Considering they haven’t felt pain in hundreds or thousands of years but their victims have, don’t expect me to lose sleep over it.”

“I understand.” Carlisle agreed.

It was time to begin planning for the next phase. I had my tanks delivered this morning and were sitting under a covered area behind headquarters. They would have to be tarped on all sides.

“Now the Volturi aren’t stupid. We plan to ambush them but they may also have plans for us. They have to suspect that there will be a trap waiting for them. We will have satellite eyes on them the minute they leave their castle though. I am suspecting they will be looking for wolves. Jane must have smelt something when she was here after the Newborn War. But we cannot make plans until we know what is going to happen and when. Alice I imagine Aro has a good idea of what you can do so he will probably leave the decision making to someone else. Or he may be arrogant enough to come after you anyways. Either way its time to start phase two. If anyone has anything to say or wants to back out now is the time.”

Surprisingly Charlie raised his hand.

“I can’t sit back and wait for these things to come for my daughter. I want one of those rifles. If she can fight then so can I. Two snipers are better than one.”

I expected this would happen. “Okay Charlie.”

“Okay?”

“Okay. I know I can’t keep you out of this and I would rather have you in a strategic position than running around like a wild cannon. You can start training with Bella and River tomorrow morning. “

“Thank you.”

I gave him a Charlie nod and carried on.

“Carlisle get Aro on the phone. Me and Bella have decided it would be better for her to talk to him so when he answers say hi and given the phone to Bella.”

Carlisle dialed the number and turned it on speaker phone.

“Carlisle dear friend, I trust everything went as planned?”

“Actually Aro the plan has changed. I have someone here who would like to speak to you.”

Bella spoke up.

“Aro, this is Bella, how are you?”

” Bella” he answered coolly.

“Aro I hope you weren’t terribly attached to Felix and Afton. They came into my room uninvited and got themselves killed. You see Aro I am not going to be a vampire. I would never help you evil ass with anything much less a war. The Cullens are my family. It was stupid of you to think Carlisle would ever change me or have me changed without permission. Stay away from us or the rest of you will die. I will keep your secret but if you come at us again the Cullens will join the Romanians and your guard will die like the Felix did.”

“Bella you and the Cullens have made a grave mistake. The chance for immortality is no longer there. You will however join the Cullens in being burned to ash. “

“My warning stands. Send you guard here and they will die. I say your guard because I know you and Caius don’t have the balls to come here and I doubt Marcus even cares. Have a nice undead life Aro.”

And with that the call was ended.

“Well if that doesn’t give him motivation I don’t know what will.” Even I was shocked at the venom in Bella’s voice.

I looked over at Alice.

“Anything?”

“No, right now he is just planning on tearing up the castle along with Caius who was listening.”

Time to get the satellites working.