Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

The Human Strikes Back

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 37:

BPOV

I was sitting in the control room with Jason. I was feeding Emma and Jason was feeding Sara. We were monitoring a hunting expedition in New York for a particularly violent vampire. Animal and Jack were leading a VH team and they had the vampire cornered into an alley with shooters on top and shooters on the ground. We heard Animal give the order to fire and one less human drinking vampire in the world.

I leaned my head on Jason’ shoulder. Now that the mission was over we could go home. Jason had been up late every night talking to Peter about the Romanian and Denali situation. Jason wanted to begin stepping up the pressure and wanted the President to inform the Russians of what was on their soil. With the increased attacks the President was considering this.

Jason wanted to go after the Romanians even if it meant leaving weapons and armor behind. He also wanted to leave me behind, pulling the “our children come first” card. Normally I would have argued but I didn’t want him going either so I kept my mouth shut. We would talk about this when authorization came from the higher ups.

Jason also suggested as an alternative course of action sending diplomats, in this case himself and his team, into the compound to negotiate a treaty. The treaty would require all vamps to leave the United States. The Boss did not think this would happen though and it would be a waste of time.

“Baby?”

“Yes sugar?”

“Can we go home?”

“Of course Bells.”

“I want to make love, eat dinner, make love some more and then go to sleep.”

The twins were now 6 months old and had begun somewhat sleeping through the night. I had begun writing more. I have been enjoying life but lately I have been thinking about a life without violence. Of any kind. Why can’t my family and I just have a normal life? Because we are not normal people.

“I think that can be arranged darlin.”

“Is the President still planning on talking to the Russians?” I asked.

“Yes, he has been having secure conversations with the Prime Minister over there.”

Jason had finally convinced the President based on the attack 6 months ago that we would not be able to play effective defense for long and that eventually the war would have to be taken to the Romanians instead of us reacting to their moves.

“And I suppose when the attack comes you will be on the front lines?”

Jason was silent at this statement. He knew and I knew it was a dumb question. He promised me he would retire after the Romanian problem was solved. We had not heard from the Denali clan in months. I suppose Jasper is keeping things calm up there. The longer I thought about it the angrier I became at Alice and Esme. I truly wanted them dead.

“Darlin we started this thing and we need to see it through.”

“Why can’t I go?”

“You really want to leave the babies?”

I really didn’t. Watching them grow has been such a joy for Jason and I. Everyday I didn’t think I could love them more and everyday I did.

“You really want them to grow up without a father?” I countered.

“Of course not. But you know why I have to do this.”

“You haven’t been in the field in months. The others have been leading the teams. Why can’t they do it?”

“They can, but I need to see this through. And you know this. I wish you could be there. But I want our daughters to have a mother more. You know I will do everything I can to come back to you. I promise to not do anything stupid. But this is not going to be an ambush. This will be an assault. It is going to be dangerous. The President is letting us take armor and weapons. The new armor is tougher than the old armor and you and I both know how strong that was don’t we?”

“Yeah you idiot. Strong enough to take a grenade blast.”

“Your damn right.”

I just wanted this to be over. I thought with the Volturi gone we would have a rather peaceful life. The fates have it out for me.

JPOV 3 months later

The call finally came in. We were attacking. The wolves would stay back with Peter, Char, Emmett and Rose to protect home. It would be a human contingent that attacked the Romanian compound. The compound was partially buried underground in three levels from what sonar could tell. Our four teams of Seals led by Jack, Joker, Animal and Mikey would be 20 strong each giving us 80 Seals, all armored and either carrying laser rifles or sub machine guns carrying laser cored armor piercing bullets. The Russians were providing 30 tanks and 10 attack helicopters along with Migs in the sky.

The Russian special forces insisted they go first since this was their land. I had no problem with that. Serenity stayed back at the command structure with me to translate between myself and the Russians. She learned Russian when the plan was greenlighted. She learned it in two weeks. I was relieved that she was with me. Even though I know she could kick my ass 6 ways from Sunday the idea of losing her was too much. She had become an integral part of mine and Bella’s life and the best kind of aunt to our girls. My job unfortunately was to sit back and direct action. Somebody had to do it and the Boss thought I was the most qualified.

We were 100 miles from the compound right now preparing for battle. At nightfall we moved. The plan was to attack at Dawn.

Charlie POV

I hated watching Bella like this. It almost reminded me of the time asshole left her. She had a drawn worried look on her face. The last few months she has returned to her former figure and had been working out to the extreme. I think she was preparing for this battle and was disappointed that she couldn’t be there. Myself and Sue were staying with her to help with the twins (not that she needed it) and keep her mind occupied while Jason was gone. I was staring out the window when I saw the last thing I wanted to see. A Sparkle in the tree line.

Rosalie POV

We were monitoring the battle from satellite imagery. The four of us were all tense. It sucked to not be in this fight but as Jason explained the Russians might get confused between what vamps are good and what were not. And none of us wanted to get caught in friendly fire. Even though the Russian Bullets couldn’t hurt us, the rocket launchers they were carrying and the flame throwers they had could definetly singe my hair. The motion sensors went off and we looked at the camera covering the east wing. Alice.

What the hell was she doing here. We all rushed outside to confront her.

“Alice, what can we do for you?”

“It’s time to come home Rose. The family needs to make amends. We need to end this feud.”

“Where is Jasper, Alice and Carlisle. Seems they would make the most sense to send since neither one of them tried to kill my sister.”

“They don’t know I have come. They think it is best if we all stay apart. I can’t abide by that Rose. I want you and Emmett home.”

“I’m sorry Alice, that is not going to happen.”

“Can we at least go hunt together and catch up?”

Peter spoke up at that point. “Something is wrong. She is trying to distract us.”

“Bella” Emmett realized. Alice smiled.

“Alice I have made a decision. And I want you to see this coming.”

Myself and Charlotte attacked her. She fought like the devil herself but she could not take us both. We both let go of our feral side and reacted instead of deciding. Without her gift she was nothing. I kissed her cheek before I ripped off her head. We then lit her on fire. I didn’t wait for her to burn up. Charlotte and I ran to catch up with Bella. I called Sam on the way and warned him to be on the lookout for Tanya and Irina.

We arrived to see Bella standing in the front yard over a slowly smoldering Esme.

BPOV

“Sue take the girls to the bedroom.” Sue knew what this meant and picked up Emma and Sara and ran to the Fallback room. Charlie brought out our rifles from the hall closet safe. We saw Esme, Irina and Tanya walking out of the tree line. I don’t know what kind of welcome they expected but being in the open was dumb. Apparently they thought they would scare me.

“Dad, Take the blonde on the right, I got the blonde on the left. We will deal with Esme last.”

We fired at the same time out the window. Tanya jumped and the blast struck her arm, incinerating it. Irina took a shot from dad dead center mass blowing her to pieces. Just like that Esme looked to see she was down one vamp and the other was lying in pain. She took off running towards the house and busted through the window throwing Charlie and I back against the couch. She grabbed me by the throat and lifted me off the ground, turning me towards dad so he couldn’t get a clear shot.

“Don’t move Charlie and drop you weapon. One snap of my fingers and your little girl is paralyzed or dead.”

“Why, Esme?” I asked.

“Bella you of all people know the love a mother has for her child. I have had not one but two ripped away from me. It was not supposed to be like this. You were my daughter. You were Edward’s mate! You promised to marry him and then you married his killer! I am going to kill you and Charlie and I am going to take your daughters. I am going to raise them as my own and when they are old enough I am going to turn them so they will be with Carlisle and I forever. Carlisle will understand this has to be done to make me happy. Carlisle lives to make me happy.”

I reached in my back pocket as I was starting to black out and grabbed my trusty Zippo. I grabbed her hair and lit it up. She threw me against a wall. Oww that shit hurt.

She ran outside knocking Charlie down as he attempted to grab the rifle.

I would not black out. This ended now. I jumped for the rifle stood up and ran to the window.

“Esme!”

She turned and looked at me.

“Tell Edwin I said hi.” I fired twice. Double tap. Head, chest. Bitch was fried.

Tanya. The thought occurred to me as I turned around and saw Tanya lifting herself from the ground still trying to put out the smoldering remains of her right arm. She looked at me and charged. I braced for and impact that never came. Emmett swooped out of nowhere and took her down, tearing off her other arm in the process. Peter came in and tore her head off. I walked over to her quickly and tossed my lighter on her headless body and watched it catch fire. It occurred to me a second later that they knew Jason would not be here. If they knew…. How did they know? They knew he would be gone, it stood to reason they would know where he was. If they knew then it was probable that the Romanians knew. I had to call the Boss. I pulled out my phone and dialed. He picked up on the first ring to his credit.

“Bella go.”

“We have been attacked by the Denali’s. All targets are down but they knew Jason wasn’t here. The Romanians know we are coming for them.”

“Copy out”

JPOV

As the tanks rolled in they hit landmines. Most of their tracks were blown off. Fourteen out of the thirty fired shells at the compound. The choppers attacked unleashing a barrage of hell fire missles at the compound. Men who I figured must be weres pulled snow white canopy’s from surface to air weapons. I ordered the choppers back. We lost two but the others made it safely.

“Migs! Bomb the compound. Target the STA weapons. Serenity instruct the Russian ground forces to concentrate fire on the weres manning the guns and to stay covered. VH teams attack in formation. We got a battle on our hands. Serenity you are in charge. Keep the Russian’s and the snipers picking off the wolves. We haven’t even got the vamps yet. I ran to my case and began suiting up. I took off and grabbed the snow mobile outside the door. I was a 5 minute ride away. I needed to direct this from the ground.

“Serenity am I coming in?”

“Loud and clear boss.”

“Battle status.”

“Lines are holding. We are advancing on the compound. The choppers are back in the fight now that the STA units are down. Mig 2 is flying in to make a few doors in the compound in front. Bunker busting bombs are having no effect and cannot seem to penetrate top.”

“Fine, we are going to do this the old fashion way. We are going in. I have reached the battle site. Team leaders do you copy?

“Copy sir”

“Serenity have the choppers clear us a path to the front door.”

I watched as the choppers laid down cover fire. Silver bullets and flammable tracers. VH teams go.

85 of us entered into the gates of hell.

“Serenity are you there?”

I heard her in my head.

/Brother the walls are too thick for signal. You are on your own./

/Serenity you are in charge of the top side battle. Kill all hostiles. Leave no one./

/I understand. Come back to us when you are done/

We weren’t thirty meters in when we met our first resistance. 4 vamps came flying from the roof tackling four of our Seals. We shot them off and continued on. The corridor was not wide so we were charging only 4 men deep. It was a bottleneck I was not comfortable with.

The corridor opened up to a cavernous room. About three stories above us was a walkway that wrapped around the room. In front of us were two thrones. Dracula 1 and Dracula 2 sat in the thrones. Surrounding the walkway at least 40 vamps walked out. They had the high ground. I fired at the leaders to see my laser skirt the both of them. Somewhere in this room was a shield. And unlike Renata he or she did not have to touch to protect.

“Focus fire on surrounding vamps, leave the two for last.”

At that the vampires from above jumped down. A few were shot on the way down causing fireballs to hit the ground. The others came down too fast. The team leaders dropped grenades and the resulting explosion knocked humans and vamps off their feet. But the vamps burned. This distraction gave us enough time to get up and fire. Vamps were burning but we were still outnumbered. I was tackled from the side and thrown to the ground. Hard. Animal jumped over me shooting bullets into the vamps chest at close range. I looked up and saw one of our Seals about to have his neck snapped. I fired over his shoulder and hit the vamps hand. He jumped back and another shot to the chest and he was done. A cavernous room turned into a very small space filled with fire.

I looked at Dracula one and two and noticed they were no longer sitting smugly in their little thrones but walking away with worried looks. I’m betting their shield was dead. I tossed two grenades at them and watched as they fell back from them into the fray. Right into the waiting arms of Jack and Joker who shot them both in the head at close range. The vamps remaining were distracted by the sudden death of their leaders. We all took the opportunity to fire and the remaining vamps were smoldering stumps on the ground.

“Teams split. Animal, Mikey, secure rest of compound and gather intel. Joker and Jack bring your teams and come with me. We need to check on the battle outside.

“We have casualties boss.” I heard Joker say.

I turned to look and noted 4 Seals on the ground with their heads turned at strange angles. Broken necks.

“Leave medics to triage injured. Once secure, armor off and treat secondary wounds.”

We ran outside the compound to see carnage. The Russians were celebrating. Heads were being cut off of wolves.

“Serenity report.”

“Welcome back big brother. Enemy is dead. None remain.”

“Thank you Serenity. Pack up our gear. We are heading home. Call in transports, alert medivacs that we have dead possibly others wounded. We will be ready to go in the next three hours. Call off Russians back to their pre attack positions and send our medics in to assist them with their wounded.”

It was over. It was time to head back home. I was done. This was it for me. The final battle. I was getting too old for this shit. I went back to control and made a call I promised I would make as soon as it was over.

“Baby?”

“Yes Bells its me. Its over. We won.”

“Oh thank God.”

“Are you and the girls okay? Why does your throat sound scratchy?”

“Esme and her fellow bitches attacked me. They knew you were in Romania and the Romanians knew as well. I called the Boss.”

Oh crap.

“Darlin are you and the girls okay?”

“Yes me and Charlie killed them. And Rose killed Alice.”

“Jasper and Carlisle?”

“Didn’t show. I don’t think they knew what was going to happen.”

“I’ll be on my way home in a few hours darlin.”

“Great and baby? We are going to need a new back window and probably a new wall. Also could you pick up some baby food on the way home? Peaches and Pears if they got them?”