Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

The Human Strikes Back

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 10:

JPOV

I threw Bella to the ground and covered her body with mine as the front door exploded inward and the windows on the first floor shattered. Smoke from the door charges bellowed in the living room and soon we were in the middle of a circle composed of my team. Sure maybe it was overkill but I prefer to have discussions from a position of somewhat power. Bella to her credit was not screaming and just laid there without moving.

“Boss”

“Animal, Serenity, thanks for dropping by.”

“Ahh you know how it is. We were in the neighborhood and all.” I looked around at my team, all 5 of them aiming weapons at the gathered vamps in the room. Still in a circle around me and Bella. Animal kept sites on the two blonde ones.

“How did I not see this? How did we not hear this coming?” I heard the small one, Alice, ask.

The Doctor walked up but hesitated when he heard Mikey’s weapon charge.

“Listen there is no need for violence. Nobody wants to hurt you. Why don’t we sit down and all can be explained.”

“That’s awful nice of you Doc, but I am not discussing anything until Bella is out of here.”

“You ignorant ass, Bella was with this family for 3 years. You think we would hurt her?” the pretty boy named Edward asked.

“I can only go on what I know. Didn’t you leave her in the woods and she almost got hypothermia?”

“That was a misunderstanding.”

I felt a feeling of calmness come over me. I am always calm but this was bordering on lethargy. I noted the blonde one with the warriors look to him was staring at me. “Mikey see the blonde in the corner. He’s an empath. If he doesn’t stop jacking with me in 5 seconds I want you to shoot the Doctor’s mate.”

“What?” I heard the blonde one roar.

“Sorry bro, I got nothing against the little lady but it’s obvious she is the mother of this little family and nobody wants to see their mother in danger. You don’t try that empathy crap on me and I won’t go shooting any family members. Sound fair?”

I saw him nod. This whole time Bella stayed by my side and didn’t say a word. She now tapped me on the shoulder.

” They really won’t hurt us. They are like family to me. Please just listen. They feed off animals. That’s why their eyes are gold.”

I never could turn down that little girl. “Fine give me 5 minutes to suit up. I can’t have your GQ model ex over there reading my mind.” I saw her give a little start at that but she let it slide. “Serenity where is my suit?” “Pack outside of the door Boss”. I ran outside and began the process of suiting up. The suits are amazing works of technology. I don’t know how they were made or where the material came from and I probably don’t want to know. I suspect they were designed somewhere in the Nevada desert but that is above my paygrade. Think of the suits those video game soldiers wear in that Halo game. They are a cross between them and the exoskeleton the Predator had in those movies. A slimmed down version though. The helmets cover our entire head and emit neurotransmitters making us impervious to any mental gift so far that we have found. Judging that my team snuck up on a mind reading vampire I guess they work on him to. They prevent the sound of our hearts from being heard outside of the suit and the material, while not armor, was metal. Just a flowing kind of metal that seemed to blend with our body. The advantages of these suits was a little extra strength, a little extra quickness and they were impervious to our laser guns.

Yep I said it, Laser guns. We got em. We have a high tech name for it but basically it’s a laser gun. Or rifle. Technology has been around for years in military lab. Only recently with the discovery of vampires was it pushed to the forefront. Our rifles shoot a high powered beam about 1000 yards or until it hits something. Once the beam touches a solid object it cuts into it about 5 feet deep before it disperses. It was with this happy thought that I grabbed my rifle and walked in to the living room where my guys still circled my honey.

“Okay Bella, want to introduce me?” I realized I looked like I just stepped off a sci fi movie set but that didn’t matter at the moment.

BPOV

Okay this was supposed to be a simple trip to visit the Cullens and introduce my boyfriend to the family. Maybe catch up. Now I’m surrounded by 5 people in some sort of armor type outfit that looks straight out of a video game holding, WTF? Are those laser guns? I swear they look like laser guns! My boyfriend just walked away. The Cullens are standing there staring at me and at the guys with the… yeah lets just call them laser guns. Another armored plated dude walked in at that moment and I heard my man’s voice coming out from behind the visor asking for introductions.

“Well I believe you have met the Cullens, Cullens this is my Jason.”

“Pleasure to meet you Jason”.

“Pleasure to meet you too doc. Sorry about threatening the missus. I wouldn’t have actually ordered her shot but I had to make the empath stop screwing with me. “

“Jason perhaps you could have a seat now that you feel more secure in your camouflaged armor?”

This was getting out of hand and I wanted to know what the hell was going on. “JASON!”

“Yes dear?”

“What the hell is going on? And take that stupid helmet off your head!”

“No can do darling. Can’t have your ex reading my mind.”

“Okay but could you explain how you know about vampires and who these people are behind you. And why you have laser guns?”

“Guys, fall out. If these vamps were going to hurt anything we would have already been attacked and they would be dust. Set up a perimeter around the house. I’ll stay here and chat.”

Just like that the room was empty.

I turned to Jason and nodded for him to start. “Fine darlin, I always knew our secrets would come out but I never thought it would be like this. I’m glad to know yours though.”

JPOV

“Let me first say it is a pleasure to meet what I must assume are the vegievamps. You guys are quite the oddball group in the vampire world. We had heard rumors of a doctor but passed them off as bullshit. Won’t do that again.

My name is Jason Connolly. I have been with Bella for over a year now. I was formerly in the Marine Force Recon and then a Navy Seal. I was pulled out of Seal team 6 to lead a small team of elite soldiers in experimental equipment against the deadliest enemy the US had ever discovered. That would be you guys. Not specifically you guys but you know, vamps? I wont give specifics because I don’t think they will help and no offense but I’m not gonna give up any secrets. Just know that while a vampire can certainly hurt us we also have the technology to hurt and kill vampires. Our suits and our weapons are so top secret only a handful of government officials know it exists. Nobody knows about us other than those same handful of people and the President.”

“Jason, you expect us to believe that a human special forces team with some man made armor and some neat rifles can take on a vampire?” Carlisle asked.

“One on one? No. Two on one or more, yep. Can and have done so. Carlisle what is the number one law for vampires?”

“Don’t let humans discover our existence.”

“And why do you think that is? I’ll let you know. Because vampires know that humans would kill them. There are more of us than you. We have better technology, we are constantly evolving. Vamps stay the same, always.”

“So you’re saying that you have the technology to destroy vampires?”

“Yes”.

“Bullshit” I heard Jasper say.

“Jasper what war did you fight in?”

“The Civil War, I was the youngest major in the….

“Yes yes yes, very nice for you. If I had told you during your war that in the future the United States would force a country to surrender using two bombs what would you have said?”

“Bullshit”

“Exactly. So that was 62 years ago we developed the atom bomb. Why is this so hard to believe? Now I’ve talked. Bella you want to open your mouth and tell me how you got wrapped up in this?