Twilight Collision

Chapter 15: Memories

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Twilight or any of its characters.

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The crater was just like the way we left it, empty. There was a fading human scent in the area indicating that humans were already here, but no one seemed to be bothering it now.

We were all standing at the edge of the crater with Bella who was holding my hand firmly.

"Wow... this is one huge crater." Bella was finally able to say. "I wonder what could have caused this huge hole in the ground" She asked to no one in particular and the rest of us looked at each other.

"You did Bella" Alice directly said, and Bella looked at her in confusion.

"What? What do you mean?" She was looking at all of us for an answer. We were all trying to decide how we were going to tell her when Emmett spoke up.

"Enough with the suspense. Lighten up you guys. You're all too tense"

"So, you see Bella, we were playing baseball one day when we heard an explosion in the sky and then we saw something falling like..." Emmett made a whooshing sound as he raised his right hand and slowly moved it downwards with one finger pointing to the ground in an attempt visualize what happened.

"and then... BAM!" He opened his palms to show something like an explosion.

"Ahemm... thank you for that visual Emmett." Carlisle interrupted. "As Emmett was trying to say, after the explosion, we rushed to investigate and when we arrived, we found you in the middle of the crater, unconscious and unscathed" he finished.

We were all waiting for her reaction, but Bella remained silent. She turned back towards the crater then stared up at the sky with a faraway look. I was suddenly worried that this was a wrong idea to begin with.

"Bella?" She didn't seem to hear me. "Bella?" I tried again.

Son give her time to process this. I heard Esme's thought.

We didn't mind the silence that followed but seeing Bella still as a statue was not something I was used to.

The minutes that passed by seemed like an eternity and I was studying her features to see if there were any changes and it was exactly after three minutes that she suddenly blinked several times as if waking up from a trance and looked around us in confusion.

"What is it Bella?" I asked worriedly.

"I'm not sure. One minute I was just staring at the sky trying to absorb what you guys were telling me and the next, I was in some kind of dream. Well, I'm not sure if that was a dream or more like memories..." She trailed of.

"Would you be able to describe what was in this dream?" My father slowly inquired. Everyone was suddenly curious especially me.

"What I saw... It's too unbelievable and it sounds crazy" She sighed.

"You're talking to a family of vampires. What could be crazier than that?" Rosalie pointed out.

"Bella, I'm here for you" I told her sincerely and that seemed to help her decide to start sharing.

"The images were a bit foggy but all I know was that there was chaos everywhere, explosions, people needing help. It was like the world was ending." She shivered then she wrinkled her face, trying to remember more.

"The terrain was unfamiliar. There were no buildings or anything that can help me recognize the place. There were only islands and mountains and the vast ocean that had a certain green hue not like the normal blue of our ocean... I'm not sure. It felt like a different world... nothing like the Earth that I know... it felt... alien" She spoke the last word uneasily.

The family was looking at each other.

"Well, that does sound crazy." Rosalie had to agree.

Could she just be daydreaming about events in the worlds history? That was Jasper. Alice didn't bother commenting in her thought because she was too busy scanning the future to see anything unusual but there was nothing new about her vision.

"Why do you think they were memories?" Carlisle continued.

Bella shrugged "Because I was there? I don't know."

"Maybe you were watching too many sci-fi movies" Emmett offered, and Bella had to smile.

"I wish I did but it felt too real. I have a sense that we were there on a mission because there were others as well and we were wearing some kind of uniform, white and blue fitted jacket and pants. Some of them were carrying guns but we were all wearing the same watch that Emmett showed me yesterday"

I suddenly remembered the clothes that we found her in. She was wearing a black bodysuit at that time, but it looked like she was wearing outer clothes that was charred due to the explosion but the pieces of the clothing that was left seemed to fit her description.

"You were wearing one, but it was all destroyed from the explosion" I told her. What she's telling us was becoming a dream less and less.

"What else could you remember dear?" Esme urged. Bella thought hard.

"Well... It looked like we were trying to stop the chaos all around us and then...someone was... trying to get away from us... he was holding a cylinder and somehow I knew it was dangerous, so I took off after him and when I caught up, he activated it and I panicked. I pressed something on my watch and we were sucked into a vortex. I tried to get hold of the object, but that person fought back, and we had a fight... I was able to subdue him but the timer ran out, and I think I did something to the watch before the object exploded point blank and I remember falling and then nothing...." Bella closed her eyes trying to forget what she saw.

I admit, hearing what she said seemed like it came out straight from any sci-fi movie. But the way her body tensed just by recalling those memories, I knew she experienced all of that and it was hurting her more than she let on.

"It still doesn't answer the question about where you come from." Jasper said.

"True. Now, I have more questions rather than answers. What I saw was probably the reason why I got here but I still don't remember anything before that or more about me for that matter" Bella sighed.

"I need to know how It happened..." Bella trailed off while looking intently at the crater in front of us. This was something I had no control off. I didn't know how to comfort her. I didn't know what I can do for her because I, myself can't believe what she's saying could be true.

"Bella..." Alice suddenly said with a hint of alarm in her voice. She had been silent all the while Bella was sharing her memories.

"Yes?" Bella asked, confused.

"What were you deciding just now?" I did not understand where the question was coming from and I saw that she was still scanning the future, but something was off.

"I was deciding... that I needed to find a way back to where I came from, so I could get answers. Why?"

I knew the answer before Alice could say it. It was there in her visions. On the many scenes from the future that she saw, Bella was not in any of it.

If Bella goes back, she won't be part of our lives, of my life.