Carlisle had delivered slips to each of the remaining victims of Project VH. He'd watched them leave on the ferries.

He was relieved to see that they were safe. If only he could just get Lex and the rest of his family off of the island. He walked back into the hotel to see Alice leading the rest of his family and a disgruntled Rosalie.

"Carlisle!" Alice's angelic face was distraught and she hugged her father figure. "We need to go! I can see it coming, we have to leave before it happens!"

"What about Alexis?" Carlisle asked. "We need to get her off of the island."

"If we want to survive, we have to go!" Alice argued.

"At the cost of your niece?" Carlisle asked.

"She'd want this," Rosalie said suddenly. "She'd want the rest of us to survive if she couldn't! If Alice is right, it's time to give up."

"How dare you ask that!" Bella screamed, grabbing Rosalie by the golden chain around her throat. Rosalie struggled so hard that the chain broke and the ruby on it popped to the floor, gathering the attention of the people around. Bella then pulled on Rosalie's stylish t-shirt and had lifted her a few inches off of the ground. Her golden eyes were all fury as Rosalie snapped at her.

"We aren't leaving without my daughter!" Bella snarled. "We can all die for all I care! Family doesn't leave one another!"

Nessie narrowed her eyes and strode forward with a calm determination that soothed her mother.

"Whatever happened to me, the daughter you were so willing to fight for?" Nessie demanded. "The daughter you were willing to die for? I know Lexie, and she'd call this stupid. If anything, she's out there, rescuing herself. But if you're so concerned with this, then take pride in this. We'll make our own decisions."

Rosalie then wrenched Bella's hands apart and returned to the ground.

"Well, I'm leaving if Alice says that there's danger. Is anyone with me?" Rosalie asked.

Alice was the first to step forwards. With a glance back to the rest of her family, everyone except for Bella and Carlisle had stepped with the group that was going to leave.

"Esme," Carlisle said softly, his eyes pleading with Esme for her to stay.

She shook her head sadly.

"Someone needs to run the family if you're going to go and be brave," she said. She then quickly hugged him and gave him a kiss with all that she'd ever felt for him. It was racing through their minds that this could be the last time they'd see each other.

Charlie was staring at his daughter, crying as Edward tried to convince her. Charlie knew that he'd lost his daughter before to some sort of Faustian bargain leading to his biological granddaughter. He wasn't surprised to lose her again, but it didn't mean that it didn't stab and tear at his heart in little shreds, making him feel like he was dying yet again.

The Cullens were finally divided once and for all as Esme stepped away from Carlisle. Bella realized that she finally had the strength to stay away from Edward and to follow.

With grease smudging her face, Lex grinned proudly at her creation. A beast of metal and machine that had wires and bolts and gears jutting outside of its main container.

"What is it?" Gray finally asked.

"A self-generating battery with my name on it that is currently sitting in the U.S. patent office right now," Lex explained proudly. "Just turn the crank, hook it up to the car, and it should jump-start it in no time."

"Do you know how to jump-start it?" Zach asked.

Lex bit her lip. "I think I forgot how. Could you remind me?"

"Never mind, I've got it," he said, taking the device. "Where do you hook it up?"

"The black goes here," she said, tapping a bolt. "Red goes here."

Zach nodded and began hooking up the jumper cables. He started cranking it, and was starting to get impatient when the jeep roared to life.

"Okay, this is pretty cool," Zach said with a sort of smile of relief as he looked to Lex.

"Thanks," she said, her face turning a little pink.

"Let's get in," Zach said, and he closed the hood of the trunk and hopped into the driver's seat.

"I thought you failed Driver's Ed," Gray said hesitantly as he hopped in the shotgun, forcing Lex to take the back.

"Only the driving part," Zach replied.

"I wouldn't have pegged you as one to have passed the written exams," Lex said. "Are you sure that I shouldn't take the wheel? Since I actually passed Driver's Ed this fall?"

"She's got a point," Gray pointed out.

"Such faith in me," Zach muttered as he rolled his eyes. He let go of the wheel and he crawled into the back while Lex dived headfirst into the dusty leather seat and crawled into driving position.

"No seatbelt. Lovely," she remarked dryly as she placed her hands faithfully at ten and two. "Let's see if we can get help."

With that, she slammed the gas pedal and they took off into the jungles of the old park.