Rosalie was the first to break the silence.
"Helpful!" she snarled.
"Rose!" Emmett and Carlisle murmured at the same time, each placing hands on her shoulders. Jasper started the calming waves again, and I could practically hear his thoughts. Geez, Rose, calm your temper! Edward rolled his eyes beside me, obviously having heard my thoughts. Rosalie shook the hands off her shoulders. Jasper created a calm, tranquil and logical atmoshpere around us. Carlisle took a deep breath before speaking.
"OK, everyone, let's look at this logically." he said. I felt the calming waves reach me, and I also took a deep breath, noticing that everyone else did the same, even Rose. On Jasper's face was a smirk. Did his mood really cause an urge to take a deep breath? Ugh. There was a horrible wet dog smell in the air. I noticed all the other vampires wince, too, as the nasty smell hit their nostrils.
"Alright, so the button must not be the only way, right? And since we no longer have to worry about secrecy, we can just bang through the wall!" stated Emmett. Everyone looked at each other in surprise as we realized that that might actually work.
"OK, that will work...mabye" Alice told us, sounding nervous. That was odd. Alice's confidence never wavered, and she was never nervous, certainly. "But, the Volturi are coming. Soon. The wolves will not be included, I can tell you that, because I can actually see with crystal clear clarity." Jacob whined slightly, looking at Renesmee. I snarled at him quietly, smacking his head.
"Jacob! Don't worry about her, worry about yourself!" I snarled at him, then changed my mind. I turned to Alice.
"Alice, where will Nessie be?" I swore I saw a smirk on Jacob's wolf face. Alice's eyes unfocused as she looked ahead to the near future.
"I'm not sure..." she muttered. "Nessie is...not present. Probably with the moron dog." She shot a glare at Jacob. The wolf rolled his eyes. I breathed a silent sigh of relief. Even if she stank like a dog when she came home, she would be safe, and that was all that mattered. Carlisle, owever, was still musing over what Alice had said at first.
"The Volturi...." he muttered. Stefan and Vladimir nodded in synchronization.
"Actually, that's what we came here to your residence for," Stefan began in a grave voice. I nearly rolled my eyes. Why did the ancient ones talk so dramatically?
Vladimir nodded in agreement.
"We have been thinking" he continued. "You're always thinking" muttered Edward to me, so low that no one else would hear. Vladimir continued on.
"It is time for us to be ridded of the Volturi altogether." he finished. Carlisle looked pained.
"Vladimir....I lived with Aro" he said unhappily. Vladimir was shaking his head.
"No, Carlisle, we wouldn't destroy the ancient ones" he said gently. "Only the dangerous ones, like Jane, Alec, and the bond-breaker." Carlisle still looked unhappy. I knew how he hated the destroying of life.
"Don't worry, Carlisle" Alice assured him. "Your record will still be clean. The mugrat dogs aren't going to be in this one, so I can see clearly." Seth rolled his eyes at Alice's term. Obviously, she was running out of good insulting words for the wolves. I put my focus back onto Carlisle, and saw that his face was more resigned, although still unhappy. Personally, I was delighted. Although most of the other Cullens had respect for the ruling coven, I had never liked the Volturi. Honestly, it would be a relief to release some of my newborn strength, which I had been bottling up, letting out only on arm wrestling matches with Emmett. Instintively, I flexed my bicep. Emmett chuckled, flexed his, then put it next to mine. Thanks to my newborn strength, mine was still bigger. I was almost to the end of my first year, but I still had the strength.
"Alice, how long until the Volturi are here?" Edward asked. Alice's eyes unfocused again before refocusing.
"About an hour. So if we're gonna pound through this metal, we need to work really hard!" Emmett started pounding away almost instantly. CArlisle nodded to himself before coordinating the rest of us.
"OK, the wolves can help Emmett. Bella, you definately need to use your strength to help, as with all of us. Edward and Alice, give us alerts. Alice, every ten minutes, and Edward, when you can hear their minds, then how fast they are moving. Stefan and Vladimir, can you find out where this tunnel leads?" The Romanions nodded, darting away at the speed of sound. I blinked.
"Come on, Bella!" Rose hissed from beside Emmett, where she was pounding frantically. I quickly jumped over, then started punching and kicking as hard as I could. Where I kicked it, the metal bent severely out of shape. In a few seconds, Edward was beside me, but with a sharp rock in his hand. I looked at it curiously without breaking my rhythm.
"Move for a second, please, love" Edward asked me quietly. I nodded, switching places with him. Edward quickly banged the rock, sharp point first, into the metal, where it punctured. Emmett grinned, taking over Edward's spot to rip to hole open larger. Eventually, it was large enough that Alice could slide through.
"Ten minutes left" she murmured before sliding smoothly into the hole. Jasper darted over to stand protectively over the gap where Alice had dissappeared into.
"Jazz, move" Emmett snarled quietly. When Jasper didn't move, Emmett simply bumped him out of the way before ripping open the hole, a lot larger. Jasper was next to slide quickly into the hole. I went next, then Edward. Behind us, I could hear Rose and Emmett, and behind them, Carlisle and Esme. Jacob had Nessie, and he was going right after Esme.
Inside the tunnel, it was dark. To a human, it would be impossible to see anything, but my new eyes were able to make out the shapes of the curves.
"Jasper? Alice?" I called out shakily. To my relief, I heard Alice's trilling voice.
"Right up here, Bella" she told me cheerfully. We could all stand inside the tunnel that Alice, being the first, was digging out. Jasper had reached her, and was trying to get her to fall back a little so that he could do the digging. I decided to make the most of my newborn strength, and sped up my pace to help out. With two working at it, we were able to move pretty fast. We could all hear Stefan and Vladimir digging to meet us halfway. Suddenly, Alice gasped, and her footsteps suddenly stopped. Jasper froze, darting back to stand next to her.
"Alice, what is it?" he asked urgently.
"Time's up" she said quietly. "The Volturi are here."