Fanfic / Resurgence Series

The Resurgence series by RLD-Flame-point-Callie-co is a crossover between The Twilight Saga and Heroes, starting in the first few chapters of New Moon and diverging from canon around halfway through the third season of Heroes. After Peter is able to avoid losing his powers to his father, he and Claire escape Pinehearst, but Peter’s subsequent sketches of the future lead them to Forks in time to save Bella Swan from Sylar, which leads to Bella discovering that she isn’t as unremarkable as she believed. As she finds herself falling in love with Peter, Bella must face the new threats of her increasingly strange world, facing threats such as Arthur Petrelli and making unexpected new allies like Elle Bishop.

This series consists of five fics; Resurgence, Reprise (which is more of an ‘interlude’ to the previous story establishing how Peter and Claire fled Pinehearst and came to Forks), Resilience, Revenant and Repercussions.

The Resurgence series contains examples of:

• Adaptational Heroism: While Bella in canon mainly focused on ensuring that she got to live her ‘Happy Ever After’ with Edward, here she often takes steps to help even relative strangers, such as asking that they not destroy the artificial formula before they have helped Mohinder stabilise his artificial ability, even though Mohinder was trying to use Bella as a test subject.
• The Ageless: After the main threats are defeated, tests run on Bella reveal that her time spent ‘sharing’ the catalyst with Claire means that she’s now basically immortal unless someone explicitly kills her.
• All Therapists Are Muggles: Edward needs to be sent to a human therapist to try and deal with his grief over Bella’s apparent death.
• All Your Powers Combined:
  • Peter demonstrates this on a regular basis; at one point he assesses himself to test his abilities by noting that he retains ‘default’ access to certain powers based on the people he’s closest to, such as Nathan’s flight, Claire’s healing, Bella’s power-negation, and Elle’s electricity (based on this context, he has near-automatic access to these abilities because he’s particularly close to these people, while other abilities require a more conscious effort for him to tap).
  • A subtler example from Bella and Claire; after Bella is brought back to life via a mass blood transfusion from Claire, the two end up sharing the catalyst for the superhuman-creation-formula, which allows the two to sense the other’s location and enhances Bella’s ability so that she can physically generate force fields rather than just blocking other people’s powers. After they destroy the catalyst, they lose their connection but Bella ‘inherits’ a degree of Claire’s enhanced healing so that she is now basically immortal unless she is explicitly killed.
• And Show It to You: Victoria literally rips Bella's heart out of her chest before even drinking her blood, requiring Bella to receive a full-blood transfusion from Claire to bring her back to life.
• Back from the Dead: After Victoria kills Bella by ripping out her heart, Peter and Claire bring Bella back to life by giving her a complete blood transfusion from Claire, which temporarily ‘kills’ Claire until her body regenerates its lost blood.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Basically the reason Elle and Bella end up bonding, as they helped each other during their time trapped in Pinehearst.
• Big Bad: Victoria and Sylar are definite problems, but Arthur is probably the most consistent villain of the series, to the extent that he kills Charlie and drives Peter, Bella and Claire to leave Forks after faking their deaths.
• Brought Down to Normal: In “Revenant”, Rebecca from the carnival is caught spying on Claire and Bella while they’re at college, driving Bella to permanently shut down Rebecca’s ability.
• Contrived Coincidence:
  • After Bella escapes Pinehearst, she is picked up by Matt Parkman, even though neither of them were aware of the other’s connection to Peter.
  • Edward meets Gabriel Gray while they’re both in therapy, and later runs into Bella at the Sullivan Bros. Carnival (although in the second case he was trying to find Elle in the belief that she had some part to play in Bella’s death).
• Cool Aunt: After Bella and Peter get married in the epilogue, Claire observes that Bella is this for her now.
• Crapsack World: The latest dark future in the series is created when Bella becomes a vampire, which leads to her being killed by the Volturi for living with humans who know what she is, Peter killing the Volturi in revenge, and starting a chain of events where Earth is decimated by a nuclear holocaust after the existence of vampires goes public.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Once Peter is told how to fight vampires, he manages to literally take Laurent apart with his own abilities, and managed to knock Laurent back with a couple of punches even before he knew what he was up against, although he needs help when dealing with larger numbers of vampires.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Bella is struck by the fact that Claire and Elle have each had difficult childhoods, and acknowledges that her own wasn’t easy.
• Demoted to Extra: Samuel Sullivan, the Big Bad of the final season of Heroes, is now just a creepy guy who owns a carnival and is swiftly dismissed by Peter and Bella as no real threat.
• Dreaming of Things to Come: Angela Petrelli, to the point that she foresaw Bella becoming a vampire and the dark consequences of that change, and then the new future of Bella as her daughter-in-law once future-Peter saved her.
• Eternal Love: Certainly applies once Bella learns that sharing the catalyst with Claire has left her with a degree of Claire's ability, with the result that Bella will now live as long as Peter and Claire will.
• Even Evil Has Standards: As in canon, Knox and Flint assist Peter in destroying Arthur’s serum to stop other people getting powers.
• Faking the Dead: After Arthur kills Charlie, Bella decides to fake her death to get away from Arthur’s minions after her house burns down, and even after Arthur’s defeat, she decides not to tell Renee the truth as she doubts her mother could handle her life now.
• Fantastic Racism: Witnessing Jacob dismiss Peter and Claire as ‘freaks’ because of their abilities is a key reason Bella never sees him as a romantic interest.
• Foil: Peter and Edward are clear contrasts in their relationships with Bella, Edward treating her as something to protect and trying to keep her from danger where Peter is more comfortable letting Bella make her own decisions so long as she’s aware of the risks.
• For Want Of A Nail: This story diverges from canon when Peter realises that Arthur is going to steal his abilities and manages to escape from Pinehearst with his powers intact, setting him and Claire on the path that will take them to Forks.
• Godzilla Threshold: In the latest Bad Future, Peter reached this point when he had to deliberately break the block Bella put on Sylar’s intuitive aptitude so that he could best work out how to prevent this future coming to pass.
• I Just Want to Be Special: After losing the future that she had planned for herself as a vampire when Edward and the Cullens left, Bella becomes intrigued at the possibility of finding a new place to belong when Peter and Claire reveal that Bella may have an ability.
• Ineffectual Death Threat: More of an ineffectual threat that could have led to death; Samuel tries to get Bella to restore Rebecca’s ability by having Peter and Claire teleported into the distant past and saying he will only bring them back once Rebecca can use her ability, but once Bella confirms that nobody at the carnival can shut down powers like she can, she decides to ignore Samuel and leave to wait for Peter to get them back on his own.
• Internal Reveal: Bella only reveals the existence of vampires when Peter saves her from Laurent.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: After the first confrontation, Peter is able to inflict this on Sylar, erasing the villain’s memory of his abilities and essentially reverting him back to his old identity of Gabriel Gray.
• Like Brother and Sister: Bella and Claire become so close that their cover identity while attending college includes them posing as sisters.
• Likes Older Men: Bella’s only love interests are Edward and Peter, Edward being almost a century her senior (although he didn’t look it) while Peter is just a decade older.
• Magic A Is Magic A: At one point, Bella is able to use her ability to sense and shut down the Quillettes’ ability to communicate mentally with each other, although she apparently cannot prevent them transforming to and from their wolf states.
• Meaningful Name: The posthuman Hart S. Topper has the ability to cause heart attacks in anyone he touches.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In the latest dark future, after Peter killed the Volturi in revenge for Bella’s death, the existence of vampires became public knowledge and led to a nuclear holocaust as the two species went to war.
• No-Sell:
  • At one point, Claire takes Bella to help her capture an escaped criminal who has the ability to induce heart attacks; since Bella is immune to such powers, the man has no effect on her.
  • Bella is also unaffected when Hiro stops time in her vicinity, and is able to share that immunity with Claire.
  • Peter’s ability to copy Bella’s power is such a part of him that he retains her shield even when Arthur drugs him to try and weaken his focus, preventing Arthur from stealing Peter’s powers.
• The One Guy: At one point the core cast are a strange ‘team’ consisting of Peter, Claire, Bella and Elle, with the other heroes as intermittent allies.
• Parental Substitute: Defied; even when Bella is posing as Claire’s sister after Charlie’s death, she never considers Noah Bennet a father figure.
• Power Nullifier: As initially demonstrated by her immunity to Edward’s telepathy, Bella is immune to direct application of most abilities; Sylar can cut her with his telekinesis and Peter copies her power as usual, but characters like Hiro and Elle can’t affect her with their powers, and Sylar’s intuitive aptitude had trouble identifying the exact nature of Bella’s ability. As she learns more about her own ability, Bella learns that she can even ‘turn off’ the abilities of other evolved humans, including ‘blocking’ Peter’s access to Sylar’s intuitive aptitude while leaving the rest of his powers unaffected and permanently preventing Becky from using her invisibility.
• Put on the Bus: After Victoria kills Bella, she flees from Forks, and Bella insists that Peter not go after Victoria as this way everyone in Forks is safe, given that Victoria believes Bella stayed dead.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: When Sylar regains his powers, Bella bluntly informs him that he’s just going to end up powerful and alone if he keeps killing people.
• Reset Button: A non-time-travel example; after Jacob is arrested for killing Bella when he’s found beside her corpse after Victoria kills her, Peter not only brings Bella back to life with Claire’s blood but uses his other abilities to erase all memories and official records of Jacob’s arrest.
• Sensor Character:
  • To a degree, this applies to Bella; as she masters her ability, she learns how to sense when she is in the presence of other evolved humans based on her awareness of their abilities, and even develops some awareness of particular powers (for example, she was able to identify that another person possessed the power of invisibility based on the fact that she ‘recognised’ that power from Peter’s use of it).
  • After a mass transfusion from Claire brings Bella back to life, they have the ability to sense the other based on them sharing the catalyst. As long as they share the catalyst, Claire and Bella are now always aware of each other; when Samuel's henchman sends her and Peter through time, Claire is immediately aware when she and Bella aren’t in the same time period, and once they return to the present she is swiftly able to track Bella based on a general sense of their location in relation to each other.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: A future version of Peter comes back in time to prevent Bella becoming a vampire, as that set off a chain of events that led to a nuclear holocaust.
• Ship Sinking:
  • Bella moves on from Edward to fall in love with Peter to the point that she explicitly chooses Peter even when Edward returns to her life and admits that he still loves her.
  • After witnessing Jacob call Peter a ‘freak’ for his abilities, it starts a chain of events that lead to Bella realising that she doesn’t even particularly like Jacob that much, even if she never outright hates him.
  • Claire is never aware that Gretchen has a crush on her, and any possibility of a deeper relationship than roommates ends when Gretchen panics after the confrontation with Rebecca and moves out, leaving Bella free to join Claire in the dorms.
• Shipper on Deck:
  • When Claire realises that Peter and Bella have feelings for each other, she’s only upset because she thought they were already dating and hiding it from her, when actually it was just that neither of them had yet realised that the other felt the same way.
  • Once the dark future she originally foresaw has been eliminated, Angela freely refers to Bella as her future daughter-in-law.
• Smug Super: Arthur’s primary henchman Mitch, who has the ability to manipulate various forms of energy, has no problem with the notion of others acquiring powers as he considers himself unbeatable.
• Socialization Bonus: After Peter does a mass transfusion of Claire’s blood into Bella, the two girls share the catalyst for the formula to give normal people abilities, with the result that they can only use the catalyst when they’re working together.
• Timey-Wimey Ball: When Bella is saved by Peter’s future self, the future Peter decides not to bother trying to correct his past self’s accusations about how ‘he’ left Peter stuck in Level Five as he isn’t that future Peter.
• Token Super/Token Minority: Peter basically fills this role when he’s helping the Quillettes against Victoria’s newborn vampires, as he’s the only Caucasian and the only person with powers taking part in the battle (Bella was assisting from a distance and Claire stayed out of the fight as her power wouldn’t be much use against vampires).
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Bella Swan goes from always needing others to save her to standing up to villains like Arthur Petrelli and Sylar on her own, when her only power is basically an immunity to some powers and the ability to shut down other peoples’ powers with a concentrated effort
  • From a certain perspective, this also applies to Peter; while he never gets Brought Down to Normal like he was in the show and retains his original ‘rolodex’ of abilities, he learns to be more intelligent in the use of his powers.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Arthur Petrelli’s henchman, Mitch, has energy-absorbing abilities that allow him to defeat Peter in their first fight, but the second time they fight Peter manages to outsmart Mitch now that he knows what the other man can do.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Appears to apply to Edward when he introduces Bella to his new friend from therapy, Gabriel Gray, which inspires Gray’s body to reactivate his enhanced healing and recover from his old amnesia, but downplayed as Bella and Elle are able to make Sylar realise that he doesn’t want to just be a killer any more.
• Your Magic's No Good Here: Arguably applies to Peter as his ability doesn’t let him copy the physical abilities of the vampires he encounters. However, he can copy any special abilities they possess, such as a vampire who can decay clothing with a touch, and he can match their ‘default’ talents with other abilities he’s absorbed such as Nikki/Jessica’s superhuman strength.