Chapter 3-
As she was working through the hack, she looked over to check on Nihlus and saw him talking with another Turian, who was slowly raising his weapon to the back of Nihlus' head.
Time slowed down for Ruby, a dark blue hue, faint enough to reveal it wasn't biotics but something of note. Formed around the other Turian.
Ruby's body flared and she charged, Omni-blade already activated and her weapon had fallen to her side on its sling.
Her blade cut through the pistol, causing Nihlus to turn around in surprise to see the Turian he was speaking to had been about to shoot him, if it wasn't for the timely intervention of Ruby.
Angling her body to the side, her other Omni-blade was in the middle of deploying and caught the Turian across the face, and by the time Ruby rolled on the ground both blades were deployed and ready to strike.
"Let's dance." Ruby said, smirking underneath her hood.
"Get them!" The Turian yelled and both were forced to take cover as the Geth opened fire on them.
Ruby raised her blades to block some of the fire as she got to more solid cover. "Fucker." Ruby barked out, watching as the other Turian ran under the cover of Geth fire. "Who the fuck was that?" Ruby asked.
"His name is Saran, he's a Spectre." Nihlus replied shakily, rising to fire.
"What the fuck? He was about to shoot you." Ruby called out, seeing that the tram was leaving, "Trams going, he's escaping to the main dockyard. He's after something."
"We need to end this and get after him." Nihlus called.
"I know. Hold on." Ruby said, pulling a grenade out of a pouch, she set it for flash and took a few moments to throw it in the air. "MOVE!" Ruby shouted.
Immediately both rose out of cover, firing as they moved. They moved from cover to cover, taking out the Geth with every few shots.
As they got to the last cover they had a larger Geth to deal with, so moving out together they both stood up and started to fire at it. The shields taking a large amount of damage and it was advancing on Nihlus.
Glowing red once more, Ruby threw the Geth as it fired again at Nihlus. And while it was in the air she threw a warp at it causing the robot to explode.
"Nihlus. You ok?" Ruby called out, moving towards the last place she saw the Turian.
"Fuck!" Ruby cried out, seeing the Turian hurt and bleeding on the floor. "Stay with me." Ruby mumbled to herself as she applied medi-gel to the bullet hole. He'd been hit a couple times in the chest but it hadn't pierced the armour while a couple had hit his head, mostly grazing hits but one had caught his mouth.
Once the medi-gel was applied Ruby pulled out physical bandages and applied them to his jaw to make sure it stayed still.
"This is scout one, hailing Normandy. I repeat, scout one hailing Normandy. Respond." Ruby called into her radio.
After gaining no response, even after trying again she instead hailed Neo. "Ground team, respond." Ruby said.
"Ground team, what have you got?" She heard Neo asked.
"Nihlus is down. Hurt badly, I'm putting a marker up and going to the docks. We're at the tram station." Ruby explained.
"Hold on, we're close by. Stay there and we'll link up." Neo replied.
It was only a few minutes before the rest of the team arrived, a short nod towards the woman in pink and white armour. "Jenkins?" Ruby asked.
A small shake of her head was all the confirmation she needed to give but instead of dwelling on it she changed the topic, "Nihlus?" Neo asked.
"Seriously hurt, stabilised him but I've had no contact with the Normandy." Ruby informed them all.
"What happened exactly?" Kaiden asked.
"Another Turian, named Saran was about to shot him in the back of the head, I managed to charge in and stop him, even caught the fucker across the face with a blade. He escaped on the tram, we got pinned by Geth and a bigger one came forward, managed to disable his shields and got through his armour." Ruby explained.
"Right, what do we do now?" Neo asked next.
"We'll have to take him with us, we'll follow after Saran and secure the Beacon before contacting the Normandy again." Ruby ordered.
"How are we going to do that?" Williams asked, confused how they would carry the Turian.
Ruby flared red again as Nihlus lifted gently into the air, covered in a red field that was carrying him. "Let's move. Neo on point." Ruby ordered.
They fought through the Geth easily, though annoyed that Saran had escaped. To the two other soldiers, Kaiden and Williams. They watched almost in awe as the two women using biotics destroyed any Geth in their way.
Easily able to keep Nihlus afloat, the pair threw warps, pulls, throws and even singularities at the Geth, making easy pickings for the two soldiers to fire or even make biotic explosions.
Reaching the main docks, they discovered the bombs, Ruby and Kaiden moved about disarming them while the other two women covered them while they did so.
Finally clearing the entire area, Ruby contacted the Normandy, finally getting a response from the ship she began relaying the situation when she heard someone call out.
"Kaiden! Watch out!" Williams yelled, and Ruby turned on a pin to see the marine being lifted towards the Beacon.
Neo was too far away as she was checking over Nihlus, and Williams was worried about getting pulled in as well.
Ruby raced forward, grabbing Kaiden around the stomach and throwing him back but it didn't stop Ruby from being pulled in by the Beacon.
"RUBY!" Neo screamed out, racing towards Ruby who was being pulled into the air by the Beacon.
Williams stopped Neo, and thanked whatever powers may be that Neo was too distressed to think about using her biotics to break free and with Kaiden's added help they managed to stop her from going further.
Ruby felt weightless as the Beacon lifted her into the air, no one, not even herself noticed that her eyes glowed more than normal as her mind was filled with images.
Squid like creatures, like that of the ship in the air above the docks earlier. They numbered in their hundreds of thousands raining down upon planets.
Screams, the pain of billions dying echoed around her head. She saw the death, destruction of an entire race to whatever these beings were. A cry for help, desperate and unheard as those that were receiving the messages had already died. Save for a few hiding.
The message was fragmented in her mind; not completely clear only images were received but somehow, she felt the entire message.
The next thing she felt was her body being thrown in the air and that was it, black invaded her vision as she was rendered unconscious.
She didn't know how long it had been since she was pulled in by the Beacons, seconds, minutes, hours…days? She just didn't know; the images were just replaying in her head.
A flash of silver, brief but there. The images stopped, and another pulse of silver before everything changed to a white landscape and in front of her was an odd looking four eye alien. Looking almost like the rumoured Collectors.
"Who are you?" Ruby asked, her voice rough and seemingly bouncing around everywhere at once, causing an echo effect.
"Hello Ruby Rose. My name is Javier, a Prothean. I have come to tell you of the last cycle, and who leads the fight against the Reapers." The female Prothean said, her voice echoing the same as Ruby's.
"You're special; no one is born with natural silver eyes. Only one person, each cycle they chose someone. I was the last." Javier said.
"What are you talking about? Could you tell me?" Ruby asked, taking a step towards the woman.
"Let me show you." The woman said, what looked like a smile on her face as she walked backwards into the light.
Unsure what to do, but the desire to know outweighed anything else. She followed the woman into the light to see what it was she wished to show Ruby.
"How is she?" Neo asked for what felt like the tenth time.
"The same as before, unconscious but fine. She didn't suffer any injuries from the explosion and she can wake up at any point." Glynda Goodwitch, the ships doctor explained.
"Right." Neo said softly, staying next to Ruby's bed as she waited for the woman to wake up. "What about Nihlus?"
"He's more serious, once we get to the Citadel the Spectre medical personnel will take him but he's stabilised but he'll be weak for a little while." Glynda explained.
Neo nodded in reply, not voicing her thoughts which were interrupted by the door opening. Turning to the door she saw Kaiden walking in, asking how Ruby was doing.
As Glynda explained the situation Neo took note that Ruby moved slightly and a faint glow was covering her body. "She's waking up." Neo called and took a step back.
Neo and Glynda moved away, making Kaiden follow their steps as they watched Ruby wake up sharply, an Omni blade forming and stabbing into the air in front of her before it vanished and Ruby was breathing heavily.
Neo moved forward first, standing at Ruby's side to calm her down and make her realise where exactly she was.
"How long was I out?" Ruby asked tiredly, not sure where exactly they were.
"Twelve hours, we're on our way to the Citadel. Almost there as well." Glynda informed her and went about making checks to see if she was alright.
"Nihlus?" Ruby asked.
"Stable but hurt, he can wake up at any point now." Glynda stated.
"Right." Ruby said softly, closing her eyes as she regained herself.
"Hey kiddo, you're up." Qrow stated, walking into the room. "Is she fit?" He asked.
"I can't find anything wrong, some abnormal brain waves as she slept but otherwise she's healthy." Glynda said.
"Good. What happened Ruby?" Qrow asked with concern.
"I don't know…I pulled Alenko out of the way and then the Beacon took me…it gave me a vision…a message, I think…I think the Prothean's were trying to warn people. Of something they call the Reapers. I just saw death, destruction. The pain of an entire race." Ruby started to explain, unsure how much to reveal.
"Could we have the room please?" Qrow asked, feeling that his niece needed time alone but also so he could talk about the more sensitive side of things.
"Understood, we'll be just outside." Glynda said, taking the marine out with her as she left the three alone.
Neo didn't make a move to leave, they all knew the pair were close to inseparable and shared everything together. So, her remaining in the room during things like this was normal.
"Saran, the other Turian. He's a Spectre. The council's golden boy, if…when Nihlus wakes up to confirm it, the council will have no choice but to go after him." Qrow informed them.
"Understood." Ruby said calmly, keeping it simple.
"We're about an hour to an hour and a half out from the Citadel so get some food and gear up. We're meeting the ambassador once we're there." Qrow told them both as he left the room.
"I'll get us some food; could you speak to the doc about getting a couple clean needles?" Ruby asked Neo softly, and the shorter woman simply nodded her head as she understood what was being asked.
A/N
Sorry for taking so long, things have been a little hectic currently and life's been…shitty in a way but here's another chapter and I'll be posting more I promise and I'm working on several other things but no idea what I want to continue doing but hopefully I'll have some new stuff ready and completed.