Chapter 2

During Colin's descend through the atmosphere there were many things he noticed, one being that it was night, another being that he just lost all shields keeping him from burning up in the atmosphere. "Well shit, I'm just slightly fucked" he thought to himself right before exiting the upper layers of the atmosphere, and stopped burning. "I could not be any luckier" he thought to himself again, right before colliding into a mountain, rolling all the way down and landing with a thud. He groaned and sat up against the rock beside him. Giving himself a look over to assess injuries, again he was extremely lucky, no rocks stuck in in places they shouldn't be. He went to stand but his right leg gave way. "Sheila, preform a quick internal scan" Colin asked his in suit AI. "Hello sir, performing scan….sir you have severe internal bleeding in multiple areas, your right femur and shin are both fractured, multiple broken ribs, dislocated right shoulder, and a severe concussion." She responded. "Well Sheila, what should my first course of action be?" Colin asked. "I advise splinting your leg, and relocating your arm. Then we will deal with the internal injuries." She responded. Colin went to work following the AI's instructions, and with a little help from his nanites, he was not in fear of dying immediately. "Sheila, when does the sun rise?" he asked. "In approximately 6 and ½ hours. May I ask why?" "Yes I want to deploy some solar panels and assist in my recharge. Because I want to not die on this planet." He responded. "An honorable mission sir, considering commander keys would be slightly let down if you died here. Now let's try to stop the internal bleeding." Colin had the nanites that were still working reroute to his bleeding organs. He bit down as the pain following nanite rerouting and healing set in. "Sheila, can I get a 50 meter scan for life and movement." He asked. "Yes sir, one moment…..scan completed. Nothing moving or living within a 50 meter radius." "Thank you Sheila, I'm going to go to sleep now." Colin said before passing out from blood loss and concussion. Sheila went to work making sure Colin's concussion did not put him into a coma during his sleep.

When Colin awoke he tried to sit up and groaned. "Sheila are the solar panels up and recharging? Also how are my internal organs doing?" "Good evening sir, the solar panels are up and you have healed quite well. I would like to inform you that you have been asleep for about 2 weeks." "Wait what?!" he exclaimed. "Why didn't you wake me?" he asked. "Sir I have observed some slight time dilation, we have been stuck in a small pocket of time, which for the outside world is equivalent to 2 weeks. The beings of this planet have probably just now registered your landing. I recommend we leave as soon as possible." "Good idea, pack up all the nanites and set my suit to light combat. Also I know you said I have healed quite well but is anything not healed?" "Yes sir, your leg is still slightly fractured in both places. But other than that you should just be sore." "Thank you Sheila, let's go." Colin tried to stand before falling over again from the spiking pain in his right leg. He looked around for his recharge station and started packing it up.

Ruby

"Team RWBY please report to professor good witches office at the end of class." Came the familiar voice of professor Ozpin over the intercom. Ruby looked at yang and shrugged her shoulders. When the bell rang team RWBY shot off towards the professor's office. Ruby knocked on the door. "Come in ". Ruby opened the door and saw both professor Ozpin and Professor Goodwitch sitting at the desk. "Please take a seat" Ozpin said motioning towards the four seats in front of him. They sat down eagerly awaiting the news. "Did any of you see the shooting star a couple of weeks ago?" he asked. "Yes"….ruby was the only one to respond. "Well did you know that it just landed, barely a mile from the edge of school grounds?" he asked again. "Nope" was the resounding reply. "Well as your first mission I would like you all to go investigate….Any questions?" Silence. "Then go prepare yourselves, you will be leaving as soon as you are ready. I will give you the general coordinates of the crash site. You will have to search the area from there." "What are we looking for? "Ruby asked. "If I am completely honest, I have no idea." Ozpin responded seriously. Ruby nodded and the team left the office and headed towards the locker room. The silence was broken when Weiss spoke up. "Did anyone else find it odd that professor Ozpin didn't give us anything to go on?" she asked. "Yes. But what if he doesn't know?" Blake responded. The thought of the headmaster not knowing what was out there was scarier than they thought it was going to be. The silence continued until they had gathered their things and left the school grounds. "Hey guys, I bet when we find this stars crash site, it will be…..stellar." yang said winking and pointing at Blake. Blake smiled but kept walking. About ¾ of the way there the team ran into an area of very thick and pointy bushes. "Ooooowww" Weiss said in a pouty tone. "When are these bushes going to stop?" She asked, still in a pouty tone. "Quiet" Blake hissed. "Do you want every Grimm in this forest to find us?" just as she said this a nevermore flew overhead. "RUN!" ruby yelled. The team ran headlong through the bushes into a clearing. They burst into the clearing and looked around. The clearing was about 50 feet from the base of the mountain. A figure was standing at the base of the mountain, clad in an unusual armor that covered him head to toe. It was metallic grey and looked very odd. "RUN" Yang yelled at the figure standing at the base of the mountain. It turned towards her and stopped. "What are you doing RUN, there's a nevermore!" She shouted again. The person shifted and took off there helmet, revealing a boy, he smiled at yang and waved. Right before yang reached him he was yanked straight into the rocks.

Colin

Colin stood up and tested his leg, it hurt but he could stand. He started packing up the pieces of the solar panel that the nanites hadn't. "Sheila, can I get a scan at max range, all spectrum, and lifeform as well." "Yes sir…..scan complete, I'm processing the results but we have 4 life signatures, humanoid, about 100 meters away. We also have 1 very large signature about 500 meters away and closing fast." "Do you think it will be a problem?" he asked "Sir we know nothing about this planet, but it is very big, might just be a scare tactic, or it could actually be dangerous. No way to tell." She replied. "Well I am going to ignore the big bird until it gets really close." Just then a 4 girls broke through the tree line and started running towards him. He heard one of them shout but he couldn't make it out, He turned toward them. He heard the girl yell something again so he took off his helmet and waved. Right before the girl reached him he was smashed into the rocks. He drew his pistol and fired back in the general direction of the strike. The nevermore screeched and exploded. Colin went to put his pistol back in the holster and saw a gigantic feather sticking out of his stomach, right below his right lung, pinning him to the rocks. His helmet hit the ground and he went limp. "Well there goes my luck" he said looking over at the 4 girls who stood staring at him in horror. He mustered the last of his strength and snapped the ends of the nevermore feather off, he left just enough in his stomach to stop most of the bleeding, He passed out on the spot.