Chapter 12

Ruby

Team ruby came back to the dorms after a long day, ruby noticed the noise immediately. Loud banging sounds and something that sounded like a flamethrower. They looked to each other and Yang shrugged, "I have no idea" she said before they continued to walk down the hall. Ruby noticed that the door was propped up against the hallway. They looked inside to see Colin, wearing no shirt, at a workbench with metal parts all around him. He had grease marks and soot and what looked like cuts and burns all over his back but these were new. His back was covered in old scars and burns, they ran over a very well-muscled back and shoulders. There was also a tattoo of wings that ran from the middle of his back, all the way to his arms. Yang made a whistling noise and winked at ruby, who responded with a groan.

Colin must have heard the whistling because he stopped with the torch, lifted his welding mask and turned around. Showing a very scarred and muscled chest, with a skull and machine skull symbol engraved in his chest. "Hey, I know it looks bad, but I can explain." He said putting his hands up in a sign of peace. Then they looked further into the room. It was a disaster, wood from the shelves he had moved and books all over the floor. And a bunch of cords leading from an apparatus in the window to his work bench, which was covered in parts of machinery and burn marks. The wall that the workshop was against looked like it caught fire at least once. Weiss went ballistic. "What are you doing, you have destroyed the room, almost burned down the school, and almost set the carpet on fire!" she yelled at him. He backed up a little. "And by the looks of it you have set yourself on fire and cut yourself up." She added, still yelling. He took the welding mask off and set it on the bench. "And the door is in the hallway, you have only destroyed, and become a nuisance." She added still yelling.

"I know it looks bad, but I'm going to clean it up." He said pointing to all of the stuff on the floor. "And I'll put the door back on right now." He said grabbing a hammer and walking past them. They all were tired from their day out, so they got ready for bed. "Can I have a key so I don't have to do this again." He asked pointing to the door that he had just put back on. "We don't use keys, we use our scrolls to get in." ruby said from her place on her bed. "That explains the electronic lock. I'll make a key lock for the door then." He said as he went to work on the doorknob. Removing it and bringing it back to the bench. Colin overheard Ruby talking about her day, and the story about Cardin and jaune, which he found very interesting. He finished putting the door back on, and cleaned up his mess.

Colin

It was about 12:30 before he went to sleep, he had been making very little noise since then. He was tinkering with 4 small pendants on the bench, before giving up and taking a shower, then passing out in his hammock. He was woken up by the nanites giving him a motion warning. He looked around, it was pitch black, and he switched to night vision and saw Blake. She walked to the shower and undid her bow, revealing cat ears. He wasn't surprised, he tried to feign sleep but Blake must have heard him because she whipped around and stared directly at him.

She quickly tried to put the bow back on but he waved at her. She slowly put her arms back down in defeat. He walked over to her, leaning his right arm against the bathroom door. He thought for a moment, then extended his left wing out to its full extent, about 8 feet. They were white very angelic and very soft. He smiled "I won't tell anyone if you don't feel as though they won't accept you. But I bet that they will, especially yang, if you know what I mean." He whispered winking at her. He had seen her looking at yang, staring more like it. Not that it was a bad thing. She blushed and put the bow back on. He nodded, put his wing back, and got in his hammock and went to sleep.

(I'm assuming that about a month passes in between Ep 14 part 2 and Ep 15.)

He woke up late that day, about 9:00 team Ruby had already left for class. Only 4 days left until the battle, he needed to leave the planet. He also needed to talk to Ozpin, not that he was very specific, but he had blown all of yesterday evening. He took a shower and changed into a school uniform, and walked towards Ozpins office. The elevator opened and he walked up to him. "Hello, my apologies for not talking to you last night. I had some cleaning to do, and some getting yelled at to do." Colin said hanging his head. "Not a problem, would you join me for a walk?" Ozpin asked. "Sounds good." Colin said following Ozpin out of the building. They walked in silence to where Colin had crashed. "Do you remember what happened to you?" he asked. "Yes quite well, it hurt a lot." Colin responded "Ooh, you don't have the whole story do you?" Colin asked. "If you could fill in the gaps, I would be grateful." He said looking at Colin in a new light. Colin recounted his story as they walked father and farther away from the school.

"And that brings us up to present day." Colin finished looking at the view they had stumbled upon. "So why are we here?" he asked the silent Ozpin. "I want to know what you can do." Ozpin asked seriously. Colin gave him a curious look "I was giving my all with Cardin." He lied. "It's not smart to lie to a time traveler" Ozpin said "So you're the one that did that. Nice. So I'll show you what I can do.". "Sheila disable the 5% power limiter on my powers, I'm going to give him a show." He said. He looked up at the moon and smiled. He reached out with the force and found the chunks. The ground started shaking and cracking around him. He grabbed them and started pulling them back towards the moon. They clumped back together and Colin stopped, he was sweating and shaking. He looked back at Ozpin, who looked quite impressed. "I'm at 10%, imagine what I can do at 100." Colin said looking at him. "I have some things to tell you, but you need to keep them secret." Ozpin said, looking at him seriously. "I swear upon the Adeptus Mechanicus." Colin said showing Ozpin the symbol on his wrist, the same one that was on his chest.

"That is the second highest honor, you have my solemn word." Colin said Ozpin nodded knowingly. During the walk back Ozpin told Colin about the Maidens, the organization created to help them, and what he was now a part of. When they got back to school grounds they went their separate ways. It was late so Colin quietly opened the door, got into his shorts, and went to sleep.