Chapter 19

Blake

She awoke to the sound of the dorm room door closing, she thought she caught a glimpse of Colin leaving, but thought nothing of it. She went to get up but was stopped by an arm around her waist, and a slight groan from behind her. She looked over to see Yang was the one holding her. Her face instantly went a dark shade of red. How did this happen? She thought to herself her mind replaying the events of the previous night back. They had been dancing for so long that when they got home, Yang needed help getting into bed. So she helped get Yang into bed, and somehow ended up sleeping with her? She blushed an even deeper shade of red and scrambled out of bed in a flash. Waking Yang as she did so.

"Huuuh, what? Blake?" Yang asked sleepy eyed. Blake didn't say anything and threw her shoes on and ran out, leaving a very perplexed and sleepy Yang behind. She ran for about 30 seconds before running into an armor clad Colin. He turned around and she could tell he was smiling beneath his helmet. "Hey there Blakey, how was your nap?" he asked with a very suggestive tone. "Why didn't you do anything?" she asked outraged. He started laughing, "You looked so comfy and warm, and I know Yang is like a personal heater. So I let you sleep. For a bit at least." He said calming his laughter. She was still furious, but had no clue where to go from there. Almost as if he was reading her mind "you could just tell her it was an accident that you meant nothing by it. Or you could explain your feelings and see if she responds." He said "But I have some things to do, so take it or leave it. That's my advice." He said picking the disk back up and turning around to leave.

"What if she doesn't like me, what if she is normal?" Blake asked quietly. Colin stopped and thought for a second. "I don't think being straight is normal, and being gay is not a bad thing. But something tells me Yang is missing her body pillow." He said with a small laugh as he started walking again. She stopped and thought about what he said, and walked back to the dorm. She waited at the door for what seemed like an eternity before mustering the courage to open the door. She did and the room was silent, she walked into the room and everyone was still asleep. She looked up to Yang's bed and she was sleeping with her arm extended, as if still around a missing Blake.

Her heart sank, Yang looked so serene sleeping, and she was so warm. Blake couldn't resist, she crawled back up onto her bed and slowly snuggled into Yang's arms, the warmth returning. She snuggled closer and rested her head into a nook in Yang's neck. She barely stopped herself from purring, and went back to sleep. Yang wrapping her arms closer around Blake, giving a small moan of approval.

Colin

Feeling a small bit better about what he was doing, and what was to come, after giving Blake some potentially life changing advice. He strode outside to the middle of school grounds and put his disk on the ground, then to the gardening shed. Grabbing the two other pieces of the drop pod that he hadn't turned into shelving or a fusion reactor. And went to work, he only had 4 hours after all. Working swiftly he finished in about an hour, and with 2 hours and 45 minutes on the clock he brought the new piece outside to his disk. He attached the pieces to the disk and it opened up revealing a hexagonal blue pattern below the surface. The two metal pieces forming antennas. Smiling he grabbed his weapons and started loading and cleaning them, prepping for a big fight. Bigger than even he knew.

Ian

The news was grim. No. It was fucked, he and the whole fleet were fucked. They had underestimated the strength of the Shadow fleet. It wasn't just a battle group, it was The Fleet. By the Inquisitors reports he had lost all hope. This fleet had the Arch heretic's flagship at the helm, and the entire armada behind him. They really wanted to get even with Colin, really even. He sent a dispatch to the rest of the fleet over voice comm. "I have grim news. The strength of the enemy was vastly underestimated, we will not be fighting a simple battlegroup. We will be fighting the entire armada and the Flagship of the undead. The Arch heretic himself. Any ship wishing to leave warp and abandon this mission is obliged to do so. I will not send good men to their deaths in a suicide mission. All of those who are staying. All hands to battle stations, we have 2 hours until contact." He hung the intercom up and looked around.

"The same goes for all of you, if you wish to leave, now is the time." Ian said, knowing full well they should, and would. "Sir" one of the veteran radio officers spoke up. "You and your brother have treated us with respect, like family. And you have shown that you are willing to give your life for any member of this crew. We will not leave you in your time of need." He finished awarding an applause from the entire bridge. "Then we must prepare for contact, Condition red." Ian finished as the lights turned red and dimmed, alarms for general quarters sounded through ought the ship.

Keys

She had been trying her best to get the ship in combat order, and was nearly done. She was just missing so much, and making do with so little that she knew something would have to break sooner or later. The ship was fully sealed and repaired, barely. But were they ready for a fight with the flagship of the Shadow fleet, and their armada? The questions and scenarios ran through her mind at light speed, and without Colin they had even less of a chance. She was more worried than she had ever been in her entire life. And without Colin at her side, it only got worse.

Yang

She awoke slowly, filled with warmth she didn't want to wake up. She opened her eyes slowly, seeing black hair. She was puzzled for a moment until she looked closer and saw Blake's signature bow, then Blake. She jumped away in surprise, falling right off the bed and landing with a loud boom. Blake awoke to a loud bang and looked around. Not seeing Yang on the bed right next to her she looked over the edge to see Yang on the floor. When Yang saw Blake peeking over the edge she blushed a furious red and got up to leave. She was stopped at the door by a very worried looking Jaune, Pyrrah, Nora and Ren. "What is going on?" Jaune asked. "Nothing Yang replied quickly. " Something is wrong and you just don't want to tell me." He said, already catching on to her lies. "No, nothing is wrong, I'm fine." Yang replied again getting angry at not being able to leave. "Yang, you know that you can talk to us about whatever it is." Jaune said defensively.

The look on Yang's face didn't change, Pyrrah put her hand on Jaune's shoulder and gave him a look, and he backed up and let Yang pass. Yang stormed out breaking into a run, right before Blake caught up with her. Blake chased the fiery girl through the halls, until they finally came to the courtyard, Inside it Colin, standing in armor next to a disk which was emanating a light cyan light. As if he knew they were there he crossed his arms. "Yang you have to stop running." He said very loudly. She ignored him and tried to take a left to run from him and get outside, but without even a blink he was right in front of her. She couldn't stop running and smashed right into him, bouncing off and hitting the ground. "You have someone who needs to speak with you, could you kindly stop running?" he asked bending over and extending a hand for her.