Chapter 21
Weiss
After Colin's rude exit and disturbing words, she was in shock for a second. Planning to give him a scolding after he returned, she grabbed a frozen Ruby and made her way to Professor Goodwitch's office, surprisingly enough she wasn't there. So she headed towards Professor Ozpins office. She ran into him about ¾ths of the way to his office. "Professor, I need to talk to you about something important." She said dropping Ruby. "Could it have something to do with the loud explosion?" He asked raising an eyebrow. "Yes and No." she said taking a deep breath to explain. "Colin did something and it broke all of the windows then disappeared. But before he did he told me to evacuate Beacon." She told him.
Ozpin looked off in the distance for a moment in thought. "We won't evacuate, but we will but everyone on high alert and prepare for…. Something." He said looking back to them. "You are going to go back to your rooms and stay there." He said walking away. She wanted to know more but she listened and started walking towards her dorm, leaving Ruby behind. She walked about 20 feet before she noticed Ruby wasn't following her. She turned around and looked back at Ruby who was in deep thought. "Come on, Ozpin told us to go back to our room." She said as the warning sirens started.
The sirens shook Ruby out of her thoughts and she followed Weiss to their room. When they got there Blake and Yang were nowhere to be seen. They checked the bathroom and still no Yang. "We have to find her." Ruby said walking to the door. "Let's be smart about this." Weiss said opening the HUD with a blink. She blinked through the menu's and opened a radar in the bottom of her vision, showing Yang and Blake running through the school, trackers following each other. She waited a second to get her directions down and started following, Ruby right behind.
They ran through the halls until they had made their way outside, then they caught Yang. She had her hands on her knees breathing heavily. "Yang we have to get back to our dorm." She yelled over the sirens. "I can't, Blake." She panted. "We have to go." Ruby said grabbing Yang's hand and pulling her along. Yang put up no resistance and they started walking towards the dorm in a very fast manner. They just so happened to run into Blake, who literally ran into them. "Good, now we can all go back to the dorm together." Weiss said as a gigantic red laser flew towards beacon form space, they looked up to see it coming towards them. Certain death, right on top of them. Weiss looked to Ruby with tears in her eyes. Then it struck.
Colin
He slowly turned around to see the Arch Heretic Standing on the Prow of his ship raising his arms above his head, as darkness gathered around his ship. Colin stopped in his tracks and started doing the opposite on his ship. He felt his power and confidence grow as he felt the rest of this fleet warp in behind him. His ship started glowing a brilliant white, while the Heretics ship only grew darker. Then he threw a bolt of darkness directly at his ship, it passed right over the top of Ian's ship and flew directly at his. Colin put up a shield of white energy to block it. When it hit he was forced to lean into it as it furiously pounded against his shield.
It slowly dissipated and he let the shield down as he felt something touch his mind. "You will die, and now so will your friends on the planet." Came a deep voice in his mind. He pushed it away as the enemy opened fire, as there had been a lull in combat. A laser light show ensued as both fleets engaged, the enemy having the numbers advantage. Colin took a deep breath and started forming a ball of energy to throw at the enemy, when the enemy flagship tilted its underside towards the planet. Colin was momentarily confused before realizing what he was going to do. "NO!" he screamed into space as a bright red laser shot towards the planet.
Time stopped as his mind raced through the scenarios, what he could do. "Sheila, what are my chances of saving them?" he asked solemnly. "Sir, unless you are willing to remove the 99% power limiter, you cannot save them." She replied. His heart dropped, he thought nothing like this would ever happen, at least not again.
(Flashback)
Tehnron
6 Months before RWBY.
They had been ambushed while on a supply convoy back to central command. A firefight ensued, but they knew it was a losing battle. Colin was completely drained after the massacre, and had little to no fight left, and then he took a hit to the chest. Assuming he was dead, his squad mate threw him into a ditch during the firefight. When he awoke he was sore and there was a burn mark on his chest, nothing serious but it had gone through his armor and hit just the first layer of skin. He sat up and pain shot through his body, he ignored it and stood up. Using his rifle as a cane. He struggled out of the ditch and looked the ambush site over. Not a single body was to be seen, he hoped they had made it back alright, and started the long walk back to the command center.
When he got there he was immediately greeted by the guards and taken to the infirmary, nothing much could be done except cool and help heal the burn. He lay there receiving treatment as the commander walked in and to his side. "Hello there, you are Colin I take it?" he asked "Yeah, my apologies for the interruption, but I need to see my squad right now." He responded indicating to the restraints he had been put in earlier. "I can't remove those, and I apologize for not being able to. But we need you to stay here for a while." The commander responded taking a seat. "Why won't you let me see them?" Colin asked with growing concern.
The commander sighed and took a breath, "They aren't here." He said slowly. "What do you mean they aren't here? They made it out of the ambush site, right?" Colin asked quickly, panicking. "They did not return, nor will they." He said calmly to an increasingly agitated Colin. "Where are they?" he said raising his voice. There was a pause, the commander was thinking. "They were captured by the Chaos forces that ambushed you." He said. "Tell me where, I will find them." Colin said in a very serious tone. The commander simply got up and started walking away, "You can't, they are at the heart of the Fortress, most likely dead. I suggest you pray for them, and their quick death." He said before walking out the door.
It hit Colin like a train. His friends. No his family. Had been captured and killed, and there was nothing he could do about it. He laid back in the bed and let the doctor do his work. A day passed and Colin was back on his feet again, but he was depressed and drained. There was a shuttle arriving in 2 hours that was going to come pick him up and take him back to a transport waiting in orbit. From there he would be heading back to the Eclipse, who was 150 light years away in dry dock for upgrades. He put his combat uniform on over his nanite armor, packed his things and prepared for shuttle boarding. He was going to be early, but what else was there to do? He asked himself as he walked out onto the boarding ramp in a torrential downpour. He sat on a bench under an overhang and watched the storm.
