Chapter 22
Colin
He was just sitting there very depressed, in the even more depressing rain. When a call came in, "Colin, you need to see this." The commander said over the comm. He got up and walked back into the main room and looked at the TV. It was static, then it changed to a video of the commander of the Chaos forces, he was standing in a plain brown room. "Hello there Colin, I hope you are getting this. I would like to offer you a very interesting deal. You turn yourself in to me and in exchange I let your comrades go." He said as the camera panned left to show his squad tied up, gagged, and bleeding.
Colin felt his rage start to boil over. "You are going to let them go." He said quietly. "What? You want me to let them go?" the heretic asked. "Well I have to abide by your orders don't I?" he said motioning towards one of the guards. The guard nodded and proceeded to shoot the man in the back of the head. "NO" Colin screamed at the television, "I will come, just don't hurt them." Colin said as the tears ran from his eyes. "What was that? I didn't hear you." The heretic laughed and motioned towards another guard, and another one of his friends died.
He fell to the floor crying. "Aww, is the little Colin crying, well since you don't care about her." He said walking over to a girl in one of the chairs. He grabbed her hair and tugged upwards showing her neck. "Don't touch her." Colin breathed. "What? Slit her throat?" the heretic asked pulling his knife. "Take me, just don't hurt her." He said as the rage began to flare up. "Well, I want to capture you, but I also want to see you suffer. Which one?" he mused to himself. "Take me, just don't hurt her." Colin said, the crying stopped and the rage flared into a fire. "I want to see you burn." The heretic said as he slit her throat.
There was no Sheila, no barriers, nothing to stop Colin from going super nova. He was completely engulfed in rage, he was so bright you could see him from space, he had melted the entire command center and was still on fire, his wings at their peak. He turned his head towards the Heretic's fortress. His eyes glowing bright white. He flew at nearly the speed of light towards the fortress, destroying most of the planet in the process. He didn't stop for the fortress wall, he flew right through it. Stopping at the building entrance. The door melted as he walked through it, walking towards the heretic who dared touch his sister.
He walked through the door and saw the heretic standing in horror looking at him. He walked over to him, the guards doing to stop him, as they had melted. He grabbed the heretic by the shirt, as he stared him in the eyes. He hit the heretic so hard and at nearly the speed of light, the planet exploded. And most of the solar system was turned to dust, then the sun went super nova, wiping out the entire system. Leaving Colin floating in space, in a coma.
Colin (Present)
He knew what he had to do, but he knew what he had to do. He took all of his power limiters and flew towards the planet directly towards the laser impact site. Just in front of team RWBY. He reached the ground and turned towards the oncoming laser, raising his hands and projecting a shield. He put all of his concentration into not blowing the planet up. Then time returned to normal and the laser roared against his shield. But the laser wasn't the problem, it was the collateral. He knew he hadn't saved everyone, the shield couldn't have gotten up in time.
He was being pushed into the ground by the force of the laser. He felt his power slipping as the laser began pushing his shield back, closer to his arms. He grimaced and put more effort into his shield, but it only slowed the lasers advance. He was sunk into the ground and was now being pushed backwards. He was trying to focus on controlling his power and keeping the shield up, he couldn't do both. He looked back to see team RWBY staring at him in horror, tears in their eyes. They looked at him solemnly, knowing that they had no chance. The same look his sister had given him, right before she died. He felt the old rage go from a spark to a fire.
The fire turned into a wildfire as the laser slowed down. He had to stop it, he put everything into his shield and stopped holding back. With a massive burst of white light and a scream he sent all of the energy back at the ship, destroying some of beacon and destroying the ship and some of the enemy fleet in the process. Colin screamed again, it was primal and filled with rage as he lept towards the remainder of the enemy fleet. He proceeded to tear them apart with his bare hands, only stopped by his brother, who had to leave his ship and physically come get him. Being an angel and his brother, Ian knew what had happened, and almost couldn't stop his brother from torturing the Arch Heretic.
Days later
Colin walked onto the bridge of the Risen, for the first time in days. He had been confined to the medical ward for 2 days. Undergoing mental and physical tests and healing. He had been walking around like a zombie for hours. Not even Maria could get him out of it, and trust me she had tried. But he had caused quite a bit of collateral, and he was reliving the events of Tehnron every night. Screaming and shouting, he even had to be anestitized because he had ripped the door out of the bulkhead in a fit of rage. It had taken every doctor to get him restrained and in anestitized, while he was already sleeping, that they had just put him in the isolation ward.
Back on the bridge, he was in combat fatigues as Sheila had shut down and turned the nanites into a liquid state, all over the isolation room floor. He walked up to Ian disheveled, hair and uniform dirty, messy, and wrinkled. "Hey, how long have I been out of it?" he asked Ian shook his head and gathered his thoughts. "About 2 days. You were being kept in the isolation ward for your own safety." Ian responded getting up from his chair and giving his brother a hug. "I know what happened, but you need to talk to key's she'll kill you if you don't, and its already killing her." A pause "Sheila too." He finished. Colin pulled away from the hug and gave Ian the look, a look only a brother would understand. One of thanks, and heartfelt gratitude, he then walked out and back to the isolation room.
He opened the door showing his nanites all over the floor, and Sheila's holodisk in the corner. He picked up a handful of nanites and looked at them, they were lifeless pieces of metal, and he let them slip out of his fingers. He walked over to Sheila and tapped on the disk, she appeared with a very concerned look. "Hello Sheila, how are you today." He asked smiling. "I'm fine sir, I'm more worried about you. There has been some very distressing brain activity in you frontal cortex." She would have kept going but he interrupted her. "Now you don't have to worry, I'm fine. But if you want to be sure, I think using the suit would be useful." He said smiling as he stood back up in the middle of the room.
The nanites pooled around his feet, then slowly made their way up his body until he was completely engulfed. Then the nanites changed to his normal combat armor and the hiss confirmed his airtight seals. He took a deep breath and put the helmet on, listening to it hiss before breathing again. He walked out of the isolation room and back to the bridge, where he hugged his brother again. "Your ship is in the hangar so you can head back to the Eclipse whenever." He said giving his arm a reassuring squeeze. Colin smiled, squeezed back and headed towards the hangar.
