Chapter 23
Ruby
She knew she was going to die, seeing the laser coming towards her, all she could do was cry, looking at Weiss, Yang, and Blake. Then in a flash of light Colin appeared right in front of them and projected a shield in front of him. Her heart filled with hope, he could save them. She had seen him do things no one else could. He screamed as the laser impacted the shield, and slowly started pushing it back, he was dug into the ground by the force, and Ruby started losing hope. She held Weiss and backed up a few steps. He looked back and saw them, something must have snapped in his brain. Because he turned back and Screamed at the laser, putting all of his might into it.
He slowly pushed the laser back until he made a ball of energy and threw the laser back towards the source of the laser. He yelled again before glowing bright white and jumping towards the source. He broke the sound barrier as he jumped and was gone. She stood there shocked for a minute or two. Before they hugged, crying. They went back to the dorm, she was still shaking. They couldn't get to bed, so they stayed up and talked for hours. Finally going to sleep around 4 in the morning, she laid down and passed out instantly. She awoke at around 11:30 slowly getting up, eyes still heavy with sleep.
She got up to Weiss closing the door. She got up and took a shower, then changed into her combat uniform, remembering the bracelet Colin gave her. She went to the cafeteria and all was normal, almost as if a gigantic laser hadn't just tried to annihilate them. She got breakfast and was going to go back the dorm when the intercom clicked on. "Students, we will be meeting in the auditorium in 25 minutes." Came the voice of Professor Ozpin over the intercom. She headed back to her dorm with the news, finding all of her teammates already up and dressed. "Let's get going." Ruby said to the team, they nodded and followed her out of the room towards the auditorium.
The entire school was seated and waiting for the professor to speak. "We are having this meeting to assure you that everything is under control. No permanent damage has been done, and classes will continue tomorrow. That is all." He said walking towards the exit behind him, there was a general murmur of conversation, but no one came forward to say anything. She looked at her team with a very suspicious look, as they filed out of the auditorium. Back in the dorm they sat in their beds silently. "So what now?" Ruby asked "We sleep." Yang responded undressing and getting pajamas. She grabbed her clothes and jumped back into bed.
2 Days later (Back in line with Colin)
Ruby
The disappearances had been effecting everyone. First it was 1 at a time, but then multiple people were disappearing at the same time. It had the entire community scared and afraid, people didn't go anywhere without a group, or at least a partner. Nobody had been taken from Beacon academy yet. Yet. Maybe she was just worrying too much, or maybe it was the lack of sleep. She snapped out of her thoughts and finished taking her notes. After class they went back to the dorm and she studied for about an hour with Weiss. She assumed Blake was in the library and Yang was training. She finished her studying session and laid back in bed with a groan.
Colin
He walked to the hangar to find his personal fighter. The door opened revealing one of the immense hangars on the ship. Sitting in front of him was his ship, silver and black and a very rounded finish, about 30 feet long with multiple sets of wings. He smiled and walked over to her and gave his ship a hug, rubbing his hands along the finish. "You need some polishing and cleaning." He said to himself as he pressed some buttons on his wrist pad and a ladder unfolded and the cockpit opened. He climbed the ladder and his suit changed to a ship compatible setting. He sat down and wiggled all of the control sticks. He went through his preflight checklist, and started the engines. The onboard AI started up and interfaced with his suit and Sheila. "Welcome back sir, all systems are checked and ready to go." Came the familiar voice of the ships AI.
He closed the hatch and stowed the ladder. The engines roared to life and his ship lifted off, landing legs retracting. He shot off into space, he did a flyby of the command bridge and waved before shooting off towards the Eclipse. He flew close between the differernt ships of the fleet before getting near the Eclipse. He got a radio request from the Eclipse. "This is the Eclipse, please state your name and intention." Came a female voice over the headset. "This is Colin Dvorak, requesting permission to land." "Please transmit confirmation codes." He pressed a couple numbers and letters on the keypad. "Code accepted, welcome back sir." "Good to be back." He responded as the hangar doors opened up and he landed.
He was greeted by the usual landing crew, they locked his ship into the deck and he popped out to greet them. He then made his way to the bridge where Maria was, sitting in his chair. When he walked in she didn't acknowledge his presence. He put a finger to his mouth before the bridge crew gave him away. He snuck up behind her and gave her a hug from behind the seat. She squeaked in fear. He let go and swiveled the chair around to face him. She lept out of the chair and gave him a tear soaked hug. "Ssssshhh, your fine, I'm fine. It's all good." He said rocking side to side as he patted her on the back. "Do you know how worried I was?" she sobbed, pulling away and wiping the tears away. "You knew I would be fine." He said rubbing her arms.
She took a few deep breaths and calmed down. "We were waiting for you, the ships repairs are done and were ready to depart." She said grabbing a checklist from the ground and giving it to him. He took it and set it down on the Radio officer's station. He took it and walked away. He looked back to her with a smirk "I know that look, what did you do?" she asked completely over the crying and back into suspicious mode. "I didn't do anything, yet. We are taking a break. With the entire family." He finished still grinning ear to ear. "What? How did you do that?" she asked in awe. "I made a call on my way here. To the high chancellor. He seemed to think our work deserved a bit of shore leave." He said.
He let her sit down in shock. "But we don't get shore leave." She said slowly. "No WE don't. But the ship does, I pulled a few strings and once I OK it with the man in charge on the planet, we are golden." He responded turning around to the intercom station. He picked the receiver up and turned it on "This is the ship's captain speaking, because of our exceptional efforts in capturing the Arch heretic we have been granted shore leave. I need to meet with all officers to dispatch orders and party numbers. That is all." He hung the receiver up. "Lieutenant" he said to the girl at the secondary command station. "You have the conn, we are going down to set up shore leave." He said picking up a still shocked Keys and helping her towards the door.
They reached the hangar and his ship was still sitting on its ramp. He extended the ladder and motioned for Keys to climb. She got in the copilots seat and he got in right in front of her. The canopy closed and he prepared the ship for departure. "You are going to love the friends I've made." He said as the ship lifted off. She was still quiet for whatever reason. He shrugged and punched it towards the planet.
