Chapter 24
Ozpin
He had been dealing with reports of strange 'things' occurring around the school, and the same things happening in town. Reports of creatures that were there one second and gone the next. He didn't know what to make of them. The amount of reports were piling up on his mind, and the fact that they were getting closer to the school grounds was also very concerning. He had some of the best hunters he knew working on it, but they had found nothing. One had even gone missing, and hadn't reported for a day. But Qrow knew what he was doing, and not reporting in was his thing. He would just leave it for tomorrow. Now his concern was the small meteor headed towards Beacon.
Colin
He entered the atmosphere and cloaked the ship, not that to would stop people from seeing the atmospheric friction. He might as well have been a meteor he was that oblivious. But his primary concern was finding a close place to land. He picked the landing pad near the back of the school and set her down gently. The got out and he recloaked the ship and set her to sentry mode. They walked through the closest door and he headed towards Ozpins office. The elevator still played really bad music. The doors opened revealing Ozpin sitting at his desk waiting for them. "Hello again Colin, so nice to see you." He said "and who might this be?" he asked pointing to Keys.
"This is my lovely girlfriend, I thought it would be good if she met team RWBY." He responded, Ozpin simply nodded and looked back to Colin. "But that's not why you're here is it?" he asked already knowing the answer. "No, I would like to ask your permission to grant my crew shore leave. They desperately need it." He said adding emphasis to the "desperately" bit. Ozpin looked off in thought. "You will need to make an announcement. And not bring too many people at once, but I think that would be alright." Ozpin responded still off in thought. Colin noticed this and gave him a curious look. "It's nothing, I have other things on my mind. But if you want to stay the night we have guest rooms." He said looking at the time. "It is way too late to be going anywhere, take a guest room, ill have them prepare it for you." He said pressing a couple buttons on his desk. "Thank you again, I will see you tomorrow at…noonish?" he asked
"That will be fine, now you might want to get some sleep." He said, Colin nodded and escorted keys into the elevator. "He was nice." She said leaning against him, "Yes, he is very nice. I owe him quite a bit so I'm surprised he's still so nice." He responded. They walked down the hall towards the guest rooms, they were in room 265, and it was very nice with shelving and a shower room, and a very nice bed. They took a shower together ;), changed and went to sleep. The next morning he woke up around 8:30, Maria was still asleep, he quietly got up and dressed. He set his armor to sentry mode and it changed into a 6 legged box with ridges, and laser cannons. (Replicator from stargate, but human sized.) He petted the machine and left.
He walked down the hall turned left and made his way outside. He turned the comm relay on and pressed the mic button in his ear. "Hello, Colin to the Eclipse." "This is the Eclipse, read you loud and clear sir." "Good, now I have permission to give a medium sized group of people shore leave. Assemble the officers in the hangar and put me on the TV please." He asked nicely "Will do sir, give me 5 minutes and I'll give you a call back." "Sounds good, Colin out." He shut his mic off and walked back inside. He made his way back to the room, Maria was awake and dressing when he walked in. "Your robot friend gave me a heart attack, warn me next time." She said putting her socks on.
"I would have but you looked so peaceful while sleeping. And my little friend can't be that bad." He said petting the replicator. She shook her head and buttoned her uniform, she dusted his uniform off and straightened it. "You look nice, now we have to talk, to everyone." She said. He groaned and set the nanites to look after his stuff, as they walked out. He led her outside and threw a small disk on the ground. "This is Eclipse to Colin, are you ready to transmit?" came the call. "Yes, patch me through." He said as the disk projected a picture of a massive hangar filled with officers. "Hello everyone, nice to see you all. I have some good news, shore leave has been allowed. I assume you have already been given groups with dates and times. But I need 1 man or woman of every species, these people need to be introduced to Aliens, nicely. I will transmit time and coordinates for landing. That is all."
He shut the disk off right after the applause and cheering started. She hugged him and smiled, he wrapped his arm around her, "Let's go meet my friends." He said walking towards the student dorms. They walked to Ruby's room and he knocked on the door. Weiss opened it, "Hello Colin, so nice to see you." She said before being cut off by his gigantic hug. "It's so good to see you", he said letting go and walking in the room. He was almost hug tackled by Ruby, and Yang. He gave them a huge bear hug before untangling Yang and Ruby. "How's it going guys? It's so good to see you again. And I apologize for my brief absence." He said looking them over "you aren't hurt too bad right?" he asked taking a quick vitals scan.
Nothing was wrong and he was relieved, "Before you tell me, where is my favorite Blake?" he asked looking over Yang's shoulder. Blake was sitting in her bed reading a book, paying no attention. He walked over and picked her book up. "Hey there, how's it going?" he asked. As Blake got up and he gave her a hug. "It's good to see you again." She said quietly. "Well now let's introduce you to my acquaintance." He said turning around and pointing to Key's, who was talking to Weiss. She was still talking to Weiss. "Honey, introduce yourself." He said loudly, she stopped talking and smiled at the rest of the group. "Hey, I'm Maria Keys, lieutenant commander of the supercarrier Eclipse. And I have the misfortune of dating this idiot, who has been doing some interesting things in his time here." She finished giving him a scary look.
He laughed and grabbed Maria and got ready to walk away. "We have somewhere to be so I'll let you bunch of rascals get to class. "He said waving and closing the door. "Well, what do you think?" he asked as they walked along towards the back of the school. "They are nice, and need to hit you more often for the stupid shit you do." She said elbowing him in the ribs. He laughed and smiled "We need to get ready for the 'Grand Speech' we are about to give. And make sure we don't mess this up." He said as he opened the door revealing the same place he landed. He walked out into the middle of the field and pressed some buttons on his wrist watch.
Walking back to where keys was standing. "Now we wait." He said leaning against something that wasn't there. "Unless you want to see beacon from the air?" he asked smiling as he knocked on his ship and it decloaked. "I thought you'd never ask." She said smiling. He knew flying was one of those things they shared. They got in and he recloaked the ship as they took off. He got up to altitude and decided to let Maria fly. "Hey, you have the stick." He said letting the joystick go. "What? You said you wouldn't let me fly her." She said shocked. "Yeah, time to let you know how much fun it is." He responded sitting back and relaxing.
