Chapter 30
Ruby
When she woke up she was lying in a hospital bed, but this time it was back at beacon. Yang,
Weiss, and Blake were sitting around her. "What time is it?" she asked sitting up. "About 10 in the morning, how are you feeling?" yang asked. "Fine, just have a splitting headache." Ruby responded swinging her legs to the side of the bed and hopping off, losing her balance she fell right into Weiss's arms. "Get back in bed, you need the rest." Weiss said helping Ruby back into bed, "I'm fine, just let me stretch my legs." Ruby complained, just then Ian appeared in front of them in a flash of white light. "You all need to see this." He said extending his hands, they took them and he teleported to a room in the Eclipse, Ruby leaning against Yang and Weiss for support. They led Ruby to the bed and looked around, the only other person there was the girl who was with Colin earlier, Maria. "What's going on?" Blake asked as they all sat down next to Ruby. Ian said nothing and plugged a small device into the TV on the wall. An image of Colin appeared as the TV flickered to life. "Hey everybody, I'm dead." He said smiling, Ruby put her hand to her mouth crying.
"I'm dead, but I get a second chance, maybe. The only way I could get this message to you was if I volunteered to go straight to Hell. No trial, no paperwork. Which as most of you know is bad." He said, pausing to breath. "But I made a deal with the Supervisor. I go to Hell, and for as long as I'm alive, they freeze time in your world. But once I die, and I mean actually dead. That's it. But if I can find a way out, you guys won't miss me for long." He smiled and took a deep breath "This is the longest hail Mary in the history of long shots. If I make it, Ian should be able to detect the time anomaly and come get me. If there isn't one, then." He paused "Remember that you are the reason I'm still alive, the reason I'm still fighting. Nothing can take that away. So if I do bite the dust, just keep living. Don't worry I won't quote Eminem again." He took another deep breath and looked at the ground. When he looked back up he was crying. "Maria, Ian, I'm so so sorry." He cried softly "I'm scared, I don't want to die. I was always told I was immortal. But I can die" he said wiping the tears away.
"But I can't let the supervisor's know about this, an angel crying, unheard of. Time should stop as soon as you get this message, if not. You know what happened. Time to go. See you on the other side." He waved and the image cut out. The entire room felt like it was crying, the ship even groaned in mourning. Ian stood up and connected a device to the TV. "This will look for his temporal anomalies." He said as an image of tangled lines of all colors appeared on the screen. He typed into his wrist pad furiously and the lines separated into assorted colors, "If any of these touch, Colin made it." He said as the final line made its way into place. They waited, everyone's eyes trained on the TV. Nothing. Minutes passed and still nothing, they waited and waited, for hours. Then The TV went dark, and the lights flickered, the ship groaned and shook. Faster and faster the lights flashed and the ship shook. Then everything went dark, silent, and still.
Colin
He rummaged through the computers, files and other miscellaneous crap on the demons desk, looking for another way out. But the grim realization hit him, he needed the people. He grimaced as he was hit with a wave of pain. His power had been contained for so long it had been burning him up since he got there. He found the master Cell release and pulled the lever, with a giant Clang! All of the doors opened, and their occupants staggered out. He walked out and into the center of the large room connecting all of the halls. People slowly made their way to him, gathering around until someone piped up. "Who are you? And what's going on?" "Good questions, this is hell. I am an angel, and you are all sinners." He said pointing generally at them. Shocked gasps came from some, low mumbling from others. "I too was a sinner, sort of. But that's for later, now I'm offering all of you a chance at redemption. Let me use your souls to escape and you have a second chance at life. A chance to do some good, no questions asked." He shouted "How do we know you're telling the truth?!" cam an angry shout, them more joined in. "You have two choices, let me use your souls for power, or stay here. I personally don't like endless torture, you decide. I'm not going to force anyone." He shouted again.
There were some mumbles and no other protests. "I'm an angel, I need you to say that you are willing to give your soul to me." He shouted again. "I give my soul to you." Came a voice from an elderly woman, "I give my soul to you." Came another voice, then two them four then all the rest. "Thank you" he said before a thick white mist came from their bodies and formed a circle around him. The circle growing ever closer and spinning ever faster, until it reached him, and in a blinding explosion of light, he went Angelic. His power burning and tearing holes in this dimension. Just then Satan appeared through a portal and looked directly at Colin. "Shit" he said before turning into his true form, the immense beast. Colin replied in kind, changing into a Golem of pure light, massive and equal to the adversary. They clashed in a flurry of blows as Colin began tearing and burning Hell to the ground, by just being there in his true form. But the battle he was fighting was not a delaying one. This was a fight he could win, and Satan knew it. He pushed his advantage and picked the gigantic creature up over his head and threw him, straight through a tear in time.
He followed and immediately relief, and comfort washed over him. As if imaginary chains had been broken, and he had been set free. He was in his dimension now, and he could definitely win this one. Lunging at Satan they began exchanging blows again at faster than light speed. In this universe they were about the size of a galaxy, and they were fighting on an unimaginable scale. Satan missed one of his punches and stumbled forward, he pressed his advantage and put his fist through Satan's chest, releasing all of his energy in one go, creating a massive explosion, with a shockwave traveling faster than light through the entire universe. Colin was blown back to normal size and shot halfway across the galaxy, smashing into a planet with such force, he went right through it, and the next two. He finally came to a stop in the center of a neutron star.
There he slowly came to a halt, in the random mess of neutrons and quarks at the star's center. He hadn't killed Satan, just knocked him back to his own dimension, hopefully. His eyes slowly started to close and the bright light faded around him as he fell into a deep slumber.
