Chapter 38
Weiss
They walked towards their dorms, putting the armor back into bracelet and necklace combo. Dusting herself off she laid in bed, accidentally pulling up the HUD and the groups vitals, and both Blake and Yang's heart rate's, Pulse's, blood pressure and multiple other reading were off the charts. She went beet red "What is it?" Ruby asked "It's nothing. Don't worry about it!" she quickly responded Ruby got up in her face. "OOH! What is it." She said Weiss turned away still beet red, "I said nothing, leave me alone." She said turning over in her bed. Ruby took this as a challenge and jumped on top of her, "Get off me!" she yelled at Ruby, who ignored her and continued to lay on top of her. She gave up and began fighting back, getting both her and Ruby tangled in Weiss's covers. Ruby managed to pin her and sat up just as Yang and Blake made their way into the room.
"It's not what it looks like!" she quickly said form underneath Ruby, who turned around and saw Yang and Blake who were staring at them, Ruby turned as red as her cape. Yang smiled and started closing the door "I'll leave you love birds alone." Yang said grinning from ear to ear. "Wait, no…" Ruby tried to get up to stop them and explain but her foot got caught in the blankets and she tripped and hit the ground. "Ooowww." She said as Yang closed the door, giggling like an idiot. Ruby didn't even say a thing, not even looking at her as she got up and detangled herself from the blankets, picking them up in a bundle and dumping them on top of her. Then Ruby changed into pajamas and climbed into bed. It was late so Weiss followed suit, feeling as though she had lost a chance to get closer to ruby somewhere along the line.
The next day
Weiss
She was woken up by Colin who was gently shaking her "Waa. I'm up I'm up." She said sitting up in her bed. "You have school today, its 7. Might want to get up." He said partially climbing on her bed to get to Ruby. She heard Ruby sit up and Colin came back down. "Why did you wake us up?" she asked him slipping out of bed. He pointed to the bits of clock on the floor. "Oh" "I broke it when I came in last night at 2 in the morning. Ill replace it." He said turning and pulling himself up to Yang's bunk and waking both her and Blake. "I gave you about 2 hours to get your act together, will replace your clock today. I have things to do so I'll see you" he said pointing at Ruby then Yang "At the end of the school day." He said leaving them.
Colin
He was going to have to fix their clock at some point, or he could replace it with a replicator. It would be safer for them, and they would never know the difference. He decided he would do just that, and walked out of the school and jumped in his fighter and took off towards the ship-in progress. The ship was covered in mechanics who were dismantling most of the ship, he slowed down and landed on the prow ram, sealing his suit before opening it to the vacuum of space. His magnetic boots engaged and he stuck to the hull. "Marcius where are you at, I just landed." He asked over the radio, "Good to hear from you sir, I'm inside the ship near the reactor. I'll send you my location." He said as his HUD blinked and a blue waypoint appeared. He started the long walk past engineers who were working on the outer hull.
When he finally reached the reactor room he didn't see Marcius. "Hello? Are you here?" he asked using his in suit speakers. "I'm in here" came a voice from inside the reactor. He peeked inside one of the reactor maintenance panels. There was Marcius laying in the middle of the reactor containment center fiddling with one of the magnetic containment field generator. "What do you need help with?" "Could you help me remove all of these field generators, we need to replace them with better ones. Then we need to replace all of the old wiring with new 30 gauge wires." Colin nodded and went to work, grabbing tools from passing engineers and Marcius's tool box. After 8 and ½ hours of work they had removed and replaced all of the generators and most of the wiring. "That was fun, how about a drink?" Marcius asked him. "I'd love to but I have to meet some people soon. Maybe next time." He said crawling his way out of the reactor. "See you then sir."
He made his way out of the ship, jumped in the fighter and took off towards the planet. After his landing he walked around for a bit as he was 5 minutes early, when the last bell rang he made his way to the RWBY dorm. He met them on his way "You ready for some training?" "You betcha, where are we going?" Yang asked "We need to get this jaune friend of yours first." He said motioning for them to lead the way. When they reached RWBY's dorm Yang went inside to change as Colin walked across the hall and knocked on the door. "Hello?" he asked "Who is it?" came a female voice. "My name is Colin, I'm a friend of Ruby's. Can I come in, I want to talk to jaune." He said. There was a brief pause then the door unlocked and a redheaded girl opened the door. He extended his hand "Colin Dvorak, nice to meet you." She shook his hand "Pyrrah Nikos, nice to meet you as well. Please come take a seat, jaune is in the shower he won't be long." She said motioning for him to sit at one of the chairs.
He walked inside and introduced himself to the two others Lie Ren, and Nora Valkyrie. He was cooking something and she was bouncing on the bed. He only had to wait a few minutes before Jaune came out of the bathroom in shorts and a tee-shirt. "Ahh, just the man I've been looking for." He said getting up and walking over to jaune extending his hand "Colin Dvorak, I would like to ask you some questions." He said as Jaune shook his hand "Jaune Ark, what kind of questions?" the boy asked puzzled taking a seat on his bed, Colin opted for the chair, pulling it up, flipping it around and sitting down. "Not to be rude, but I was told you could use some remedial training." "Uuuuh, well…..I'm kind of getting trained already." "Perfect, who might your trainer be?" he asked excited, his job was going to be easier. "That would be me." Pyrrah said rolling over on her bed to face them.
"Oooh, from what I've been told you are a warrior of exceptional skill. You are teaching him to fight correct?" he asked "Thank you, and yes I've been giving him some pointers." She said shyly. "Even better, how would you like to get the best physical training in the world? And if you need convincing I would be willing to show you some of my results." He said looking from jaune to Pyrrah. They exchanged unsure looks, "Which one of you is the best fighter here?" he asked already knowing the answer. They looked to Pyrrah. "Would you do me the honor of a duel? If to accomplish nothing other than remove doubt. And assure you the training won't be wasted." He asked. They looked at Pyrrah again "I don't see why not." she said getting up. The rest followed suit and they made their way out of the room. They were greeted by Yang and Ruby who gave him some curious looks before quickly following him down the halls. He switched his comms to RWBY channel and a small mic in his throat formed.
"To prove to them that my training won't be a waste on jaune, I am going to duel Pyrrah. Weiss and Blake, you can come along as well if you want." He said to them but no one else could hear. They made their way down the halls towards the arena, he sent a message to professor Goodwitch telling her what he was doing.
