Chapter 6: Armed and Ready

It's been a few days since Ruby had left Patch, Taiyang was out of the house which had left Yang home alone with Zwei. Yang sat on the couch watching the TV as she petted Zwei, it wasn't long before Taiyang had returned with a lot of packages and one that was addressed to Yang.

"Hey kiddo, something came in for you." Taiyang said as he placed it on the couch next to her. "Go ahead and open it..it might me something you can use."

Yang's purple eyes gazed at the package as she looked over to her dad. "Can you help me with it?" She stopped petting Zwei as she picked up the package. "I can't really open it with one hand...."

Taiyang face palmed a little. "I...gahh, I forgot. Sorry Yang, yeah I'll help." He puts the other boxes down as he grabbed a knife to cut the package open. "There."

Yang removed the plastic that was covering what was inside as she saw a robotic arm, she fell silent as she hadn't noticed the note inside. "Oh...is that all? Am I being made a mockery now? Oh look, someone who lost their arm. Let's help by making something that isn't actually part of the body." She huffed as she put the lid back on.

"Now hold on Yang." Taiyang said. "You didn't even think twice about reading the note inside, go ahead. Open it again and read the note...I know this is new for you, but you can't just be down in the dumps the whole day."

Yang opened it once more as she took the note out. "Here...read it, I'm not in the mood." She handed it to her dad as she just sat there.

Taiyang took the note. "Dear Ms. Xiao Long, this is a note from General James Ironwood. With news on that this arm was specially made just for you, I had a mechanic make it for you. I hope it does you justice, I'm looking forward to seeing you using this in the future." He then looked to Yang as he folded the note up. "So, what do you say? Are you gonna try it?"

Yang looked at it once more as she sighs. "I will, if it can get out faster so I can go and meet up with Ruby." She took the arm out of the box as she looked to her dad. "I might need your help with this too..."

"Ah no worries." Taiyang said as he took the arm and went over to where Yang was sitting. "Come down here to the coffee table, you're gonna have to rest your arm on it so I can put this on."

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Yang wasn't too thrilled about the new arm, it felt weird but she had taken it off after a while. She was in her room now as she looked out the window, watching fireflies. Zwei was in the room as well, his ears perked up as he heard two other voices from the kitchen.

"Ah yes, and I was against the wall with my trusty Blowhard and then boom, I pulled the trigger shooting the Beowulf's head off." Port said as he let out a hearty laugh.

Oobleck was there was well, as he adjusted his glasses. "Yes, well. Thanks to my help of course."

Yang could over hear them as she looked at Zwei and then over to her arm. She grabbed it and put it back on before heading out of her room.

"How's things going back at Beacon and Vale?" Taiyang asked. "Is it being rebuilt?"

"Ah, good question. Glynda is, or was currently fixing the rubble that was Beacon and Vale. But me and Port as well as the other professors are helping out the best we can, we're still unsure what happened to Ozpin." Oobleck said.

Port was going to say something until he heard footsteps. He turned his head to see Yang. "Ms. Xiao Long....uh, long time no see. Is everything okay?"

Taiyang noticed Yang had the new arm on as he pulled out a chair. "Come, sit. We were just talking about things."

"No thanks..I've been better. I guess...Ironwood sent me this arm..." Yang said as she walked to the fridge and grabbed an apple. "So...I guess things are still a mess..."

"Indeed." Oobleck said. "We're terribly sorry to hear what happened, where is Ruby by the way?"

"She went out." Taiyang said. "with Jaune, Nora and Ren. Vest came by and told them what Ozpin wanted her to do. So now they're going on a journey to warn the rest of the kingdoms."

Port nodded his head. "Smart choice...with Beacon tower down, sending signals to other kingdoms about what happened is hard." He looked over to Yang. "And you're going to regroup with her and your team?"

Yang took a bite out of the apple as she looked down. "From what I know...Weiss is back at Atlas...Blake, she just ran away without saying anything." She clinched the apple as she busted it as the juice flowed down her arm. "Oops..."

Oobleck and Port were silent as Port stood up. "Well if you excuse us..we should get going, Glynda would be needing our help. Even this late at night."

"Right." Taiyang said.

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The following morning, Yang had approached her dad as she looked at him with fire in her eyes. Taiyang knew this fire as he chuckled a little.

"Alright, what's up? Want me to help you train?" Taiyang asked.

"How did? Yes actually." Yang said. "Hearing what Professor Port and Oobleck said last night lit a fire within me. I'm fired up to get back my team...to help them with this problem."

"That a girl." Taiyang said. "Alright...I'll help you, just let me finish my coffee, then we can go out and train."

"Okay." Yang said as she had a fire burning in her belly, this flame was edger to be let out so it could get back to kicking Grimm butt. Yang punched her fist into her hand as she smirked with I'm ready for combat look on her face. "Fighting you dad is going to be a cake walk."

Taiyang chuckled. "Don't let this old man trick you, I may not show it. But I can still kick you butt like I could before when you were little." He tossed Yang a piece of toast. "Eat up as well, you need your energy."

Yang nodded as she looked over at the counter. "Wait are those...are those the keys to Bumblebee?"

Taiyang looked over. "Yep, it is. Though, I think Bumblebee might need some repairs. She's still in shape, just needs to be tuned up and a paint job."

"Ahhh...crap." Yang said. "Alright, I'll see what I could do then in the mean time, while I'm waiting for you." Yang went out of the house and went to where Bumblebee was parked at. "Huh...guess dad's right..she's seen better days."