"Ruby! Yang!"

A man with yellow hair and soul patch wearing brown leather armor hugged his two daughters, a long-haired girl that matched his color hair, and a shorter girl with dark red hair with a crimson cape.

"Dad, we're alright. What's going on the school nurse came in and retrieved us saying that a family member was in the hospital. We thought it was you!" Ruby said as she hugged her father.

Taiyang shook his head. "I thought it was one of you two, but seeing you two alright has lifted a burden off my shoulders. It also can't be Qrow because I was just off the phone with him before you stepped in. He had just entered the city when I called so he should be here soon."

"Uncle Qrow in town?" Yang asked to which their father nodded with a smile.

"With the Vytal festival drawing near he wanted to be here for a surprise visit and see you girls compete.

The three were in one of the major hospitals of Vale. Ruby and Yang were in the middle class over in Beacon when suddenly they were told that a family member was in the hospital. They were excused by Ms. Goodwitch for the days' classes and got put on a Bullhead to the hospital in question. Taiyang was in the middle of teaching at Signal Academy when he got the news someone important to him got sent to the hospital. He ended up calling Ozpin and asked for details on his daughter's conditions. He'd told him they were both fine and were in the middle of Grimm studies. After being told that he tried dialing up Qrow and he got a response from the roaming alcoholic. Told him what had happened and was making his way to the hospital.

"Who can it be?" Ruby asked the question of the hour.

Taiyang's mind went in multiple directions when his eyes caught sight of his eldest. Her lilac met his blue, and his mind went to his first wife.

"You think it might be Raven," Yang asked her father. Ruby looked between the two in worry. Ruby knew the story that she was Yang's half-sister due to her mother walking out on her from a young age, and later Summer filling that role with herself coming not too long after that.

"I don't know. If it is Raven, I wonder what cause her to end up in the hospital in the first place." Taiyang replied to her before concealing a smile from his daughters as an old memory of Yang's biological mother came up. Raven hated hospitals and the school nurse's office saying they were places that only the week go. Till Qrow dropped the bombshell that his sister was deathly scared of needles. The brother of the twin ended up doing makeup work while in Beacons Nurse's office for next following week but didn't regret it.

"Hey, did I miss anything?" Said a tired male voice.

"Uncle Qrow!" Squealed the young Rose before using her semblance to tackle the veteran huntsman. There catching the red blur stood a man with messy buck hair and red eyes. Wearing a small white cape on his back, the concealed his weapon behind him. "It's so good to see you!" Ruby squealed. "Did you miss me? Did yea did yea?!"

Qrow looked down at his niece for a second with a straight face before smiling. "Nope." He said with popping the "P."
His attention then turned to his brother in law. "How you been Tia?" He asked.

"Been better, I would just like to know why we're here. The nurses haven't said anything, and it's getting on my nerves."

"Then allow me to enlighten you, sir."

The family looked at the new arrival and saw a doctor standing there. "Greetings, my name is Dr. Steven Wilson. I'm part of the staff here at Vale general. I am the one that called you all here."

"What's this about Doc? You've made us all worry there with those calls." Qrow declared.

The family watched the Doctor shift in place for a moment as he tried to form the right words. "I'm sorry that this may be difficult, and it may be even hard for you if I tried to explain it outright. So, I think it would be best if you follow me and I'll showed you." The Doctor said as he gestured them to follow him.

The four looked at each other before following the Doctor, each wondering why they were here.

After traveling to the hospital's third story and down the hall, the Doctor stopped them at one of the closed-door patient room. The Doctor turned to them his face stern. "I asked that you all keep your voices down when you go in." They all nodded before he opened the door. The family walked in and gasped at just who was there on the patient bed.

"It can't be…" Qrow said in shock as he stared at his former team leader.

"Summer…" Taiyang said as he looked at the mother of his two girls.

"Mom…" Ruby and Yang said at the same.

There, laying on the bed indeed was Summer Rose. The mother of two that has been missing for a decade. Her face scarred from war, her body covered in bandages and asleep.

The four closest members of Summer crowed around the bed for a closer look. Taiyang and Qrow saw that she had a lot of scars on her face that weren't there the last time they saw her. Her hair was longer, and face seemed paler than before, but without a doubt, it was indeed Summer.

Only Qrow could look away and stare straight into the Doctors eyes with the intensity that made the made flinch under the glare of the huntsman with a single word that he spoke. "Explain?"

"The VDF found her right after that strange electrical storm that came through the other day. They brought her in, and we began to identify her. When we saw that she had a family, we called you." Dr. Wilson explained.

The two teens looked at the only mother they've ever known lying in bed. Ruby and Yang took to the opposite sides of their mother. All thoughts of the outside world were gone as they could only stare and hold their mother's hands. Hopping to feel what they were seeing was truly real. When they did reach her, their eyes pored tears down their faces. Feelings surge through them as they felt the warmth of their mother in their hands.

Taiyang could only stare in shock as he watched his daughter wordlessly grab hold of their sleeping mother. He was brought out of his stupor when he felt a hand on his shoulder. Turning, he saw Qrow and the Doctor pulling him away from the girls and behind a glass door. When the door closed, the Doctor turned to them. "I know this is opening a lot of wounds being opened up for all of you, but I hope that I can at least give you some answers to what's happened here."

"Lay it straight Doc, what's going on with Summer? I've known Summer for a long time, and she didn't have that many scars on her when I last saw her." Qrow questioned the Doctor.

"Her current injuries looked to be the result of her coming into contact with something that produced a high energy blast that much I'm certain." The Doctor told the two huntsmen.

"Like some of Atlas newest energy weapons," Qrow said, anger filling his voice.

"I thought that as well but something didn't add up," The Doctor said, confusing the other two.

"What do you mean?" Taiyang asked.

"Don't get this the wrong idea but before I was a doctor, I was an Atlas combat medic. I didn't want to believe that my home kingdom was responsible for this, so I checked Summers wounds for any Dust residue that was left behind. I have a college that's still in the kingdom updates me regularly on the kinds of Dust the military uses and came up with no matches."

Qrow cursed under his breath at that. Taiyang was doing the same.

"There's more though." Dr. Wilson said, gaining their attention again. "I explained her current injuries, and now I'm going to show you something that's got me scared."

The two veteran huntsman looked at each other in confusion as the Doctor pulled up several black plastic sheets onto a light board.

"These are from the records of Miss Roses last MRI she did for her last bi-yearly huntsman examination. These were taken roughly four months before she was reported missing." The Doctor explained as he showed them a structure of a normal human being. Taiyang and Qrow weren't new this. They both submitted to the bi-yearly physical that huntsman is required to take. It was a dangerous profession after all, and the logs are there to see if the huntsman can go still do missions. The Doctor than brought up a second pair of MRI shots. "These have been taken yesterday and have been keeping me up all night."

The huntsman recoiled in shock at what they saw.

"By the brothers…" Taiyang whisper in horror. Qrow couldn't even nod in agreement as he looked at what was in front of him.

The whole body of Summer Rose was a mess of black.

"Now you know why," the Doctor said grimly. "For the last seven hours, I've been doing a constant examination on Miss Rose to find out just what has been done to her. So far, I've found that there are signs of surgery being done to her that wasn't in her huntsman profile. It would be easier to tell you where she hasn't received surgery. From what I've found on her body, most of her bones were broken or shattered at one point in time or another and someone, for lack of a better term, put her back together. Her bones have some kind of strong mesh over them that's been keeping her together. I can't tell how old these scars are as whoever sealed her up after the operations did so in the most professional manner I've ever seen as the scars are just barely visible. It's not only that, but her muscle structure throughout her body have implants everywhere below the skin. Scans show she's got implants behind her eyes, the nerve system at the base of her neck, and her brain! Add all that together, she now weighs nearly an extra fifty pounds total of with all that got added to her body weight."

The more Doctor talked, the paler the huntsman got. What had been done to Summer Rose was beyond insanity. Who could have done this to her?

"There is also one other thing you need to know," Dr. Wilson said to them. Dreading what else could he through at them. "I did some blood work to see if there was anything in her system and found something bizarre."

"Bizarre how?" Taiyang asked with fear lacing his voice.

"Well, some strange minerals that showed up in her system that shouldn't be there."

"Dust?" Qrow guested the Doctors answer.

"I thought that at first, but the results came back negative. But whatever it is, its infused in Miss Roses system in every part of her body. So the likely hood of us getting it out are slim to none at all."

Before anything else could be said, Yang opened the door with a fanatic look in her face.

"She's waking up!" She nearly screamed.