A/N: Well here we go Chapter 24: Father and Daughter!


Chapter 24: Father and Daughter


While Ruby and Weiss recovered Pyrrha on Korriban, On Tython In the past months Yang and Blake had been stuck helping Summer train up a new Padawan, she was the one that came through the vortex, though she still had no recollection of who she was or where she came from. So for the year, she had been here the Jedi gave the blinded girl a new identity, she was now Karlile White. She was sweet and always willing to learn, Yang thought she was almost becoming like Ruby in many ways, sweet and innocent. The older padawan dawned herself in white Jedi robes, like her master, Summer even gave her a red cloak to give her some color.

To Yang, this infuriated her to no end. To her, this was a heresy as to her only Ruby could pull off a cloak like that. In reality, summer gave it to her to prevent people from seeing her stark white damaged eyes. Eyes blinded by slag over a year ago. Over her training, many of the Miraluka Jedi helped her adjust to the life of a Jedi, as a padawan she constructed a very weird lightsaber, one that was pure white in its blade color, almost blindingly so as Blake and Yang compared its brightness to that of an annoyingly bright florescent light.

Over time, Yang and Blake had been dispatched on a large amount of missions earning their fair keep of scars. The largest being the one Yang had on her back, as she took a blaster bolt to her back when her aura was down. That was in a long drawn out fight with a gang of scum on Coruscant. Something Yang got a leather jacket for which she decided to wear over her tunic making her look like a normal civilian. It was a gift from a handsome and dashing rogue of a smuggler that gave it to her as a gift for helping him out. With all of the outfit changes she still kept Ember Celica and Ruby's sword on her back. Blake, on the other hand, kept the same outfit deciding to keep it simple.

Summer had called Yang and Blake into her chambers with Karlile, entering the red decorated Room, Summer greeted them as they took their seats.

"I'm sorry to bring you here on such short notice," Summer spoke calmly, her apology was due to the duo of BY returning from their most recent mission to Coruscant an hour earlier. Though, what Summer had to tell them was of utmost importance. "We have a mission to Alderaan, apparently someone is claiming to want to speak to me personally, and I wanted you two to be there-"

"Who is it?" Yang asked interrupting Summer, cutting her off mid-sentence. She could tell Yang was going to be impatient with this, so she decided to lay it on her.

"Taiyang, he gave the code I gave him if he ever found his way here so it's him," Summer explained this fact caused Yang's face to light up with joy.

"Is Ruby with him!?" Yang asked, only to be disappointed as Summer shook her head.

"Will we ever find her?" Yang groaned, as her fury boiled forward, she had enough with waiting. "or is that why you have Karlile, to replace her," Yang accused harshly, as, from all the things that she had been seeing from Summer, that is what she could interpret.

"Yang, don't ever suggest that!" Summer gasped losing her cool, her fists clenched at the accusation. She hated that accusation, as it wasn't the first time she had heard it.

"I will agree with Summer, Yang I don't think she's trying to replace Ruby," Blake said bringing the former brawler back in line with a calming hand on her shoulder. Though she could notice the similarities that were forming, the red cloak especially.

"So are we going to link up with Dad?" Yang inquired after taking a few moments to calm herself. Many in the order still considered Yang a loose cannon, to which she still somewhat was. They told Summer she was way too violent and hot headed to be a Jedi, though, in the time she had been a Jedi, Yang was leveling out and gaining control over her emotions.

"We are, so if you three would follow me, I will take you to our ship," Summer said, happy she could finally get her ship back in the sky again. Walking down the hall she walked with a bounce in her step to the hanger. The three Jedi following her, to the hanger bay doors which opened allowing the group entry to see the ship Summer had, and Yang were laughing at the piece of junk called a ship in front of her, while Karlile smiled and Blake was disinterested.

"Mom you have to be kidding! this ship is a piece of Trash!" Yang said through her laughter as Blake looked a bit concerned at the state of the orange and silver ship. Karlile seemed excited at the prospect of space flight. Summer was offended by her step daughter's disdain of her ship.

"Don't bad mouth this ship, Yang, she's seen enough bloodshed and action, and never failed me once," Summer explained smiling, "this is the one and only Ebon Hawk,"

"Well still looks like a piece of junk" Yang sighed "I will say the orange is quite hawk though," Yang continued with a pun that caused the three other Jedi to face palm, Summer said in her head, thank the force she isn't a Sith, her puns could send someone to the dark side. Blake groaned at the horrible pun and looked at Yang whose grin was almost splitting her face. The four walked into the ship. Its interior was adequately sized for what it was worth. To Yang it looked like complete garbage nothing like the ships most other Jedi got, the Defender, now that was a ship yang wanted, heck she would take a Thunder Clap over this ship. While Blake Karlile and Yang got situated they felt the ship roar to life as Summer plotted a course to Alderaan. The old bird lifted off its landing gear and roared into the sky, once in orbit they jumped to hyperspace.


The Hyperspace travel was awesome to Yang, it always was. Though, shortly after getting situated on the ship, this annoying Astromech droid kept beeping at her. She had seen the droid before but never interacted with it. She had dealt with droids like this one but this had to be an older model that hadn't had a memory wipe in a while. The droid's excessive beeping.

"Beep Boop to you too!" Yang yelled as she pushed the droid with her foot considering how aggravating it was to have this thing following her. Blake and Karlile were amused by the droids antics as it seemed to be toying with Yang. She had to take a moment to calm herself after doing that. Going towards the cockpit followed closely by the droid "Hey mom, you didn't tell me that we have a droid who wants to kill me on board," Yang said as she entered the cockpit.

"T3-M4 doesn't want to kill you if he wanted you dead he's got plenty of things to kill you with. In reality, you can't understand him, he's saying he likes you," Summer said as she never got Yang a binary translator so to her T3 would sound like a bunch of beeps and other various noises.

"Well, could he leave me alone?" Yang asked as she returned to the main hold, T3 was not following, a line of beeps and chirps came from T3-M4, "Yes I know T3 it has been a while, but just lay off her, she still has a lot to learn."

Another line of whiny beeps came from the droid.

"Just be glad I managed to convince her not to care about her hair, Trust me T3 she could be a lot worse," Summer spoke to her droid companion.

The droid gave a few beeps with few other various.

"No. I was not that bad," Summer laughed at T3, who beeped back at her, "Okay maybe I was," Summer said cautiously, thanking the others didn't have translators as T3 said some pretty obscene things for a droid, along with a thing or two that she didn't want Yang to hear. "And no that thing with Revan was a onetime thing," Summer said quietly and unconvincingly with a blush on her face. Causing T3 to beep back, and Summer said obviously annoyed at the droid "T3 Shut up. Now." This caused T3 to get off her case. She didn't want to think about Revan or Ruby right now.

In the main hold, Blake was reading a holobook while relaxing in the lounge in the main hold. Karlile was pacing with a slight limp due to her metallic leg, twirling her lightsaber hilt, unignited, in the air, and every time she caught it her metal hand reverberated. Yang was thinking back to her continued training, it wasn't as rough physically compared to the others, it was more mental training for her. She couldn't get angry, she couldn't form attachments, she still cursed how the Jedi made her cut her hair but in a lightsaber duel, a Sith who knew how she thought, could and would abuse that weakness.

Though her main worry was over her little sister it had been a well over a year since she last saw her and the fact she was out among the stars alone most likely. Yang thought of all the places she could have ended up, the worst being dead of course. That's when Yang thought, would I even recognize Ruby, she's probably grown a lot, would she recognize me? The one thing that made Yang was uncomfortable with the idea of Ruby being on some back-water planet as some Hutt's play thing.

The same thought applied with the nightmares she was having, one was where she was cleaving through waves of Sith troopers when her blades stopped in one Sith trooper whose helmet fell off underneath was Ruby. That dream horrified Yang, as it made her think 'what if Ruby was involved with the Sith?' Then there was that one dream, where she saw Ruby with Sith lord behind her and she watched as she saw the Sith impale her with a lightsaber, that damn saber, it was always the Sith from her vision the day when she was knighted, the blood red blade was taunting her. Then those gold eyes, they instilled a deep primal fear into her, and Yang hated it. They were unnatural and wrong.

Blake was ostracized at times for her amber colored eyes, but these gold eyes were caused by the dark side. Yang could tell by how they looked, they were evil. Though one of the main things that concerned Yang was how Ruby and Weiss seemed to be a thing after they thought they had died. These ideas made Yang question the legitimacy of their relationship or if it was Weiss just taking advantage of Ruby. She didn't know why she thought that but it was one thing she thought Weiss would be capable of, taking advantage of someone. Yang swore if Weiss was abusing Ruby she would run Ember and Ash though her chest. This thought made Yang inspect her two sabers they weren't much to look a,t though they did take aesthetic elements, Ember Celica. Despite this, the violet blades were nice to handle. Despite the fact, she still wasn't that good with them yet, and the fact she still instinctively punched things with Celica didn't help her case.

Blake looked over, sensing something was wrong with Yang, She was worried about her partner. Most of the time Yang was troubled by her thoughts and worried over the well being of Ruby, not that Blake didn't, though, she didn't let it trouble her like Yang did. Yang by many Jedi was considered to be a hazard, capable of falling to the dark side due to her temper, even with her temper and semblance Yang managed to avoid the dark side so far which to the Jedi was impressive. Blake was known for hiding her faunus ears but her Jedi training taught her to let go of such trivial things. She respected Summer but according to Yang, she had changed since she last saw her. Summer attributed this change to her taking up the role of Meetra Surik again, though Yang thought it was something in her changed her personality. Blake, however, just thought it was the stress of impending war. something that would stress most people out.

"So what are you reading, Blake?" Karlile asked sweetly despite some who was supposedly twenty-three years old she did act a like a child. Innocent and caring, just like Ruby in a way.

"It's information on some saber staff fencing techniques, it's interesting," Blake said still looking at the datapad reading some of Satele Shan's notes. For a Jedi Blake was more acrobatic than most considering running on walls and doing other force assisted acrobatic maneuver's in combat were second nature to her now. Comparatively out of the lost four she was the most balanced of them Yang was a brute, Jaune was a swordsman, Lie Ren was the major force user as he enjoyed the prospects of the peace the force brought him. She was in the middle she could use the force but she used her blade just as much. Candlelight is what she called her saber staff due to its candle flame-colored blade. Blake even added a low power mode so she could use it as a light source for reading without fear of burning things. She even added little legs that could be deployed at the emitters so she could set it up as a lamp, to other Jedi it was ridiculous to her it was nice. Yang made a joke on Ruby's 'It's also a gun,' line for her Saber, 'It's also a lamp!'


The Ebon Hawk rumbled as its hyperdrive dropped them out in orbit of Alderaan. Summer got clearance from Juranno, the location Taiyang's transmission was sent from. The others came forward to the cockpit to watch the descent into the atmosphere, the view of Alderaan was beautiful. It only got more beautiful as they descended, Blake had only dreamed of such beauty and majesty of nature from her books. Yang was amazed at the sheer awe and majesty the planet conveyed as they flew to the surface. Karlile could feel the life and serenity of the planet but she could also feel the tension of the scars of the great galactic war. The feeling of that chilled her to the bone, strife, anger, hatred, and malice, she could feel it all.

After gently touching down on the landing pad, Summer lowered the ramp and got the three girls ready to go. Walking out, Yang, Karlile, and Blake were shocked by the clean air of the planet, it was like Tython. Though looking around the spaceport they saw troopers and ship crews, they all walk with a nervous attitude. The troopers looked ready for battle, The four women walked through the starport looking for a certain cantina, which they found. leaning outside on the door frame was a familiar yet now bearded face. Yang, unable to control herself ran up and slammed into her father hugging him, yelling out as she did.

"DAD!"

"Yang! you're alive!" Taiyang yelled lifting up his daughter in a spinning hug of reunion. His eyes on the verge of tears as he thought she was dead, and long gone "Man you have changed!" He smiled as he put her down.

"Don't forget about me" Summer smiled walking up lowering the white hood of her cloak. He face carried a slightly flushed visage of

"Well good to see you got my message," Taiyang smiled calmly to Summer hugging her tightly. Looking over the shoulder of Summer he saw a blinded young woman he didn't recognize though she looked familiar and then he saw the cat faunus that was a member of team RWBY. Releasing Summer, Taiyang asked, "So who are those two?"

"The one with the red cloak is my Padawan Karlile White, and the other is Jedi shadow, Blake Belladonna." Summer said gesturing to them. Something seemed off about the Karlile girl, due to the way her eyes were covered and she looked oddly familiar. Something he took careful note of. While Blake looked very similar to the images he saw prior

"Also, Yang you cut your hair, why?" Taiyang asked of his daughter as he never ever would have imagined her to cut her hair.

"I needed cut my attachments, I'm a Jedi myself now," Yang said smiling when Taiyang frowned and said, as Taiyang noted the sword on his daughter's back. "I told you, Summer, I didn't want Yang to get involved with your mystical Jedi nonsense," he said looking at Summer, slightly angry.

"It was my choice dad," Yang said as it really was her choice she wanted to be a Jedi to help find and protect Ruby.

"Alright I'll take your word for it, Yang, I take it we can talk on your ship?" Taiyang inquired walking to her ship, he laughed as it was an older model of the ship he was part of the crew on which was an XS stock light freighter, this ship was a Dynamic-class freighter. Summer grumbled at Taiyang's chuckling. Once situated on board, they began their recap of the past year and a half.


"So what happened with Ruby while we were gone," Yang asked as this is the first news she heard in a long time about her sister minus that image.

"She got formed into a new team, PRWN I think, though they called themselves the Black Knight's," Taiyang said calmly relaxing in the main holds couch, "You had Ruby, Weiss Pyrrha and one other girl I forget the name of, crazy redhead."

"That would be Nora," Blake spoke calmly adding to the conversation.

"That was her name! Thank you," Taiyang smiled, glad to be reminded of her name, "Well with this team, Qrow and I noticed a massive change in how Ruby was. She distanced herself from everyone, she didn't message me once after your supposed funerals," Taiyang continued glumly, though he was happy to have Yang back. "But then Qrow and I started getting messages from Weiss, she was updating us on Ruby, though it became apparent she fell hard for Ruby and Ruby fell hard for her, apparently Ruby and Weiss have a merged aura, that's at least what Qrow got out of Ozpin."

"So Weiss wasn't taking advantage of Ruby?" Yang asked calmly.

"No far from anything like that, Weiss was serious about being with Ruby, and I talked Weiss on a few occasions, she was very kind to Ruby." Tai said not having much bad to say about her but Yang was like that doesn't sound like Weiss, "though Amity was the weird thing that got us stuck in this mess, all the participants are scattered throughout this godforsaken galaxy."

"So what happened at Amity," Yang asked unknowingly pulling a pin on a grenade.

"Okay, something happened at Amity, I don't know what exactly," Tai spoke slightly choking up as he spoke as this was a sensitive topic for him. "Ruby and her group were sent in first everything started to go according to plan, then everything went belly-up from there, the four of them lost their weapons while fighting Cinder and her goons. Then something happened as they all fell unconscious, someone did something and they woke up with lightsabers in hand-"

"What color?" Summer interrupted Tai.

"Three red, one blue" he responded "Weiss was the blue," Tai said knowing the implications of such weapons. This caused Yang Summer and Blake to look at each other.

"That doesn't mean anything does it?" Yang said calmly trying to un-hear what she heard.

"I'm afraid it gets worse Cinder revealed her nature as a force user and had her two apprentices blast everyone. That's when Qrow tried to intervene that's when someone by the name of Adam killed him," this got Blake's immediate attention, she knew Adam was dead but she didn't know what had happened, "which caused Ruby and Weiss to do something I never thought they could do, They killed Adam," With that Blake hung her head in shame and Yang and Summer's eyes went wide. "Then they engaged Cinder in combat while Pyrrha and Nora dealt with her apprentices,"

"Did they use the force?" Summer asked concerned.

"They lifted Cinder off the ground by the neck, choking her, they only stopped when Winter and I reined them in. Then Cinder being the bitch she is blasted them, then detonated whatever that was" Tai said remembering the four girls eyes," Their eyes, though, my God," Tai spoke with tears on his face and cracks in his voice. He remembered the experience vividly

"They were glowing yellow weren't they?" Summer inquired quietly, resting a gentle hand on her husband's shoulder.

"They were," Tai responded, remembering Ruby's eyes vividly; he had been trying to repress the memories of that sight. This caused Yang to ask.

"so what does this mean," Yang asked her concern was palpable.

"If this is true, my worst fears have been confirmed Ruby has fallen to the dark side," Summer said looking down at the floor, distraught.

"So when did Ruby lose her arm?" Yang asked trying not to remember the fact, as Blake went back to the Crew quarters she needed to be alone though Karlile felt her pain and went to go calm her.

"She lost an arm!?" Taiyang asked, shocked at the news. It was at that point he remembered the glance he got at his daughter after Cinder blasted her. He didn't want to believe what he saw so much that his brain repressed it due to the shock. Her arm was metal. Though he only caught a glance of it before being blasted into the vortex

"Yes, we found her arm along with her sword on Tython," Summer explained dreary from the thought, she regretted not keeping and preserving the arm, but her taking interest in it would be a liability for Ruby, she wanted to keep her family as private as possible.

"Before the detonation, she had a prosthetic hand, I don't know how, but she did," Taiyang said as Yang sighed as apparently, she had something. Though Summer was distraught by this idea, as prosthetic were generally not well constructed, and the loss of flesh leads to a weakness in the force.

"So what does this mean?" Yang asked concerned what all this could mean for Ruby's fate. Though she knew one thing was true, she need to find her as soon as possible

"This means Yang, Ruby knows how to use the force as a raw entity, no training, If she embraced the dark side, at its full, I fear she may never be the same," Summer said glumly. "As for her arm, I don't know"

"Now, we have to find her!" Yang protested standing up, her emotions getting the better of her.

"I know this but I fear it could be worse." Summer said bluntly as she pondered the situation.

"What could make this worse?! What are you going to say?! Ruby could be Sith Lord!" Yang said her shortened hair igniting and her eyes flickering from lilac to red as she slammed her hands onto the holo-comm terminal. She was tired of waiting on finding Ruby, she wanted to find her little sister, and she didn't care what her mother wanted, she needed to find her.

"Yang calm down, control your anger," Summer spoke firmly trying to calm Yang down,

"She needs to vent, Summer, let it go!" Taiyang said intervening as a parent, "I know how Yang gets, let her vent!"

"She is also a Jedi, Tai, anger, hatred and other like emotions lead to the dark side," Summer explained calmly as Tai looked at her like she was crazy.

"Is this that Jedi Code you swore to uphold?" Taiyang inquired with malice and discontent in his voice, remembering the time Summer told him of the code and it's implications.

"The Jedi code restricts one's baser emotions like fear anger and hatred," Yang said inhaling a deep breath, "I will say one thing, Summer," Yang said in a calm controlled rage, "Ruby will not become a Jedi, am I clear, my sister doesn't deserve a burden like this, she deserves better."

"I will agree on, our daughter will not become a Jedi, Summer you have changed so much since you were on Remnant," Taiyang said sounding disappointed with Summer.

"That will be her choice to make," Summer said calmly, "Yang, please for your own sake don't get angry like that."

"You yourself, Summer, walk a fine line according to the council, I'm going to balance myself as a Jedi, not limit myself if that means I have to get angry I will," Yang said as she walked out of the main hold going towards the other crew quarters.

"You have changed too much Summer," Taiyang said following Yang "I'll stay with you as I can fly this ship if you'd like, but I'm staying for Yang's sake, not yours." Summer sighed at this gesturing for him to be with Yang, Meetra needed to think, though she was thankful that her one lie still held, a lie that would turn all of her friends against her. She couldn't let it slip about who Ruby really was. If they learned the truth Yang and Taiyang would fall, Blake would most likely go as well as would the other two of the lost four. The council would turn on her, she would be exiled for the second time in her life, and from what she knew Revan knew about Ruby as well.


Blake was in the second living quarters, she was sat in the corner staring at Candlelight's blade, Ruby how could you? Weiss why? how did you to stoop so low? I understand your anger and your rage, but feeding those emotions only leads you down the dark path. Adam knew this, I know this, so how Ruby, do you not know this, same for you, Weiss. He may have been a criminal, but he didn't deserve to die. Due to this, I will bring you two to face justice. Blake thought news of how Adam died was still shocking to her. The thought her friends fell down the same hole as her old ally did. Along with that, judging from what she heard, it seemed like Yang would do the same, fall down to deeper darkness despite all of the promises she had made. Yet unknown to Blake she was treading the same dark path in her mind.

"Blake, you okay?" Karlile asked nervously, walking up, avoiding Candlelight, despite it being in its ridiculous lamp mode, thus inert but she didn't want to take any chance.

"Just thinking," Blake responded grabbing her lightsaber and shutting it off. Clicking the saber staff on to her belt she sat up and looked at Karlile.

"They aren't good thoughts are they?" Karlile asked sitting down lowering her hood with her uncovered metal hand, looking Blake in the eyes with her stark white scared blinded eyes. Her eyes weren't a pretty sight considering the skin around them was scarred with a domino mask of burns. Despite this deformation, she still had a youthful appearance, though, from medical examination, she was older than both her and Yang.

"Not really," Blake shrugged, she wanted to be alone right now, as she didn't know what to think on the topic, "I would prefer if you left me alone, okay Karlile."

"Hey if you need to talk, let me know," Karlile chirped with an innocent smile, that contrasted with her scarred appearance.


As they flew back to Tython, Yang's nightmare became more vivid she was dueling the Sith with gilded eyes, torment and fear ran through her mind as she dueled hearing Ruby screaming as she watched Yang duel the demon from the sidelines. she woke up in a sweaty fit when the blood red blade finally impaled her. She woke in a sweat saying one thing, one question on her mind Who is that and what does she want from me?

Yang sat up and thought to herself, I need to find Ruby I'm tired of sitting on my ass doing nothing about it! Doesn't Mom even care anymore or does she fears something will happen to her if she's brought in front of the order? Though my sister is out there and I need to find her. I can't keep waiting for Mom to do something! If she won't act I WILL! Yang screamed mentally, she will need a ship and equipment if she was to go looking for Ruby. She cursed as most Jedi would tell her to let Ruby go, she was her Sister she couldn't do it. Ruby would need help; she needed her sister before she fell beyond redemption.

"Hey Yang, you okay?" Taiyang asked who woke up in the corner of the hold. he had fallen asleep there after Yang slept to clear her mind of Ruby, but her mind didn't want to be cleared, her little sister was out there. What she heard from her father today just solidified the fact.

When she got back to the temple, she had to petition to become independent from Summer, Ruby could be in great danger, and she needed to find her.

"I am fine dad," Yang replied after a few seconds, turning to face her father, "We need to find her, Dad, and if we do, I think we may have to keep her away from mom,"

"Sadly, I think your right, little dragon," Tai said as he slid over to where Yang was sitting. "I fear she will turn her into a Jedi against her will."

"Dad, if the council doesn't give me my own ship, I am leaving the order," Yang said quietly unsure of who was listening. "And I have a plan of how I am going to do it."


A/N: This chapter wasn't meant to be much other than the reunion of Yang and Taiyang, the next chapter will continue where this one left off, also Chapter 23 got an update. Also, I couldn't really think of a good way to expand this chapter, So I did what could, the next chapter however is going to get a massive update.

Now with that out of the way feel free to ask any questions if you have them, or give suggestions or corrections once again if you have any please give them or leave a review. Alright, everyone, be safe, have fun, and may the force be with you!

Blitzing Raptor