The Chirping crickets of last night were replaced with the singing of birds. Yang's bed was empty, the girl standing beside it, looking at the white arm. She stared at it, Taiyang had put it there if she were to ever put it on. She looked to the stump of her once right arm, then back at the dull gray replacement. With a big sigh and mentally preparing, she grabbed the arm, and connected it to the metal brace at the end of her carsarated arm. She felt a familiar, yet unfamiliar weight. 'Huh, not to heavy..' the young woman thought. She turned and moved the arm, the servos and gears quietly clicking and shuffling, the sound was almost non existent. She smiled just a bit, this was the first step, at getting back in the real world.
Yang then walked out of her small, cozy room and walked along the hall, Grey hand gripping the railing as she traveled. She then descended the stairs. downstairs, Hank was on the couch, watching Sunday Morning Cartoons. Yang found it odd, for such a badass looking guy to watch a show like Peppa pig. What the girl didn't know was that Hank was making fun of the show in his head. Why wasn't he speaking? He didn't want to exhaust his already damaged vocal cords anymore for now. Standing Near where hank was, Taiyang doing some cleaning. He wiped the table in the living room with a glossy finish. The man turned to see yang, he smiled. "Morning sunshine, how are you…" he trailed off as his eyes landed on the new arm. He smiled. "Finally going to try again?" Yang nodded. "You bet, I'm ready to get back out there!" she pumped her new arm. Taiyang sighed, he would tell yang another fatherly lesson, but hank stood and walked behind her, giving tai a finger to his lips.
Hank tapped Yang on the shoulder, as she turned, he slammed his fist into her gut, knocking the wind out of her, before grabbing her leg, and pulling up, making her fall back. She landed with a gasp. She tried to sit up, but stopped as Hank was on top of her with a knife banished to her neck. She paled and looked up in fear to meet the Nexians cold, uncaring red lenses. They stared at each other, before Hank got off and slipped the knife into a holster. Yang sat up and looked at the Mercenaries back. "What the fuck was that!" she cried in outrage. Hank stopped before looking at her. "THAT, was proof that you are Not ready for the 'Real world'." he said before opening the front door and walking out, not bothering to shut it.
"I wasn't ready.." yang mumbled, Taiyang helped her off the ground. "I think that was the point…" Yang looked at him, so he continued. "Your enemy won't just, announce where they are, you have to be on guard all the time. Foes could be anywhere, even in safe spots for you." Yang stared off into space, before sighing and flopping onto the couch. "Man, I guess I ain't ready huh?" Taiyang nodded. "Not YET, we'll help you, remember?" Yang looked up at her father, before smiling softly. "Thank you dad… hey, can you make me some toast?" Taiyang Put his hands to his hips. "I thought you were an adult, adults can make their own breakfast." he said with a mug grin Yang rolled her eyes, before standing and walking over to the kitchen. "Oh! By the way, where are Sanford and Deimos?" she asked her father. Taiyang looked at her. "Their outside fixing the van some more." Yang hummed as she opened the bread sleeve. "Wonder why…" Taiyang shrugged. "We'll find out sometime!" he exclaimed. Yang put two slices of Bread into the toaster, and put the heat to three. She went over to the sink and grabbed a paper towel from the roll hanging above it. Yang sat and waited for the toast to be done. He looked to the still open front door. 'What are you three doing?' she thought.
Hank walked up to the Van, and the two Nexians working on it. The two were joking around, or more like deimos was being annoying and San had to deal with his shit. Hank sighed as he walked over. Sanford was standing by the van, annoyed frown on his face, and Deimos was under the van, probably doing something to the carriage. Hank stood by the van unnoticed for a moment, before raising his fist and slamming it on the hood. "WAH!" Deimos cried from underneath. "Fuck you Sanford! I was almost done with the Front Axle!" Sanford raised a brow and turned to see Hank, and smugly grinned. "That wasn't me, dei." Deimos slid from the underside of the Van. "then who- Oh hey hank!" he waved at him from the floor. Hank rolled his eyes at the dorky gesture. "Sanford, get your Boyfriend up, we oughta have a talk." Sanford glared at hank. "We aren't dating chucklehead." The weapons expert then hauled deimos off the ground, the techie stumbling, but quickly gained his footing. "Everything good, Hank?" The Killing machine leaned against the van. "Things are i'm wondering when we will have to get out there ourselves." Sanford put a hand on Hank's shoulder. "Hank, you just woke from the Vat, why are you planning so far ahead?" Hank looked right at him. "Remember incident 3642-C-2?" Deimos shuddered. "I will never forget that, how the hell did they even get a bulldozer that could handle being on fire?!" Hank waved his hand. "Not the point. We need to get moving, this may not be Nevada, but then there's gotta be something similar to the Nexus Core out there, maybe this Atlas I've heard of in the news." Deimos raised a brow. "Isn't that the place where Yang got her arm." Sanford nodded. "Speaking of the kid, me and Dei promised to train her for a bit. So I guess it's something to do." Hank nodded. "Sure, you two can have your fun, but we leave when the time is right, so get the van fixed up, pronto." Deimos gave a thumbs up, and dropped under the van again. "Way ahead of ya, fella!" Hank nodded and walked away, headwrap blowing in the wind.
When Hank came to the front of the house, he saw Yang and Taiyang sparring. The two were bouncing off each other, some would say that this would be a great spar, but to hank? This was like a baby crying to him. He never needed to think of the violence he had to inflict, he just did. Sure, he had a plan for every crescent moon, but still. He looked as they moved. Yang threw a punch, only to be dodged by her father, said man then went in for a sweeping kick, but Yang jumped over the leg. She then used the jump and used both legs to kicked off of Tai's chestplate, growing herself into a backflip and getting some space between the two. They stood and looked at eachother, waiting for the other to make the first move. Hank watched as Yang was getting twitchy, looks like she wasn't used to being patient, huh? With a cry, yang charged at taiyang, who sidestepped her, and grabbed her left arm, and swung her around, and into the ground. Yang panted as she laid there. Taiyang let go and stretched, before hauling Yang up. "Why don't we stop there for now?' Yang nodded. "Sure.." she said breathlessly, she put her hands to her knees to help her stand up. Hank walked closer and slow-clapped. Yang started and taiyang flinched slightly. "Nice moves, kid." the Nexian said sarcastically. Yang huffed. "I'd like to see you do better against my old man." Hank looked at her, then to taiyang, who put his hands up. "Maybe later?" he asked. Hank just bore into his eyes, before rushing at taiyang, who tried to sidestep hank like he did with yang, but hank zoomed over to him and kneed his crotch, before landing a right hook to Taiyangs left Pec, then he chopped Tais forehead, finally ending with grabbing taiyangs head, and bashing it against His knee. Taiyang stumbled back ,and fell, dizzy. Hank whipped his hands against each other, before walking over to Tais Water bottle, He picked it up and tossed it to yang, who stumbled to catch it. Hank then walked into the house.
Yang walked over to her dazed dad. "Dad? You okay?" taiyang groaned and sat up. "I'm fine, but my pride isn't." Yang handed Him the water bottle. "Can we go again later?" she asked him. Tai nodded. "Sure, my sunny dragon."
Deimos slid from under the van and wiped the sweat from his brow. "Phew! That's the last of the repairs." Sanford held his hand out, and Deimos took it as his buff partner pulled him up. "I'll try the engines." Sanford opened the Drivers door and entered, not bothering to close it. He put in the stolen key and turned it on. The engine came to life, before stuttering and stopping. Sanford tried again, the same thing happened. He humed. "Might want to take another look at the engine, chucklehead. '' Deimos groaned. "Can we take a break alreadyyyy." Sanford huffed and stepped out of the van, closing the door. "Fine, let's just go inside." Deimos nodded and the two started to walk over to the house, they saw Yang and Taiyang outside, looking sinded. Sanford walked over. "What happened to you two?" Taiynag looked at the two of them. "Hank." was all he uttered. Deimos smirked. "Heh, I told you he was the best fighter round." Tai nodded. "I believe you now." Sanford patted deimos on the shoulder. "We'll be inside if you need us, got it?" Tai nodded. "Gocha…" with that, the two nexians entered and saw Hank back on the couch, watching breaking bad with some popcorn. Sanford shook his head. "You're a pig, y'know that hank?" Hank only flipped him the bronze bird. Deimos sat by him. "They have breaking bad here? Sweet." Deimos put his hand into the popcorn bowl and took a handful of it and stuffed his mouth. Sanford rolled his eyes and sat on the other couch. "I swear to Jebediah you two." he said fondly. Deimos threw an unpopped kernel at him. "Just shaddup and Watch the show." Sanford rolled his eyes and did so.
Team RNJR was in a panic, with the news that Qrow was poisoned from Tyrian's strike made ruby tear up with panic. She and Jaune had quickly awoken Ren and Nora, and they got Qrow on an improvised stretcher and were carrying Him down the path. Jebadiah had prayed for Qrow that morning, but the team thought it wouldn't do much. Soon, the six had come to a cross-roads. Ruby and Jaune put Qrow down, and moved up to see what the two signs said. Ruby pointed at the sight to the left. "That's a village right?! It's closer than mistral!" Ren shook his head. "Ruby, that village has been abandoned for a long time. Going there would be useless." Ruby looked downcast and Jaune looked between his two friends. "Look, there may be scrap medicine there." Ren looked at his once leader with glare. "There's, no, time." Nora came up behind Ren and hugged him. "Renny…" Jebadiah clapped his hands, turning their attention to him. "How about we split up. Young Rose and Arc can go with Qrow over to the nearby village, and Young Red and Valkyrie can go down the path to this 'Mistral' you speak of." Ruby shakenly nodded. "But what about you..?" Jeb sighed and looked to the sky."I will stay here, in case either team needs my assistance with anything." Ruby nodded, before grabbing Qrow again with Jaune." c'mon jaune, let's go!" and they redhead and blonde made their way down the left path. Nora grabbed Ren by the hand as she let go of her embrace on him. "Let's go renny." the boy only nodded as they walked down the right path. Jebadiah stood there, looking to the sky. He sighed. What had he gotten himself into this time..?
Little did Jebadiah know, but a lone figure was watching him from a tree. The Zeds exposed muscles on its jaw stretched and bent to make a twisted smile, as one lone red eye watched him. The Zed giggled to himself. "Helping Teenagers, jebby? hehehe, how interesting.. Heheh." the Zed laughed to himself. "Ohh, this'll be so much fun! Hahaha!' the zed laughed quietly again, before exploding in a cloud of confetti.
"Hey, player! Someone here to see ya!" Bossman called out. 2BDamned had just arrived at the new HQ. he looked around the lobby and hummed. "You really whipped this place up, huh?" he asked Bossman, who waved him off. "Nah, the kids done most of the heavy liftin, I just scrub the floors." 2BDamned nodded. "Still, thanks for helping him out. He's been through… things." Bossman nodded. "I get it, but whatever the kids been through, hasn't stopped him yet." 2BDamned laughed a bit "im just glad Hes alright and accounted for." 'Unlike a certain group..' he sighed again. He'd find them sooner or later. Just, for now, look out for player.