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*Beacon academy, one month before the raid with CRDL*
Yang and Jaune sat there in each others embrace. Jaunes face still stained with his tears and Yang comforting him as best she could. Suddenly Jaune shifted and startled Yang.
"Hey, how are you feeling?" Yang asked as she carefully re-positioned herself as to not knock Jaune off balance.
"O-ok, still a little shocked at all of this is all. It's so much to take in you know?"
"Yeah, I hear you. The loss is hard, and getting used to it will be a challenge. It should be nothing for Jaune Arc, the man who somehow wormed his way into my heart." Yang sported a slight blush as she admitted, yet again, how Jaune won her over. Looking at him she slowly realized that losing his legs was a huge step back for him as a huntsman. 'I just lost my arm but he lost his ability to walk. The least I can do is help him through this.'
"Since we're here and this is probably the only alone time were going to have for the next several months. Anything specific you wanted to talk about? Or just pick a topic and go?" Jaune laughed at his his own dry humor but it seemed to work as it snapped Yang out of her thoughts.
"Well the biggest elephant in the room is bringing up the topic of you being the father of our child. That can wait till later though. I'd rather talk about what we are and where we go from here with our relationship." Yang said with her head hung down, mesmerized by the same tiles Jaune was entranced with previously.
"I already told you my feelings haven't changed, though going for walks will be more difficult now. I'd say what has happened will only strengthen us and our relationship." Jaune said the words more on autopilot than anything. His thoughts caught somewhere between crippling depression at losing his legs along with the his life as a huntsman and wanting to hunt down every last sick bastard of the white fang. He looked up at her to see that she was staring at the same spot he was moment earlier. "Yang, you with me?" He asked, dipping his head down to try to catch her eyesight.
Yang saw what he was doing and automatically reached out to steady Jaune as he was about to fall off the bench. "Please dont scare me like that, I do agree with you though. I want our relationship to keep going. Only you're going to have to be on my left from now on." Not even attempting to laugh as it stung to be reminded that she was down to one arm. Seeing him perk up brightened her mood significantly. "Come on, let me help you up and we'll walk around the grounds. Since we had visitors im sure the powers that be don't mind if we got some decent exercise and fresh air." A beaming smile on her face as she offered to help him with his wheelchair. Nodding head head he took her help, while it was a struggle they did manage to get him comfortable and moving. Opening the double doors they were greeted by none other than Professor Goodwitch, they both went pale as her coffee cup she was holding broke.
*with RWB, across campus*
Ruby was staring out a window, wondering and worried about her sister as she was pelted with a pillow from an annoyed teammate. Nearly falling out of the window she glared at the 'ice princess' as she called her, but before she could say anything they were all startled by the booming voice of Glynda Goodwitch.
"GET BACK IN YOUR ROOM BEFORE I CALL SECURITY TO STRAP YOU BOTH DOWN TO THE BED!"
After two weeks of being restricted in the hospital room, they finally got permission from Goodwitch to walk around the grounds, albeit highly supervised. Although they were watched for their own safety, still getting used to missing limbs, they had a great time just being with each other. It seemed like they were only truly happy together, when they were with their teams or trying to focus on other activities they just couldn't. They were off in another world. At one point Ruby caught Yang huddled in a corner crying, cradling her stump and doubled over in the corner. Pyrrha reported the same with Jaune, unless he was with Yang he just stayed in bed all the time. Unwilling to attempt to interact with anybody.
Ironwood witnessed all of this. He wasn't at Beacon anymore as he had an army to run and the surgeries were successful. He turned away from his data pad that was streaming Beacons footage of Yang and Jaune, courtesy of Ozpin. James looked down at the massive amount of papers in front of him, heaving a sigh of frustration at his dilemma. It's barely been a month and already Ozpin wants to have Jaune and Yang outfitted with tech that isn't even out of the drawing phase! Not only that they weren't recovered enough to deal with the shock of undergoing yet another surgery. Shaking his head he pushed the button on his intercom.
"Yes, General, how may I help you?" His assistant replied.
'Such an upstanding soldier, always dutiful and never hesitates to respond to orders. If only he's grow a backbone on some issues.' "Yes if like a cup of coffee if it's not a problem." Trying to keep any annoyance out of his voice, not wanting to bother his subordinate with his problem.
"Right away sir, just finished a pot." came the overly cheerful reply.
'If I didn't know better I swear he has gotten used to his desk job. Maybe I should rotate him out.' Ironwood was interrupted from his thoughts as the private knocked on the door and James signalled him in. Setting down the coffee then promptly leaving Ironwood took a sip of the fresh coffee. 'Then again, if have to teach some else how yo make good coffee. The struggles of generals.' turning back to his paperwork he called in his best scientific personnel.
Over the next couple of weeks this trend continued. Together they were fine and happy but separated they were mostly beyond hope. Pyrrha and Ruby of course didn't give up hope and wore themselves out day after day just talking to them. It didn't matter about what, just talking to them. One day Pyrrha was getting back to the dorm and started talking to Jaune as she had been for three months.
"Jaune, Im back. We wer-..." she started before Jaune interrupted her
"I don't care Pyrrha, I don't like hearing about everyone's day knowing I can never join them again. I can't go on walks or run or train with you guys. My life as a huntsman is over!" Jaune choked back a sob and didn't face Pyrrha, until she had enough and forcefully turned him over to face her.
"Now listen, Ren and Nora are both worried about you. They want to be here for you but they are too scared to face you because you've been giving everyone the cold shoulder. I'm just here to be as good a friend to you as you have to me in the past. Snap out of this, you have friends here to support you and help you but refusing their help is just going to drive this team and our friendship apart. Now get ahold of yourself were going out." She stood up and got his wheelchair and tried to help him up. After some light resistance he finally caved and went with Pyrrha.
"Pyrrha where are we-"
"Shh, we're almost there" Pyrrha simple said, not offering an explanation as to why he was drug out of bed. Secretly happy that he was though. Maybe he would make more of an effort to talk to his team. He didn't want them to find another leader or worse yet, get rid of him as a friend. Continuing down the path he looked up to see a single bullhead coming towards them, probably some high ranking dignitary that had nothing to do with him.
"That bullhead is carrying important cargo for you Jaune, that's why it was so important to get you out of bed today." Pyrrha informed him but kept her face stoic. It made Jaune shiver, what could make Pyrrha, the normal warm smile and laughing girl, be so formal? His question was answer as the bullhead landed and the rear ramp dropped down but before he could see anything RWBY had joined them. Weiss being up front with the same stoic face as Pyrrha. Clearly this was important but for whom?
"WHERE IS HE?"
Jaune paled and everyone turned to look at him as he suddenly cowered behind everybody.
"Jaune what's wrong?" Blake asked looking worried when her ears twitched and she suddenly shoved her team down.
As Blake was busy protecting her team someone charged off the bullhead straight at the group and stopped just short of them.
The woman had blonde shoulder length hair and blue eyes, stood at about Yangs height. Anger was in her eyes as the dust cloud dissipated from where she had raced off the bullhead. She wore a *mostly* modest outfit that consisted of simple jeans, a high-end designer shirt, sunglasses and running tennis shoes. Scanning the crowd for her son, her eyes grew more angry with each second that passed. Finally her eyes landed on Jaune just as the rest of the people finished disembarking. She feel to her knees and tears fell from her eyes in solid streams as seven other girls rushed over. Three stopped at the older woman and tried to console her while three others introduced themselves to the members of the group, those that were not dusting themselves off. The final woman slowly walked over towards Jaune, tears forming in her eyes as she tried her best to remain upright. She reached out to Jaune and fell to her knees. Pyrrha helped Jaune get back up headed over to the closest woman first.
"Get up Joan, I'd pick you up but i'd have a problem." Seeing his family fall apart like this was understandable but it just fueled Jaunes anger to get back at the bastards who did this in the first place. Now he was the victim and his family was hurting because of it. He would make this right.
"Everyone, I just got scratched is all. I'll get better and I'll get the bastards that did this to me and Yang." Hearing her name shocked her out of silence as everyone heard an audible *eep*. Turning to her Jaune's mother picked herself up and walked over to Yang.
"You poor girl, I am so sorry for what happened. If there's anything you need, anything at all, please don't hesitate to ask." Jaune's mother said, wrapping her arms around Yang in a tight hug.
"Thank you ma'am, Ill be sure to keep that in mind." She softly smiled and returned the hug as best she could.
Looking over at her teammates, specifically Ruby who looked worried as usual; then at JNPR, she walked over to Jaune and whispered in his ear. When she was finished he nodded his head and they both headed over to Jaunes father. After speaking with he his face fell at what was said, after a few moments he stood up straight and nodded his head. Turning back and walking into the bullhead Yang and Jaune made their way back towards the large group.
"What did you say to him? I've never seen your father like that before." His mother asked understandably worried.
"Nothing to worry about mom, we just brought him up to speed on our situation. Speaking of, Yang and myself agreed that the first order of business is to tell the story. Let's head somewhere more comfortable, preferably with food." Jaune had a genuine smile on for the first time in a while.
*Beacon mess hall*
As the group sat down in the empty cafeteria they saw the bullhead the family arrive on take off. Checking her scroll Jaunes mother calmed down quite a bit after reading the message.
"Not to worry, youre father is just leaving momentarily to conduct some business so we have a couple days to ourselves in Vale." She smiled warmly at her daughters. They shared a sigh of relief while the Beacon students all looked at each other and wondered where they were going to stay. "If you all are worried about where we will stay, don't fret. We had already made plans to visit a few days and booked a hotel near here. Now Jaune, about this story?"
"Before we get into all that let's get some food, I'm starving!" Jaune said right at the moment Pyrrha, Nora, Blake and four of Jaune's sisters brought over all the food. They all ate their food and Jaune and Yang waited to tell the later parts of the story till after eating.
"So, it's late and after the fact but Yang and I do have something we would like to tell you. Keep in mind this is after the fact but our feelings haven't changed. Before the incident, Yang was pregnant. She was carrying our child." Jaune was going to keep talking but everyone chose this moment to either go wide-eyed, choke on their food, spit up their drink, or run over to congratulate him. As Jaune was swarmed by his family, the members of RWBY and JNPR all said their congratulations but went to console Yang as she started crying but tried her best to keep a smile on.
"Yang, dear. What's the matter?" Jaune's mother noticed Yang was crying and struggling to keep her emotions in check.
"Well, Jaune did say it was after the fact. I think everyone should sit down for this. What i'm about to tell you isn't going to be pleasant. Also I have a question Mrs. Arc."
"Oh please, my name is Jonquil dear." She smiled happily
"Jonquil, thank you." Yang started, silencing the group as Jaunes face darkened. Over the next several hours Yang recounted in horrific detail her side of the story and how she lost the baby, along with her ability to have child. RWB and NPR both stayed silent as the story went on and Jaune's mother and sisters all had tears streaming down their faces, all except Jessica and Jemima.
"I'm going to murder them, i'm going to gut them and hang them by their own entrails." Jessica's face burning hot enough even Yang moved a few seats away.
"Point us at them little brother, we'll make sure they know never to mess with an Arc again." Jemima placed a protective hand on her baby brother's head.
"Guys, you all seriously scare me when you're like this. Besides we don't have any leads on the people who did this. All we can say for certain is that the fang kidnapped us and they knew who we were and did not care." Shocked at this Jessica and Jemima looked at each other and pulled out their scrolls.
"You got it as well then?"
"Yup"
"Mom, baby brother, sisters, huntress' we just got orders back to Atlas. Emergency recall from General Ironwood himself. Jaune, Yang, I'd like you both to accompany us. With your permission of course Assist Headmaster Goodwitch." Jessica turned to face Glynda, who had been there the whole time.
"Jessica Arc, you're as perceptive as ever I see." Glynda smiled, remembering how wonderful a student she was.
"Not nearly as good as I could be, I just noticed you about five minutes ago. So what's your answer?"
"Normally Professor Ozpin would make these decisions but luckily I already know whats going on. They're free to go, No the rest of you children can not join them. Classes for you all will resume next week and Miss Xiao Long and Mr. Arc will be away for some time. I'll talk to you all more regarding your class' after their departure." Glynda finished off strenly and turned to walk away. "Take care of them Jessica, if they end up hurt again i'll personally come for you." Glynda gave a slight wave as she left the cafeteria. Jessica paled at this and Jaune mentally saved the information for the next time she wanted to tease him.
"Shall we get going them? General Ironwood isn't one to be kept waiting." Jessica said as she punch in some commands on her scroll and a green light lit up.
"Ok, but why are Yang and myself going?" Jaune asked as he scooted closer to Yang, putting a protective arm around her.
"General Ironwood wants a word with the two of you, he hasn't told us any more than that." Jessica was clearly all business at this point. "Mother, please take care, Beacon is one of the safest places but if the fang are bold enough to kidnap training huntsman, and an Arc at that, you can't be too careful. Sisters, take care of mom and our new friends while were gone ok?" She and Jemima took the time to give every member of her family a hug. As The four walked back where they first met Jaune spoke up.
"Uh, Jessica, we don't exactly have a fast ride to Atlas here at Beacon."
"Gotta think outside the box little brother, were high ranking Atlesian military specialists. How do we usually get around?" Before Jaune could speak up a gust of wind overtook them as Jaune was almost knocked back with Jemima holding his chair and Yang throwing up her arm to protect her face. A sleek and very unusual ship was above them roughly half the size of the bullhead, considering its speed it was exceptionally quiet. The whole ship was shaped in a rough diamond with an elongated front. As it came in two parts of the fuselage became detached at the front and moved outwards making the ship look like the head of a trident spear. As it landed a front facing ramp dropped down.
"Creatively named the trident. Fastest, quietest, and most top secret ship in the Atlesian fleet. She's not even supposed to exist for another five years but I manage to convince the General to lend us this beauty for the occasion." Jessica turned to Yang and Jaune at their awestruck expressions. "Come on you two, that isn't even the best part." As she started towards the ship Yang and Jaune quickly followed as Jemima sighed.
"Pulling this out of testing for a simple pickup? I dread the paperwork behind it." Jemima slowly made her way towards the ship, not entirely trusting the pilot. 'I wonder who they chose for this?'
Just as they left the docking platform an explosion caught everyone's attention. They all looked towards the pillar of smoke rising in the air as Yang and Jaune went wide eyed.
'That's the building we were held at.'
A/N: Id say not to expect chapters this long all the time but i feel a fire burning in me that demands me to write. These chapters are getting HUGE so expect them to be broke up more. Please enjoy and review, I thoroughly enjoy hear any and all feedback as it may lead to future ideas for the plot. Also I do read each and every review and do my best to accommodate any requests. One last thing, 49 followers and growing?! That is amazing and its the best feeling ever, thank you all!