Aliit ori'shya taldin

Solus

"And that was the last of them, good work team RWBY", a fifteen year old girl wearing a red hood and a black and red dress said to the three other girls around her, the combat boots covering her feet breaking a small twig as she took a step closer to them. Brushing through her dark red hair with one of her pale hands, her silver eyes met the lilac ones of her sister.

Slapping her sister on the back, the blonde replied, "Yes, but let's not charge into such a giant horde of Grimm for training again. I have barely any ammunition left, Ruby.", a quick look on the display of her scroll later, Yang continued, "And we are low on Aura as well."

Sliding her own scroll closed and putting it away, the white haired girl standing next to Yang flicked her side ponytail behind her shoulder, her white dress seemingly untouched by the mud and vegetation they had been fighting in. As she sheathed the rapier with a revolver like mechanism she had used to fight just moments ago, she turned to the apparent leader and spoke up as well.

"We should make our way towards Beacon, after all we need to get enough sleep before classes tomorrow, and I am nearly out of Dust as well."

"Well of course you would worry about classes.", Yang quipped, before her younger sister's stern gaze shut her up as Ruby answered herself, "Ok Weiss. Blake how are you on ammo?"

Slipping a thin magazine out of the grip of her sword, the now named raven haired girl with a bow holding her long hair back, and a white and black outfit covering her body looked up, her Yellow eyes seemingly reflecting some of the light shining through the leaves above them.

"I only have five bullets left"

"Okay then let's get a move on.", Ruby said as she led the group of girls through the forest, but only a few hundred meters later, as their path crossed a small clearing, Blake's bow twitched before she called out to the rest of her team, "Wait! I hear something moving towards us."

But before any of the girls could react to the warning, a quartet of expanding blue rings came out of the treeline before them, each hitting one of them square in the chest. As they fell down unmoving, their nervous system thrown out of whack by the stun bolts that had caught them by surprise, four scaled, lizard like humanoids stepped out of the tree line.

Moving closer to the unmoving girls, they injected each of them with a sedative to make sure they stayed unconscious until they reached their destination. Once they had finished with that, one of them pulled out his comlink and gave their pilot the signal to set down. A minute later an old and worn down medium freighter sat down next to the gathered Trandoshans, crushing a few trees in the process. After it had fully settled on its landing gear, the boarding ramp lowered and another scaled alien stepped onto Remnant's ground, pushing four cages before him on repulsors. Once he had set one next to each of the girls, he leaned down to remove the white themed girls rapier when one of the others shouted at him.

"No let them keep their weapons, those old melee weapons should not help them much against our blasters, but they could make the hunt a bit more exciting."

Grumbling under his breath, the pilot nonetheless complied with the order and threw the white haired girl into the cage with her weapon still stuck in her belt.

As the others had done the same to the other three girls, they pushed the now occupied cages back on board. Once all the humans were secured in the cargo hold next to an older man in a nerf hide jacket, they returned to the bridge where the pilot spoke up, "Now let's get going before someone on this hellhole of a backwater planet notices us."

True to his words, the pilot started up their ships engines, they left the planet's atmosphere, and soon they were out of its gravity well and engaging their hyperdrive.

When Ruby came to her senses once more, she found herself in completely unfamiliar surroundings. While she awoke in a clearing, none of her teammates where with her. And even so most of the trees surrounding her were unlike anything she had seen before, neither in books nor on television, with the few seemingly normal ones looking more like something from Remnant's tropical regions, not the Emerald Forest.

Even the grass beneath her was a strange bluish color, making it more fit for one of those Science fiction shows she and Yang enjoyed than something actually growing beneath her feet. A short cough made her notice how dry her throat was, and that she needed to drink something to quench her thirst. Slowly standing up, she was relieved when she felt the familiar weight of her weapon, Crescent Rose, hanging on the back of her belt.

Taking a more careful look around, Ruby noticed a set of paw prints moving off towards what could be another clearing a few hundred meters to her right. With nothing else giving her any meaningful hint as to where she should go, Ruby carefully followed the creatures trail, hoping that it had stopped to drink somewhere along its path.

As she had guessed, the thin trail soon opened up to a clearing a bit larger than the one she woke up in. Following the tracks across it, the redhead heard a growl as she reached the treeline before a massive cat like thing jumped at her, fangs and claws bared and ready to dig into her flesh, if she hadn't used her Semblance to move back to the other side of the forest in the blink of an eye, leaving a trail of rose petals in her wake.

When the creature impacted the ground and not its prey it looked around confused, until its four yellow eyes found Ruby once more, which gave the girl a moment to take in its appearance with its sand brown fur and the rather sizeable quills coming out of its back, it looked unlike anything the girl had seen before, be it Grimm or animal.
As the beast got ready to attack her once more, Ruby removed the red and black metal rectangle from her back and with one swift motion let it unfurl into a scythe, nearly one and a half times her own size and a blade as long as her arm. When the creature jumped at her again, she once more activated her semblance to dash underneath it, her weapons blade pointed upwards and slicing through the beast with the same ease it had decapitated Beowulfs earlier. As she came to a stop and lowered the weapon again, the two halves of the beast had already impacted the ground behind her, laying on either side of the slowly vanishing rose petals she left.

Moving to the treeline once more, the cloak wearing girl was intercepted by a strange lizard headed humanoid. For a moment she thought it to be a strange Faunus, until she noticed how the hand holding a strange black rifle towards her had only three digits. When it started to talk in a language Ruby had never heard before and did not lower what she assumed to be a weapon, she kept her Aura up to protect her against whatever projectile might be sent her way if the creature was hostile.

And when a blinding red bolt was fired at her head her precaution was proved prudent. Taking this as proof that the creature was not friendly towards her, Ruby quickly slammed the lower end of Crescent Rose against what she presumed was its temple. But when she heard a crunching sound and saw the weapon's shaft had embedded itself in the creatures skull, she dropped it in shock as she fell to her knees, not even noticing the creatures blood dripping out of the lethal wound she had caused.

'Oh gods, why did it not raise its Aura? Did it even have Aura?', Ruby thought frantically as she did her best to keep her last meal inside her stomach at the sight of the corpse before her. Thus occupied, she did not notice the man that approached her from behind until he tapped her on the shoulder. As she turned towards him, the red and black clad girl was relieved when she realised that he was human and not pointing a weapon at her, but the words he spoke only served to confuse her once again.

"Su cuy'gar"

Kal Skirata was furious with himself as he woke up in an unfamiliar forest. Not only had he let his guard drop after he drunk a few ales to much, no he had also let himself be captured by a bunch of Trandoshans who more than likely were hunting him and everyone else in this forest for sport by now.

Getting up quickly, he checked his holdout weapons and gear and was relieved to find that both the ration cubes and his good old tri bladed knife were still on his person. While he took a look at his surroundings, the old Mandalorian already began formulating multiple plans for how to get of this planet and back to his own ship.
After awhile he noticed most of his plans starting of with the acquisition of a blaster and a form of transport, both of which were most likely to be found with the scaly aliens hunting him. With no hints as to which way the closest of his hunters were, the warrior drew his knife in case some form of wildlife or a Trandoshan got the drop on him and began to move as straight ahead as he could manage. Making his way through the thick underbrush was not easy, but he managed, after all he needed to get back to his boys, Ruu and little Kad.

When he heard the angry snarling of a Nexu nearby, his blue eyes turned towards where the sound came from. When a girl's shout followed it, he made his way towards those sounds, soon arriving at a clearing with a girl in a red hood and black garments probably no older than 16, wielding what looked like a massive scythe, facing of against an angry Nexu. The moment the beast jumped at her, she became a red blur, red leaves falling to the ground in her wake. A moment later the beast was falling to the ground in two pieces as the girl lowered her weapon once more, a few drops of the Nexu's blood dripping to the ground from the blade.

'That ad'ika sure is mandokarla, handling a beast like that with such ease, kinda reminds me of the Nulls back in the day', Skirata thought to himself as he watched her for a moment longer, 'But how did she move that fast? She doesn't look like a jetii, she doesn't have a lightsaber.', deciding to get his questions cleared up the easiest way he knew, he stepped into the clearing and began moving toward her. "Haar'chak!" he cursed loudly a moment later, as he saw a Trandoshan fire his blaster at her unprotected face. Skirata feared the worst for a moment, but when she did not only keep standing, but even managed to cave in the aliens skull with the blunt end of her weapon, he felt even more impressed with her, although the way she fell onto her knees and dropped her weapon a moment later had him worried. Thus he sprinted to her side and tapped her on the shoulder after sheathing his knife.

As she turned her head towards him, Kal was immensely surprised to see that she only had a minor sunburn where the bolt had struck her brow. But the real shock came when he tried to greet her, as she just looked at him confused, no matter what language he tried to use.

'How does she not know basic?', he thought to himself, 'Unless she is even more lost than I feared. No those questions are for later, we need to be able to communicate now.' With that decided, he started to give her an impromptu lesson in Mando'a, hoping the tongue was as easy to learn for her as it was to people speaking basic.

Pointing towards himself he said his name out loud, "Kal", when she mimicked his action and said "Ruby", he was glad that at least some gestures seemed to carry over to her culture as well. This gave him at least something to call the girl. Pointing at one half of the dead Nexu he spoke once more, "Nexu"

After a second repetition she repeated the name back at him, and so eh repeated it with the Trandoshan as well.

Pointing from Ruby to the Nexu's remains he said, "Ruby kyr'amu Nexu", when the girl repeated it back to him with a confused expression, he pointed at Ruby once more, "Ruby", before he tried to mimik her slash with his hands, "kyr'amu", before pointing at the dead animal once more, "Nexu".

'Oh wait, he probably means I cut it, or maybe killed it?', Ruby thought to herself before she quickly nodded to signal her understanding, trying her best to remember kyr'amu as the man's word for killing. As Kal saw her nod, he pointed from the strange scaly humanoid to Ruby as he said, "Trandoshan ne'kyr'amu Ruby." This time it took some time for her to understand what he meant, but after a few repetitions with various gestures, Ruby thought she understood him as the 'ne' seemed to mean something akin to no or not, as she had obviously not been killed but he was still using the same word as he had used with the Nexu.

His next words were mostly unfamiliar again but as he said "Ruby cuyani", and was pointing at where the creatures projectile had impacted her Aura, he was probably saying she survived or something to that effect. After she repeated it back to him with a nod, the leather clad man spoke up once more, "Ruby, Kal kyr'amu Trandoshans, Ruby, Kal cuyani tome"

Thinking over what he had taught her so far, Ruby tried to deduce his meaning for a moment, 'Hm so he wants us to kill more trandoshans and survive, this 'tome' probably meaning together or some such. Wait, how can I tell him about the rest of my team?'

Looking around she quickly spotted a small branch and a patch of uncovered dirt. Picking up the small piece of wood, she motioned to Kal to follow her over to the patch of grassless soil, before she knelt down before it. 'Man I am sure glad now that I spent Port's classes doodling.', with that thought in mind, the girl tried her best to scratch drawings of her friends and sister into the ground. Once she finished with that, she pointed to each of them in turn and, hoping she understood the language lessons of the man correctly, said, "Weiss, Blake, Yang cuyani tome Ruby, Kal?"

It seemed to take the man a few moments of confused blinking until he finally got what she meant, pointing to the drawings himself before taking an overly pronounced look around, he replied, "Ruby, Kal echoyli Weiss, Blake, Yang, tome cuyni" before he grabbed the young girl's hands and continued, "Ni kyr'tayl gai sa'ad", after that he pulled her up and began to lead the two of them into and through the forest before them.

A bit confused how he had not made any gestures to try and explain his last sentence, Ruby nonetheless followed him, assuming it to be something the man had said more to himself, like a curse or maybe a promise to help them. To her surprise he spoke up once more as he gestured to their moving legs, "Ruby, Kal kemi", which she took to mean moving or walking after he repeated his words this time miming walking legs with two of his fingers.

Soon they reached a small stream and Kal immediately knelt down on its shore, before cusping a sip of water in his hands and bringing it up to his hands. When Ruby lowered herself to the ground next to him and began drinking as well, the man said, "Ruby, Kal piru", which she just assumed to mean drinking before he pointed at the water in Ruby's hands and said, "Pirun", which was probably his word for water, at least the young girl assumed so.

When both of them had drunk their fill he produced a pair of small grey cubes from one of his pockets. Holding out one to Ruby he said, "Skraan", before he put his own into his mouth and swallowed it. Nibbling on one of the small cubes corners, Ruby presumed he had just told her his word for food, as he had eaten his cube immediately afterwards. Not noting any taste at all, Ruby assumed it to be some kind of foreign MRE rations and followed the man's example in just putting it in her mouth and swallowing it.

After this tasteless but still welcome meal, Ruby and Kal got moving once again, Kal leading the pair until he whispered, "Ne'kemi", and stopped right in front of Ruby. Coming to a stop behind him, the red haired girl leaned to the side to see what had caused him to stop.

Hearing the same sound as when that alien had shot at her, followed by a pained scream, Ruby soon noticed two more of the reptilian beings firing at an unseen target in the clearing before her and Kal. The moment one of Weiss' glyphs appeared in the air before the Trandoshans, Ruby stepped around Kal, pulling Crescent Rose from her back and with a quick use of her Semblance, dashed to the other side of the scaled humanoids, a pair of wet crunching sound following in her wake as both of them dropped their weapons, holding a hand in pain.

"Weiss are you okay?", the girl in the black dress said as she turned to where one of her missing teammates was. Her silver eyes widened in shock as she saw her white haired friend kneeling next to Blake, whose left leg featured a prominent burn wound.

Rushing over towards them, none of the three girls noticed the pair of thuds as the now dead Aliens fell to the ground, blood flowing from stab wounds in each one's back.

"Blake, how bad is it?", the redhead asked the raven haired girl frantically.

"One of their shots broke Blake's Aura", Weiss replied for the other girl, as Blake seemed preoccupied with not shouting loudly from the pain.

"Ruby! Kyr'amu cuyni!", the loud shout from Kal caused all three girls to look back to the other side of the clearing, where the older man was stepping over their attackers corpses, his shouting sounded similar to how her Uncle had always yelled at her when she had made a mistake during training. After he picked up the pair of weapons the green skinned lizardmen had dropped, he stepped closer to the two girls and greeted them as he had Ruby, "Su cuy'gar"

Noticing her teammates tense up, the cloaked girl turned back to them fully and explained, "Don't worry girls, I think he wants us to work together to survive this place.", turning towards the approaching man, Ruby pointed to Weiss and Blake respectively as she said their names out loud to introduce them to him. As he reached the girls, his eyes immediately fell on Blakes injured leg as he asked, "Tion Blake kemi?" after which he looked to Ruby, probably expecting her to translate. Quickly catching on, she hoped her assumption the Tion was some kind of question prefix like Ne' had meant not, she informed Blake, "I think he wants to know if you can walk."

"I don't think so, at least not for a while", the black haired girl replied, still holding her injured leg. Nodding once to show she understood, the girl's leader turned back to Kal to give him Blakes reply, "Blake ne'kemi"

While his mouth formed into a scowl, he nodded before he picked up Blake, dropping his newly acquired weapons in the process. After blake had calmed down from the man's unannounced action, he turned to Ruby and said, "Ruby kemi sol'yc."

As he also waved for her to step forward, she took it that sol'yc meant either first or infront and thus took point as the group of four began to move once more. Paving the way for the other three, she just hoped that the way she was going would bring them closer to Yang.

The next morning the group of four woke up in their improvised campsite. They had began to make their shelters when the sun had dipped below the strange and not so strange trees. Once that had been done, Kal handed out a round of his ration cubes before resuming teaching Mando'a, the man's language, to Ruby, a task he seemed to put great importance on for some reason she did not quite understand. During that time, Weiss had bandaged Blake's wound to the best of her ability with one of the black Ribbons Blake had tied around her wrists, before trying to teach Kal some of their own language, with only limited success.

"Vaar'tur Kal", Ruby greeted the man in his own language before seeing both Blake and Weiss waking up as well, "Morning, Weiss, morning Blake"

After she received some mumbled replies, she turned to Blake, "So how is your leg today?"

"Definitely better, I should be able to walk on my own for now, if we keep a slightly slower pace than yesterday.", the raven haired girl replied as she got up slow and carefully.

"That's some very good news", the redhead exclaimed before she turned towards their oldest companion, who was looking at the exchange puzzled, "Kal, Blake kemi!", Ruby translated the end result of their conversation for his benefit. Nodding once to show he understood, he pulled the last pair of rations out of his pocket, handing each of the girls half of one before eating his own.

After they finished their meager meal the four of them began to move through the alien landscape once again, more slowly to allow Blake to keep up. All of them kept their guard up and a lookout for anything out of place, as Kal had finally managed to inform the girls that the Trandoshans were hunting them for sport. They luckily avoided encountering any of the scaled aliens during the new day's morning, and shortly before the sun reached its apex they decided to take a break at a small stream running through the forest. While they caught their breath, the girls tried to get their scrolls to work, without any success.

"What is going on? Neither my Dust nor our scrolls are working correctly. I hoped that when I tried it last night it might have just been the battery that was dead. But with neither of yours working as well, I am not so sure anymore.", the white haired heiress remarked to her teammates.

"Well it could be because we're on a different planet.", the redhead suggested to her friends, her emotions torn between the excitement of being the first Remnant natives to set foot on another planet, and the question of how they could return home if that was the case.

"Don't be a dolt, noone has ever managed to even reach our own moon, how could anyone travel from one planet to another?", Weiss retorted, her hands on her hips.

"Well it would explain many things, like the lizard men, the strange trees and how none of us can speak a language Kal understands.", Blake commented calmly from the fallen tree she had sat down on to help keep her still healing wound relaxed. Before Weiss could formulate a reasonable counter argument, a loud scream of pain echoed through the forest. Activating her Semblance, Ruby rushed towards the scream, leaving a trail of rose petals for her companions to follow.
A few moments later, the black and red clad girl arrived at the edge of a clearing, and as her eyes fell onto what was in its center, Ruby was too shocked to do anything for a moment except for gasping in shock. There before her laid the unmoving body of her sister, her left leg ripped apart, the torn of part hoisted up by one of the scaled aliens like a trophy. A few seconds later the redhead regained control of her body and enraged by the vision before her, she ripped Crescent Rose from its resting place, unfolding it to its full size as she charged at the back of the Trandoshan who had dared to cripple Yang.

After one swift swing of her scythe she was standing before her sister, while the aliens head and arms dropped to the ground behind her. As the haze caused by her emotions lifted, the sound of the alien's dead body hitting the ground behind her threatened to cause Ruby a breakdown, which she only avoided by focusing on the, hopefully just unconscious, body before her. Seeing how freely the blood was flowing from what remained of Yangs left knee, Ruby pulled of her beloved cloak and pressed it into the wound to reduce the amount of the vital red fluid that left her sister's body.

"Please be alive Yang, I don't want to lose you. Weiss, Blake Help! Kal Gaa'tayl!", the girl shouted, frantically looking around the clearing to see if there was anything in reach that could help her safe the blond girl before her, but the only thing besides the alien corpse and it's weapon was a strange floating vehicle that roughly resembled a bike. Shouting for help once more, the fifteen year old felt like hours could have past in the few minutes it took Weiss and Kal to reach the clearing as well.

Weiss immediately dropped down besides Yangs head and quickly checked that the girl was indeed still alive, after which she tried her best to calm Ruby down. During that same time, Kal had stepped next to the speeder and rummaged through its rather small cargo compartment beneath the seat. His expresion relaxed immensly as he found what he had been looking for.

Pulling the small red and white box out of the compartment he moved next to Ruby and kneeled down besides her sister's injured leg. Opening the box he revealed it contents to be a few light blue patches. Seeing him prepare one of them that seemed big enough to both of them, Ruby removed her now bloodstained red cape from the wound before the old man quickly fixated the patch over the girls wound.

Seeing Ruby's worried expression, he smiled at her and pointed towards one of the remaining patches, "Bacta, Bacta Kyr'amu kadala" In her still shocked state it took Ruby a few moments until he realized what he just said, and looking at the patch she didn't see it swell up or leek any blood. 'Does he mean that relatively literally? If so this Bacta must be really rare, how lucky for Yang that this alien had some. I can't even imagine what a drug that 'kills wounds' could be worth.'', Ruby thought as she looked from the man to the treated wound and back again, awe on her face, "Vor'e!", she shouted to express her thanks before she laid down next to her sister for a while.

By the time Blake arrived in the clearing as well, Yang was still out with Ruby and Weiss sitting on either side of her, keeping an eye on the unconcious girl. Kal meanwhile was working on the strange vehicle, but just as Blake reached the other girls to ask what had happened their male companion turned towards them and shouted, "Dumi eayaytir!", while pointing to the speeder that sounded like its engine was running after what he did.

"Really?", the redhead asked surprised before she turned to the others to translate, "He thinks we can leave this forest with that."

As she translated, Kal nodded to confirm Ruby's question.

"How? I don't think we can all fit on it.", Weiss stated worried after she took another look at the vehicle in question. Understanding enough to see that the white girl had asked a question, Kal looked at Ruby waiting for a translation of it.

"Tion tome?", Ruby said which was immediately met with a shake of the man's head before he began to carefully explain his idea.

"Blake, Yang haaranovo. Ruby, Weiss, Kal mirci me'sen. Yaimpa Blake, Yang"

"Oh", Ruby said, her eyes widening in realization, "He wants Blake and Yang to hide around here, while we help him capture something, I assume a bigger vehicle, before we return for them."

After finishing the explanation, Ruby stood up and moved to her Sisters feet to help Blake carry her to the treeline, where the two of them would have more cover. Once they had laid down Yang in a position where she would not choke on her own spit or any other liquids that might flow into her mouth, Ruby turned back to see Weiss already sitting behind Kal on the strange vehicle.

After she had walked across the clearing, the petite redhead did her best to find a hold on the free space remaining on the back of it. Once she was sure she would not fall of immediately, Ruby gave Kal an all clear and he revved up the vehicles engine which in turn began to rise until they could see above the trees around them. Once they were above the treetops, two things became evident to Ruby, first they had been on a moderately sized Island, probably just shy of Patch's size, and two an airship of an unknown type was floating a short way of the shore to their right.

While he turned the speeder towards the airship, Kal turned back to the girls and shouted "Ke kyramu, ne nuhoyi!", which Ruby quickly translated for Weiss as Kal accelerated. Holding on for dear life, Ruby managed to keep on top of the vehicle that was definitely not designed for three passengers. When they finally reached the airship, Kal set their vehicle down next to a hatch on the top of it, and, after all of them stepped off the speeder, he crouched down to get the hatch open, while Ruby loaded her last remaining magazine that did not contain dust infused rounds.

As the man looked up at the girl once more he waved them closer and then held up three fingers he used to count down. Once he lowered his last finger he opened the hatch and jumped in, quickly followed by the two girls. Inside they found themselves in a small, rectangular hallway. Following Kal, who was holding the Trandoshan's weapon in one hand, while he had a three bladed knife in the other, they made their way through the ship but only found one of the Aliens once they reached the bridge.

Seeing a trio of weapons pointed at itself, the alien spoke up in a hissing approximation of Basic, "I knew we should have taken your weapons, but no 'it's more challenging this way'"

After it stood up, Kal pushed the captured weapon into its back and said, "Get off this ship." Before he followed the Trandoshan to a nearby hatch, which opened to reveal the aquamarine ocean a few meters below them. Not wanting the creature to take an chances, Kal gave its butt a firm push with his right foot, sending it towards the waves below.

Returning to where they had found the alien, Kal sat down in the center chair and took the controls, moving them back to the clearing where they had left Blake and Yang.

Fifteen minutes later, Yang had been transferred to the ships medbay, while the other three girls were sitting behind Kal in the cockpit, not sure where he would take them now. To their immense surprise he angled the ship towards the sky after take off, and soon they had left the planets atmosphere, much to Ruby's excitement. After a few minutes during which Kal typed into a nearby keyboard, he pulled back a lever, causing the stars before them to stretch into lines. Picking up some oversized scroll from a small table besides him, Kal beckoned for Ruby to follow him after he had shown the other two a small cabin with a pair of bunkbeds.

They spent what Ruby assumed to be nearly half a day using the datapad to teach each other more of their respective language, until they finally felt able to hold a normal conversation with the help of the tablet and a stylus to draw out words the other did not understand yet.

Ruby told him about Remnant, trying her best to explain the Grimm to him, and talked about her training at Signal and Beacon with great excitement.

Kal meanwhile informed her just how lost the four of them were, and how he had adopted her in the forest after she nearly broke down over the first Trandoshan she had killed. And how he offered the same thing, and a place to stay to the rest of her team, as well as his clan's full support in finding their homeworld.

The next morning, at least if Ruby was reading the alien writing on the clocks in the ship right, team RWBY was gathered in the medbay, happy that Yang had finally woken up. Sharing all her new knowledge with her friends while they traveled through hyperspace, Ruby couldn't help but feel smug that she had actually been right when she suggested they were on a different planet.

"So we really weren't on Remnant this whole time?", Blake asked, her for once uncovered cat ears twitching as she worried what would happen with the White Fang running unchecked back home.

"Well let's hope he keeps his promise to help us adjust to this and help us out. I just hope they have a way to replace legs", Yang said bitterly, her gaze resting on where her foot should have been, "Even so I don't think we have a choice but to accept his offer, after all without him we have no way of talking to others."

"I agree with that.", Weiss said gripping on to the hem of her combat skirt,"But I would like to know if his help is still available if we decide not to become part of his family.", Sighing deeply she continued, "It would give us an obligation to come back to them, or even stay with them."

"I know what you mean Ice Queen, it would feel like giving up on finding my mother.", Yang agreed, as she leaned back against the wall.

As she began to reply to the other girls' concenr, Blake stood up from her seat. "Well I don't think my family back home would welcome me after how I left them for the White Fang, but why don't we go and ask Kal about all this?"

After a series of nods came from the other girls, Blake slipped Yang's left arm around herself and helped support her partner as the four of them made their way to the cockpit.

Sitting in the captain's chair once more, Kal was formulating a list of things he needed to do once they reached their first destination.

'I'll need to get one of the Nulls onto this ship to get every bit of Nav data those scaly bastards left behind if we want to have any hope of finding the girl's home world', the seasoned warrior thought to himself as he wrote on the datapad before him, 'And they should bring at least a basic prosthetic for Yang, we can always upgrade her to something better later on.'

Leaning back in his chair, Kal still was amazed how cheerful Ruby still was after spending most of her childhood training to fight some kind of beast that were threatening their whole world, which only added to the similarities he drew between her and his adopted sons. Whatever those girls were deciding to do about his offer, he would make sure they would always have a warm bed and shelter in Kyrimorut with Clan Skirata, just like the clones he had trained for the Republic. 'I should also talk about this shielding they have to Bardan, maybe they are force users like him, I doubt what I saw, this 'Aura' saving Ruby from a direct headshot, could be anything else, but better be sure.'

A knock on the door behind him interrupted his thoughts and when he turned around he saw all four of the girls standing before him, Ruby fidgeting with her hands nervously as she spoke up in broken Mando'a.

"Would you answer a few questions we have about your offer?."

"Sure", Kal replied, a smile gracing his face when he saw Blake helping Yang to be here and listen in as well.

"Would you still help us if some of us did not allow you to adopt them?", Ruby asked nervously looking to her sister and Weiss.

"Of course, we don't just leave people in a situation like yours hanging, but there are somethings I can only provide for you if you are part of my Clan.", seeing the nervous looks on Yang's and Weiss' face he quickly continued, "Don't worry, I will make sure you get a new leg and that all of you can return home, no matter what you choose."

As he said those words all girls seemed reliefed and, after helping Yang sit down, Blake approached him, sayign somethign to Ruby, the only words he understood being 'say' and 'agree', but the mometn Blake stood before him, the redhead translated.
"She wants to accept our offer to adopt her, as she believes her family back home would be to ashamed of what she did after abandoning them for her cause."

"Well will need to get her to stop doing such things. But now give me your hands Blake", Skirata said as he heldout his own. A moment later Blake grabbed a hold of them as Kal said, "I know your name as my child."

So this idea wouldn't let me alone so I wrote it out, I do have an idea where this story is headed, but I don't know when I'll be able to post new chapters, as my main focus will stay with A Grimm Rose for the forseeable future.

Even so, please favoruite or follow and review if you liked it, if not please tell me why.

Also how comes FFN has a character tag for Etain but not Kal or anyother of the Skirata's still alive after Imperial Commando?

Note: After the some feedback I recieved I changed up the last scenes a tad.

EDIT: After some more feedback here is a short list of all the Mando'a sentences in this chapter with translation:

"Su cuy'gar" - Mandalorian greeting literally *You're still alive.*

'ad'ika' - little child

'mandokarla' - having guts and spirit

"Haar'chak!" - Damn it

'kyr'amur' - to kill

"Trandoshan ne'kyr'amu Ruby." - the trandoshan doesn't kill Ruby

"Ruby cuyani" - Ruby survives

"Ruby, Kal kyr'amu Trandoshans, Ruby, Kal cuyani tome" - Ruby and Kal kill Trandoshans, Ruby Kal survive together

"Weiss, Blake, Yang cuyani tome Ruby, Kal?" - Weiss, Blake and Yang survive together with Ruby and Kal?

"Ruby, Kal echoyli Weiss, Blake, Yang, tome cuyni" - Ruby and Kall search Weiss, Blake and Yang, survive together

"Ni kyr'tayl gai sa'ad" - adoption vow, literally "I know your name as my child."

"Ruby, Kal kemi" - Ruby and Kal walk

"Ruby, Kal piru" - Ruby and Kal drink

"Pirun" - Water

"Skraan" - Food

"Ne'kemi" - don't walk

"Ruby! Kyr'amu cuyni!" - Ruby kill to survive

"Tion Blake kemi?" - 'can' Blake walk?

"Blake ne'kemi" - Blake doesn't walk

"Ruby kemi sol'yc." - Ruby walk first

"Vaar'tur Kal" - Morning Kal

"Kal, Blake kemi!" - Kal Blake walks

"Kal Gaa'tayl!" - Kal Help

"Bacta, Bacta Kyr'amu kadala" - Bacta, Bacta kills wounds

"Vor'e!" - Thanks

"Dumi eayaytir!" - allows to escape

"Tion tome?" - together?

"Blake, Yang haaranovo. Ruby, Weiss, Kal mirci me'sen. Yaimpa Blake, Yang" - Blake and Yang hide. Ruby, Weiss and Kal capture a starship. Return for Blake and Yang

"Ke kyramu, ne nuhoyi!" - Kill! don't sleep