"Yang vs. Taiyang" is a spar that takes place in "Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back" when Yang Xiao Long and her father Taiyang Xiao Long do some combat practice as a part of Yang's recovery from the Fall of Beacon.
Preceding Events[]
After coming home from running errands one day, Taiyang arrives home with a gift from General James Ironwood to Yang - a cybernetic prosthetic arm - as a token of gratitude for her part in defending Beacon Academy. Yang initially turns it down, still struggling with the trauma she endured at the hands of Adam Taurus. After overhearing a conversation between her father and Beacon professors Peter Port and Bartholomew Oobleck, Yang learns the reason he has not gone after Ruby Rose yet is because he "still had things to take care of." Not wanting to be a burden anymore, Yang tries on the prosthetic arm and begins sparring with her father over the course of several weeks.
The Battle[]
Yang lifts up her head, arms as the ready for a fight. Taiyang takes a swing at her with his left hand, but she easily blocks it with her robotic wrist, pushing his hand away from her. The interplay repeats with his right and her left, only this time Yang uses the momentum to turn and come back at her father with a roundhouse kick. Taiyang bends backwards to dodge it, his legs in a lunge. He gives his daughter a solid punch, pushing her back a few feet.
Taiyang stands alone and moves forward, doing his own roundhouse kick. Yang joins both hands atop each other to block Tai's landing foot. With a loud cry, she pushes it up and back. Taiyang regains his footing in a flip while Yang waits for his landing. Using her robotic arm, she knocks him back with a single hit. Holding onto his right bicep, Tai slides through the dirt, his feet flat on the ground until he comes to a stop.
As Yang admires how much work was put into her new arm, she is broken out of her distraction when Taiyang suddenly delivers a left hook right into her face. Yang's upper body rears back both from impact and surprise. She's ready to block his right hook, however, and uses the turning momentum to deliver an elbow jab. Grinning the entire time, Tai blocks it and then dodges all the kicks she follows through with. Yang switches to punches, but Tai is too on point for her. While she uses her left hand to block an elbow thrust, Tai has grasped her robotic arm and pulled it forward. The position puts Yang in the position of having her balance rely on the weight of one leg. He sweeps her forward leg, sending her onto the ground on her back.
The two take a brief break to talk about Raven Branwen before resuming. After Taiyang helps his daughter up, they circle each other, arms at the ready. Taiyang makes the first move with a left hook, followed immediately by a right cross and a kick. Yang blocks and dodges, continuing to avoid being hit even when Taiyang flips in the air. She cartwheels, avoiding him and he lands across from her. They face off again, Taiying doing a single punch and kick. Veering to avoid it, Yang rolls a few feet away before turning and rushing at him. They meet in the middle, each with their left hand on the other's right elbow, pushing against each other.
Taiyang takes the moment to praise Yang for getting better, but Yang takes advantage of his distraction by kicking his leg out from underneath him, but catches him as he falls back. They pause in that pose, grasping hands and smiling together.
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