Summary/Disclaimer: Time for another chapter of A Lingering Ember. Enjoy the 900- word chapter. I don't own RWBY, Monty Oum, and Rooster Teeth do.

(Vale, Junior's Club)

"Well… This is it…" Desmond said while he leaned on Melodic Cudgel, Neo rested her umbrella on her shoulder. Desmond tried to open the door and sighed.

"Great… Well, guess we're breaking…" Desmond said before he started to lift his cane, Neo tapped him on the shoulder and pointed at the window.

"You want to go in that way? I don't think I can get up there… Besides, you seem more the…. Quiet type." Desmond said, Neo took the lame joke in stride and leaped up to the window before mimicking a clock with her fingers.

"I'll wait a minute then blow the doors down… It will take their attention away from you… Assuming they find you up there…." Desmond said, Neo nodded and vanished inside.

Desmond leaned on his cane while he waited, he knew Junior wouldn't let them in if they didn't force him. He had been locked up inside his club since the Grimm rampaged through town from what he heard.

"Well, the minute is up…" Desmond muttered before he lifted Melodic Cudgel and aimed at the door.

The crosshairs came up before he fired and the door was blown from its hinges, he blew the smoke off and rested the cane on his shoulder while he walked in. He twirled the weapon twice and then rested it on his shoulder again.

"Hello there, I'm sorry about that, but your sign said open, and I just had to check this place out!" Desmond joked, he looked at the rafters and saw Neo on a beam before he had a pair of pistols in his face.

These were joined with more men with more pistols, a few rifles, axes, and a few with swords. He turned and looked past the small army of thugs before he looked at Junior.

"You know if this is customer service…" Desmond started to say before one of the men clubbed him to the ground.

"I thought I told you not to come and ask for favors, kid… You know the Grimm put me out of business…" Junior said, Desmond turned to look at Neo who was preparing to jump, and mouthed something.

"Well… It isn't like you got anything to be scared of… You got a lot of these gentlemen around me… All willing to handle me if you need them… But you know… I just found something funny…" Desmond said while Junior looked at him and 2 of the thugs prepared to execute him.

"What's that, kid?" Junior asked before Desmond smirked.

"You rich guys spend so much time looking down on others you never bother to look up…" He joked before Neo leaped down and the tornado kicked the thug before batting the other across the face with her umbrella, knocking both thugs to the ground.

Neo unfolded her umbrella while Desmond wiped the spit off his chin and then turned to her.

"Thank you, Sweet Tooth… I was beginning to think you were just going to wait and watch the show…" Desmond said, he rested Melodic Cudgel on his shoulder and faced the forming circle of thugs while 2 girls in red and white dressed stepped out from the pillars.

"You have to be kidding me… Not again… Melanie, Miltia, stall them a minute… I'm getting something…" Junior said before Desmond turned to Neo and nodded at Junior.

"I'll handle the big guy, you handle his little bodyguards, that sounds good for now?" Desmond asked, Neo nodded, and Desmond looked at the bar.

"When I say go, go…" Desmond said, Desmond, tapped his cane on his shoulder.

"Go!" Desmond yelled, he swiped a glass with the handle of his cane and sent it flying at one of the thugs, slamming it into the face of a thug. Neo stepped off and vaulted from the shoulder of the man at the twins.

Desmond fired the grappling hook at the rafters and swung over the thugs. He batted one of the thugs coming at him with a pistol in the chest before kicking the man to the ground. He spun and fired a shot from the cane into another charging thug with a sword, slamming the man to the ground.

"You know… We could have just talked about this… But I knew… I KNEW, you'd do this… Doesn't matter, it's fun and it's no skin off my back…" Desmond stated, he brushed off his jacket and then blew the smoke off his cane before he pointed at Junior.

"By the way, you're paying for the ammo in this thing…" Desmond said before Junior hefted a bazooka onto his shoulder, Desmond hummed.

"Someone's overcompensating for something…" Desmond said before a thug went flying into a pillar, cracking the glass.

Neo twirled her Umbrella while Desmond turned to Junior and motioned for him to attack.

"Bring it, big man." He said with a smirk.

Author Note

Phew, another chapter is done! I wanted to make this chapter longer, but I decided to make the fight with Junior and the Malachite Twins for the next chapter. I want to point out that Desmond and Neo do have a similar dynamic to her and Roman but not entirely. The next chapter will be on next Friday or so and will show Desmond fighting Junior and Neo the twins. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!