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Flipped the Script

Part 7 to the Cinder's Fall from Grace Series

Genre: Angst/Hurt and Comfort/Friendship/Humor

Pairs: Jaded (Emerald/Mercury), Arkos (Jaune/Pyrrha), Pink Lotus (Ren/Nora), Bitch and Bastard (Ozpin/Salem), former Iceberg (Weiss/Neptune), former Black Sun (Sun/Blake), former Green Knight (Emerald/Jaune), Cold Colours (Whitley/Neon), one sided Silvery Ice (Weiss/Yuki), Wet Willows (Neptune/Willow Schnee), Silver Barrel Shotgun (Yang/Yuki), implied Birth Control (Yuki/Ivory), implied past Dragon Tsunami (Yuki/Lapis), Tiger Dragon (Shampoo/Yuki), former Dante's Inferno (Yuki/Cinder)

Parody: RWBY/Ninja Dependence Vol 2.5 (Naruto Doujin)/Sonic For Hire

AU-Type: Canon-eqsue AU (Divergence-Fall from Grace!AU)

Tags: Burger Time, Where Cinder tries to improve her situation, Mercury is the straight man, Emerald is Team Mom, Crossroad Village expands

Cologne cackled with glee as she finally got him after all these years. He was finally agreeing to marry Shampoo. Although, she felt dirty using that bluff to get him to cave. Shampoo was not exactly pleased that her great-grandmother had to low blow him like that, and the heiress was ok with being single. She did and still has feelings for Yuki, but she did not want to force it like this. It did not help to find out that Yuki had a relationship already and even had a son. As the tribe were readying to finally finish their training trip in Mistral, they had one last stop to dish out some early morning revenge.

-CFfG-

"So, explain to me, why we were here?" Cinder remarked as she, Emerald, Mercury, and Blake were entering Crossroad Village.

"Because I'm going to have to resort to desperate measures to pay my debt to Roman. I've stashed a bunch of drugs in one of the empty houses here." Blake explained.

Cinder stopped in her tracks, and said, "So, you choose to hide your drugs here? While I admit it's out of the way, if Yuki or any of his team finds it, they are going to tear your hide a new one."

"They won't find it. I can assure you. I've snuck into their village plenty of times, and they haven't found it." Blake said assured.

"You know what? Go ahead. I'll just go see Yuki." Cinder said walking off in the other direction as Mercury and Emerald.

"Oh, you'll distract them. Brilliant." Blake said scampering off.

"Days like this, I regret not jumping ship with Yuki, but I had my head shoved up Salem's ass." Cinder muttered remembering the "Dating Catwoman" drama they had.

She had found the old Azure home but noticed people were living there. Mercury had a feeling that Blake was screwed, and Emerald knocked on the door only to see little Ryu answer. His little mop of bluish-blonde har was just over his purplish-silver eyes that he brushed them aside. He let out a little yawn that Emerald found adorable.

"Morning…what can I do for you?" Ryu mumbled.

Before Cinder could speak, a voice said, "I'll take over from here, kid."

The three turned around to see Lapis seemingly appear from thin air standing on the roof of a nearby building. Lapis had grown skilled enough to command water to make herself appear completely invisible, and she gently floated down.

"Ok, auntie Lapis." Ryu said stumbling off. "I'm going to nap."

"Poor child didn't get a lot of sleep…" Lapis said with a sigh. "By the way, I owe you my thanks for revealing it was Blake who was hiding the drugs in that house. We only recently discovered the house, and we had asked Roman about it. Wasn't his…so we were waiting for culprit with a trap which soon trigger the moment she enters that home."

There was a scream from said house and Lapis offered for them inside for breakfast. Not one to turn down a good meal, Mercury rushed in with the others coming along. At the dining table was Ivory, Kelly, and Yang all having breakfast.

"Caught the prick squatting in that house. She's in the trap now and guess who's also come for a visit." Lapis said.

"Jeez Cinder, you look awful…" Ivory said not evening trying to mince words.

"Try being Ozpin and Salem's bottom bitch for three years." Cinder said dryly.

"Yeah, I know. Yuki was the one who dumped a good chunk of money for sessions he had no intent on going to using fake names and so on through your last year there. We weren't happy with what they did to you." Ivory said as Yang dropped her fork.

"Well that explains the lack of money that went into this town." Yang said dryly.

"Yang, don't be too upset. I managed to over half of that back at the very least." Kelly explained as Cinder had a sigh of relief.

"Regardless, Merc and I owe Yuki everything then. It was nice to get a long break from all those clients." Emerald said kindly. "Where is he?"

"Upstairs with Weiss. He'll be done with her soon." Ivory said slyly.

Yang pouted.

"I'm going to assume that Weiss isn't the mother of that child." Cinder said dryly looking over at Ryu.

Ryu was passed out on the couch drooling on the cushion.

"I just had to agree to an open marriage." Yang said with a sigh. "Then again, I didn't exactly except Weiss to just borrow my fiancé like that. Ivory, maybe."

"Yang, I would have waited to at least drop the kid off with relatives or had Lapis or Kelly take him out of house." Ivory said with a chuckle. "Weiss…she up and was all over him last night."

"To be fair, it was a year of a dry well. I could understand why, but did she have to keep Ryu up with her screaming." Kelly said getting a plate for Cinder, Emerald, and Mercury.

"It was her first time after a while, obviously." Cinder said eyeing the plate of food with hunger.

As the trio began to eat, Yuki came down the stairs without a shirt on top with only an unzipped, blue jacket with a closed pocket flap on each side. Cinder's eyes were honed on him for a few seconds as he kissed Yang's cheeks before ruffling his kid's hair. He sat down to stuff his face not noticing Cinder, Emerald, and Mercury at all until Serena pinged into the room. The A.I. had a physical form thanks to the research effort of Yuki and Peach.

She was a woman about Yuki's age standing at his height with a slight neon blue tint to her. She had fair skin, honey hair that was a bit of a long ponytail with a half-shaved side, and silver eyes with bluish spark to them. She was dressed casually, but that did not stop Mercury from asking what just happened.

"Yuki, do you not notice that you have guests in the room?" Serena said taking up Yuki's head and pointing at the trio.

"Oh…hey…Cinder." Yuki said while his mouth was stuffed with food before swallowing.

"Yuki…you're looking good after all these years." Cinder said eyeing him up and down.

"Is someone going to explain the holographic lady in the room?" Mercury asked.

"Oh, that's Serena. Yuki's semblance A.I." Kelly said brushing it off as no big deal.

"But I thought his semblance was copying others." Mercury remarked.

"Just one of the features of his semblance." Serena said walking to the door. "I'm going to check on the captured intruder."

Serena left the room leaving Cinder, Emerald, and Mercury to soak in what they just learned. Mercury was just glad Yuki was not their enemy and did not hold a grudge to him.

"Wait, isn't that Adam's sword?" Cinder asked.

"Oh yes, I took it and his mask of him when I saved him from drowning from cement shoes just to beat him to death." Yuki said like it was no big deal.

"I shouldn't be surprised you did that. Hell, I commend you." Mercury said finishing his food as Serena dragged a tied up Blake.

"Blake." Yang said crossing her arms.

"Yang…hey…you mind telling this glowy lady to let me go." Blake asked weakly. "And that food looks good…mind if I have some?"

Yang sighed and had Blake released only to grab her by the shirt collar.

"You have a mere few seconds to explain why this place has a dope house on our block." Yang said sternly.

"It was the one place cops wouldn't look, and I was hoarding for myself. But I may have to use that to settle with Torchwick." Blake explained.

"Is that so? Well then, Torchwick and I can discuss an alternative for that. For one, he and I have an agreement to no illegal drugs in Vale. Thankfully, from what Serena is beaming into me, it's mostly weed." Yuki remarked. "And I won't bust you for the illegal stuff you do have…under one condition."

Blake found herself doing a humiliating chicken dance in a chicken costume while clucking like a fool. Yuki was not the petty type, but he made an exception for Blake considering the slight grudge he had and the bigger one Yang had. Blake almost did not do it, but Cinder forced her by threatened she'd burn her alive while she slept.

"Look on the bright side, you got breakfast out of it." Ivory cooed.

Blake glared at Yang who was all smiles.

"So, about that home. It's been cleared, but I don't really feel like it selling it." Yuki remarked.

"Daddy, can you to give it to this lady?" Ryu asked referring to Cinder. "She looks very tired."

"Eh, why not? Better than letting the head bitch and bastard convince you to join them again. The house is yours." Yuki said tossing Cinder the key to the place.

The idea of a house was a simple yet massive relief for the formal fall maiden. No more crappy apartments or neighbors!

"You do realize we'll have to huff it to Vale and back." Blake said ruining the mood.

And the mood was ruined…Cinder's head hit the table as she was inwardly wanting to scream. She couldn't get two seconds of happiness before someone crapped on it. Then cue the text from Roman saying he had work for them asking if they liked burgers.

"Oh no…" Cinder thought.

(Much Later)

"I will never….treat fast food workers like crap…EVER."

(A/N: Burger Time is next up! Cinder's Fall has been a trip to write, but it's soon to come to a bit of an end in due time. Regardless, what antics will Cinder and company get up and who owns the burger joint?! Find out next time!)