Snippet 69

Burger Time

Part 8 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, Blake is High As the Sky, Salem gets her due

Cinder hated this uniform, the goofy hat, and the fact she was forced to smile at rude customers. She now understand why Torchwick became a criminal because the pay was not worth this torment. Cinder was on cashier with Emerald who took the drive in, while Blake and Mercury were in the kitchen.

"Welcome to McChester's, home of the mightiest of meats. Can I take your order?" Emerald said into her headset.

"Emerald, if we suddenly wake up from this nightmare, we're going to Menagerie and living in obscurity." Cinder groaned as handed another customer their order.

"You could at least try to put up with the punches." Emerald remarked. "Everyone else is."

"Mercury's only doing it because he can go home and cuddle up to you when it's over. Blake….is high as a kite." Cinder said noting Blake was moving with speed using the spatula to play a tune.

She was having a time of her life making orders with such passion and intensity, people were filling up the tip jar. Cinder was wishing she had some of what Blake smoked, but the music was a nice enough distraction. Then again, Blake had only smoked up because of who the owner was.

[A Few Moments Ago]

"Cardin?!" Blake squeaked noticing the old bully of Remnant had come to greet them.

Of course, he was not alone. A pair of twin girls were clinging at his pant legs looking a lot like him, but with a set of pink rabbit ears with them both looking around four years old.

"Blake. It's good to see you again I guess. I heard you fell off the radar after Team RWBY fall apart and you were exiled from your home. My condolences for that. I ended up…breaking apart from my old team and my family too." Cardin said sympathetically.

Cardin briefly explained that due to a bit of a drunken idiocy he had ended up in bed with a faunus girl and got her pregnant. Of course, this lead to a point of contention for him and his team. His team mocked him for his descent "bestiality". But it was when Velvet stormed into his room, and threw him through a wall with a mere kick that he learned that girl he had done was not only knocked up but Velvet's cousin.

"It was hard…my parents threatened to disown me for knocking her up. They wanted her to get an abortion all the while insulting. It was a bit of an eye-opener for me…for what I was becoming. I stood up and comforted her telling her she did not have to get an abortion. Promptly took my parents to piss off." Cardin remarked. "Worked harder until I graduated, married that girl, and started this chain up. The rest is history….of course, there's the end result of Cassandra and Stephanie. The joys of my life…but let me just show all of you around"

[End Flashback]

Blake had felt the crushing weight of feeling she had gotten nowhere and had smoked up to feel better which it mostly worked. Cinder could relate to Blake's pain, but now she really wanted Blake's weed. Then Ruby walked in with her entourage of groupies causing Cinder to be a bit blinding by the flash of scrolls and squeals of, "Let me take a selfie."

"Welcome to McChester's, home of the mightiest of meats. Can I take your order?" Cinder said dryly.

"C'mon, Cinder. You should have a smile on your face as it this day is completely gorgeous." Ruby said adjusting her designer shades.

"Yeah, no. We can't all be rich or…high." Cinder said looking at Blake for a second. "So, can I take your order?"

"I'll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda. Also cookies, all in your bin." Ruby said.

"Ok, so two Double Grand Bacon Chestburster burgers, one supersized, Super Busty Chicken Tenders with extra Smile Dip, a Tomato Mozzarella Chicken Sandwich, a Mountain Glenn BBQ burger, two Atom Smashers have one of them having cheese, and a large soda on its own. Plus, the cookies…anything for the group?" Cinder said as she was swamped with orders.

Cinder put it into the computer, Ruby paid, and Cinder turned to Blake telling her to get to work.

"You got it, boss!" Blake screamed inadvertently triggering her semblances making clones. "Aw yeah!"

A one woman band that took over the kitchen shelling out food in a frenzy and in fifteen minutes had the order ready. As Cinder had handed over the food, one of the groupies said she had a tip for Cinder right Ruby ran off to stuff her face. Cinder perked only to get the big vanilla milkshake thrown in her face.

"Get a real job." The groupie said with a venomous laugh before laughing.

Cinder twitched as she left looking like she was about explode only to just deflate shuffling off to the bathroom. Everyone could hear her sobbing, and Blake stopped her jam session to go after Cinder finding the former fall maiden face down in the toilet sobbing.

"This is it. Rock fucking bottom." Cinder said as Blake pulled her out.

"I have a way that make you feel better, a hit of the good stuff." Blake said taking out an unlit blunt out of her.

"Fuck it." Cinder said taking it up using her powers to light it up before taking a long drag. "I'll be out in a minute."

Blake left to continue her duties and Mercury took up the cashier. Cinder came out with a look of complete relaxation having smoked the entire thing and retook the counter. The day went by and the four were closing up only for one last customer to come in. Salem, looking all prissy, in her fancy clothes. Cinder glared as Salem had that mocking grin.

"Salem. We're nearly closed." Cinder said only for Salem to cut her off and ask for a vanilla milkshake. "Perhaps you didn't hear me, we're closed."

"Perhaps I could put you back in that hole for an attitude adjustment." Salem said smugly.

Cinder twitched, but Blake gives her the shake telling her to "let her have it". Emerald and Mercury both got themselves a shake.

"Here you go." Cinder said about to hand it her only to smash it on Salem's face ruining her makeup. "Oops!"

"How dare y-" Salem said only for Emerald and Mercury threw their shakes on Salem.

Salem would have attacked had Blake not tackled Salem, dragged her out, and threw her in the dumpster in the back all while still on that high.

"Well, got rid of that trash. We should lock up and call Yuki to portal us home because I'm sure Salem is going to come in here to kill us." Blake said as Cinder got her scroll scrambling to call Yuki as Mercury hurried to lock up.

Yuki could have not portal here sooner because Salem came out only to see the store locked and empty. Salem let out a primal scream of rage before storming off.

(A/N: Karma! This one is pretty short due to future plans. The 70th snippet is going to be a bit special. As for the next episode of Cinder's Fall from Grace, we skip ahead a few weeks preparing for the finale. See ya there, next time.)