"Oh shit!" two of the other men cried in unison, fleeing down the alley as the other pulled out a pistol.

Sun didn't him get any further, pulling the trigger on his SMG and filling the man's chest with lead. "Fuck, what was that?!" Blake yelled.

"They jumped us, grab his pistol and get to shootin'!"

"What? What are you saying, we shoot our way out?!"

"Well, I don't see any other ways, so, yeah!"

Sun disappeared around the corner of the unit once more, Blake groaning as she picked the pistol off the corpse and checked the clip in the gun already, 11 more rounds to go. She sighed, slammed the clip back into the gun and aimed around the corner, finding Sun pinned down behind a pile of cement bags as several more men fired upon him. Blake fired at two, catching them in the chest and throat, before fire turned to her, driving her back inside the storage unit once more. She waited for the bullets to cease whizzing past the garage door and peered out once more, finding a large, white gas tank on top of a set of scaffolding to the right of the alley. She took her chance, leaning out once more and emptying the remnants of her clip before dodging back into cover, orange bursts of flame shooting out of the tank where the bullets had hit. The moment she ducked in a massive explosion rocked the earth, the tank exploding and sending shards of wood and metal pole everywhere. She peered around the corner to see the scaffolds destroyed and most of the gang members dead or dying on the ground. She rushed through a few more bursts of shooting to Sun's side, the faunus still reeling from the explosion. "You alright?"

"No, you set a fucking bomb off right beside me!"

"Yeah, you're welcome, glad I could be of assistance!"

Blake peered around the corner and saw three remaining gang members. In the midst of the destruction, she found a car in the path of the shrapnel, gas leaking profusely from its undercarriage. "Sun, give me your gun."

"No, fuck you! You know how expensive this shit is?"

"Sun, this isn't a game, do you want to get out of here alive or not?"

"Yeah, yeah..." Sun grumbled, slamming the gun into Blake's hand.

She poked her head out once more, the gang still firing off rounds at a ceaseless pace. She brought the Uzi out just enough to properly aim it and fired off a burst of rounds. "Hit the deck!" Blake shouted.

The gas instantly ignited, engulfing the undercarriage of the car and then its top in a few seconds. Before any of the remaining gang members could react, the car exploded, the force killing one, the heat scorching another, and the last having his head crushed against a wall by a flying door. "Shit, pussy, you sure know how to bring the bang to a party! But this ain't the party I was hopin' for you to be bangin', if you know what I'm sayin'."

"Shut up!" Blake said, looking to the end of the alley they came from and pointing, "That's the bike, he's got it!"

Another bald, black man sat on the green Bagger bike at the end of the alley by the fence, sneering as the two faunus charged after him. The engine roared to life as he whipped around in a circular 180, speeding off into traffic and towards the skyscraper district of town. Blake and Sun bounded the fence again and slammed into their car seats, throwing the car in gear and screaming after him. "Fuck, how are we gonna get the bike? He's too fast to pull up to and shooting him will only get the heat on us!"

Blake looked in her backseat for a brief moment, looking back to the road as she reached back and produced a sword with a large, black, cleaver-like blade. "Sun, on the count of three, I'm opening my door and getting on the hood of this car. You just make sure you stay on this straight-away, I'll take care of him."

Before Sun could protest, Blake had already forced the door open and cautiously climbed to the roof, Sun being forced to slide into the driver seat and yell, "Damn, bitch, you crazy!"

Blake slowly rose to her feet, staring down the highway at the man speeding off on his bike. She grabbed the unsharpened side of the sword and pulled off the black metal, revealing a smaller, slightly curved blade on the inside. She clicked a button at the hilt with her thumb, her forefinger over the trigger under the guard. The blade to split into three pieces and compact down to a backwards-facing bayonet. She brought the gun back, pulling the trigger as she hurled it forward, the momentum sending hit spiraling in a circular motion through the air. The man looked back over his shoulder just to see the blade come within centimeters of hitting him, riding over his shoulder and far ahead of him. "Ha, you missed, dumbass!"

Blake smirked as she yanked backwards on a long strand of black ribbon, the man looking back just in time to see the inverted blade impale him right between the eyes. The corpse went sailing off the back of the bike, Blake retrieving her weapon with another twist of the wrist just as the corpse was run over by her car, Sun screaming from the inside, "Boom, 10 points!"

The bike continued its voyage ahead and unmanned for a few seconds, only to lose speed and crash onto its side, skidding across the pavement with an ear-shredding metal-on-concrete screech. The bike came to stop, Sun slamming on the breaks and sending Blake flying head over heels off of the car, the faunus barely able to get her legs beneath her before she came crashing to earth. She glared at Sun, the cocky faunus leaning out the window and yelling, "Whoo-ee, baby, that was sick!"

"You could have killed me, you moron!"

"But I didn't and that looked pretty sweet what you did, all Tarzan-gymnast up there. Look, meet me at your place again, alright?"

Blake wanted to question him, but Sun got back behind the wheel and sped off and u-turned back into the opposite lane of traffic, speeding for the hood.

Blake rolled into her driveway an hour later. She had taken the bike to a nearby body shop, having the dents buffed out and the scratches painted over. Good as new, as far as Cinder was concerned. She had barely any time to turn off the engine and put the kickstand down before Sun stormed out of her car, "What the hell kept you?"

"You've finally lost it, haven't you? Do you realize what you just made us do?! We massacred one of the most powerful gangs in this town, The Cull. We took out at least 10, maybe 12 of them!"

"Man, that's that Apache blood in me. You best step off or else I mean flying tomahawk your ass and scalp that mat of a mop on your head."

"Well, now that you made us kill a good bunch of our rivals and the man who bought the bike, who's gonna pay for the payments he didn't make?"

"The hell am I supposed to know, your the one into books!"

"Well, I thought that Apache blood in you would also give you wisdom and stealth, Chief Sitting Asshole!"

"Know what, fuck this. Don't worry, I'm takin' this for myself, just tell Cinder we couldn't find it."

Sun immediately hopped on the bike and sped through Blake's yard and open fence door to her home, tearing the grass up. "You better know how to lie to her yourself, you know I can't lie!" Blake called out to him.

Blake crept into her house once more, the TV in the living room opposite her's blaring. She gently set the door closed and crept to her room, sliding into the gap between the jamb and the door. She looked at her bed and the weight of the day instantly settled on her, her eyelids became heavy and her body ached for rest. She flung herself onto the bed, uncaring of what her aunt would do. Bliss slowly flowed over her as she canceled out the noise in the other room. She was moments from slumber, only for her phone to vibrate in her pocket. Blake growled in anger, ripping the phone from her pocket and putting it to her ear, growling, "What?"

"Easy, it's your boss. You've had quite the busy day, I get it. But I have one more job for you today. Do this for me and I'll make sure we can negotiate a pay raise immediately."

Blake took a breath before propping herself up on her elbow, "Alright, I'll do it, what do you have?"

"There's a hybrid on Hardwood Drive that hasn't had a single payment made yet. All you have to do is get it and bring it in."

"Why does this sound too simple?"

"You catch on fast, that's what I like about you. They keep this girl's cars in the garage, she's too trusting to take the keys out of the ignition and, since changing that habit is too much, they keep it locked up in there. So..."

"I'm going to have to break into their house, sneak my way into the garage, and steal it with no one noticing."

"Like I said, you're a sharp kid. Just get that done before closing time at sunset and we're good for negotiation."

Blake hung up, checking her phone for the time, 7:45. She moaned as she got up from bed, exiting her room and ignoring the bickering of her aunt. She had to hurry, this was her only opportunity to move up, and she wanted it.