2 hours earlier, 1 hour after Cinder left

Smoke rose from the smouldering remains of a crashed Atlesian command aircraft. The ensuing fire had managed to mostly burn itself out without human intervention since it had crashed one and a half hours ago.

Within the wreckage came the shape of a man as it stood upright weakly. Then, the sound of coughing was heard as it walked out of the thick smoke and into the clear air surrounding the crashed aircraft.

"Ugh," said a man wearing a tattered white coat with orange hair as he came into view. "Where the hell is my God damn hat and cane?" He then looked around and saw helicopters above. "Shit, Vale's Army's here..." He then began to feel intense pain on his right leg as he sat down. When he pulled back his right pant leg to see what was wrong, he saw a huge gash and burn marks from the crash. He also began to feel blood trickling down from his forehead.

Suddenly, another man in the distance yelled, "HANDS UP!"

Roman looked to the direction of the voice and saw 2 Valeanian soldiers closing in on him with their rifles drawn. Unlike their Atlesian counterparts, their gear was less futuristic and consisted of green camouflage. He said, "I'm unarmed!"

The other soldier yelled, "HANDS UP NOW!"

With an annoyed sigh, Roman put both of his hands up in the air as he stood up, ignoring the searing pain in his right leg. A soldier immediately ran up to him with plastic handcuffs and proceeded to cuff him from the back before noticing the wounds Roman had. The soldier called out, "Get me a medic for the suspect!"

Present

"Well," said Blake to herself as she stood in front of an abandoned warehouse in the center of the city. "This is the place." She then sighed in worry. "Cinder, you will be exposed."

Meanwhile, inside the warehouse, Adam and Cinder talked on a walkway 30 feet above the ground floor. "This attack was a failure," Adam said to Cinder.

"Well," Cinder replied before thinking to herself. "Yeah, I guess." She then face palmed and sighed. "Hey Adam, wanna see me tempt fate?"

"We've already done so several times." Adam shrugged.

Cinder then jokingly said, "Could tonight get any worse? You see, I said that ironically, so I think I'm safe."

"I'm back," suddenly said Blake as she walked up to the walkway through the stairs. When she got to the top of the stairs, she took out Gambol Shroud and placed it on the ground before putting her hands up. "Adam, we need to talk."

Adam, startled to see Blake, told her, "Talk? We are beyond talking!"

"Adam, I need to tell you something about Simon."

Adam, immediately assuming Blake was about to lie to him, yelled, "Don't you dare besmirch Simon! He protected us and taught us!"

Blake loudly yelled, "BULLSHIT!" She then paused. "Adam, Simon tricked us both. You especially. Listen, you're gonna find me hard to believe, but Simon murdered our parents." Blake became immediately somber. "He set up everything, Adam."

Adam yelled back to her, "LIAR! SIMON WOULD NEVER LIE TO US!" He then grabbed his sword.

"Adam... Simon was a cruel, cold, and vicious person, and he poisoned you... He destroyed the boy I loved and replaced him with a monster..." Blake began to silently weep as tears fell from her face. "I gave you everything, Adam... I even slept with you... We could, and we should have been, a great couple, but... Simon led you down a path I couldn't follow... I left you not because I didn't love you, but because you needed to realize what he was doing to you..."

Cinder thought to herself, "Blake really is blinded by love... How pathetic."

"Adam, I'm telling you the truth and nothing but the truth when I say this..." Blake then began to break down. "I love you... I love you so much... I should have killed Simon sooner..." Shen then fell to her knees and cried.

Adam, confused and angry, told Blake, "Grab your weapon... It's too late for me to go back..."

Cinder said to the two of them, "Finally, an actual fight!"

As she reluctantly grabbed Gambol Shroud, Blake angrily told Cinder, "Stay out of this, bitch." She then turned to Adam, "And by the way, don't trust Cinder either. She'll gladly backstab you if it's in her best interests."

"That I know is a lie," Adam replied. "Cinder wouldn't dare." He then suddenly charged at Blake with Wilt and Blush.

As their swords clashed, Blake told him, "I said it before and I'll say it again, I. WON'T. LET. GO!"

Then, the two broke apart. Adam told her, "It is unwise to lower your defenses!" He then charged at Blake, a slash of Wilt and Blush barely missing her right shoulder. Cinder laughed in joy as the two continued to fight, their swords loudly clanging in the dark warehouse.

Suddenly, however, Adam made a mistake.

As he went to decapitate Blake, he realized too late that she had summoned a shadow clone to take her place using her semblance. Just as he turned his head around, Blake brought Gambol Shroud down onto his right arm.

The resulting slash chopped his right hand completely off, making him drop Wilt and Blush. As he collapsed to the ground in searing and excruciating pain, blood poured from his hand stump. He said, 'Blake! You..."

"Now, Adam, take your mask off... You're not a monster..." Blake stood before him, still holding Gambol Shroud as Adam complied with her request.

"Excellent," Cinder said as she walked over to the scene. "Now, Blake, I want you to strike him down! You've seen what he did to you and Yang, right? Don't you want raw animalistic revenge for the pain he has caused you and your friends?"

Blake paused for about half a minute, only looking at Adam and Cinder. Then, she dropped Gambol Shroud and said to Cinder, "No!"

Adam, shocked, said to himself, "What?"

"I will not kill him, Cinder. Look, I don't know if I'm a good person. I'm probably not a good person. I've done a lot of things that have been less than moral, especially in my White Fang days." She then spit on the ground. "But I know one thing. I'm better than that. I'm a lot better than that. Now that Simon's gone, Adam can and will be freed from his brainwashing. I don't need you trying to get me to give into my anger and raw emotion."

Cinder's smile quickly turned into an angry scowl as she said, "So be it... If you won't kill him, then you shall be destroyed!" Suddenly, her hands flared up with flames as she threw 2 fireballs at Blake, catching her clothes on fire. "Burn, you Hostage Syndrome-blinded fool!"

Blake tried rolling on the floor, but it did nothing as the flames began burning her skin. She screamed as she rolled, saying, "OH MY GOD! HELP ME! OH GOD, HELP!"

"You. Will. Die!" Cinder then summoned electricity from her hands to start shocking Blake. While this put the flames out, it left her in excruciating pain as electricity flowed through her body.

As blue bolts of electricity surged from Cinder's hands to Blake's body, she screamed, "ADAM! HELP ME! ADAM!"

Adam got up and looked at the scene, pondering what to do. Then, something came to him in his head. "Wait... Blake... No..." Then, he looked at Cinder and yelled, "STOP!"

Without warning, Adam grabbed Cinder from the waist and lifted her up, redirecting the electricity to his body as Cinder screamed, "What are you doing?! PUT ME DOWN!"

Adam yelled at her, "Die, you dirty double-crossing bitch!" Then, when they reached the ledge of the walkway, Adam took one look down and threw Cinder off the edge.

Cinder screamed as she fell before her scream was interrupted by the sound of a body hitting and getting impaled on a large metal object below on the ground. Adam looked down and saw Cinder impaled on a piece of machinery. As blood poured from her mouth and the entry wound, she looked up at him in intense rage until her eyes closed for the final time, and her last labored breath escaped her body.

Cinder Fall was finally dead.

Adam fell to the floor of the walkway as Blake, her clothes in tatters due to her burns, ran over and picked him up. Once they made their way down the stairs to the ground floor, Blake, once again on the verge of tears, laid him down on the ground. She said, "Adam, I won't let you die!"

"I'm afraid my time is up," a badly hurt Adam told Blake. "I've repaid my debts by killing her."

"Don't say that!" By now, Blake was in denial about the probability of Adam dying. "I won't let you die on me! I can't let you die on me!" As she cried, Adam cupped her face and smiled. Then, without warning, he reached in to kiss Blake, who immediately returned the favor.

For what seemed like ages, the couple kissed. Eventually, they split, a strand of saliva still connected to both of their lips. Adam told her, "Best kiss of my life, love."

Blake replied, "There'll be more. GOD DAMN IT, THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE!" She began to weep as she said, "I need to save you, Adam... Damn it, I love you... I love you too much to not save you..."

"I love you, Blake. Besides, you already have saved me." He then signed as he got weaker. "You were right, Blake. You were right..." He then closed his eyes and smiled. After that, he slumped over and gave one last breath.

Adam Taurus had died, a smile on his face as he passed, knowing he had made amends by killing the most dangerous person in Remnant and mending his relationship with Blake.

Blake shook his body, telling him, "No... Wake up! Wake up, Adam!" As she continued to shake his body, she yelled, "Damn it, wake up! WAKE UP! PLEASE, I'M BEGGING YOU!" Then, she threw her head up into the air as she gave out a bloodcurdling scream of, "NOOOOOOO!" She then slumped her head onto his torso as she cried loudly into his chest.