Hey guys! I'm back with a new chapter, about two weeks after that cliffhanger. That's not too long, is it? Anyway, now that bad cliffhanger can finally be resolved. What's gonna happen now? I know you'll love it! But first, here are my responsest to your reviews:

LabRatsWhore: Thanks for reviewing! Yes, they can be quite dangerous in some cases.

Shadow-wolf78: Oh, right. It's like rule number one in fiction: when they go to a parallel world, every good person becomes bad and vice versa (or, at least, almost all of them). That is a good example of the multiverse. Thanks for reviewing!

PurpleNicole531: Thanks for reviewing! Well, there's always one small chance of escaping (although in this case it's very small). And there'll be more of Kenny soon, when this story is finished. If you're already having trouble with Roman and Riker being good guys, just wait for the next chapter. We've just passed the midpoint of the story, so I guess it's time for some action and tension.

Enjoy!

-Writer207


Kaz and Oliver put their hands in the air, while the brothers didn't move at all. The Incinerator was still pointing his flamethrowers in their direction, glancing at every single one of them, waiting for them to decide who would be first.

"What are you…" Oliver began, but he never got a chance to finish. The Incinerator smiled at him before interrupting him.

"And we have a volunteer," he said, pointing the weapon at Oliver. Before he could fire, Kaz acted quickly and jumped in front of Oliver, shouting "No, don't!" The Incinerator still aimed for Oliver, but didn't pull the trigger. He glared at Kaz.

"You can't do it," Kaz said, half-excited, "You can't kill me."

"True," the Incinerator said, and he lowered the flamethrower. Kaz showed a small smile.

"Yes," he said, "I knew you still cared about me." He had thought that he wouldn't kill Kaz, since they were related. He was glad to know this twisted version of Kenny still cared about family.

"This isn't a question of caring," the Incinerator said, "this is a question of not wasting fuel."

Kaz frowned. "Huh?"

The Incinerator groaned loudly, rolling his eyes. "Geez, do I have to explain everything?" he said, "You're pyrokinetic. You're immune to fire, what use is there in trying to kill you with it? No, I'm just going to have to be more creative." Kaz's fear grew while the Incinerator spoke. He had never really thought of the possibility of complete immunity to fire and heat. He looked at Oliver, who looked just as afraid. Kaz knew Oliver didn't know how far the Incinerator would go, how far that villain could go. He'd tortured an old friend with fire. He was more than capable of finding something to kill Kaz with.

"Oh," was all Kaz could say about it. The Incinerator nodded.

"Yes, oh," he said, "Don't worry. You'll live the longest. Fortunately, you can watch me take their lives first." Kaz looked at him rather disappointed, shaking his head in disapproval.

"Fortunately?" he said, "You know, the Kenny I know…"

"…isn't here right now," The Incinerator said, "We're nothing alike. I don't just like to scare people, I like to make them feel miserable. Your brother isn't like that, right?" Kaz didn't really respond to that. He didn't have to.

"Is this about Bianca?" Riker then asked him. It appeared he had said the magic word, because – without further consideration – the Incinerator aimed the weapon at the boy, who then raised his hands to. Kaz barely had time to jump in front of him to prevent the Incinerator from firing. He could feel goosebumps coming up when he saw the Incinerator. So much rage, so much of a savage look on his face. Fire seemed to burn in his eyes and the flamethrower slightly trembled in his hand.

"Don't say her name!" he shouted, yelled as loud as he possibly could, with all the rage inside audible in his voice, "Don't ever say her name again!" He panted, shaking his head, never taking his eyes off of the brothers. "I changed my mind," he then said, a bit calmer than before, "The brothers die first." Roman thought the best move would be to raise his hands, too, even if he knew they were innocent.

"We didn't have…" he began, but was interrupted. The flamethrower pointed at him now, and Kaz moved along with the flamethrower.

"Shut up, Riker," the Incinerator said, looking directly at him. "You're a traitor, and traitors don't get to talk."

"You're the traitor here," Riker said. The Incinerator nodded.

"True," he said, "I am the traitor, but so are you. Evil, then good? How hard was it to change beliefs?" Roman and Riker stayed silent. They didn't want to anger him more. People became rather unpredictable when they got angry, and so did the Incinerator. Eventually, the villain shrugged. "Okay, if you don't want to talk, I can just skip to the killing part."

"Wait!" Oliver yelled before the Incinerator was done talking. Out of irritation, he pointed it at Oliver. Kaz moved so he stood in front of Oliver.

"What now, Cryo?" he yelled.

"It's Oliver."

"Do I look like I care?" the Incinerator said, getting irritated with every passing second, "You're doppelgangers, at one point you'll start calling yourself Cryo, too." Oliver gulped before he finally spoke.

"How did it happen again?" His voice trembled slightly. "What did they do to her?" The Incinerator's harsh façade dropped slightly. He still looked angry, but his eyes seemed sad rather than angry. He lowered the weapon again, yet didn't take his eyes off of the boy with ice powers.

"Flamebird happened," he said, "There was nothing left. Only her burned corpse. If Firefly hadn't told me it was her, I would've never known what happened. I would've never guessed…" He trailed off, finally looking away from Oliver. Oliver took his time to think about the event while the others didn't say a word, giving the Incinerator a moment to mourn her.

"She tried to protect her," Roman said. The Incinerator was dragged out of his thoughts, now pointing the flamethrower at the oldest brother.

"Lies," he said, and wanted to fire. Fortunately for Roman, Oliver talked again.

"But it couldn't have been her," he said. The Incinerator turned back to him.

"What are you even talking about?" he said, "You've been here for less than a day!" Oliver raised his hands again, looking from the Incinerator's face to the weapon and back to his face.

"I can try to explain," he said, his voice a little higher than it's supposed to be. The Incinerator nodded at him, as if to give him permission to explain. And that's what Oliver did. "You know Flamebird, right? You know how her power works. She breathes fire. Every time she breathes out, she decides whether flames come out or not. But she always has to inhale, breaking the stream. And it can never be hot enough to achieve burning someone. It has to be a constant stream of fire at an extremely high temperature."

"Funny," the Incinerator said, "the ice boy knows how pyrokinetics work." Oliver nodded before he continued talking.

"Flamebird can't achieve it," he said, "She has to breathe and her flames can never be that strong. Someone else must have done it, you know it. There aren't a lot of pyrokinetic villains or heroes left who could have done it. I do know Firefly is strong enough to do it." The Incinerator shook his head, pointing the flamethrowers at Oliver.

"He would never."

"Really?" Kaz then said, "He seems cruel to me. And he definitely looks like the kind of guy who'd kill to get people on their side." The Incinerator continued to shake his head.

"He couldn't have," he said. The flamethrower started to shake, almost invisible for the naked eye. But Oliver and Kaz noticed.

"Where was he when it happened?" Kaz asked him, "What did he tell you."

"He told me…" The incinerator began, but cut himself off. He took a deep breath before looking directly at Kaz and talking without hesitation. "He told me it was Flamebird. He told me he had found her, killing. He told me he tried to save her, but Flamebird got away." The visitors nodded, yet thought of it as a little too convenient in this particular case.

"Has Flamebird killed before?" Oliver then asked Roman and Riker. They shook their heads.

"She hasn't," the Incinerator said, "but I guess she wanted to make an exception." Roman's facial expression hardened.

"You know very well that she's a pacifist," he said, "she doesn't hurt anyone unless she has no choice. But if there's anything she'd never do, no matter the circumstances, is taking someone life."

"Firefly lied," Riker helped his brother, though with a calmer tone in his voice. "It was him who did it." The Incinerator moved his weapon from aiming at Oliver to aiming at the shapeshifting brothers.

"Do not confuse me," he said.

"We're just telling you the truth," Riker said. The Incinerator opened his mouth to say something in return, but he never got the chance to say what he had wanted to tell the brothers.

"Guys? You gotta get out of here, remember?" That was the person who'd interrupted the villain, yet it hadn't been the visitors nor the brothers. Only when the brothers looked at a small screen nearby, he could see who had interrupted him. It was the cyber-hero, Wi-Fi, talking to his allies and then turned his head to the Incinerator.

"Oh, is this a bad time?" Wi-Fi continued. They all just stared at him, wondering what his next move may be. Whenever he'd glance at the villain, he seemed to be afraid. Good. "Yeah, I'm just gonna try to get you out of here from in here," he eventually said, and the Incinerator grinned.

"From in there?" Oliver asked out loud, and Wi-Fi nodded.

"I'd rather not be in the same room with the Incinerator." He looked at the villain when he said the name. The Incinerator nodded approvingly.

"That guy has his priorities sorted out," he said. The hero disappeared from the screen, jumping deeper into the information stream and different digital platforms. The four boys continued somewhat where they left off.

"Kenny…" Kaz began, but the Incinerator wouldn't let him finish.

"That's Incinerator for you," he said calmly. Kaz nodded, to say he wouldn't make that mistake again.

"You know it's true," Kaz said, despite not knowing what had actually happened. He was just trying to figure out what was happening himself. "You know Flamebird would never hurt or kill her. At least, not in this world. Either way, try to think. Imagine Flamebird and Firefly threatening to burn her. Then tell us which one will actually do it." The Incinerator looked at them for a while, debating whether to think about it or to be done with it and kill them.

"You talk too much," he told the group in general.

"But you're considering it," Kaz tried, hoping he would. Fortunately, the Incinerator nodded, still pointing the flamethrowers in their direction.

"Don't go anywhere while I think." As expected, nobody moved an inch while the Incinerator took his time to consider all the options and, for once, think rationally about that night and what could and couldn't have happened. Every passing second seemed too long for the brothers and visitors, since they knew the hospital would explode sooner or later, and it may already be sooner than expected. While the Incinerator was thinking, Cryo and Firefly had recovered from Roman and Riker's attack. They ran into the lobby, and evil and definitely angry look on their face.

"You've got them," Firefly said, "Good job." The Incinerator didn't move for a while. When he did, he surprised (and confused) everyone in the room. He turned around, now aiming for Cryo. The villain put his hands in the air when the flamethrower was literally pushed against his stomach.

"Wow," Cryo said, "what are you—"

"Shut up, I'm talking," the Incinerator said. Cryo shut up, saying nothing anymore. The Incinerator turned his head to Firefly, who already had one hand engulfed in flames, just in case he had to attack his older brother. The Incinerator continued talking, "Did you, or did you not kill my wife?"

"You know the answer," Firefly said, not in any way afraid. The Incinerator's grip on his weapon tightened.

"Say it, or I'll fire," he said. Firefly huffed.

"Have you forgotten? I'm immune," he said. The Incinerator shook his head.

"Wrong answer," he said. And he fired. Not at Firefly, since that would do nothing at all. But he quickly changed targets again and now, Cryo was lying on the ground, screaming in pain.

Firefly tried to come closer, which the Incinerator had anticipated. "One more step and I'll fire again." Firefly pulled his leg back where it once stood and the Incinerator nodded. "Good boy," he said, "Now, I'd like to hear the truth. Don't even think about lying, cause I'll know when you do it. If you do it, I can't guarantee Cryo will live. Now, did you or did you not kill my wife!?" Silence fell again, as the boys waited for the villains to resolve the problem and reveal what had truly happened.

"Yes," Firefly said after a while. He showed no remorse, no sadness. He stood there, staring at his now emotional brother with a blank face. The flamethrower was now visibly trembling in his hand and he was breathing loudly.

"Why?" he asked. He almost shouted the words with his trembling voice. "What was there to gain?"

"Your unwavering loyalty to our side if you believed your teammates did it," Firefly explained, as if he was telling little kids that two and two made four. "And it worked. Your instability has always been your greatest weakness."

The Incinerator did not like that explanation and the way it was said. He glared at his younger brother and knew that bond could never be repaired again.

"Oh yeah?" he said, ready to do what he could do best. "Well, yours is that you think you can manipulate everything and can get away with it. But not today!" What happened next, happened really fast. Without any warning, he sent more flames in Cryo direction. This time, he didn't stop. Cryo was lying on the ground, writhing in agony with loud screams. Then, Firefly hit the Incinerator with his own flames. The impact apparently was big enough to throw him a few feet away from his original position. He hit the ground and didn't immediately open his eyes. There were burn marks all over his body, which could very well be all third degree burns. Then again, that's what he had done to Cryo. An eye for an eye.

Oliver had thought to help, to hit either one of them. They may be bad guys, but nobody deserved to suffer like that. Oliver walked closer, aiming with his hand at Firefly. Whatever he was expecting to come out of it, never truly came. He expected a burst of water. Instead, it was just a small stream hitting Firefly's hand.

Firefly slowly turned his head in their direction. The look on his face was inhuman, like an animal looking at his prey right before killing it. He was furious. And a furious Firefly is what everyone on the planet was actively trying to avoid.

"You shouldn't have done that," he said, using all the patience he had left to say those words before becoming anger itself. He let flames envelop his arms, but not further than his shoulders. He pushed them forward, as if pushing something in their direction, and two big streams of fire went in their direction. They could barely avoid getting hit by either stream. Oliver and Kaz jumped to the left, Roman and Riker to the right.

Yet, Roman and Riker never landed. The brothers had grabbed each other's hands and had become the black cloud from earlier. They performed the exact same trick as before and created a vacuum around Firefly. This time, the villain tried to harm them and almost succeeded, if he'd only not given up. Only when they heard the thud of him falling on the ground, Roman and Riker shifted back into their normal forms.

In the meantime, Kaz had gotten closer to the Incinerator, stepped by step, very carefully. Eventually, he managed to kneel down next to him and see if he still had a pulse. As soon as Roman and Riker turned back to normal, Kaz looked up. "He's alive, but barely," he said, "Oliver, can you provide some cold?" Oliver shrugged.

"I can try," he said. He too sat down on his knees next to the Incinerator and placed his hands above the body. He emitted a bit of cold, but not enough. Also, his hands were leaking small bits of water, which he didn't try to stop – the water could cool down the body, too, and might help against the burns.

"I'm back!" Wi-Fi announced, appearing on the same screen as before. He quickly looked around the room. "Wow, I missed a lot," he said when he noticed all villains were laying on the ground, of which two had severe burn wounds.

"Can you get us out?" Roman asked him. Wi-Fi nodded.

"Yes," he said, "but I can't open the door without stopping the countdown. You'll have to go through here. It is the fastest way of transport."

"Is that even possible?" Riker asked him. He was only wondering about Wi-Fi bringing passengers with him. Traveling through computers wasn't weird for them anymore.

"Says the guy who can literally become anything," Wi-Fi said to him, then addressed the entire group, "C'mon then, time is ticking. Who goes first?"

"The visitors," Roman said. They were the brother's responsibility. They should be safe first, and then they could get out of there, too. Unfortunately, someone didn't agree with it.

"No!" Kaz said, "Kenny goes first." They all looked at him as if he'd just gone mad.

"Kaz…" Oliver began, but Kaz cut him off.

"I'm not going anywhere as long as he's still laying there." He folded his arms and looked at the brothers with a serious look on his face. They refused to say anything, since they preferred to leave him behind. Eventually, Wi-Fi made the decision.

"Fine," he groaned, "I'll take him with him." He jumped out of the screen and walked to the Incinerator. He reached out for him and hesitated when he was mere inches away. After a few seconds, he pressed his hand against the Incinerator's chest and dematerialized him, placing him inside the screen. No millisecond after he'd done it, Wi-Fi did the same to himself. He then lead the Incinerator away from the hospital, to wherever they were supposed to go.

Roman turned to Kaz, shaking his head. "Why?" he asked, "He's a villain."

"He turned against Cryo and Firefly," Kaz explained, "Maybe he wanted to be a hero again."

"He deliberately hurt someone, so he could hurt someone else out of revenge. That doesn't sound like a hero to me." Kaz could already say that he did not like Roman and Riker. Sure, they were saving their lives, but they really weren't what he had in mind when he thought of Rodisius' sons.

"He has it in him," Kaz said, remembering how his own Kenny had turned good, "You turned your back to evil, too, right? Why can't he?" Roman and Riker refused to answer him. Silence fell again, and everyone started to wonder how much time they still had before the hospital would be blown to bits for the second time.

Wi-Fi then came back. "Sorry it took me so long," he said, "they wanted to know why I brought the Incinerator. Now, let's do this." He first took Kaz, then Oliver and Roman with him. When he came back to get Riker back, he noticed the boy stared at the three villains on the ground. Firefly stirred again, though not much.

"Riker?" Wi-Fi asked him, "Do you want to stay or go home?"

Riker didn't answer. Instead, he asked the cyberhero a question. "Do you think they'll survive the explosion?"

"In this state?" Wi-Fi said, "Improbable. They still have some minutes, but they won't get out. Unless there's a secret escape pod or something. Either way, we should be going." Riker nodded in agreement and let himself be taken home by Wi-Fi.

He had not noticed that Firefly now woke up faster than before. It still took him a while until he was awake again, but the process was a bit faster than before. It had happened to him in the hospital room, so he knew what to do to get back on his feet again.

Wi-Fi knew too much, Firefly thought. There was a secret escape route, specifically built for situations like this. He considered paying Wi-Fi more than the heroes the next time. After all, he was just a businessman who stuck with the good guys because they paid him well. He wondered what it would be like to have him on their side.

With all the effort he still had, he stood up. He grabbed Cryo by his shirt – why don't I have super strength? – and dragged him away from the lobby, into the secret route placed behind the wall of pictures. There was no time to warn the others in the hospital. Oh well, they would've died one way or another anyway, whether it was soon or much later. He went as fast as he could, while dragging Cryo behind him.

The explosion was audible and visible to all and lethal to those who were inside. But Firefly and Cryo were far enough not to be affected by the blast. As soon as the self-destruct reached zero, Firefly called some allies to take him in. Before he passed out from exhaustion – after all, his will to survive was the only thing that had kept him going – he could only think of getting his revenge.