Chapter 5
Inferno flew through the city and landed in an old abandoned warehouse. Inferno fell flat onto the floor. As he stood up, the door in front of him opened and Robin walked in. "Robin?" Said Inferno. The masked hero said nothing, but tossed two boomerangs at Inferno. The boomerangs flew right by Inferno and the first one cut his arm. "AAAHHH!" Shouted Inferno. Inferno kneeled over in pain. He tried to stop it from bleeding, but he couldn't. The second boomerang came close to the same arm, but Inferno moved out of the way. But the boomerang came back and made another slice on his arm. This cut was much smaller than the last one, so Inferno didn't have to worry about it.
"Why are you doing this!" Shouted Inferno. "Because you were undercover for Slade! You were going to send him blueprints to our Tower! You were going to send him our weaknesses, weren't you?" Shouted Robin. "Why did you do it? Power? Money?"
"I DID IT FOR MY FAMILY!" Shouted Inferno. Robin stared at Inferno. "What?" Inferno replied. "If you checked the date on the contract, you'd see that the date was four years ago! I did it for my father! And my sister! Slade threatened to kill my father! My dad made a deal with him. In exchange for giving us food and shelter, the three of us had to work for him. He made us steal for him. Eventually, my father was through working for Slade. He tried to get us out of it , but Slade wouldn't let us leave. He killed my father! Me and my sister saw it with our own eyes! He told us to go with the rest of his workers. I had enough. Using my fire powers, and my sisters earth moving powers, we destroyed Slade's hideout."
"Wait, wait, wait, rewind. Your sister could move rocks?" Asked Robin. "Yeah. Why?" Asked Inferno. "Was her name Terra?" "Yeah. Why?" "When did you last see your sister?" Asked Robin. " Three years after we destroyed Slade's base, he sent his robots to find us. We were attacked by millions of them. We were beat, until Terra lost control of her powers. She managed to destroy all of the robots, but when it was over, she left, and I never saw her again. Why?" Asked Inferno. "Hmm, because Terra joined the Titans about two months ago." Said Robin. "Where is she, then? I haven't seen her around the Tower." "That's because she's dead." "WHAT?" Shouted Inferno. "You killed her! Didn't you!" Shouted Inferno. "Wait, you don't understand!" Shouted Robin. But Inferno had heard enough.
Inferno jumped at Robin and strangled him. "Does it burn, Robin? Does it burn!" Shouted Inferno as he started lighting fire on his hands and kept strangling Robin. "IT HURTS, DOESN'T IT?" Shouted Inferno. Suddenly, Robin pushed Inferno off, and felt his neck. He could feel his skin burnt from where Inferno held him. It stung to touch it. Then, Robin saw Inferno fire a giant fireball and stepped out of the way. Inferno kept firing smaller fireballs until Robin threw one of his freeze discs at Inferno. The disc hits Inferno and freezes his right arm. "It'll take more than that to stop me, Robin!" Shouted Inferno. With this, he slammed his hand into a nearby crate and the ice broke off. While he was rubbing his hand, Robin pulled out his staff and ran towards Inferno.
Robin swung his staff as hard as he could, but Inferno grabbed the stick and began heating it up. Suddenly, Robin let go of the heated stick but managed to use his boomerangs to make a clean cut on Inferno's cheek. Inferno rubbed the cut on his face, and then shot a stream of fire at Robin, but Robin threw one of his exploding discs. The explosion that they caused lit the entire warehouse on fire. As Robin got up from being knocked down by the blast, he saw Inferno on the other side of a wall of fire. Inferno simply stood there, not even fearing the flames. "You put up a good fight, Robin. It's too bad I couldn't finish you off. But know this: I'll be back." With this, a chunk of the roof fell down, and when the smoke cleared, Inferno was gone.
The Titans all sat on the sofa, talking about what Inferno told Robin. "So, he worked with Slade to protect his family, just like you did to protect us." Said Cyborg. "Now I feel bad for what we did." Said Beast Boy. "So do I." Replied Starfire. " He may have been our friend, but he's now our enemy." Said Raven. " Everybody get some rest. We had a rough night." Said Robin. With this, all of the Titans went to their rooms to get some sleep.