Chapter 5: Immolation
The thugs were led by the man who Bruce put off tracking down tonight to come here which was Tony Zucco. He and his men slipped in through the back undetected and started to go over their plan. "Alright, boys. The show's just finishing up. As soon as these flying pricks are done, we take out the ringleader and demand the audience fork over everything valuable they've got on them. And if anyone gives us trouble, fill em' full of lead! Understand?", Zucco said. "Got it, boss!", one of his men said. Garfield Lynns, who had just come back from the bathroom while the Graysons were doing their act, went to the room where Zucco and his men were at. "What the hell? Who are you and what are you doing back here? This area's restricted!", Lynns said. The thugs turned around and saw who was telling them off which automatically made him a target. "Wrong move coming back here, pal!", Zucco said to Lynns. Two of the men held Lynns by the shoulders while Zucco approached him. He took out his switchblade and pointed it at the special effects worker. "I don't suppose you have anything valuable to hand over, do you?", Zucco asked while holding the knife under Lynns' throat. Lynns just shook his head in response to the question. "That's a shame. That means there's no use for you. Now, I get to cut you!", Zucco said as he was about to stab Lynns. Lynns then kneed Zucco in the stomach and broke free of the hold of the other guys. Lynns ran over and quickly grabbed one of his pyrotechnics devices that he made himself and pointed it at the criminals. "Stay back! I'm warning you! I'm not afraid to use this!", Lynns said as he was getting ready to test out his device on these thugs. Zucco had the wind knocked out of him for a few seconds after being kicked in his stomach, but this only made him angry. "Now, you pissed me off, buddy!", Zucco said as he held his switchblade like a projectile. He threw the knife at the device Lynns held in his hands and it immediately exploded. Lynns was suddenly covered in flames and screaming in agony as he was burning alive. "Aaaaaaahhhh! Put it out! Help me!", Lynns screamed as fire danced over his entire body and leaving serious injuries. Lynns then fell to the floor and stayed there as the flames ate away at him. "Love me a good fire. Just wish we had some marshmallows to roast over this guy.", Zucco joked as the pyrotechnics expert was literally being cooked. "Anyway, let's get to the center ring.", Zucco said. "What about him?", one his men asked as he was referring to Lynns. "Forget him. He's nothing more than really burnt barbeque now. Let's do what we came here to do.", Zucco said as he and his men m\begun to make their way to where the show was going on. They just left Lynns to roast to death and he just laid there as he was to weak to move. As he was clinging to life, his hatred for everyone just grew as the fire continued to burn him. He honestly felt some pleasure from this despite the searing pain as he knows what it feels like when fire engulfs something in its flames. It wouldn't be for sometime until his charred body would be discovered that would cause another dilemma in the city to begin.