Titans: Burning Rage #7 is an issue of the series Titans: Burning Rage (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 2020. It was published on February 19, 2020.
Synopsis for "Arena of Death"
This story is reprinted from Titans Giant #6 and Titans Giant #7.
The inside of the Titans Tower is a wreckage, with Raven and Beast Boy unconscious. Robin struggles to stay up on his feet and refuses to surrender, before getting blasted by an energy bolt. A person in a mysterious robotic armor states that they will acquire Starfire no matter what. She however soon awakens and attacks them, stating she won't let them take her. She is however soon subdued and is threatened to come peacefully or her teammates will be killed which forces her to agree. Beast Boy after waking up realizes that the person in the robot armor was there for Starfire and awakens Robin, telling him what happened.
Tim finds that the tower's external sensors still work and gets a fix on the armor's ion trail into space. Beast Boy states that they don't have anything that call allow them to go into space, but Robin states he has an idea. The ship carrying Starfire meanwhile arrives on the planet Drasactis where she gets told that she will fight gladiatorial combats in arena for the entertainment of the people. As she refuses to fight, her abductor states she will and was brought here to engage in a duel to the death against the undefeated champion of Drasactis and multiple other worlds.
Rave, Robin and Beast Boy travel through a spacecraft they stole from the Justice League Satellite. As the other two express worry about being caught by the League, Robin states they had no choice in order to be able to track Starfire before they lost her abductor's ion trail. Back on Drasactis, the announcer introduces Starfire to the crowd and orders to reveal her opponent Ch'phor. Starfire makes quick work for him and demands to be released, but gets told that he was not the one she was brought to fight. The abductor of Starfire then reveals herself to be Blackfire, who had invoked the code of Palahra to make her sister fight in her slave against Mongul. Meanwhile, the other Titans lose the ion trail, but Robin states they have to find Starfire.
Robin and Raven get frustrated after learning that Beast Boy lost the trail of the ship carrying Starfire, but he states that it wasn't his fault. As the scan for spatial disruptions fails to find it, Beast Boy states he had run a communications scan and discovered a broadcast of Starfire taking part in gladiatorial combat on an unknown planet. Starfire meanwhile fights Mongul in Blackfire's place, which the Titans notice and Tim tells Raven about Mongul's brutal past, telling the others to locate the origin of the broadcast quickly.
Back on Drasactis, Mongul destroys Starfire's sword and shield while Blackfire expresses disappointment. Starfire states that she would have defeated Mongul if her powers weren't nullified, but he ridicules this ordering her powers to be restored. As Starfire battles Mongul using her powers, Blackfire states that she chose her sister in her place because of her debt to him. Mongul soon overpowers Starfire and prepares to kill her, but Beast Boy in his monstrous form saves her life by punching him. Robin attacks Blackfire, telling her she must pay, while the organizers refuse to stop the fight despite their rules of single combat being broken.
As Raven tells Starfire to hang back while others take care of the situation, she refuses stating her sister must pay. Robin disorients Blackfire with toxic gas while Starfire attacks Mongul as he bashes Beast Boy, though she realizes it won't be of much uses. Raven uses her spirit form to knock the warlord out and tells him to be grateful that she can control her rage otherwise he'd be dead. Following the fight, Starfire confronts her sister who states she had no other way to save herself except by making her sister fight him and knew the Titans would find her through her ship's ion trail. Robin tells the two to let go of the acrimony between them and Starfire agrees.
Back on the Justice League spacecraft, Beast Boy states he wasn't sure Starfire would spare her sister, but she states she will never kill her sister despite their dispute. He however expresses doubt that that Mongul won't find Blackfire, but Raven states that the planet they dropped her off on is so far away that he won't even go searching. Batman contacts Robin and tells him to return the ship the Titans stole from the League and the others joke that he's going to be in trouble.
Appearing in "Arena of Death"
Featured Characters:
- Teen Titans (Flashback and main story)
Villains:
Other Characters:
- Batman (On a TV or computer screen)
- Ch'phor
- Justice League (Mentioned only)
- Superman (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Drasactis
- Justice League Satellite (Flashback only)
- San Francisco
- Tamaran (Mentioned only)
- Warworld (Mentioned only)
Items:
Vehicles:
See Also
Recommended Reading
- Teen Titans Recommended Reading
- Teen Titans (Volume 1)
- New Teen Titans (Volume 1)
- Tales of the Teen Titans (Volume 1): #41-58
- New Teen Titans (Volume 2)/New Titans (Volume 1)
- Team Titans (Volume 1)
- Teen Titans (Volume 2)
- JLA/Titans (Volume 1)
- Titans (Volume 1)
- Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day (Volume 1)
- Teen Titans (Volume 3)
- Titans (Volume 2)
- Blackest Night: Titans (Volume 1)
- Teen Titans (Volume 4)
- Teen Titans (Volume 5)
- Convergence: New Teen Titans (Volume 1)
- Convergence: Titans (Volume 1)
- Titans (Volume 3)
- Teen Titans (Volume 6)
- Teen Titans Academy (Volume 1)
- Titans (Volume 4)
- World's Finest: Teen Titans (Volume 1)
- Teen Titans: Year One (Volume 1)
- Teen Titans Go! (Volume 1)
- The New Teen Titans: Games (Volume )