INFERNO

 Inferno. The last member of the Guardians. She has no secret identity as she left the name Clementine Fontenot (can't you just die) behind the day she fled her abusive mother's house.

She made her way to New Orleans where Clementine fell in with a tribe of street kids; They became her new family. The advent of her mutant powers along with the start of puberty helped a lot. It allowed her to protect the other kids, and made occasionally robbing a place after hours for food money a lot easier.

Thing changed with Skulls, a crazed, machine-gun wielding vigilante who wouldn't -- or possibly couldn't -- differentiate between serious crimes and petty crimes, and who "punished" criminals of all stripes by killing them, found her tribe while they were raiding a closed grocery store.

Inferno was found in the burnt-out husk of the store, closed in on herself. She was surrounded by fire-damaged corpses who coroners later determined were dead from gunshot woulds before they were touched by fire.

No one ever found trace of Skulls again. Some have speculated Inferno burned him to ash, and then burned the ash.

At her trial, Inferno pled guilty to destruction of property, vandalism, reckless endangerment, and violations of the Phillips Act, which made all superhuman crime Federal. The judge sentenced her to five years of public service as a Guardian, under the supervision of Diamond.

That was ten years ago.