"As far as I know, Quick Mob's duplicates are all mentally inferior to him and while they can duplicate themselves, each new generation gets dumber and dumber. Also, taking out the spawner of any given duplicate negates all of its duplicates, and so on. So if you take out the original, all of them vanish at the same time. But they all look the same, so you'll have to somehow identify him", replies Apex as she checks her weaponry, going through an impressive amount of knifes and darts. Then she pulls up a part of her bodysuit that covers the lower half of her face. This is followed by a helmet with an integrated mask that covers her entire head. The helmet is formed like a human head, with a barely visible, mostly featureless female face - and it is fully reflective, mirroring everything around her. From the back of the helmet extends a long red pony-tail that is not actually made from her hair.<br/><br/>"Apex is right. As to long-range ambush - that would be difficult, because of the way the Junkyard is set up. We won't be able to sneak up<em>and</em>be on time to make sure<em>we</em>are the ones to take them down - we need to show that we are in control and we can't do that if they've already taken some of each other out", explains Severance. "I would advice for Moldpatch and D-Synchro to stick to an elevated position with some cover and try to take down. As for the acceptable level of force, I will say only one thing: don't. Kill. Otherwise, anything goes. Take them down and take them down<em>hard</em>."<br/><br/>The young heroine turns back to the others as she finishes her check-up. "Remember, Wimbo can't take anyone over quickly - so long as we prevent him from capturing any one of us, we should be rather safe. I will still target him first", she explains.<br/><br/>Finally, the truck came to a halt, after nearly twenty minutes of high-speed driving.<br/><br/>"We've arrived", explains Severance. "Remember, I will stay back and only interfere if Charlie dances the Foxtrot. Now, go! They should be somewhere around where that tall spire stands!"<br/><br/>Outside, a giant junkyard just beyond the lake on which the city stands awaits them. It looks more like some kind of second city, a mockery of New Sorea build on junk. About half a mile into the junkyard, a tall, rusted spire of unknown purpose rises.<br/><br/>Apex takes the point, moving ahead of the others. "I'll target Wimbo first. D-Synchro, try to take down Quick Mob. Moldpatch, I don't have anything that could harm Jellow, so please take care of her", she orders, taking the lead without asking.<br/><br/>They soon climb over several huts and a hill of junk, only to see a wider opening around the spire. To one side of the spire, the two groups are standing, throwing insults at each other.<br/><br/>The young heroes are looking at them from the side and can see that Bendpole, a rather heavy-set man in a ridiculously muscled outfit has his arms aimed at Wimbo, a willow-thin, rather attractive man in his mid-thirties, blocking the Siren from initiating one of his songs.<br/><br/>Quick Mob, a brown-haired, badly dressed young man who looks like he should be in school right now, has already created eight first-generation duplicates, each holding a club and a knife.<br/><br/>On the opposing side, appart from Bendpole, Jellow, an attractive African woman with a short cornrow hairstyle, has shrugged off her sparse clothing and partially transformed into her jelly-form, leaving only her body from her armpits upwards human, while verything below it is a greyish-blue slime. Red Devil and Null-Plus were nowhere to be seen.<br/><br/>Other than that, each gang has fifteen baseline minions at the ready, most of them below drinking age.<br/><br/>"D-Synchro, Moldpatch, can you hit them from here?", asks Apex as she assembles a lightweight crossbow out of different parts that were spread around her belts. "I'll aim for Wimbo. You guys take the first shot."