Tiberius rammed a finger-a-piece into one of the Duke's eye sockets, shattering its two front teeth with a thumb. Gripping the roof of its mouth, the quiet man flung the being into two more mirror images of itself. He kicked a bare foot around, clipping the edge of one of the many roof vents, metallic fragments spraying three more oncoming clones.
"Damn...you're pretty ruthless..." Brute Force commented, tossing a clone off the side with far superior strength.
Ty leapt straight up twenty-feet, seemingly backflipping on nothing but air at the apex of his vault. Coming down in a stealthy crouch, BF sprinted past his vision clotheslining another two.
"I fail to see how we are to conquer an adversary who cannot be truly killed..." the man replied with a hint of indignity, shooting a set of pointed toes through the esophagus of a Duke.
Two clones reached out for him from behind, their hands jerking with the sudden intrusion of steel crossbolts. Tiberius spun at their pained grunts, knuckles from his backhand collapsing a jaw and cheekbone of one. Brianna's shadow flashed over the granite pavement of the roof, sound briefly deadening out to a faint whine. Sonics ranging three levels just below pure white sound raked past Ty as the second clone's skeletal structure crumbled into powder.
Four more clones rushed in unison across the roof, BF clearing three of them in their tracks. The fourth leapt over the massive Vanguardian, coming down on Tiberius. The incredibly agile stranger caught the Duke's wrists in tight grasps, immediately snapping them backwards. Kicking his foot straight into the creature's stomach, he drove his toes through the skin, and into the clone's intestines.
The creature merely laughed harder and harder, still pushing against the newest Vanguardian. Tiberius clenched his teeth, and, a strain of his own making begin to form on his face. A vein protruded sharply from his forehead, his face rimming with a crimson exertion. And, slowly, the creature began to shake. And, the power of Tiberius crawled deeply into the Duke, slowing his metabolism. Slowing it faster, and faster, the clone convulsed as he felt his form beginning to petrify.
Flakes of ashen skin begin peeling away, as the body started decaying within Ty's grasp. And, he strained, grunting loudly now, as his forced his neo-physical awareness deeper into the creature, literally shutting down the bio-rhythmic pressure of his circulatory system. Halting his synaptic network. Forcing his cellular structure to age and decay, faster, and faster....
And, in a billow of ashen flesh, the Duke crumbled into heap of powdery gray.
Tiberius staggered for a moment, falling to one knee.
"Hey...you okay?" Ben asked, flinging two more over the rooftop towards the gas tankers below.
Before he could respond, a Duke suddenly sprung up from behind, leaping at the defenseless Tiberius. It leapt up, and, as it came down on him, six metal slugs ventilated its cranium. The limp heap of bloody flesh landed against Ty's back, and rolled off. He cocked a quick eye around to see Icarus Sidewinder roar straight up past the roof.
"Watch your back, rookie!" Icky yelled, spinning his pistols in place. "I won't always be around to save your ass!"
Tiberius cocked an eye, an undignified snarl crossing his upper lip...
