At the top of the gigantic clock tower, Archer stares at the vast view of Argonaut before him.

*Flashback to a couple moments before the present.

Back at the scrapyard right after escaping from Jayce. Archer is speaking with somebody through a floating orb.

Orb: You got the core? Good job. With this, it will surely leave a serious backset to his plans. We are now one step closer to bringing him down…

Orb: We’ll meet you at the top of the clocktower.

*Flashback ends.

Archer (thinking): They’ve stopped sending in more men for a while now… Have they given up…? Or are they planning something…?

Beginning to grow impatient, Archer wonders when the people he spoke with over the orb will arrive.

???: We finally meet.

Archer turns his attention to the side to see Heymlir standing across from him.

Heymlir: So you’re the thief that stole the core amplifier. I am Heymlir, the mayor of this city. May I ask you why you stole that item?

Archer makes no comment until a familiar voice brings himself to alert.

Jayce: You should just give it up old man! He doesn’t seem like the guy to talk much.

Jayce appears behind Heymlir with his gang.

“Now I’m glad to actually be here.” – Jayce says with a pleasing grin.

Jayce: Yo, good to see you again so fast! So you were the thief that mugged them? Now that I put it all together, it makes sense!

Archer (thinking): Wait a minute…Was this entire thing a trap…?! I can’t be certain that the person I was speaking over the Unity (the orb device) was the mayor but…Is it all just a coincidence…?

Archer: … I see. So the two of you are working together.

Jayce: Stand back old man. Let me do what I came here to do. Besides…

Jayce’s eyes hones in on Archer, – “I need to teach this fool a lesson anyways.”

Jayce dashes towards Archer with a fist reared in. Archer swings his leg and the two attacks collide.

Archer sends a flying fire kick at Jayce, but he parries the attack and punches Archer in the face.

Archer lets loose a series of fire attacks – Continuously launching himself in a zig-zag fashion across the platform. The chain of attacks leaves behind a scorched trail in a slithering fashion. Archer was moving at speeds at which nobody had seen before; the eyes of all the Punk Riot members failed to track him. Through nimble flips and acrobatics, Jayce effectively evades all of Archer’s relentless assault.

Again, Archer launches himself and Jayce ducks to evade. Archer repositions himself, somersaulting in the air and brings his fiery leg down. Jayce captures the higher calve of Archer’s leg (non-fiery part), stopping the attack before it makes impact. Jayce then lands a punch to the stomach.

Archer reels back from the punch, allowing Jayce to send a combo of strikes, disallowing him to retaliate back.

While pummeling Archer, Jayce ponders on where he could be hiding the core. He looks over to Archer’s pockets where his hands are kept inside.

Jayce tucks both arms between Archer’s, then spreads them out so that his hands come flying out of their pockets.

A rare moment where Jayce was wide open in a bad position. Archer takes this opportunity and quickly knees Jayce in the jaw. The powerful attack flings Jayce’s head back. An audible cracking sound can be heard and for a sliver of a moment, Jayce’s mind blacks out.

Archer quickly backs up to gain distance. Jayce smirks.

“Heh”, Jayce says as he tosses the core playfully in the air.

Jayce: Too late.

Archer frantically reaches into his pockets, completely befuddled. Jayce tosses the core back at Heymlir – “There. Done.”

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Jayce clasps his fist into his hand, “Now I’m going to smack this bastard around some more.”

The two resume their fight with Jayce gaining the upper hand.

Jayce (thinking): Wooo~ This guy hits hard…! I was right to just dodge his attacks. Now my jaw feels hella uncomfortable…

Jayce (thinking): Sad for you (Archer), but that one hit was the only chance you were going to get…Maybe if I beat him fast enough, I can ask Heymlir to leave him with us…So that I can beat him up some more later…

Heymlir puts away the core into his pocket. He then pulls out a marble. The marble shatters in his hand and a small gun-like device appears in his hand.

He raises the device in the air and it fires. A smoke trail ejects high in the air until it explodes into a blinding flashing light.

Everybody looks up, absolutely confused about what's happening.

Heymlir takes out another device from another marble and throws it on the ground. The spherical device rolls along the floor, until it stops near Jayce and Archer. The two of them look at it cluelessly.

The sphere spreads out, and an electric field is let loose from it – shocking Archer and Jayce. Their bodies convulse aggressively as electricity courses through their bodies. Jayce lets out an excruciating yell.

Punk Riot rushes to help: Jayce!

Jayce: No! Run away!

The members stop in their footsteps.

Jayce turns to his gang: It’s all a trap!

Suddenly, countless guards begin to appear from the hidden spaces of the clocktower, swarming Archer, Jayce, and Punk Riot.

The guards quickly apprehend the stunned Archer and Jayce. The Punk Riot members fend themselves against the wave of guards encircling them.

Malone defeats a guard. He turns his attention to the cries of Philip being seized. Malone rushes in to save him and quickly dispatches the guard.

Jayce: Malone!

Malone quickly turns to Jayce who is getting cuffed by the guards.

Jayce: Take everybody and get out of here! Don’t worry about me! I hold responsibility for all of this!

Malone signals the rest of the members, forcing them to leave. However, a couple took more effort to get them going.

Philip: O-oi…! What are you saying Jayce…?!

A large member forcefully begins to carry Philip away. Philip complains to let him go, telling the rest of the members that they couldn’t simply leave him. A female member runs up beside Philip telling him to shut up and respect Jayce’s decision.

“JAAAAaaaayycceee…!!!” – Philip yells as he gets carried off into the distance.

Making their way down the stairs, the members encounter more guards. With a more manageable space than being swarmed in an open area, the Punk Riot members fight their way through.

*Back at the top of the clock tower.

Jayce looks up from the ground at Heymlir having a discussion with two guards. After the discussion ends, Heymlir proceeds to walk in Jayce’s direction.

Jayce: …What do you think you’re doing…?

Heymlir: Doing my job as the mayor. I’m ridding the city of its problems.

Jayce: ….? This isn’t like you…

Heymlir: That’s right.

“Starting from tomorrow.”

Heymlir’s body looms over Jayce, he moves his head in, looking down at Jayce with an unhinged expression – “I’ll be more than just the city mayor.”

Not understanding what Heymlir is saying, Jayce looks back confusedly.

Jayce: Well, if you think I’m just gonna roll over and get myself turned in, you’re sorely mistaken. I can’t afford to go out like this.

“After all…” – Jayce kicks one of the guards in the face.

Another guard tries to attack him from behind using a stun baton spear. Jayce pushes himself off into the air from the weapon as it’s being swung. Using the momentum from the swing, Jayce kicks the guard, rattling his head.

The guard falls backward and Jayce lands back on the ground.

Jayce with a smug smirk: Who’s gonna watch after those bois if I’m gone?

The rest of the guards rush at Jayce. Even with his hands cuffed and a body recently exposed to high voltage, Jayce was too much for them to handle. Bodies kept being flung away from the sea of guards.

Heymlir cracks open another marble and a rifle-like device with a trombone-like muzzle pops out in his hand. He aims the rifle at Jayce. A bola flings out from the device.

The bola spins in the air until it latches onto Jayce’s hips, jerking his body.

Jayce (thinking): Dammit…! Couldn’t dodge it…!

Jayce laments how his body isn’t responding how he wants it to due to the electric shock he received.

His body fumbles to the floor. The bola lets loose an electric shock which causes Jayce to scream in agony.

Heymlir walks over to Jayce who spasms from the shock, “You sure can tolerate electricity huh…?”

“But no matter how good you are as a fighter, in the end, you’re just a genius stuck in a human body.” – He says mockingly to Jayce.

Heymlir turns his body away as two guards approach with restraint poles.

“Take them away.”