Xukhezur's craft immediately slid through the air by means of its auto pilot, up and to his right in response to the attack, as its deflection field, projectile deflector and particle fields worked in tandem to help bend and divert the fireball's trajectory with a combination of gravitational distortions and emitted particles. The fireball veered wide to Xukhezur's left, coming within inches of his craft.

Xukhezur's thoughts then bade the craft to toggle the non-lethal stun modules into effect on its shoulder mounted firearms as they were deployed by its auto gunner to emerge from the robot's frame and train on Jago. Each firearm discharged a brief, coruscating, and somewhat diffuse, laser at the warrior below. Although, Xukhezur guessed that even if they struck the man, he might have the ability to resist or absorb them, given the nature of the fiery aura he was displaying.

While his craft's auto pilot and auto gunner went about their protocols, Xukhezur himself went quickly utilized a metamagically altered infusion to create fully functional protomorphic replicas of some equipment he kept in his protomorphic demiplane. The conjured and temporarily stabilized protomatter conformed and approximated itself to the shape, composition and functions of a compact grenade launcher, which appeared in his armored hands, loaded with a revolving cylindrical magazine filled with six cryonic grenades. However, Xukhezur held off using the device, long enough to observe his opponent's reaction to the initial laser fire.