Three lazers erupted from out in the darkness, cleaving through discarded metal and one unfortunate machine. Two of the blasts skittered past the Clockwork Man, but the last cleaved a hole straight through his lower torso even as finished off another robot with one precise bullet. 

He dropped back from the blow, clockwork whirring and breaking out from the ‘wound’ as the metal struggled to reform over the serious rupture. His head spun around, and exactly what he had most feared greeted him, the most significant factor which could have impeded his progress. 

So far, he and his nimble sword wielding ally, who’s skills had impressed even the Clockwork Man thus far, had only been facing the predominantly melee and ineffective scout forces of the Broken Ones. The quickest to arrive on scene, it made sense they would have to face them first. 

However, there were slower moving hovering weapons platforms which posed even a threat to him. He now had the displeasure of facing one down; it had already proved it could cut through his armour with its super-heated armaments. He knew he was running low on ammo, just twelve or so shots left, not enough to bring down such a behemoth. There was something else he could do though, and it might just have given them the advantage they needed to survive the last quarter of an hour or so required to at least get the ship moving.

George sprinted forward, holstering his pistol even as lazer fire erupted around him. One shot narrowly grazed his arm, shearing away metal like it were paper. 

[i]I won’t die here.[/i]

He leapt, diving off a corrugated sheet of metal high into the air, another blast from the lazer weaponry ripping through his upper body before both hands clamped down on the machines sensor matrix. He slammed into it with enough force to even cause the hovering behemoth to slide backwards a few paces, and with a single minded ferocity he began to rip and tear at its outer casing, even as powerful Technomagic permeated his body and burst from his hands, causing the metallic creature to shudder as if suffering some great pain.

When he bounced off the robot a few moments later it immediately began firing at every Broken One in the vicinity, tearing their fragile bodies to shrapnel with frightening ease. The Clockwork Man rubbed his hands together, pleased with himself. 

“That should keep them busy for a while.” He said loudly enough that his new ally could potentially hear him over the chaos around them, though in truth he wasn’t particularly bothered if he did or not. He began to walk casually over to the ship again, concentrating his full efforts on forcing the nanobots to repair the damage done to his body.