There seemed to be something wrong with the optics immediately after the rock smashed down upon it. However, the protective armour surrounding the most sensitive part of the Mech was not fragile by any means. There was a slight fuzziness on the screen in front of Higan and black patches appeared over the right side of his vision, but that was the only immediate effect of whatever Slimy had done. The Mech had reached out and found Slimy had slipped through its grasp, but rather than making good its escape it had carried out an audacious move perhaps born from the belief it had blinded the A.S.P. The resistance as the creature tried to squeeze its head through the narrow gap between the Mech’s left bicep and forearm was enough for Higan to react. Though he couldn’t quite believe what he was seeing. The monster was squeezing through to drop down and Higan was having none of its shenanigans.

The left arm immediately dropped at the elbow, tightening the gap in the arm and stranding the head on one side of the metallic structure and the body on the other. Unless the Pater had any physical answer to the Mech’s strength, it was going to be badly crushed as the gap it tried to exploit swiftly constricted upon its middle. The Pater simply had too much body to get through the space in the time it took the Mech to carry out the fairly simplistic movement. Higan had no idea what would happen when the elbow dropped and the Mech’s arm crushed up tight to its body as if it were swearing an oath. Presumebly it would be squishy and very, very, messy. 

Simultaneous to this, though in no particular way influential, the Mech’s backward momentum drove it into the wall. Higan’s body shook even as shock absorbers did their work, his head rolling slightly from the force. However, like a rugby player catching the ball and subsequently being tackled he’d keep hold of his very squishy catch as well as he could, depending on what it tried to do.