Events didn’t transpire exactly how Higan had expected as he hadn’t accounted for one factor he was slowly becoming accommodated with. The fleshy monstrosity he had been tasked with destroying had a disgusting capacity to generate some sort of thick mucus. It used that substance to escape the crushing grip of the Mech like soap flying out of his hand. From that point on, things changed significantly as the creature flung itself back up on top of his Mech and out of sight, just as the Mech impacted the wall. Rather than the dull metallic clang Higan had been expecting the thirty tonne A.S.P had caught Slimy between itself and the rough stone wall. Audible through the Mech’s outside microphones was the brutal cracking of the creature’s ribs as the Mech’s weight drove it into the wall. Higan winced in sympathy before his grin returned, enjoying the pain the monster was going to be forced to suffer.

He knew where it was now, and where it was going to stay regardless of anything else that happened. At least part of its body was trapped between the heavy metal and rough stone wall, and the Mech’s mechanical strength allowed it to react in a manner unlike a human. If a human had slammed themselves into a wall they would bounce off, likely badly injured. The Mech however simply braced itself as if it planned to fire its anti-tank rifle upon crashing into the wall, and slowly but surely pushed backwards further. The crushing thirty tonnes of the Mech would keep the monster pinned regardless of how slimy it was, as any give the monster gave would be taken hungrily by metal. It had shown itself capable of squeezing through tight gaps, but should it try the same here the pressing of the Mech would simply close the gap until Slimy could shrink no more. Then, it would start to crush the life from the beast.

Perhaps a fraction of a second after the Mech began employing its ability to crush the life from Slimy, the claw of the beast pierced the lens. The screen flashed briefly and went dark, save for a few spots around the middle where the first strike had done an imperfect job of eliminating the lens. Higan couldn’t believe that Slimy was capable of blinding his Mech after the injury he had just heard it suffer, but surprise quickly gave way to instinct. He knew where the monster was for the foreseeable future, and he had the capacity to destroy it. Instinctively Higan had raised the Mech’s left arm upon Slimy’s escape, almost as if he were pursuing it after it escaped his grasp. However, that instinctual movement changed in purpose significantly in the second after the Mech was blinded. Knowing Slimy’s upper body had to be on top of the Mech in order to have blinded it, Higan pointed the chain-gun just over his Mech’s own optics and opened fire. The rattle of the chain-gun was devastating, and the hail of gunfire would be just as much so. As time went on Higan planned to raise the chain-gun appropriately to fully saturate the top of his Mech and the region just behind it with rounds. He couldn’t see Slimy, he couldn’t feel it, but he had plenty of ammo to spare.