The problem came from a few base assumptions and a lack of understanding the timing. The Nuclear waste beam as stated before came in the PROCESS of each of the extra limbs reaching on towards Ultrons person. Not while in the process, not while anything was grabbing or stabbing, not while anything was lodged into joints or seeking out points to enter in. This being aside from the fact that an assumed pair of limbs COULD move Ultrons head to begin with, just after dropping some weapon in a scenario Miliseconds counted given the lack of distance between the two. The Synthetic was made for strength, as had been stated before, this did not exclude any part of the body and this coupled with the face to face stature of the attack, point blank range even, meant that EVEN with a grip on the neck,  even a strong punch meant to push it away, the neck full on resist any unmade pull/forcing to another direction, well, even a slight movement meant most of the beam would be on Maquinas person, push or punch or not aside, it wasn’t a matter of being a perfect attack, it was far from it, it was the timing, positioning, and well, again, near point blank Range between the two. It was a two way street, for both arms and the beam!

However, this was one of three things currently going against Maquina. The beam was a fast in your face thing, as was the thing to come JUST after it. The reason for the blue and white almost reflective blinking in the Synthetics cranium was for its ‘at the hip’ pistol kind of attack in the form of Ultrons head based Tractor Field/Gravity Beam. A split second of focus, a split second of deductions, and said gravity would be unleashed much like the Nuclear waste beam only in a much larger sort of scope. Square shaped from the get go and immediately sending reverberating throughout the air, despite its name the Tractor/Gravity was sort of a reverse of that. Instead of pulling something in, once anything was in its general vicinity, its range and large spread, the effects of the gravity was basically entrap anything in it and then in the most simple but harshest of fashion, bore into and crush into the object with increasing levels of gravitational force. This was also a very BIG downside for Maquina given the closer to the source of the beam, the stronger its potency was with how it was generated from the cranium device at the most organized level, IE, another case of ‘being to close to comfort’ given the face to positioning of the two. 

One distinct thing however, made the gravity beam, other than the entire nature in general, different from the nuclear waste beam. Admittedly the Waste beam itself was a VERY direct sort of attack. Gather, redirect, boom, but the gravity beam had been made in a slightly different way, tweaked with past experiences and adapted in this case to act. If somehow this face to face beam was also (attempted) to be redirected or forced off? The second that occurred, a chunk of the air reverberating/rippling gravity (that was otherwise basically transparent/invisible in any other case) would visibly be seen literally splitting from the body of the Gravity as a whole and swooping down upon Maquinas person. That tweak came in the form of the gravitational device in Ultrons cranium itself basically ‘sectioning’ the gravitational output device off and creating another sort of separate section from the main body to utilize. In hindsight it was something the Synthetic should of done from the get go, but beggers could not be choosers, not face to face at least, thus the crushing gravity beam itself and the split sections that could be created now.

Lastly of the three things, we shift back to the battle of Actual grappling arms. Maquina would be able to see it. A slight whiff of steam based in the sections of her arms Ultron clearly had dug and cut his sharp tipped fingers into, followed by a sudden but very potent and planned Concussion blast not only released in the outside part of Maquinas arms given palms connected to them, but the finger portions, IE, all TEN points dug into each sections of her arms Ultron gripped and, well, you have a high plasma, force, and head based beam inwardly and outwardly being Blasted on two arms. Again it was sort of a case with the Nuclear waste beam. Ultron and the player does not exactly know what a Heat, Physical Force, and Plasma based laser can do at point blank literally grabbed range to Maquinas person, one liked to ASSUME it was something bad, something potent, double added as in this case, inner gears and pistons and devices which made the robot move worked in tandem with the rocket ‘boots’. 

A forceful lean back would be done physically with Ultrons upper frame while his lower stayed oddly still, for the most part. This was because the rocket boots seemed to dim but in reality were shifting themselves into a ‘back up’ sort of mood. In other words trying to visibly, physically propel Ultron backwards at the same time he pulled and unleashed the Concussion blasts, the intent VERY clear; he Ultron was half trying to blast, half trying to rip Maquinas arms off. There was a slight bit of obvious intent to perhaps get a bit of distance between the two, sudden blast off of arms, away from those limbs, all that, but in truth? The minute the two ‘grappled’ in a sense, this had been one of the bigger intents from the start. Mind you, face to face was face to face, thus the few attempted attacks but this? The big one, really! It was an added bonus in the possible fact it Got Ultron away from those armor piercing exploding energy dirk things…for the most part.

Perfection was NOT expected on any part of the ideas in motion, BUT, say the last part in particular occurred (with Maquinas blasted off arms in tow in Ultrons Grip) the Synthetic positioning would be something of a good amount of feet inbetween the two…with damage. A quick internal assessment had shown he DID, would manage to get out of Most range from the explosive dirks…but not all of it. For the sake of positioning and upper arms mostly aiming for the head (and letting go of the daggers) the bottom arms would get their dirks Almost completely into certain leg aspects but with Ultrons action previously, mainly the back peddle of the jet propulsion in tandem with the arm blast/rip off attempt, the explosions would go off something along the mid leg and lower portion of his side. This was displayed physically for the leg, right we’ll say, by the dent and curve it had into it, along with some of the sparking and slight sputter some of the rocket ‘boots’ holes had. On the side, a big old dent was there to, concaving and making the otherwise smooth brutish form of the Synthetic a little less even leveled…but it was outer damage mostly, despite the sparks. A lack of ‘pain’ feeling receptors ensured physical hindrance would impede Ultron during this…but would it, COULD it for Maquina?