The back pedal would have been almost without force as it was enacted; El Rey had already begun to shove Xavier by the time the back pedal began and Xavier simply managed to keep his feet from being dragged along. With his upper body moving ahead of his legs they would never have been able to strain against the awesome power that was El Rey. Xavier had known already that the tactic was sure to succeed and had instead set about enacting the other counters as his body was shoved at the fully intended speed. Xavier had made no effort to slow El Rey and so the pair would not have been slowed at all during El Rey's shove and thus he would be left unable to cross his and Xaviers arms before Xaviers was slammed into the turnbuckle. 

This of course did nothing to stop El Rey in his attempts to elbow Xavier in his head nor were his movements​ slowed; putting Xavier Midway through his thrust attack as he felt El Reys hands moving through the air. The spikes tore forwards as Xavier's eyes shifted from the spike tips to the metallic gloves upon El Reys hands which were clearly intended to take the hit and again he knew he could do nothing to stop their advance; but he wouldn't need to.

The instant the impact occurred the spikes finished under going a structural change which took away the hard physical exterior that would have caused a blunt force reaction. Replacing it with a loosened structure of liquid metal which possessed a consistency similar to molasses, allowing the spikes to collapse under the force of meeting the metallic gloves on El Reys hands. The gloves fell in quick succession and added to the wave of metal which Xavier willed to stretch and engulf El Reys hands as Xavier pushed it forward.

 Just as quick as the metal had lost its solidity it regained it would regain it around El Reys hands in an effort to encase them in solid Dread Metal for even a moment to throw him for a quick loop. Quick as an action as this was if it we're allowed to sink home El Rey would have to exact immense force to free himself. Meanwhile Xaviers hands were left to palm this metallic mound in a thin liquid layer and free to detach from it at a moment's notice in a blur.

Xavier had to take action as though this mound was going to work and shifted his weight effortlessly to his left foot and began to extend it forward so as to lose the bare minimum of the forward momentum he had established ready. Meanwhile he bent his elbows and rotated his wrists so as to roll his hands with ease from the metal mound while making fists; positioning them back in line with El Reys chest. As Xavier's hands tightened into fists they squished out a thin layer of metal that Xavier had managed to maintain from the mound which quickly created metal spikes upon his knuckles. The spikes we're significantly smaller than his others but their premise would be the same in pinpointing his power.

 With a heave Xavier extended his elbows the instant his hands were clear and aligned so as to fire them at El Rey's abdomen once again. Propelled by his extending left leg so as to capitilze on his follow through so as to shove him back at the very least if this attack we're to hit home. Stopping him from having the time to fire out his ether based attack.