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With that cleared up Grafdakka doesn't nessiarily need to keep her pinned so much as prevent her from stopping Endian from escaping, which I hope would be easy since there's a giant mech between where Anata is and where Endian is going (Grafdakka had been digging straight down so his drill/arms are pointing dowards, and Endian is going straight up).

As for the other arms Grafdakka can simply stop his big drill configuration and just revert back to six chainsaw form, and then slice or otherwise tear his arm off. He's a giant mech, he doesn't mind. 
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Well feel free to stop trying to drill, though that means he has to stop his thrusters to avoid splattering himself into the rock or toast Endian in her escape. Also you just mentioned how cramped the tunnel was so we'll have to see how effectively he can use six arms to slash at his own drill arm, let alone Ananta.

Let's see how well that goes for Endian when she leaves her armored carapace into a dark tunnel with a serpent ready to strike.

Also wasn't he drilling at any angle, not straight down?

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As for Endian she's far more agile than Grafdakka even with full thrusters, so being fast enough shouldn't be a problem. She can also use her hard light creation to create her own drill to dig out, and while it's not the same reality warping calamity weapon as Grafdakka, it's more than enough to dig her out of the hole she's in. I don't expect for Endian to make back to the surface quickly, mind you, since she does have a few miles of dirt to tunnel through. What she needs Eos's defense booster for us to survive the explosion when Grafdakka self destructs, which will be about two seconds after Endian breaks through the dirt and start going upwards, otherwise the self destruct alone would've killed her even if she did somehow get a head start drilling.

I should also bring up that while Grafdakka's self destruction is powerful enough to incinerate him and anyone near him, it's not the same nuclear blast as the previous versions had since his nuclear reactor had been removed to accommodate piloting space.  
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Considering Graf had done all of this digging with a reality destroying drill scaled for a colossal Mecha, Endian would have to do the same course with hardlight constructs on a tunnel that resealed itself in Grafdakka's passing and has increased to disastrous temperatures on top of it. 

Sure, that's a hazard for the both of them, though considering how long  such an upwards ascent would take and Graf is left at the bottom to self destruct only after Endian surfaces...Weeeeeelll, you can see how this plan doesn't seem to hold a lot of water unless you wanted to be in a pitch darkness with a very cross snake.