Not only had not expected the guy to eat metal, he was also really unprepared for him to breathe metal. He barely managed to get his arms up in front of his face before the blast hit him, knocking him back and into one of the cubicle walls. His internal readouts were going crazy, his arms were taking a lot more damage that was really safe.

The sound of screeching metal on metal was horrendous, and the metal shards were gouging away at his outer plating. He got lower on to the floor as quickly as he could with being blown away again, and managed to sort of tumble into the cubicle he'd hit, the flimsy walls taking at least the brunt of the damage. The tide had definitely turned here.