The robot, standing up, is nearly as tall as the rock the city is named for. From where it is, its hand can easily reach the highest reachable area of the city.

Which is where the Zash-doppelganger is aiming to go to, to get his ride away.

And that's where he's stopped by the Jeneorans. "Get out of my way, humans," he says, for what feels like the tenth time today. What is it with humans and getting in his way.

Zash reaches him from the other side. "Nai! Don't hurt them, please!"

You know what, the giant robot looks like a job for the grenade launcher, actually.

The man shoots a chain of blades, lightning fast, intercepting the launched grenade and redirecting it... causing it to hit the big rock instead.

Also, the woman who just used that grenade launcher now has many knives going through her chest one after another.

"Stop, Nai, please—"

He shoots.

The man's blades block Zash's shots easily. "You're weak, Zash. They've made you weak."

Predictably, a human dies when they have many knives going through their chest.

The other humans take steps to attempt to avenge her.

When Zash is being shot at, he dodges.

When his doppelganger is being shot at, he doesn't, because he can just intercept every single bullet as if it's nothing with his many flying knives.

He keeps climbing the steps and any humans that insist on being in the way while he does will not be doing that for very much longer.

"Run, there's nothing you can do, you can't fight him, run!"

Zash himself will run after Nai, though, and keep trying to shoot him for all the good that does.

Some do, in fact, get out of the way. They have children to think about.

Others, not so much. They will go down fighting.

And at least one other is clipped by some stray redirected shrapnel of once-rounds.

They won't go down fighting. They will just go down. This isn't a fight, it's a massacre.

The large rock, its stability destroyed by the redirected grenade launcher, reaches a tipping point when the giant robot stands back up after Zash's doppelganger steps onto its hand, and it starts to collapse down onto and around the city. Almost in slow motion, it tips over, pieces of it crumbling off and ponderously crushing everything (and everyone) in their path. There's a reverse domino effect, the larger rock crushing buildings which then crumble into rubble that spreads the destruction further...

When the dust settles, there is not a Jeneora Rock there, anymore. Not the boulder, not the town, not the people.

(He tried to protect them, he tried so hard to protect them—)

She's not sure that it's a mercy, that the factory that housed the plants is the most stable and defensible spot in the city. It could be that she's been buried alive in here. At least the tremors have stopped. She... attempts to find where the doors of the place once were. It's mostly rubble, now, but the walls themselves were sturdy enough to stay up.

"HELLO?!" she yells, wondering if this is how she's going to die.

This might be how she's going to die. No one comes.

Okay, well.

Then she will make sure her paper packages of data on plant red state recovery are neatly organized and easy to find, for whomever inevitably picks through this place. That's about all she can do.

She might try yelling again, in a bit, but it's a good idea to conserve her energy.

She can hear the sounds of someone trying to dig the rubble out from the entrance before she decides to try yelling again.

"Is someone there? I'm over here!!"

"Oh thank god," calls Zash, and the noises of digging the rubble out become more enthusiastic.

"Zash? Is that you?? I'm okay!!" Aside from being a bit entombed alive but that's fixable really.

"It's me!"

Amongst Zash's many superhuman capabilities is his superhuman strength, so it doesn't take him too long to clear enough rubble out that he can look through a hole to see her, and then not too much longer after that for the hole to be wide enough she can crawl through.

(His non-robot arm turns out to be stronger than the robot arm, it seems.)

She obligingly wriggles through the hole and out into fresh air. Then, shortly after, into Zash's arms.

"Hi," she says in a small voice.