“More like my 'it’s complicated' brothe—holy shit dude what are you doing looking like that!! Go fix your face before you get us all arrested I’m fine!!!”

This is, of course, when she gets shot, which really undercuts the whole ‘fine’ thing.

"Can't!" he calls as he shoots some bullets out of the air and then jumps between the man and Morgan to stop the others with his metal arm.

(One of the bullets he shot out of the air just happened to ricochet into a flying bug far above, killing it instantly.

"Aw, man, we lost the eye.")

“Why not, it’s kinda important, man!!! The brainwashed brother will keep!!!”

"'Cause it takes forever and requires a certain state of mind and I don't think I can do it right now—"

Change of plans, the man will now start dealing with this pest that is in the way of his actual target.

The main difference being that he is now trying to actively hurt Zash so it's harder for him to not get hurt. Yike.

Fortunately, he has Morgan to assist him, even if she kind of wants to also kill him. The two of them can in fact take on a single combatant, however crazy and super powered. They’re handicapped, because he wants to kill them and they don't want to return the favor, but two versus one is enough to make up for it.

Just, uh, also there are these other human people around that might take issue with Zash the Stampede being out and about and fighting a guy on their ship.

"Look just go take the time to put your fucking face on I'll be fine!!"

Zash spends a couple seconds too long thinking about it and then half a score of guards show up, so that choice's been made for him.

    "Drop your weapons!" one of them calls, holding a megaphone, while the rest point machine guns at the trio.

The white-haired man looks at them.

"Oh no you don't," he says, switching the grip on his gun (because he'd been holding it like a blunt weapon rather than a ranged one) and then shooting at all the guards.

...at their guns. His bullets hit hard enough and accurately enough that all of their guns are variously incapacitated or dropped.

"Run away you idiots."

Shooting dude decides to use this moment to try to get an opportunity hit on Zash.

"Fucking hell you just couldn't listen could you!!" yells Morgan, who swoops in to block the gunshots from hitting him with her own gigantic gun. Is this good for the gun's long term life? Eh, not really, but she's done it before and it works pretty well. This thing is quite sturdy. And it gives her an opening to talk to shooting dude, who has a name, actually.

"Livio c'mon man overcome the brain cybernetics I really need to have all of my allies pointed in the same fucking direction right about now!!!"

Yeah he's not listening. Instead, he's decided that Zash is his target for now, because he can't test his main target if he keeps being interrupted.

...welp. Time to run.

"Damn it no stop that, Livio c'mon LOOK AT ME."

Since he's not paying attention to her, she can reach forward and force his head to turn to look at her and maybe see if he's still in there somewhere.

...he might be. There's a pause, a flicker of something that could be recognition in his eyes...

...then he headbutts her, kicks her with unreasonable force, and gives chase to Zash.

("That won't do," someone sighs. "He's interfering too much, Double Fang is letting himself get led astray. Punisher's going to take advantage of the opening to wriggle out of her test. Can we perhaps distract him?")

"Augh, fuck, ow," she says as she recovers, but as soon as she does she dashes after Livio herself. That seemed like it was working.

("Distract him... I think I have an idea.")

"Get away!" Zash calls to the guards as they shoot at him while he flees. "Run! You can't hurt him!"

Livio the Double Fang appears from behind a corner and now the guards start shooting him.

He doesn't dodge. Barely even registers it. The bullets hit him and go straight through his body or get lodged in it—but not for long. He slowly turns to face the increasingly terrified guards as his wounds heal and the bullets that didn't go through his body start clinking to the floor one by one.

"M-monster," says one of the guards.

Livio aims.

"NO!" says Morgan, and this time it's her turn for some fancy gun shooting. Of his guns, with her gun. This will probably leave her open to being shot by someone, but whatever, she's been shot before. "C'mon buddy stop running it's me!"

Livio points one gun at her.

Then looks over his shoulder and points the other at Zash, who had been trying to sneak up to him.

Then he shoots at both simultaneously.

Damnit damnit damnit okay well he can at minimum shoot the guns off the guards' hands so they run away do they have zero sense of self-preservation yes yes he knows it's hypocritical of him but he is immortal. Pfah.

(Also he is feeling a certain way about Morgan stopping Livio from killing those guards so vehemently.)