...The person with the most experience on repairs seems to be the grouchy android, actually, alongside her Pod.

"Don't bother fucking around with limbs and crap on any destroyed units," she tells him. "That's what maintenance's for. Focus on salvaging the core and the primary memory circuits. And get anyone else ambulatory, and get weapons functional on the goliaths and bipeds. We need to move asap."

Sure, Martin will go along with this plan. If the machines seem alright with it, that is. 

They seem to be? On the other hand, they seem to be mostly just doing what Gunner no. 13 says to do. 

It could be that it's a genuinely good plan, that they're scared of her, or that they're so used to taking orders that they'll do whatever they're told. There's no real way to tell when he can't read their body language yet.

For lack of a better plan, he follows instructions. 

Ivy helps while asking lots of questions! What does this do, why are they saving this part and not that one, how did these parts get damaged like that, what does that do...

Kit wanders around poking things and getting in the way. A few times, Martin asks him to hold something steady or pull the other end of something. He helps without hesitation, for all that he rolls his eyes and complains about it every time. 

For Martin - seems to be a combination of things. A bit of the first, a bit of the second, a lot of 'She's strong, so she's in charge' which seems distinct from the second thing in some important ways. They definitely respect her already, far more than fear her, and the child machine she initially leapt to the defense of has a clear and rapidly developing case of hero worship. (This is not hard to miss. The machines are talking nearly constantly about how 'cool' and 'strong' and 'awesome' she is. There's a few whispered recountings of the fight in amid all the order following, with her awesomeness getting embellished by the minute, including a lot of machines telling varingly implausible stories about times they've seen her fight before. One says she fought the entire Forest Kingdom and killed everyone inside the boundaries (a second machine asks how it knows that if no one survived; the first gets flustered about that); another says she beat up everyone in the desert and declared herself King of all machines; a fourth says she beat up all the YoRHa androids too; a fifth says she totally killed Adam and Eve (a sixth protests that that was someone else; the fifth points out she has the right swords. This sets off a pretty large debate); a seventh says she killed five goliaths...)

For Ivy - "It's a core, it provides energy and shit and holds the personality, but we need the memory circuits to actually load someone up. These parts got damaged by being hit." (She can identify exact attacks that cause exact damage, but getting her to is like pulling teeth.) "That's a networking node, disable it." 

(For Kit - 'helps without hesitation but bitches about it' seems to describe her, too.)

Kit is maybe a little distracted from being an asshole by trying to eavesdrop on all the stories. 

Only a little, though. He can multitask. 

At least Kit's in the sort of mood where his multitasking includes occasionally being helpful. Martin will take his blessings where he can find them. 

Eventually, Martin looks around for the next machine in need of his help and doesn't find one.

"What now?" 

"Now we march." Then to the machines: "Form up! I want flyers screening - you three on scouting ahead, stay in relay. Two goliaths in front, one at each of the division points, bipeds on flanks, injured in the middle - "

And a couple more instructions - looks like her plan has her ranging around but defaulting to the rear. She's not including the Mechanisms in her marching order - they can do whatever, they're not under her command. 

She gives directions, too - they're heading to a closer but different group of machines, 'Pascal's Village.' Seems Gunner number 13 contacted him somehow without any noticeable external effects. They'll rendezvous with her people there. 

It's nice of her to acknowledge that the Mechanisms can do whatever they want. They'd have done that regardless, but the thought counts for something.

What Kit wants to do is walk amongst the machines and ask them for their life stories and any interesting rumours they've heard. He's not pushy about it, just generally friendly and enthusiastic. 

Ivy has a seemingly endless stream of questions about how machines work! She will ask them of anybody who's willing to provide answers, including Gunner no. 13 if she'll tolerate this. 

Martin walks quietly with the most injured machines, offering support to anyone who has trouble keeping pace. 

Gunner no. 13 will not, in fact, tolerate questions. She runs off to 'scout' when approached. 

Most of the machines don't really know much! About how machines work, but also about anything in general. Most of them are pretty young, created within the last year or two, but a few are older - especially the rustier and odder goliaths. All of them were created in a factory. None of them are connected to the machine lifeform network anymore, most because the androids forcibly disconnected them at capture. But a few disconnected before that - the child machine Gunner no. 13 was protecting is one of those, he and his mother were apparently one part of a group of peaceful disconnected machines - the very same one they're rendezvousing with. 

"Ah, so you're going to be our native guide! Is it a nice place? Nice people?" 

"Uncle Pascal is the nicest! Most people are pretty nice, Little Sister takes my stuff sometimes but Big Sister always makes her return them and then she apologizes because she didn't realize it was mine. It's a really big village in the forest! It's very cool there which is nice. It gets hot here sometimes..."

"Is too much heat bad for you? I know I have problems if it's too hot or too cold." 

The cold is worse and no, he is not going to think about that right now, thank you very much. 

"It makes it hard to think!"

"Yes, it's the same for me—and Ivy too." (Ivy nods in confirmation.) "We have cooling systems, but they can't always keep up. I've been alright here so far, though." 

"I'm a big fan of not having to worry about that, myself," Kit puts in. He turns around so he can walk backwards, facing the other participants in the conversation. 

"Why don't you need to worry about heat? Are you like YoRHa? Or the desert machines?"

"Well, if it gets too hot this arm"—he wiggles his right hand, which is visibly made of clockwork—"starts playing up even more than normal, but my brain is a hundred percent organic. Well, ninety-nine percent, anyway. Got a VR hookup in there, but that's it." 

"How'd you get an organic brain?"