Maximus nodded at Glacier's comment on how earth had it's own unique charm, he had to agree with her, when Glacier mentioned the fight with Devastator he looked to her to listen, when she finished he walked up to her right, still standing a meter away while looking to the horizon, he knew she was hiding something from him, but he didn't need to know
"as much as intelligence helps to win a fight, power is needed to back it up... every machine has it's weak points..." Maximus said before he slightly looked to Glacier
"including myself..." he then looked back to the horizon
"logic told me to find Devastators weak point... so I took a risk to find it... and it turns out that I made the right decision... I had the intelligence... and I had the power... but I also had my weak point..." Maximus said as he looked down slightly, gently tightening his hands into fists
"it was one of the reasons I didn't continue to fight... one of the reasons why I left..." Maximus clenched his fists tighter as he looked away from Glacier
"my body... it couldn't contain the power I had... it still can't... both versions of my overdrive put immense strain on my body to overclock my systems to give me a power boost, but if I try to maintain it... my body begins to sustain damage, turning my power into a double edged sword... thus my usefulness in the battle against Devastator ran out... so logic drove me to save Wolf... he had the highest possibility to defeating Devastator... so he had to survive" Maximus droned as he loosened his grip as he looked back to the horizon
"I was going to return to the fight... but... Alice convinced me to stay... in the possibility that you all perished... I was to guard Wolf until he was healed enough to fight... but... it never came to that..." Maximus said as he slowly looked to Glacier
"against all odds, all of you managed to defeat Devastator and live, which is nothing short of impressive" he said as he slowly sat down a meter from Glacier's right, his legs were crossed, his elbows rested on his knees as his hands hung loosely crossed over each other just barely touching the grass as he looked to the horizon
"the earth and all it's people owes all of you their thanks... even if they don't know it..." he droned softly to her as he watched a cloud go behind the large rock formation that was hiding the sun