"Oh, right. Because I'm going to just go ahead and ignore the fact that you're pointing a giant glowing drill bit at my heart." Even as he spoke, Arty himself began compounding energy into his left arm again and stalking to his right, moving to place Max between himself and the gunman in an effort to force him to split his attention. It was time to play a little monkey in the middle, except now it was a giant lizard instead of a primate, and instead of trying to keep something away from him they were trying to kill him. Still, there were [i]some[/i] similarities.