Off to the side of the scene of battle, Qara'Sion and his sister watched on. His eyes or eye didn't move to see what else was around him, only focusing on the riot in it's entirety. The only time it did move was to look at his sister, who's eyes appeared to dart from one spot to the next until eventually they stopped. She was definitely looking for something in the crowd of people instead of paying attention to any potential threat based on his own experience. Whatever that something was, she had found it.
"Do you think he'll do something stupid?" A feminine voice spoke to the two khajiit. Qara'Sion turned his head to face the direction of the speaker: Belle, who was carrying a slight wound on her arm. Shenzi didn't even turn to look at her. She kept her eyes focused on the mer who was currently dousing a guard in flames. "No, not unless he doesn't want the chance to find his son." She responded precisely. Qara'Sion followed his sister's gaze to spot the argonian she was referring to. The three of them were certainly a weird trio to say the least, since it appeared to him that they were traveling together of their own free will. Which brought up a question for him to ask. "Say... how did you two meet him anyway?" "We can have a story time later Sion, we need to get him from out of that crowd-"
Then, there was the clanking. The clanking that made the three go silent along with the rest of the square. A clanking the younger of the khajiits easily remembered. And he didn't like the sound one bit. Their heads turned to see unwelcomed reinforcements, and one specific thing made his heart halt. A giant, enemy, dwemer crab. Speechless. Completely, speechless. He couldn't recall seeing one of those even in Imperial City, but he damn sure knew he wouldn't want to incase he did.
Next, a fool of a man stepped alone to face it. A brave man, but a fool of one. Qara'Sion didn't even feel his jaw drop from the view of the now deceased fool. But what followed was a group of fools, including Shenzi and Belle's moving towards the machine albeit in a jittery movement. "Oh Gods, no he isn't..." Belle gasped, covering her mouth. The khajiit could feel and share the fear and concern she audibly showed. But was he really going to-
"Fat-one! Don't you dare keep going! Come to us NOW!" His sister roared to the argonian who immediately stopped the moment the words "Fat-one" flew in the air, only heard by him as it seemed everyone went deaf from fright. His head whipped around in the direction of the three as the argonian stood alone in between the marching party, and those who remained opposite. Just as he managed to back away, the marching party was blown to oblivion. Words could not, or ever describe what Qara'Sion saw as he clutched the dagger in his hand like a child in fright holding their mother's. Shenzi's friend luckily, managed to only be sent flying back into, or well on to, a small bunch of people like a cannonball. It was similar in remembrance to how Qara'Sion and a breton friend from the college were thrown, back during his first experience with the dwemer. The younger of the siblings kept his eyes on the machine, while the girls focused on their friend. The argonian stumbled as he stood back up, pulling something out from his side and immediately clutching his right arm. The two women sighed with relief. "For once... I'm really glad you call him that horrid nickname..." Belle slightly smiled. "Well... I thought if I called his actual name, he wouldn't have recognized my voice." The sister of the khajiits responded with a wink.
And there was the sound of metal hitting the pavement. Qara'Sion simply dropped the dagger, turned right around, and began to simply and only; walk away from the direction the dwemer crab was in. Shenzi quickly moved towards him and latched on to his hood; pulling it down and pulling him to her. "Sion, as much as I hate to admit being wrong, if we don't help stop that machine we will all be in trouble." Qara'Sion only blinked once before staring at her, as well as the machine in the distance. No audible response. "We're going to end up dead here or worse if we don't do something and I know there's a chance we could I think." Still no response, just another blink from his one eye. "Dammit Sion-" "You have a plan then? Because all I see is death." Someone quickly interrupted her. The argonian arrived at the group, bleeding from the side as well as from the top of his head. Shenzi sighed as she bit her lower lip. "Sion, please heal him. Please." His sister asked. The khajiit shook his head back to reality and placed his hands over the wound along with Belle. A soothing aura gently waved from their hands to the argonian. "Not much of a plan... aside from take out those dwemer staffs on it. I'm not too sure how to deal with the claws yet." "From ranged distance I assume? Because not many are too willing to go up to it now."
"And, thank you for calling to me. Fat-One sounds better than the one who called me coward." "Then they can be called a fool when they run up to that death bringer." Belle immediately responded as she and Qara'Sion stopped healing him, at least granting the mer reuse of his arm. The four remained in silence after her statement, turning to face the battle. "...Qara'Sion, is it possible you can make the machine fight for us instead?" Belle asked him. It took him a moment for the question to register in his head as fear currently was crowding in it. "...Maybe. But... personally, since I don't know anyway to directly control it, I could just end up making it stronger and still attack our side instead of the other. Not to mention if no one is even scratching the bloody thing, it'll more than likely resist it. I'm not a very powerful Illusionist..." He finally managed to speak again, bringing worry to Belle's facial expression.
"Sion, just try to hit it with something then. If Frenzy will still leave the chance for us to be attacked open, then try to make it stop attacking." Shenzi stated.
As the others fought directly in the battle, their group would indirectly fight. That was the plan set for them. Hands shaking, Qara'Sion held them in front of himself as they glowed a clear blue light. Flicking his hands, a dual ball of light flew through the air. Just before the dwemer crab was about to grab a man with its metal claws, it was enveloped in a blue aura and froze up. The man slowly struck the tip of the claw with a large hammer and jumped back before the automaton could resume to try to catch it's prey. That man definitely was one who was willing to die for the cause.
"How long did that last Shenzi?" Qara'Sion stoically asked in shock that his spell worked. "Maybe around three seconds. It looked as if it regained control of itself right before that man struck it. So yeah, in short, it needs to be weakened for your spell to last longer...Let's try to get one of the staves off it."
Qara'Sion held his hands in front of himself again, Shenzi stood to his left holding a throwing dagger, Belle to his right preparing a frost spell, and the argonian looming over the three with his hands aflame. "On my mark...three...two...one. Now Sion!" His sister yelled as he instinctively launched his spell. Once again the machine froze up in mid motion. Following the spell was the clang sound of a dagger hitting one of the staves, then an ice spear bashing the same staff with an ending of a fireball exploding on it, managing to force the staff to hinge off the side of the machine. After the three attacks, it was immediately affected by the pacify spell once more, just to make it reset its target from the group.
"...We got one? We got one!" Sion cheered with hope. "...My dagger did nothing at all..." "Which is why you should be more like me and be capable of both fighting and spells." The argonian laughed at the disappointed Shenzi. "The only thing you're capable of is clearing our plates for dinner." "Guys. Problem." Belle interrupted the two, pointing at a small group of guards moving in their direction. Qara'Sion's group was currently vulnerable as the argonian was still somewhat wounded and weaponless while Qara'Sion himself had little magicka once again to cast more spells. "...Shit."