Xenoblade Chronicles Guide- Walkthrough Part 24: Fury and Loss

Dedicated as before to protecting Shulk, Fiora insults and taunts Metal Face as it turns towards her.  She stands tall- or rather, the Mobile Artillery does- as the focus of the massive machine bears down on her alone, threatening it as best she can.

Shulk manages to raise his head enough to look at Fiona- and gets a flash of the future again, though this one is longer and disjointed- a mass of metal slamming into a building is followed by Metal Face slamming the entire Mobile Artillery into a building and then dropping it.  Then the Mobile Artillery is on its side in the street- and under Metal Face’s claws, as the taller machine swings a taloned hand at the bulky mecha.

Shaking free of the vision of the future, Shulk tries to call out to Fiora to stop, but she clearly does not hear him, instead blasting away at Metal Face with the Mobile Artillery’s arm.  The Mechon responds with its own ranged attack, a crimson beam that blows off the Mobile Artillery’s cannon arm and sends it caroming off of the upper floor of someone’s house- just as Shulk saw.  Desperately, Shulk screams at Fiora again, but she still does not hear, releasing a salvo of missiles from her machine’s remaining arm.  These do little more than annoy Metal Face, who makes a vaguely threatening gesture at Fiora.

Already clearly outside her own sense of self-preservation, Fiora charges at the Mechon in desperation to do something to it, and Metal Face meets her and the Mobile Artillery head-on, grappling the less-colorful machine.  The two push against each other briefly before Metal Face raises its free arm- but this puts Fiora’s vehicle into position, and she fires the cannon mounted on the Mobile Artillery’s head into Metal Face’s metal face- at point-blank range.  Although this manages to scorch and mark the face of the invading Mechon, it doesn’t loosen the thing’s grip any, as demonstrated by the way it immediately turns and slams the Mobile Artillery into a nearby house, shaking and disorienting Fiora.

Helpless, Shulk is forced to watch as Metal Face rips the Mobile Artillery away from the building, tearing away the missile-laden arm and smashing it to the ground again before looming over Fiora, who is on the side of the Mobile Artillery away from Shulk.  To the background of his screams, the spike-fingered Mechon lashes out, digging a full set of talons into the heap of tarnished metal before it and then throwing it aside to land on the street.

As other, smaller Mechon descend on the downed Artillery, Metal Face raises its talons threateningly- talons covered in a fresh coat of crimson.

Screaming in impotent fury, Shulk finally manages to rise to his feet.