He activated his negation device as soon as he confirmed the helm visor suite couldn't penetrate the magical darkness, before flicking the ammo selector to the A.M. tab, and aimed at where the stairs had been a few seconds ago. He pulled the trigger, firing the shotgun version of the A.M. for the first time, and was promptly knocked back about five feet back on his ass, the recoil far more powerful than he had expected, which was seriously impressive considering how much armor he was in. He felt like a turtle as he slowly rolled back to his feet, noting that he had destroyed the negation device and completely drained the core of the scatter cannon. Since he wasn't being actively shot at, he began levering the burnt out core of the scatter cannon out, taking almost a minute before he managed to finally break it apart enough to fall out, and slotted another power core into the weapon. The negation device, sadly, he didn't have a replacement for, but he still had his tear gas.<br/><br/>(physique 0 to resist the recoil<br/>shoot 5 with explodinating goodness!)