Cheek grazing hadn't been the intent, but robot guy can suck it up considering the attack ends up making the monster let go. Complaining can come once they're somewhere where things don't want to make snacks out of people. This means dealing with the thrashing monster first. It lost lunch AND got attacked so it probably won't let them walk out of this without a fight.

Fighting will prove way easier as a 2-on-1 but can Cyborg fight and is he up for it? Riku scans the guy over quickly to make sure there isn't anything serious in the way of injury. What prevents him from figuring that out, however, is the swamp monster impression going on right now. Nice cannon, though, and it pretty much answers the question of the guy can fight. "You in one piece?"