Webmind was not used to making himself a trip hazard, but he rather suspected he weighed more than these four-foot-tall nightmares did, which was enough to work with for the moment.

One crab in particular, trying to grab for the much smaller droid as a consolation prize, got two robotic hands to the carapace and a firm "No.", before the haggard-looking victim from earlier finally caught up to them and seized the last of their belongings back themselves.

The person looked remarkably like an badger, if somewhat larger than those found on Earth. But the ferocity with which they dealt with the crab - now that the Nightmares no longer had the advantage of surprise - was all badger, or as much as Webmind was familiar with the species overall.

"We may need a place to detain these creatures," Webmind concluded, before the badger (who hadn't offered their name as of yet) could jump to the rest of the dazed and surprised Nightmares in turn.

"Assuming they do not simply disappear once they have been thwarted."

He did recall such a thing happening with monster crabs, on a certain voidtrecker mission - his first true mission as part of that team, in fact.