See, this sort of thinking is why he likes her. He might like her a little less than he did if he wasn't confident in his ability to handle this attack, though!

With a grunt, Zetta used the hand that was blocking the laser for leverage to haul himself upwards. (Zetta, clearly, didn't care about the 'plausible' part of what he was doing.) He vaulted lightly on top of the laser, which promptly reasserted its normal course -- and shot off in that direction at the speed of light, taking Zetta with it.

So, for a moment, just a battlefield with a bunch of balls and a column of light.

Then a glint in the black sky resolved into a sphere, which gained clarity and definition and as it approached. That was... unquestionably a meteor. Which Zetta was riding, as it roared downwards towards Lash.