"It'd be helpful for you to be awake, but are you sure you'd be okay with that? You don't have any feeling in your stomach that would make that, uh... unpleasant?" Bruce considered himself to have a high pain tolerance, but even he would be quite uncomfortable if someone rummaged in his stomach while he was awake. Then again, his stomach wasn't made of metal and tubing.

Out of consideration, he didn't immediately touch all the machinery. He just looked it over in the better light before very gently pushing things this way and that, not actually doing any work just yet. He was just getting a good look at the damage and making a mental list of what he had to do and the materials he'd need to do it.