"As if your shitty gun could hit anything. Even from right fucking there." See, the problem with those portals was it was the same damn thing over and over. So when he stuck his hand through one, Cid was already powering up that nifty little Materia on his Spear - and in true (not-cartoonish) Badass fashion, Xigbar's hole-filled gun got a nice coating of Ice.
Why, yes. Cid Highwind was, inside, the most unconventional fighter on the block. It came from going from being a bar-brawling rocket scientist to a froo-froo adventurer riding chocobos.
And if Xigbar did drop him... well. He'd figure that out when he got there (literally).