“Oh ha ha, just get me free!” Scorch had been more irritated at the slime then anything, embarrassed that she had been pinned there though it could have been worse.

Krissy teased her and stroked her in such an arousing way that her nipples tingle and she almost forgot about the others if Shelia had not snickered. “Oh, get a room. Venting atmosphere, other Xagi.” They were probably clear of other Xagi for now Scorch thinks but she is smeared in the blue slime now, hopefully it would serve as a protective shield. Finally she is detached from the wall.

Switching to a private channel she relays a message meant for Krisna only but sends it to Hope by mistake. “Just wait until later when I tie you up.”

Removing the blue slime gland doesn't seem to take Scorch much time as she slices into some of the tentacles. She places two in a pouch, gives to to Hope and one each to Krisna and Shelia.

“Hope and I are more likely to need them being up front,” she explains before they proceed to the damaged area and seal up the ship. They are in the clear of Xagi, there was only the six here at least. They eventually get to the station and dock though everything is a hazy gray indicating that it is out of phase and thus cannot affect them.

“How's this work?” Scorch asked, a question for Krissy though Shelia answers assuming it was for her.

“We can walk through objects and they'll pass through us without harm. No one hear will see or hear us though if something is trapped here with us we'll see it with full clarity and not a haziness.”

“What about the slime? That's assuming there are Xagi here too.”

“Good question. It probably can't anchor to the walls and such. I know that passing through objects will take us exerting force on them, else we'd just fall through the floor. Maybe the slime does stick to unreal objects but only people here are affected.”

“So what you're saying is that you don't know and we should avoid them.”

“Something like that.”

Shelia seemed to not think her and Destinys little game was funny hearing that snicker, as Krisna sensually rubbed her lover, hands skiming her suit covered upper body and hips and lower, seeing a miled reaction from her helpless lover as she teased her so.

God! she wanted her now! So frustrating! but she knew this was not the time or the place as she got up and helped her lover to her feet were afther she retriving her helmet she left on the floor not to far away befor sealing it back over her head completly missing the message ment for her ears only, but then agin she didnt recieve it in the first place.

Acceptng the tenticle Krisna would scan it catfully to diagnois its propertys befor backing it on her belt. The results all came back that same instant as Hope said, it was a very strong disolvant, oviously ment for the other slime Krisna concluded toobut agin Hope allready mentioned it.

Meanwhile the four made it to the station, as the docked and letting them board safly befor they all moved out afther fixing the damaged area on board the harmony and left for the station as they all stopped afther entering a hazey room, grayish in color as Krisna took in the odd sight befor she heard her lover. "Its..." Krisna managed to get out befor Shelia simply took over answering the question as the tavler simply listened and waited for her to finish. "Well I dnt know either but I think so long as its out of phase with us we should be ok." Krisna would agree.

“Is that so ...” Hope returned to Scorch's words. She had figured that they weren't meant for her ears though that did not stop her from blushing. Suffice it to say with the helmet on no one noticed.

The repairs were done and the explanations were given. She took up the offered slime glands and knew from experience that each could use just enough slime to counter the green stuff once. It was like squeezing the last of the tooth paste out of a tube.

Gero Station was familiar to her. Kris had picked up something here so odds were something fell through that gate. It was off to where the gate was, she lead the way. So far so good ...

“Er, umm … that was for Krissy.” Scorch colored beneath her helmet.

The glands that she gave them where blue circular bladders that had a little slime stored in them. It seemed that the creatures generated slime as they needed it but there was residue left inside the bladder that resulted from prior uses.

Shelia explained things and as they were lead through the station their were people, grayish people that were actually at the station but out of phase with them. It was strange at first. The station was under repairs it seemed, a recovery team had been here and there were several agents at that …

It had seemed after Hope had been here last that things had moved to restoring the bits of the station that had been damaged in the “attack” as the Xagi where ripped from their dimension. Fortunately last time there were only drones that got pulled through though stuck between dimensions now was a Collector, a smarter Xagi that could influence and control other Xagi so they weren't as mindless.

As the girls moved through the station they would soon come to an area coated in green slime, far too much to dissolve or walk through though covered in blue slime Krisna or Scorch might make it through … then again all the blue slime could be neutralized by the green slime as it canceled out … it may have worked that way, Scorch had only a small portion of slime on her and Krisna had an abundance of blue as did Shelia along her torso at least …

The slime was not gray either, it was vibrant and real. It was on phase with them … “Shit ...” The only explanation now was that there were Xagi that were here trapped between dimensions probably stuck when the bridge collapsed and they were in transit from one place to another.

“We'll have to go around it looks like,” though each route ended in slime as if the Xagi sealed themselves into the center of the ship. This was going to be tough, this showed an intelligence unlike last time …

“What now?”

Scorch though for a bit. “Without a doubt we have Xagi. They can hover so the slime isn't a hindrances to them. But since we don't fly we can exit the station and walk n the outside then enter at another point. Hopefully the slime is only at certain points and not along the entire passage though they might be smart enough to seal up any hatches too they might not realize that we could phase through walls if they're simple enough they might be stuck using the laws of physics that they know … I guess we can go a little ways on the outside then peak in, I don't know how it works with the green slime but either krissy or I should look since we'd be able to pull our heads back without getting stuck I hope ...”

It was weird as the four of them moved along inside the station, Krisna simply assumed they were all alone but seeing other people here was suprising and a bit strange. They were out of phase of chorse as Krisna could not help but approch one who worked only to wave her hand through the works body. "Whoa! Weird?" Krisnas as she played with the idea only to see her group leaving were she quickly ran to catch up.

The four movedalong befor coming to a dead end of a hallway, covered in nothing but slime as Krisna looked to her lovers for the next plan, listening to them discuss any ideas. Meanwhile Krisna simply examined the slime unholstering her omni tool to scan the hall way befor turning to scan her lover Destiny only to awnser her question. "Your right we will not have enough blue goo to make it back through the green goo. " Krisna would smile under her self befor pausing to think. "Uhmm mybe we can go around it like you said?"

Ami? Mia? The other two Sweepers had been here though communication with them had been impossible. The other two agents assisted her in clearing out the station before and it was clear that they had been here because they were part of the station's security as it was being reforged after taking the damage that they brought to it.

It was probably as a precaution. She probably would have been assigned here though she had been recently returning after some time. After a moment she had turned away from the discovery keeping an eye out for other agents and security though there were few agents as the danger must have been thought to be minimal.

“Can't we just cut the artificial gravity to the surface and float pushing along the ceiling until we are free of the slime and why does gravity work at all if we are out of phase?” Of course if they had t do a little walking outside the station then she would do that without complaint ...

Krisna determined quite quickly that the scientist could neither see or hear her. In fact he walked straight through her at one stage the sensation bringing a chill through her as it happens though she soon catches up to the others.

Using the OMNI Krisna analyzes the slime before her and determines that they do not have enough slime though Shelia sighs as if annoyed at Hope's question.

“Out of phase, remember? How would we shut off the gravity? Even if we could we would have to leave someone behind t turn it back on not that there isn't some areas on the ceiling and along the walls that had been smeared with slime

“Gravity reaches int this dimension from our own and the other dimension as well so even if we shut it off we would have to contend with that gravity though seeing that we don't notice any real differences it would appear that the gravity from the other dimension is lower. It looks as if we have a space walk on our hands girls ...” She shook her head eventually leading to a sealed maintenance hatch.

Scorch took pint climbing the ladder then pressing against the ceiling until she passed through it and waited until the other girls did the same.

“Magnetic boots on ...” Shelia reminded before passing through the ceiling as well. Magnetism seemed to work here, just as gravity seeped into the dimension too … how it all worked Shelia and Krisna may have been able to sprout out the science behind it, especially Shelia that had studied this sort of thing for the past six years in conjunction with the drive and inter dimensional space it cut through.

Half way along though something seemed to happen. Perhaps the young women all had been seen by a Xagi in the station that had been controlled to hang back, perhaps they were simply unlucky but numerous Xagi began appearing in a ring around them passing though the station below ...

They were out of phase with the station as well but the Xagi had been very real. They were more a sickly purple coloration than a dull gray like most everything else and while they had surprise the one thing that seemed to help mitigate that was that the Xagi were staggering themselves so none were in the immediate line of fire of another.

A further sign of some limited intelligence as they had been directed this way and that. Once they were in position though they wasted no time with opening up with blasts of green slime ….

It was dd, Krisna never been out of phase befor, it was a new experince and she had fun with it but the feeling of the working moving through her left chill in her as she recoiled back suprised.However Krisna did notice Hope and her body movments, since she could not make out her face right now, seeing how her lover looked to two agents that seemed in charge, being the only to not working. Who were they Krisna wondered but quickly dismissed it as she caught back up with every one els.

" HEY! Hope doest know! so dont be mean!" Krisna snapped at Shelia after Hope asked her question, only to lean in close and wrapp her arms around Hopes neck and hang o her loving and playfuly. "Its fine.. we cant do that becuse well Shelia said it."Krisna laughed and left Hope to stand back up right befor fallowing her lover to a ladder leading up as Krisna watched as Destiny took point and climbed up befor phaseing through the hatch. "Be carful!" Krisna said befor she phased through and once they had the go a head Krisna fallowed afther Hope giving her a playful poke on the rear as Hope climb above her to cheer her up.

The group made it out afther phasing throughtbthe hatch The feling was odd to say the lease, it was as if they were ghosts in a limbo like existance but with coming out came trouble. Numerous Xagi began to spill forth from the station in a ring around them as the suprise made Krisna jump as she found one of her lovers, who ever was closet at the time as she hide next to them befor nervously pulling out her Omni tool. "Theres to many!"

She was getting a bit irritated with the egg head scientist but she kept her calm. This was her job after all and she would do it without complaint. It did pick her up a bit before hand that her team was here but Shelia was such a downer at times.

Kris leaped to the rescue though. “I'm a soldier, not a scientist. I kill things for a living not research this and that. I don't go around creating these sorts of situations,” oh she was itching to say something a reminder that Shelia was still in phase with her and leave the threat at that but ceased seeing how it made cooperating a little easy.

When they got to the ladder she was poke in the rear and switched over to a private channel with Krisna. “Yeah, you, Scorch sent me a message she meant to send to you. Did you get it? That might be fun actually when this is all over and we get rid of buzz kill.”

They got to the outer portions of the station and it was her that Krisna clung too.

“It's alright. Whoever's directing them isn't too bright. That slime … they have nothing to anchor us too save for the ground beneath us so at best they can immobilize us but we have guns, just keep shooting.”

What she wouldn't do for a grenade right about now ...

“Shoot them! With what!”

“Right. No weapon. I guess you can just stand there and look pretty then. Why have they not attacked yet ...” Scorch had her plasma gun out. Normally she might have called for everyone to get back to back but with the slime they'd get stuck to one another. She nor Krisna would have to worry much about setting stuck though come to think of it at least for this encounter.

“We work in pairs. Krissy you and Hope. I'll team with super bitch here.”

“Yeah, I'm just supplying answers!”

“And I'm just calling it as I see it. We can't get stuck so maybe we can help you two out a bit. Well, if they're not going to start yet, let's get things started.” And with that she aimed and shot at the nearest Xagi.

Indeed the Xagi had delayed as they came into view. They were waiting until all of their number had come forth from within the station. The were smart enough to stagger themselves so they did not catch each other in a cross fire.

Hope would realize that this was different than last time, that there was some sort of guiding intelligence though it was not high.

CLICK. With no oxygen in space the plasma pistol did not discharge. The last of the Xagi came forth and the creatures opened up with a barrage of slime as they came forth. Three dozen of these creatures at least, perhaps more as none of them could stop to do a head count on the alien threat that closed in on them.

Krisna clung to whoever was closest to her at that momment, luckly that who was Hope as the Xagi hoard came spilling from the station around them. The four taking devesive posions but it was imposible to cover all points with the numbers they were up agiest.

She felt safe by Hope, but still she nervously gripped the handle of her omni tool and aimed it twords a collection of Xagi afther releasing Hopes hand so she could do the same befor glaring back twords her Destiny as her lover told them what to do as Krisna nodded. "O-ok!"

The momment Destiny gave the go ahead Krisna opened fire as a trio of light blue lazer beams shot forth from the future tech device. However her tool was much diffent then the pirates pistol, it didnt run on plasm tech as hers accually fired.

Meanwhile the Xagi could still shot, as they fired a barrage of their green slime twords the group of girls. It was nearly imposible to dodge, like a squirt gun as Krisna simply moved to cover infront of Hope as she shouted. "Watch out!" andtake some slime as it would instantly disolve on the blue slime Krisna was coated in, but how many more shots could she take befor she got stuck?.

Krsna was scared as her hand trembled

“Here!” Without a gun Scorch would be limited in options though she had that knife it seemed as if the former pirate was better using ranged combat. It was no plasma pistol but it would get the job done. She pitched her rifle to Scorch.

With no gravity here it moved in slow motion to provide an easy catch. She was much better with her katana anyway though a barrage of green slime was coming her way though Kris interposed herself with it.

“Thanks!” She waited where she was for the moment getting out the gland with the blue slime. Pressed for time she rubbed it over the soles of her magnetic boots seeing and lower legs seeing that there was nothing to get anchored too save for the others or the station itself and if her legs were freed she could avoid sticking to it and could move over patches of green slime.

Once that had been done she rushed forward cutting and slashing without much need for defense though she dodged out of instinct.

Damn! The pistol did not work! Though Hope pitched her a weapon that flowed through space relatively slow allowing for an easy catch. But as she caught it green slime clipped her shoulder forcing her upper body back though her feet had been secured. The blue slime on her shoulder dissolving the green though the area that was struck was now slime free. The two slimes canceled out though she had wondered how quickly but focusing on the problem before her she would have to wait for later as she opened up on the Xagi.

There was no finesse just a spraying of the air with shots that stopped once for a quick moment … for a moment since she got the rifle from Hope she had forgotten that this was one of her's and not a military issued on though she didn't use ADD rifles some might have such a setting, she didn't research weapons herself but she knew that this had a different setting.

A wide angle setting where everything in a cone 45 degrees in front of it had been targeted. Range was limited and it cycled through power quicker but she had assumed that being a soldier Hope grabbed a few extra clips. It was time to clear up the odds a bit ...