Alexandra stepped out only to see Mica standing out in the hall. Was there another attack? Where were the agents that were supposed to be with her? Approaching the girl, she noticed three more agents moaning weakly in the open room. The monster had subdued and raped more victims. She could only guess that happened to the other two agents as well. But, why was Mica the only one being spared from all this? The intruder could be playing some sort of sick game but Alexandra could not help but be wary of this girl. Being near her led to being ravaged. Should she get help from the bridge? There was safety in numbers afterall.

"Mica?" she called, "Just follow me. I will get help. We can head to the bridge together." The thing was attacking isolated groups. The bridge had plenty of agents that could fight. The Russian woman turned to head back towards the bridge, looking back to ensure Mica followed. She needed to return to the bridge to report the three fallen agents and discuss a course of action with the captain. This creature had to be stopped and soon before everyone was fucked into oblivion.

"..." Mica stared at Alexandra with an emotionless stare, one devoid of feeling whatsoever, as she was told to follow to the bridge, the hand still lifted. It took a second or so before she responded. "... If you say so. Does that place have some extra method to counter rapist monsters?" She asked, playing the part of the personality file she had loaded. Mica let her arm fall and walked on behind Alexandra towards the bridge.

This was one of the countless possibilities which Andramica had calculated was possible from this confrontation. She still could never be 100% sure, her system wasn't so good to perfectly predict, but quite a few possibilities when this way. And as such, she was now being escorted to the bridge. Mica crossed her arms as if pretending to be freezing as she moved and turned her head to stare down into the darkness outside the ship, seemingly thinking about something.

"It's safer than just standing out here alone," Alexandra answered. She looked back to see that Mica was following her. The girl was acting weird again. Not really the sort of look and appearance of someone who just witnessed multiple counts of rape at the hands of an unknown monster. The ADD agent let Mica catch up so they could walk together back to the bridge. The Russian woman would have to explain all this to the captain and hope they could come up with some sort of solution. With several agents out of commission, a new plan needed to be implemented. The last thing they needed was this monster to gain control over an ADD vessel. There were numerous options for preventing that. Hopefully, the more drastic methods would not be required.

The two reached the door. Alexandra would reach for the keypad to open it. With the captain and many agents working the bridge, this would give the most amount of bodies to fight back should the monster grow bolder in its methods. Assuming she was able to get onto the bridge, she would report in to the captain.

Mica would follow obediently, her expression turning a bit detached as they continued on their way towards the bridge. Nothing in particular would happen as the door opened and the black-haired android would follow the agent into the bridge, her eyes looking around faking curiosity as she looked over what all the agents were doing, listening to the conversations and examining with what kind of expressions they would look at her with. Other than that, Mica would simply stand straight and quiet like none of this mattered, waiting for the next development. She did intend to analyze their counter-measures.

No one knew what was going through Mica's head. Mica still followed the agent obediently. "Captain!" Alexandra called out, "That thing got a hold of the agents protecting Mica as well as one of our patrols... It is picking us off one by one and by pairs. I did not know where else to take her so I brought her back with me." She looks over at Mica. "Here," she gently guided the young woman to an empty chair, "Just sit here for now, Mica. We will protect you here."

Alexandra would then approach the Captain once more. "With no way to detect this creature, I suggest splitting the remaining crew to here and engineering. This will ensure that it will not take the bridge or shut down primary systems without a fight. What are your orders, Captain?" It truly felt like a horror movie where they were being picked off one by one. It was only a matter of time before it struck and raped again. Where and who would it attack next?

The captain, a strong and adult woman named Theresa Starling, turned around and looked at Alexandra and Mica. She had a frown on her expression and her arms were crossed, her long black hair swirling majestically as she turned around, her aura clearly voicing her dislike for this situation. She'd stay thinking as Mica sat down, looking at her and considering the earlier reports that was given. Her eyes narrowed just the slightest as Mica's expressionless face turned to look at her in turn, the young-looking form noticing that she was being watched.

"Mica." It was quite the determined voice which Theresa spoke with, and Mica looked back obediently. "You saw parts of the creature. Describe it to us, and tell us how it appeared." Numerous gazes would turn towards Mica, who would blink slightly in return, before her expression turned noticeably uncomfortable and looked down into the floor.

"... It was big and dark, I don't think it would fit through one of our doors, maybe if it squeezed itself. Not humanoid, more like... a pile of mass. There were a bunch of red eyes in the front of it, and many, many tentacles..." Mica looked around at the inhabitants of this room, who looked kind of distressed themselves. "... Way more than nine..." Mica said, after having counted the number of agents in here. "... It disarmed the agents first, then captured them and silenced them..." Mica closed her eyes. She continued to look uncomfortable. "... I never noticed it appearing. If I had to say, it was from... from somewhere behind me. Except... yeah... there wasn't really any place for a being to hide in the things inside the room. I suppose it just appeared out of nowhere at some place nobody was looking...?" Mica finished her report, closing her hands into fists with considerable force. ... Considerable human force, that is.

Theresa sighed, and looked at Alexandra. "We can't go back as long as we this thing onboard. Fortunately, we only have a single retrieved student that is endangered, as such our situation isn't too unlike what we're usually dealing with. For all we know, the monster might already have claimed the other girls that were supposed to have been on the ship." She looked around a bit, frowning. "If it is a specter, we can't do a thing about it. Keep all possible weapons ready. Keep an eye on girl. Having us stick together is as good plan as any. Don't move carelessly, and nobody dare need to go to any kind of bathroom in a damn long while. If anyone has any suggestions on how to beat this thing, we're all eager to hear them." She looked pretty annoyed as she put her hands on her hips and looked out the window of the shuttle. Mica remained seated, obediently with her hands in her lap, looking around the bridge with her red eyes.

"Without further information, any plan has a significant risk of failing," Alexandra replied, "But, we cannot just sit here forever either. If the creature is as big as Mica says it is, the escape pods are the only safe means of transport. There is not enough room in there for a creature like that to materialize. But, that also means abandoning the ship. The creature is already attacking us so any attempts to threaten us are useless. We should contact the other ships and inform them of our situation. They may not be able to help us but they should know the danger. Quarantine at home station may not work as the creature can supposedly phase through solid objects. Containment is simply not within our means."

"Sitting here will do little. Eventually a side will have to act," the Russian agent concluded, "We can try sending out a pod with just an agent and Mica. Our mission was to rescue her. Is there an escape pod near the bridge we can use?" That was about all the options Alexandra could come up with in such a short and stressful time. They simply had no information to go off of. All the agents that have been attacked are in no condition to speak of their experience. They do not know the invader's strengths or weaknesses. They were completely in the dark on the matter.

In the end, it would be the Captain's responsibility to review these potential options and choose what is best for the ship and the crew as well as for Mica.

Scenario proceeding as expected with 93.7% accuracy. Adjusting expectations. Processing new circumstances. Audible sentence recognized. Plan to depart Mica from craft with a single additional agent. Viable chance for escape acknowledged. Stand by. ... Negative. Information on ADD behavior when pressed still remains to be gathered. Andramica still possess 4870 possible addition escape alternatives should the situation require. The enactment of the escape pod plan is detrimental to Andramica's mission. Failure of the escape pod plan may result in further desperate reactions from the ADD. Mounting countermeasure.

"... Louise, connect to command and tell them about our situation. And tell engineering to stay together, too." Theresa told one of the agents at the controls, who nodded grimly and spun immediately to a computer-like device and started pressing a few buttons to connect. She then looked at Alexandra with some serious looking eyes. "... We know all agents that have been targeted have been around Mica at the time of the attack. It seems to like her, somehow. Therefore, if it has the ability to follow on the trip, the agent that goes along with her on the escape pod would take a serious risk."

Mica looked away, maybe supposed to emulate some form of guilt, as she was being this great center for this conflict. ... Andramica sent a small undetectable signal to the ship, just as Theresa started speaking again. "Yes, there is a nearby escape pod. It is located at-"

"Captain! The escape pods just ejected! ... All of them!" One of those working at the controls stated, making Theresa spin around with an angry expression.

"What!? That's impossible! That requires the personal code of either me or a total of five regular agents giving their codes at the same time..." She stated just to inform the reader of the circumstances here. The agent at the controls looked back with a bit of a worried look.

"... It had five codes." ... On the screen, there were the names of the agents that supposedly used their codes. They were all victims that had already been raped by the monster. "They were used from the panel in the living quarters." Theresa stumbled back a little, looking a bit stunned for a moment, her eyes glaring almost painfully at the screen.

"... What, are you saying it can read our minds, too? ..." She spun around and glared at the door as well as at Mica, who had opened her mouth a little bit in what might possibly look at apparent surprise. Theresa gritted her teeth a bit. If it was at that panel, then they knew it had been there at that moment, but... If so, then it was probably already gone and any attempt to corner it there would be useless.

"... Shut down all panels outside the bridge and engineering. Damn it."

... Actually, it had been easy for Andramica to find the codes inside the database with her programming. Then it was simply to activate a specific panel which had received signals as if she had been at it and typing. All just a little diversion. Now the next course of action would be to somehow split them up. Which is something the ultra-intelligent Andramica AI is much better at doing than her player, so the next post might take a little while unless Alexandra does something to react to.

The ship went on high alert, triggered by the escape pods suddenly being ejected from all ports. The captain was shocked as was every agent on the bridge. It was impossible for the monster to get access to those codes or so they thought. Somehow the monster was able to launch the pods from a living quarters. Could this monster also be able to hack into the ship's systems.

Shutting down everything except in engineering and the bridge was the best option. It meant the monster had nothing to work with as it wanders the halls. But, such a drastic action. Why did it eject the pods? Did it know of their plan already? "It does not make any sense," Alexandra said finally, "Even if it knew about the pods, it would have benefited most from taking a pod and using that to get to the other ships. It also wanted to keep us from contacting the other vessels and yet was fine with doing this very obviously display. The other ships now know there is something going on this ship. The fact the pods are empty will inform them that whatever is happening is still happening on this ship. So why does it want to isolate itself on this ship? There is nothing stopping us from crippling the ship and dooming it to remain here along with us."

If the creature was trying to do things outside engineering and the bridge, there was one other option that could get rid of this vile monster. But, it required taking a risk and a bit of setup. "Captain," Alexandra called out, "There is one option we have that may work but I need to go out there and collect the crew that have been attacked first. I am the best equipped to deal with surprise attacks and the monsters seems to prefer attacking only when Mica is nearby. I will collect the crew and bring them back here. Then we can flush the creature out of the ship."

Agent Losev stood ready as she slipped off her lab coat and took off her glasses. Her skintight suit giving her enhanced fighting capabilities and had a few countermeasures to deal with grappling tentacles. If allowed to go, she would take blaster just in case and immediately run for the room where the closest four agents were subdued. It was going to take several trips but she was not going to risk anyone else on this task. The others needed to stick together and stay with Mica and the key parts of the ship.

"I can see two possibilities..." Theresa said, bringing a thumb up to her mouth to bite it as she frowned and looked out of a certain window where one of the escape pods was leaving in a high speed. "Either it can already travel through empty space the same way it travels through everything else, or it has some other means of transportation, such as a personal vessel waiting nearby or maybe it just intends to take this one and didn't consider that we might destroy the engine or something..." While the captain said her suggestions, Mica kept her eyes focused on the two of them trying to figure out the means of the monster. That was when Alexandra came with another suggestion.

Theresa would look at her for a bit, as if gauging how prepared the red-haired agent was to take on such a potentially dangerous mission. "... Very well. Good luck, and keep your wits about." Theresa crossed her arms for a bit, and walked over to another console to watch something that could potentially give her more information to solve this with.

"... Flush the creature out? What does that plan involve?" Mica asked, looking curiously at Alexandra. The android inside her had already located the relevant possible information of reference, but she was playing a student new to this. As such, she made herself ask what the plan was about. It was partly also to check how much faith there was in her, and a bit more like that. Andramica was somewhat interested in the crew's reaction after the plan had been completed, and as such she let this occur and sat there obediently watching, inspecting.

"No need to worry about it," Alexandra answered, "I will be back soon." There was no reason for Mica to know what is going on. The idea was a simple procedure. You get everyone to a select few sections of the ship. Then decompress all other rooms. This would blow out any and all creatures out into the empty void of space along with anything that is not nailed down.

It took time but oddly enough, nothing came to attack her or even attempt to stop her. She had scans of the ship showing where all personnel were. If they were conscious, she would have them head to the bridge or engineering. If not, she would carry the agent to the closest area and drop them off. With so many agents down, it took several trips. Thankfully, the suit kept her body going though even with that help, she was rather tired after she came back with the final person.

"The ship is clear," Alexandra stated, taking slow breaths, "There was no sign of the creature at all. I do not know what it is doing right now." Everything was ready. They just had to have the captain give the command and go through decompression procedures. Hopefully this would be enough to get rid of the monster for good this time. At the very least, the attempted decompression would at least give hints to the other ships of what was going on with the oddly acting ADD vessel.