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Around him the large room was almost the size of 3 basketball courts in length and 2 in width. Roughly rectangular in shape the ceiling rose overhead to almost 10 stories in height that he could see. Small windows showed points of observation all around what seemed to be an arena like place. As he took this all in the XO still getting bucked around 50ft away was joined by one of another of the horned alien creatures off to his right by 30ft. It was currently passively watching its companion buck around the XO, before turning its attention to Kane. Its beady large insect like eyes seemed to each blink with multiple lids twice before it snorted pawing the ground. Whether it was going to charge him or something else was anyone’s guess.

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Taiya looked between Kane and the second creature, knowing they had a couple of seconds at best before it decided what to do. Wrapping one arm around the creature’s horn as tightly as she could, she reached out her free hand to Kane. “Up here!” She commanded, hoping that would be the safest place for him rather than being trampled under one of the massive beasts.

Commander Keali (XO)

“What’s happening?” William yelled down the slide, the sounds were oddly familiar yet too distant for him to discern.

CSO

Kane stared at the creature pawing and snorting in front of him, and cast a quick glance at the XO on the back of the other. Slowly shaking his head in the negative, Kane stood up to his full height and outstretched his arms, not taking his eyes off the riderless beast. Making himself as big as he could he picked a single eye and stared at it, his jaw clenched and his eyes unblinking, but not moving or flinching. He was simply trying to see if the thing would hesitate, as some animals do if presented with a target that doesn’t run. And if it did charge, he was prepared to roll out of the way away from it and the XO’s current amusement park ride.

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The 2nd horned animal snuffed and kept its eyes locked on Kane. Pawing the ground again it reared up on its hind legs before flopping back to all fours as if trying to intimidate him.

Meanwhile the XO lost her chance to get Kane on board as she was ridden across the large room to an area she noticed had several small pillars rising in various heights off the floor from 2-8ft in height and 1-3ft in width. The beast was currently heading for an arch of the beams that if she didn’t duck or hop off would probably do the job for her.

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As Taiya saw the beam in front of her she didn’t fancy her chances of being trampled underfoot so holding on as tight as she could, she flattened out on the creature’s back and braced herself for impact in case she didn’t quite clear the arch.

The feeling of missing the beam by a hair’s breadth was felt but soon she was clear through it. Her ride though was not as lucky, as the head of the beast swung to the left it barreled into one of the beams, the beast swayed and grunted in pain banging its head on the right side then on another beam. Groaning it flopped forward on its front legs seemingly knocked out.

She hoped Kane was ok but she couldn’t see him anymore. “Try and get up high!” She hollered back to him, not even sure if he could hear her.

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Kane heard but didn’t respond. Instead he kept his body as large as he could and when the creature snorted and reared up, Kane (rather than being intimidated) simply leaned forward slightly and grunted himself; not in a way that (he hoped) the beast would take as a challenge. But simply in way that would hopefully make it think that he was more problem than easy target.

Kane, Tac / Med

The 2nd beast meanwhile seemed to stare at Kane for a long moment then finally seemed to back down, turning it shuffled off to the far right corner where now in the moment he could see patches of straw/grass was drawing the beasts attention as it munched on it. =/\= Test 2b and 2c completed, storing results. Awaiting next testing parameters. =/\= The computer voice spoke aloud both in the large room and up the slide.

Hearing the commotion down below Chris was worried. “What’s going on down there?” He yelled as he crawled to the slide. The floor was very cold. “Do you need me to send reinforcements?” He yelled again once he got to the slide. He doesn’t know how much longer he can stay on the floor because of the cold.

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