Sachiko, ignoring the beam that lights up the sky, notes the unconscious female laying close by, and just as another decent wave splashes over her thighs and hips.  She immediately becomes aware that the woman laying face down in the sand might well drown if she doesn't do something, anything to help.  So she peels herself out of the depression the surf has carved around her, sloshes wetly up to the unconscious young woman, and bends over to scoop her up into her arm.  Making quite a scene as she tries to heft the woman up onto her shoulders, and having quite a time at it as she has never been the strongest member of the Galactic investigations branch.  But finally she gets the woman up onto her shoulders and is hefting them both up the beach... when an air-shattering series of sonic booms (about equal to a 175mm piece) startles Sachiko.  She issues a cry of surprise, loses her footing in the sand, and starts hopping backwards on one foot with a series of yelps.  Only ending when she spins and tumbles backwards, losing her charge in the process, both flopping into the dunes up toward the forested hills.