They were on their way back to their little group, making good headway despite the acrobatics the plane was performing, when the hatch guard brought her rifle up. Alec pushed the woman -<em>Must actually get a name at some point...</em>- against the nearest wall by the shoulder without thinking.<br/><br/>"<em>GET DOWN!</em>"<br/><br/>That made him turn to see what she was looking at, now that it couldn't be them. And turned pale. Aeroplane skins do not do that in normal flight. They do not do that and remain intact.<br/><br/>The...<em>thing</em>burst through, and the smell of ozone got worse by an order of magnitude. At least it wasn't an electrical problem, but that seemed like a small mercy in the face of whatever this was. As soon as the thing began to glow, Alec decided he didn't need to see much else. They needed to get away. The light from whatever it was generating threw everything into harsh relief as he looked back up the hallway towards the others. He was acutely aware that he was the closest 'civilian' to it.<br/><br/>Then it killed the commando and began to advance on them.<em>Nope. Fuck that.</em><br/><br/>The noise was incredible, and he flinched, shrinking as low as possible to avoid the hatch guard's line of fire. He pushed the woman ahead of him; he'd drag her if he had to. "Move!" he bellowed, fighting to be heard over the cacophany. "Stay down!" he added, probably unnecessarily.<br/><br/>He got to the hatch, making sure to avoid the guard's aim as much to stay out of her way as to not be shot himself. More guns shooting at the whatever-it-was was<em>very</em>high on his priority list. Alec set about getting the door open - second on his list, right after seeing that thing dead, was getting away from it. It might not be the best plan, as there was a finite amount of running away to be done on an airborne plane, but it was ingrained to every fibre in his being after a long career in the military that any plan is better than no plan.<br/><br/>Right now, his plan was 'get everyone he could, away from the Tentacle Blob of Fuck-No'.