(11:39pm) - The players gather.

Mei stared at the blond-haired woman closely, seeming a bit surprised. She blinked twice, before giving her name.

"...Just call me Mei."

Mei gasped. She glared at Hidemi for a moment.

"...Hmph."

She looked away, crossing her arms in annoyance at the woman.

"Fine by me. I had a pretty good look at the doors and they're shut fast. Considering how there doesn't seem to be another exit, unless you count windows opening into deep space, I'm betting the doors are our best hope. Hey, Blake did you have any luck with that contraption you were looking at?"

Blake turned toward the central control console.

"You're right about the fact that I've made no progress. It doesn't seem like I'd be able to alter it or open the doors with it either. Though there is something on the top that intrigues me."

He pointed to the strange object above the console.

"By the looks of it, an image can be projected from that. I'm not sure how to activate it, but it could be worth noting."

Blake then turned to face the group that most recently came in.

"I find it odd that our paths would converge here. You all said you didn't find any other doors similar to ours, so it must seem that we have to go through them."

"Y'know, I've been wondering..."

Nona looked back down the hall.

"I counted 9 locked doors, when we went down that hall earlier. But there are only 7 of us. Think there's a chance we're missing two people?"

"Makes sense I suppose, it can't hurt to talk about how we're going to get out of here while we do though."

He floated towards where he came in

"Why would they be late?"

A sudden horrid thought hit his stomach like he swallowed a lump of molten lead.

"Did you all... were you in rooms that were sucked into space?"

She was a rather petite girl who, like Nona, appeared to be in her early 20s. She had brown hair, and wore a purple dress, with a black shawl around her shoulders. The back of it floated in the space behind her awkwardly, as she made her way into the room.

Fox stared at the girl with relief, at least he'd been wrong about the whole sucked-into-space scenario.

His relief turned into curiosity when it appeared the blue haired girl...Nona knew who she was.

"Yeah... it can't."

She looked back at the others, to make sure they couldn't hear her, then leaned toward Akane and whispered.

"It has to be that game again."

Fox suddenly felt out of place.

Like there was some girls only club talking abut things he didn't understand.

But.... he was positive they were talking about the current situation, and why - he asked himself out of eight or nine people kidnapped only two knew each other.

"Um.. how exactly do you two know each other?"

"Yeah... we met a long time ago."

With a loud shout, a primate jumped out of the room, and batted its way down the hallway, yelling wildly.

"Ooh ooh ooh! Ee! Ee! Ah ah ah!!"

About 4 feet tall, it was wearing a top hat, a fake mustache, and a classy tuxedo. It lept out of the hallway and into the command room, violently crashing through Akane and Nona.

"Aaaah! Aaaah!"

"Eeeek!"

Akane shrieked in shock as monkey's push sent her flying off to the side. She caught herself on a wall, and regained her orientation.

"A... a monkey!?"

She nodded.

"I... I think so... I'm lucky there was a bar sticking out here."