Against The Shroud Ray [II]

[The Master Captain has discovered that monsters have tails. This unit will alert the scientific community.]

The Shroud Ray screamed.

There was no air to carry it, but it didn't need air. 

The shriek came straight through the ship's frame, rattling the fillings in Leo's jaw and buzzing through the soles of every boot on the bridge.

All down its back, the cobalt ridges flared furious and blinding.

"Oh no," Chloe whispered over the comm. "Oh no, oh no... it's angry."

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ... CRACK!

A second pulse detonated off its spine and washed over the hull.

BANG!

Down on the lower engineering deck, an auxiliary transformer exploded and sprayed black smoke and white-hot sparks across the gangway as Harper threw herself flat on the grating.

"Main bus overload!" Jin-Ah screamed as half her displays died into static. "Capacitors three and four just blew! Power's dropping... sixty-one percent!"

"I got it! I GOT IT!"