Several greetings ran through Gainai's little contact robot before the main figure picked up on anything, six, in fact. Though the time between each greeting was mere seconds, the Compy female grew more and more impatient. "You stupid hew-man!" she hissed, wanting to snap at it, "Do you not know your own languages?!"

And then it responded. Just as happy as she was raging a few moments before, Gainai's hands leapt from the balled fist she'd made just under her chin back to her keyboards. "Stop, stop, stop!" She cried as the robot went on through two more greetings, and then backed it up to the successful file. "Nregh! Of course, respond to the one that I have the least information on! You spite me! You spite... me." Talking under her breath as she always did, the Compy's mutter dribbled to a stop as she translated an appropriate, if sketchy, further greeting.

Oh, so many words that she didn't have! It was pitiful! She cocked her head as she listened to the little metal creature bark off the word-set she'd sent it. Such peculiar sounding words, all spaced apart at such long intervals.

"Hello humans," the tinny voice rang, artificial and halting.

"Medicine attention seeking.

"?

"Do Not Attack. Do Not Afraid Be.

"You are company in being of Compy K'anta, Gainai'.

"Medicine. Being this way.

"Come this way." And here the little robot paused.

Gainai' expected the humans to come aboard immediately after this. If she had been ordered as such by a more intelligent being, she would--well, to see what it wanted of her, at least. The 'bot began to turn around and roll out of the air-lock.

When the two humans still hadn't come through her end of the air-lock, and the little robot was already shutting itself down in its assigned repository, Gainai' shrieked with impatience. "Hurry up, you chunky, stupid, flat-footed chimps!" she cried into the screens, out the door from the cockpit, into the stale air. "If you don't come out of your little broken box I'm going to have to make you come out!"

She wanted to pace, but hadn't the gravity to do so, so instead she grabbed ahold of one of the handle bars, and pulled herself out of the cockpit. She shot through the hallway with the force of her exertion, but it didn't calm her emotions in the least. "Kshtacht'kree hewmanz," she muttered, pulling herself along with predatorial swiftness, "move your assets into that tube immediately! Rude, tardy, lazy-- chess'anee!" She halted herself against one bar, enjoying the sensation of hand smacking against the cold, violet metalloid. "What am I thinking? Stinking brutes, I must prepare a room for study!" With that thought in mind, she pushed off again in another direction, down a side-hallway, her violent mood forgotten.

The room had been set up: everything that Gainai' deemed of any worth was removed, and tiny, camera-like objects adhered in convenient places. The K'anta grinned predatorially to herself, tapping her fingers together and sweeping the room with her gaze one last time. Excellent. Perfect. They would be shunted right into this room (another sleeping room which had long since been converted to storage, before it's hasty transformation), where Gainai' could study them at her leisure. And as soon as they were aboard, she could begin towards her original destination! All she would have to do would be to decontaminate the passage they'd travelled through, and perhaps ensure that they had the basic necessities... though she had never seen the inside of a human before--no, she was more interested in social interaction, for now at least.

"Two! Hee hee... perfect number. Three and I would have had a problem with space, supplies maybe... and one... one would be interesting, but two is much better..." she muttered, and continued to do so as she evacuated the sealed off room, retreating back to the cock-pit. She again planted her face against one of the screens, as it began to show activity. Her excitement was palpable.

The head of one of the creatures appeared on her moniter, causing her to squawk with excitement. "C'mon, you little brute, you're almost there..." the second of the two appeared beside the first, and both were chattering to one another. Gainai's computer worked away at the language, comparing what it did know already to what was being spoken, and making inferences to what it didn't have, yet. Gainai' herself was far too absorbed, staring at them and tapping her clawed fingers together. "No need to think about what you're doing, little-chimps. Just follow the arrows, everything will be alright..." she crooned. As if they could hear her from here! But she didn't even realize that she was speaking, so focused was she.

It hadn't taken the humans long to begin following the light-directions she'd given them; it had taken them a shorter time still to begin babbling between themselves. Gainai' listened with her head cocked to one side, a predatory grin lifting her scaly lips to reveal glistening, sharp teeth. "Oh yes, come along now, darlings. Chatter away, just follow the path--ah HA!" The first of them had gone through! Stupid little thing... her hand hovered over a button that would cause the doorway to seal behind her, fingers atwitch as a trigger-happy lunatic. "Get in, get in! Quick, or I'll close it on you!" She cackled at the thought.