[If she weren't so busy being overwhelmed, she might laugh.]

Maybe your space cops are different, but I don't leave my partners behind! [She thinks suddenly, achingly, of Simon as she hasn't in weeks and knows he'd curse her out for staying even though he'd do the same.]

Come on! [She reaches a hand out to him, ready to put all of her power into a shield around them both.] We'll just have to try our luck in the ai—[She doesn't finish as one of the creatures, in a fit of athleticism unknown until this moment, easily jumps from fifteen feet back to land squarely between them and knock Jessica to the ground. In seconds her lantern light has formed a blade to counter the bladed limbs edging closer to her body, but they won't do much good when the rest of the creatures overrun them in moments.]