Michelle walks up the steps and enters the V-Tol. The two Shadow Clan members have their backs to the cockpit door. They are holding the two AEGIS personnel as human shields with shadow blades to their throats. Both of the flight crew are tied up in the same shadowy rope that Celeste was.
Their eyes dart back and forth.
Amethyst Insight check: 1d20+10 19
Michelle can tell these guys have no idea what they are doing. They are overwhelmed by the whole thing and have no clear plan for getting away.
Probably best to overwhelm them with a lot of different things at once, so they don't know what is going on, and don't have time to realize they have lost.