A little while after that, a group of about twenty people of indeterminate gender appear, some in the booth, the rest outside of it. They all seem dismayed when they see the state Elsseth is in. One of them gently helps her to her feet.

Alarms start going off.

This is alarming! People close to the booth door on both sides attempt to open it.

Nope.

They try breaking it down.

They can bang it up a little.

Another door bursts open and grey-haired people bearing bizarre weapons burst in.

...they mostly pause, confused, but one fires wildly and wings somebody.

One of them asks Elsseth if these are the people who hurt her.

On confirmation, it becomes abruptly relevant that these people have swords and know how to use them.

There is a lot of shouting and as soon as a sword hits a grey there's a lot more gunfire.

This is pretty unfortunate for the people outside the booth.

Eventually a grey manages to disarm enough aliens and shout down the other greys that the violence can cease! She hollers at a few of the other greys and they apply field-medicine-type first aid to the gunshot wounds while making sure all the aliens are thoroughly restrained.

The aliens inside the booth begin dancing.

...that's strange?

A grey gives them a little zap. There is more shouting about that.

This causes minor stumbling but they keep dancing.

And then vanish.

All of them?

Not the ones outside the door. Everyone inside the booth vanishes.

The remaining ones are given tentative medical care and restrained and moved elsewhere.

A person with green hair comes in and tries to figure out the language.

They are extremely pissed off, but relatively cooperative wrt language-sharing.

The green haired person would like to apologize!

They are not super impressed by this apology. These people attacked, abducted, and tortured a queen.

The relevant greys and the purple have all been arrested! It was a mistake. They didn't realize they were aliens.

Why were they attacking abducting and torturing anyone.

Locally, red hair marks a category which is supposed to stay in designated areas. The last time they were allowed to be places they didn't belong there was a huge war and famine! The purple absolutely should have called the authorities and the greys absolutely should have tried translation sooner.

And the torture?

They are so going to punish the greys for that! They were very alarmed at the apparent teleporting on the security cameras - no one would ever be able to feel safe in their beds again if reds could teleport - and wrongly believed that the queen they had taken for a red was deliberately uttering gibberish instead of explaining the teleporting. They are really really sorry about that. The greys are in so much trouble. If the queen's people would rather punish them themselves, that can absolutely be arranged.

Well that would be up to the queen they tortured, having been captured did not somehow give them more ability to set policy. Anyway what's with their bizarre phobia of red hair and why is the response to uttering gibberish torture? They do know that torture is bad, right?