Amber was about to strike another dummy but her fist stopped midway, she heard a voice, one of which she new, an unbelieving look was on her as she slowly turned to look to she thought was a dead man, she had froze in place, her body unable to move, tear forming at the corner of her eye's, however Solaris had left Zero's side with a big smile as she ran over to her father and tackled hugged him with happy tears
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Spartan watched as Kori left then he turned to face the group
"all right, now that that's out of the way, next order of business...." Spartan said quietly to himself as he walked to the map table
"everyone, listen up" Spartan said in a loud authoritative voice as he paced back and fourth slowly from behind the table, his hands held behind his back, he then stopped and turned to face everyone
"once again, our leader Jacob has been called away to something of greater importance that concerns him" Spartan announced to them with his eye's closed as if he was slightly irritated by this
"he has left the chain of command to me, as well as what we are to do about this dimensional rift that is putting our world in danger" Spartan took out the data-pad to show them proof that he had it before putting it back in his pocket, he then opened his glowing light blue eye's as he looked to everyone

(Activate motivational theme: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XYKUeZQbMF0&list=RDN2RK6OGNMCY]Heart of Courage[/url] )

"this will most likely be an extremely dangerous mission, I wouldn't lie to you about that, you all know this. I'm not asking you to leave, and I'm not forcing you to stay, but I need to know that if your going to stay that I can count on all of you to help the best you can" Spartan said encouragingly and in a serous tone of voice
"tell me, can I count on you!?" Spartan asked in a loud motivational voice
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"you can count on me!" Eve exclaimed with a cheerful smile as she raised her hand in the air, Magnus had gotten to his feet and let out a agreeing growl as he nodded towards Spartan
"and Magnus of course" Eve said with a giggle as she place her hand on the side of Magnus's face gently
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Spartan smiled when he seen Eve and Magnus give their reply, he then looked to the others to wait for theirs