They had just started walking and it was at this moment that the admiral engaged in a bit of small talk.

"Ive read your record" she said, her stride not breaking, and her head still straight forward.

"That's.... good?" said Ace cautiously.

"Applied to a military academy at the age fourteen, stayed in the navy course for the next five years before going to college, as soon as you graduated entered the navy SEALs and proceeded to complete fourteen successful missions" she finally glanced back at him "all with the help of a Paris"

There was a long pause and Ace was about to say something but was again cut off by the admiral.

"I do hope that this Paris, wasn't the entire reason of your success, or else we might have you booted"

Ace nodded dryly, yeah yeah he'd heard it before, to many people assumed Paris was his reason for success. sure she assisted at times but she was the entire reason.

The rest of the walk was quiet and about one minute later, close to the head of the ship, they entered the briefing port.
The briefing port could act as a bridge but was mostly used to, well, debrief.

it was basically the same as a college, you sit in a room with a large amount of chairs with a couple entrances, and look forward while someone talked, usually with a holo table to show the plan.

This briefing room was nearly full with nearly fifty people, all of whom, looked at him.

"Well crap cakes" thought Ace as he looked at the faces or helmets of some of the people, Paris wasnt kidding, some of the most recognizable faces. and helmets. in the pangean military were there, Tyson locke one of the best swordmen alive, Felit home, had built several superior guns from pieces of other guns while on an enemy planet, Milo temple, best legal thief, stole rings off peoples ears for fun.

He really didn't compare to any of these people.

"Another one" said chronos.

"Very well" said someone, and it was only then that Ace noticed someone standing behind the holotable at the front of the briefing room "take a seat Ace"

Ace slowly went to a seat in front of one of the few whose name he didn't know, but he was next to Lake chief and behind Cera tin, both extremely good.

Ace leaned back in his seat, hoping to blend in, but none of them could truly blend in considering that they all had completely different armor, there was a ranger, a sniper aka Lake, a medic in armor, ect, they all came from different subcorps so they were ll different colors and armor designs, but it did make him less noticeable then if he had been the only one in armor.

Ace was observing this when next to him Lake asked him "so, your a SEAL right?"

Ace looked at him before nodding and answering "yeah, or at least I was."

"Cool" replied Lake cheerily "you know, I wanted to be a SEAL when I first signed up for the military but with my skill set, they decided to drum me into the coast guard sniper corps"

Ace raised a eyebrow "the coast guard, has snipers?" the coast guard was only for science and stuff now a days, why did they need snipers?

"Yeah, they use me to test guns, take out people who stole from them, capture tech, you know that kind of stuff."

Ace nodded for the second time in the conversation "yeah, I know the type of mission."

"Yeah, I bet you do, so why are you here? wait no, what do you do?"

"scouting" replied Ace, shrugging, it wasn't to big of a deal.

"Wow, I possibly owe my life to a couple scouts, thanks to them ive avoided running into a whole bunch of guards and mines and stuff"

"Cool" replied Ace dryly, he had seen to many people ripped to shreds by mines.

"So what happens after this?" asked Ace, hoping Lake knew something to help him not be to out of place.

"Oh, we get a short briefing on our purpose and our resources, along with our base, its been drilled into the first couple of peoples brains now."

"Oh, ok" replied Ace, leaning back a bit.

True to his word, a couple seconds later some guy walked down one of the lines to the front and walked up behind the holotable.

He looked old, his dark skin has several black splotches and his hair, a fuzzy head and a long fuzzy beard, was completely white.

He had the uniform of a directors assistance, a black and grey striped uniform with a collar, he didn't have a name tag, which meant he wasn't supposed to be there.

The chatter in the room stopped and there were a couple groans from people who Ace assumed were the first to be brought aboard.

"Why hello again" said the assistant "as you can guess, we have someone new with us, and so, here we go again"

The holo table turned on and displayed earth in all its glory and splendor.

Earth had managed to survive humanity, so it got its reward, it was blooming with plants life and the ecosystem was thriving, even though there were still a few extremely high tech cities, it was mostly plants and such.

"This, as you all know, is earth, our home planet, and a minor headquarters and peace zone for all goverments."

"But, after we spread out from earth, we brought some of the things with us that we didn't want to, also known as, terrorist"

A holo of a simulated battle between terrorist militia and Pangean marines appeared.

"The terrorist union, large, quick, mobile, and high tech, there numbers, unknown, there leaders, unknown"

"basically every bit of information we could use, unknown" said some smart alec who had been there a while and knew the basics of everything being said.

Instead of reprimanding the assistant director nodded "Agent Oro is indeed correct, we know very little information about the terrorist union that could actually help us, the department of intelligence has wielded very little success"

"But the department didn't have access to us" said someone else.

"They had access to me" piped up someone.

"Shut it Richard" said the first person.

"That's enough, both of you" said the assistant "yes yes, we don't have much, but indeed we do have you, and so, the high council has agreed to launch project demeter"

"Neat" said someone in a completely un "neat" voice.

The assistant either didn't hear or didn't care about what the person said because he continued undisturbed.

"Of course, considering none of you will get genetic manipulation, the council will be investing slightly less money into this project"

The holotable displayed the number two hundred seventy million.

"Two hundred and seventy million stamps, that is our funding for the moment"

"Ah yes, nearly a third of the others budget" said someone

"The project as in us directors get two hundred million to spend on the project itself, where as each squad has a budget of ten million"

This must have been new because there were several versions of surprise, standing up straight, wide eyes, rapid blinking, you know. the usual.

"Yes, when you are assigned to your squads, your squad leader will have ten million to spend on your team, it can be used in anything level three illegal and below"

This got Ace's attention, he hoped his squad leader would be willing to split the money, or at least take what they spend to a vote.

While Ace was thinking this a asteroid collection appeared on the holotable.

a asteroid collection was a collection of dozens to thousands of asteroids connected by tunnels, the asteroids were hollowed out, artificial gravity was created, air establish, buildings and plants put down, and boom you could house hundreds of thousands of people.

This asteroid collection was a lot more orderly then the villages, this one was one giant asteroid connected to seven others which were in a ring around it connected by the standard tunnels.

It looked the average size but something made Ace think that each of the asteroids, were larger then the average.

"The base for project demeter" said the assistant director " in the middle of no where, where you all shall train until your either dead, old, or demeter has been disbanded."

"It is also where we shall go to meat up with your final two colleagues who were collected earlier."

The assistant looked at Chronos "Beta Admiral Chronos, is the bloody mary underway."

Chronos nodded "matrix jump has been engaged, we'll be there in four hours."

The assistant nodded "good, you are all dismissed."

Ace was confused for a second but then all of the others got up and began filing out the exits and Ace began following them, considering they had been there a lot longer then he had and probably knew directions around a freaking mark 3 dreadnaught.

What a interesting assignment he had been given, And Ace couldn't help hoping that it was something he had earned himself. maybe indeed he was good enough to lead a group of the elite of elite soldiers. and maybe the SEAL's were just super strict.

Nah.

It was his mother