A burst of pride went through him as he heard the comment of the others but he pushed that aside when they started to move again. He was glad his robot had worked so well, it was sad to see it go. He’d just have to make another one later. Eric thought to himself as he followed closely behind. It was getting a little harder to move but he was managing to keep up. His senses were alert and the minute he heard Ryan’s words to ‘stay down’ he went into military mode.<br/><br/>It was a bit surprising to note how Ryan’s behavior had changed but he didn’t say anything. Keeping low and quite he went up to Ryan and looked around at the scene before him. His eyes scanned the faces, counted the numbers and ran through statistics in his mind. There was no way they were going to be able to get to her like they were now. “None. I hate to say it but we might have to let her go for now. I don’t see a way of attack that doesn’t get most if not all of us killed in the process and I don’t want you or your men dying for this.”<br/><br/>His jaw was clenched as he tried to come up with something, anything that might work. Slowly a grin started to spread across his face. “Who’s your best tracker? I hate to ask this but if someone could follow we might be able to draw back and come up with a better plan once we know where she’s being taken.” He paused when he added. “I know she’s military and I know how you guys feel about that but…if they manage to break her it is not just the military’s, or my ass on the line it is all of yours and killing her is not an option.”