A respec mission gone awry

One of the games I play is City of Heroes.  There is nothing like being a super hero swooping down to rescue someone from the zombies, undead, or superdyn hopped up thugs, etc. Ok, or just beating up the villains.  Anyway, last night my friend Sandy and I took on one of the most difficult missions with six other heroes.  By the time we got to the reactor, there were only four of us.  Needless to say, we failed the mission.  Grrrrr!