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That was the second time someone had barged into his office without knocking the past couple days. Seth looked up from his computer, not bothering to hide the annoyance on his face. He was still irritable over the mission and the recent incident with 1337. He was starting to wonder if the world just had it out for him lately, and maybe he should start locking his door more. Whether or not he was expecting someone.

"I noticed." Seth replied, managing to stay cool despite his obvious irritation. "How about. 'I'm sorry I'm late.' Or better yet. 'I'm sorry I'm late, -sir-?'" Not that it really mattered, since Seth would have been just as irritable if she had apologized and addressed him appropriately.

"You've got some nerve, Agent Addison." At this Seth rose out of his seat and stood at his full height with arms crossed. Blue eyes staring down at her. "Do you enjoy wasting my time? Because it seems to me that you were late on purpose." The lack of apology was evidence enough for that.

At that, Seth's fingers drummed against his arm and he closed his eyes briefly as he breathed out a sigh. His brow furrowing again just as Alice had observed. He was obviously not amused. The lack of respect from his underlings lately was simply dumbfounding and more than a little disturbing.

Leveling his gaze on her again, he simply moved on to why she was here so that he could get rid of her faster.

"By now I'm sure you are aware about the results of the raid, despite your disappearance and tardiness in returning. Or do I need to explain?"

"Fine."

With that, the elite sat down again, and tapped a few keys on his keyboard to bring up a time table of what had occurred during the raid.

"At approximately midnight we headed out, and infiltrated the storage facility 15 minutes later. During which there was little security aside from the usual alarms and locking mechanisms."

Naturally, Alice already knew all of this, but Seth was covering it anyway.

"Exactly a half hour after the start of the mission, we managed to break into the room containing the mainframe computer that oversees all regional PC activity. Thanks to the use of TRP's Haunter and Raichu."

A glance was spared Alice to make sure she was paying attention before he looked back to the computer screen.

"After which, 1337 hacked into the system and Hayes began his download of the Pokemon. At exactly 1 minute and 37 seconds into the download, access was cut off and power to the entire building was shut down. The mission was then officially aborted and we proceeded to make our escape."

Now they were getting to the parts that might be a bit fuzzy for her.

"During the evacuation process we encountered a police officer which TRP managed to stun with confuse ray. At which point one of the grunts disobeyed direct orders and took the officer's tazer. She and I both were then separated from the group by a Snorlax acting as a barrier."

Now he turned away from the computer, to look at Alice. "We all made it out, but a large portion of the group were shot by the officers that had ambushed us. The exceptions being myself, you, and three others. What I would like to know, though. Is where the hell you were during all of this?"

Seth frowned as Alice corrected him about being shot. He then made a note about it since obviously someone had neglected to report this.

There was a slight twitch of his brow as Alice confirmed that the Snorlax was hers. Although his expression, now rather stoic, remained unchanged.

He had to note that her gift for stating the obvious was... well. Exceptional. Yes the Snorlax was big.

"Room with the canisters? Care to explain why you were in there? And why you failed to meet up with the group?"

Lifting a hand to pinch the bridge of his nose slightly, Seth again sighed. Either he had a headache coming on or he was suggesting she was incompetent, or both. Either way, he had heard enough.

Seth then focused on the agent yet again.

"The most likely reason for the failure of the raid is that we have a traitor among us. And after thorough review of what happened, I must conclude that your actions are highly suspicious."

Seth narrowed his eyes, his annoyance showing through again at Alice's lack of seriousness in this situation. If anything, it made her look even more guilty.

"Is that so. Then I suppose you won't mind filling out a report while I have you detained during the investigation as a possible culprit."

Seth blinked once as the agent dumped several Pokeballs on his desk. For a moment he sat there in stunned silence before picking up one of the balls and looking it over. His thumb pressed the button and it popped open to release.... nothing. It was completely empty.

The elite frowned and eyed Alice. "Empty pokeballs? Is this some kind of a joke?" If it was, he wasn't laughing. But then the sight of Seth laughing might have been a very scary one indeed.