Director Lazard felt like slamming his head against his desk when he'd received his latest report from the field. General Sepheroth, and SOLDIER First Class Zach Fair had been investigating Professor Hollander's lab in Mako reactor 5 when Fair had received a text message and raced off to do something that was presumably very important. According to the report he'd received, rather than dealing with an immanent threat to ShinRa like he should have been considering how important the mission he had just ditched was, Fair was dicking around at a monster infested Chocobo farm.

This wasn't the first time something like this had happened, not by a long shot, and wouldn't be the last. He'd once been stuck waiting three weeks for Fair to return after the boy had left the conference room in order to prepare for a mission and ended up wandering off to hunt monsters in some godsforsaken desert instead. That had of course been on the more extreme end of the scale. Usually when he called Fair to a meeting, the man would race around the building for a while before running off to wander around Sector 8 chatting with everyone he met along the way.

If he hadn't hated his father and his half brother Rufus who would be inheriting the company so much, he would have allowed Genesis to strangle Angeal's student long ago rather than have promoted the obviously defective SOLDIER to a position of power.