"Like that would make much of a difference." Ban complained, at the Dekabase, when Doggy had finished calling.
"Ban, this is not the time for bias!" Doggy told him.
"He is right, though." Hoji agreed, "Wells claims to be so much better than us, yet he's spend almost a year on finding this mole, but..."
"Nonsense." Tetsu interrupted him, "We've spend a whole year trying to catch Abrera ourselves. How's this any different?"
"How?" Hoji questioned, "You really need to ask? He seriously lacks any idea of authority..."
As an example, one could pick the time when they first met Wells, and how he spoke to Lisa at the time:"I wouldn't like it if a supervisor would call me unreliable because that same supervisor held me up."
"... he doesn't take orders too seriously us..." Hoji continued.
Another example would be the time that Wells, as Dekasilver, had to help protect a mecha, known as DaiJin, in which Hoji, as Dekablue, started: "What are you doing?" Our mission is to protect this find at all cost!"
"And that mission pretty much failed, didn't it!" Dekasilver replied, as he allowed his robot, the Gyro-Carrier, to crash DaiJin some more.
"... and then I haven't begun on the times he makes fun of us!" Hoji finished.
This is in reference to the times that Wells had his say on the Dekarangers' behaviour. Like the time Ban made a stupid remark. Everyone in the room, apart from Wells, seemed to faint at that remark. Wells was surprised to see this, so he asked: "Did you people eat at all this morning?"
Or that time when Wells was out of the room, and re-entered when everyone was down, saying: "Some kind of toxic gas here?"
Not to mention when everyone merely looks surprised, which was also a subject of Wells's jokes. At one time he remarked: "You are all scary when you do that."
At another time, he said: "Someone needs to check you guys about that twitch of yours."
This even came to a point where people would look surprised behind him, so he didn't see them, and still he'd say: "I'm not even looking at you people, and I know you are doing that face again!"
"Are you sure you're not just pissed because he keeps calling you by your last name?" Tetsu wondered.
"He's only a westerner." Ban answered, "I can't imagine he'd understand we know something called honorifics."
"Yes, well so far, neither one of you have given him any reason to honor you." Tetsu remarked.
This discussion is still going on, when Sen, Umeko and Jasmine entered the room.
"You've arrived." Doggy sounded relieved.
"Where's the westerner?" Ban wondered, "Wasn't he with you?"
"He had to use the bathroom when we got called." Sen explained, "Perhaps he couldn't answer in time."
"Oh really?" Ban asked, though he didn't sound like he really wanted to know.
"Don't... even... dare!" Umeko suddenly exclaimed.
"You folks really like to shout, don't you." Wells said as he entered the room too, using his usual dry tone.
"You're here too. Good." Doggy remarked.
"So what's the news?" Wells asked.
Hoji smiled at that: "I'd like to take a minute to point out we've managed something in one day which you haven't in..."
"Actually..." Doggy interrupted Hoji, "... it's more of a lead. We don't know who it is yet, but we're close to finding out."
Wells shrugged: "Let's hear it."