Cassidy laughed, but it was a humorless laugh that dripped with sarcasm, "How drole, but let's get down to brass tacks, shall we?"
"The boss is not happy with you," Butch added, "He wants answers about those cards you used in Stone Town and what the hell was up with Carr."
Hearing their awareness to the cards made Jessie and James even more agitated at the thought of telling these two, of all people, knowing their discovery.
"And why should we tell you!?" Jessie seethed.
"Yeah," Meowth concurs, "For all we know, you'll just take our word and twist it around until it sounds like you were the ones who found the cards while all we did is play around with them like lab Ratatas!"
"If anyone's going to know about our latest discovery, it's the boss himself!" James protests, "You know how much he hates being anything but the second to know everything!"
From around the corner, Steiner leaned against the door brace of the sick bay. He had two fingers pressed against the rim of his glasses that triggered a small listening devise at the end. They'd located something that was obviously planted by someone at the base on Mewtwo. Instead of talking into his mini radio, Steiner clicked the button on and off. Morse code. He let them know that someone was operating on Mewtwo, removing something of Team Rocket technology. Steiner continued to listen in, peering occasionally into the room for a split second. With Ahrzayl and the other two down for the night, he'd have no interruptions. He then adjusted his glasses.
Hierophant became bothered by someone watching them, but assumed it was the Bug Pokemon that were running loose on the ship. Merrick, however, seemed to know more about what was watching them, and the final straw that got him to investigate was the sudden spike in surprise.
He drifts towards the wall and plants the back of his card against it, slipping to the frame of sickbay's entrance and pops part way out of the picture to look around the corner and figure out what was going on.