The sound and sensation of someone else deferring to him, even briefly, is enough to conjure a hell of a lot of associations. He's not the leader, is he? That wouldn't make sense. He calls someone else Boss in the absence of any easy, conventional chain of command, he moves people up and down the board based on combat rankings, he doesn't interact with any agents in the field but he calls the shots and makes the calculations necessary to know where to send them and with what, he flounders to act like he knows whatever the hell he's talking about to a group of hapless sim troopers.

"Weeeee..." He stalls out like an idling engine, straining to rope something of what he remembers into a useable fucking skill or implementation or something. "We...try and find someplace isolated. Somewhere we can think without more shit going wrong."