[b]"Ah, damn it."[/b] Alto said. [b]"There goes my secrety secrets."[/b]

Did that government guy really have to spill the beans? Where was he getting that information from anyway and why hadn't he gotten it earlier too?

Besides that, there was also one other thing to think about. Was Alto really stupid?

Sure, he'd finished secondary education when he was 12, then spent the 4 years after that getting his PhD, then he's spent the year after researching his arm... Yeah. He really was lacking in common sense by any normal standards. He hadn't really noticed, since he'd been doing science for so long, but he was really deficient in terms of life skills. Hell, he knew how to do rocket science, but he'd be damned before he went and booked his own doctor's appointment.

[i]Well, at least I can cook.[/i] He thought. But that was little comfort when he started to realize the full weight of his current situation.

He was living alone right now. He was offered a job at Aperture, and he'd gone overseas for it. He'd left his parents behind because they thought that he'd be fine. Alto knew how to cook, Alto knew how to do numbers and his annual salary was more than his parents combined. Aperture also had a lot of added medical coverage as well. Now that he was unemployed, Alto realized he actually might have to go to the dentist's himself.

Aperture had a pretty great dentist as far as he remembered.

Anyway, that was besides the point. black-ops guy was telling them it would be a good time to get in his car and now that he thought about it, this guy was more than a little bit suspicious. Supposedly, he was government, but as far as Alto knew, the government usually ran around in teams or something. Even the FBI don't usually send in lone agents unless it's better than sending a group and in this situation a group would probably have been the better option.

His car and his uniform seemed pretty legit, but you could steal that kind of stuff if you needed to. He didn't really seem to have much proof of his identity, actually. The group had just assumed he was who he said he was really.

Maybe it was just paranoia, but Alto wanted to be sure.

[b]"How do we actually know you were sent by the government?"[/b] He said to black-ops guy. [b]"For all we know, you could actually be working for the Voice."[/b]