"Well, yeah!" Okay, so he wasn't one of the ones who went out and planned things, but he helped out on missions and things! And he was always willing to give the others a meal or a place to sleep if they needed it. That counted for something.

Not like he knew how to tell Granny Curry his trained silverfish were important to a team of people trying to save the Earth from hostile aliens. "There's stuff they can't do without me! I'm the best swimmer out of all of us, you know, and I'm teaching some of the others! I mean, what if they were going out on a boat or something and fell off and weren't wearing a life jacket?"