Well. Arrogant. Plain stupid. One thing or the other. Noah and Noel is basically irreplaceable.
And that should be clear. It also seems like the Secret Police badly does want to succeed and become heroes.

It's mostly Noah who made that decision for them, what with his stubborn insistence on being dead weight.
Dead weight is something you leave behind at base.

Noah is about the opposite. Since the mission is impossible without him.

Else he has as such not stubbornly insisted on anything.