Chapter Written By: Wentel & The WhiteFang Planning Team
Supervised by: WhiteFangLilWolf (Re-edited and reviewed by WhiteFangLilWolf on 12th January 2022)

"Chase it's Marshall, how have you been?" Marshall laughed and saluted Chase. "DSP Chase, firefighter pup 1st upper class Marshall at your service." Marshall ran towards Chase and gave him a big hug. Chase was shredding with tears and trying to hold his tears back. He missed Marshall so much and he's finally here to visit him along with his other teammates. He was given a welcoming hug as Chase placed his paws on Marshall's torso as they both hugged one another. Chase wondered why he's here in the first place, out of everywhere he could have been to.
"I'm here to check on you whatever happened. Rocky and Zuma sent me an email that linked to my medical institute a few hours ago and they told me how bad your meeting was just now." Marshall said as Chase glanced towards Rocky's direction with one of his eye pitched up.
Rocky gave a shy wave to Chase as he giggled softly. Chase immediately showed a middle paw to Rocky.
Chase always wondered how Rocky and Zuma always able to contact other paw patrol members. They are always in contact with them, as Chase wondered why he never been able to contact them. "Of course I tried contacting you but the telephone always seem to go into voice mail." Marshall gave a stern glance to Chase, who was embarrassed and disappointed at the same time. Marshall decided to break the ice and told Chase the reason why he was here. "Chase, the reason why I came here there's quite a few. First is being ever since I finished my medical school and we went to that particular mission afterwards, you were concealed off everything, including us. Even now I'm in a medical institute working as a part time medical lab specialist while serving as a 1st upper class firefighter in the London firefighting base academy, I rarely heard from you too. Yet Rocky and Zuma do invite me out once in a while and all of the time I didn't see you. What happened buddy? You can tell us ya know, we're pals since young!" Marshall placed his firefighter-medical hat on the hat rack, that contains a "war-cry" and "the battle-scars" hat symbol, the same symbol badge that the rest of the pups in the room have as well. Zuma hopped off from the sofa and approached to Chase slowly.

"Chwase. We know what happened that day. It isn't your fault. Stop blaming yourself till today. We rweally care about you, when are you coming back to re-activate the paw patrol team? It's been inactive for a wery long time, plus we all have been worried about you."
Chase gave an innocent look to Zuma as he looked at himself at a nearby mirror. He placed his hat on the table, with the same badges that the rest of the pups being sealed attached to Chase's hat as well. Ever since Ryder was gone, no one claimed the leader spot as many people out there knew that no one can ever fulfill what he was able to accomplish.

It was true, it's been a long time since Chase went back to the "paw patrol" to re-activate the olden-days around the island. However inside Chase's mind, he couldn't forget the day Ryder tried to save him and yet sacrificed himself for Chase...

"We have to get back to Team B and Team C now!" Chase yelled as he leads Marshall's truck carrying Rocky and Zuma at the back while Marshall tries to speed up. "Hey Chase! It's not my fault that we are stuck there for two hours! There wasn't enough manpower to guide us out and Ryder already came alone under command on HQ to protect us!" Marshall yelled back at the walkie-talkie as they turn into another junction into Surline west-coast road. "Oh dog!" Chase braked hard while Marshall did not notice in time and crashed hard onto Chase's truck as Chase flew out of his vehicle due to impact from the back. The windshield was broken into pieces as Chase groan with huge pain. He noticed that his back paws can't be moved and his arms were oozing out blood slowly. In front of them were filled with barricades with many unknown strangers covered in hoodies and masks. Some of them were holding onto aks and m4, while one of them in particular, stepped forward. "My name is Jackson and I'm the leader of this group. You guys tried to hunt us down and stop us from our operations and we will make sure you won't get out of here alive!" As Jackson pointed his gun towards Chase, another guy who seemed to have a name tag named Lynz, reloaded his rpg rocket launcher and aimed at Chase's cruiser along with Marshall's firetruck. "No please... don't shoot we are just doing our jobs in bringing justice!" Chase yelped with anger and sadness at the same time as he felt the pain in him. Marshall woke up with slight injuries and noticed the situation outside of where they were stationed. Marshall hide himself from sight as he tries to find a right time to drag Chase into his truck and maybe drive away at the right time, but Marshall noticed the rocket launcher as well. "Rocky, Zuma, get in cover, rpg twelve-o-clock!" Marshall whispered as they all kneeled down to try to think of a way to save Chase.

Out of nowhere, a young boy came with his ATV, shouting a few words that Chase is unable to hear nor have the chance to understand due to his injuries. "No one can kill or punish my pups under my command!" As the young boy named Ryder threw multiple grenades over the barricade while many of them ran away after noticing the grenades being thrown. However, Lynx still fired out the rocket launcher.

It was in a very slow motion. Chase's eyes were dumbfounded, tears started to yield out in horror as he noticed Ryder's ATV exploded in front of his eyes as the body flew meters away from the scene. Multiple grenades went off as the attackers started to retreat a bit. Marshall figured that this was the only chance to escape as Marshall and Rocky dragged Chase out of there.

He saw the body. It was lying there motionlessly, nothing left. Just a burning ATV with a broken Chase Cruiser. Chase's eyes, was outraged, those eyes, he can never forget that scene as he was being dragged by two sobbing pups but knowing the situation well.

"Ryderrrr!! Ryderrrrrr!!!!!"

"I am not ready yet."

Chase mumbled as he walked away from the group and proceed to fetch a soda from the refrigerator. The guests followed behind him to the fridge as they witness him opening the fridge with his jaws and jumped slightly to fetch the can of soda. In a quiet atmosphere, Chase twisted open the soda can as a sparkling exhaust sound was heard after opening the can. He took a huge gulp and slammed the can onto the table, as some of the liquids splashed onto different directions.

Zuma rushes to Chase and gave him a snuggle as Chase's eyes became watery after a while. "We are all here for you Chase! There wasn't anything we could have done that day!" Rocky said as he sat on the stool and watched both Zuma and Chase hugging. "He should be alive that day it's all my fault! Why did I turn into that road junction whereby I could have just turned left instead?! I should have been able to take a glance to the right knowing it was bordered up with barricades!" Chase started to sob a bit more but trying to stop it nontheless.

Marshall approaches Chase slowly as he place his head against Chase's. "You will be fine Chase. Brothers forever." Marshall stood there for a while as Rocky and Zuma sat down with remorsefulness, watching over Chase who started to sob softly.

"He was all I had. The only human that ever found me and understood me."

As the weather outside starts to grow dark, the guests decided to stay with Chase for a few nights before heading back home. Marshall started that this weather usually signals a heavy long term rain in the upcoming days, and therefore it's not safe to leave Chase's home. Marshall decided on the spot to take all of his urgent leaves including a few weeks of unpaid leave to stick around with his paw patrol members for the time being. Rocky and Zuma are currently out of case (technically unpaid leave) due to recent performances and therefore the police HQ department and the navy seal department did not have any missions or cases for them to handle currently. Chase on the other hand, was literally placed on long term leave due to his past survival guilt condition due to Ryder's death quite a long time ago, although he is better for a long time now, he decided to retire from being a police pup, but was given a citizenship honorary plus civil honorary status to become a deputy superintendent of a police headquarters to help crack challenging cases as Chase have many years of experience in this field and was looked up by many people in this world. As there are no cases lately for the other pups, he was placed under long term unpaid leave as well.

Chase kept himself strong as he stopped crying after a while. After all, it's good for him to cry for the time being. Chase always suffered the most since the day he served for paw patrol, for a strong pup like him to shred tears after a long incident, it's pretty normal. Chase stood up and walked slowly towards his bedroom and took off his police pup hat and necklace. He slowly walked down the stairs and headed to the living room in his normal attire which is not to wear anything except for his collar. His collar, was a symbolic importance to the paw patrol as it includes rare badges from past crime cases and honorary status, yet the recent unsolved syndicate case that leads to Ryder's death that time, was missing from the collar.

The pups have been waiting for Chase all these moments to take a sit and have a good chat with them. As Chase sat down, he settle down himself and started to start a conversation with his good friends and family buddies.

"So...how's your day guys?"
Everyone laughed at Chase with happiness.