Disclaimer and A.N.: I own Gyia, Ryu Toukon, and Saldar. Imperfection07 owns Mona and SEGA owns the rest. I was looking at the stats and it looked like I might have confused a few of my readers by posting two chapters in one day. I don't think I will do that again. I've noticed that I haven't had a true review in a while so people, please review. I need them like you need this. Heres the next installment of this ongoing series. Just so you know... This and the last chapter are written in a first person point of view of the character Ryu Toukon.

Chapter 36: A Lone Wolf's Past part 2

'When I returned home she was gone,' I thought as I remembered back to my final memory of the wife I once had. A tear came down my cheek as it dropped onto the paper I was holding. I had lost word of my son from that day forward. Three weeks after I had returned, I had found out that Mia had died and that my son was nowhere to be found. I had no idea as to where he could be but I swore that I would never give up in my search for him. That was the first true oath I made to myself. The first that changed me to the man I had become.

"Colonel," a voice came from the open doorway as I jumped up in surprise. I hadn't noticed it but I was now standing as to where I was sitting just a few moments before hand.

"Come in," I said as I waved my hand as a gester to enter.

"Thank you sir," a female in uniform said as she walked into my office and took a seat in front of my desk as I sat behind it.

"Whats with the sudden appearance?" I asked as I leaned back in my chair and look the woman straight in the eyes as I held my hands on the end of my armrests.

"I've been told that we are going to have to attack the base again," she said as she placed her hands on her lap in a relaxed position and began to look me right back in my eyes. They always say that the eyes are the gateway to the soul but when ever she looks me straight in the eyes, I could never hold that gaze for even a moment as I turned my head and pretended that the thought of the second attack made me sick. Five members of my newest attack squad were injured and now here we are being order to do another assault. What were those bigwigs thinking. "Is everything okay?" she asked as she saw through my fisade.

"I just can't believe that they want us to attack again so soon," I said as I looked down at the paperwork that was spread out across my desk. She took the gester as a sign of worry as she traced the view that my eyes followed.

"We have enough pilots and ground troops for the attack," she said as she bendt down and dug into a bag that I didn't see her carry in.

'What is she doing?' I began to think as she suddenly removed a box from the bag and layed it down on the desk.

"HQ is willing to give you this if and only if you are willing to cooperate," she said as she held onto the lid of the box so that I wouldn't be able to open it. Another memory came to mind as I watched the scene unfold before me.

Flashback

"HQ is willing to give you this if you are willing to cooperate," an old man said to a young Major as he sit behind the desk of a well decorated office. The man looked at the manila envelop that was in the man's hands.

"What do I have to do?" the young Major asked as the old man as a smile came to the elders face.

"We need you to lead an assault into enemy territory," he said as he placed the envelop down on the desk but kept his hand over it and let out a slight smile.

"How far in?" the young Major asked as he began to look like he was going to accept.

"All the way to the main enemy HQ," he said as his smile came bigger. The young Major knew he was not the most liked person around here due to his past but he had also heard rumors that this man was connected with the Yakuza.

"You do know that this is suicide," the Major said as he looked the elderly man straight in his eyes.

"You do want news about your family," the elderly man said as he began to drum his fingers ontop of the envelop on his desk. At those words, the Major just cringed in surprise and looked down towards the floor. This man had known of his only weakness and here he was extorting it on him. Anger began to flow though his eyes as he looked back up towards the man before him.

"What would happen if I refuse," he said as his knuckles were starting to grow whitish in color as he held tightly on to the armrests as a snarl came to his face.

"You will never get this envelop and you will have that much more trouble making your next rank," the man said as he leaned back with envelop in tow and placed it inside a drawer of his desk. Once done he leaned all the way back and crossed his arms over his chest with an evil smile on his face.

"Well then," the Major said as a smile came to his own face, "I refuse."

End Flashback

"You going to give a reply?" the woman asked as she looked at me as if I was not in this plane of existence. Little did she know how close she really was to the truth.

"Can you tell me whats in that box?" I asked as I waved a hand palm up towards the box under her hand.

"Even I don't know that information," she said as she held her hand down tightly, "The only information that I know of is that I'm not allowed to open it up unless you willing except this assignment."

"Let me ask you this then," I said as brought one hand to my chin as I not only looked towards the woman before me but many would say I looked straight through her as if she wasn't really there. "Can you show that to anyone else so that they many assist me in making my choice?" I asked as she took on a more thoughtful appearance.

"The orders never said anything about not being able to do that," she said with a smile as she suddenly got the idea that I was planning, "Who do you got in mind?"

"Let me call her real quick," I said as I picked up the phone and quickly keyed in a few numbers as the phone on the other end began to ring. I had made sure it was on speaker-phone so that my guest could hear the conversation as well.

"Rouge here," a female voice came through as a smile came to my face.

"Hows everyone holding up?" I asked as I looked the other woman across my desk in the face and continued to smile.

"Everyones taking it one step at a time," she said as a scream could be heard on the other end.

"Was that Sonic?" I asked as I heard the scream and had to cringe at the sound of it. It had sounded painful.

"Yes it was," she said as I just let out a small sigh, "Am I on speaker-phone?"

"Yes, you are," I said in return as I waved my hand towards the other in my office as she got the idea to speak.

"Good evening, Rouge," the woman said as she leaned forward in her seat to talk to her through the mic on the phone.

"You don't need to lean forward to talk," I said as I leaned back in my chair, "The mic's sensitive enough to hear you even if you were standing by the doorway."

"Hm," she hummed out as she leaned back in her chair again.

"Mind telling me what you are doing there, Lisa?" Rouge asked as the sounds in the background of her side began to quiet down. I just came to the conclusion that she was moving to a more quiet place.

"I've came down in directive of HQ," she said as she looked up at me and let a grin take her face.

"What's HQ want this time?" Rouge's voice asked as a sense of irritation could be heard through it.

"They want to make a deal and we need you here for your advise," Lisa said as she turned her attention towards the box that she had let go of when she had leaned completely back.

"Right now?" Rouge asked as her voice sounded like one of indecisiveness.

"We really need you here," I said as I looked towards the phone as my face shown no expression now. Usually when my face was like that, it means that this is strictly business and thats the way it was going to stay.

"I'll be there in twenty minutes," Rouge replied back and the soft click of her cell phone hanging up came over the line.

"Now all we do is wait," I said as I looked towards the box with only one thought in my mind, 'What is in that box?'

End Chapter 36

"Atleast you were able to place one of us in the story today," Sonic said in an irritated face.

"What?" I asked as I looked the man in the face and let out a shocked look, "I didn't forget about you guys this time."

"If thats what you want everyone to believe," Sonic said as he drew his head up towards the ceiling and mocked the words I had just said with one arm cocked out to the side from the elbow towards the ceiling and the other hand grabbing the bent elbow.

"Don't make me place you in the hospital," I said as a growl escaped my throat.

"I'm already there," he said in a irritated tone.

"I'll make it more so," I said in a threatening tone.

"Just write the next chapter," Sonic said as he turned towards the right and walked out of the camera's sight.

"One of these days, I'm going to have a good conversation on this closing area," I said as I walked up towards the camera but stopped only a few inches from the lens. "On second thought," I said as an evil look came to my face, "I don't think that will ever happen. Please Read and Review." With that last statement made the camera was powered down.