===================================================== A/N: For taking so long, I decided to add this chapter. =====================================================

CHAPTER 8: Training

"Ryan, are you sure this is a good idea?" Sonic said stuttering in fear as he's standing on the edge of the deep end of a pool with Sonia, Manic, Cyrus, and Trevor whom are all wearing nothing but their underwear. Sonia is wearing a bra also.

"Absolutely. I had to do this in Richmond, so now you'll have to!" Ryan said.

Sonia dips her toe in the pool and shivers.

"Ryan, the water is like 45 degrees!" Sonia yelled.

"I know," Ryan said smiling. Instantly, he pushed Sonia in the pool from behind. She shrieks as she goes under water. When she reserfaces, most of her hair is sticking from her skin as she shivers badly, teeth clattering.

"I-i-it'-s... c-c-c-co-o-l-l-ld-d," Sonia shivered.

"Next!" Ryan said. Then he shakes his butt like he's dancing... then he uses his butt to push Manic in the water.

"GAH! COLD!!!" Manic yelled!

Cyrus was just about to turn and walk away, but Ryan grabbed his arm and flipped him over his shoulder andf threw him in the pool.

"JESUS CHRIST THIS WATER IS COLD!" Cyrus yelled.

Ryan looked at Trevor.

"It's okay, I got it," Trevor said as he jumped in the pool. He reserfaced with his teeth clattering. "Oh... my... God... "

"Next," Ryan said turning to Sonic.

"No way! I hate water!" Sonic yelled. Sonic was about to run, but Ryan grabbed his leg and arm. He picked Sonic up and walked to the pool.

"No! Don't do this to me! I can't swim!" Sonic yelled worriedly.

"I know, I'm going to teach you," Ryan said. Ryan jumped in the pool with Sonic in his arms. They reserfaced and Sonic's teeth are clattering like crazy. Ryan's were too, just not as much as the others.

"Okay, listen up," Ryan said, "all you have to do is wave your feet and arms underwater to stay afloat."

Ryan slowly let go of Sonic as Sonic waves his legs and arms. Sonic started to stay afloat. He started to sink but Ryan helped him up.

"In order to increase your body heat, you must continue to move. Each of you, take off your underwear's and bra," Ryan said as he took off his underwear and let it sink to the bottom exposing his naked self in the water.

They all stared at him other oddly.

"DO IT!" Ryan yelled angrely. With that, all five furries took off their underwears, and bra, and dropped them down to the bottom of the pool.

"Now, move around in different places," Ryan said. They all moved around mixing each other up. Then they stopped.

"Now, you have to swim underwater, find your underwear, put it on, and serface back up. You cannot reserface until you found your underwear! Number one rule... DON'T PANIC!!!" Ryan yelled.

They all gulped.

"So let's swim underwater," Ryan said. He took in a deep breath and swam underwater. All the others stared at each other wierdly. Ryan serfaced again.

"I SAID, UNDER WATER! NOW!" Ryan yelled. With that yell, all six of them dove under water.

They all used their arms and legs to swim all the way to the bottom of the pool. 8 feet later, they touched the bottom. Sonia, being the only female, easily found her bra, and the only female-like underwear. She slipped the underwear on and she buckled her bra back on. Then she quickly swam back to the top catching her breath.

Ryan, being so huge, found the biggest pair of briefs and slipped them on. He swam to the top to catch his air.

"Good job, Sonia," Ryan said. He swam back down to coach the rest.

Cyrus looked around until he found his underwear, slipped it on, and swam up. Trevor found his a second later. The two reserfaced meeting Sonia.

"How's Sonic? I'm worried about him," Sonia asked.

"He's doing pretty fine," Trevor said.

Two underwears left. Manic could tell with one was his, so he took it and put it on and reserfaced. Soon, Ryan reserfaced to get some air. Then went back down.

Sonic, knowing only one pair left, picked it up and began to put it on. But he started to stress out! Ryan saw him as he's struggling to put his underwear on.

Ryan widened his eyes! He swam down and helped Sonic with them. Sonic was releasing air bubbles like crazy and freaking out!

Ryan helped Sonic and helped Sonic reserface. Once up, Sonic was gasping for air badly!

"What was my number one rule?" Ryan asked angrely.

"Uh... don't panic?" Sonic asked.

"Yes. What did you do?"

"Paniced?"

"Yup. We'll have to try this again. Until then, let's get outside. I'll help you all out," Ryan said.

***

All dried up, Sonic, Sonia, Manic, Ryan, Cyrus, and Trevor are running in the desert carrying a 50 lb bag of sand on their backs! Ryan and Sonic are ahead of everybody! Cyrus was not too far behind the two, Trevor was behind Cyrus, Sonia was behind them panting... and Manic is WAY behind them trying to catch up.

"Hey... guys... wait up..." Manic panted.

"REPLENISH YOURSELF!" Ryan called back.

Manic slowly took a few sips of water and tries to jog.

Finally, Ryan, Sonic, Cyrus, Trevor, and Sonia run over a small hill ending their run. They all high five each other happily.

On the other side of the hill, Manic is jogging slowly with his tongue sticking out and panting like crazy. He starts walking in a jogging look. As soon as he touches the sandy hill, falls on his hands and knees. He slowly tries to climb up as he's gritting his teeth and sweating so bad his hair is sticking to his head. He tries hard to get over the hill and makes it up.

"Come on, Manic!" Ryan yelled.

Manic just toppled down the hill on the other side. He's now lying face down in the sand. Ryan just looked down at him.

"You gotta work on that," Ryan said.

***

All of a sudden, Sonia is plopped in the mud along with everyone else.

"Ew! I hate mud!" Sonia yelled.

"Shut up and crawl!" Ryan yelled. All six of them crawled through the mud, under the barbed wire, over the logs, over the wall, through the tires, and swinging on the rope.

Sonic finished first along with Ryan after him. Manic finished with Trevor and Cyrus behing him. All muddy, Sonia slowly steps through the tires and swings on the rope. Sonia looks up at Rayn angrely!

"You got me all dirty!" Sonia shrieked!

"I had to get dirty, too. Look at me," Ryan said showing off his muddy body.

"Ryan, I thought that military organization you were in was easy because you are young," Sonic said.

"Anything but easy," Ryan said.

"I think you made all this stuff up!" Manic yelled angrely!

"Say what?" Ryan asked.

"You know I can't swim! You shoved me into a freezing pool and yelled at me for screwing up?" Sonic yelled.

"You know I hate deserts and you made it 10 times worse on me!" Manic yelled.

"And you got me all dirty to the bone!" Sonia yelled.

"I think you work for Robotnik or something!" Sonic yelled. Ryan froze in his steps. Then he turned to Sonic angrely.

"What did you say?" Ryan asked angrely.

"You must work for Robotnik trying to kill us like that!" Manic yelled.

"HEY! What I thought you could save your lives! I'm not hurting you, I'm increasing your abilities while overcoming your fears and weaknesses!" Ryan yelled. "And besides, YOU guysed asked me to do this all to you! I'm doing to you what those D.I.'s did to me!"

"I don't care! I don't want to see you again!" Sonia shrieked.

"Neither do I!" Manic yelled.

"Same here! Go away!" Sonic said angrely.

Ryan just stared at the three angrely. Then he turned around and began to walk, then picked up in a jog, then ran away.

"Glad he's gone," Sonic said.

"Good ridens!" Manic said happily.

Instantly, Trevor whacked that "Endurance Techniques" book behind Sonic and Manic's heads knocking them in the mud.

"I don't know about you, but I agree with Ryan," Cyrus said.

"Take a look at this," Trevor said as he threw a small handbook in Sonic's arms. Sonic looked at the book and saw it was titled, "CAP PJOC."

"Civil Air Patrol," Sonic said. He opened it up and read a page. Sonia and Manic looked at it too.

Cyrus and Trevor looked down at the three angrely.

***

"C-130 roling down the strip! Airborne Rangers gonna take a little trip!" Ryan said in cadience as he ran. "Fighters from the ground in sky! Fearless men who jump and die! Think you're the best gunner on the ground! Guess again, bud, I'll take you down! Superman is the man of steal! But he ain't fit out for a Navy SEAL! I don't know but it's been said! Air Force wings are made of lead! I don't know but I've been told! Navy wings are made of gold!"

TO BE CONTINUED...

===================================================== A/N: Yes, everything I made the SU do, I did in real life... well, I didn't take off my underwear in the pool and had to find it, but I did have to be in a pool at that cold. =====================================================