Disclaimer: I do not own SEGA or any of the sonic team characters. The character I created is just an idea of my own. Any other names I use along the way have no correlation to any comics or stories. This is something I just made up. I hope you enjoy!

Chapter 2: A Heroic Intervention

*Beep, beep, beep*

You are a lucky boy, your father only got a few stray bullets in the leg and your mom, even more lucky got a few scratches…

*My father can be seen on the hospital bet sleeping with the heart monitor constantly beeping*

When I grow up I want to save people too! With Sonic and all of his friends! I will see the world, save a bunch of people! Maybe I can even beat up Eggman himself!

That is nice son, maybe one day.. *my Father laughs*

I groan as I hear the constant heart monitor beep in my ear.

"He is awake!"

"Oh good, it is about time"

"Shadow, lighten up, he took down an Egghead bot in one motion. We gotta stick around for someone like him!"

I grumble as I see everyone around me cheering.

"Hi everyone what did I miss" I say quietly as I get up painlessly, surprisingly enough. I see my Mom, Dad, Sonic, Shadow, my crew, even Tails and…. a pink hedgehog. Our eyes meet and I look away as quickly try not to let the fluster of emotions hit my face.

I didn't know there were female Mobians!

"You fought really well out there Ryan, I wanted to stick around to thank you for the help out there. You have a great deal of people who are also thankful" Sonic says with a smile. I look to see all of the smiling faces and I smile back warmly.

"Not a problem, it was the least I could do" I say happily as my mom runs for the hug and holds me tightly. "H-hi mom I am sorry for the scare" I say with a nervous chuckle. She does not even say anything as I can feel her tears reaching my fur. I hug her back and smile. "So what happens now Sonic?"

"Well you see the real Egghead is at his base. However, the blizzard even has him stopping so we were invited to wait out the blizzard. We are heading out to stop whatever he has got planned as soon as possible." He states quickly, like a tactician doing a textbook attack.

"Well I am glad you guys can stay for a while, it is nice that I finally see some other people who are like me in a sense" I say with a smile.

Tails pipes in, "I have never seen a Mobian wolf, do you mind if I ask you a couple of questions?" I nod in response looking over to everyone else. They all know that I had finally gotten my wish to meet others like me, even thought I had no idea as to what I was or if I even was a Mobian.

The next couple of hours consisted of me being introduced to Shadow, Tails, and Amy. I told them my story of crash landing and being raised by my family. I told them of my dream to move on to bigger things and how I wanted to be like them. In hindsight, I probably should have calmed down and not told them everything but Sonic, Tails, and even Amy seemed interested. I was flattered to think they were interested in a nobody such as myself.

"That is insane that you have these ice powers! That is so cool!" Tails almost yells in excitement. I laugh as I start to use my powers to mold a small Tails ice sculpture. He stares in awe at the detail as I put it on the table.

"So, can I help you guys? I am not asking for anything else I know you have a world to protect, but I am glad to offer myself to stop the Egghead myself" I say with determination. Sonic looks over to Shadow and Tails. Tails smiles nodding in agreement and Shadow only deepens his frown as he looks directly into my eyes.

"You being really stupid kid. You do not have what it takes to deal with this kind of problem." Shadow says coldly to me. I stand up almost instantly.

"Kid? A man comes here to my home, to my family, threatening to take it all away and I do not have what it takes? Shadow I understand I don't have your experience of saving the whole god damned world, but come on man" I say clearly angry. He only sighs.

"I am not going to have you learn what I mean" he replies as he walks off. I look back to the others as Sonic sighs getting up and dashing to his dark counterpart.

"Okay, so I am trying my best to understand this, but Amy, it is Amy right?" I ask quickly. She quietly nods, avoiding eye contact with me.

"Why come out of your way? I mean do not get me wrong the more the merrier for a fight against the Robotnik, but why go out of your way to here?" I asked with concern in my voice, I am not sure why it came out that way, it wasn't on purpose. Man my mind was racing, I do not understand this feeling I have.

"Well you see Ryan, I have my heart set on Sonic, he has saved me a lot of times" she replies with more enthusiasm than before. I feel a slight numb feeling in the middle of my chest and almost some disappointment as well.

"I really love him for all that he has done for me. So where he goes I will go!" she continues in her excited tone. I laugh a little as a scowl forms on her face. "What is so funny?" She asks annoyed at me.

"Well, I do not want to be rude, but that seems like a little much, but I should elaborate. I was always taught that love forms after being with someone for a long enough period of time or that was I was taught growing up as a pup. It is one thing to appreciate the savior for saving you, but to be in love seems extreme. I mean if you haven't gone out with him how can you really know anything about him?" I reply calmly staring out into the storm. I turn to her and see that clearly I hit a nerve because there is a tear that must've fell. She does not even respond and gets up to leave.

"Amy wait don't go! Ryan did not mean to upset you!" Tails calls out to Amy as the door slams closed. I sigh face palming myself.

"Christ, I really need to think about how I say some of this stuff. I hope I did not upset her that much" I say as I look to Tails. He turns to me giving me a reassuring smile.

"I would not get too worried, she is aware of the dilemma, but she is upset just because of her recent attempts to be with Sonic have not gone her way" he replied. I still felt like a jerk for being that honest right of the bat. I could see that I was going to have think of a proper apology.

Days would pass by quickly as the blizzard was forecasted to last for the following 2 weeks. This was a little bit unnatural considering the time of year, but nothing could really be done. Tails and I got along very quickly considering his background in mechanics. For such a young fox he was quite the genius, he could talk my ear off about every machine I worked on and make sense of it before going over my head. Sonic and Shadow were on constant patrol and plotting for how to take down Eggman, and Amy I have still yet to apologize to because she avoids me frequently. Almost two full weeks had past. So my family decided it was best throw a good luck party for Sonic and his gang to wish them luck in their fight against Eggman. I only wish I could join them. I want to learn about the rest of the world, to travel, to see what I can learn about Mobians and see if I can find more wolves like myself.

Day 13:

"Alright Ryan I managed to nag Shadow to a certain extent" Sonic walked into the common room where I was found reading on the sofa. I close my book looking at him with a slight grin to be seen.

"There is a catch to that statement. What does Shadow want me to do?" I reply as calmly as I can. I can feel the excitement of being able to work with this team.

"Well… he wants to spar with you to see what you can do. Are you okay with that?" Sonic mentioned hesitantly. I could see in his eyes he was disappointed that was the best he could do to convince Shadow to let me be a part of this adventure.

I give off a large grin, "Oh that is perfectly fine by me. Also Sonic, do you have a minute to talk. I do not want to invade into your personal life, but I want to ask you about something because I am curious as to why. Why do you avoid Amy so much?" I ask. I can see how uncomfortable he has become.

"Well, the thing is that Amy only seems into me because I saved her. I do not want to start a relationship with anyone just because I am a hero. There is nothing really to come out of that. Anyway I won't delve any deeper into the matter, Let's go to the gym." He replies in a rushed way. I can understand why, but I cannot help but think Sonic at least is into Amy a slight bit. But, this was not my place to get involved. I would be lying if I were to say that I was not slightly jealous. Amy seems like a really nice girl, despite her obsession of Sonic. We run over to the gym where I see Shadow standing in place waiting.

"What do you know you decided to come. Now look here I do not have time to bul lshit around. Eggman has only gotten more serious and I intend to stop him. So here are my rules" Shadow says coldly holding up a stop watch. "Hit me, you have 3 minutes. I won't use any guns, just hand to hand combat. Do what you want. Go!" he yells as I charge at him. I throw my punches, left, right, left, right as he smoothly dodges only giving me an arrogant chuckle like he was amused.

"C'mon wolfy, all bark and no bite?" He says calmly as he give me a swift punch to my gut, knocking the wind right out of me. I push myself up launching at him

"Chaos Control!" Shadow yells as he disappears on me in a flash of light.

What that doesn't make sense. None of that makes sense. I frantically look around.

"One minute left" his taunting voice right behind me. I spin myself icing my foot to move faster as he dodges me completely. My anger is getting the better of me now. I cannot let him get the better of me, I didn't care how many times our world was saved. I am not having any of his sass. I throw ice shards in all directions at him forcing Shadow to jump in order to dodge. While doing so, I already pounced into the air running right into Shadow's path. As if in slow motion I see the anger in his eyes as I give him a large shit-eating grin clocking him square in the jaw. Shadow falls first but flips himself to land on his feet as I land on all fours. Shadow growls looking me in the eye. I growl in turn with a smile standing up victorious. I stop to bring my hand out.

"Thank you for giving me the chance Shadow, I know you may not be thrilled working with the unknown, but it is a honor to help some of the world's greatest heroes. I can't tell you how much I looked up to you guys growing up!" I say almost with a child's enthusiasm. Shadow maintains his grimaced look but shakes my hand in turn walking off. Sonic walks over patting my shoulder.

"I would be lying if I didn't say I was impressed. Shadow underestimated you giving you the chance to prove him wrong. Hopefully the same advantage can be used against-" Sonic says as an explosion goes off. We both look at each other panicked and run straight to the explosion.

"Ahhh! Sonic help me!" Amy screamed as Eggman's laughter could be heard. Gun fire went off as some of the crew members were mowed down. I watched in horror. The bullets flew faster than I could see but the holes forming in all of these innocent people could be seen as blood spewed everywhere. A blur whizzed by destroying the robots as Amy's captor flew off into the blizzard. The moans of the injured could be heard even through the rage of the storm. Med teams were running in as I looked to see who was hurt and who needed help. I picked up some metal sheets putting them back in their place with ice to raise the temperature of the room. Sonic and Shadow were quick to help move a lot of people into the med bay. After getting the last injured man to the medical bay, then came the true horror, the dead. 25 people had a variety of bullet wounds, most of them had passed through but 11 were unlucky to need to go into surgery to remove bullets. In addition to the 25 another 10 ten had died. As I jogged my way back one of the guards stopped me.

"Jack what's wrong? Don't you want help carrying the bodies over? They need to be moved so we can mourn and clean" I say with a sad tone. He looked back at me with sad and hurt eyes. I gasp under my breath realizing what this meant.

No, no, no, that can't be Mom and Dad should've been on the other side of the complex away from this mess. They can't be… no, no, no, no

I push Jack off me looking to make sure I was wrong. God what I would do to be wrong. I see some of the engineers, two security guards, a kid for Christ sake, clutching a toy, but then…. I fell down to my knees. Right in front of me were my parents my father on top of my mother as if he tried to shield her from the attack. There so many holes in my father's back, I could not even see his face, just the blood slowly pouring out staining his lab coat a horrible blood red shade. And then my mother I could see into her cold dead eyes. I let out a horrid scream that I did not think I could possibly emit but didn't care as I embraced them both clutch on for dear life. I could feel the cold blood get soaked into my fur, but I didn't care. My heart had just been shattered into pieces, my entire existence, taken away from me.

Eggman….. Eggman did this!

I cried as I saw the tears fall into the pooling blood. I didn't notice anyone else. No one else mattered right now. I couldn't stop crying as I felt a hole dig deeper in me consuming my very being.

Hooray Chapter 2 completed! Not hooray because of a horrible tragedy. ;_;

I want to thank everyone once more for taking the time to read this developing story. If you read my original work, which was a long time ago….. please let me know if I have improved at all over the years! I am hoping so, hahaha. Anyway as a heads up, I am about to go into some serious school crunch time. So chapter 3 I will be working on but it will not come out nearly as quickly as this past chapter. So please have a little patience. I really appreciate it!