Ryder couldn't sleep that night.  He was still thinking about all the stuff he went through.

Why me.....

he thought to himself as he tried to get comfortable in bed.
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It was 9:20 in the morning. The sunrise shone through his closed blinds. Ryder was on his gaming PC playing a game on Twitch.

Then, Chase walked in through his open door. "Hey, Chase." Ryder smiled as he looked at him. Chase was sad.

"Ryder..." Chase shuffled his paws. "Chase? What's wrong?" He asked.

Chase sighed and jumped on his lap. Ryder smiled, took his hand, and brushed his fingers through chase's fur.

Chase closed his eyes and sighed. He could hear music coming from Ryder's gaming PC.

The music he had on was a song called So Sick by Ne-Yo. Chase looked up at the paused game of the Pokémon TCGO on his screen.

He turned his chair back to the desk with Chase still on his lap. Then. He broke the silence. "Um... Ryder, I'm sorry for what I said to Marshall..." Chase sighed. The boy smiled and pet his pup gently.

"Chase... I forgive you. But you'll have to say sorry to Marshall for what you said to him." Ryder said. Chase looked up and smiled.

"Ryder? Are we going to look for him today?" He asked. His leader nodded. "Yes." He said as he got up and changed his clothes.
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Breakfast was eaten, and they were back on the road again to find Marshall. Chris was driving on the streets as they looked for him. Ryder was now texting Alex.
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Alex poured out food for Marshall. Then he got a text. He read it. Hey, Ryder. Is something wrong? He texted. A few minutes pass. Then he got a text from Ryder.

Alex looked at the text. Then typed something back and sent it to him. Then, Marshall walked up. "Hey, Alex?" He asked.

"Hey, Marshall?" Alex asked. "Yeah. What's up." He asked. "Ryder's on his way. I texted him."

Marshall backed up. "If Chase Is with him. I don't wanna talk." Alex knelt beside him. "Don't worry, Marshall. It'll be fine." He said.
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Ryder and the others were back In Adventure Bay. Chris stopped at Mr. Porter's café. Ryder stepped out. His crutches under his arms and he wore his tight boot. Ryder walked to Mr. Porter's restaurant.

Then someone walked out and held the door. "Thanks," Ryder said as they walked inside.

Chris walked in also. "I'll wait here, Ryder." His father said. Ryder nodded and walked in farther. Ryder saw Mr. Porter taking orders so he secured to walk up to him.

"Hey, Mr. Porter!" He said. Mr. Porter looks and smiles. "Hey, Ryder!" He said. Mr. Porter looked at the boy. He noticed that he had a cast on his leg. "Ryder! What happened?!"

"Well, after the accident with the Headquarters I broke my leg." He said. Mr. Porter nodded "Oh, is Marshall available? I want to talk to him." Ryder said. Fixing his jeans. Then, Marshall walked up.

"Marshall!" Ryder said, kneeling to his level, hugging his pup. "How are you, Marshall?" Ryder asked. "I-I'm good." He said nervously. Ryder smiled as he sat on the floor.

"Marshall..." Ryder said. Marshall looked at him. His blue eyes looked into his former leader's brown ones. "Yeah?" He asked. Ryder smiled softly as he scratched him behind the ear.  "Why did you run away... I want to hear it from you." He said sternly, Marshall looks at him again and sighed. "Chase... He said something to me..." Ryder looked at him again and nodded. Telling him to go on. "He said that I can't do anything right... and... I called him. Called him..."

"Called him what, Marshall?" Ryder said. "Marshall... you can tell me... I'm not going to be mad at you... now, what did you say?" Ryder asked. "A... A Sussy Baka..." he said, sighing.

"Why did you call him that?" He asked. Marshall could hold it in any longer. He jumped on Ryder and buried his face into his leader's chest.

"Because!" He choked a sob. "He said that I can't do anything right, Ryder! Why did he say that?!" Ryder was wondering that himself.

He was going to get to the bottom of this sooner or later, Ryder picked up his fire pup and they went out of the restaurant, Mr. Porter helped Ryder by taking his crutches and putting them in Chris' car. Then. Ryder and his team headed back to Adventure City.