Chase

Chase is a major antagonist (Ambiguously Evil or Chaotic Stupid) of the Dragon Wars. He was second-in-command of the DCMSA and has made frequent attempts to capture Thunderstrike. He is also shown to be a profligate aficionado, according to Thunderstrike.

Biography
Chase first appears in the first book when he meets with Aracari, who accuses him of messing up for not noticing that the magic tracker was malfunctioning. Chase detects Thunderstrike and pursues him through the jungle, only to be tied up. Later, he attacks Thunderstrike and Stormblazer in a hurricane. The two dragons escape Chase, leaving him to fall off of a cliff. The third time, he tries to arrest Leaf and Thunderstrike in the Spires. Leaf attempts to kill him, but Thunderstrike says to let him go.

Later, after Chase captures Stormblazer, he interrogates Leaf, Thunderstrike, and Stormblazer for information. A few days later, he brings them to Aracari, claiming that they are psychotic and should be under higher security. Aracari says to let them go, making Chase accuse her of being merciful. Being outvoted, Chase leaves the room and the dragons go free. However, he later pursues them in the mountains and near the river. Leaf attacks him openly but is knocked out. Chase leaves but then doubles back and abducts Thunderstrike during the night. Thunderstrike, however, escapes.

Chase meets Thunderstrike a few nights later, but is put under mental strain and passes out. He awakens to see a young dragon named Celeste who says that she will operate with him as his assistant. Chase reluctantly agrees and is met by Aracari. She tells him she is giving him another chance to capture Thunderstrike, which he gleefully accepts.

Chase sends Celeste to spy on Thunderstrike. However, she goes back to the base early and admits that she failed. Chase reprimands her about losing their chance and the next day, they attack Thunderstrike and his friends together. Chase hits a rock and Celeste brings him back to base. Annoyed and angry about the events of the day, Chase goes outside to check a gas tank and is knocked out and interrogated by the leader of a tactical espionage team known as SHADOW.

After being recruited and discovering evidence of Thunderstrike's presence near a battlefield, Chase and Celeste fly to the field and Chase says that he recieved a confirmation message from a spy saying that Thunderstrike did indeed come to the field. Celeste tries to convince him that Thunderstrike was just doing a flyby, but Chase disregards this and goes to warn several other fighting dragons that a "dangerous felon" was in their midst. Thunderstrike then made an "aerial stampede" ensue, causing Chase to get trampled and his access key destroyed.

Upon waking up from a bout of unconsciousness in the SHADOW base, he was fired indefinitely by the Commander, who told him that he was incompetent, and dragged back to the DCMSA where he worked for several months and slowly began losing his sanity as his insatiable obsession to capture Thunderstrike once and for all began to overwhelm his mind.

Several weeks later, a mysterious dragon called him and informed him that she was reinstating him. Chase immediately accepted this though without any idea who was calling. He arrived at the SHADOW base, dramatically announcing his return to Thunderstrike and then proceeding to attempt to arrest him but Thunderstrike instead ran off.

Later, Agent Procyon called a meeting, in which both Chase and Celeste were present, to give his squad and Team Thunderstrike a mission to find out who released a dangerous weapon which had been kept in cryogenic sleep for three months.

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Description
Chase has tan scales, grey horns, and a crest on his head that was described by Stormblazer to be "messy" and "fluffy", even going so far as to call it "cool", much to Chase's annoyance.

He originally worse the DCMSA uniform for a time but after being reinstated to SHADOW he switched to the standard-issue SHADOW gear.

Personality
Chase is arrogant, brash, and is constantly overestimating his own abilities, believing he alone is capable of capturing Thunderstrike and his friends. He also constantly tries to impress Aracari, saying multiple times that she has threatened to kill him if he does not bring Thunderstrike in, although he stopped having any contact with the DCMSA after he joined SHADOW. He is also impulsive, and belittling to people who try to help him. He was constantly rude to Celeste from the beginning, even though she wanted to help Chase.

He is also very radical in his strategies to capture dragons to the point of recklessness, willing to attempt dangerous forms of jumping and high-speed flight to catch up to someone. The Commander eventually told him that his "fist-first" methods were extremely dangerous in the field and this resulted in him being fired for a short while and dragged into the DCMSA again to work a boring desk job. However, he later rejoined after stealing several documents from his unsuspecting fellow employees.

In later books, he starts noticing his increasing depletion of sanity, but still seems to be unable to think before acting. He also realizes that Thunderstrike is trying to stop the war, but then figures that it is too late for him and his shattered mind.

Quotes
"If we were in opposite places right now, I would be contacting Aracari to tell her who I captured."-- to Leaf and Thunderstrike.

"It goes both ways."-- to voice

"THAT'S TERRIBLE!"-- to Thunderstrike

"Agent Chase. Leave a brief message. If this is about the refrigerator, I already bought it."-- to Celeste via answering machine.

"Thunderstrike, you-- ARE TOAST!!"-- to mirror.

"Ha! You must be mistaken because topics advertising evil dragons are not welcome here!"-- to Ancients.

Trivia

 * Celeste and Chase seem to have an ongoing dispute about a refrigerator, as Chase was annoying enough to mention it on his answering machine.
 * On multiple occasions, Chase found it necessary to lie to and ignore his superiors.
 * The commander finally achieved their goal of having Chase work a desk job.