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Chapter 1
McGee, Ziva and Tony are frantically looking for the mainframe in the pump storage facility while Gibbs is watching them from MTAC.
"Are you sure we're going the right way, McMap?" complained Tony.
"Yes, Tony, I'm sure. This GPS is kinda old, and it doesn't work very well, but we'll manage. So, stop complaining!"
"Both of you shut-up!" Gibbs stated into the microphone.
"Yes, Boss," the guys said in unison. Ziva laughed as they made their way in the maze.
Suddenly a large explosion went off, making everyone draw their guns and point it at the direction of the noise.
"Booby traps," McGee said as he breathed a sigh of relief and holstered his weapon.
"Are you guys okay?" asked Gibbs.
"Yeah, just peachy," Tony coughed as he and Ziva also put away their guns.
"The traps are all over the place, guys, so we have to take caution," McGee stated as he pointed to the GPS showing red dots in every different place.
The team runs around looking for the mainframe, seeing that their time is getting shorter and shorter every time they hit a dead end. The program was going to being in three minutes and McGee felt like they were just going in circles, not getting anywhere.
Finally, McGee was tired getting nowhere, and when they got to another dead end, McGee kicked down the wall, which suddenly set an alarm. He jumped, but kept going, Ziva and Tony following close behind.
"This is getting us no where, McGee, where are-" but his sentence was cut off when a door slammed shut and separated him and Ziva from McGee.
McGee jumped and looked up from the map. He turned around, noticing that Tony and Ziva weren't behind him and that a door was blocking them.
"Dammit," whispered McGee. "Tony! Tony, can you hear me?" he yelled
"Yeah, I can hear you, are you alright?" Questioned Tony.
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine. I'm just gonna keep going, alright?"
"Yeah. Yeah okay, just leave us here then. We'll be fine stuck in the middle of nowhere," Tony responded in a sarcastic tone.
McGee rolled his eyes in annoyance as he turned to keep going. Suddenly steam sprays out on him and sparks start flying everywhere. McGee grunts and and spins around not able to see anything.
"McGee! What's going on?" Gibbs shouted into the microphone.
"It's nothing, Boss, just another booby-trap. I'm going to switch to video, I can barely see a thing."
McGee turned the video feed on so Gibbs could try and direct him to the target. Alarms are going off everywhere, indicating another breached firewall. Dizziness was starting to set in as McGee was getting confused in the steam and alarms.
In about 2 minutes, McGee finally found the mainframe room. He glanced at all the computers and it's millions of wires.
"This may take awhile," muttered McGee to himself."
He noticed that the countdown was getting shorter. It was now at 00:57 seconds and he had hours of wires to look at. He groaned and started pulling them out.
All of a sudden, there was a huge explosion and the screen goes white. Gibbs can't see a thing. He gasps, going pale and hardly breathing. He heard McGee grunt and crash after the explosion, but he didn't hear anything after that. It was silent besides a ragged breathing noise coming from the other end.
"McGee! McGee can you hear me? Tim! What happened? Answer me, McGee! Tim!"