A/N: Hello everyone! I'm back with another set of stories. I hope you approve of the name!

The forst one of this collection is some sort of filler for the race in 6X05.

Enjoy!

The mud is tougher than it seems

The race had been true to its name, but they were making good time. Danny was actually surprised that they seemed to stay somewhere at the top of the group, even if jumping over the obstacles and crawling through the mud had been incredibly unpleasant.

By his account they should only have a couple more obstacles before they were done, so that's what kept Danny going. Knowing that once they were done he could just take a warm shower and stay in bed for the rest of the weekend, or at least until he had to go visit Charlie.

They were working on a tough obstacle, all slippery walls and unstable footholds. Both Steve and Danny were at the top. While Steve directed Chin to the safest footholds and kept him from stumbling back down, Danny, too tired of this damn game to wait for Kono to find a secure foothold, just heaved her up to his side. He helped Kono to the other side while Chin was finishing his climb, and then noticing a group of women struggling with the same obstacle, decided to help a bit. By the time he had helped two of them to the top so they could help the rest of their team, Chin and Steve were safely on the ground and hurrying Danny to get down.

Just as Danny was lowering himself from the wall, a team of guys twice Danny's side rushed the wall, making it shake and causing Danny to lose his hold. He fell ungracefully to the mud, and felt the pull of his knee disagreeing with the rough landing, loudly. He dropped to a crouch, everything going quiet and fuzzy around him for a few seconds, until a big hand landed on his shoulder and brought him back to the present. "Hey Danno… you ok? Come on, we gotta move!" He heard Steve's voice next to his ear.

Danny couldn't really find his voice, just having enough presence of mind to keep breathing and trying to not move his knee. He heard someone moving to his other side "Hey Steve, I think it's his knee" Chin's voice said.

"Damn… Hey Danno, why don't you open your eyes and look at me, huh? Chin… See if you can find a medic around, would ya?" Said Steve's voice.

Danny hadn't even noticed that he'd closed his eyes, but he opened them again to see Steve's worried face. "There you are, Buddy… How bad is it?"

Before he could answer, Kono appeared, breathing heavily. "Hey guys, It's just that last wall, a 300 feet run and then we're done!" She said in excitement. Her face fell when she looked at Danny. "Oh no, Danny. What happened?"

Danny mostly ignored the questions from his teammates, focusing only on the wall a few feet from him. It looked awful, more slippery footholds and mud all over the place, but he'd be damned if he just ran and crawled through almost 5 miles of hell for nothing, so with a deep breath he squeezed Steve's forearm to catch his attention. I'm good… Just need a hand up, and probably a hand up that wall…" He said, nodding to the wall.

Steve frowned, not looking too convinced. "No man, we're getting you a medic, just stay put for a second…" He said gently, checking the wall behind Danny's back just in case someone tried to drop near Danny's position.

Danny shook his head, squeezing Steve's arm again. "I haven't gone through miles of this shit just to give up less than a mile from the finish line, now would you help me up before the Neanderthals from HPD catch up with us?"

Steve shook his head in amusement, calling back to Chin to help him with Danny.

The last wall and 300 feet run after that were hell for Danny, and he guessed for Steve and Chin as well, so the celebration after reaching the finish line has well deserved.

After the group hug, Steve and Chin picked Danny up again and carried him directly to the medics' tent. The medic poked and prodded at Danny's knee, asked a number of dumb questions and finally, cleaning up a patch on Danny's arm he injected something that made everything much better. Then there were more instructions that Danny completely missed, they wrapped something around his knee and suddenly Danny was standing with crutches, propped on the sides by Chin and Steve, and looking at a cheering crowd.

Someone took Danny's hand and made him lift a finger and when he realized the people in the crowd were taking pictures of them, he just took a second to make sure that he wasn't giving anyone the finger. It was all very confusing and it was over really quickly it seemed, because they were suddenly back in the medics tent and Steve was returning the crutches.

He could hear him talking to the medic, but only caught part of the conversation. "No, he won't need a bus, I'll drive him myself..." "Yeah his knee gives him troble from time to time, but it shouldn't be too bad…"

Suddenly they were moving again, but he was sitting on a wheelchair, and then he was inside the car. He turned confused eyes to look at his parter. "Shteve? Who won?" He asked, frowning a bit at how strange his mouth felt and at his inability to string a whole sentence together.

Steve patted his good leg, making sure that his seatbelt was secure before starting the car. "You won Danno, You won…" He said with a smile.

The End

A/N: So, I didn't particularly like how they turned Danny into the weakest link and the one that would slow them down, since he looks just as fit as the rest of them! And I was outraged at the lack of actual footage of the race and of Danny's injury, so I wrote this one to make up for it a bit.

I'd like to know what you think of it!

Thanks for reading!