Hey, I feel like this one won't turn out as great as it is in my head, but I'm hoping it won't be too bad lol. Hope you like it.

Its before episode 11 of season two, where Mac has just gone through the whole losing Zoe thing. So its kinda a tag to War Room + Ship.

Disclaimer: I don't own Macgyver or any of the characters

Chapter 1

This was it. It was finally happening. Mac was currently unable to 'macgyver' himself out of this situation. He didn't think it would happen, his grandfather had always said to him how nothing was actually as impossible as it seemed, not if you put your mind to it.

Except he had been through every solution he possibly could and each one was a dead end. Granted his brain wasn't working as a hundred percent as it normally was considering his condition but now it was entirely up to his friends to rescue him... he just hoped it was soon.

That morning

It was 6:30am on a Saturday and Mac had been running for about an hour now. He hadn't been able to sleep and he knew the best way to get out of his own head, to compartmentalise, was to run. As he ran flashbacks of Zoe dying in front of him played in his head. It replayed over and over again and as his pace quickened the flashbacks hit him harder.

Eventually, his body took over and his legs stopped, he leaned his hands on his knees and caught his breath as sweat dripped off him. He checked his watch and planned to make it back home by at least 8 so Bozer didn't know he hadn't slept all night. That way he can avoid the constant cooking to make him feel better and he won't call Jack to go all mother hen on him.

Mac reached home at around quarter to 8. He put on some coffee in the pot, turned it on and went for a shower.

Once he was out and pouring himself some hot coffee he got a bad feeling in his gut.

"Bozer" he called walking towards his room.

He knew on a normal day Bozer wouldn't wake up before at least 9 but something felt off here. He knocked on the door and nothing. Bozer was an extremely light sleeper; he knew this from when he came back from Afghanistan and Bozer was there in an instant when he had a nightmare.

He opened the door and froze, there was blood everywhere he wanted to take a step forward to check if there was a pulse on the limp body of his best friend, his brother but he couldn't. He was stuck staring at Bozer eyes open lying in a pool of blood.

Suddenly Jack's voice broke the silence. Mac jumped and turned around "Jack!"

Jack stared at him "you did this you know. You got him all tangled into your life and now look."

"I'm sorry. I didn't want it. I was meant to protect him. I should have saved him" Mac rambled

"Yeah like you were supposed to save Zoe, but you couldn't, as usual."

"Jack please" Mac felt himself suffocating in the words jack spoke, he couldn't breathe and felt his world fall apart.

Suddenly reality hit him and he gasped out loud. Blinking several times he realised he wasn't actually at home. He couldn't tell if it was a dream or not, was Bozer okay? Where was he? The questions were now drowning him.

He closed his eyes knowing the panic wasn't helping. He focused on his breathing, evening it out.

Okay now think clearly. He said to himself. He opened his eyes and looked around. It was terrifyingly dark and small.

He was in some kind of wooden crate or something. He then noticed his lack of clothing; he was simply in boxer shorts and covered in sweat, most likely from his nightmare because it was freezing. He felt the dull pain in his left thigh where he assumes he was injected with something, which was probably why his head was throbbing. He lent his head back down and took another deep breath hoping he could figure this one out but before he knew it he pulled back into the blackness.

Phoenix foundation

Think tank somewhere in LA

Jack and Bozer made their way out of the labs, where Mac was supposed to meet them, towards the war room due to a text from Matty. They were deep in conversation about a robot apocalypse where once again Jack was trying to convince Bozer how they would take over the world and no one was safe.

"Jack that's just crazy" Bozer said opening the door.

Just as Jack opened his mouth Matty's stern voice cut him off "took you guys long enough"

Riley laughed as Jack huffed and looked at her and then it dawned on him he didn't see Mac's smug face in the corner bending paperclips. He frowned maybe Matty let her off after the last few days.

"Where's Mac?" he said eyeing Matty who was at the screen

"That's what this is about" she said sighing and turning around.

Hearing this was about Mac tingled Jack's spidey senses and he moved forward waiting for Matty to continue. Matty tapped something on the screen and turned back to them waiting for them to watch the video.

It was a man dragging a green back, and clearly there was someone in it. He opened it up and Jack literally felt the tight knot in the pit of his stomach getting tighter and tighter.

"Matty what is this?" he asked breaking the silence. Matty didn't answer and let the video carry on. The man grabbed Mac pulled his clothes off and stuffed them back in the bag. He then carelessly kicked the limp body into the already dug up hole in the ground. There was a loud thud and the man looked right into the camera as he jumped into the hole and grabbed a large wooden piece and drilled it shut. He then got out and shoveled the dirt above it.

As the digging carried on Matty turned back to them and Jack took a seat on the armrest of the single sofa with his head resting in his palms and his face red with anger and fear.

Bozer looked petrified and Riley was typing stuff "I can't do it. Whoever he is he covered up his tracks really really well." she said breaking the silence.

"He was wearing what he wears to run in that video. Which means he didn't make it back home after his run." Bozer said

"I'll try and follow where he could have been taken" Riley answered typing as fast as was humanly possible

"Jack" Matty said walking towards him

"When did you get this?" he asked looking at her

"It was left on a phone in a gift box on my desk this morning."

"Can I get to the phone" Riley said looking up

"Yeah. I mean Jill already went through it, but I'll have forensics bring it down for you" Riley nodded and got back to her work.

"How long before he suffocates? Matty we need to find him. Now" Jack said standing up

"And we will Jack. But we won't waste any time running after dead ends." she said trying to push her worry and emotions down and take control.

"Mac was seen running back towards home at around 7:30 according to a traffic light he passed. But I checked the next ones and he was gone. So between these two locations he was taken" she said as a location circle came up on the large screen.

"I'm gonna try and find other cameras around from shops and restaurants so we can see if I can find him."

"Riley you have to hurry please" Jack pleaded

"Jack I'm going as fast as I can"

"I know, I know" he muttered walking around

"Can you locate his phone? Matty do we have any potential suspects? Are we doing everything we can"? Bozer rambled.

"I assure you Bozer phoenix's top priority is looking for Mac" Matty replied

"His phone's been wiped completely. I can't even place his last location with it" Riley answered.

Just then Riley stood up with excitement "got it."

Balancing her laptop on her waist she pressed a button to get it up on the larger screen. They all once again looked as Mac was the subject of the video playing. He was running clearly sweaty when out of nowhere he got knocked of course by the guy in the previous video. The man was wearing all black including a hat low down enough to cover his face to a point where Riley couldn't run facial recognition. Mac was able to throw a punch in making Jack proud for only a second before he saw Mac slowly lower to the floor as the man had jabbed a needle into his leg. Mac struggled for about two seconds longer before his body gave out and he went limp.

"Wait go back" Bozer said standing up. Riley began rewinding the video "there" he said stopping her moving to the screen. He pointed at the man's arm "look at the mark on his wrist" he turned to Jack and realisation hit him. "Aaron"

It was about three months ago where Matty had sent them on a mission in Peru. It was the normal stop the bad guy save the world thing they did every time. And as per usual their plan went of course wand they were left improvising. Phoenix had found intel on a large amount of chemical bombs being taken to a warehouse in Lima, Peru. It belonged to a gang led by a man named Aaron, also the son of the vice president of Peru. Aaron wasn't so thrilled that his father chose politics over his family and made this gang his family instead. The gang all had a marking, although instead of getting a basic tattoo they all had a sign burned into their inner wrist. Aaron had allegedly killed his step mother and was currently planing on placing bombs at the next press release his father would be attending. Jack and Mac had been sent there to stop this. They were able to arrest almost three quarters of the gang after Mac found a way to stop them, but Aaron got away. Clearly he's keen on his revenge.

Sorry it's a bit short, but hopefully it gets better than this over the next few chapters...