"The Mask"

This is another CSI:NY/Flangell re-write of a story by the same title. As always, I am using as much of the original story as I can. You will notice that I use Sargent Lukela, Max, Charlie, and HPD members a lot in these re-writes, that's to balance out the larger CSI:NY cast.

My Characters: Detective Chad Harrison, Nick Waldman, Brandon Pauley, Guy Nichols, Adam Fuller, and Pete Zimmerman.

Due to the relationship between Flack & Angell, I may insert an established relationship between Kono and Charlie Fong. We'll see how it goes.

This story kicks off with the Five-0 Task Force taking a divide-and-conquer approach on a case as they work with Detectives and Officers of HPD.

"The Mask" (Five-0 style)

HONOLULU, 6:45am...

Officer Kono Kalakaua and Detective Chad Harrison, accompanied by two HPD officers, were about to execute a search warrant. They had a lead on their perp and needed to grab him while he was still sleeping, since he'd probably been up partying all night. Serving an arrest warrant at 6:45 in the morning was not fun, especially when compared to her original plans of surfing with Charlie this morning, but at least they would have the element of surprise and it looked like they were going to get back to the precinct before it started raining.

JUST 20 MINUTES LATER...

"You go ahead and respond to the call, guys. Harrison and I will take him in." Kono said to the two officers who had accompanied them, as a call came over their radio.

The officers radioed in their 10-20 as Kono and Harrison continued escorting the squirming perp between them.

"Ya gotta believe me, man. I didn't do it." Pete Zimmerman said in protest as they put him in the back of their car.

Harrison was in the back seat with the perp and Kono had just gotten in the driver's seat, when suddenly a bullet came through the center of the front windshield of their car. Kono went straight for her gun as she turned around to see Detective Harrison was hit in the chest. She was reaching for the radio to call for backup when two men opened the two front doors of the car. With one on each side of her, she could only point her gun at one of them. Since the one at her driver's side door was already grabbing her, she fired and grazed the one that had come at her from the passenger side door. It was only 6am, so the streets were still fairly quiet, but the sun was now up and she could see they were both dressed in all black; pants, long sleeved shirts, gloves, even ski masks. There was nothing to identify them.

"Drop it! Drop it and get out!" The one at her driver's side door ordered as he held a knife to her throat while dragging her out of the car after she dropped her gun down at her feet. If her gun could not be in the safety of it's holster, at least she wanted it as far away from them as possible.

Kono was mad, really mad, and the new moves she'd been working on at the gym was about to come in handy as the next several minutes looked like a two-against-one kickboxing match. The two men were more interested in just getting away, that is until she pulled off one of their ski masks. That's when she looked up and saw a third masked man standing above her pointing a gun at her. Her own gun.

TWO MINUTES LATER...

"9-1-1. What is your emergency?" The operator asked.

"We need help here! These men, they just shot him, he's still in the car. We can't tell if he's alive. And the lady, they just... they just took her!" The citizen rambled on.

"Slow down, ma'am. I need you to slow down and tell me where you are." The operator instructed.

"East 35th & Hillman. Hurry!"

7:42am - AT THE SCENE...

Chin ran his hands through his hair in frustration as the ambulance pulled away with Harrison. He saw Steve and Dany ducking under the crime scene tape and quickly walked over. "They took her. They took Kono." He blurted out as the two men approached him.

"What have we got for leads?" Steve asked in a calm but serious tone, wanting to give Chin something to focus on.

"Witnesses say she fought with two of the men, then a third one pointed a gun at her, cuffed her, and forced her into a white van with dark windows. That's it. That's all we've got. No license plates. Nothing. And now it's raining hard, washing away evidence." Chin said in frustration.

"There's always something, Chin. Always. We just have to find it. But you're right about the rain, so let's hurry." Danny assured him.

CHAPTER 2 UP SOON.