Disclaimer: i do not own ncis only a couple of my own original characters

Authors note: Sorry for the long wait, my winter break ended and had a lot of work for the new semester. The next chapter will be up much sooner. Also i'm thinking about putting a poll up to see what you guys would like tony's Hero name should be. Anyway i hope you like the new chapter tell me what you think. One more thing the action will really start to begin next chapter.

Jethro stood perfectly still in the elevator, letting all of his thoughts run rampant in his mind. Mcgee found out the marines name was Col. Tim Gansert, just returned home from his second tour in Iraq. I have to talk to his superiors but he was defiantly Special Forces.

So, how the hell did someone take down a spec op like that?

Ding! The sound of the elevator door shook gibbs away from his thoughts. Stepping out and walking into the lab "Ducky, tell me what you have."

Standing over the corpse ducky turned around with ease. After all the years working with jethro, his sudden entrances no longer startled the good doc. " well jethro whoever did this is one troubled and highly trained individual. This man" pointing to the cadaver "was beaten to an inch of his life. Exactly an inch jethro! Whoever killed this man knew how to inflict the maximum amount of pain while still keeping his victim conscious and alive." The good doctor exasperated

"He, Ducky?" gibbs questioned his friend

"Yes, the suspect is most definitely a male. There were plenty of fist marks all over Col. Gansert. I measured the width and diameter and by the size is concurrent to a human male's. Also, I was able to extract a few particles from his wounds. I already sent them up to abby's lab so she can run diagnostics on it once she gets back from the hospital." The coroner turned his attention back to the beaten body, lost in thought.

After a couple moments of silence gibbs lost his patience and spoke up. Regaining Dr. Mallard's attention in the act,"Cause of death duck?"

"Oh yes." Grabbing a clipboard on a nearby desk, "Col. Gancert had 6 broken ribs, a fractured clavicle, ruptured spleen, tons of internal bleeding, and a broken nose and cheekbone! However, as brutal and painful as all that was, it wasn't what killed him! His Eyes were burned out of his sockets while he was still alive. See the slight scorched marks," using his pen to show the injured tissue to the agent. "Shortly after that the killer stuck a small knife like object into the eye socket and punctured the brain. The puncture was small so it took a full ten minutes for his brain to fully hemorrhage and die. It was a slow agonizing death Jethro."

Letting the information slowly sink in and a boiling rage slowly rise. This bastard won't get away from me. I'll kill him. Images of kate flashed before his eyes which just fueled his fury even more. Special agent gibbs was moving to leave, too put his anger to work when Ducky halted him by grabbing the sleeve of his suit jacket.

Dr. Mallard worried eyes came face to face with gibbs determined eyes. "Gibbs, this killer is trained, ingenious, and utterly ruthless. Catch him before he gets near our girl. I know ziva can take care of herself but, this man won't just attack her physically. He'll attack her emotionally and mentally. She's been through enough the past two years. She can handle anything but let's make sure she doesn't have to HANDLE this man!"

A small smile was all the reaction the former marine gave his medical examiner before leaving to continue his investigation. Hoorah

Once Gibbs was gone Ducky went over to one of his cabinets and pulled out an aged scotch and singled glass. Pouring a little then slouching down comfortably in his chair. In between sips "Colonel what type of demon did you see before the lights went out in those eyes of yours."

Hospital

Doctor Davis best walked into the hospital room looking down at a chart. "Well Anthony Dinozzio, how are you feeling?" Because he never looked up from his chart, he never saw a set of black pigtails coming straight at him. Dr. Best was accidently whipped in the face by the lab technician's hair. " Aghhhh" dropping his board and immediately clutching at his eyes.

"Oh wow I'm so sorry but Tony is sleeping peacefully and I didn't want you to wake him. Again I'm so sorry." She tried to comfort the doc

Waving her off, Davis reached down to regain his chart, "It's quite okay, don't worry about it."

"Are you sure your eyes are still watering. Awh, I can't believe I did that." Grabbing Davis's face and pulling him closer so she could better examine his eyes. She searched with the same intensity she would examine any kind of evidence.

A little taken aback by the invasion of personal space the doctor stepped back, breaking the grip Abby had on his face. After taking a second to reorganize himself Dr. Best addressed Mrs. Scuito again, " Don't worry about it, you were just worried about your friend." Taking his eyes of the vivid girl in front of him and turning it to his patient. "Has he woken up at all?"

Abby was about to answer but a groggy voice beat her to it. "Yea I woke up earlier for a little bit." Spinning around fast enough to give someone whiplash and then abbs launched herself in the direction the voice came from.

Tony found himself the recipient of a bone crushing abby hug and couldn't help himself from cringing a little thanks to his sore body. "Hey abbs"

Realizing his discomfort abby released her hold on him. "Tony, I was so worried about you. You know between you and gibbs I'm getting real sick of hospitals!" the lab techs voice was cracking under the pressure of her worry.

Ignoring the pain in his body Dinozzio pulled his adopted sister in for another hug. "Hey don't worry about me; you know I'd never leave you. Me and you have some unfinished business anyway. If I remember correctly we still haven't had our lord of the rings marathon and no hospital or crazy assassins are going to prevent me from that." Smiling he changed his voice to sound like golem before adding, "My precious."

Looking down into the emerald eyes of the man she thought as a brother she couldn't help but slightly giggle.

Interrupting "So Anthony, how are you feeling. I'm sure you're still experience some soreness but are you feeling any other kind of discomfort or pain?"

Breaking abbs hug again and sitting up in his bread. Squirming a little just to check out how his body was feeling. "Actually Doc I feel pretty good. I'm not even really that sore." Tony would usually say that to doctors no matter how he felt but surprisingly enough he meant it. He however did fail to mention the throbbing he felt in his wounded arm.

Knowing tony better than that, abby gave him a glare that would give the gibbs glare a run for its money. "Tony?"

Anthony could take a lot but like his boss he always crumbled when it came to one Abby Scuito. "Okay, Okay, I do feel pretty good. I'm really not that sore but my arm is throbbing some."

Abby gave her friend another look that translated something like Good Boy.

Dr Best walked over to the right side of the bed causing abbs to get up. He took the injured agent right arm slowly in his hands and began to unwrap the bandages. Once all the bandages were gone abbs grasped. She saw for the first time the deep puncture marks from the wolf attack. How can he his wound is only throbbing some?

Davis looked over every inch of the arm before addressing the ncis agent. "Well from the looks of it you're arm is healing much faster than expected. There's a few test I'd like to run given the unusual nature of your injuries but it can wait. You've been through a lot over the past 24 hours and probably just want to go home."

"Hell Yea" the agent said emphatically. Wow I can't believe I'm already allowed to go. I swore I'd have to escape before they'd let me go.

Chuckling slightly, "I thought so. I'm going to have a nurse readdress your arm and then you can leave. Now before I leave I have to inform you that you need to take it easy for at least a week." That extracted a groan from tony but the doctor ignored it. "Also I'll be prescribing you a couple of medications to make sure your wound doesn't get infected. Now you need to make sure you take your medication it is not optional."

"Don't worry he'll defiantly be taking them." A slightly accented voice spoke up from the doorway.

Tony looked over and saw his partner leaning against the doorframe, wearing just brown cargo pants and a tight fitting dark green t-shirt. The doctor could feel something change in the room as soon as she spoke up but decided to ignore it. "Thank you, that's good to hear. Now, Anthony one more thing."

Dinozzio wined "Something else, what are you trying to do to me? Kill me with boredom?"

Ziva walked farther into the room "Stop being overdramatic tony, it's not that bad."

"Says you Zee-vah," then something clicked in his mind "wait never mind I can finish watching the new magnum Pi DVD's I just bought. So what were you about to say?"

David couldn't help but shake her head at the childish antics of the one Anthony Dinozzio.

"What I was saying was about the tests I wanted to run. I'd like for you to come in two weeks from today for a checkup and those tests. However if you're feeling anymore discomfort or a spike in pain, I want you to come right to the hospital and ask for me!" The Doctor Ordered. I don't know why I was told to release him. I really should be tacking these tests now but, orders are orders and he should be fine till he comes back in.

"Yes Doc" Anthony had the urge to salute the man but held it in.

The doctor began to leave but was stopped by the darkly clad women in pigtails. "Thanks for everything and sorry about hurting you."

Davis charmingly replied "No problem, I'm glad I could help. Plus don't worry about it. It's not every day I get injured by a beautiful woman."

Blushing madly abbs couldn't get a word out in time davis was already gone. Ziva noticed the flushed cheeks and stored it into the, ask later section of her brain. "Hey abbs I talked to gibbs" those words held a deeper meaning that tony had no idea about. "He said he needs you back at the lab. I'll drive Tony home."

In A Private Jet

Abe was staring out the window of his jet. The view was breathtaking; Tel Aviv was spread out beneath his gaze. "Well it looks like we're almost ready to land Mr. Wolf; I expect you're ready to introduce yourself to eli."

The Israeli mercenary just nodded "Abraham I am ready. It's time Director David began fulfilling his part of Operation Hades."

"I couldn't agree more now hurry up and be my sword. You are the weapon that will change this world for the better."Eli is already under my control but I'd be a fool if I didn't send insurance.

Understanding the faith the man had in him caused wolf a moment of contentment before getting up and walking to the back of the plane. He reached into a locker and pulled out a parachute. Quickly putting it on wolf walked back over to the cockpit. Sparing one last look at his boss "I will deliver the destruction that purifies this world, I swear." Wolf opened the escape hatch before jumping out of plane down onto an unsuspecting Tel Aviv.

One of the pilots came out of the cockpit to close the hatch. "Sir we're going to have to make a short stop to refuel but we'll be back in Washington in time for your meeting with the senator."

The frog's son nodded in acknowledgment. The war has begun. Reaching for the airplane phone he began to dial. "Oh hello, Warden Cook. How are you? Excellent well I'm glad Rachel enjoyed her present. I know it's not every day your little girl turns twelve my good friend. Yes, I'm just checking up to see where we are on our package. I see so he should be arriving at the prison around midnight tomorrow. Alright good, just make sure he's ready for extraction once he gets there. Keep me updated if anything changes Warden." Hanging up the phone our mysterious villain train of thought went back to a name wolf mentioned. Tony Dinozzio, hmm I guess god has intertwined our lives tighter than I ever could have expected.

Ncis Office

Gibbs was standing in mtac with director vance waiting in silence for the screen to come on. Vance snagged gibbs immediately after he had left Ducky's lab. All vance told jethro was he and gibbs had a code red encrypted call coming in from mtac. Vance had no idea what the call was about.

Five seconds later the Secretary of the navy appeared on the screen. "Gibbs, vance it's good to see both of you but I wish it was under better circumstances."

The director of the ncis was in shock but he recovered quickly. "Secretary, what's going on and why the encrypted message?"

"This message includes top secret information and it has to deal with your investigation into the murder of Col. Tim Gansert"

Tony's, Apartment building.

After a twenty minute car ride in awkward silence tony walked into his apartment complex with his partner Ziva David right behind him. They got into an elevator riding in awkward silence again to tony's floor. After exiting the elevator tony couldn't take the silence anymore and spoke, "What's going on Zeev you haven't said a thing in the past thirty minutes. This isn't the first time you've seen me hurt. So what's wrong?"

Ziva and abby agreed not to mention what they saw to tony until they both had time to talk to gibbs about it. Hearing him say the words what's wrong almost broke her resolve. However, she was a trained operative and caught herself. What's wrong with me? I'm not acting like myself. In the back of her mind she knew it was because she was in love with tony dinozzio. Too bad she never listened too closely to what that part of her brain had to say.

Besides gibbs and abby, tony was the only other person who could read ziva. He could tell she was about to answer but bit it back for some reason. He could also see something was clearly bothering her. Before he could push his question further he was interrupted by his neighbor Francis Scott.

"Tony is that you? If it is you have got to check out the director's cut of the original Italian Job I just got." A man around the age of 50 stepped out of room 401 into the hall way. Frank Scott was a big man around 5'10 320 pounds. He was a round Pillsbury dough boy looking man but you could see the signs of former muscles. He wore glasses hiding the similar shade of emerald eyes tony had. Mr. Scott was also balding with only short gray hair on the edges and over his ears.

"Yea Mr. Scott it's me, can I get a rain check on the Italian Job?"

Hearing this startled the elderly man. Finally getting a good look he saw his neighbor standing next to a vivacious Israeli. "Oh, I should have known you'd only miss the chance to see a classic for ziva!"

Ziva looked at tony with a mix of curiosity and confusion before extending her hand to Frank "Hello, I'm guessing tony's mentioned me before but I'm sorry to say I don't know who you are."

A look was shared between the two neighbors that ziva couldn't help but notice. "I'm Frank Scott and tony always talks about his team and cases he goes on. He can't help it besides movies it's the only thing he cares about. Oh yea he also likes to talk about himself a lot but I'm sure you know that already!"

David could already tell she was going to like this man, "I know if he could tony would probably vote for himself as the sexist man alive."

"You guy's realize I am standing right here and ziva I should have you know I am in fact the sexiest man alive."

Turning and gave a light couple smacks to her partners cheek "Poor poor disillusional tony, and why wouldn't I realize you're standing next to me?"

Mr. Scott corrected with a fatherly town instead of Dinozzio, "It's a figure of speech it means were talking about him like he's not here. Anyway it was a pleasure meeting you." turning his attention to his neighbor, "Tell me next time ziva's coming over I'll make her my famous meatloaf "

Our future hero's face went white with apprehension "No it's alright, Mr. Scott I'll make you both dinner instead next time she comes over." Sharing a look with his partner that he thought only she could understand. His meatloaf is famous for how awful it is.

Neither of them could have guessed the overweight man could understand that look. "Hey My meatloaf is delicious tony. If you won't to talk about bad cooking, let's bring up the chicken piccatta incident last month?"

The former playboy didn't even question how Mr. Scott knew what he meant with his look. He was too focused on the accusation of him being a bad cook. "Hey that wasn't my fault, how was I supposed to know the chicken was bad when I bought it."

"It wasn't bad when you bought it but after lying in your fridge for a couple months's never being cooked can do that to food. If you didn't always order take out it might have been used earlier and both of us wouldn't have gotten food poisoning." Frank verbally fought back

Ziva chuckled at the argument going on between her partner and her neighbor. There like an old married couple but I wonder how he knew tony's look meant the meatloaf was bad, usually I'm the only one who can understand those….., and gibbs.

" You're never going to let me live that down will you, I already told you I'm sorry an why do you always have to bring up my love for takeout?"

"No I'm not and takeout isn't real food it's processed crap, you're still young yet you haven't experienced the quality's of a good home cooked meal often enough."

"Well if your meatloaf is what I'll be experiencing by home cooked meals I think I'll pass." After finishing his sentence tony's mind wandered for a quick second what it would have been like eating more home cooked meals but he banished the thought as quickly as it came up.

What he didn't realize was for the brief second the emotion of that thought changed something. Frank saw the brief hesitation and could have guessed what he was thinking after knowing him so long but was shocked to see what came next. His eyes changed from emerald to a bright yellow where his pupils were slanted.

It all happened within a fraction of a second before they turned back to their normal emerald glow but Frank knew what he saw. He'd been trained for years to notice things that happen quicker than most people could comprehend. "Tony did something happen today?

Ziva didn't notice the eye change in tony or the change in body language of frank because she was checking a txt she had just received from mcgee. Gibbs needs you back at the office now! However David was still paying attention enough to hear the abrupt change in topic.

Tony was taken aback by the swift change in conversation. Sighing he responded after a second " Well where do I begin?"

Interrupting, "You guys have something's to talk about. So I'm going to go. Gibbs needs me back at the office." Her tone changed into a more deadly and frightening one, "And you better rest, don't even think about working the case."

She said it with such finality he could help but nod. He waited for her to leave before he even thought that Bastard took a shot at you like hell I'm not working the case.

Frank stared at the ncis agent for a good while once ziva had left before speaking up, "What going on tony and what case?"

Tel Aviv Eli Davids bedroom

Eli awoke to a light going on next to his head. He reacted quicker then most people can even think thanks to years of training and experience. He reached under his pillow and brought out his pistol. But it wasn't fast enough!

Mr. Wolf snatched the gun out of the director's hand and delivered a quick jab to his sternum. "Hello Eli, It's been awhile."

Chapter Preview: Heroic Beginnings

Tony finally begins to take his first steps to fulfilling his destiny as a hero. An more hints to what Abraham is planning and what is Mr. Wolfs connection to Ziva and Eli.

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