A/N: I have a major thing for Fire and Firefighters! I wanted to work some Firefighters into this story at some point. Plus I needed to do something to get to the action. I hope you enjoy it. All forms of Fire for people to enjoy.
Chapter 10: Fire in Many Forms.
"We've got a meeting." Kono stated as she exited her office once more to find Chin, Catherine and Toast all suited up and ready for battle. "What's going on?" She asked as she was handed her bullet proof vest.
"This is just a precautionary tactic." Catherine explained.
"If you're going to leave us here to hold down the fort then we need a little something more then a firewall to protest us." Toast added. "Your computer system may be locked down but I'm not."
"Back up is on the way over here, and you'll be linked in with the computer with these." Catherine continued and handed Kono, and then Chin, an ear piece that looked like a regular blue tooth piece of equipment but they knew that would not be the case with Toast involved.
"Those have GPS, microphones, and mini cameras. The piece in your ear is the monitor. Whatever you see and hear, I'll see and hear, right here." Toast said an motioned to the table top computer. "The cameras are activated by tapping the control on the side, but the GPS will be constantly running for your own safety." he explained.
"Cool." Kono stated and clipped the device into her ear.
"Just to play devil's advocate here - what happens if something does happen to us and the device is lost?" Chin asked as he too clipped the device to his own ear.
"Lift your foot." Toast ordered and jammed what looked like a pin into the bottom of Chin's boot. "That's your secondary GPS unit. Unless you're abductor takes off your shoes, every step will be like a pedometer and will show a blip on my computer program - effectively mapping your every step on the island. You get one too, Kono."
"I feel like James Bond, how about you?" Chin asked as he looked to his cousin.
"I'm Miss. Moneypenny." Kono giggled.
"That's not all this stuff does. The video feed is directly linked to the computer system as well, as Toast said, but what he didn't tell you is that he will be able to run diagnostics the whole time - facial recognition, thermal and digital scanners in real time from those little devices. If a person of interest comes into your field of sight, we'll be able to tell you all about them in just a few short minutes." Catherine explained.
"If you're close enough to them I can even do a retina scan." Toast boasted.
"That is some technology, big brother."
"I just wish I'd have thought of it sooner so that I could have tried these prototypes out on everyone." Toast said with a sigh. "I have lots of time to tinker when you guys don't have me in the office, but my brain rarely shuts off."
"We'll get the others back here and equipped as soon as they are finished with the leads we have them currently tracking." Chin stated and headed for the door. "Keep that brain on high alert, Toast, and fill us in if anything comes up."
"You'll here it all in real time!" Toast responded and pointed at his ear.
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Doris and Duke made their way through the airport. They were followed by their armed guard and several other airport security officers as they made their way to the arrival gate. The plane bringing Lori Weston back to the island was on time and already down on the tarmac. The security detail was just for precaution but as the gate opened and the first passengers started to disembark, Doris caught a glimpse of some movement that made her uneasy.
"There are going to be too many people in here very soon." Doris stated to the security officer who was closest to her, and he looked at her with confusion.
She scanned the crowd, with one hand already on her weapon, while Duke kept an eye open for Lori.
The moment Lori appeared in the group of passengers, was the moment that Doris had been dreading and had made eye contact across the vast expanse of the gate area.
Gun shots rang out in the terminal as passengers scattered, hitting the floor and rushing for the emergency exits or any cover they could find. Some even ran back toward the plane and out onto the tarmac. People scattered and in the commotion the security detail rushed to protect Lori while Doris caught sight of the woman who had started it all.
"Gladys is here!" Doris yelled to her counterparts and then took off running.
Duke shook his head, scanned the crowd as bullets continued to fly - from both sides now - and rushed to back Doris up.
Lori was shocked for a split second by the commotion - like this could actually have happened in a secured airport - but was ready to join in if only someone would give her a gun, and as more officers and security arrived on the scene and tried to whisk her away, the more she protested and wanted to help.
"Don't separate us! Who was that crazy woman?" Lori asked as she was moved out of the terminal before she could protest any further.
"You mean Gladys? We were under the impression that you'd already be familiar with her."
"No, the other one who just took off running toward the guns that were firing at her. She went for the fugitives. She reminded my of someone." Lori stated.
"Oh, that was Doris McGarrett."
"That's why she was familiar."
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Steve reached Danny just in time to hear the click as the gates swung open into the next passage way. He jumped on Danny, forced him to the ground - stopping him from passing through the gates as a blaze of fire filled the whole passage before them.
The light and heat were blinding as they scrambled away from the flames and back to the wall as the blazing light disappeared as fast as it erupted. The wall of fire traveled way from Danny and Steve and showed them the next section of tunnel. In the flash of light, as the fire traveled upward, Steve was able to see just how deep underground they were and how far ahead of them the passage stretched out.
"Are you all right?" Steve asked as he felt his partner stir.
"What the hell was that? How did you know that was going to happen?" Danny asked and scrambled away from the gates and pressed himself against the wall.
"I heard the click. I've been trained to hear things like that and instinct made me hit the deck. I wasn't expecting it, I just heard it and it happened. I didn't know it was going to be fire. Are you all right?" Steve asked. "I know you aren't all right, all right, but I need to know if you've got any new injuries."
"My pride's a little bruised and I may not have eyebrows anymore, and my nerves are shot, but otherwise, I'm fine." Danny answered and Steve could tell that his partner was shaken up more than he was going to admit.
"Answer me, these riddles three..." The radio in the box crackled to life as Steve rushed for the contraption again, only to hear Gladys's maniacal laughter.
"What the hell do you want, Gladys?" Steve growled at the metal box.
"Nothing, nothing at all Stevie. This is entertainment. You on the other hand have two choices. Option A, is that you stay in the safety of your little cage until the rains come and wash you into oblivion. Option B, is way more fun - for me - and would have you entering my maze. If you really are as good as the government and the navy says you are, you should be able to navigate all the dangers in my temple of doom, but McGarrett, I warn you, you wont have much time. The rains they are a coming! It's in the forecast for today. Tick Tock."
"And if we do get out of here, what then?" Steve asked.
"Well it would seem that your people are on the case and I've given them every opportunity to catch me. If you get out, I'm sure we'll be meeting face to face, really soon. So, whats it gonna be? Oh, sorry boys, gotta run. I've been spotted!" Gladys stated, giggled as Steve heard gun shots over the radio and then they died and so did the connection.
5-0
Above the ground, on a part of the island that was still covered in lush jungled and tourist trails - in a place where flooding would usually be a problem if it weren't for the precautions taken by the tourism companies to give the water a place to go - a pair of hikers spotted a sight that was out of the ordinary for the location they were traveling through. The ground sprouted fire, and as quickly as it happened it died away again, and they rushed from their vantage point on a hill overlooking the valley, down to the place where they had seen it happen.
The fire had come out of a vent, a vent that ran through the valley underground and helped channel the rainwater to the ocean to keep the places as dry and accessible as possible.
Oddly, as the couple approached the vent, they heard talking coming from down below and knew that there were people down in the vent.
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Doris rushed through the crowd, pushing people out of her way, but never taking her eyes off of the woman she knew had taken her son. Gladys McMahon had seen the woman coming, had slammed the laptop she'd been using and stored it in her satchel as her lackeys opened fire again and they rushed through the airport trying to free their leader.
Falling in with the movement of the fleeing hordes, Gladys found herself almost face to face with Doris McGarrett, a woman she didn't know, nor had she anticipated such a woman, and in her panic she swung her bag and Doris grabbed ahold of it. Gladys felt the other woman's hand grasp her wrist while she aimed her weapon right at the other woman's head.
"Where is my son?" Doris hissed as Gladys stared in shocked amusement at the woman before.
"Is that who you are?" Gladys asked cheekily. "Mommy Williams, or Mommy McGarrett?"
Before Doris could answer, she found herself completely surrounded by lackeys - all of which carried weapons much bigger and deadlier than her own - but she wasn't about to let this woman get away.
Gladys, however, laughed in the face of the mother before her, jerked her arm away from Doris and swung the bag one more time. Doris reached out to block the bag with her arms - it was a reaction movement - and when she recovered Gladys was gone. She dropped the satchel and bolted just as Duke caught up to Doris and pulled her out of the line of sight of the other men with guns.
Again a firefight erupted in the airport until the HPD officers and air port security were able to end the stand off.
Three of Gladys's men were shot and killed, while a fourth was taken into custody. Countless men and women were injured and being assisted or taken to hospital, but by the time the smoke had cleared, Gladys McMahon was no where to be found, but Doris had managed to keep her hands on the bag and the laptop that was inside of it.
5-0
News from the airport came in by way of the emergency calls that echoed through the bullpen because of the open line Catherine and Toast were keeping just so that they would hear what was happening in the outside world. As fast as that happened, a news bulletin flashed onto every TV and radio station on the island.
"It's got to be Gladys!" Catherine heard Kono say to Chin over their communicators.
"We haven't heard from anyone out there yet!" Toast stated and heard both Kono and Chin react to the news.
"Stay on them. Call them. Radio them. Get me news!" Chin ordered. "Kono and I are going to stick to our plan. Redirect SWAT to help."
"It's like he knew you would say that!" Catherine stated as she answered the incoming call from Lou Grover.
"I don't know what the hell happened out here but that house is fully involved in a huge fire. We can't even get close to it!" Grover stated before Catherine could say anything.
"Fire." Both Kono and Chin gasped.
"It's all right, Lou. We need you to respond to the shots fired at the Honolulu International Airport. We're sure it's Gladys."
"Has this entire island gone mad?" Lou asked in shock.
"Nope, this is all the work of just one woman."
"That didn't make it better, Catherine."
"It wasn't supposed to, Lou."