1"How long did the doctor say the check up would last McGee?" Ziva said from her car parked with a vantage point of the ally. Her tone showed no sign of the internal battle she was waging in her head. She had noticed that Tony as well as Gibbs were not liking this mission. She also did not like this operation, but she would do her part and see it through.

"He said it would be about 20 minutes. Its only been 10 since Tony entered the building. Don't worry Ziva I am sure Tony is fine." McGee said doing a poor job of hiding his own worry.

"McGee what were you talking about with Gibbs and Tony earlier? Tony told me I should talk to you." Ziva said trying to change the subject.

"That was sort of a personal conversation Ziva. I don't think we should be talking about it during a mission." McGee spoke slowly.

Ziva could practically see McGee squirming in his van. The thought made Ziva smile, she would find out what they were talking about later. She turned back to the ally. She saw a truck stop at the back of the building down the ally. "McGee I have a truck stopped behind the building. Do you have eyes on it?"

"I do Ziva. It's a group of men loading the truck Looks like they are taking some of the old boxing equipment from the gym. Nothing is really standing out." McGee responded as he scanned the screens showing the ally.

McGee and Ziva watched the truck as it was being loaded. After awhile it was done and the men loading left in the truck.

"How long has it been now McGee?" Ziva asked. She could look at her cell phone but by now she was to impatient to think straight.

"Almost 45 minutes. Something might be wrong. I'll go and check it out. You call Gibbs."

"No they know your face if you go in Tony's cover might get detinated. You call Gibbs, I will go." Ziva said as she got out of the car. She grabbed her Sidearm and ran across the street. She side stepped around to the loading zone with her weapon drawn. She went up the stairs quickly and then stood next to the door way with her back against the wall. She opened the door with her gun at eye level. She burst in after the door was half open and did a combat scan of the hall way. No targets and no Tony. Her mind told her. She ran to the door on the right. That was the room that Tony was supposed to have gone into to. She whipped the door open and ran in.

As Ziva entered the room she saw four things. The dead doctor was one, a large mound of sand in the corner was two. The obvious signs of a struggle was three, and last was the absence of Tony. "McGee, Tony isn't here, and doctor Doe is dead." She said half shouting.

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"Gibbs I got something." McGee shouted. He picked up a wallet from under the desk. "It's Doe's wallet. Doesn't look like anything was taken from it."

"Bag it and get it to Abby McGee. Ducky what can you tell me.?" Gibbs was short with his words. His fear had been confirmed when he got the call from McGee. This operation was a bad idea and now he had an agent missing, and almost nothing but a dead body and a room that could be from a detective book. What the hell is this sand! He was angry mostly but scared also. He felt like a cornered animal. He needed to get back in control of the case if he was going to find Tony. He took a deep breath and walked over to Ducky.

"Looking at his blood shot eyes I would have to say the man was drugged first and then stabbed. I don't see any defensive wounds so our doctor was not able to fight back or didn't know what was going on until it was to late." Ducky spoke over the voices of the standard crime scan noise of cameras and field agents bagging and tagging evidence. "Jethro don't blame yourself this was a trap set by someone who knew far more then we did."

"I know Ducky that's what makes me mad. And what is all this sand here for? Gibbs asked the question to everyone as he looked around the room hoping someone could answer.

"I can answer that." The man who spoke was one of the people in the next room being questioned by an NCIS agent. "That sand is from a bag."

"A what?" Gibbs asked the man, his face displaying impatience and confusion.

"It's sand from a bag. You know a punching bag." The man explained this and pointed to one that was in the front workout section of the main room.

"Why would someone just leave the sand and not clean it up?" Palmer asked as he brought in the gurney with a body bag on top.

"So they could transport a body in the newly emptied bag perhaps." Ducky said when he grabbed the body bag looking over to Gibbs."Jethro I believe that is how they got Tony out of the building. They must have used a punching bag as a makeshift body bag."

"Ziva! Your with me. We're going back to base. We'll fill McGee in when we get their." Gibbs shouted as he walked into the ally.

"Gibbs I found this." Ziva walked over from the other side of the ally. She opened her hands showing Gibbs a pair of dog tags. They were Tony's dog tags. "They had landed in a small puddle. Which explained why the G.P.S. installed in them had slowly died."

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Tony had decided he didn't want to open his eyes yet. When he found himself out of control he discovered the best thing to do is to go with the flow. So he kept his eyes closed. Besides you can pretty much tell everything you need you need to know about a room using your other senses. The floor felt like concrete so he was most likely not in a place were someone lives. The air was a bit colder then normal so it was likely a bigger building with little heat. A warehouse would be a good guess due to the draft he thought. After a couple of minutes with his eyes closed Tony finally opened them so he could look around.

What he saw caused him to tilt his head in confusion. He was in a warehouse. He smiled at the small victory as he stood up and looked at the high ceilings and large hanger doors. The confusion part of his location what he was in a cage. Not a little cage but one about the same size of his first dorm room, however this space lacked the college charm. He had a small fold out bed and a chair. He walked over the chair and sat down. He still felt dizzy from the tactic they had used to knock him out. As he looked over to his right he saw similar cages constructed around the building. He counted about seven others but couldn't quite see all of them. After a minute he stood up again and started testing his cage. It was build solid and after about ten minutes of trying to find a way to break out he gave up and laid down on the bed. As he did this he noticed he was missing his dog tags. Gibbs is going to kill me. Tony thought and smiled. He smiled because he knew what this meant. His teammates had no idea where he was. So he was on his own till Gibbs found him. As he started to fall asleep again he said aloud. "I'm Jack's feeling of loneliness." After this he chuckled and slowly fell back asleep. At lest this time it was on a bed he thought.

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"Abby I need you to let go. I need to start looking for the truck we saw." McGee said while he tried to pry Abby out of her hug.

"Your right Tim! We need to find Tony and bring him home so we can yell at him for making us worry." Abby said launching herself into her work place. She started to type but it slowed down till it stopped and she looked up at McGee. "You think Tony's ok?" She said in a small quiet voice.

McGee was silent for a second, he knew he needed to focus Abby and that comforting her might help. Damn what would Tony do. As he said this he knew what to say. "Abby have you ever seen Tony not smile? We are going to find him. And when we do he is going to be fine, and smile and tell a joke." McGee said this and saw the change in Abby' face. She gave a half smile and then started to work. McGee turned back to the computer screen where he was working. Don't make me a liar Tony. He thought to himself as he brought up all the footage of the truck leaving the ally.

Later in the car with Gibbs & Ziva--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Gibbs was diving as fast as he could back to the lab. Ducky said he would have answers as soon as he could get the body on the table. McGee and Abby were already working on finding out everything there is to know about the truck. Meanwhile Ziva and him had nothing, They did know how they got the Tony out of the building, but the way they did it made him worry. It was just as Ducky had said. Someone was pulling strings and Gibbs hated being a puppet.

Ok well here we go this one may not be a cliffhanger but I know it left you with more questions then answers. Have to wait for the next chapters to find our more. And while you wonder what will happen next. Please R&R. A special thank you to ShadowWolfDagger for your support. you rock girl! I hope to update this story by midweek, but I also might want to start on my next story as well so it could be later in the week. We shall see. If I get a mass of reviews I might focus on this story ;).

Food for thought– What did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?