Steve leaned back on the bumper, holding on to the antenna. He punched the back window twice before being forced to grab the side of the SUV as Sergius whipped around a corner trying to force him off. His left foot stumbled as the car hit a small hole bouncing the back-end. He regained his balance and punched the back window again, knowing he would end up breaking his hand before breaking the window.
Danny ran to his car with Chin and Kono behind him.
"I can't believe HPD doesn't patrol that area?" Danny criticized loudly, "It's not that big of an island!"
"It's mostly beaches over there," Chin explained, "Lifeguards patrol them and any business has their own security. HPD contacted Schofield-Waikane to inform them about Steve and Kari. They'll be there before HPD."
"Kono, keep trying to pick up the trace on Steve's phone," Danny said, reaching his car, "keep me updated."
"The last call bounced off a tower about two miles from where Steve said he was, but it's not picking up his reception in that remote area." She jumped in Chin's car.
"Keep trying. I'll take the lead."
Danny fired up the Camaro along with the lights and sirens and flew out of the parking lot, headed toward the Leeward side of Oahu. The last time he heard from Steve, he was yelling out Kari's name. The tone of his voice had sent a chill through him. He had thought he heard a gun shot in the background but couldn't be sure, but the panic in Steve's voice was telling him that's exactly what he heard. The call was dropped a couple of seconds later. He tried calling back but it wouldn't go through. He tried to keep his thoughts on the positive side, knowing Steve could handle any situation, but also knowing that his advantage would be slimmed some by the fact that he would never leave Kari, no matter what the circumstance. He knew that if Kari were shot, Steve would run toward her and not away, which would put him in the same line of fire. He shook his head, refusing to accept that negative outcome. He would drive up there and find them both safe. Steve would probably be standing over two dead bodies. He focused on that scenario as he slammed his foot on the gas, seeing a clear road ahead of him. The Camaro switched gears, pushing him into the driver's seat, as it resembled a bullet flying down the freeway.
Sergius turned sharply around a corner, trying desperately to shake him off the back. He knew that if McGarrett got a hold of him he was dead. Terrance was no match for him and he didn't know anyone who had ever challenged Terrance and won. This man had beaten him with little effort. He began to think that maybe Molly was right. He should have just let it go, but it was too late now. He had provoked a demon, and that demon was now on his tail looking for blood.
Steve braced his foot on the back windshield wiper and used the antenna to pull himself up on the roof. If he could get to the moon roof he was sure he could do some damage to Sergius. His arms barely stretched the width of the vehicle, allowing him to hold on and inch his way up. The curviness of the road only allowed the car to go so fast, but it was the sharp turns that were causing his biggest hinder. He had nowhere to brace his legs. He looked up just in time to see the security car come around the corner from the other direction.
Sergius looked in his rearview mirror seeing Steve's leg just before it disappeared over the top of the car. "Shit! Shit!" he yelled, knowing what he was planning. He looked up through the moon roof and reached over on the floor of the passenger seat, picking up the knife; when he sat back up in the seat he was face to face with another car. He slammed on his brakes but not before they hit head on.
The impact projected Steve off the roof of the SUV, flipping him in mid-air, landing him on his back on top of the hood of the security car. He gasped for air, feeling the wind get knocked out of him.
Sergius tore through the imploded air bag like a mad man with the knife. He looked through the windshield and saw Steve lying on the hood of the car. He put the SUV in reverse and backed up, quickly switching gears again. He slammed on the gas, going around the accident, barely missing the edge of the road. He glanced in his rearview mirror, smiling, feeling victorious that he had beaten the devil.
Steve slid off the hood of the car grabbing his chest, feeling the pain from the previous accident. He limped to the driver's side and pulled the door open. The security guard behind the wheel was dazed, but his eyes flew open in shock at the shirtless man standing before him. Half of Steve's face was still covered in dry blood and the look in his eyes made the guard almost wet himself. For a split second he thought he was a dead man.
"Are you ok?" Steve said, recognizing him as the same guard from the gate. The man just stared at him. "I'm Commander McGarrett with Five O." He said, assuming the man was all right; Steve reached in and pulled him by the shirt out of the car. "Do you have a gun and a phone?" He realized his seat belt was still attached to him. "Come on buddy wake up!" Steve yelled. "I need this car!"
The guard reached over undoing his seat belt. He pushed the airbag out of his face, "No, I don't have a gun." He got out of the car with the help of Steve's grip on his shirt. "I have a knife though." He reached in his front pocket and took out a small knife that Steve almost laughed at. It was smaller than a paring knife in a kitchen, but it was a weapon, so he took it. The guard yanked his cell phone off his belt and handed it to him.
Steve sliced through the air bag and slid into the seat, "Thanks," he slammed the door shut and backed up down the road about twenty feet, coming to a wide-open area. He slammed on the brakes, turning the wheel, doing a 180 and then stepped on the gas.
Sergius came upon the guard gate that was empty. He assumed that was the guy he had hit on the road. He stepped on the gas and broke through the wooden pole that blocked the exit. He turned sharply on to the main road and gunned it.
Steve came around the last corner of the bend and saw Sergius slam through the gate. "No! No, Kari!" he cried out, seeing her slowly slip away from him. He grabbed the flip-up cell phone and looked at it like it was a foreign object. He tried to keep his eyes on the road and maneuver through the phone trying to find the call button. He didn't even know phones this old were even around anymore. He came up to the gate as he finally got the numbers dialed into Danny's phone. He turned the wheels on the main road heading in the same direction as the SUV.
Danny picked up his phone seeing an unknown number calling, he set it back down, ignoring it, but then thought it be wise to answer, 'you never know,' he thought. "Detective Williams."
"Danny, where are you?"
He gave himself a quick slap on the back for following his instincts, and a sigh of relief knowing Steve was still alive. "I'm heading north on Farrington Highway I'm almost there!"
"He left the area with Kari in the back of a dark blue, GMC Envoy. It has a damaged front end. I didn't catch the plates but they should be passing you."
"Where are you?" Danny asked, scanning the cars headed his way.
"I'm driving a security car from Schofield-Waikane. Blue and white, another damaged front end. I have the guards cell phone too."
Danny slowed down, "Whoa, I see you coming right at me."
"I'm not stopping, follow me." He caught a glimpse of Danny as he flew past him. He looked in his rear view mirror and saw him do a quick 180 in the middle of the road. "You didn't see the SUV?" Steve said, feeling the panic set in.
"No, but Chin and Kono are behind me."
No sooner did Danny say that did he pass Chin's SUV.
"Hey!" Kono said looking over her shoulder, "That was McGarrett driving that car."
Chin pointed in front of him, "Here comes Danny." Chin waited until Danny passed, seeing him twirling his finger in the air, indicating for Chin to turn around. "Hold on cuz." He performed the same maneuver switching directions.
Kono held on to the handle above the door and once they were straitened out in pursuit of Danny she opened her laptop and entered Steve's cell phone, hoping to get a read this time on his whereabouts incase they got separated. She looked oddly at the computer map. "It says Steve's phone is about three miles ahead of us, but he's right there."
"Did you see Kari in the car?" Chins asked.
"No," Kono said looking at him with concern all over her face, "maybe she has the phone."
Chin looked over at her, "That must be who he's chasing."
Danny's voice came over Kono's police radio on her vest, "Danny," she answered, not waiting for him to speak, "I got a lock on Steve's phone. It's about three miles up the road. I think that's who Steve is chasing.
"He is! Dark blue GMC Envoy with a damaged front end. Kari is in the back. Don't lose track of that phone Kono!"
"No way, got it locked!"
Danny looked at his phone seeing the incoming call from Steve's phone. "I think Kari's calling me right now." He spoke into the radio, "Kono, Steve picked up a phone from the security guard. Get the last number dialed into my phone and call him." He hung up on Steve and took Kari's call.
Kari rolled over on her back, staring up at the ceiling of the SUV. She blinked repeatedly trying to come to terms with what was happening. She went to wipe her eyes when she realized her hands were tied together with a thin rope. She used her teeth to try to undo it but it was too tight. She sat up just enough to see over the backseat before the pain in her side forced her to lie flat on her back again. 'Steve,' she thought. The last thing she remembered was Terrance coming up the hill after him with a knife. She closed her eyes fighting off the sickness that engulfed her over the fear of him being hurt or worse. She was scared for him there was no doubt about that, but from somewhere deep inside a warm feeling surrounded her and she just knew he was alive.
She felt over her shorts remembering the phone, pulling it out with her fingers. She found Danny's number.
"Kari?" he answered.
"Danny," she whispered, trying to be as quite as possible. "Danny, I'm in the back of Sergius' car."
"I know honey, just stay calm. Steve isn't far behind and we're following him. "
She almost started to cry over the relief of knowing he was all right and that he was coming for her. "I don't know where he's taking me."
"It's ok, Kari. Kono has a lock on Steve's phone. Wherever you go, we'll be able to find you. Don't worry, we're coming."
She started to cry hearing the confidence in Danny's voice, knowing they would get her out of this.
Steve answered the incoming call hoping it was for him. The Farrington Highway was coming to an end and would meet up with H1. If Sergius got on that highway he could get off anywhere and be gone. He had the lights on from the Security car that people were respecting as a police car, but he felt he was still falling behind. "Danny?" he said in to the phone.
"Steve, it's Kono. Kari has your cell. She's ahead about two miles still on Farrington. I have a good lock on it. I'll give you updates on their location. We're gaining on them."
He felt a wave of relief knowing Kono was on it and would keep track of her. He couldn't figure out how Kari had got his cell phone, but once again she amazed him with her antics. He was proud of her for not panicking and taking the initiative to think ahead. He was going to get her out of this and tear Sergius apart for hurting her and Ally, and every other victim he had come in contact with. There was no way he was getting off this island alive. He pushed harder on the gas pedal, willing the car to go faster.
"He just reached the H1," Kono instructed, "heading toward Pearl City."
Sergius cut around people on the freeway making his way toward his condo in Pearl City. He had to collect his Passport and Kari's fake one before he could meet the plane at Dillingham airfield on the North Shore. He took the exit, heading down Waimano Drive. He still couldn't believe that Terrance was dead. It would be hard replacing him. He felt his anger building, cursing McGarrett. He couldn't punish him physically for the loss of Terrance but he would torment him by sending him pictures of Kari being punished all the way up to her final one. He pulled up to the security gate of his condo, punching in the code. The gate slowly raised and he glanced over his shoulder, assuming she was still out.
He parked in his designated spot on the second floor of the garage and turned off the engine. He looked around to see if he was alone. When he was sure there was no one else, he went around and opened the back hatch. Kari shifted her body and tried to kick him but he caught her legs and threw her back inside. He stepped up on the bumper and leaned in hitting her hard across the face with his fist, feeling a small justification for Terrance. When she didn't succumb to him, he hit her again.
The punches dazed her. She felt blood coming from her nose and could taste it from her lip. She felt the rag over her mouth again, the same as before. She knew that smell; it was the same drug that he and Terrance had used on she and some of the other girls in Russia when they misbehaved. She held her breath trying not to inhale the toxic substance, but the ample amount that he had poured on the rag was ingesting into her nose and mouth regardless. She pretended to go limp and felt like her lungs were going to burst she wanted to breath so badly. He finally released her and she took in a slow calculated breath, fighting off the feeling of sleepiness from the amount of the drug that had seeped into body.
He pushed her further inside the car when he spotted the cell phone. His eyes flew open in anger and he snatched it from her hands, checking the recent call history. He growled seeing that she had called someone. He ran to the edge of the parking garage looking down over the cement wall to the street below. He threw the phone as far as he could, watching as it landed across the street in some bushes at the office building next door. He ran back to the car and slammed the hatch closed, setting the alarm as he ran for the stairwell to the upper floor condos.
"Steve," Kono instructed, "he got off at Waimano Drive, heading north.
He looked up seeing the exit sign indicating it was one mile away. He was closing in; she wasn't that far ahead of him anymore. "We're almost there, Kono." He looked in his rearview mirror and could see both Chin and Danny still behind him. He swerved around a van just missing it as he sped ahead of it and then switched back into the right lane and took the exit. He barely slowed down at the red light before taking the left, heading north on Waimano Drive. "
"They stopped!" Kono blurted out, "about a mile up the road." she kept an eye on the tracker, switching to a satellite visual. "It looks like they went in a building. Wait, it's moving again." She watched as the tracker signaled a slight movement and then froze in the same spot, blinking its location. "Ok, turn right on Hoolana Street. It shows them outside a building on the right side of the street."
Steve spotted the street and took the sharp right and slowed the car down, "I'm here. I don't see them Kono! Are you sure?"
Kari heard the doors lock as Sergius set the alarm. She rolled over, pushing herself up so she could see out the window. She felt disoriented and dizzy from a combination of being hit by Sergius and the drug. She saw him running away from the car and knew that with the phone being her only link to Steve and now that connection lost, that this was going to be her only chance of escape. She got to her knees and pulled herself over the backseat. The doors were locked and she couldn't get her eyes to focus on the buttons. Out of anger and frustration she began to bang on the armrest angrily with her tied fists. She heard the pop of the locks and pulled on the handle. The car alarm went off as she fell out on the ground, putting her hands out in front of her to break the fall. She hit hard moaning from the pain in her side as she rolled over on her back.
She looked around for help but saw no one. She used the door as leverage and pulled herself up, fighting off the fatigue, pain and dizziness that were gaining momentum. She stumbled away from the blinking lights and loud noise coming from the car. She needed to get as far away as possible before Sergius heard it and came back. She followed the garage driveway around the corner, and just kept running, trying to keep her balance on the slight incline. The pain in her side forced her to stop once as she leaned against another car, catching her breath.
She looked up, hoping to see someone, anyone and saw the gate that led to the street. It was an exit out of the garage. She pushed herself off and ran to it, realizing it was locked. She pushed the buttons on the security code knowing she would never be able to open it. She grabbed the bars, shaking them, trying to scream, but her voice was barely audible. The tears of frustration began to pour out, knowing she was trapped and that he was coming for her. She fell against the cement wall and sank down, succumbing to her pain and hopelessness. "Steve," she mumbled, "where are you?"
Danny and Chin pulled in behind him as he got out of the car. "Go around the other side," he ordered Chin, pointing to the office building, "Danny, you go around this side." He pointed to the other side of the condo building. They all split up.
He ran up the street from where he had just come, checking windows of the building. He looked across the street at the parking garage, scanning the building when he heard the car alarm. He crossed the street and went up to the gate, seeing the security code access. The alarm sounded like it was coming from the second floor. He grabbed the bars of the gate, peering inside when he saw her sitting on the ground, slumped over, just five feet from him. His heart almost leapt out of his chest he was so overjoyed.
He squatted down, reaching his arm through the bars, "Kari!Kari!" He couldn't believe she was right there, so close he could almost touch her, but that comforting feeling quickly faded, knowing he couldn't get to her.