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Danny was propelled back into the room with the others and fell as the door slammed shut behind him.

"Danny, you okay?" Chin helped him sit up and leaned him back gently against the wall.

"Yeah," Danny grunted.

"What did they do to you?" Kono eyed him up and down.

Danny grabbed her hand to stop from patting him down to check for injuries. More injuries, he mentally corrected himself as the gunshot wound flared with pain. "They wanted to show me off to Steve to make him cooperate."

"How'd that work out?" Lou half smiled.

Danny snorted. "About how you'd expect. He's pissed. And beyond worried. And almost out of his mind trying to figure out what's going on."

"And I bet our friends out there have no clue what they've stirred up." Chin nodded.

"They think they have us right where they want us."

"Do they?" Kono asked the obvious. "They got us easily enough. What about..."

Danny squeezed her hand, "Don't worry. Steve's instituted the protocol. Sounds like they want him to continue with the prison transfer today." He looked at Chin and Lou. "You're going to meet him for it, and then, he says, we'll all be let go."

"Right." Lou growled.

"We'll have to go along with it for now, and take our chances." Danny shifted and winced with the movement. "I couldn't tell where we are. Windows are covered."

"Okay, brah." Chin patted his shoulder. "Take it easy. Just rest for a minute. Your wound is bleeding again."

Danny grunted and leaned his head back against the wall, closing his eyes for a moment. He hoped Steve had instituted the protocol in time and everyone else was safe.

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Steve slowly drove towards Aiea and tried to gather his thoughts. He was having a hard time fine tuning the plan in his mind when the image of Danny's battered face kept interrupting. He assumed Chin and Lou were okay if their captor was allowing them to come to the prisoner transfer, but what about Kono? Was she injured too? Is that why she was staying behind with Danny?

Steve's thoughts swirled as he continued his drive and suddenly found himself at the designated location without remembering much of the drive itself. He checked his watch and looked around at his surroundings. He was sure he had a little time before Chin and Grover were brought to him. The prisoner transfer was scheduled for an hour from now, and it wouldn't take long to get there. That gave him time to think through his plan.

It wasn't much of a plan, really. Maybe just half a plan. Yeah, more like half a plan. He'd passed off the bag which included the equipment to track his phone and hopefully trace it back to whoever was pulling the strings. But he was pretty sure that person was nearby monitoring him and making sure he went through with the transfer. It was the other end that worried him.

Steve had no idea where the team was. Where Danny and Kono would be when the others were brought here. He had no idea how he would find them if things here went south. What if they didn't wait until after the transfer to kill them all? Because he was sure that killing them all was what they had in mind. Steve shook his head - best not to keep going along those lines.

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