I would have had this finished sooner if I hadn't caught a bug over the weekend. But, I'm feeling better now.

I also had ABSOLUTELY no ideas for chapter three! I had a dream of half of it and Diefenbaker_Girl helped with with the rest! TYK Dief_girl!

Chapter 3: Brave

Harry, MacGyver, Fraser, Ray Kowalski, and Ronnie sat against the edge of the ship, handcuffed to the rail.

"Look," MacGyver turned to his friends and grandfather. "I'm sorry about all this. This is my business, not yours."

"It's alright, MacGyver. We'll figure something out." Fraser reassured him. MacGyver scanned the room several times before speaking again.

"Ronnie? Are you wearing a hair pin by any chance?" MacGyver asked.

"Yeah, I am." She shook her head until it fell out. Then, Ray kicked it over to Mac.

"Perfect!" He leaned forward and kicked it behind him.

"Your gonna pick the lock?" Ronnie asked. Mac nodded. Everyone was free after a few minutes.

"Greatness! Now what do we do?" Ray helped Ronnie up. "Go kick these creeps in the head er what?"

"Ray? Don't look now but, the creeps are behind ya!" Harry exclaimed.

"Oh," Ray turned around and put himself in front of Ronnie. "When I said you were creeps, I er... meant it in a good way. It was kinda, ya know, slang. Uh," He looked down.

"Oh, really? Cause we never heard you call us creeps, until now." The brothers cornered Ray and Ronnie against the side fo the ship.

"Hey, this is all a misunderstanding, right?" Ronnie poked her head out from behind Ray.

"I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to stop." Fraser ran between Ray and the brothers. "You need us to search your island, and we will, as long as no one gets hurt."

"Fine!" The brothers backed up and Marcus disappeared into a room. "But you need to keep brave spikey's big mouth shut, or he'll end up like the ambassador!" Paul threatened before following Marcus.

"Oh dear, I'm afraid he's killed the ambassador. Are you two alright?" Fraser turned his head towards Ray and Ronnie.

"Yeah, I think we're fine." Ray looked at Ronnie and she nodded.

"Is he gonna kill us like the ambassador? What do we do?" Ronnie turned her head towards MacGyver.

"We can't do anything now." Mac sighed.

"Why's that?" Harry scratched his head.

"We're here." MacGyver pointed at the barely visible islands in the distance.

xXxXxXxXx

The next day, early in the morning on the Bing Islands...

"Okay," Marcus and Paul threw shovels at everyone, along with the few other hostages already on the island. "You know what to do!"

"Wait." Ray mumbled. Harry, Mac, Ronnie, and Fraser all gave Ray that "Shut up if you want to live" look.

"What?" Paul walked over to Ray. "What is it now?"

"You shouldn't be making woman work for ya. It's not right." Ray looked at Ronnie and the two other scared woman already on the island.

"Oh, now you're questioning my judgement, eh?" Paul and Ray starred at each other for a good ten seconds before he punched Ray in the gut. Mac and Ronnie caught Ray as he fell back.

"You never listen do you?" Ronnie forwarded Ray's comment on her yesterday.

"You're right about that." MacGyver and Ronnie stood Ray up.

"Are you ready to work now?" Paul threw Ray's shovel back at him.

"Yeah, fine."

"Good. Get to work everyone!" Paul and Marcus walked into a nearby cabin.

"Ray, everything is fine." Ronnie put a hand on his shoulder. "Just do what they tell you to, okay?"

"Okay, Ronnie."

"Come on let's go." MacGyver turned towards the trail that the other hostages were walking down. He turned around and noticed no one was following him but, everyone was starring at him. "What?"

"Um, I know we've only known you for a day but, it's just that," Ray mumbled on.

"We're expecting more from ya!" Harry blurted out. "That's what yer trying to say right?" Ray nodded.

"I'll think of something. For now, we better get moving. We don't want to get Ray in any more trouble." He gave Ray a recognizable look that they gave him earlier.

"Ha ha ha!" Ray laughed sarcastically. "I can handle myself just fine, thank you very much." Ray walked ahead of the others and abruptly stopped.

"Ray?" Fraser was concerned about his partner. Ray's face was pale. Then they heard a rattling sound.

"S-s" Ray couldn't even say it. "S-s-s-snake!" Ray jolted back and ran right into Fraser. Exposing the huge rattlesnake to everyone.

"Ray, Ray, Ray. Hold still!" Fraser put his hands on Ray's shoulders to keep him still. "Hold still and the snake will leave us alone."

"How can we hold still we're gonna be eaten by a snake?"

"No we're not. Just calm down Ray."

"Ray, hold still." MacGyver made his way to the front of their group. He pulled a swiss army knife out of his pocket. "Ronnie, do you have compact in your bag?"

"Yeah," She dug threw her bag for a moment and tossed the compact to Mac. MacGyver used his knife to pry the mirror out of the compact. He tilted the mirror towards the snake and the sun reflected a circle of light at the snake.

"What, blind him?" Harry asked.

"Either that or the heat will scare him away." MacGyver continued to tilt the mirror at the snake. The snake wiggled around until he decided to slither off the path.

"Good job, MacGyver." Fraser congratulated. "Shall we press on?" Fraser took the lead and everyone followed him.

"Yeah, good job." Ray said hesitating back and trying to catch his breath.

"You okay?" Ronnie put a hand on his shoulder and smiled at him before they joined the others.

"Yeah, I'm uh fine, just fine." Ray returned the smile. He wasn't fine though. He was worried now. How was he supposed to protect his friends if he wasn't even brave enough to cross a snake?

xXxXxXx

It was nighttime... Everyone had been searching the island all day. They we're given little to eat and were sent to bed to search the island more tomorrow. No one was tired though. Mac sat in his bed trying to think of a way to get his new friends back home.

"Mac?" Ronnie sat down beside him. It was so dark he could barely tell who she was.

"Ronnie?"

"Yes, it's me. What are you doing?"

"Thinking. If we don't leave now they'll kill us."

"I've never gone threw anything like this before. It's quite exciting actually." She laughed a little. "But, I'm worried about Ray. I love him, I just," She sighed "I'm worried about him."

"I know, from what I've seen, he's got a temper issue?"

"Yeah," She forced herself to laugh again."He always has. He's just trying to be a hero, he means well."

"I know he does. But, his bravery is gonna get us all killed." He tried to look at Ronnie through the dark.

"You guys know I'm still awake, right?" Ray said threough the darkness.

"Uh, yeah, we knew." MacGyver said sheepishly. Him and Ronnie felt another person sit on the bed.

"I'm sorry, I don't know what I'm thinkin' most of the time." He sighed. Ronnie put a hand on his knee.

"It's okay, Ray." She kissed his cheek.

"Don't worry about it. All we need is a plan."

"MacGyver." They felt a fourth person sit on the bed. It was Fraser. "I have an idea."

"Fraser?" Ray asked.

"Yes, Ray."

"Okay, just checking."

"What's your plan, Fraser?" MacGyver asked.

"Tomorrow, we depart from the others and head for Puerto Rico."

"Puerto Rico?" Ronnie asked. "How do you know where Puerto Rico is?"

"On the way here I calculated the distance of our departure and the direction we we're traveling in to find the nearest island to escape to." For a moment, everyone was speechless.

"Okay." MacGyver broke the all awkward silence. "That's, uh, great!"

"How do we get there though?" Ronnie asked.

"I saw a trail that branched off to the East. Will that take us to Puerto Rico, Fraser?"

"Yes. That's perfect."

"Will you take me with you?" Someone else sat down on the bed.

"Harry?" Mac asked.

"No, I'm Anton Lou Fray, the French Ambassador?"

"They said you were dead." Ray whispered.

"They lied! They wouldn't dare lay a hand on me. I'm they're ticket to millions!"

"We'll be happy to take you with us Mr. Lou Fray." Ronnie said. Fraser remained silent.

"Okay, good, we leave tomorrow!" MacGyver announced. "We'll send back help for everyone else. Get some rest tonight, you'll need it." Everyone left Mac's bed and returned to their own. Fraser still remained oddly quiet.

xXxXxXx

"Okay, you know what to do!" Paul threw shovels in front of everyone. "Same thing as yesterday. You find anything, you tell us, if you hold out on us, we have a nice burial ground for ye." He snickered. The gang walked into the trails.

Time went fast, they moved swiftly up an unexpected mountain.

"Where's Lou Fray?" It had just occurred to Ray that he wasn't with them.

"He didn't show up when we left. We gotta keep moving." MacGyver pushed forward. It wasn't that he didn't care, he would come back for him. There was no doubt about that.

"Well," Fraser started. "I thought about it last night, I think he lied to us about his identity."

"What do you mean?" Ronnie asked.

"He didn't have a French accent at all." Everyone turned towards Fraser.

"You couldn't have said that last night, son?" Harry said.

"Well, I wasn't positive yet. It just occurred to me that I had heard him on TV before. The voices don't match.

"Great, we better get moving then." Harry encouraged everyone to move faster. Suddenly, they heard a clicking sound.

"What was that?" Ronnie asked.

Fraser squinted down in the bushes below. He could see two people there possibly. One of them looked like one of the brothers and the other looked like the guy that was supposed to be Anton Lou Fray. One of them was holding a dart gun aimed right at MacGyver. "Look out!" He yelled and pushed Harry and Ronnie down.

"Mac!" Ray yelled and tackled him to the ground. They nearly fell of the mountain as the men in the bushes disappeared. Fraser sprang down the mountain and ran after them.

"Everyone okay?" Harry helped Ronnie stand up.

"I'm fine." Ronnie said.

"So am I. Thanks, Ray." Mac addressed Ray as he was still on top of him. "Ray?" He rolled Ray off of him to find a dart in his neck.

"Ray!" Ronnie ran over to him.

"I can't move." Ray's eyes looked clouded over.

"That was really really dumb, Ray." MacGyver leaned over him and examined the dart.

"Just trying to even out the score a little" He said quietly.

"You're gonna be fine, okay." Ronnie slid her lap under Ray's head.

"I'm gonna have to pull this dart out."

"Yeah, I figured that." Ray sighed.

"Hold on, baby." Ronnie grabbed his hand. Mac pulled the dart out and Ray moaned before losing consciousness. "Mac, he'll be okay, right?" Ronnie said with tears in her eyes.

"Yeah, Ronnie. He'll be just fine." She sighed and Harry put his hand on her shoulder. Mac wasn't sure if Ray would be okay at all. He had to say that to Ronnie.