Sorry it's been so long! Classes just started and everything is so busy!

They ran silently to the heavy metal door of the warehouse. Thermal scans had shown no warm bodies near the door, but they weren't taking chances knowing what might be inside. Using a small dental mirror, Steve checked under the door for trip wires. When he was sure there weren't any, he motioned his team forward. They split off into two teams as they had planned and went off down their own hallways. Chin and Kono's team headed toward the east wing and Steve and Danny headed to the west. The inside of the warehouse wasn't the rusty and dilapidated building they were expecting. Not on the inside anyway. There were freshly painted white walls and spotless floors. Without a sound, Steve and Danny crept through the corridor towards the heat signatures they had seen. When they reached a big metal door, Steve repeated the process he had with the first one while Danny covered the hallway behind them with his gun. When the door was deemed safe, they opened the surprisingly unlocked door and it swung open silently on well-oiled hinges. Beyond them was another hallway that led into a long room. The peered around the corner and, whatever they were expecting to see, this wasn't it. The room had at least forty beds lining the wall, each with an obviously infected person on it. Danny recognized many of the faces from the photos of the missing families. He looked at Steve, then assessed the doctors in suits similar to their own that were bent over their "patients". They had agreed to try to take prisoners so they could get some answers, so they aimed only at the non-lethal parts of the doctor's body's and fired their silenced handguns. She doctors went down silently, their gas masks preventing their screams. Steve and Danny's masked were several generations ahead of the doctors, so they could talk as much as they wanted. They bent over the two doctors and quickly bound their hands and feet and emptied their pockets. There were no IDs, but they were confident that the doctors would turn up in some database. While Danny applied pressure bandages to the minor wounds on the doctors, Steve radioed Chin.

"Chin, do you copy?"

"Loud and clear Steve. We've taken down at least ten hostiles. Duke says that according to thermal scans, we got all of them on our end. How did things go with you guys?"

"Danny and I found some weird stuff here. All the people from those missing families are here. They're infected and, most likely part of an experiment. Call in Hazmat and have them prepare to quarantine the place. Danny, what's-" Steve lifted his finger from the talk button on his ear piece. He had heard an almost inhuman growl come from one of the beds. He looked up just in time to see two of infected men who looked like a mechanic and a business man in a suit break out of their restraints with almost superhuman strength and lunge at them. Danny raised his gun, but he was a fraction of a second too slow and the two men tackled him to the ground. The body armor protected him from breaks to the skin, but the impacts of the savage punches the infected men landed still forced the air from his lungs. They were clawing at every part of him trying to find a bit of exposed skin. Steve drew his gun and fired at one of the men. Mechanic didn't so much as flinch. He just looked up with angry eyes and a moment later he was on Steve landing blow after blow. Both Steve and Danny grappled almost uselessly at the impossibly strong men. After about ten minutes, Chin and Kono raced into the room and landed head shots in both Mechanic and The Suit. Steve and Danny lay panting on the ground and Chin and Kono rushed to them.

"You guys okay?" Kono asked.

"Peachy." Danny gasped. He guessed he had at least a few bruised ribs.

"We…we need to get out of here before any of the others do that." Steve said when he found his voice.

Both men were helped up and limped out of the room quickly while Chin and Kono closed the door at the end of the hall. At the cousin's insistence, they got checked out by the medics on scene. They both were told that they had bruised ribs and would be sore for a while which came as no surprise. Chin drove them back to HQ in the Camaro and Kono drove the van back. When they were all seated in Steve's office, they tried to put into words what they had found.

"Forty people." Danny said slowly. "These bastards infected forty people and turned them into homicidal rage monsters. What the hell?"

"I don't get it either. HPD ran all of the people we found there and none of them came up with any terrorist affiliation, but this is very clearly a terrorist plot. Duke and his guys went in after us with Hazmat and they found plans to release infected people all over the island. Are we dealing with a new group or something?" Chin asked.

"I don't know…" Steve said, opening an email from the team processing the warehouse. "Oh my God…" he breathed.

"What?" Kono asked, noting Steve's fearful tone.

"The techs at the warehouse emailed me the research those doctors did on those people. It's awful. They don't become enraged and combative until about ten days after they were infected. Before that, they just get sicker and sicker. Look at his stuff." He said, turning the screen so they could all see the grotesque pictures of the ill families.

"Who the hell are these people?" Danny asked. Kono's phone beeped.

"I believe I can answer that." She said. "DNA results came back on the doctors. Alice Harmening and Silas Marchbanks. They work for a company called GenTech. They're Biomedical researchers."

"That certainly gives them the resources to do this." Chin remarked. Steve nodded.

"This definitely makes you theory look better Danny. We need to look into GenTech and see if anything weird is going on there." Chin and Kono exchanged a look, then looked at their team mates.

"Chin and I will take care of that. No offense guys, but you got your asses kicked today and you're barely awake. You're no good to us if you're passing out from exhaustion. Go home and get a few hours of sleep. And before you argue, this step is only research, which is what Chin and I do best. We'll call you if we get anything, but in the meantime, go home and sleep." Kono ordered forcefully. They had no choice but to comply. As they sank into their beds in their own homes, each man could not help but notice how awful they felt. Their heads pounded, muscles ached, and they could barely breathe. They chalked it up to the fight earlier, never noticing the minute scratches on their necks right where there was a gap in the body armor.

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