Couldn't leave you hanging for too long when there were ants trying to eat Danny now could I?

Thanks so much for reading and for the reviews everyone! Sorry if I caused anybody nightmares it was unintentional!

On with the story! Let's see how dinner... Oops I meant Danny, is doing!

Enjoy :)

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Danny screamed and thrashed around in the coffin, trying desperately to get the ants off of his legs. He had no idea what happened. One second he was just lying there and the next, he felt sharp stinging spreading all over his legs. He had looked down and started panicking immediately when he saw the ants crawling through the bullet holes and cracks by the destroyed light.

They were under him now but he'd lifted his head and was able to at least keep them off his face. The burning and itching in his legs was becoming unbearable. He kept kicking in the hopes that they'd get off of him and move on but they wouldn't budge.

"Get them off!" He shouted. "Somebody please get them off! Get me out of here!"
He tried to calm himself down from his sheer panic. He could practically hear Steve in his head. He knew exactly what his partner would say and what he was supposed to do right now.

Taking a shallow yet somewhat calming breath, he stilled his legs and tried to move as little as possible. He remembered talking to Steve once about one of his "classified" missions in a rainforest, and how the bugs didn't bite him as much when he kept still.

It took every ounce of his self control to keep himself frozen as he felt the ants crawl up and down his legs, but it did help with the biting... At least a little bit anyway. He tried to picture Steve, standing there saying something stupid like 'That's right Danno, just don't move buddy and it'll be okay. I had to deal with this for three weeks Danny, don't be such a girl. You can take it.'

As pathetic as it may be, picturing his partner actually helped calm Danny down. He remained still and kept his head elevated as best as he could. He just hoped his team got there soon because he was starting to seriously doubt how much more of this he could take. He could practically feel himself cracking like the glass that surrounded him.

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"That's right buddy," Steve whispered as he watched Danny go still on the screen. "Just don't move. I'm gonna get you out of there. I promise."
"We need to do something!" Kono cried out. "We need to do something now!"
"What?" Chin asked frantically. "What are we supposed to do? Steve? We can't just sit here and watch him anymore! We're out of time!"

Kono stared at her cousin with wide eyes. Chin Ho Kelly rarely lost his cool, and watching him lose it like this now was doing nothing to calm her already frazzled nerves.

Everyone was brought out of their cloud of blind panic when Kono's phone started to ring. She answered it quickly and put it on speaker.
"Go Fong," she said.
"Fire ants!" He shouted immediately.
"What?" Steve asked in confusion. "What are you taking about?"
"The ants in the coffin! They're fire ants!" Fong said again.
"There are fire ants near every rain forest in Hawaii Charlie," Kono said. "That doesn't help us find a location."
"No!" Fong insisted. "These ants are not the tropical fire ants in rain forests Kono, but a very rare type! Solenopsis Novemmaculata! They're especially rare in Hawaii because they don't like Hawaiian soil! You can only find them in specific areas where there are plant nurseries!"

"Chin!" Steve barked immediately.
"Already on it Steve," Chin said from the computer tale. "There are 11 nurseries on Oahu."
"Narrow down the list to the area we got on our web trace so far," Kono said excitedly.
"We've got six," Chin replied.
"Don't forget the 23 mile radius we got from Harris' truck!" Steve continued.
"I've got it narrowed down to one nursery! Danny's got to be here!" Chin said, pointing to an area on the map.
"Let's go!" Steve shouted, already on his way out the door. "Chin call Duke and have all available units meet us there! And call Catherine! I want ground penetrating radar on that area as soon as possible!"
"On it!" He replied, pulling out his phone as they quickly left.

The three Five-0 members raced out of HQ, intent on finally getting their missing piece back.

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"Pull off here Steve!" Kono called out, as they sped down the road with at least ten HPD squad cars and an ambulance behind them.

Steve quickly drove off the street and onto the dirt. "How close are we?" He asked. He needed to be there already. It killed him not knowing what was going on with Danny right now, even though they were so close to finally getting him back. It was already dark and according to Steve's calculations, Danny only had about fifteen minutes of air left in that coffin. Not to mention the ants trying to make a dinner out of him.

"Here's the nursery Steve!" Chin said. "Stop!"
The three team members jumped out of the car and the HPD officers soon followed.
"Alright," Steve ordered. "Fan out. Look for loose soil, anything that might have been dug up recently."

The HPD officers immediately spread out and ran in different directions looking for Danny.
"What about the ground penetrating radar?" Kono asked, as she went with Steve to join the search party.
"Catherine's working on it but there's a lot of land here," Steve replied. "She might need some time. But I'll dig up this whole damn place if I have to."
Kono nodded. "Let's go find him."

"Hey! Steve!" They heard Chin call from not far away.
They both immediately ran over to him. "What have you got?" Steve asked Chin where he was kneeling in the dirt.
Chin pulled a small, dirt covered cell phone out of the ground. "This was sticking out of the ground! It's the transmitter he used to send us the video feed of Danny," Chin replied. "He can't be far!"

Steve's phone started to ring.
"Catherine!" He answered. "Tell me something good!"
"I've got a signal!" Catherine said excitedly. "It's got to be Danny, it's just the right size!"
"Where?!" Steve asked. "Where is he?"
"I've got you tracked too, he's about twenty feet to the left of your location!" She replied.

Steve dropped the phone and immediately ran in the direction Catherine sent him, Chin and Kono hot on his heels.
He dropped down to the ground when he saw the pile of soil that had clearly been dug up and replaced recently.
"He's here!" Steve shouted as loud as he could. "Get me the shovels! I found him!"

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The ant bites were causing Danny to fall in and out of consciousness in the coffin. The air was thick and stifling, and Danny could barely breathe anymore. He didn't know what was real and what was fake. But he could still feel the sharp sting of the ants biting his legs, and working their way up his arms. Danny knew he didn't have much time left now.

He opened his eyes suddenly and looked around in confusion. What was he doing in Max's office? He looked down and saw that he was lying naked, under a sheet on Max's table.
"What the hell is going on?" He asked.

He saw Steve and Max enter the room.
"Guys?" He asked. "What happened? What am I doing here?"
They ignored him.
Steve walked up to him and lifted his arm, before letting out a low whistle. "Look at these bites," Steve said nonchalantly. Like he didn't even care that it was Danny, his partner and his friend, lying on Max's autopsy table. "I've seen a lot of fire ant bites, but none like these. Do you think he suffered?"
"Do I think he suffered?" Max repeated. "Oh yes I do think so Commander. Very much."
"It's a shame we couldn't get to him sooner..." Steve said, lifting a really large and nasty looking saw. "Oh well, would you like to do the honors Max?"
"Don't mind if I do," he replied, taking the saw and turning to Danny. "Here we go."
"WAIT!" Danny was shouting. "Wait! I'm not dead! I'm alive! Don't do this! DON'T!"

"NO!" Danny shouted as he woke up gasping back in the coffin. He immediately shook the ants off of his arms as best he could and put his hands on his stomach. It was closed, everything where it should be. Max hadn't cut him up and played with his organs. Not yet anyway.

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"Dig faster!" Steve shouted, pushing his shovel into the dirt once again. "He doesn't have a lot of time left!"
He continued to dig with his team and the HPD officers as quickly as possible. They'd dug far already, but the coffin still wasn't in sight yet.

"Come on!" He growled as he continued to shovel as hard as he could, ignoring his straining muscles and the fact that he hadn't slept in nearly three days. He could sleep later, he needed to find Danny NOW. "Come on! Where the hell are you, Danny?!"

He looked down in horror as his watch started to beep frantically.
Chin and Kono looked at him quickly, their expressions mirroring his own.

Time was up. Danny was out of air.

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"No," Danny whispered, shaking his head in despair. "No no no."
He could feel the tears falling again, and he didn't even try to stop them this time.
"I can't.." He croaked out, his fingers tightening around the handle of his gun. "I'm sorry... I ... I can't."

Nobody could say that Danny hadn't tried. He had. He tried harder than anything he'd ever done in his life. But it was over. It was finally over. He couldn't get enough air into his lungs and the ants continued to gnaw at his arms and legs. He just couldn't do this anymore, not for one more second. But he wasn't going down like this. He wasn't going to lay in this coffin and wait to either suffocate or be eaten to death. Danny Williams was done.

Tears continued to stream down his face as he picked up the gun and put it under his chin.

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"I hit something!" Steve shouted.
"We've got you Danny!" Kono shouted, praying her friend could hear them, and know that they were coming.

Steve dropped to his knees and started pushing the dirt away, looking desperately for his partners face.

"I've got him!" Steve shouted as the sight of his partner, fogged by the plexiglass, finally came into view. "Hey! Danny! Hey! We got you man!"
The relief Steve was feeling vanished immediately and he gasped in shock when he saw the gun Danny had in his hand, pointed right under his chin.

"Look at me Danno!" He cried. "Hey look at me! Put that down! You put that down right now buddy! We've got you! Hang on!"
Steve almost cried in relief when he saw Danny drop the gun. Tears were streaming down his partners face as he started banging on the glass above him, trying to reach Steve.

"Get me out of here Steve!" Danny shouted, his voice raw and choked with tears. "Please Steve I can't... I can't breathe!"
"Just hang on for me partner, I'm getting you out of here right now!" Steve said soothingly. He looked down at the ants on his partners arms and legs. "Get me a fire extinguisher now!" He shouted.
Kono immediately grabbed it and dropped down next to Steve, Chin right beside her.

"Danny!" Kono shouted. "We've got you!"
"Just hang on brah!" Chin continued. "Almost there."
Danny put his hand on the glass, desperately reaching out towards his teammates and friends.

Steve grabbed the fire extinguisher and lifted the lid of the coffin just enough to fit the nozzle in. He started to blow short bursts from the extinguisher into the coffin. Not enough to suffocate Danny, but enough to freeze the ants and get them the hell off his partner.
"Hang on buddy!" Steve was shouting, seeing his partner start to panic. "Just hang on! This is to kill the ants okay?"

"Get the paramedics!" Chin shouted.

Everyone was too busy with Danny to realize when Kono stepped away suddenly to answer her ringing phone.
"What is it Fong?" Kono asked curtly, already wanting to get back to Danny. "We found him. We're getting him out now."
Kono listened intently to what Fong was telling her. "What?!" She shouted. "Are you sure?! You've got to be kidding me!"

Kono dropped the phone and ran hurriedly back over to the coffin where Steve and Chin were getting ready to open it and get Danny out.

"Everyone out of the hole!" She yelled. "Get out now!"
"Are you kidding me?!" Steve shouted angrily back at her. "What the hell are you talking about Kono?!"

"The box is ready to blow up Steve!" Kono shouted. "There are charges under it! If you move Danny, the coffin is going to explode!"

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Another cliffhanger... I know I'm terrible but I really do like cliffhangers! It's keeps things interesting! If it makes you feel better I'm already hard at work on the next chapter! I'll post it soon!

Btw that type of fire ant really does exist! I chose that one because it has a fantastic name but I couldn't find out if it's actually a rare type or if it's even in Hawaii at all but let's pretend for now. I hope that ground penetrating radar stuff made sense, it's been a while since I dealt with stuff like that myself. Sincere Apologies if it doesn't though.

Thanks for reading :) hope you enjoyed!

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