A/N: Let the Danny whump begin!
Chapter Three
The next day dawned bright and clear. Both men cleaned up the camp and were soon ready to start the final lesson of teaching the Haole to track, Danny's own words, not Chin's.
Danny sat on a rock and watched as Chin walked into the forest. He gave him a fifteen-minute start then stood, stretched, and followed the native Hawaiian.
At first Chin's trail was easy for Danny to follow, then it started to get harder. But having had such a good teacher, he soon found his prey sitting on a fallen tree trunk next to a clearing, his pack on the ground beside him.
"Well done, Danny." Chin stood and hugged the blonde as he stepped up to him, setting down his own pack.
"You didn't make that last part easy there, coach. I had to really look to find which way you went back about ten minutes ago."
"I knew you could do it, brah." Chin walked out into the clearing. "I saw some banana poka across the clearing. What do you think? Shall we go pick some to have with our lunch?"
"Banana what?"
"Banana poka. It's a passion fruit, brah. You'll like it, trust me." Chin pointed to the trees draped in vines, some with pink flowers on them.
"Alright, let's get some, I'm sure Super SEAL will love them, even if I don't."
Both men set out across the clearing, Chin slightly ahead of Danny.
When Chin hesitated, as his foot caught on something in the thick underbrush, Danny only had a split second to react as something huge swung towards them at an alarmingly fast pace.
Pain exploded down the left side of Danny's body as he collided with Chin and pushed him down. Then they were both flying up in the air, but Danny passed out from the pain and knew no more.
He came around a few minutes later to Chin's worried voice.
"Come on Danny, wake the hell up." A hand rubbed up and down his right arm.
"Chin?" Was that weak voice his?
"Danny, thank god. Open your eyes, brah." Chin continued to rub his arm
Slowly, Danny managed to open his eyes, only to find he was looking at Chin's feet, tangled in some kind of netting.
"Don't move. Okay? I think that log did a number on your left side. I can tell your arm is broken, at the very least."
"Log?" Danny wasn't sure what Chin was talking about, until it all flashed back to him. "Oh, yeah, that was a log, huh? Thought it was a train that hit me."
"We need to get out of this net, Danny. I have a knife, but I can't get it the way I'm positioned. I didn't want to try and move around until you were awake, so that you can brace yourself."
"What?" Danny tried to move, but the pain was intense, so he stopped. "I can't move Chin."
"Stay still, Danny. I don't want you to move. Just hold onto the netting with your right hand so when I move you stay relatively still, okay?"
"No, I have a better idea." Danny's brain was finally getting in sync with the rest of him. "I have a knife strapped to my right leg. Present from our paranoid leader. Wanted to make sure I had a weapon of some kind with me."
"Okay, that's better." Danny felt Chin pull up his pant leg and release the knife from it sheath.
"I'm going to cut a small hole just big enough for me to fit through. I don't want you falling from this height, not with the injury you already have."
Danny looked down and realise they were quite high up. "You can't fall from this height either, babe."
"I'm going to lower myself down as far as the netting allows, then I'll drop the rest of the way. I'll be fine, don't worry."
"Sound like Super SEAL there, that's something he'd do in a heartbeat." He tried to look and see what Chin was doing, but he couldn't see past the legs pressed up against his head.
"Wrap your good arm around the net, I've made a hole by my head. I'm going to swing myself out and then drop. Holding on tight."
Any movement of the net hurt immensely, and by the time Chin had extricated himself and hung below it, Danny was panting. He opened his eyes though as soon as he felt the Hawaiian let go.
The landing looked awkward, and Chin didn't move right away. "Chin, you okay?"
"Yeah, just landed wrong and tweaked my ankle. It'll be fine. I'm going for the packs, then I'll see about getting you down."
"Take your time, babe. I'm quite happy where I am. Got a great view, lots of trees." Danny raised his eyes to admire the scenery. "Oh, and would you look at that?" The netting had been lazily turning around. "There's a grow op over there behind the trees."
"Yeah, I saw it earlier, explains the traps." Chin and managed to hobble over and retrieve both packs. He was back below Danny and already had the Sat. phone in his hand.
"Steve, we ran into some trouble. I set off a trap protecting a grow op, and Danny pushed me out of the way. We were both caught up in a net trap." There was a pause while Chin listened. "No, he's still up there, I need to lower him down he's already injured from the log hitting him." More silence while Chin listened. "Medivac would be a great idea. Have Kono track the signal from this phone. Oh, she's already doing that!" Silence again. "I'll call you back when I have him on the ground."
Chin hung up and put the phone away. "You hear all that, brah?"
"Yeah, he's freaking out, isn't he?"
"Just a little. Now let's get you down."
Danny could only watch as Chin moved to where the rope holding the netting was tied to a tree. It was obviously painful for his friend to put any weight on his left leg, but he pushed through and released the rope, slowly lowering the net to the ground.
He'd tried to stay with his right side down, but as he touched the ground he rolled slightly and his left arm hit. There was a blinding flash of light and then darkness.
TBC
