Hello, hello to everyone there! I'm glad to announce that Chapter 21 is here!

I've been trying to come up with an interesting way to write how Steve, Danny and Annabeth caught up with the SOBs and although this isn't finished (there's still a few more chapters on this) I think it's a good start. Kind of warming up to the action!

Today I got the notification of Lalaland Resident now following this story and Roosters1making it a favorite. I really want to say thanks to the both of you and welcome to this story! I would really like to read what you guys think of it so far, what are your thoughts on the plot and of the new character I created for this (Annabeth). I hope you have enjoyed what you've read so far.

Texas50Fan, Stephanie and Aquababy58: thanks for always leaving a comment and encouraging me to keep going! I'd like to know what you guys think of this chapter.

Anyway… enjoy the action!

In total there were seven people: they easily pinpointed Sean and his brother, Paul, towards the back of the facility. The third guy that had been on the house was there as well, sporting a nasty bruise to his temple and he was engaged in a conversation with two of the remaining men. The last two men were wearing overalls that signaled them as workers and who had been obviously working on repairing the boat that occupied almost half of the space.

When they entered, and yelled for them to get on their knees and put their hands behind their heads, things got a little messy.

The two brothers reached for their weapons and opened fire as soon as they recognized who had caught up to them, making Steve, Annabeth and Danny dive behind some machines to take cover. They returned fire from their hunched position but Steve could see the retreating form of Sean heading towards a back door they had failed to see before and he would be damned if he let the bastard get away again.

- Danny! I'm going after Sean! Cover me! – and he hadn't even finished talking when he was suddenly already on his feet and chasing after the guy.

- Wait Steve! – seeing as he had no other choice, he opened fire – sonofabitch! – he muttered at his partner for acting so quickly that he almost gave him no time to prepare.

Soon it was obvious that the two men wearing working attire weren't exactly part of the criminal crew, as they held no weapons of their own and were hiding near the boat and doing their best to stay out of the way. The other ones? Oh they were totally in on it. Danny had to focus his fire towards the couple who had been talking to the third intruder while Annabeth focused hers towards Paul, the younger brother who had also making a run for it and decided to climb up the stair that were etched to the right wall of the place.

- Danny! I've got Paul! I'm going out! Cover me! – and she was up and running towards the stairs faster than a lightning bolt.

- Seriously!? – asked Danny, having to change tactics again because Annabeth hadn't given him time to prepare his cover fire either. Go figure… he thought.

So, Steve had already gone through the back door chasing after Sean and Annabeth was making her way up the stairs behind Paul. That left him to handle the other three trigger happy criminal who were currently using him as target practice.

After he provided the necessary cover fire so Annabeth could get to the top of the stair without having to worry about the people shooting from behind the boat, he had to duck to reload his ammunition because he was out. Once ready, he got flat on his stomach and crawled to the edge of the machine he was hiding behind. From this angle, and if his aim was true, he could hit one of the perps behind the farthest corner of the boat. He took position and waited until they guy made more of a target of himself and once half of his body was uncovered, he fired two consecutive shots. One of them imbedded itself on the boat, but the other one found its target and dropped the guy to the floor with a gaping hole on his chest. One down, two to go.

Seeing how one of their own took a bullet to the chest, the other two men took cover again and Danny used the time to send three more shots in their general direction to buy himself some seconds to change positions and leave the machine he was using as coverage behind and running to his left. His intention was to round the boat as much as he could without being seen so that the guys still thought he was behind the machine. He saw one of them peek from around the boat looking at his previous position and when they guy got confident enough to raise a bit more from his hunched posture due to the lack of fire coming his way, Danny fired. Another one down.

Somehow, he thought that trick wasn't gonna work a second time and emptying another round of bullets into the boat, he made his way there looking to drop the last man from a closer perspective. He reloaded his gun again and clicked it ready holding it high in front of him while he made the rest of the way around the boat to the other end in search of his target.

He spotted him at the end of the boat with his back towards him and he couldn't believe his luck (he had managed to snuck on the guy from behind) until he made a noise and the man turned around. Since he had already catalogued them all as trigger happy, it wasn't a surprise as a stray of bullets went flying in his direction but he was quick enough to crouch down to the floor and roll across the floor to his left in a movement worthy of one SuperSEAL, before coming to a stand and dropping the guy with three bullets center mass.

He came closer to him and kicked his gun away, bending down and looking for a pulse, satisfied that he didn't found one.

After that, he quickly went around the boat again looking for the workers and finding them still on the floor cowering away from the action.

- Five O, get on your knees! Now! – he prompted because the men were slow to act. He didn't think these men had actually anything to do with what was going on but one could never be too careful. He needed to find Annabeth and his partner so he could help them and he couldn't leave any loose ends here – put your hands behind your heads and interlock your fingers – he instructed before stepping behind them and clasping their hands together with zip ties, dragging them all the way to the stairs and, in turn, zip tying the zip tied hands to the railing of the stairs.

He debated for a moment weather to go outside through the back door in search of his partner or going upstairs looking for Annabeth, but he decided to go upstairs since he knew that's what Steve would want him to do. Also, the gunshot he heard from the top floor made up his mind. He raced up the stairs, gun ready and prepared to intervene if necessary.

There you have it! Obviously next chapter will be what we've all been expecting: the end of the terrible brothers! So, Steve went after Sean and Annabeth went after Paul… let's see how thing turn up at last!

I don't know why but I always like to write an action chapter kind of from Danny's perspective. This was a little warm up for what is to come and although inspiration hit me pretty out of the blue today, I don't know yet when I'll have the next chapter ready. Hopefully it won't be long because I'm feeling like wrapping this story soon and starting on new projects!

This story has been really hard word for me, especially emotionally, and I'm very fond of it so I will try to make my best bringing it to a end and making it enjoyable for you all the way to the end!

See you next chapter!