Welcome to Hawaii

Chapter 8: Closer

Steve, Danny and I walked through the glass doors and into the main hub again. Everyone was standing around the big tablet thing in the center of the room.

"So," Chin said, "We were unable to ping his cell phone when he called but get this. A young women reported having her car stolen about an hour ago and described our friend, Carlos. And it just so happens that the car that she has is equipt with GPS tracking."

Chin typed on the table in front of him and a yellow dot pulled up on the screen, crusing down the highway.

"We got him," I said.

"Danny, Bryce," Steve said, "You guys are with me. Chin, Kono and Lou see if you can't behind him. Jerry, track him for us."

"You got it, boss," Jerry said taking over Chin's position.

We raced out of the Five-O HQ and into our respectable vehicles. Steve stepped on the pedal and turned on the siren even before I or Danny could get on our seat belts.

"Alright Jerry," Steve said out loud, "I need to get in front of this guy."

"Okay," Jerry said, "I have your signal, take a left now."

Steve make a sharp left and drove straight away.

"Keep going down this road," Jerry said, "If you continue the speed that you are going, you should be able to head him off in the next 1000 feet."

"Alright," Steve said, "Chin, are you behind him?"

"10-4," Chin replied, "He is in a blue Lexus, traveling south."

We continued down the straight away, as we did, thoughts were racing through my head, we were close to catching this SOB and this time he wasn't going to get away from me. 

"You will cut him off in 300 feet," Jerry said.

Steve picked up the speed.

"Steve," Danny said holding on to the hand grip above him, "I know what you are going to do and I highly advise against it."

"What is he going to do," I said.

Suddenly we made impact with the blue Lexus. The impact pushed us off to the side and made me fly into the right side of the car. We whipped around before coming to a complete stop, Steve was the first one out and then Danny.

"CARLOS MARTINEZ," Steve said, "COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP."

As Steve said this, bullets came out of the Lexus, I kept my head down as I made my way to the side of Danny's car for cover.

"Here," Steve said handing me a hand gun.

I checked the magazine and then fired at Carlos, bullets spewed everywhere. I could see Carlos's head popping up and down attempting to fight not just Danny, Steve and I on the one side but Chin, Kono and Lou on the other. I raised my head one more time to see that for a spilt second that his back was away from me, big mistake. With a single shot, I struck him in the arm and made him crumble to the ground. I jumped over the car and ran to where he had fallen, when I got over there he raised his gun but I kicked it out before he could fire and then for an added measure, I punched him in the face.

"We got you," I said pointing my gun down at him.

Steve and the rest of Five-O came over, Danny handed me handcuffs and gave me a slight nod. I took them from him and placed them on Carlos.

"Feels good doesn't it," Carlos said.

"Shut up," I said hauling him up, "You will have all the time in the world to speak when we get you back to Five-O's HQ."

Carlos was placed in the of a waiting police car, I looked as they placed him in and then drove him off back to the Five-O HQ.

"That was without a doubt the stupiest thing you have ever done, in our 7 years together," Danny said pointing at Steve.

"It got the job done, didn't it," Steve said rolling back his shoulder.

"You are paying for the damages," Danny said pointing at his car.

I walked over between the two of them and then looked over at Danny's car, the front half of it was smashed in.

"Thank you for the sacrifice, Danny," I said.

"Don't look at me," Danny said, "If it were me driving, I would have just ensued a car chase, but no, GI Joe here was behind the wheel."

Danny then walked away toward his car.

"He seems rather peeved," I said, "But then again, I am sure any person would be if there car was used as a batter ram."

"He will get over it," Steve said, "He always does."

I looked at the squad car that was taking Carlos away and I couldn't help but smile.

"We got him," I said, "It took Nora and I three months to corner this guy and it took just a day to get him in handcuffs over here."

"But it wasn't with out your help," Steve said, "Now, how about we head back to HQ and see what our crash victim has to say."

I smiled at Steve and followed him back to an awaiting squad car.