Chapter 12

ONE HOUR LATER...
"You ready?" Lieutenant Diaz asked, approaching Kono as she stood with her team as they all watched the SWAT team shackled and prepared Trey, whom they now knew his name to be, for the perp-walk.

Kono shook her head, "No thanks. You go ahead."

Diaz raised a brow in surprise, "But Officer Kalakaua, you've..."

He paused at seeing her shake her head, "I'm not into the media circus, Lieu..."

This time he cut her off, "This isn't about the media, Officer Kalakaua. This is about you being the one to take these men down and protecting all those hostages. I'm offering this to because you deserve it."

A FEW MINUTES LATER...
Cameras flashed and reporters continued talking to their respective cameras as the bank's doors finally opened. Two SWAT members led the way, followed by Trey with Diaz having a firm grip on his left elbow and Kono a firm grip on his right elbow. Chin, Danny, and Steve brought up the rear. It seemed fitting, with them on her six.

Amber Layne watched from the ambulance, and Carr from the bank's doorway as the perp-walk took place. All greatly relieved at the moment, and all with a twinge of pride as Kono and Diaz walked Trey Wilson down the steps and to the back of the black SWAT van that would haul him away. The clanking of his shackles an indication of the justice that would be coming his way.

As the SWAT van pulled away, Steve saw Kono head for the ambulance where his sister was. He hurried to catch up and join her. "'By the book', huh?" He said as they began walking together.

"You know protocol, Boss." She replied with a casual shrug.

"Yes, I do." He said, placing a hand on her forearm to cease their momentum. "And because you followed it, my sister is alive." He added, turning to her, noticing the red marks on her neck and remembering as they'd all watched the monitor helplessly as one of the perps try to choke her.

Kono wasn't sure how to respond to his obviously sincere words. "Let's go see how she's doing." She finally said with a smile and tilt of her head.

Both could see that the hostage negotiator was clearly trying to calm Mary Ann. "How's she doing?" Steve asked as they approached the ambulance.

Agent Layne shook her head, "Was doing better until the perp-walk. Seeing
that man again really upset her." She said, rubbing Mary Ann's back again in an attempt to calm her.

"C'mere." Steve said, gesturing to his sister with outstretched arms. She rose to cling to her brother for a while. "You're lucky Kono was there." He added.

"You mean Miss. Terminator?" Mary Ann mumbled into his chest, in a tone he wasn't quite sure what to make of.

He leaned back just far enough to make eye contact, "Miss. Terminator?" Steve asked, as Danny and Chin approached.

"Ohmygod, Steve,... ya shoulda seen her. She like,... pulls a gun outta nowhere and... shot the guy right between the eyes." Mary Ann began, eyes growing wide at the memories and becoming animated, "And she,... she choked the other guy till he... was blue, an' she's shooting all over the place, then she's got one of those book things, and- "

"Wait." Steve stopped her, needing clarification. "Book things?"

"Yeah. Ya know,... with more bullets in it." She said, still struggling with her words and agitated, but with her hands now on her hips as if she thought she was being knowledgeable.

Steve could see Danny stifled a laugh. His sister being so upset really wasn't funny, but he'd be the first to admit that her exaggeration and animation was amusing, "Oh. You mean a 'magazine'." He corrected. A statement rather than a question.

"'Book', 'Magazine'. Whatever." She said back with a tinge of attitude now.
"My God, does she stuff her bra with those things or something. It's like she just whipped that thing outta no where!" She added.

Steve looked over the top of his sister's head in time to see Kono roll her eyes and Chin blush a little, "She keeps an extra 'magazine' in her ankle holster with her gun, Mar." His arms now crossed over his chest.

"Fine." Mary Ann throws back at him. The annoying little sister in her mixing with the grown-up freaked out one at present. "But she still broke the guy's neck, Steve. Why'd she have to do that?!"

Kono couldn't take it anymore. Obviously the sound of Two and Three's heads crashing together lead Mary Ann's imagination in the wrong direction. But hey, she could work with that.

"I told ya, Mary Ann..." Kono said, causing the woman to spin around and face her in obvious surprise. Kono took a step closer, her arms still crossed, looking the young blond right in the eyes, "I told ya, I was outta bullets."

THE END