Note: Hey, back with another story. Hope you enjoy it. As always a massive thanks for wenwalke's helps and her amazing title skills.

Im on count down til my hol to Florida, 8 weeks today. *happy dance* the season premier also starts that week so double count down.

Disclaimer: No copy right infringement intended.

Chapter One

The team were just finishing their lunch at Kamekona's when Steve's phone rang. He carefully listened to the Governor then rose to his feet. "We have to go guys. We have an officer down call. The Governor wants us on it. Danny and I will head to the hospital, you three go to the scene." Steve passed the address to Chin.

"Officer down? Do we know who?" Kono was concerned as 5-0 worked closely with HPD and they knew many of the officers.

"Er, yeah." Steve sighed. "It's Pua Kai."

The team all paled, Kai was a rookie officer, but he showed good potential. He had shown good investigative skills when he tracked down Danny and Steve after they stole a Christmas tree. Despite the $1200 fine, the boys had to respect the case he had built against them. Kono had a particular soft spot for the young officer. She admired his persistence in hitting on her even though she had turned him down several times.

"Do we know what happened?" Kono was visibly upset.

"So far it looks like a traffic stop, gone bad. Danny and I will join you guys at the scene after we're done at the hospital.

The team split up, the good mood from their relaxing team lunch now long gone. When Steve and Danny arrived at the hospital they found Duke and several other officers waiting.

"Hey, Duke." Steve took the sergeants hand and shook it while putting a supporting hand on his shoulder. "Any news?"

"Not yet, Steve, all they will tell us is that he's in surgery. He took a bullet to the shoulder but there was a lot of blood."

"Ok, hang tight. We'll see what we can find out." Danny reassured, and went off in search of his secret weapon. Steve followed after him.

Danny approached the nurse's station and was about to ask the staff to locate Dr. Pearce when she came around the corner and saw the blonde detective.

"Danny, what are you doing here? What have you done this time?"

Dr. Pearce came rushing over and started examining him for any hidden wounds or signs of illness. Steve couldn't help but laugh that given the amount of trips to the ER Danny had under his belt, the doctor automatically assumed he was in need of her attention.

"Andrea, I'm fine." Danny batted her hand away as she came at him with her stethoscope. "I'm not here for me."

"Ok, Steve then." The doctor turned to her next likely candidate.

"Whoa, not me either, doc," Steve took a step back.

"Andrea, we're fine, we're here for a case. Officer Pua Kai was brought in with a gunshot wound, we were hoping you could pull some strings and maybe find out how he's doing?" Danny gave her his best smile causing her to laugh.

"Oh I get it. You're abusing our friendship."

"Well, I wouldn't call it that, maybe just a friend helping out another friend." Danny smiled then got serious. "Look he's a good officer and he has a lot of people waiting for news, even a small bit of news. We would also like any information on his injuries that might help us catch whoever did this to him."

"Of course, let me see what I can do. You can wait in the waiting room. That will be a new experience for you Danny, but Steve can show you the ropes." She turned and left, leaving Danny looking shocked, and Steve doing his best not to burst out laughing.

Twenty minutes later she returned to fill them in. She signalled to Duke and the other officers to come closer so she didn't have to repeat herself.

"Dr. Chu is working on Officer Kai. At the moment he's stable. However he has lost a lot of blood, so they're transfusing him. He has a single GSW to the left shoulder, and I'm afraid it did a lot of damage. Dr. Chu is working on pinning the scapula and repairing damage to the shoulder. Gentlemen, Dr. Chu is the best in his field. Despite the damage he is confident that with PT, and time, Officer Kai will recover fully."

A collective sigh of relief went around the waiting room and Dr. Pearce signalled for Danny and Steve to follow her as they stepped further away from the HPD officers.

"What is it? What's wrong?" Steve sensed they weren't going to like what they were about to hear.

"The wound is a through and through." Dr. Pearce started.

"That's good, isn't it?" Danny asked.

"Normally yes, however the damage that the bullet did to the shoulder bone suggests to me that it was no ordinary bullet."

"How do you mean?" Danny wasn't following her train of thought.

"The scapula is a strong bone, it usually stops bullets or will just fracture. This bullet shattered the bone, which suggests to me it wasn't a normal bullet."

"Armour piercing?" Steve asked. "I've seen armour piecing bullets shatter bone before."

"I think it's a distinct possibility." Dr. Pearce confirmed.

"Oh, man. That's not good." Danny sighed.

"Thanks doc, we're gonna head out to the scene, see what the rest of the team have found. Can you make sure you keep Sergeant Lukela informed on Office Kai's condition?

"I will." Dr. Pearce agreed. "Hey, guys. Be careful on this one."

"We will." Both boys chorused back.

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The ride to the scene was done in silence, each man concerned about the young officer's condition, and the prospect of armour piecing bullets on the island.

Getting out of the car they saw that the scene was almost finished being processed.

"Hey, how's he doing?" Kono greeted them.

"He's still in surgery, but stable, shoulders a mess. What've we got here?" Steve could see Kai's cruiser parked with the door open. A few feet away there was a large pool of blood.

"CSU have photographed the scene. They got a pretty good tire track from the mud over there." Chin indicated the area near the blood where a car had obviously been parked.

"Whoever shot Kai, also shot out the video equipment in the car so we couldn't see what happened." Lou informed them.

"Well that's what they wanted. Fong and I are going to take a look at it. We think we might be able to salvage something from it." Chin said hopefully.

"Did they pull the bullet out yet?" Steve was eager to see what type of bullets they were using.

"They are working on it now." Kono answered.

"Have they recovered any other bullets, Kai's wound was a through and through." Danny informed them.

"No. Not so far." Chin placed the evidence in a bag and sealed it.

"Ok guys, spread out. I want that bullet found. I want that bullet from the car too. We think the shooter may be using armour piercing rounds." Steve started searching near by trees.

CSU and the remaining HPD officers joined the search for the missing bullet. Danny stood by the spot where the tire track had been found and looked at the pool of blood where Pua had fallen. He could only imagine how scared the young officer must have been as he lay there bleeding and radioing in, officer down. Looking up he imagined the path the bullet would have taken. He then walked straight forward until he found a tree a good hundred yards away.

"Yo, guys. I found it." The bullet had punched its way through the bark before being halted by the tough inner wood.

A member of the CSU team ran over and managed to dig the bullet out, dropping it into a small see though pot, and passed it to Steve.

"Shit. Dr. Pearce was right. This is definitely an armour piercing round, but it was fired from a hand gun not a riffle. These bullets are illegal."

"So is this one." Charlie Fong came to join the team, carrying a matching pot and bullet that he had extracted from the squad cars dashboard.

"We need to find whoever did this and quick. My gut is telling me they have something major planned to be using these bullets. This is some serious fire power." Steve was concerned about the threat posed to the island.

Danny pulled out his phone as it started to ring, and answered it. A few moments later he thanked the caller and put the phone away.

"That was Andrea. Pua is out of surgery and awake. He's pretty doped up at the moment but she has persuaded his doctor to allow us to speak to him for a short time."

"Come on, let's go see him. Chin, see what you can get from that camera. Lou, Kono, see what you can get from the tire tracks then canvas the gun shops. See if they have heard anything about the bullets. They often keep their ear to the ground about these things." Steve trusted his team members to do a good job.

The team separated once again as Steve and Danny returned to the hospital.

TBC