Disclaimer – I do not, and never will, own Detective Conan.
Prologue
"Silver Bullet, that sounds like a good name." Said Vermouth.
"Sounds stupid to me." Snorted Gin.
"Hey, Aniki, the kid's awake." Said Vodka.
Kudou Shinichi had woken up at a place which he couldn't recognize. The first thing he saw was a gun.
"Gin, don't point your gun at him, you'll scare the poor boy." Said Vermouth's sickly sweet voice.
Shinichi, then, realized that he wasn't Edogawa Conan anymore. And that he was probably going to die if he made one wrong move. He tried to move but found that his hands and feet were tied up. Vermouth smiled.
"So you've finally woken up, Silver Bullet-kun." She said.
Shinichi couldn't think of anything to say, but instead thought of how he got caught and how he wasn't a six year old anymore.
"Gin, Vodka, you two can go now, I'll talk to him." Said Vermouth.
Vodka looked at Gin for advice.
"You have no right to order me around." Said Gin.
"I don't but Anokata does."
"So?"
"I already told him that I'd be talking to Silver Bullet-kun alone." Said Vermouth "So, you have no say in this"
Gin looked like he wanted to kill her but refrained and instead walked out, Vodka following.
"Well well well, aren't you in a tight spot, Silver Bullet?" Said Vermouth, turning to Shininchi.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Said Shinichi, still trying to remember what had happened.
"You can't remember, can you" Said Vermouth. Though it was question, it sounded more like a statement.
Before he could say anything, she continued.
"I guess you could say you're checkmated."
"What do you mean?" Asked Kudou, now hoping this was just a dream.
Wait, if he was caught, what had happened to Ran and the others?
"Well, to make the long story short, you are now one of us." Said Vermouth.
"Who said I'll join you?" Asked Shinichi, trying to keep a brave face.
"You don't want anything to happen to your friends and girlfriend, do you?" Said Vermouth.
"What did you do to them?" Asked Shinichi, now panicking.
"Nothing, yet. But if you don't do what we tell you to, something tragic might happen to them." Said Vermouth, smiling.
Our hero's mind was working rapidly now. Trying desperately to think of a solution. Trying to cling to the small hope that this was all a dream and that he would wake up any second. And for the first time wishing that he was Conan. He could only think of one thing to say.
"Where's Haibara?"
"Sherry is working for us again. Though it would have been better to kill her, she was too valuable to kill. She joined us quite willingly after she heard that you had been captured." Answered Vermouth."Any more questions?"
"How's Ran?" Shinichi asked, finally losing hope.
"As I said, Angel and all your other friends are perfectly fine."
Just then, Gin walked in.
"Are you done yet?"
"Not yet, have a little more patience." Said Vermouth.
"That's all the time we have, Anokata wants to see this boy" Said Gin.
"Is that so?" Said Vermouth.
Gin didn't bother to nod and roughly pulled Shinichi up.
"Vodka, take this kid to Anokata, and don't let him out of your sight until you get there." Said Gin.
"Got it, Aniki" Said Vodka.