Hello, everyone. This is another fanfiction idea I've come up with.
The updates for this one will probably be a bit far between, but I'll try to keep working on it. Expect the first 3-4 chapters with about a week or so between.
And of course,
Disclaimer: I don't own Detective Conan
Rated Teen for blood, violence, death (It's case closed, what do you really expect?), profanity, and humorous references to sexual/pubescent themes.
Chapter 1
'Shitshitshitshitshit!' A shrunken detective swore in his head as he ran through the burning hallway. The roof collapsed a bit up ahead, so he slipped under one of the fallen support beams; a benefit to being in a six-year-old body. He checked back to ensure that the other four copied his movements to get through. With all of them safe, he continued on his way.
'Figures this would happen' He thought to himself. He found the first lead in months and it got him all the way to the Black Organization's HQ itself. He didn't even bother with his "Conan" act oftentimes. He'd confronted Kogoro and Inspector Megure about his hunch and had Hattori with him to back up his evidence and credibility.
Within a month, the full-scale assault on the Organization was underway. He'd personally been there watching the SWAT team start sneaking their way into the building when Shiho Miyano (aka Ai Haibara) approached him.
"Kudo, we need to talk." She lead the detective away from the policemen standing around.
"What is it?"
"I know the layout of this building better than anyone. My old lab is just inside. We can sneak in the service entrance, around the SWAT team, and retrieve the files I had on APTX 4869. It's a longshot, but it's the closest we'll ever get to that data. It's likely when the alarm is triggered, most of the data will be erased by emergency protocol."
Shinichi Kudo considered it. This was his best chance at getting his old body back permanently. "Alright, I'm in."
Shiho lead him to a back alley, careful to avoid the eyes of the police force, and picked the lock inside. She navigated the hallways and stairwells, careful to reroute if she heard anyone or felt an organization member's presence.
Looking back, Shinichi thought it was ironic. They were so focused on avoiding the stealthy, malignant agents and shoot-first SWAT team members that they completely neglected the clumsy, benign figures following them in.
She led them to a dusty laboratory room. Glassware lay strewn about with crystals formed from solutions long-since evaporated. Apparatus and equipment was covered in dust cloths. Evidently, they didn't want to tamper with any of the research materials or unknown compounds.
Shiho zoned in on a particular dust-cloth-covered lump in the back and pulled the sheet to reveal an old PC.
She booted it up and started typing away. After a few moments, she pulled out a small hard drive and downloaded her files.
"OK, I've started the transfer. I managed to bypass any firewalls or security viruses so it should be clean."
"Ai? Conan?" The pair whipped their heads around at the too-familiar squeaky voice to see Ayumi nervously poking her head out of the doorway.
"Ayumi! What the Hell are you doing here?!" "Conan" exclaimed. Ayumi flinched at his profanity, but didn't manage to say anything before Genta and Mitsuhiko made themselves known.
"Hey, Conan, don't be mean to Ayumi! She just wanted to help!" Genta shouted.
"SHHHH! Do you guys have any idea what you've gotten yourselves into?!" Conan shout-whispered. "The people in this building will kill you if they see you! You're lucky you got as far as you did! Why did you even come here in the first place?!"
"Duh, you of course!" Genta said.
"Yeah, we saw the police and you guys sneaking in. We knew something was going on and it's up to the Shonen Tantei to investigate." Mitsuhiko said.
"Ugh! Fine! It's too dangerous for you guys to go on your own! Just stay quiet and wait here for us to finish! Then follow us out!" Conan seethed at this. He did not need to be babysitting in a building of people out for blood. He was snapped back by Shiho.
"Ku- Conan." She said. "The transfer's almost complete, let's start-"
At that moment, a loud klaxon started blaring and red lights flashed.
"No. No. Nonononono. NO!" She frantically typed at the computer, but in the end, just ripped the drive out of the modem. A second later, the computer went black and the "blue-screen-of-death" showed up.
"Dammit! That idiotic SWAT team must've tripped an alarm. The computer's been wiped. As it is, we're lucky we made off with this amount. Sorry, Kudo, I got most of the data, though."
"It's fine. Let's just get out of here." Conan said.
"Oh? But the party's just starting." Said a chilling voice from behind them.
Shiho paled at the silver-haired man walking in. The three actual kids from the Shonen Tantei quickly scrambled over to Shinichi and Shiho.
"Sherry, it's been too long. I see the years have been good to you. You barely look a day over seven." Gin smirked.
"What do you want, Gin?" Shiho demanded.
"Nothing much. I saw the SWAT team a mile away and figured, if nothing else, Sherry would use this as a distraction to get in. Turns out I was right."
"Gin, whatever you want, just get it from me. Leave the others alone!"
"Fine, but answer this. How did… this" He gestured to her body. "happen?"
"Remember APTX 4869? Turns out there was a bit of a 1 in 560 chance of a genetic anomaly. In other words, I lucked out and got shrunk to a kid again."
"I see. And the brat in the glasses?"
"What about him." She feigned innocence, but her eyes sharpened a bit.
"Oh, come on, Sherry. I've been up-to-date on the news. That brat's been in more headlines than Kaito Kid. He's in the same boat isn't he? Come to think of it, we never did get intel about that Kudo kid's body being recovered."
Shiho tensed, but conceded. "Yeah, you're right on the mark, Gin. You always were a lot more observant than the others. The only one I can think of with your level of common sense is her."
"Heh, Vermouth isn't going to be a problem, Sherry. Believe me. Right now, it's just you and me." He glared under the shade of his bangs.
Shiho didn't get to react when a loud BOOM shook the room. Gin ducked down as a plume of fire swept down the hallway and caught a few of the dirty lab tables on fire. Within seconds, the rest of the room caught as dry, dusty cloths were set ablaze and flammable crystals exploded.
One beaker had a particularly nasty oxidant in it and managed to blast a hole in the ceiling. Rebar supports came crashing down right on top of Gin.
Shiho and Shinichi covered their eyes and faces from the blaze's flash. The other kids mostly cowered by them, closing their eyes and covering their heads. Shiho looked around at her now-destroyed lab for an exit point when she noticed a familiar, old batch reactor apparatus next to them.
Specifically, she noticed how the precursor chemicals to APTX 4869 started rapidly bubbling in the large tank from the intense heat and how the glass started fracturing.
"EVERYBODY GET DO-!" She didn't get to finish as the entire glass tank exploded outwards, showering them in some mildly burning chemicals.
Shiho ignored the slight stinging. 'It could've been worse' she thought wryly 'It could've been APTX 4857.' She shuddered despite the heat at the memory of the poor lab rat that took that compound.
"WHAT THE F*CK WAS THAT?!" Conan shouted over the fire.
"A trap! The SWAT team must've set off the explosives rigged in the halls! They're on every floor, so the entire place must be on fire!"
She blinked some more chemical out of her eyes before spotting a slight opening in the rebar. "THERE!" She shouted. "Get over there quickly! We've got to get out!"
The four others made no hesitation to run through the opening and out to the hallway. Shiho, however, stayed a moment and slowly went back to the trapped figure of Gin.
He didn't struggle against the weight of the rebar. He just laid there in pensive thought before focusing on the small figure approaching.
"Hey, Sher." He said. She felt a mild pang from those words. She hadn't heard them in well over 3 years.
"Hey Gin."
"You know, it's ironic. Last thing you said was that we'd meet again in Hell. I guess this is as close as we're going to get." He paused, waiting for her reaction.
"Why'd you do it?" She murmured. "Why'd you kill my sister?"
He sighed. "Boss's orders. You know how he is." He said with a sort of casual sarcasm.
She couldn't help but smile a bit. "Yeah, I know. Still…" She reached into his pocket and pulled out his magnum. She leveled it with his forehead.
"We'll see each other again, in He-."
"Sher." She paused.
He took out something from his coat pocket before tossing it to her. She flinched, but caught them. A pair of keys.
"You always said you wanted to take it for a spin."
She stared back, the gun trembling in her hands. She slowly lowered it and until it dropped to the floor.
"Thank you, Gin."
She turned, ran down the hallway, and didn't look back.
Gin looked at the doorway she left through for a while before smiling and settling back down. He ignored the flares and small explosions around him from various beakers blasting from the heat. He pulled out a small cartridge from his coat pocket.
His last cigarette.
He reached over to a nearby burning bit of cloth and lit the sucker before taking a long, deep inhale. He slowly let it out.
Ironic, even as the rebar creaked and continued to crumble, all he thought about was that one night.
She was stunning in her evening dress. A new member at the time. As it was, he was barely starting as well. Still the embarrassing greenhorn of the group. He approached her and started a conversation. Within moments, he'd asked her to the dance floor.
As he lay there, remembering that night, he heard that old 20's-style jazz band playing that same slow, love song. He smiled a bit, looking up at the support beams creaking ominously above his head.
"Sherry."
The beams broke.
The other four of the Shonen Tantei made it to the end of the fiery hall before looking back and realizing their fifth member was missing. Shinichi briefly panicked; thinking it was another suicide attempt. He calmed down when he saw her running down the hallway.
"Where were you? The entire stairwell's blocked, there's no way out!" Conan shouted over the crackling fire.
In response, she held up a pair of black keys. "I got our ride out."
She headed further down the hallway before taking a left. "Gin would always park on this level. Knowing him, he'd never break a habit." She opened a door to reveal a large parking garage, also on fire. She looked around and quickly saw a familiar, black Porsche 356A. "There!"
The five kids piled into the car before Shiho put in the key in the ignition. The car kept sputtering as the hot engine couldn't start up.
"Ai, hurry up!" Said Genta. "I'm roasting back here!"
Shinichi noticed it too. All of them were sweating profusely and breathing hard. He assumed it was from the heat and smoke in the hallways, but now it seemed almost as if-
The car roared to life and Shiho floored the accelerator. The Porsche careened around the corkscrew parking garage as she navigated the flames and cars.
Shinichi grabbed a walky-talky from the glove compartment and tuned into the police frequency.
"Hello! Hello! Is anyone there?!" He frantically shouted into the receiver.
"Conan, is that you!?" A surprised Inspector Megure shouted from the other end.
"Yeah! Listen, we've got an issue. We're in a car currently heading down the parking garage levels. We need you to clear a path!"
"'We'?"
"Yeah! Me, Ai, Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta! No time to explain! Just do it!"
"Fine" Megure was furious at the kid's recklessness and was going to give those kids an earful later, but put it aside to help them get out alive. He ordered his men to clear the area around the parking garage and briefly saw a black car on the fourth level pass by the window.
Suddenly, a loud explosion rocked the area as the supports from levels 1 and 2 started collapsing.
"Conan! Get out of there! NOW!" He shouted into the radio.
Meanwhile, the Shonen Tantei were getting dizzy and black started edging into their peripheral vision.
'Damn, we can't pass out now!' The shrunken detective thought through the mind haze.
Shiho felt the entire foundation shift with the explosion and was blearily aware of the tilting building. She quickly weighed her options and floored the car over to a slab of concrete lying at an angle at the base of a broken window.
The car shot out of the opening and screeched to a halt on the street pavement outside. The officers were relieved momentarily before taking cover from the dust and debris of the collapsing structure.
Shiho put the stick into "Park" and looked around. The others were breathing heavily and sweating, but aside from being unconscious they were alright. She leaned back into her seat and let the fog and pain take over.
"If I don't die right here, I'm never getting behind the wheel of a car again." She mumbled before slipping into oblivion.
Ran had been forced to stay with the police, who essentially restrained her when she realized Conan was gone. She waited with baited breath as the minutes rolled by. Her heart nearly stopped when the first explosion occurred.
She frantically called out to anyone who had seen Conan and assumed the worst when he wasn't around. The only thing keeping her from going in there herself was the fact that the entire first floor was an inferno.
She heard a familiar voice crackling over a radio as Megure picked up. She frantically tried to hear the conversation, but by the time she managed to get over there, the Inspector was ushering people away from the parking garage.
She was so confused until a second explosion brought her mind back. She watched in terror as Megure shouted into the radio while the building slowly tilted to collapse.
Seconds later, a black Porsche flew out of the window and landed on the pavement before the tires found enough traction to stop the vehicle.
She wanted to rush over to it immediately, but was held back as the hot dust cloud from the crumbling structure plumed over the area.
When the dust cleared, she ran over to the door of the dust-covered car and pried it open- to see someone she'd never thought she'd see again.
Shinichi Kudo was unconscious in the passenger seat…essentially stark naked with bits of ripped clothing covering his…she blushed. Then she noticed that those bits were from Conan's outfit! What's more, she saw the snapped remains of Conan's glasses in his lap.
She was pushed out of the way by several paramedics as they set up a five gurneys for the unconscious figures in the car. Inspector Megure came running, but had a completely gob smacked expression when he saw the figures.
"H-he said he was with those kids…" he began.
Ran looked back at the ambulance as it loaded up Shinichi and the other four and carried him away.
AN: I'll admit, I hated Gin at first. But I've read some other fanfics and GinxShiho seemed like an intriguing idea. Also, every chapter with Gin mentioning Sherry gives the impression of some form of history together.
I wanted to give a sort of finality to the love/hate relationship between Gin and Shiho. I don't know the full story, I'm barely half way through all of the manga and I've only watched a little bit of the anime/movies (and I'm in college, so don't expect it anytime soon) so I took liberties and made one up.
Plus, I couldn't resist some absolutely, badass, Cowboy-Bebop-style death for someone like Gin.
If you want to know, the song inspiring the 20's jazz was "Midnight, the Stars, and You".
And for all of you people out there who are upset at Shiho's love life, don't worry. I have a plan. Mwahahaha! I'll even give you a hint; this is not a Conan/Shinichi x Ai/Haibara fic.