Case Closed Phantom of Baker Street AU

By: FunahoMisaki

(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter.)

Almost immediately after those words were said Conan took lead of his friends.

"Okay let's go." Conan said walking forward with his friends nodding and following behind him while the other four trailed after them a little ways. Suddenly the screen flipped back to show Booker leaning over to ask Agase a question while still holding his wife in his arms.

"What do you see Doc?" Booker asked while Agase looked at the computer screen.

"There seems to be a tremendous amount of energy stored inside each cocoon. And it certainly is more than enough to destroy the brains of fifty people." Dr. Agase said gravely while Vermouth looked at the picture and video of Vai for a second before storming out. The screen flipped to show her entering the cocoon room just as two men were standing and walking towards the cocoons in order to take their children and leave.

"They can't! Stop them!" Dr. Agase said noticing the two men and Vermouth approaching the cocoons their children were held in.

"I don't care about some stupid game! I'm getting my Musume out of there!" Vermouth snapped at the two women that tried to stop her before she stormed over to Vai's cocoon and tried to budge it only for her and the two men, who were trying the exact same thing, to get a nasty shock. Some stage hands ran over to make sure they were okay as Vermouth staggered to her feet with a glare.

"No one may disrupt the game! That was a minor shock, try it again and I promise I will not hold back!" NA announced pissing off Richard and Vermouth both.

"Damnitt how could this happen?" Richard demanded as the screen flipped to the control room just as Inspector McGuire turned to Shindler.

"Help me out with this Shindler. Why is the Artificial Intelligence Hiroki built for you running amok and trying to kill innocent people?" McGuire asked causing everyone to turn towards the old man.

"I wish I had an answer." Shindler said looking down while everyone looked at him before turning to Booker who spoke up and told of the reason Hiroki went to live with his mother and that NA took up Hiroki's cause for resetting Japan and how all the future leaders of Japan were here playing the game. The Booker explained how Kashimora was Hiroki's real father and asked him to do some under the table detective work over the last year on Hiroki and his death.

"Conan, Rachel and the others are about to enter White Chapel." Agase said causing everyone to look at him while Vermouth was still regaining her breath from the electrical shock.

"You mean we have to go through that thing?" George asked pointing at the portal as the screens flipped back to Conan's gang.

"Of course." Conan said giving his friends a serious look as he went through first, followed by Amy, then George who was pushed in by Mitch, Mitch himself, Rachel and Vai, then the other four boys.

"Hey jerk." George said turning to Mitch as the portal began to vanish.

"Move faster and I wouldn't have to push you." Mitch said bluntly as the others looked around their surroundings.

"So this is the famous London Fog? It's more creepy than it is romantic." Rachel commented softly.

"The air seems like it's kinda dirty." Amy said innocently.

"And it smells like poo." George said sniffing the air before the screen flipped to Conan who had a smirk on his face.

"The problem is that London's fog isn't just clean condensed moisture vapor it's that plus the pollution from all the smoke and scent burning off all the coal and oil they use for fuel. Today we call it smog." Conan said causing some of the adults to look amazed, they didn't even know that.

"Really? I didn't know that smog even existed back then." Amy commented before a loud females scream tore through the night, causing everyone to jump.

"Jack the Ripper!" Conan exclaimed taking off immediately in the direction the scream came from.

"No Conan!" George shouted at his back as Conan tore off down the road.

"He's a fast little guy when he wants to be." Richard said watching the video of Conan running down the street and a side road until he came upon a shadowy figure holding a knife over a woman.

"Stop!" Conan yelled causing Jack the Ripper (now called JTR) to look up before running off. Everyone watched as Conan twisted something on his shoe to make it glow colorfully before running forward.

"Oh no you don't!" Conan said kicking something nearby and causing it to fly but not far or fast enough to hit JTR. The pain caught up to him the same time the others did.

"Conan did you hurt yourself?" Rachel asked worried as Conan hopped up and down on one foot in pain.

"My foot." Conan said smiling sheepishly as Vai turned to him with a smile.

"If Dr. Agase's inventions don't work in the game world it's possible we might all end up dead." Vai said softly causing Vermouth to flinch as the screen flipped to show her.

"Don't talk like that Musume!" Vermouth yelled as she charged the Cocoon with her daughter in it again.

"Vai! WAKE UP!" Vermouth yelled getting closer to the cocoon despite the electrical barrier as she tried to smash the glass window of it open, only to get thrown back by the force of the electricity.

"Yeah the antenna on my glasses still goes up, but other than that they're normal, same with my watch it seems." Conan said while something seemed to strike Vai as her head snapped up.

"Vai?" Conan asked before someone speaking in English cut him off.

"I can't understand him." Amy said as the man continued to yell while Mitch agreed.

"Run the auto translate function." Booker ordered as the screen swiveled back to him for a minute while Vermouth charged the cocoon with her daughter in it again, watching her daughters sleeping face through the glass and her own pain filled eyes.

"Come on Eva, we gotta keep Vai's mother from killing herself trying to get to Vai." Vivian said causing Eva to nod as the two took off to grab the other female who just got knocked back again.

"Ouch she was knocked out that time." Vivian said wincing slightly as she lifted one side of Vermouth with Eva lifting the other as they quickly got her back to the control room while the screen flipped to show the kids again as the locals screamed for the police.

"Wow it's so realistic." Mitch commented crossing his arms over his chest.

"It's almost like this is the real world." George said simply.

"I don't know about you guys but I can even feel the chill in the air." Mitch commented turning to the others while Conan gave a deadpanned look.

"I sure felt the pain in my foot back there." He commented as the police finally arrived and pushed the crowd back, one telling the other to go get Inspector Lastrod. The screen flipped back to Conan who looked surprised and watched one of the men run off before the screen showed the Control Room again.

"Hey Doc is there some way to communicate with them?" Booker asked as Vivian and Eva hoisted Vermouth on the couch.

"I will most certainly try." Agase said working at the computer for a minute while Richard turned towards Booker.

"If you assisted with the development of this stupid game then you must know how the kids can beat the damn thing, right?" Richard asked causing the still conscious adults to turn towards him expect for Dr. Agase who was still working.

"Correct. I just need to speak with them. That way I can tell them precisely what moves to make to get them through." Booker said causing Vivian and Eva to sigh in relief while Richard grinned.

"Then we'll be on easy street. I don't think there's any way for them to screw that up!" Richard said while Booker turned back to the video and screen of his son for a minute.

"Okay doc I'm leaving the rest to you. I'll be at the scene." Booker said causing Agase to turn to him as he headed for the door.

"Right." Agase said as Booker grabbed the door handle and left the room as the screen flipped back to the kids on a bridge.

"This is perfect. We gotta catch a guy who's remained nameless forever?" Moroboshi said leaning against the stone bridge while Mitch turned towards Conan and Amy.

"What else can we do but wait here until morning?" Mitch asked while Amy shivered, causing him to take off his jacket.

"I'm cold." Amy said causing Mitch to hand her his jacket.

"Here you go now warm up." Mitch said offering her the jacket.

"Oh thanks. You don't mind? That's so sweet." Amy said beaming at the boy who blushed slightly under her happy look as she slipped on the blue jacket.

"You're shivering Vai. Here take my coat." Conan said unbuttoning his coat quickly and holding it out for Vai while George quickly removed his own coat. The screen flipped for a minute to show Eva and Vivian cooing over Vai's ever so slight blush at the action while Vermouth began coming around.

"Brat…better stay away from…my daughter." Vermouth said glaring faintly at the video screen, causing Eva and Vivian to exchange looks and giggle slightly while the screen flipped back to the kids.

"Thanks Conan-kun." Vai said smiling as she slipped on the coat and kissed Conan's cheek, causing him to resemble a tomato much to Vivian's amusement.

"My pleasure." Conan said while George walked over to Rachel.

"Put this on." George said while Rachel dropped her hands from her arms.

"But wouldn't you get cold George?" Rachel asked worriedly, causing him to grin.

"Nah I'm pretty fat I don't get cold that easy." George said grinning while Rachel smiled and took the coat with a 'thanks' while three of the other four boys merely watched them.

"So what was up back there Vai? One minute you were talking to me like normal the next I could almost hear you neck cracking as you looked up at the sky." Conan asked looking at the shrunken scientist worriedly and causing her to smile at his worry.

"It's nothing I just thought that I had heard something strange for a video game world." Vai said trying to wave it off while the others of their gang looked at her worried too.

"Really? What was it?" Amy asked her friend worriedly and causing Vais small smile to grow just a fraction of an inch as she turned to lean against the railing and look at the moon.

"My mother telling me to wake up." Vai said causing Conan's eyes to widen slightly while Rachel looked confused.

"Your mother?" Rachel asked confused causing Vai and Conan to exchange looks and grins.

"You should know her Rachel. You saved her life once and she's been calling you 'Angel' ever since." Vai said causing Rachel to looked confused for another moment before she realized who Vai was talking about and blushed slightly, causing Conan to grin.

"'Her Angel' in particular from what I heard." Conan said slyly and causing Rachels blush to deepen for a second before Conan was stopped from further teasing by Vai smacking him on the head.

"You're not any better so leave her alone, after all. I think you're the only person my mother has had a crush on in a while after you saved her life twice." Vai said causing the screen to swivel back to the control room for a minute and showing Vermouth blushing deeply and ranting about 'insane too smart for their own good daughters going and telling everyone everything' while Vivian and Eva fell over each other laughing at the look on the other adults faces at some of the things Vermouth was saying.

"Conan can you hear me? Are you there?" Agase asked into a mic, causing everyone and everything else in the room to stop dead while the screen flipped back to the kids as they looked up at the sky.

"Yeah we read you doc!" Conan called back loudly as the screen flipped back to the Control Room.

"Conan-kun! Glad to hear for myself that you're okay!" Vivian all but shouted into the mic, causing everyone else to cover their ears at the feedback.

"No need to shout kaa-san." Conan said without thinking about it as he rubbed his ears.

"Rachel-chan! Whatever you do in there don't act like your father and do something stupid or reckless!" Eva called through the mic, surprising Rachel and causing her sigh as Richard could be heard asking what that meant.

"Hai hai. I'll do my best kaa-san." Rachel called back.

"Vai Damnitt I am so not happy with you telling them all that! You're getting the grounding of a lifetime when you get out of that damn game Musume!" Vermouth shouted at her daughter who merely smirked up at the sky.

"Consider it payback kaa-san. I really didn't like your coworkers shooting me." Vai said calmly and bluntly causing the line to go dead for a minute before Vermouth exploded, she had heard of Vai being taken captive before managing to escape but she hadn't heard of her daughter being shot.

"WHAT?! I WILL KILL THOSE IDIOTS!" Vermouth screamed at the top of her lungs, causing everyone to cover their ears.

"Anyways back on track!" Agase said blushing at some of the colorful words that Vermouth was shouting as she mimed strangling her coworkers with her bare hands, causing Vivian to fall over laughing again while Eva was amused but trying to calm the other woman down somewhat.

"Now listen carefully. You need to know that if you get hurt somehow or if you are caught by the police in that stage the game will be over for you. Right now you're in the White Chapel district, it's in the east end, and everyone keep your eyes peeled for the appearance of an assist character." Agase said before the static cut him off while the other adults were confused and worried about what happened.

"What's going on doc we can't hear you?" Conan asked before the bridge behind them started crumbling, causing them to run while one boy almost made it before he began to fall, only to be grabbed by Conan.

"Hang on I've got you." Conan said trying to hold the boy up until the others got in position to help, but his other hand slipped. Conan then began to fall after the other boy with a wondered question of.

'But who's got me?!'