(A/N- Hello there :) Forgive me for the lame chapter title. It's harder than you think to come up with those things.

I'm sittin' here eatin' pizza, drinkin' root beer, typin' fan fic. Got good grades on all of my end of the year projects. Plenty of fun to look forward to. Goin' swimming soon. LIFE IS GOOD.

Thanks to KuroHi91, 3aboOorah, and Iriss-sama for reviewing! Love you guys, thanks ^^.

I've decided to change the way I spell Kaitou Kid. Kaitou is right, right? I think so. Correct me if I'm wrong.

So, remember what I said last week about not being able to look at alcohol without glaring death at it? Last night my dad was talking about different types of alcohol and their flavors, aftertastes, etc. Then he started talking about which ones go best together. I could not stop laughing. Anyway, quite a long chapter we've got here today. I hope it's not too weird. Enjoy :D)

Fangirls and Questionable Roller Coasters

Emma's POV

I was sitting on Agasa-hakase's couch. I had been trying to explain everything for a good ten minutes with no avail. Only me being a fail, Agasa-hakase's confused face, Gabby's snickers, and Ai's cold look. Then the door bell rang.

"Is that Conan?" I exclaimed. "I'll bet Conan will help us explain!"

Gabby sighed. She turned to the professor. "I apologize ahead of time if she starts talking about inter-dimensional psychics."

"..."

Soon came in Conan, but I was more relieved to see Jackie, Saffron, and Kelly.

"There you guys are!" Gabby said.

"Where have you been?" Kelly asked.

"Here." I said.

"Lucky you." Saffron said sadly. "We got caught up in a murder."

"Please, take a seat." Agasa-hakase motioned for us all to sit on a couch.

The five of us squeezed in to the sofa. I realized that this was the perfect way to interrogate us.

Gabby whispered, "We haven't told them much of anything yet."

"Well..." Jackie muttered. "Conan definitely suspects us of something. Kinda screwed up when we first talked to him, and I just called him Shinichi, so..."

"No avoiding that." I said. "But what do we tell them?"

"Nothing but the truth is best." Kelly said. "They're all way too smart to take any other excuse."

Conan's voice made me jump. "When you're done whispering..." He looked at us, all attempts to look like a kid scrapped. His eyes were hard and rather scary when that glare is focused at you. It's enough to make any criminal confess to their crimes. "I want some answers."

Where to start... I wondered.

"Hakase," Conan said, "were you expecting any transfer students today?"

"What?" The old man looked confused. "No... especially not with tomorrow's plans. Where did you hear that?"

Gabby and I glanced at our friends. Jackie laughed nervously. "I-it seemed like a good excuse at the time."

Conan continued. "So how do you know Agasa-hakase, and how do you know who I am?" Geez, who knew a kid could be so intimidating?

The five of us looked at each other.

"I call not it." Kelly said quickly.

"Don't watch anime, how could I?" Saffron shrugged.

"Same." Gabby said.

I looked at Jackie.

"You know more than me." She admitted.

"Mmm... fine. You have to help me though, ok?" Jackie nodded and I continued. "What would you like to hear first?"

"Whatever's easiest."

Crap.

"Ok... from the beginning I guess. You are known right now as Edogawa Conan, an unsuspecting but exceptionally smart 'child' going to Teitan Elementary School. But before that, you were Kudo Shinichi, a famous old high school detective. Your birthday is May 4th and... I forget your blood type right now, but it's the same as Ran's."

"How... the hell..."

"Well, we're from a different world. A different dimension. Someone from our dimension made an anime and manga out of this world. Specifically you."

Their faces maintained shocked and confused expressions.

"Emma and I," Jackie spoke up, "are huge fans of that anime. The five of us have been to a couple anime universes before. Each time we help the people there do something. So I think we were sent here for a reason."

Ai spoke up. "You could have been told that by anyone who knows Kudo-kun. That story could have been made up on the spot. I need some solid proof if you want to convince me."

Jackie hesitated. "Solid proof?"

"Like the necklaces?" Saffron asked, putting a hand on hers. I had barely noticed it, but I was wearing mine as well.

"No..." Gabby said. "It would be a lot easier if we could use our powers..."

"Ok..." I said, nodding at Ai. "Shiho Miyano. Otherwise known as Sherry. Inventor of APTX 4869, the drug that reduced you two to this size. I'm still not sure on your age or birthday... You like peanut putter and blueberry jam sandwiches."

"Oh!" Jackie exclaimed. "In one episode- er, this one time, a really long time ago, Conan, Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko were playing hide and seek in the park, and Ayumi... I think she, like, hid in a car trunk or something. So when she was driven away, you tried to find her. At first it seemed like they were murderers because the had a little girl's head in the trunk, but it turns out they were actors, the head was a prop, and they were just rehearsing lines for their play. You knocked one out before they could explain and you had to take his place in the play... That's what happened, right?"

I nodded. "Yeah, that was an early one, but I remember it, too."

"So..." Conan said, even more shocked now. "You know everything about us?"

I shrugged. "Not totally everything, but mostly."

"From an anime, you say?" Ai asked.

"Yep."

"So you know everything about this world?"

"Mostly."

Her eyes narrowed. "The Black Organization's location?"

"Eh... no."

"Anything that would help us?"

"I'm not sure what you mean by that, but..."

"Then why are you here?"

"Who knows?" Gabby said.

"No way to know for sure." Saffron piped up. "We usually find out when we hang around the main characters for a while."

"Wait a minute..." Kelly said. "Twice now, you mentioned something that's going on tomorrow. What's happening?"

"A science expo!" Agasa-hakase said, his eyes bright. "Scientists and inventors from all over the world are coming together to show off their inventions and discoveries. I'll be showing off my latest invention, the -"

Conan cut him off. "And there's also a Kid heist."

"Kaitou Kid?" Jackie and I practically shrieked.

"Who's that?" Saffron asked. "Rings a bell..."

"Only the hottest thief in all the dimensions!" Jackie said, bouncing up and down. "He's amazing!"

"That guy you were talking about earlier?" Kelly asked. "But he's a criminal, right?"

"Yep!" I chirped. "But he always gives back the jewels he takes! He does amazing stunts and tricks during his heists, like walking on air!"

"Seriously?"

"No," Conan protested, "he was being hung up by the helicopter that was above him-"

"Which was being piloted by Ji- his accomplice." I nodded. "I know, but still, it took you a while to figure it out. And that idea of screwing up the helicopter numbers was pure genius!"

Ai put a hand on Conan's shoulder. "Don't argue with fangirls. They'll find every way to make you feel stupid."

"He can steal virtually anything," Jackie continued, "and escapes in to the night dressed all in white..."

I sighed. "He's sooo cool!"

"I almost catch him each time." Conan muttered.

"Jealous, are we?" Ai smiled.

"So," Saffron said, "whatever we need to do here, it has to do with Kaitou Kid and the science expo."

"Tomorrow, right?" Gabby said.

"Hell yeah!" Jackie cheered.

"Oh boy." Kelly said.

Gabby's POV

We slept at the professor's. Conan offered to let us stay at his house next door, but Jackie protested about some potentially evil stranger staying there. She said she didn't trust him, which earned an approving nod from Haibara and a laugh and sweat drop from Emma. I don't know what that's about, but one weird and slightly awkward night later and we were on the train to the expo.

Kelly, Saffron, and I were trying to learn as much about Detective Conan as we could. We were getting summaries of the plot and asking questions about it as the buildings flew by the train windows, turning into gray blurs.

I asked, "So why don't you just take the experimental antidote over and over?"

"It would render the antidote useless." Ai explained. "The body would adapt to it so they can only be taken occasionally. Plus, if two are taken, one immediately after the other, the second time will be drasticly shorter."

"I see..."

Emma spoke up. "Actually, I've always wondered something... that day at Tropical Land... You first saw Gin and Vodka there."

Conan nodded, a sad look on his face. "Yes."

"They were on the roller coaster with you."

"Yeah."

Ai seemed to understand. "They were..."

"What?" Conan asked. "Yes, they- …"

Emma looked slightly disturbed. "Why were they on the roller coaster in the first place?"

"..."

"Whoa..." Jackie said. "Never thought about that... Two cold hearted murderers... on a roller coaster..."

"And you didn't think it was weird when you saw them?" Ai asked Conan.

"Well..." He answered. "A bit, but then someone was beheaded. I forgot about them at the time."

The loudspeaker announced our stop.

"C'mon, guys." I said, standing up.

"R-right..."

Jackie shook her head. "I will never be able to stop thinking about that."

The expo was already filled with people rushing in and out to adjust and make last minute preparations to exhibits and decorations. It was in a huge building, at least two or three stories high. It was built in a square U shape, giving it one main section and two wings. Plants and trees and flowers of every kind lined the walls. Banners and signs everywhere advertised the expo.

"Whoa." I muttered.

We walked through the large glass doors. The inside was even more impressive. Signs directed people to the different sections- biology and geology to the left physics and chemistry to the right. In the middle there was scheduled experiments, demonstrations, and sciency stuff for kids to enjoy, like vinegar and baking soda volcanoes and robots. The ceiling reached high above our heads. The walls were all windows.

Agasa-hakase shifted a box he'd been carrying and said, "I've got to go get set up. I'll be in Chemistry, 12B."

"Alright." Conan said. "we'll find you later."

As he walked away, Jackie asked, "What would Kid want to steal here?"

"If I remember correctly," Ai said, "everything that has to do with jewels is in the left wing."

"Geology, then?" Jackie nodded. "Make sense."

"C'mon, guys!" Emma said, bouncing up and down with excitement. "Let's go! I can't freaking wait to see everything they have here! I bet they have a great astronomy and marine biology section! And I wonder if they'll have any species on display! And the experiments..." I tuned her out. She can be such a science nerd sometimes.

As we walked, I snagged a pamphlet from a table. It was a full map of the building and schedule for experiments. I scanned through the sections, but one in particular caught my eye.

"Hey, Saffron." I bumped her with my elbow. "Check this out."

She looked at where I was pointing. "Exhibits on time and space travel? That sound a lot like interdenominational traveling!"

"That can't be a coincidence. Do you think..."

She nodded. "... He's there."

He was the only one outside our group that we knew had means of dimension travel. At the end of our previous adventure, Emma was sucked into the portal just as it was about to close. I caught her, Jackie caught me, and Kelly and Saffron had caught Jackie. Emma and I had been hanging in the open void between portals.

When we were about to pull each other up, a swirling blue portal had appeared right next to Emma. I could barely see through it. Inside was a young man. It was dark so I could only tell that he was a man wearing a white lab coat. I could only describe him as... evil, I guess. He looked curious, but it wasn't exactly curiosity. His look was more serious. Like that know everything about everything look mad scientists have. He wanted to know who we were, how we got there, and how he could too. But not for any friendly or good reasons. I could see it in his eyes. If we had kept hanging there, he would have gone as far as trying to jump through our portal to get his hands on our portal machine blueprints.

If we were going to meet him again (which I wasn't wild about) he would be in that section, with everything that had to do with inter-dimensional time travel.

We reached the Geology section. It was just a bunch of stuff about new volcanoes, earthquakes, rocks, and the history of dirt. Oh joy.

But at the end of the hall I saw a few police men surrounding a group that looked very out of place in an environment like that.

"Nakamori-keibu!" Conan called, waving. One man turned and greeted us. Conan seemed to know him well.

As he and the man talked, Kelly asked quietly , "Who's that?"

Emma muttered back, "The detective in charge of Kid heists. You can bet that wherever he is, Kaitou Kid isn't far behind."

"So," Jackie asked Nakamori-keibu, "what's Kid after this time?"

"This, right?" Conan pointed to a stone on display.

"This?" Kelly asked. "What is it?"

It was a stone about the size of an iPhone. Its color was a strange off white. When I got closer, I could see a dozen colors shimmer into view on the stone's surface. Shades of blue, purple, and pink appeared, making my eyes widen.

"Cool..." Saffron said.

"That's a moonstone, right?" Ai asked.

"Looks like it." Emma nodded. "Amazing."

Kelly smiled. "Pretty!"

"Yes. The Mermaid's Scale." Nakamori-keibu said. "A perfect target for Kid. Now run along, children. We must get ready for Kid's arrival. Tonight, we'll catch him for sure!"

As we walked away, Emma smiled. "Keep dreaming, dude. I doubt he'll ever catch him."

"At least he's optimistic." Jackie pointed out.

(A/N- Hmmm... This is an insanely long chapter. Should I cut some of it and put it into the next one?... Nah :) Review, subscribe, and thanks for reading! I hoped you liked it and weren't totally discouraged by my lack of writing skills tonight. But seriously though, why the eff were Gin and Vodka on the roller coaster? O_o I'll see ya next week, have a great three day weekend! Peace!)