I feel really stupid right now. Why didn't I think of telling the time a chapter takes place the way you guys suggested? When I read the first review that suggested, I felt so stupid.

Either way, this chapter takes place after Conan has left. That's all I'm going to give you guys, for now.

Disclaimer: I don't own Detective Conan.

Chapter 7: Messes tend to turn bigger

Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department was, well, in a mess, to say the least. Police officers were running around, shouting orders and whatnot while they tried to keep up with the insane amounts of paperwork and cases that needed to be solved.

"A thievery in Beika!"

"A kidnap in Ekoda!"

"Division 2, Kaitou KID was spotted!"

"Division 1...!"

"Everyone shut up!"

Everyone paused at Megure's voice. He continued with his shouting, ignoring the fact that everyone had frozen. "There's too much work here! We can't keep up!"

"The body count only today is the same as if we tripled the body count from three weeks!" Takagi agreed. "We just can't keep up!"

"We're doing our best, but we can't do this just with our division alone", Sato agreed. "We understand that everyone is busy, but you need to give us a break!"

Everyone in the building glanced around nervously. They knew that was the truth, but it was scaring everyone. As Takagi had said, the three earlier weeks and their body count was nothing compared to just today. Even that tripling wouldn't bring it to the point where the body count was today. People were just dropping dead all of a sudden, as if all murderers had chosen this day to put their plans into action. There was just one problem in that. The murderers left no traces of themselves.

"If just Shinichi-kun was here!" Megure sighed. "With him, we'd be able to handle these cases easily!"

"I wouldn't wish for that if I was you."

Everyone turned to the voice, only to see Shuichi, Jodie, Camel and James there. Shuichi, the one who had spoken, had a frown on his face.

"Who are you?" Sato blinked. "And why is the FBI here?"

"We're here for a mission", James stated. "An undercover mission that we could not tell about."

"Wait", Megure frowned. "You've been doing a mission on our turf without our consent?!"

"We were quite sure you'd understand, especially with the situation", Jodie frowned. "The whole world is in danger here."

"What do you mean?" Takagi blinked.

"Let us talk of that once everyone has gathered", James glanced to the hall. Just then, in came Kogoro, Ran, Sonoko, Sera, Agasa, Ai, the Detective Boys, Heiji, Kazuha, Aoko and Hakuba.

Nakamori, who had just been walking by, blinked. "Wait, Aoko?!"

"Tou-san!" Aoko ran to him. He frowned. "Why are you here?"

"We were asked by the FBI", Hakuba answered for her. "Apparently, it has something to do with KID."

Nakamori's whole attention was on the group of FBI agents.

"Jodie-sensei?" Sonoko blinked as they all came to them. "What is going on here?"

"Shu-nii!" Sera ran to Shuichi and hugged him. Shuichi briefly hugged her back before they pulled away. Sera had tears in her eyes. "Where have you been?! I thought you were dead!"

"I had to act", Shuichi said. "For the sake of the mission, for the sake of the world."

"Eh?" Sera blinked. "What mission?"

"You're from the FBI", Kogoro stated. James nodded. "I think it would be better if everyone sat down."

"We don't have the time", Nakamori huffed. "KID was sighted."

"I doubt it was really him", Camel admitted. Nakamori frowned at him. "And what do you know about KID, huh?!"

"That that he is not currently in Tokyo", Jodie said.

"He isn't?" Hakuba blinked in shock and frowned. "How does the FBI know? Why are you interested in KID anyways?"

"We wouldn't be", Shuichi admitted. "But something worrying came up during our mission."

"What do you mean?" Sato blinked.

"We had a transmitter on a person", Jodie glanced at Ran. "On Kudo Shinichi, to be exact."

"On Shinichi?!" Ran gasped in shock. James nodded grimly. "Yes. He was supposed to contact us once he came into contact with the organization."

"Hold up a minute!" Heiji exclaimed. "What do you mean, once he came into contact with the organization?! Did that guy just run after them blindly?!"

Everyone turned to Heiji with wide eyes. He scratched his cheek sheepishly. "Oops..."

"You know", Jodie bit her lip. "But no, he didn't."

"Then what?" Heiji asked.

"Kudo Shinichi met up with Kaitou KID before they destroyed the transmitter", Shuichi said.

"What?!"

"That's not all", James frowned. "They talked of each other with code names."

Ai, Agasa and Heiji's eyes widened. "C-code... names?"

"They referred to each other as Red Wine and White Wine."