!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This chapter was 2 weeks late!!!!!!!!!!!!! (goes off to emo about long chapters and deadlines and my typing speed)

Note to self: When trying to type remove all forms of distraction, including Touhou Project games and PatchCon. (Yes I play Touhou...Anyone finished Double Spoiler yet?)

"That was a pretty good skit you've put up, Ai."

Ai could barely hear Conan's voice against the roar of the brawl, but she made out what he said by lip-reading. She nodded, then turned back to watch the battle.

It was close to utter chaos. The members of the Black Organisation and the police were heaving it out on the field, throwing a number of weapons at their enemies. She could just see the blurry form of Inspector Nakamori doing a hundred-metre sprint all around the room while dodging any stray , crying out for his daughter. She turned her head backwards to look at Aoko's reaction, and found her being held back from running to her father by Kaito. Tears pooled at the sides of her eyes.

"Look out!"

They all ducked, and a split second later a rain of stray bullets whizzed over their heads and drilled holes into the wall behind them.

Conan grabbed Ai by the shoulders and pulled Kaito down, so that their ears were within earshot of his mouth.

"Okay. Things don't look so good. Remember what the second part of our plan was…"

…

A long series of colourful swear words hissed out from under his mouth. Once again, he raised his gun and fired at the wall of sacks and crates, the sharp bullets piercing the thick cotton and coming to a complete stop in the stuff that lay inside. He stalked closer, his weapon still raised, ready to pull the trigger at any sudden movement.

He could see their trembling shadows behind the temporary wall. They were shaking, as if an earthquake had conveniently happened right below them. He was really close to them right now, just in front of the pile, and he loaded his gun once more.

There were five people. Two girls still traumatised by the situation, two kids, and an able-bodied teenager. Five shots; five perfectly aimed shots were all it took to finish them off.

Then there was the police to deal with. Nah, the bombs would take care of that.

He pointed the gun barrel straight at where he perceived the teenager's head should be. Killing him off first would leave the other four defenceless, and whatever elaborate scheme they had cooked up would be rendered useless. From there, picking the rest off would be as easy as pie.

He pulled the trigger.

Out from the small black cylinder shot a single bullet, the gunpowder propelling it forward, slicing the very air before it. The sharp end of the bullet dug into the wooden frame of the crate, shattering the first layer, then did the same for the back one. It entered and exited the wood, into something behind it, and the object let out a spurt. He peered over, expecting to see the five frozen with their mouths wide open in shock, one presumably dead, and the others trembling and begging for mercy.

Instead, he saw a round grey ball, grain pouring out from a hole in the front like a gushing river of yellow water. The sack ball was propped up on a flat crate, making it have the appearance of a crouched human. The real humans were nowhere to be seen.

"CHAAAAARGE!!!"

A pair of small shadows suddenly loomed over him, growing bigger and bigger as each split second passed. He looked up finally just in time to see the two kids bring down a rather large crate of fish onto his head.

…

Kaito had planted himself far, far away from the two kids, trying not to get anywhere near that awful box of raw fish. He watched, a little gleefully, maybe, as the crate broke open upon contact, and wet, sloppy fish rained down on to the bad guy. Maybe it was the impact, or maybe it was the smell, but anyways, the bad guy was knocked out pretty fast. The two kids, deliriously delighted with their work, had taken to shouting taunts at the dazed man, some holding obscenities. He smiled, and then called the children to him. Tottering over while grinning madly, they grinned up at him. It was only then that he realised how evil shrunken kids could be.

Turning to the two girls, his mouth curled into a soft smile. "Come on now, the police will take care of everything now." He took them by the hands and walked towards the door.

"Not so fast!"

They all whirled around, surprised and horrified to see Gin getting up, his right hand clutching a petite black box. His mouth was pulled into a menacing snarl, the shadows flitting around him like a cluster of dark tentacles ready to grab and kill anything within reach. Gin slowly paced around them, until he was facing the doorway of the warehouse. Ai's usually milk-coloured face transitioned into a shade of sickly white.

"Oh no."

"Oh yes," sneered Gin, as the thin branches at the end of his sinewy arms curled around the remote as if it was a toy. His thin bony finger hovered over the red button for a fraction of a second before plunging down.

…

Hakuba felt the ominous rumble a few seconds before he got impact.

It was small at first, just the wall behind him vibrating, that's all. He continued fighting, as though there was nothing strange going on.

"Wait a minute," he thought, "walls don't rumble by themselves."

He sprinted away from the wall, which suddenly glowed brightly and exploded, sending all those unlucky people near it flying. He cried out a loud "RUN!!!" at the top of his voice, and sped towards the door, just like everyone else, be it Organization members or police officers. Along the way, he bumped into Inspector Nakamori, and hastily pulled him along towards the only escape route, just as another bomb on an adjacent wall blew up, sending a hail of debris after them. The inspector looked a little dazed as he surveyed his surroundings.

"Hey, Hakuba…" he mumbled softly.

Hakuba whipped his head around to face him, still running. "What?"

"Erm…where was that girl you were with just now?"

Hakuba's feet nearly stopped functioning. He spun around and around, his searching glare sweeping every corner of the area, yet he caught no sign of Serin. As he neared the entrance, he could only pray that she was alright.

…

"Are you done yet, Heiji?"

"Almost," replied the Osakan teenager, "I've just programmed the virus to erase any data concerning that video. Kudo would have to thank me for this." His fingers flitted around the keyboard like a group of dragonflies, racking up a nice tap-tap noise on the flat keys.

"Well, you had better hurry. Shinichi and the rest might very well be in danger right now, you know." The professor's half-bald head poked around the driver's seat to look at him, his eyes peering out of the glasses that sat perched on the bridge of his nose. Heiji smirked, and then finished off his job with a final click of his mouse.

"There. The virus has been released to onto the internet and onto whoever's computer that has the video or has seen the video onto it. Even the Google searches have been erased. But I'm afraid that we can't erase the people's memories, you know." He leant back onto the leather seat of the small yellow car and grinned to himself in satisfaction.

"Need not to worry; you've done your part. The memory erasing part…we'll just have to leave that to the Destiny."

…

"Come on, we've got to go!"

They dashed towards the exit just as another huge chunk of wall tumbled down just inches behind them. Everyone was jostling for the exit, pushing others away just to clear a road for themselves. It was every man for himself, really.

"Kudo!"

A dark pair of leathery maroon wings swooped down without warning and snatched up Conan in its grasp, the way and eagle grabs its puny prey. He screamed, and wrenched himself around to face his attacker. She smiled, maybe a tad too sadistically, and gripped him firmly in her hands, the nails digging painfully into his sides.

"Long time no see, Kudo-kun."

Conan was blank for a moment, then rebuffed, "Oh, er…hi. I would address you properly, if it wasn't for the unfortunate fact that your name has slipped my mind and that we are trying to escape from an old building that is caving in, so if you don't mind…"

"No way am I letting you go this time! I'll slow you down so much that you'll find yourself buried under all the rubble once the explosions stop!" she snapped at him, her sharp teeth clearly visible through her crazed grin.

Conan wriggled around in her grasp, the nails grazing against his clothes, leaving little slits where the points touched. "Let me go!" he cried.

"Oh, how I've been waiting for this moment for so long…when I finally get a chance to take a bite out of your cute little neck…" Her crooning was starting to get on Conan's nerves, and he kick, bit and punched her for all he was worth. Serin dropped him at last, but quickly swooped down again and grabbed him by the collar this time. She twisted his head out of the way, bent her head down, her razor-sharp canine teeth only within a few millimetres of Conan's exposed neck…

He scratched her face at the last moment, causing her nails to raze his face and scalp. The rubber peeled off him like a layer of wrapping paper, and the black bundle of hair slid down onto the ground. Coffee brown hair fluffed itself out, tired of being kept under that stuffy wig, and quickly hung back down at either side of the child's head. Serin flinched, and gasped, finally noticing that the child was not her intended target. She threw the kid back down onto the ground with force, and then looked at the Ai standing beside the group, a cheeky smirk on her face. She – no, he reached up and pulled of the mask shielding his face; and surprise, surprise, it was the economic-sized detective.

"I got her, I got her, I got –" Kaito stretched out his arms to catch the falling Ai, and she landed safely in his arms with a small poof. She looked up at Kaito with pleasure, and hugged him tightly. Both Kaito and Aoko, who happened to be watching, felt their faces explode into a bright shade of red.

"Pip Pip!"

Time seemed to freeze at that instant, as they turned to see where that beeping sound had come from. Conan held up his watch, and saw that the minute and hour hands were touching the number twelve. He smiled sweetly up at Serin, his eyes glinting with…mischief? Revenge? She could not see through his façade, through that pair of bright blue eyes which were starting to cloud up.

"Kaito, get everyone out of here immediately." The child whispered, making Kaito's face go pale.

"B-But..."

"Do it now!" yelled the kid, and Kaito grabbed hold of everyone's hands, whipped out a pristine white cape from seemingly nowhere, and whirled it around himself. When he let go of the cape, he fluttered to a stop behind him, the top corners attached to his shoulders, his costume in place, his white hat tipped cheekily over his face and the monocle covering up the mischievous look in his eye. He launched the hang glider strapped on his back, and soared towards the door. Turning back to face his opponent, he rapped the face of his watch twice.

The familiar red glow filled out the entire room, and even the falling debris seemed to slow down. Serin went blind again, but she was extremely lucky not to have anything hit her. The light died down soon enough, and Shinichi took to the air on the pair of snow white wings that protruded from his back.

"May I have this dance?"

Without warning, Serin attacked him with a blow to his abdomen, and he spiralled down to the floor, crashing into a crumpled heap on the jagged pieces of roof and wall with a sickening crack. Serin picked him up and whacked him on the debris, watching as fresh blood started gushing out of the wounds on his body. Once she was sure he could no longer resist, she drew out his neck and bit down heavily.

"This is way too easy," she thought as she tasted the warm blood streaming into her mouth. It was surprising that he could have been defeated with such a simple and straightforward tactic. His blood, her reward, was equally sweet, and she drained him until she could draw out no more.

She looked at the corpse she now held in her hand, and smiled.

Out of the blue, she heard a strange sound behind the body. She turned it over, and saw the wings fall off. She picked one up and fingered it; it was hard and cold, unlike a limb that had once belonged to a living thing. Some of the feathers dropped out, and she ran her hand over the hard white stuff that was supposedly the skin of the wing. It was a little rough, made up of white balls squashed together.

"Styrofoam?!"

She whipped off the wig on the body, and realised that it was not Shinichi she had fed on; it was just someone from the crowd, unluckily squashed to death by the debris, from the look of his broken ribcage. Every single bone on his chest was broken.

"I switched with him just before you whacked me in the gut, did you know?"

She looked up at the sound of that voice, that familiar, yet detested voice, and watched as he plunged a long iron pole into her own chest.

…

Ran hung on for dear life as the hang glider did many a daredevil stunt on its journey, lilting and dipping through the air, avoiding the falling roof, crumbling walls and even pulling off a loop-de-loop with grace. She squealed in thrilling fright as Kaito attempted yet another close swerve, laughing as Ran's hair brushed the surface of the chunk of cement and pole. Ran's long legs were dangling in midair, her hands gripping onto the handle of the huge white kite. Her fingers were slippery against the metal handle; it must be the sweat.

Her strength was faltering as she held onto the thin bar. Her fingers were slipping off the bar…she could not hold on much longer…

"Kaito! We'll never make it in time if you keep flip-flopping all over the place!" she heard Aoko's frenzied cry, and saw her hand reach down from the top of the hang glider where she was gripping on to. The teenage magician-slash-thief sighed in exasperation, and attempted another belly-upsetting turn, narrowly missing a bunch of brick red tiles cascading down from above. "What did you want me to do, Aoko?! I'm already flying as fast as I can, and my hang glider isn't made to carry three teenagers and a kid all at once!"

"Oh, I feel so small," retorted Ai sarcastically, while hanging onto Aoko's shoulders like a cape.

Kaito huffed, then dived away from another chunk of falling rubble.

Suddenly, his hang glider jerked up, and he fumbled his grip on the metal bar. Ignoring cries of surprise and fright from the girls behind him, he continued flying on.

"Wait, why does the glider feel a lot lighter?"

He casted his gaze downwards, and saw her land on the jagged debris with a loud crack.

"Ran!!"

He circled around and around above her. She seemed to move a little, and once again they called out to her. Maybe she opened her eyes a little, maybe she didn't. Kaito was not sure.

Just then, another big piece of wall tumbled down onto them. Kaito swerved just in time for it to miss him, but it went on and fell right smack on Ran! There was another deafening crack, and Kaito saw a glinting pool of blood form and seep out from under the hard cement. Seeing that there was nothing else he could do, or could have done, he quickly zipped out of the caving-in warehouse, and placed the girls down in front of the road, where the professor and that Osakan detective was waiting. With their help, the remaining girls were bundled into the car.

"Where's Kudo and Ran?" asked an inquisitive Heiji, noticing that the couple were not with Kaito.

"Erm…he's with her…back at the field. He told me to leave first…yeah." He was stammering, but he hoped that the other party would accept his pathetically pieced reason. The teen seemed to be okay with it, though, and proceeded to help the girls with their minor injuries.

Just then, there was another huge boom! Five heads turned towards the source, and watched as the last remnants of the warehouse toppled down like an unstable block tower. Kaito distinctively heard a loud yell. Maybe it was from the detective he had left there on the battlefield.

Uh oh. Any moment now the fearsome Shini(chi)gami would be back to would kill him.

APRIL 17TH IS TOMORROW!!!!!!!!( fangirl screams)

...but I don't understand much Japanese...*sigh*...shall have to wait until the fansubs are out...(goes of to emo again)