NEW POLL ALERT! NEW POLL ALERT!

What is your favorite choice for the name of the sequel for this story?

Anyways...

I realized that last time, the cliffhanger isn't really well written sooooo...

I'm attempting to do a better cliffie this chapter!

P.S I only created the first half of this chapter. The second half was typed out by Animephoenix2468, my beta reader.

Disclaimer:... you-know-what!

Kid let out a yelp as he was pulled into a room.

"Shhhh!" Conan hissed, his hands still on the silky material of Kid's cape. "You'll get us caught!"

"Tantei-kun?" Kid blinked. "How can you see me? I thought I was invisible!"

"Apparently, that wore off." Conan replied dryly, still not believing such illogical things (Detectives are no fun, huffed Kaito angrily).

They were in the art display room. The Detective boys were gathered in a circle, still worried about their missing friend.

"Is Mitsuhiko going to be okay?" Ayumi asked worriedly, glancing at Mitsuhiko's detective badge. They had found it bent and broken, laying on the floor near the gift shop.

"Hummm. I don't know." Kid said, also worried. People were getting hurt, despite his "No one gets hurt" rule.

"By the way," said Conan, rummaging through his pocket, "It's time for you to call Aoko. She must be worried by now."

Aoko! Kaito thought with a tinge of horror inside. She must be so worried by now!

He quickly dialed.

Immediately, Aoko's angry voice filled the room. But thanks to the voice changer that Kaito had gave her, the Detective Boys didn't recognize her voice (Not that they would if she used her normal voice. They hadn't met her before).

"KID! YOU'D BETTER HAVE A GOOD EXCUSE FOR NOT DIALING FOR THREE. ENTIRE. HOURS!" Kaito winced at the loudness while the kids looked at the cellphone curiously. No doubt that they were wondering if it was Kid's/Kiddo's girlfriend.

"Listen, I've got the Philosopher's stone." Kid said hurriedly, "Move to position. Over and out!"

Oh, why do I always go for rooftops? Kid asked himself with a roll of eyes while hurrying up the staircase. I'm getting too predictable.

He cautiously stepped onto the roof and glanced around for any traps set either by Nakamori or the BO.

He didn't see anything.

Good.

The wind whipped around him as he stepped onto the edge of the building; and with a running leap, he dived off.

It was right after he opened his glider when he felt something was wrong.

"#%#$&*!" he shouted it in a way that would make his mom wash his mouth out with soap if she heard him.

Snipers.

With a few well-placed shots, the metal supporting his glider gave out, and he was getting closer and closer to the ground.

And now! Time for Animephoenix2468's half!

Time seemed to slow as Kid fell, gravity taking hold of him as if it craved revenge against the magician for his gravity-defying tricks. Kid frantically tried to think of a backup plan, a way to avoid falling to his death, but all ideas escaped his grasp.

Out of the corner of his eye, the thief spotted a deep green light shining through the pocket of his white suit. The darkness of the night made the light seem brighter than it actually was, and Kid had to squint slightly to see the outline of the flat top of the Philosopher's Stone. The pale green emerald's glow was almost eerie as the thief pulled the magical artifact from his pocket and continued his involuntary descent.

Meanwhile, another light, blood red but just as bright as the green glow, emanated from the drawer of Nakamori's desk. Inside the drawer, the glowing Pandora Gem began to repair itself. Once the red sapphire had returned to its original round, flat-topped form, the jewel seemed to dissolve into a misty, crimson, gas-like substance which flew beneath a small opening in a nearby window.

The Gem soared towards the Philosopher's Stone in Kid's grip as if attracted by a magnet. When it reached the Stone, the Pandora Gem's particles gathered, combined, and solidified, and both jewels' flat sides connected firmly.

The crowd stared in bewildered awe as the deep green glow and crimson light combined and glinted off of Kid's monocle mysteriously as he closed in on the ground dangerously. However, neither the fans nor the taskforce had much time to wonder about the nature or source of the illumination. Less than a second after the lights joined together, the elusive thief vanished without warning, leaving the shocked spectators staring at the empty air where Kid had been.

Burbon: Arrragh! Kid escaped!

Peltra: ALL MY FANFICTION CHARACTERS LISTEN UP! TOMORROW WE'LL DO A VOTE ON IF KAITOU KID DIES OR NOT! CHARACTERS FROM MY OTHER STORIES ARE ALSO WELCOME!

Burbon: Well, no doubt I'm voting him dead.

Kid: Hey!

Kaito: I'm voting for you to be alive.

Kid: aren't we the same person?

And so ends another chapter. I've got the rest of the story planned out, so now... Review to suggest any names for the sequel!