"This is 911, state your emergency."
"Our house had been broken into by several men wearing dark clothing." Jazz said worriedly into her cell phone.
"Is this the Fenton residence?"
"Yes," Jazz faltered for a second. "How did you know?"
"Because I'm under strict order not to forwards any distress calls from the Fenton residence to the proper authorities. Don't worry, it'll all be over soon."
There was a click as the attendant hung up. Jazz stared at her phone blankly. "Please tell me that did not just happen."
"You know, I keep saying the men in black are everywhere, and people keep calling me paranoid." Conan muttered.
"We need to get to the basement." Sam declared. "Right now that portal's our only ticket to getting Danny back. We need to get down there and get the speeder. We can figure out our next move after we find Danny."
"But what about Mom and Dad?" Jazz asked worriedly
"And Ran!" Conan added forcefully.
"There are plenty of ways out of the Zone, but finding another way in is going to be tricky." Takagi pointed out.
Neither Jazz nor Conan looked happy, but they didn't speak out again either.
"We're going to need a distraction so we can use the transport safely to even get to the living area. Then we have to get to the basement where the portal thingy is and get that Speeder thing up and running before they catch up." Heiji summarized.
"I noticed a fairly elaborate security system when I came in. However it didn't seem to be turned on." Kid pointed out.
"Danny disabled it to protect Cujo," Jazz explained. "It focuses on ectoplasm so it wouldn't be helping us now anyway."
"Never underestimate technology!" Tucker declared. "Ladies and Gentlemen, I have an idea.
S$
"The Fenton's may be nutcases, but they sure know how to hide a secret passage."
"Great, you want to be the one to tell the boss we couldn't complete our mission because the Fenton's are such great door hiders?"
The first man paled. Given their boss's need for test subject and his assistant, Midori's, love of sadism, death definitively came before failure. (Not that it didn't also come after failure, but before failure was a lot less painful).
"Grrrrr."
"Alright I get it, no complimenting the victim's ability to keep us from doing our job."
"...That wasn't me."
Before either man could react the air behind them shimmered as a gigantic green hound appeared in front of them. Cujo drew back his lips, allowing the intruders to see the row of very large pointy teeth.
"Time to run?"
"Definitely"
The two men took off screaming, not noticing the refrigerator swing away from the wall and the very people they were looking for come out of hiding.
"Everyone clear on the plan?" Tucker asked
"Me an' Cujo here should keep them from getting near the kitchen." said Kid, a perfect doppleganger of Danny in both face and voice. "You guys just get the plan in motion."
"I want you in jail, not dead." Conan reminded the thief as he pulled a number of kickable thing from out of the cabinets.
"Love you too," said Kid as he left to sow mayhem among their enemies.
Tucker pulled one of the Fenton's inventions from a cabinet and frowned at the state of disrepair it was in. "This could take longer than I thought."
Jazz pulled a napkin ring from the cutlery drawer and tossed it to Heiji.
"What am I supposed to do with this?" asked Heiji, bewildered.
"Twist it in the middle" Jazz advised as the pulled several packets of rubber balloons out from under the sink.
Heiji did as he was asked and a large green energy blade shot out from the napkin ring, which had extended itself to be a handle. "Okay, this I can work with." he said, appreciably.
One of the MIB goons stuck his head into the doorway, only to have it almost be knocked off by a high speed kettle.
"Almost got it." Tucker announced. "Can I get some meat over here."
S$
Truth be told, he had been briefed on the target, Danny Fenton and his family.
He just hadn't believed any of it. And while the notes said the target could walk through wall, it said nothing about him being a damn acrobat that could use the furniture in a room as springboards and the ceiling as he personal playground.
And cardguns, doves and pink smoke bombs were definitely not mentioned. And he wished the kid really wouldn't use those if that was what was causing that horrible smell.
He almost didn't notice when the hyperactive teenager stopped dead, a very odd look on his face. Unfortunately before he could focus something bit his leg. The merc looked down to see...a ham.
A bright green ham with four small legs and red eyes glared up at him.
What was in those smoke bombs?
He didn't have time to further contemplate as a large blob dropped from the ceiling over his face.
Kid just blinked as he watched the man try to shake loose the living ham and ground beef. Another man ran passed the doorway, tightly bound in fanged sausage links.
"And people say I'm weird." Still, I wonder if they'd let me borrow some of those sausages for my next heist. I'd love to see the look on Nakamori-keibu's face.
Figuring the job of distraction was pretty well taken care of, he returned to the kitchen, narrowly avoiding Heiji's sword and what looked like a stewpot kicked his way.
"And here I thought you liked me?" he mock complained, "And was that the emergency ham back there?"
Takagi shrugged, grinning slightly. "It was an emergency, right?"
"Phase 2 about to be complete." Tucker was standing over the ecto-cooker with a look of unholy glee on his face. "Live I say, Live!"
As if on command a small arsenal of water balloons floated into the air, with glaring red eyes that matched the meat products.
"Sic 'em" Tucker commanded.
The water balloons flew out and were soon followed by several splatting sounds.
Sam whistled for Cujo who came immediately, transforming into his smaller self in the process. "I need you to get into the thermos," Sam instructed.
Cujo whined, bowing his head as he was swallowed by the Thermos's energy.
"It's just for a little while," Sam assured as she sealed the cap on. "Ready for phase 3?"
S$
One freaking kid. He and his men's orders were to to kidnap one freaking kid. No giant dogs, no living meat monsters, no kamikaze water balloons that left him coated in thick green goo, just a kid.
For this kind of hassle, he could go back to working for the postal service.
Just as he was about to call it quits his target ran past him, followed by the people who the dossier said were in his company.
"Come quietly and no one gets hurt," he ordered them. He was so asking for a raise after this.
"How about not?" answered the Japanese man, sliding open a panel on the wall and pressing a red button.
"Fenton Works Anti-Creep mode activate. Our special today is Fudge-I mean pain," Jack Fenton's recorded voice echoed over the house.
He knew he didn't have anything to worry about, the security system only responded to ectoplasm, right?
The would-be kidnapper looked down on the glowing green remnant's of the water balloons that had attacked him and his men, soaking them to the skin. He then looked at the sparkly lasers pointed his way, thus not noticing the cutouts of Jack and Maddie that crashed into him.
If he survived this, he was definitely going back to the postal service.
S$
"All aboard that's going aboard," Tucker announced as he slid into the drivers seat.
"Shotgun," Sam called, as she grabbed the Booomerang from it's spot in the weapons vault.
Jazz rolled her eyes, both at Sam and Tucker's antics and that the portal was wide open. Why did Dad invent the genetic lock anyway?.
"Wow," Heiji stared at the swirling green vortex. "That's the afterworld. Kind of cool huh Kudo? Kudo?" He turned to his diminutive companion.
Far from his normal collected self, Conan was staring at the portal in dread. Shaking slightly he began to back away, eyes never leaving the device in front of him.
"Forgive me, tantei-kun." said Kid, as he picked Conan up and carried him to the speeder.
"Don't bring me back there, I don't wanna go back." shrieked Conan.
"It's okay, you won't be dying this time." Kid assured as Tucker fed the tracking information from the Booomerang to the Speeder.
Full speed ahead, Team Phantom entered the vortex in search of their friend, leaving the madness of the Fenton household behind.
S$$S
AN: What can I say, I love the Fenton security system and those Frank-enfuters from AoftKG
Inuconan: Yup, here come the men in black! # gets pelted with fruit #
candidus-lupus-full Moon: I have been negelecting that one haven't I, much apologies.
crocgirl2815: Um...yes Mam. Don't hurt me...
YumeTakato: Glad you enjoyed the chapter. And watch out for that kitty!
Emily: Detective Conan is a manga/anime.Google the words Knightus and Manga and ytou should get a link to a site that will let you read the whole series up to vol 57
egyptianqueen777: You're not very familiar with Conan are you?
WolfDaughter: Sorry for the shortness, i don't have early as much time to write as I'd like.
The Violent Tomboy: I always tend to torment my favorite characters.Schizophrenia is FUN
Dragon's Hitokiri: Context clues are fun :) Seeing a colorization would be pretty cool too.
Wingg-ed Wolf: Better than the "I think I'm dying" one O.o. Sorry for missing your birthday. And while I'm also a fan of Sam/Danny, it's just been done so much there almost no way yot be original with it.
11katara13: Not Gin and Vodka per se, but memebers of thier organization, yes.
Suuki-Aldrea: Updated on Sunday again, I got to bet back on the ball.