Tokyo: 9:00

Panay: 8:00

"Where are they going?" Heiji asked out loud, seemingly rhetorically

"I don't know, but they're in a hurry so it has to be important. Come on" Shinichi said as he rose from his position inside the doorway and started down the hall

"K-Kudo!" Heiji whispered with annoyance in his voice. After realizing Shinichi wasn't going to stop he shook his head and went to catch up


"Aoko we need to hurry, if that guy is still after he's going to be coming this way" Kaito barked, grabbing her by the hand. He was surprised however when she resisted his pull

"Kaito"

"What are you doing, if we don't hurry we're going to be caught…" Kaito trailed off when he looked back and saw Aoko was pointing at the fan beside them. Kaito sent her a confused glance at first until he realized what she was referring to. 'The fan, it's spinning slow enough that maybe…'

"If we can get past the fan the only thing keeping us here is that window, which has a latch" Kaito nodded with a grin

"Have I ever told you you're a genius?" he asked jokingly. Before she could respond he pecked her lightly on the cheek and rose to his knees facing the fan 'but how…' he meditated on the items he knew were in his possession. After a few seconds of thought he turned back to the girl behind him "Aoko give me one of your shoes"


"Where the hell did it come from?" Vodka asked as he and Gin he reached the stairwell and began to ascend

"If he's trying to escape he's going toward the entry level. Since he claims to never carry a gun, what he fired was probably a grappling hook, which means he's probably already made it there" Vodka saw no flaw in his partner's logic, and simply picked up his pace as the two made their way to the entry level


"So these are the stairs?" Jodie asked with still evident spite in her tone

"Mhm, but you know it's going to be difficult for me to walk down the stairs with these handcuffs on" she replied with a smirk. Jodie saw no amusement in the comment, choosing not to acknowledge her

"Come on" she ordered, opening the door. Vermouth complied and walked through the door, only to be brought face to face with one of the only people in the world she feared: Gin

"Vermouth what the hell are you doing?" Gin growled angrily, with his finger already resting on the trigger of his pistol

"Tell him why we're here, Jodie-kun" Jodie said, trying her best to imitate Vermouth's voice and attitude. Vermouth, playing the character, simply darted her head away from Gin with an irritated expression. After letting out a laugh Jodie as Vermouth looked back to Gin "I caught her outside the premises. I thought someone as famous as Jodie Starling might deserve an audience with him.

"Hn" Gin grunted, uninterested in her words. Without another utterance Gin shoved both Jodie and Vermouth aside and ran out the door, followed closely by Vodka. Once the door closed the two ladies let out a relieved sigh and continued down the stairs. They only got halfway down the flight however before the door to the third floor opened again and relieved two unexpected faces

"Kudo-kun!" Jodie as Vermouth exclaimed


"My shoe?" Aoko asked with a raised eyebrow

"Trust me" Kaito said with a distinctly earnest expression. She had seen that confident smirk in the past, and it had never failed her. She complied, removing her right shoe and handing it to him. He nodded in thanks and turned back to the fan. He ran his fingers over the heel of the shoe and found what he was looking for. After waiting a few seconds to time the blades he thrust the heel of the shoe into the fan. The blade of the fan became lodged in the material of the heel and, with some added force from Kaito, came to a hault

"You…" Kaito nodded back to her

"I knew the kind of shoes you wore had an elevated heel made of rubber. The blade of the fan wasn't sharp enough to cut through it, so it got stuck." Aoko shook her head at the seemingly ridiculous plan, but couldn't complain since it had worked

"Now what?" she asked. Kaito looked back at the shoe and then back to her

"You go first" he said with a smile, this once less cocky and more genuine, something Aoko wasn't accustomed to seeing. She nodded and crawled through the opening made by the immobile fan. Once she was clear she turned around, expecting to see Kaito follow her. Instead he simply smiled at her and released his hold on her shoe. The fan kicked up again, causing the shoe to bounce away, right in front of Aoko's hands

"Kaito!" she exclaimed, unconcerned with the volume of her voice

"Aoko, go out the window and get away from here" her eyes began to water, causing them to glisten in the moonlight

"Kaito you can't go, what if you…" she trailed off as a shiver ran up her spine

"Aoko, I'll come back, I promise. But these are the people that killed my father, I have to bring them down, permanently" Kaito turned to leave

"Wait" Aoko mumbled, trying to resist being overtaken by tears. Kaito turned to look at her but looked away when he noticed the tears that had formed in her eyes. "I love you too, Kaito" she said softly, wiping the tears from her eyes "So you better come back" she demanded, trying to cover up the intensely emotionally profession she had just made. Kaito nodded with a look of determination, taking care not to let her words penetrate his psyche despite the arduous nature of the task, and crawled away


"Keibu, what do you think?" Kogoro asked, looking away from his binoculars to face his partner

"I don't know, this all seems very risky. But we have to trust Jodie-kun knows what she's doing" Kogoro nodded and turned his attention back to the base "Mouri-kun, why don't you take a break and call Eri-kun, she's probably worried" Kogoro was about to voice an argument when the image of his distraught and ill-tempered wife came into his head

"Uh hai" and with that Kogoro walked off to make his phone call, while Megure grinned in amusement 'maybe I should call Midori…'


"Eh?" Heiji questioned as the two women started walking toward them "Kudo do you know them?" Shinichi did not acknowledge his friend's question, do to his own uncertainty

"How do you…" he mumbled to himself, concern painted all over his face. 'I never told her my identity, how does she know me? I've never met her as Kudo Shinichi' his thoughts were brought to a halt as Jodie and Vermouth stopped in front of them

"What are you doing here, this is dangerous" a bead of sweat went down the side of Shinichi's face, however Heiji did not share his anxiety

"Oi, who the hell are you?" he asked indignantly. Jodie huffed in offense, which confused Shinichi "and who's the woman in handcuffs?" Vermouth groaned, shaking her head and looked at Shinichi

"I'm Jodie, this is Vermouth" she stated plainly, pointing down at the woman in cuffs. Shinichi's face contorted in confusion

"Hello Cool Guy" Vermouth said with a seductive smirk

"Vermouth? But you're….what the hell is going on!" Shinichi exclaimed. Heiji promptly covered his counterpart's mouth with his hand and shot him an angry look

"We disguised as one another so we could get in, what I want to know is what are you doing here?" Shinichi and Heiji looked at one another and then back to the two women

"Megure-keibu told us about the plan to bring down the Black Organization, but said that we couldn't accompany him and assist. So we came on our own" Shinichi explained rather plainly. Jodie as Vermouth shook her head and pinched the bridge of her nose

"I should have known. After all we let you help us last time" Shinichi's eyes bugged out of his head for a second at her words

"What are you talking about?" Shinichi yelled, remembering that he as Kudo Shinichi had never actually met her "I've never even met you" he added with an unconvincing chuckle

"Kudo-kun we've known about you status for some time" Shinichi's was completely astonished but before he could question further Heiji butted in

"Well we should go, we were following those two guys and by now they are probably way ahead of us" he grunted in annoyance, grabbing Shinichi by the collar and pulling him away. As they made their way up the stairs Shinichi's mind remained sidetracked 'How did they find out…'


"Kaito KID, where are you!" Gin roared, evil intent evident in his voice. Kaito swallowed hard, gazing down at the two black clad men through a vent. 'Think, what do I do now?' His thoughts were interrupted when he noticed the door at the end of the hall creak open. He darted his eyes in the direction of the noise and a grin played on his lips 'Good evening, Kudo Shinichi'

"Gin did you hear that?" Vodka asked, awaiting a response from his partner. In unison the two men turned around and looked back at the door, where Heiji and Shinichi were standing with confident smirks on their faces

"Looks like they found us" Heiji said quietly with minimal movement of his face

"Mhm, it looks like we're going to have to think fast" Shinichi responded, running through scenarios in his head. From the other end of the hall he could see Gin and Vodka moving toward them

"Shouldn't we just-" Vodka was cut off by a faint and foreign snicker

"No" Gin said with a laugh "I want to enjoy this" the two began to march toward the teenagers but their attention was diverted when a loud clang came from behind them. They both swung around to find none other than Kaito KID, standing erect with an aluminum panel beneath his feet and a card gun in his hand

"Have you been looking for me?" He asked with a pompous air. Gin gritted his teeth and raised his gun to aim at Kaito but was stopped by the sound of footsteps coming from the other direction. He turned his head slightly, just enough to see the two intruders walking toward he and Vodka

"Vodka, go kill them. I'll take care of KID" Vodka nodded and strode away, cocking the gun he now brandished in his hand

"Well at least now we can be alone" KID quipped sarcastically, serving to annoy Gin further

"I'm going to send you to hell Kaito KID!" he roared as he fired a round at Kaito. Before his finger even reached the trigger Kaito shot a sharp-edged card at his wrist, causing Gin to miss Kaito to the right. Before Gin could realign his shot Kaito threw a smoke bomb at the ground and once again vanished in a burst of dark smoke "Damnit!" Gin grunted irately as he began firing at the vents above his head. Kaito grinned wildly, seeing that his plan had worked and he ran forward, embedding his fist underneath Gin's jaw. He fell backward but remained standing and proceeded to shoot forward into the smoke, a sinister grin on his face

"Missed me" Kaito whispered behind his ear with a giggle. Gin swung back around and moved to fire but what came was merely a click "Seems your clip is out" he pointed out, never allowing his confident bravado to falter. Before Gin could make a move Kaito leapt back into the cloud of smoke, throwing a sleeping gas bomb in front of him. Gin's mouth opened to yell but within seconds he was passed out on the ground

So here's another one, a little shorter but what are ya gonna do. You didn't think Gin would go down first did ya? Or is he down at all? Hmm... anyway enjoy the chapter, and don't worry, Shinichi and Heiji versus Vodka will be first next chapter so hold your horses and remember

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