Fictions Mentioned: Doctor Who, Case Closed/Magic Kaito, Science Adventure

Episode 2 - Sherlock Holmes, Arsene Lupin, and The Doctor

OP Song:

Magic Kaito 1412 OP׃Kimi no Matsu Sekai Full

Location:

Multiverse Cluster: Aoyama Verse
Universe: DC/MK (Detective Conan/Magic Kaito) Verse

Yusaku Kudo knew he had, for all of his intelligence, many a fault, and only one of whom was his curiosity.

And The Doctor himself can attest to that after all these years.

Even if that particular fault had many times been utilized for good. But now, as he was standing in the shadows of the illuminated roof top, being obscured by his strange feeling costume, he wasn't sure if it had been such a good idea to confront The Kaitou 1412 like this.

Sure, Yukiko had been ecstatic to design his costume and play what she considered as a massive prank on the police. He had happily gone along with it too, all in the hopes of confronting the thief in a situation which would allow them to talk on neutral ground, without one chasing the other as always.

The disguised mystery writer heaved a sigh. He was also not sure if it had been such a good idea to model his costume after the main character of his first publication. But the deed was done now and there was no going back anymore.

Suddenly the flickering of lights and the clatter of footsteps jerked him out of his thoughts.

"Here goes nothing", Yusaku muttered darkly to himself, as he watched a white clad silhouette rush through the door to the roof, followed by a throng of police officers. Then there was a loud bang and lots of smoke and the flickering lights ceased completely. When they turned on again a few seconds later, the police was faced with the edge of the building and the silhouette of The Phantom Thief sailing towards the moon.

Yusaku waited until every last police officer had cleared from the roof and stepped out of the shadows at almost the same time as tonight's opponent.

1412 broke the silence first.

"I noticed you in the shadows during the heist. You are good."

Yusaku carefully kept his voice flat answering.

"And you are observant. I'm impressed by the way."

"Huh? By me being observant? Lots of people are. Even Nakamori-keibu is sometimes."

1412's voice was equally flat, but Yusaku wasn't fooled for one bit. If the thief continued this conversation then that could only mean he was as curious as Yusaku himself.

"No. I'm impressed by your ability to lead others to believe they are observant."

1412 laughed. It even sounded genuine. Yusaku felt a smile tug as his lips. That laugh was infectious!

"It is after all, what a magician is meant to do, no? Even if your approach is one I haven't heard before. Why just say I'm an illusionist?"

There was something to the thief's voice tone, that Yusaku was not entirely able to identify.

"Because, while I am observant, that doesn't make me a detective."

"Despite The Doctor saying otherwise." Yusaku thought.

1412's smirk returned.

"If you are no detective, how about being a thief's opponent then? Leading on police officers is not quite the challenge anymore. You'll know, when I show up next. Come and observe."

He flashed another smirk and with that the white clad thief threw another smoke bomb and disappeared into the night. Yusaku let him be, because he had found what he was looking for.

A challenge and nothing more.

A challenge from the inside looking out.

The heist notes appeared after that. Always a flashy riddle, sometimes one fancy enough to delay the police enough for the theft to be long over.

Yusaku enjoyed these most immensely, for then he would do their job, without being covert about it. Hinder 1412 as he steals the jewel or whatever thing had taken the thief's fancy that time. He also knew that what he did those nights on the heists was wrong on some level, but facing off with some harmless, if ingenious, criminal seemed way better than those murder cases he kept stumbling over.

They were really depressing sometimes and they always weighed hard on his mind, so the heists were in a way, a downtime for him.

The Doctor had suggested to him to just take a break from solving murder cases every now and then, with the remedy being, his adventures and misadventures in The TARDIS as a form of catching a break from said cases and as a form of escape hatch from his pesky editors, to which Yusaku agreed wholeheartedly and jumped at the first opportunity.

In all of these years, he still couldn't get over that one adventure that they had when he was a child, where they ended up in a universe where Kamen Yaiba, a fictional character from a fictional franchise that was well loved by many, especially children, was actually real.

The Doctor explained this phenomenon as The Gardner Wall Effect.

Basically, some universes are indirectly linked to each other in a manner that allows other worlds to be aware of the activities of their 'neighbours', but they're sometimes only receiving part of the full picture. Picture reality as a massive jigsaw puzzle, with the various parallel universes and other dimensions as pieces in the puzzle, each one independent but connected to the whole. As a result, some of these universes sometimes get parts of the whole, without getting the full details; the history of this world has become our fictional stories back on our universe, permeating the wider human subconscious so that everyone has at least some awareness of the stories, even if bits and pieces are misinterpreted or lost due to human error or editing decisions, but other universes with less significant differences have been re-remembered as games or novels or television shows or comic books or even myths…

It's complicated to witness, and you would never know how much of what's written is The Gardner Effect and how much of it was actually just peoples' imaginations- although the more popular writers and shows are generally 'real' somewhere- but it's rather fascinating to see what stands out after it gets through the barrier versus what actually happened if you can visit the original universe; it's similar to the historical perspective affecting the history books.

Yusaku was rather glad he decided to become a mystery writer in the end and not a detective. Aside from the fact that he would be dealing with crime at work in a nonfictional way which would sure drive him mad sooner or later !, He was intrigue at the possibility of fiction being real somewhere out there and so he dedicated the rest of his life to research as much fictional material as possible, both because of his profession as a writer and because of his interest in possible worlds.

Now if only his editors would leave him alone and he wouldn't mind so much sometimes about being a mystery writer either.

His editors soon became the least of his problems though. At least after he had forwarded a draft for his new novel to them. But no. His actual problem was, that the public had started to take notice of him. And not the him, Yusaku Kudo, mystery writer. That wouldn't be much trouble but a slight inconvenience mostly.

They had in contrast noticed his night persona. If that was not enough though, they called him 1412's adversary now. An adversary in theft! Really if he was a thief, why the heck should he turn up at another thief's coup? Speak about logic.

To top this off, the newspaper article featuring 1412 and himself, proclaimed more information to be released in tomorrows paper. If that was true he had to check it out. Where did this people get their information from, anyway? Yusaku supposed he would figure out this evening. If they had already labelled him a thief, then he might as well start his 'new' career by breaking into a news agency. One had to look for information with the source after all.

It was certainly strange. He had found an article draft containing even a picture of him and 1412 facing off on the roof. But there was nothing he hadn't had already read in the article this morning.

Where was this supposed new information he wondered ?

A puff of familiar smoke diverted his attention for the moment.

Yusaku eyed the folder that appeared with contempt.

"I found that earlier. They are either speculating that you are my accomplice or my rival for the prize. The police is cited as the source. I'm sorry I didn't notice they had noticed you. And were applying your presence in that context."

Yusaku turned around to 1412.

"You are not to blame, so don't apologize. After all", and here Yusaku lowered his head and smirked, his glasses obscuring his eyes from view, "It is my own fault for not noticing these eyes on me. And it is nobody's but my own fault these eyes mistook me for a Phantom Thief. I certainly dress like one, no Kaitou KID?"

At hearing that moniker, the others eyebrows shot up, the only indication of surprise the thief showed. "Kaitou KID? Is that what the newspaper is now calling me?" There was a faint trace of humour in the newly dubbed KID's voice.

Yusaku chuckled quietly. "It might as well be. Didn't you read it too? This reporter's handwriting sure is atrocious. His '1412' reads like KID. Here you see" Yusaku held the report out for the other to see.

"Huh. How peculiar. It's just a pity your new number doesn't look like a name too. After all I now have to return the favour of finding a name, since I don't want to be stuck to calling you 'Dad'."

It suddenly stuck Yusaku how abnormal this situation was. He was, after all, standing in the middle of the biggest news agency in Tokyo in the middle of the night and chatting with an internationally wanted criminal!

A laugh was bubbling in his throat at the ridiculousness of it all. It was as if he had somehow become the main character in a bad mystery novel.

He chuckled quietly while KID appeared to be deep in thought.

"Your custome!" The other suddenly remarked.

Now it was Yusaku's eyebrows which shot up.

"You look like a character from a novel in it and I know precisely which novel! The 'Night Baron'! Your getup strongly resembles his, so your new name is going to be 'Night Baron'!"

Yusaku could almost hear the proud smirk KID was sure to have on his face.

But 'Night Baron'? That was almost too much to be a coincidence.

"You sure have a way with names, no? I do hope you realize, that that name creation belongs to Kudo-sensei?" The irony wasn't lost on Yusaku.

"With mine, at least a little credit belongs to that messy reporter, so lets call it even, Tou-san."

"Alright I concur. We only take half the credit in naming each other, so that does not make us parents." This conservation definitely took a turn for the strange. They were discussing their parenthood of all things.

After a moment of silence, KID spoke up again. "Let's decide on brothers then, alright Aniki?"

"It seems fitting, doesn't it, Nii-san? May I suggest making our new names public?"

With a grin, KID produced pen and paper.

We are neither friend nor foe

We are as different as night and day

And still our origin is the same

What are we?

Kaito KID & Night Baron

The Duel Between Yusaku Kudo and Toichi Kuroba.

The Duel Between The Night Baron and The Kaitou KID.

The Duel Between The First Heisei Holmes and The First Heisei Lupin.

This duel had been going on for about half a year now and since then, the police presence at heists had doubled, but so had Yusaku's workload, which made him often unable to make an appearance at the heists.

Whether as Himself or as Night Baron.

KID didn't seem deterred though, so Yusaku let other things occupy his mind.

His work mainly.

So when the fourth heist in a row had come and gone without him being able to attend, it really shouldn't have come as such a surprise, when KID turned up in his study one evening.

Really, he was quite resourceful. But so was Yusaku.

"Take your shoes off please, or Yukiko would make me clean the carpet. You can hang your hat and cape into the closet in the entrance hall, Nii-san." Yusaku did not even look up from his work.

He did however look up, when he heard his house guest settle himself in the chair facing his desk just a few seconds later.

Hat and monocle were gone and Yusaku stared into a face so similar of his own, that they could have easily been real brothers.

"Good evening Aniki. I came tonight to ask after your well-being after your repeated absence tonight." KID had an easy smile on his face.

"Kuroba-kun, just a moment. I just have to finish this paragraph and then I can take a break and we can talk."

For a moment all you could hear was the rapid clattering of Yusaku's typewriter. His fingers flew over the keys at lightning speed, as he typed out the last of his newest creation, ironically a new book for his Night Baron series.

When the typing ceased, Yusaku leaned back in his chair with an easy smile on his face.

"So, my friend. What is it? I didn't deem you the type for a casual visit. And indeed it does not look like one." Yusaku gestured to Toichi's costume.

"You are right of course. Though I wondered where you were the last few nights, this didn't prompt my visit. I have been approached by a criminal organization. They promised me compensation, for my services as a thief. They wanted me to steal a gem called 'Pandora'. I refused of course, but I don't think they took it that well. Tonight I was being shot at. And as the police force would never do that, that left only one conclusion."

Toichi leaned back into his chair as Yusaku steepled his hands under his chin and rested his arms on his desk. He frowned. "That is indeed quite serious. We both have families to consider, so it would take some clever cover work to conceal our real identities..."

Yuusaku trailed off, when he noticed the slight twitch on the others face, though his tone appeared calm and rational when he spoke.

"I never meant for you to tangle yourself into this mess. I value your opinion as a colleague and a friend but don't choose to fight my battles."

Yusaku's eyebrow rose up at this. "My friend, I hope you do realize that we two are in this together. Don't fool yourself. You came to me for a reason, Kuroba-kun and as it is I am in the line of fire anyway."

He too leaned back in his chair and for a few minutes there was a heavy silence between them.

Until Toichi sighed. "You are right of course, I'm sorry. So, what do you propose we do?"

"Well, foiling their plans, of course. The same you had planned anyway I presume."

A face splitting grin appeared on Toichi's features and Yusaku felt himself mirroring his partner in crime.

It would be hard, but they'd manage.

But just as this was happening, a man suddenly announced his presence to them as he said.

"Well then, you wouldn't mind if I joined in on the plan?"

The two brothers-in-arms faced the source of the voice as the man walks in the study room.

The man looked like in his mid-thirties. His long face was angular, with prominent crow's feet and wrinkling due to fatigue, with a jutting chin and aristocratic nose, had ancient eyes of ice blue that stared into the depths of your very soul, but it was softened by a mass of dark brown hair that swept back down all the way from his high forehead to his broad shoulders. He weighed approximately 180 pounds. He wore a battered and frayed Wild Bill Hickok costume. He has his arms crossed in a position that indicated that he was waiting for the expected answer from his proteges.

The two brothers-in-arms then looked at each other as they smirked, then they turn back towards the unknown man as Yusaku begins to say with a grateful voice.

"Why of course Doctor. How could we possibly leave you out of our plans?! Knowing you, you probably have some idea as to what we're actually dealing with, so we could definitely use all the help that we can get, and your help is always more than appreciated and more than welcome."

The man now known as The Doctor begins to smile as he said in a voice of excitement.

"Well, if that's the case gentleman, then let's get started."

And so The Doctor, Yusaku, and Toichi begin discussing their plans on how to deal with their current predicament as The Doctor begins to share them information about the enemies that they would now be fighting against and that their future sons would be fighting against in the not too distant future.

The Black Organization.

Along with their hidden masters.

The Committee of 300.

ED Song:

Magic Kaito 1412 Ending 1 WHITE of CRIME (Lyrics)

Characters:

The Eighth Doctor - A: Paul McGann
Yusaku Kudo - A: Hideyuki Tanaka
Toichi Kuroba/Kaitou KID - A: Shuichi Ikeda

Timeline:

Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor - Post-TV Movie, Pre-The Night of the Doctor
Era: Early-Time War Era, Pre-Day of the Doctor changes

Case Closed/Magic Kaito: - Pre-Episode 1