The day had been rather boring so far, nothing decidedly interesting had happened. It was just a normal weekday. Conan yawned and turned the page in his book, the school day was almost over, maybe something would happen after the day ended, but the only thing he had planned was to play soccer with the Detective Boys, which he did like more than some of the other activities they chose.
"Conan! Are you listening?" said an annoyed voice from in front of him. Conan looked up to see Mitsuhiko, looking as annoyed as he sounded.
"sorry..." Conan said, yawning again.
"We were talking about the cop cars in front of the school, I thought you might know why they're here." Mitsuhiko said, sounding less annoyed now. Conan looked over his shoulder through the window, Mitsuhiko was right, three cop cars were out front, and police were running around, the other three Detective Boys were crowded around the window, looking at what was going on.
"Do you know what happened?" Conan said, approaching the window as well.
"Not a clue." Replied Haibara, who was getting up to walk to the door. "why don't we find out?" the five children (or three children and two that looked like children) ran outside to see what the fuss was. The children were, of course, followed by their teacher, who was trying to get them to go back to class. She stopped trying though when they got outside and saw her boyfriend, who happened to be a police inspector.
"Shiratori Keibu!" the teacher, Sumiko Kobayashi called out, seeing him talking to a few other familiar officers.
"Takagi Keiji! Sato Keiji!" Ayumi and the other kids ran over to them. "what are you all doing here?"
"oh, it's you guys!" Takagi said as they approached. "well, actually, two bodies were discovered in the house across the street, the couple who lived there."
"eh?" The three actual children chorused. Conan had already slipped away to investigate the corpses.
After several hours and agonizing hint dropping, the case was solved. Conan sighed and walked a few steps behind the rest of the Detective Boys, who were still chattering excitedly about the case. Haibara walked next to him, smirking at his exhaustion.
"what?" Conan asked her, becoming annoyed.
"oh, nothing!" she said, but erasing the smirk from her face nonetheless. The children had nearly reached the professor's house when something odd happened. As the children were passing an alley, Conan heard a strange sound, a sort of, sparkly clinking? Can you describe a sound as sparkly? But Conan found that his description of the noise was completely accurate. Long tendrils of a crystalline substance were snaking out of a dark hole in the back of the alley, the hole was growing larger as the tendrils got longer.
The Detective Boys stood rooted to the spot. In all their days of chasing murderers and thieves, they had never seen something that had scared them so much. Everything that had happened to them in the past had at least followed the laws of physics and nature, but this? What was this? None of them had a clue.
A large amount of sparkling mist poured out of the hole, the tendrils had extended around the Detective boys now, Genta had come to his senses and tried to escape, but the crystals grabbed him by the ankle and pulled him back, Ayumi started to cry, and Mitsuhiko and Haibara rushed to comfort her. Conan was about to rush to Ayumi as well, when he stopped, and turned. Something was emerging from the hole.
The being was as glittery as the root like crystals surrounding them, she had purple skin, and darker purple hair, with a bright pink streak running down it. By far the strangest details were the wings and the horn, she had large bird-like wings extending from her shoulders, along with a single horn protruding from her forehead, the horn was shining brighter than the rest of her.
"Greetings, detective." the being said, her voice was monotone, but soft, as if she was new to the concept of emotions. Conan just stood there, speechless, along with the other four children.
"It seems your skills were just as great as I had heard." She said, in her strange, almost-emotion voice.
"who are you?" Conan had finally come to what little sense he had left, and managed to choke out the question.
"It does not matter. All that matters is that we require your assistance." The situation was becoming more and more vexing as it progressed, and the other children just stood there, staring at this being, one who refused to tell them who she was, or what was going on. Ayumi whimpered.
"Who is we?" Conan asked hesitantly.
"Equestria, of course." she answered evenly.
"what do you need my help with?" Conan used even more caution this time, he didn't recognize the word she had used, but it didn't look like she was lying, not that Conan was sure he would be able to tell if she was lying if she actually was.
"A problem." she replied easily, being infuriatingly vague.
"If I don't know what the problem is, I can't help you." Conan said, becoming more annoyed and wary as time passed.
"you can, and you will." her voice carried a note of odd finality in it, but it had only just registered when the crystal tendrils started moving again. They twisted and curled, grabbing the children by all of their limbs at once, rendering Conan unable to use his watch or shoes. After sufficiently restraining Conan, the crystals knocked him of his feet, and dragged him toward the hole. The sparkling woman smiled, then turned around and walked into the hole after Conan, the other Detective Boys strained helplessly as the tendrils encased them.
The light had soon faded from Conan's vision as he was dragged down the tunnel, he could still hear the foot steps of the glowing woman, but he could no longer see her glow. Then all at once, the sound stopped. The movement stopped. A great flash of light blinded him, he felt a falling sensation, stars appeared in the darkness, the night sky was the last thing he saw before he blacked out.
