Chapter 14: Stuck

Princess Sango

Shinichi took a deep breath in a held it, "I don't know what you mean."

"Oh, there's no use lying Shinichi, or does that what fear does? Nice to be on top for once," came the old familiar voice, Mason, Gin's son.

"Mason, what are you doing like this? I thought you didn't like this business!"

"Guess I lied, because I couldn't be happier here one top. I took over where my dad and everyone else left off. One mission I had, kidnap the Kudos and everyone involved in the problem years ago, and make them pay. Then I would have anything I wanted in my grasp, yes, I'm very satisfied. So say good-bye Shinichi, you're going down." Mason concluded, holding the gun and aimed, ready to shoot when someone stopped him.

"Mason-san, we shouldn't kill him yet dear brother, wouldn't it be fun to torture him and his little daughter? Where'd you get her? Such a fine pretty little thing, yet she looks so much like Ai, even has the same name."

"You better not have hurt her anymore than external!" Shinichi yelled back.

Mason and the other guy scoffed and aimed the gun, "Now if you're a good kid you'll go back in the cell and stay there. Don't make us pull the trigger, what if it's aimed at someone else and not you?"

Shinichi looked back at his family and nodded defeated as he backed into the cell with them and they locked the family back inside, leaving, not caring. Ai woke up then and still noticed the darkness, "Why are we still here? Didn't daddy get us out?"

Ran shook her head as her daughter sat up in pain, "Daddy, didn't Ai, they threatened our lives, and we're all we have."

Ai nodded and looked at her dad, her hero, and flung herself at him, not caring about the pain, "Dad!"

Shinichi watched his daughter bleed more with each move but was just happy to hear her voice, see her still alive and enjoying life. Kissing her forehead he smiled, "Sorry for letting you down Ai-chan."

"It's okay dad, you didn't let anyone down," Ai answered her father as she buried her face in his familiar smell and sighed.

That's when someone showed up to take Ai away and she didn't resist as she was being pulled away, but Shinichi had tried his best until they had zapped him with their guns. Shinichi twitched and backed off as Ai was once again whisked off. She didn't have to wonder why she was like this, for at a young age she had been taught about safety, death, afterlife, everything someone else wouldn't have until they're much older, Ai experienced it all in one shot. If it was her time to die, then so be it.

Shinichi looked over at Hattori, "Why did everything go this way?"

Ran, trying to calm down Genta and Shinichi, sighed, "He was too close Shinichi, but did you even have backup?"

"No, I wish I did now!" Shinichi screamed, wishing Kogoro could hear it. Oddly enough, he did and dialed for backup.

TBC…