In Today's Case: Escaped Leader
Tess woke up around 10:00 when everyone was up. She did her hair and walked out or her room. She walked over to the coat hanger and grabbed her jacket. Rachel and Richard were watching her as she slipped on her jacket.
"You're up early." Richard said as he picked up the newspaper off of his desk. Tess smiled as she nodded her head.
"Yeah I know." Tess said to Richard.
"How come?" Rachel asked. Tess walked over to her placing her hand on the closest couch.
"I need to pick up my cell phone." Tess answered. Conan turned and looked at Tess.
"That reminds me." Conan started. Richard and Rachel looked at Conan. "When I went with you that day Dr Agasa said he was going to get me checked for know glasses since I was squinting." He finished. Tess nodded her head.
"Yup." Tess said smiling. Rachel smiled at them both.
"It's good that you to get along." She said. Conan and Tess looked at Rachel as did Richard.
"Why wouldn't we?" Tess asked.
"Well… when you first came here the year before you two were always arguing and now here you to are getting along." Rachel answered. Tess and Conan looked at Rachel funny. She then shook her head. "Don't listen to my blabbering. Go ahead go and get your cell phone Tess and go and get your new classes Conan." She added. Conan nodded his head as he jumped off of the couch and the two walked toward the door. Richard looked at them.
"Where are you going?" Richard asked. Tess sighed.
"Don't you listen?" Tess asked. Richard shook his head.
"No." he answered. Tess and Conan sighed.
"I'm going to Dr Agasa's house to get my cell phone." Tess told him, "and Conan is coming with me." She added. Richard nodded his head as he raised his newspaper to his face.
"Have fun." He said. Tess and Conan were off. Rachel sat on the couch listening to their foot steps disappear down the stairs and then out into the streets. She stood up and walked toward the door. "Now where are you going?" Richard asked her. Rachel turned and looked at her.
"I'm going for a walk." She answered as she walked out the door. Richard blinked a few times as he then shrugged his shoulder turning back to his newspaper in his hands.
Tess and Conan made their way down the street toward Dr Agasa's house.
"So do you have any leads on this man your after?" Conan asked. Tess shook her head.
"No… not yet. But I will get him before I go back to America." Tess answered.
"And I'll be here to help you." Conan told her. Tess looked down at him with a couple of blinks firsts. She then smiled and looked forward.
"Thanks." Conan smiled, "but I don't want you to get involved." She added.
"Why not? It'll be better if you had some help." Conan said. Tess shrugged her shoulders as she continued to walk forward.
"I know it will be easier with your help Jimmy but… I still don't want you to get involved because I don't want you to get hurt and that's that." Tess stated. Conan looked forward nodding his head.
"All right." He said. Tess looked down at him in amazement. "But that doesn't mean I'm going to listen to you." he said with a smirk. Tess smirked back as they reached Dr Agasa's lab. They entered looking around.
"Dr Agasa?" They called as they walked forward with Tess shutting the door behind her. They looked around as Dr Agasa came in holding Tess's cell phone in his hand. He looked up for a second to see Tess and Conan then he smiled.
"Hello there Jimmy and Tess." He said as he took a seat on his computer. He then picked up a pair of glasses waving Conan over. "Come here Jimmy." He said. Jimmy raised an eyebrow and walked forward. He stood in front of Dr Agasa as he pulled off his glasses and placed on the new pair. The pair of glasses had the same frames as his old pair; you couldn't even tell that he was wearing a new pair of glasses. Tess walked forward standing next to Dr Agasa as she smiled.
"Don't look any older Jimmy." Tess said with a smile. Conan looked at her.
"Ha. Ha. I forgot out to laugh." He said to her. Tess placed her hand onto the back of the chair that Dr Agasa sat in. Dr Agasa then closed the top of the flip top cell phone and handed it to Tess.
"Here." He said. Tess blinked as she took her cell phone. "Go outside and press that green button there down at the bottom of the phone." He pointed. Tess nodded her head as she walked outside opening and shutting the door.
Tess looked around as she stood there on the side walk. She then opened her cell phone and pressed the green button on it. Her cell phone started to vibrate as she held it in her hands. On the screen letter popped up reading "Scanning." Tess leaned onto her right leg as she waited. She then looked at the top of the screen to see it had no signal. But it continued to scanning.
Conan and Dr Agasa waited inside the house. Suddenly the right lens of Conan's glasses started to show the grey and black fuzzy screen as he collected static. Then the picture of Tess came up onto the screen.
"Tess?" he said.
Tess looked at the cell phone to see on the screen of the cell phone it no read "Connected to Jimmy." Tess smiled.
"Jimmy?" she called into the cell phone.
"I'm here Tess." Conan said. Tess smiled.
"Good, that means this thing works." Tess said. Inside Dr Agasa reached down grabbing onto Conan's glasses pulling them off. He then took off his own and placed Conan's on.
"Why wouldn't it work Tess?" Dr Agasa asked. Tess shrugged her shoulders.
"I don't know. I just thought it wouldn't that's all. My cell is really sucky." Tess answered him. Dr Agasa shrugged his shoulders.
"Anyway, anywhere you go you will be able to get in contact with Jimmy even if your cell phone hasn't been charged." Dr Agasa told her. Tess smiled.
"That's great." Tess said to him. Dr Agasa then turned and looked down at Conan.
"And you can get a hold of Tess by pressing this small little button right here on the frame." Dr Agasa said. Conan looked to see where he could get into contact with Tess and nodded his head.
"What about the Tracer?" Tess asked as she entered the room. The screen on the Conan's glasses disappeared turning back into normal glasses as Dr Agasa took them off handing them to Conan. He turned and put on his own as he smiled.
"The button for that is on the other side." he answered. Tess nodded her head when there was a knock on the door. Tess turned and answered it to see it was Rachel. Tess and Conan jumped as Rachel walked into the room.
"Hi… Rachel…" Tess said. Rachel smiled as she looked at Tess and Conan.
"Hi guys. I just wanted to know if I could go with you to bring Conan to the eye doctors." She said. Dr Agasa blinked.
"Ahh… they just called saying that they canceled it." He said. Rachel nodded her head.
"Oh…" she said.
"Come on Rachel, we were just about to leave. Coming Conan?" Tess asked as she opened the door. Conan nodded his head as he ran forward. And out the door with Rachel. "Thanks Dr Agasa." Tess said to him as she waved. Dr Agasa nodded his head.
"Buh bye Tess." He said. Tess hut the door and there stood Rachel with her arms crossed. Tess looked at her and blinked. "What?" she asked.
"Why did you want to get out of there so quickly?" Rachel asked. Tess rose and eyebrow.
"I told you that me and Conan were just about to leave anyway." Tess said. Rachel shrugged her shoulders and walked forward. Tess and Conan looked at each other and then followed Rachel.
"So Tess when are you going back to America again?" Rachel asked. Tess looked at her and shrugged her shoulders.
"I don't know." Tess said.
"I thought it was like in December." Conan said. Tess looked down at him as he shrugged she shrugged her shoulders again.
"I don't know. Maybe whenever my…" then something begun to buzz. They stopped; Conan and Rachel looked at Tess as she pulled her cell phone out of her pocket.
"Who is it?" Rachel asked. Tess raised her eyebrow again.
"It's Jack…" she answered.
"Who?" she asked. Tess looked up at her.
"Jack. My partner." She answered again. She then answered it. "Hello? Hi Jack what's up? I told you I was going to Japan… yes I'm standing right here with my cousin… I'm fine Jack goodbye." Tess said as she flipped the top down.
"What did he want?" Conan asked. Tess looked down at him and shrugged her shoulders.
"I don't know. He just wanted to know where I was. He's not my dad so why should he care." Tess said as she walked forward. Rachel and Conan then followed.
"Well Tess, maybe he cares about you." Rachel said. Tess gave a laugh.
"Ha! Jack care about me? Please." Tess said rolling her eyes. She then bumped into someone. She stepped back looking at him. He wore a white t-shirt and sea blues jeans with a black jacket.
"Watch it!" he shouted. Tess started to growl.
"You watch it! You bumped into me!" she shouted at him. Rachel grabbed onto Tess's arm as Conan grabbed her hand.
"Come on Tess… I'm sorry about her. Please excuse her." Rachel said as she walked around the man. He watched them walk down the street.
The man that Tess had bumped into made his way to the other side of Tokyo standing in front of a small white house. He smirked as he walked forward up the walkway. He stepped onto the porch sticking his hand into the right side inside of his jacket. He then rang the door bell.
Inside sat Darien on the couch watching as movie with his mother. His mother stood up off of the couch and walked forward to answer the door.
"Hello sir. Can I help you?" she asked. Darien turned around to see his mother. The man nodded his head.
"Yes you can. Hand over your son!" he answered as he pulled his gun out and shot her clear in the head. Darien's eyes widened as he watched the man step over her. He looked over at Darien who sat on the couch. He raised his gun pointing it at him. Darien's eyes widened. He ducked as the man shot his gun shooting the T.V. Darien turned and looked at it.
"Darn it… that was my favorite movie to…" he said softly to himself. He then heard a click. He looked up at the man.
"Are you ready to die?" he asked as he shot his gun again. Darien jumped back as he shot the seat of the couch. He fell onto the ground onto the pink reddish looking rub gripping onto it tightly afraid for his life.
"W-why are you here?" Darien asked.
"I was hired to kill you." he said as he shot his gun again. Darien moved upward as the bullet pierced the floor.
"What did I ever do to you?" he asked rudely.
"Nothing." He answered, "its what I need to do." Darien's eyes widened as he felt his back press up against his wall. Suddenly he wasn't able to move his body. It was like his body went totally numb on him. The man pulled the hammer back of the gun and going to squeeze the trigger. Once he squeezed it Darien ducked his head as it hit the wall behind him. He looked up to see that the man was reloading his gun. This gave him the chance to run.
He raced to his feet as he ran for the back door. He then heard gun shots going off. He saw some of the bullets go past him without hitting him. He reached out about to grab onto the door handle when a bullet hit it. Darien pulled him hand back as he turned to see the man standing there with his gun pointed at him.
"You can't run from me." The man said to him. Darien glanced over at a tray on the counter next to him. He looked back at him.
"Who… who are you?" he asked.
"My name is Zach." He answered, "and I'm going to kill you and go on with my business!" he shouted out. He then pulled the trigger and Darien grabbed onto the tray and placed it in front of him. The bullet hit but didn't go through. Zach started to grow as he begun to pull it over and over again as Darien headed toward the living room. Darien then tossed the tray over to the other side diving behind the couch. Zach smiled as he reloaded his gun once again. "You cannot…" Zach pointed the gun as he looked over the couch to see Darien was gone. He then heard a slam of the screen door. He looked up to see that the screen door was bushed open. He walked over to the door and looked out to see Darien running off down the street. Zach smiled as he walked tot eh backdoor grabbing onto a paper towel so he didn't leave any fingerprints behind on the doorknob as he left.
Darien ran all the way down town breathing heavily. He looked back to see that he had left behind a trail of blood. "What…?" Darien looked at his right arm to see that a bullet had just touched him cutting his arm open. "Great! I must've gotten shot and not even know it." Darien said placing his other hand over his cut on his arm. He walked forward headed to wherever he was going.
Tess, Rachel, and Conan entered the office. Richard was right where they left him. Sitting in his chair reading his newspaper. Tess hung up her jacket as she pulled her hair back placing it into a low ponytail as she wiped some sweat off of her forehead.
"That's what you get for wearing your hair down." Richard said as he turned the page. Tess walked toward his desk as she grabbed onto a pencil and sat onto the couch.
"Point?" she asked as she through the pencil at Richard hitting him the head. Richard's eyebrow started to awkwardly twitch as he lowered his newspaper.
"Can I see your cell phone?" Rachel asked. Tess nodded her head as she handed it to her. Conan sat down onto the couch across from Rachel and Tess. Rachel was playing with her cell phone when it started to buzz. Tess leaned toward her looking at a number that popped up.
"555-6778?" Tess read out loud confused. Rachel handed it to her as she pressed the green button answering it. "Hello?" Tess asked. Her eyes widened as she listened to the voice on the other side of the phone.
"You better go down town and look for your friend Darien."
"Who are you?" Tess asked as she turned toward the window looking at every window near the house/office.
"You might not be able to see me Tess but I can see you." the voice said. Tess's eyes widened as she spotted someone looking at her through the window on a cell phone. He then raised a gun to the back of Richard's head. Tess stood up as her eyes widened. She then tossed her cell phone behind her.
"Look out uncle!" Tess shouted as she dove for him over the desk. Richard blinked as Tess wrapped her arms around his neck and a bullet went through the window. Conan jumped onto Rachel as she screamed. Bullets kept on coming through the windows. Tess pushed Richard underneath the desk as she turned it to the steel was facing the window and not the opening where Richard sat. Tess crawled quickly back to her cell phone. "Who are you!" She shouted into it.
"Do you really think I'm going to tell you? You found me and I found you. Now, all you need to do is find your friend Darien."
"What did you do to him!" Tess shouted. Rachel and Conan laid on the floor underneath the coffee table as Tess pushed herself up against Richard as a bullet entered the floor near her leg.
"I'll give you the day to try to figure out who I really am and then we can finish what we started a year ago." Then there was a click. Tess started to shake angrily as she slammed the top of her phone down. She then through her phone onto the floor as it bounced near Rachel and Conan. Tess turned and looked at Richard.
"Are you all right Richard?" she asked. Richard nodded his head.
"Yeah you?" he asked as they both crawled out from underneath the desk. Tess nodded her head as she looked at Rachel and Conan who slowly made their way out.
"Yeah… are you two all right?" Tess asked as she held out her hands. Both of them took one hand as she pulled them up to their feet.
"Yeah." Conan answered.
"Who was it?" Rachel asked. Tess shrugged her shoulders as she grabbed onto her cell phone.
"I don't know but I have to find Darien!" Tess shouted as she grabbed onto her jacket putting it on. She then turned and looked at them. "Get to the police station! I'll call when I find Darien!" Tess shouted as she ran outside.
"Tess!" Conan yelled about to follow her as Rachel placed her hands onto his shoulders.
"No Conan… stay here." Rachel said as she pulled Conan back. "I'll go." She added as she ran forward.
"RACHEL!" Richard and Conan shouted. Conan again was about to run forward when Richard grabbed onto the back of his shirt.
"No! Me and you are going to the police station!" Richard yelled as he carried Conan out of the office.
Tess ran down the street looking right and left for Darien. "Darien! Darien!" Tess shouted out.
"Tess!" Tess turned to see Rachel following her.
"Rachel?" she asked herself. She then shook her head as Rachel caught up. "What are you doing here?" Tess asked. Rachel looked at her.
"You can't find Darien on your own." Rachel answered, "Tokyo is just to big." Rachel said. Tess nodded her head knowing she was right.
"You're right Rachel." Tess said. Rachel placed her hands onto Tess's shoulders.
"We'll find him together." Rachel said to her. Tess nodded her head as she looked at Rachel.
"All right. Let's go." Both of them took off running down the street yelling out Darien's name.
Richard and Conan got into the car speeding to the police station. Once Richard pulled up near the police station; Conan jumped out of the car and ran forward as Richard followed him. They bursted through the door looking around. All the phones rang and there were people sitting at desks typing up on computers and police officers standing everywhere. Richard and Conan walked down the aisle that was left in between the rows and rows of desks. They then came to a door that read "Inspector Maguire." Richard opened the door as Inspector Maguire looked up at them.
"Richard?" he asked confused. Richard walked forward as he slammed his hands onto his desk.
"Someone was trying to kill us!" Richard shouted. "He was mainly shooting at me and Tess. But he called Tess's cell phone!" Richard shouted. Inspector Maguire leaned back into his chair.
"Richard… relax… sit down. You too Conan." Inspector Maguire said to them gesturing them both to sit down. They then took a seat as Richard explained everything to him.
"And that's it." Richard said. Inspector Maguire nodded his head.
"And Tess went to find this guy and her old childhood friend?" he asked. Conan nodded his head.
"That's right Inspector." Conan answered.
"Well… Tess does seem the one to have a lot of enemies that would follow her here to Tokyo." Inspector Maguire said as he rubbing his chin.
"Inspector!" Richard yelled. "Rachel is with Tess! Who knows which one of them could be killed!"
Tess and Rachel continued to run around in down town Tokyo. Tess came to a halt as did Rachel as they spotted someone walking up the street holding their arm. "DARIEN!" Tess called out as she ran forward with Rachel following behind her. Darien looked forward to see Tess and Rachel coming his way. Tess opened her arms as she wrapped them around Darien's neck hugging him tightly. "I found you!" she shouted. Darien smiled as he remember the times that Tess would hug him like this when she missed him.
"What was I missed?" he asked. Rachel shook her head.
"No." Rachel answered.
"Then what's with the hugging and everything?" Darien asked. Tess let go of him placing her hands on her shoulders. She looked down at his arm to see that there was blood seeping through. Tess grabbed onto his hand pulling his arm up. Then she removed his other hand seeing a cut that was gushing with blood. Blood was smeared on his arm in the shape of his hand. She looked up at him.
"What happened?" Tess asked.
"I… fell and cut my arm." Darien lied.
"Lair. Darien I know you better then this. What happened?" Tess asked.
"Okay… a man came into my house and killed my mother and tried to kill me." Darien answered. Tess's eyes widened.
'Could it be him? Could it be the one I've been faster?' Tess asked herself.
"Who was it?" Rachel asked. Darien started to think.
"I can't remember his name." Darien answered. Tess's cell phone started to buzz again. Rachel placed her foot behind her as Tess let go of Darien's hand as his arm fell back to his side. Tess slowly reached into her pocket pulling out her cell phone. She flipped the top open and placed it onto her ear as she swallowed hard.
"Yeah?" she asked. She heard chuckling in the background.
"You found him." The voice said. Tess whipped around now facing Rachel as she looked around. She then turned back to face Darien but she looked at the ground.
"Yeah I found him." She said seriously.
"Now all you need to do is figure out who I am and where I am." He said, "remember… I'm watching." He said. Then there was a click and then three or four beeps. Tess removed her cell phone off of her ear as she flipped the top closed. Tess looked at Rachel and then at Darien.
"We have to get out of here." Tess said. Rachel looked at her.
"Why?" she asked. Tess placed her cell phone back into her pocket as she turned to face her.
"Because… he's watching us." Tess answered. They all looked around trying to find him as they slowly made their way back up the street. Suddenly, Darien spotted a man with a leather jacket leaning up against a building. Darien placed his hand onto Tess's shoulder as she looked back at him. He leaned forward toward her ear.
"I think I found him." Darien said. Tess blinked as she stopped with Rachel taking a few more steps before she decided to stop.
"What?" Tess whispered. Darien nudged his head toward the man leaning up against the wall of a building.
"There." Darien said. Tess looked at him. "The man who tried to kill me was wearing a leather jacket and he has that very same leather jacket." Darien said. But Tess didn't hear a word of it. She kept on staring at the man as he stared back. He then pushed himself off of the wall and walked toward her.
"You found me." He said. Tess glared up at him.
"Zach…" she growled. Zach nodded his head as he reached into his jacket.
"Yup, and I'm back!" Zach then quickly pulled out a gun. Tess's eyes widened as she pushed Rachel and Darien to the side.
"Move!" Tess shouted as Zach started to shoot off his gun. Everyone round them screamed and took cover as Tess dove and disappeared. Zach turned and looked at Rachel. As he pointed his gun at her.
"Looks like we're back here Rachel Moore." Zach said. Rachel's eyes widened as she remember the night where Tess was trying to protect her from a man who looked just like him a year ago.
"It's… you…" she said scared for her life. He nodded his head.
"Yup… and I'm going to finish you off." He said. But before he could pull the trigger Tess came out of nowhere and tackled Zach to the ground. Zach's gun still went off but the bullet didn't hit Rachel it hit a car tire. Rachel looked at Tess and Zach started to punch each other as Tess sat on Zach. Then Zach turned now sitting on Tess as he pinned her wrists to the ground. He started to slam her hand onto the sidewalk knocking her gun out of her hands.
"What are you doing here!" Tess asked. Then Zach punched and hit her in her nose causing it to bleed.
"I was hired to kill your friend Darien and get my revenge on you!" Tess smiled as he cell phone fell out of her pocket. Zach looked over as he placed his knee onto her right hand as he removed his hand that was holding her right. He picked up her cell phone to see that the numbers 911 were dialed. Tess smirked as Zach looked back at.
"Busted." She said. Zach started to growl and then he started to punch her causing her lip to bleed and her nose even more. Finally there were a lot of clicks heard.
"FREEZE!" Zach lifted his hands into the air slowly as he turned around slightly to see four cops surrounding him. Inspector Maguire made his way through.
"Stand up off of her." Inspector Maguire said. Zach stood up and turned around. "Cuff him!" he shouted. The cops cuffed Zach and tossed him into a squad car. Rachel ran over to Tess helping her up.
"You all right?" she asked. Tess nodded her head.
"Yeah."
Soon after Zach's arrest; Darien had nowhere to go so where did he end up? At Richard's house with Tess, Conan, and Rachel. There he will come along on the trips of murderer cases and more.
Next Time On Case Closed: "What…?" School is almost starting. They have a week. But while they all were shopping for school clothes someone ends up dead in the dressing rooms. Tess and Conan didn't expect to get a murder case in a clothes store but guess what… murder can happen anywhere and they happened to be there. What will happen?
Next Time: Clothes Store Murder
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