Now for the conclusion! I hope it's satisfactory...
Chapter Three
"A code?" asked Ai. She'd noticed he'd been talking weird, and figured it was something like that, though she had no idea what the answer could be.
"Yeah. It was likely that the kidnapper was right there beside him, so he couldn't spill anything directly, so he had to tell us in code. I pretended to be annoyed so that the kidnapper wouldn't be suspicious," said Heiji confidently.
"Than what does it mean?" asked Agasa.
Heiji began explaining. "The first question 'Which came first, the chemist or the chemistry?' indicated he was trapped in a chemistry lab of some kind. Probably in an abandoned factory or something. The second question 'Why is Touto Tower not called Tokyo Tower?' indicated the name of the place is named Touto. The part about the labeling of the floors meant that he wasn't on any of those floors, meaning he's in the basement. His final statement about grudges from the smallest places means that the motive was a grudge.."
"Then where is he?" asked Agasa.
Ai said, "He's at Touto Pharmaceuticals. It's abandoned, and it would have plenty of space to make clones. Plus, it used to be used by the Organization, and they probably left some stuff there. It'd be the perfect place. Also, it was burned down a while ago, so the only place left is the basement."
"Then let's head out!" said Heiji. The three of them then went out to Agasa's yellow Beetle and headed to the site of the building. Once there, they parked the car out of sight of the ruins and tiptoed towards it. Agasa stayed in the car to monitor the situation, and to call the police, though the others had told him not to.
Heiji and Ai were approaching the building cautiously. They soon arrived and found the stairs to the basement, and they stopped at the top to have a whispered discussion.
"Ready?" Heiji asked Ai, "You've got that dart watch, right?"
"Yeah. I've got a fake gun, too, and that should scare the kidnapper enough for you to apprehend him, if it comes to that."
Heiji picked up a fallen pipe and said, "Then let's get Kudo out of here!" They tiptoed down the stairs.
In the basement, they searched around cautiously. Ai had the creeps because this was an old hideout for the Organization, and the chill scared her, though she couldn't sense any of their members.
The entirety of the basement was deserted, and there wasn't much of anything. However, there was a door in the back, and they snuck towards it. The door was open a crack, and they peeked inside and looked around. It was another room, a little smaller than the main basement. There was highly advanced equipment lying around, and there was a bed on the far wall, with a toilet next to it. On the bed sat Conan, looking wistfully out the window across from him, high up on the wall. He was chained to the wall behind him.
Then they spotted a youngish guy working at the console of one of the machines. He wore a white lab coat, but they could see an outline of a gun under it. They looked at each other and nodded once. Ai slipped in through the crack in the door, aimed at the guy, and he fainted from the anesthetic dart that hit him.
Heiji ran in, smashed the chain holding Conan captive, and Conan just said, "I expected you to be here ten minutes ago, Hattori."
"Just as snide as ever, eh Kudo?" said Heiji, but he was grinning along with Conan. Suddenly they heard the sound of a gun being cocked, and they looked around to see what had happened.
The guy had somehow recovered from the dart and had leveled his gun at them. "Don't move," he said threateningly, backing towards the door. "If you move, then I can't guarantee what'll happen." Ai, standing next to Conan, instantly recognized him as a mad scientist that the Detective Boys had apprehended a while before. He'd escaped from the cops on the way to prison, and hadn't been seen since.
The three of them were debating what to do when suddenly the door burst open, and everything was over. The police ran in, overpowered and cuffed the man, and escorted him away. Heiji, Conan, and Ai walked over to Inspector Megure, who was busy collecting the gun from where it had fallen.
Heiji said, "Megure-keibu! How'd you find us?"
"Oh, Heiji-kun! Agasa-san called us and informed us of the whole situation." He looked at Conan. "And it certainly explains your weird behavior."
Conan spoke up. "What will happen to the clone, Inspector?"
"Seeing as the clone was made illegally, and it's an imperfect copy anyways, it'll probably be put down."
Conan looked appalled. "No, you can't do that! That's no better than killing a person!"
Megure looked at him and said, "Then what do you suggest we do, then?"
"Well," said Conan thoughtfully, "you could send him to live with Shinichi-niichan's parents. They'd probably love to have another son."
"We could do that," said Megure, considering it, "as long as they're open to it, and they probably will be. I'll ask them right away." He turned and left and the other three left, too.
Conan, it turned out, hadn't been treated too badly, so he didn't need to go to the hospital. Ran and Kogoro had been totally shocked when they were eating dinner that night with the clone, when Conan walked in the door with Heiji and Ai, looking kind of beat up.
After all three explained the situation, the clone was sent to LA, and everything went back to normal. After the defeat of the Organization, and after Shinichi returned to being himself, he treated the clone as his biological brother Conan, and no one really cared anymore how Conan had come to be.
Conan was sent to live with Shinichi after Shinichi returned to being himself. Conan hit it off well with Ayumi, and they started going out later when they were in middle school, and Shinichi finally confessed to Ran.
Ai, meanwhile, stayed as a kid. She'd paid her debt to society for all the crimes she'd committed, and now she wanted a peaceful life, starting with a new childhood. All her friends gave it to her, and she grew up into a very beautiful, free young woman, and eventually warmed to Mitsuhiko, after he'd grown up. And so everyone was happy, and lived happily, with no more threats, lies, or deceit.
A happy ending, typical of my stories. I may have rushed the action a little, so if you got lost somewhere, feel free to ask for clarification. I personally like this story, as it includes crimes, codes, and evil mad scientists all rolled into three chapters.
I figured everyone would kill me if I killed off 'cute Conan', so I had him grow up as Conan Kudo, away from everyone. And he covered up the real Conan's disappearance when Conan returned to Shinichi later. If you hate the pairings at the end, then try some of my other fics, where I explore some others. To everyone who read this story all the way through, many thanks for reading, and for the positive reviews! I suggest you try out my new story The Strange Girl, as it has plenty of mystery and suspense in it, though as of the time of this writing, I've only posted the first two chapters. But check it out anyways! Thanks!
-CoolKid94
