Sorry I haven't updated in a while.
You may wonder why the cover doesn't match the description in the fic. That's because not only will a full picture of Shinichi not fit the cover unless made really small, but the picture looked really cool...I have references for this particular pic on my blog.
~Nightmare~
While Shinichi slept, he dreamt up this scene:
He was in a bedroom, a very wide hospital-style one with the cleanliness to match. Injured children were lying in bed, bloody, battered and bruised, contrary to the sterile condition the room suggested. Some of the children had visible electronic implants, and all of them looked at least slightly gory.
As the teen detective of the east observed this, he came to a sudden realisation – there were people treating innocent kids like this in the world right now 'for the sake of humanity'. That was where the dream got broken off, and Shinichi's head whirled because he had sat up so fast.
But the creepy thing was that Haibara hadn't told him what trouble those kids had gone through to make him his teen self again.
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In the morning, he visited Agasa and his yawny-eyed friend.
After recounting his nightmare, Haibara explained, "That was the Organisation's fault I had to test it on little kids." Shinichi held back a chuckle as he noticed the irony. "The mice and rats weren't too cooperative...plus, they didn't show any results if they did volunteer themselves to be tested."
Looking into Shinichi's eyes, she told him, "Those kids were unloved and unwanted anyway – they were almost completely injured anyway because of drug smuggling. They were already dead to the world because everyone forgot them." Her old self was beginning to show through!
"Haibara! How could you say something like that?" he retaliated...then realised she was in tears.
Stupid! Black Organisation members weren't meant to show weakness, he reminded himself.
"That's how I found Generic. He disguised himself as injured and hid amongst the test subjects." Shinichi's eyes widened at this revelation. Haibara refused to say anything else about the subject, though.
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Another day spent rebuilding his identity as Shinichi... He sighed and plonked on to his bed in the Kudo mansion, his head hitting the pillow.
Huh? Something was twitching under his torso.
He pulled it out and realised it was only one of the wires Haibara had attached to him. But it had mutated so much that it no longer had the ability to charge him - that had finished ages ago. It had transformed into a metallic wing! It seems the other one had gone through the same process.
Now he had become 20% machine...and changing more and more with each night that passed. If this was what happened at this stage, what was to come?
Generic's details are on Detective Conan World. I included him because he'd never been explored in much detail.
24/12 - I've decided to extend it by about five more chapters. You probably won't expect what's going to happen in the end (although I only have a vague idea of what the end will be like)!
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