Bumper Sticker #5
"Two hydrogen atoms walk into a bar.
The first one says, 'I've lost my electron.'
The second one says, 'Are you sure?'
The first replies, 'Yes, I'm positive.'"
Continuation of Chapter 2: Height
Characters/Pairings: Kuroba Kaito (KID), Hattori Heiji, Edogawa Conan (Kudo Shinichi), Nakamori Ginzo, Mouri Ran, Toyama Kazuha, Agase Hiroshi. Mentions of HeijixKazuha (which is really hard to avoid if you have them fighting…in Kyoto of all places *sweatdrop*).
Other Inspirations: I got so bored one day during Chem class that I actually came up with the code Kaito uses in here. I swear the person who sits next to me must think I'm going insane… Also, a reviewer asked me what was on that heist note in Chapter 2: Height, so I decided to play KID for once (Yay!). (Heiji, Conan, Kazuha and Ran were in Kyoto during that chapter though I neglected to state it. That said, this isn't during the 7th DC movie.)
Warnings: Possibly overly-cryptic KID? Not really sure as I made the whole thing up myself… NOT RANDOM (well, not random in a funny sense). Forgive me if I mess something historical or scientifically or whatever up; I'm trying my best. Also, some mild Heiji-is-insane-ness, but it's because I love the guy to pieces.
A/n: =I;) is my type version of Kaitou's caricature. (Tell me you see the top hat and the winking-attempt-at-monocle smiley and that I'm not completely insane!!!)
Renewed Story Summary: A combo of random unrelated oneshots and an ongoing KID case, all based on Facebook Bumper Stickers!!! It's weird but you know you want to read it!
Renewed Story Genre: Humor/Mystery.
Word Count: 1558
"Hattori," began Conan as he jumped to sit on his hotel bed. He, Heiji, Ran and Kazuha were in Kyoto and though it had been a little over an hour since they had gotten the note from KID, this was the first time they had been able to look at it since then without getting suspicious glances, or glares in Heiji's case, from the girls. Fortunately, the one-and-a-half detectives were lucky enough to be sharing a room while Ran and Kazuha shared the other. "Why do you think he didn't send the note to the police?"
"I think he's got something against us for talking about his top hat." replied Heiji in all seriousness.
'And who was it that screamed that to the world?' thought Conan, looking pointedly at Heiji.
"Well, we'll have to report it to the police anyway." stated Heiji.
"True. Though that's probably exactly what he wants us to do."
"So… we just stroll on up to the police station and go 'Yeah, well, me and this kid here were sitting at this café totally minding our own business when we received a heist note from Kaitou KID.' Kudo, I'd rather not be sent to a mental facility just yet."
"Hello, this is Nakamori Aoko. May I ask who's speaking?"
"Uh, Hattori Heiji. Detective of the West. Is Nakamori-keibu around by any chance?" Heiji glared at Conan for making him do this. Why couldn't he just use that stupid bowtie of his and follow through with his plan himself? (A/n: Yes, I have made Heiji paranoid of phone calls.)
"Hold on a sec." Though the girl on the other end seemed to put her hand over the phone, it didn't block out the yell of "TOUSAN!!!" entirely.
"Hello, Nakamori-keibu speaking."
"Uh, hello, Inspector. This is Hattori Heiji, but I just wanted to let you know that, uh, I got a note from KID early tod-" Need Heiji say more, Nakamori exploded on the other end.
"What?! KID?! What does it say?! Bring it to me immediately!!!"
"Um, the thing is that I'm in Kyoto at the mome-"
"We'll be there as quickly as possible." And the line went dead.
Closing his cell phone, Heiji turned to Conan, "Kudo, I think we have just made an old man very, very excited."
"What?! What is this supposed to mean?!" cried Nakamori when he saw the note.
"That's what the kid and I have been trying to figure out." replied Heiji, gesturing to Conan who was sitting at a table in the police station they were in at the moment, reading and re-reading a copy of the note very intently.
"The kid?" asked Nakamori. Having to switch from capital letters to lowercase was difficult for our keibu sometimes…
"Yes, well, he's my… assistant of sorts." Nakamori sent Heiji a glance that combined "Okay, I'll buy that" and "I worry for you". Heiji inwardly groaned; why was he always the one that seemed to be going insane?!
"We've checked the note, keibu. Its authentic." said a police officer who came running up.
"Alright." replied Nakamori.
Conan inspected the copy of the note that he had intently. It read:
SiMg
[(Cadmium - Carbon) (Neon - Nitrogen) (Arsenic - Sulfur) Rhenium Sulfur (Titanium - Iodine)] [Tantalum Nitrogen Tellurium Iodine Sulfur],
"[(Technetium - Carbon) Hydrogen (Helium - Hydrogen)] [Titanium (Manganese - Nitrogen) (Selenium - Sulfur)] [Iodine Sulfur] [Nitrogen Oxygen Tungsten], [(Technetium - Carbon) Hydrogen (Iron - Fluorine)] [Fluorine Iodine Fluorine Thorium] [Molybdenum Nitrogen (Titanium - Iodine) Hydrogen] [Tungsten Helium Nitrogen] [Thorium (Beryllium - Boron)] [(Ruthenium - Uranium) (Actinium - Carbon) Iodine Nitrogen] [Fluorine (Sodium - Nitrogen) 2(Lithium - Iodine) Sulfur]."
Kaitou KID =I;)
"Does anyone have a copy of the Periodic Table of Elements?" asked Conan. The police officers looked at each other - obviously the Table of Elements was not something a regular officer carried around in his back pocket - before sending one of the newer officers to go find one.
'Of course, people take the obviously-not-child-like demand for a table of elements as perfectly normal, but I get questioned while making up excuses for said "child" even being here in the first place.' thought Heiji grimly before sitting down at the table next to Conan and completing his "Turn-baseball-cap-around-for-a-mystery" routine. An officer quickly supplied the requested Table.
Conan, finally realizing that he wasn't sticking to his child act, quickly took it and gave it to Heiji, smiling innocently and saying, "Here you go, Heiji-niisan!"
"Uh, thanks." An awkward silence ensued as many officers' prying eyes observed them, waiting for some genius conclusion to be made. "You guys can go, you know. The kid and I have this covered."
Nakamori narrowed his eyes on the two before deciding that the note was obviously out of his league and ordering, "Alright, get outta here, all of you!"
As everyone filed out, Nakamori said, "You have an hour before we send an expert to figure this out."
Heiji and Conan nodded, deciding not to argue that they were experts, and Nakamori left.
"Alright, Kudo, what are you up to?"
"Well, look." said Conan, now back in adult-stuck-in-child's-body attitude, motioning forward a piece of paper he had been scribbling on.
Si = Silicon. Silicon's Atomic Number = 14
Mg = Magnesium. Magnesium's Atomic Number = 12
SiMg = 1412
"The abbreviations at the top and the names of elements throughout the note got me thinking but I wanted to double-check the numbers." explained Conan.
Heiji grabbed a piece of paper from a stack nearby and wrote on it, going back and forth from the note to the Table, as he said, "Alright, well, if we replaced all the elements by their atomic numbers, we get…"
1412
[(48 - 6) (10 - 7) (33 - 16) 75 16 (22 - 53)] [73 7 52 53 16],
"[(43 - 6) 1 (2 - 1)] [22 (25 - 7) (34 - 16)] [53 16] [7 8 74], [(43 - 6) 1 (26 - 9)] [9 53 9 90] [42 7 (22 - 53) 1] [74 2 7] [90 (4 - 5)] [(44 - 92) (89 - 6) 53 7] [9 (11 - 7) 2(3 - 53) 16]."
Kaitou KID
"So then if we subtract the numbers in parentheses…" said Conan.
1412
[42 3 17 75 16 -31] [73 7 52 53 16],
"[37 1 1] [22 18 18] [53 16] [7 8 74], [37 1 17] [9 53 9 90] [42 7 -31 1] [74 2 7] [90 -1] [-48 83 53 7] [9 4 2(-50) 16]."
Kaitou KID
"Then, we multiply that '2(-50)' in the last line to get…" continued Conan.
1412
[42 3 17 75 16 -31] [73 7 52 53 16],
"[37 1 1] [22 18 18] [53 16] [7 8 74], [37 1 17] [9 53 9 90] [42 7 -31 1] [74 2 7] [90 -1] [-48 83 53 7] [9 4 -100 16]
Kaitou KID
"Kudo, one problem: these numbers don't mean anything." deadpanned Heiji, "And also, if Kid wanted us to get stuff like the number 42 at the beginning, why make us subtract 6 from 48 instead of just writing down the element whose corresponding atomic number is 42?" He paused as he looked to the Table, "Molybdenum."
Conan's brow furrowed as he looked at the paper, his hand on his chin, deep in thought. Heiji watched curiously as Conan pulled out what looked like a bento box from his backpack thinking that he couldn't seriously be eating at a time like this.
"Faxing the note to Agase and Haibara." explained Conan without looking up. Heiji shrugged to himself before the door opened up suddenly, banging into the adjacent wall loudly, and letting in an even louder person.
"HEIJI! Where have you been?! You were supposed to meet Ran and I at the park nearly an hour ago!!!"
Oh, why, why, why him?! This was not his fault. Hey, and why did Kudo have a really smug grin on his face, getting away with everything?!
"Aho! Can't you tell we're obviously doing something important?! This IS a police station!!" countered Heiji.
"We?" questioned Ran. Conan blanched.
"Yes, Nakamori-keibu and I are trying to decipher this message that we got from Kaitou KID." restated Heiji quickly. Conan let out a sigh of relief as Heiji turned back to Kazuha, "Or is trying to stop and IN-TER-NA-TION-AL CRI-MIN-AL not important enough?!"
Running out of things to say, and realizing how close her face had gotten to Heiji's during their rant fest, Kazuha blushed slightly and muttered, "Aho."
Heiji stepped back and crossed his arms, annoyed and inwardly hoping his dark skin would hide his slight blush. He guessed it didn't work when he saw Conan raise a smug eyebrow at him. Someday, swore Heiji, he would shave those things right off Conan's little head.
"If you don't believe me, look!" Heiji said, picking up his and Conan's pages of work and showing it to Ran and Kazuha.
The bento box/fax machine beeped at that very moment and Conan whipped around to hide it as Heiji created a momentary distraction by explaining what they had figured out thus far. Conan's eyes tore across the page.
"The first combination (SiMg) was bothering me. Silicon and magnesium can't bond like that. Since silicon is a semi-metal and magnesium is a metal, they bond through ionic bonding. The silicon takes the magnesium's electrons, making the silicon negative and the magnesium positive, and normal ionic formula writing puts the positive ion - cation - first with the negative - anion - behind it. So, if anything, it should be written MgSi, though the true combination is Mg2Si.
- Professor Agase"
Conan passed the paper to Heiji who read it aloud.
Kazuha said pensively, "It's weird that Kaitou KID would mess up like that."
"He didn't mess up." thought Conan darkly as he glared at the grinning caricature near KID's signature…
...to be continued…
A/n: Ha ha ha. Now I have an ongoing story within a series of one-shots! It's a plot bunny, I swear (and this is basically my place for putting in my plot bunnies).
I hope Agase's explanation of 'SiMg' not making sense makes sense (*sweatdrop*). I don't know if that's ALWAYS true, but from what I've learned in class so far, ionic bonding (bonding between metals and non-metals) works like that. (Knowing me, there's bound to be some Chemistry expert who's gonna be all, that's not true, dadada. Please forgive me if it's false but it works when it comes to how they're going to figure out the code.
Anywho, please review!! Do you think I should continue this? If so, I'll probably be posting the next chapter as Chapter 8 (each chapter having two oneshots in between it). Randomness in the next one, I promise! ;D
Next Conan's Hint: Holidays.