Diplomats, Holmes Freaks, Cornered, Robbery, BO Girl, Revival

"A-choo!" Shinichi seemingly sneezed twice over the phone.

"Sheesh, calling when you have a cold, just come home already Shinichi!" Ran scolded her 'best friend'.

"What can I do? This is a really tough case!" Shinichi answered.

Another sneeze was heard by Ran, though farther from the phone.

Ding-Dong!

"Oh, a customer! Later! Hope you feel better!"

"Hey! Ran!" Shinichi yelled, but it was too late.

At the Detective Agency, as Conan and Arthur got back

"I told you! I don't know!" Ran yelled

"Don't lie!" A young-sounding voice with an Osakan accent screamed "I know he's living here!"

"Is it a customer?" Arthur thought.

Meanwhile Conan was thinking, "Ahh, such a familiar voice… Hattori Heiji. You better keep it together Conan, we can't let him realize who you are, nor who Arthur is, yet."

"How 'bout bringin' him out right now! That guy..." The voice continued, "Kudo Shinichi!"

"Huh?" Arthur mumbled as he entered the building, then letting out a huge sneeze.

"Woah! Hattori Heiji! Famous detective of the West! You're nearly as cool as Shinichi-niichan, famous detective of the East!" Conan yelled gleefully, emphasizing that he isn't as cool as the famous detective of the East, Shinichi.

"Finally! Someone 'round here recognizes me- wait… I'M FAR SUPERIOR AND COOLER THAN THAT WANNABE FROM THE EAST!" Hattori yelled.

"Hai, hai." Conan agreed sarcastically, sneezing. Arthur sneezed at the same time.

"You two have colds too? There must be one going around, Shinichi, and now you two!"

"Kudo has a cold? How do you know he is sick if you don't even know where he is?" The teenage Osakan detective inquired.

"He called me, is that a problem?" Ran answered.

"What did he talk about over the phone?" The detective continued.

"A mystery book he read, the J-league, how everyone is doing at school, that type of thing." She answered, "But I don't see how that's your problem."

"Anything about you? Asking how you are? That type of thing?"

"N-no, never anything about me." She stuttered, then muttering, "Why am I even telling you all this?"

"Don't you think it's weird? He's definitely watching you! If he calls you that means he cares about you, if he cares about you and doesn't ask how you're doing, that means he must be spying on you! What a creepy guy!" The Osakan deduced, ignoring Ran's quiet comments.

"A-choo!" The pair of children sneezed again.

"Hey, kids, I have a cure for that cold of yours!" Hattori said, now getting it from his bag.

"I think I've heard of you, you're a pretty good Kansai-detective." Kogoro commented.

"Yeah, we've always been compared, Kudo of the East, Hattori of the West." Then, getting the medicine from his bag, he handed it to the children, "Here."

"Thanks." Arthur thanked, Conan did too, after hesitating a moment.

They both took a gulp of the 'medicine'...

Arthur started stumbling around, and then said to Ran, "Hey baby, you look pretty tonight…" then fell onto the ground.

Conan stumbled over to the nearby couch, resisting the temptation to say anything.

"What did you give them?" Ran screamed furiously at the detective.

"Chinese Liquor, Bai Ganr!" He answered, then talking to the older detective, "I know, I'll give this to you because I'll be staying here until you help me find Kudo!"

Ran muttered angrily, "Why you…"

A client suddenly came in to give Kogoro a case, events ensued, later bringing the 4 detectives and Ran over to the client's house.

During this time Conan and Arthur both bumped heads with Hattori while investigating, later they began to feel deeply ill, and the pair of pseudo-child detectives fainted.

After waking up they found themselves on a bed, tucked next to each other, and Conan said, "It's starting, we'll have about 15 minutes as our adult selves, you'll know when the reversion is starting, it is fairly obvious. We'd better get ready."

Arthur made a huge grin, getting out of bed he rushed to the closet when Conan stopped him.

"I have adult clothing in my bag, a precaution in case this ever happened." Conan explained.

After painfully growing to their adult forms, they went to the room with the case and Shinichi yelled, "No, that's wrong!", after hearing the father of the victim confess.

"Kudo!" Megure and Hattori yelled, shocked at his appearance, though for different reasons.

"Where were you! Coming back all of a sudden when I thought you were gone! I, I was worried!" Ran yelled hysterically.

"Stupid, don't cry."

"W-why not?"

"It's like she said! Coming out so late and saying it's wrong! Are you talking about my reasoning?" Hattori interrupted.

"Just wait, I'll be done soon." Shinichi whispered to Ran as he walked by.

Ran noticed the sweat, worrying for her friend.

"That's right, I'm saying that ridiculous story of yours, is 100% impossible!"

"What!?" The police inspector and Kansai Detective yelled in surprised, then continuing to explain the trick that the Kansai Detective gave them, only to be countered by Shinichi.

"But the old man confessed of his own free will!"

"Yes, I don't know why, but he fell into the trap on purpose!" Shinichi then went into an explanation of how the crime was done, then said, "A friend and consultant on my current case will explain the motive that he has uncovered."

A near identical teenager, slightly older, mature looking, and worn than Shinichi, came in, receiving many gawks, and lied, "Hi, I'm Sherlock Edogawa, -Cough- -Hack- -Cough-, I'm the older brother of Arthur-kun and Conan-kun's." He then went into an explanation on his 'theory' about Kimie's motive for the murder.

"Yes, you're right, I murdered that devil of a man! You're right about my motive too, and how I tried to frame his father." Kimie-san admitted.

"Oi Kudo!" Hattori yelled, seeing his rival leaning on a bookshelf, coughing like crazy, then yelled the same to Edogawa who was doing the same nearby.

"Shinichi!" Ran yelled, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I just got a cold. Same with Edogawa over there." Shinichi lied.

"So, how did you know about the case? So you were watching from nearby?" Hattori asked.

"Idiots, the two boys informed their older brother, who in turn informed me about the case. They told us about how a famous Kansai detective rival of mine came over so I should come visit, so I quickly cleared my current case up and caught a train." Shinichi lied.

"Lies!" Ran yelled.

"Huh?"

"This person said that it's weird that you don't ask 'how are you' over the phone! You really were close by, weren't you. And you were laughing at me for worrying so much!" She cried.

"Oi, Ran." Shinichi interrupted.

"Why, why do you do this to me? When I'm this… this..."

"Don't underestimate me… aren't I a detective? With you I could tell that just by hearing you voice…" Shinichi said, then fell onto the ground, going into a coughing fit.

As Ran went to get a doctor, Hattori came and said, "Jeez, so my reasoning was wrong from the start."

"I somehow managed to keep it from looking like I was a peeping tom." Shinichi thought to himself.

"It was my loss through and through this time! Good job Kudo! Your reasoning was one better than mine, though I suppose Edogawa's topped both of us."

"Edogawa had already solved a similar case, so it wasn't any trouble for him. Also, don't be stupid, there's no win or lose in this, no higher or lower, there is always… only one truth."

"You're right about that, I got caught up in the challenge and I wasn't thinking…" Hattori started, then seeing the pair of near-identical detectives moaning, he yelled, "Hey Kudo, do you really only have a cold?"

"Shit." Shinichi moaned, grabbing Edogawa's arm the pair ran out of the room, only to be seen by Ran, "Ran!"

"Shinichi! Edogawa-san! You two shouldn't be running around! You're sick!" Ran yelled at the pair.

Edogawa then continued running, dragging Shinichi with him, and then fell down the stairs.

"Where are they? The bathroom! Its door just closed! They must be there!" Ran thought.

But when she opened the door she only saw the pair of children, both hunched over the toilet like they were about to vomit.

"Ran-neechan!" Arthur yelled when Ran entered the room.

"Conan-kun! Arthur-kun! I was looking everywhere for you! And these shirts…"

"Shinichi-niichan and Sherlock-niisan gave them to us, we were sweating so much our suits were drenched." Arthur explained.

"So you saw Shinichi and Edogawa-san?" Ran asked urgently.

"Yeah, the two of them left out the front door, they remembered an urgent matter, also, they told us to tell you and the police something. No one… should know that… they were here…" Arthur explained as the pair of children then fainted.

Later…

After Hattori left, and the three days that Ran forced the twins to stay in bed were over, the pair went to Hakase's house.

"What! Taking a larger dosage won't cure us!" Arthur yelled, frustrated.

"Don't worry! I'm sure we'll find a cure eventually! For now we should focus on finding the Black Organization, so far our only leads are Gin, Vodka, Tequila who is now dead, and the supposed blown up base of the Black Organization. I think our luck will change for the better soon, or the worse depending on how you look at it." Conan assured his younger twin brother, though he was thinking, "8 months left until the date it happened, I need to change only as much as necessary of the timeline until the right moment..."

"Yeah, you're right." Arthur agreed, sighing.

Holmes Freak Murder Case…

While in the car transporting them to the summer home of the orchestrator of the contest that Arthur and Conan had participated in, the adult Conan Doyle fans were talking about their favorite Sherlock Holmes books.

The lady Holmes fan said, "My favorite book is the Study of Scarlet."

"Well, I like the Red Headed League." A male Holmes fan commented.

"Me, me, me too!" Arthur yelled, "For me it's the Sign of Four!"

"Same here! I love the Sign of Four!" Conan agreed, just as enthusiastically.

"I don't think I've ever seen Conan this happy before, though I don't think I've seen Arthur like this either." Ran noted silently.

"That work is well known throughout the whole world!" The male Holmes fan who had talked earlier noted.

"It's good boys! But it isn't too hard to understand?" Another male Holmes man asked.

"A little but I can understand." Arthur lied, he could understand it perfectly.

"I understand, but there are a few words I don't know, so I always have a dictionary with me just in case." Conan lied.

When the car arrived, Conan and Arthur walked to the summer home, only to be interrupted by a medium, "Tell me boys, the two of you are hiding secrets, something very important, aren't you?"

Conan and Arthur just squeaked.

"Hmm? What are you doing Conan-kun, Arthur-kun?" Ran yelled to the boys.

"Be careful boys, your secrets will be uncovered," She pointed at Conan, "And the secret you're hiding will start to be discovered, the rate of discovery increasing exponentially," The woman whispered to Conan who just squeaked, frightened.

As the pair walked over to Ran, she asked who she was and they answered nervously, "Just a medium."

As everyone entered the house and congregated in the living room, Kogoro punched Conan and Arthur for making him come.

"Conan-kun! Arthur-kun!" Ran yelled, fearing that her father had hurt them too much.

"Conan? Arthur?" The people in the room repeated, confused, then congregating around the boy they said things such as, "What lovely names!" or, "Ahh! Your name is Conan, and your's is Arthur!" and finally a simple, "Really!"

"Yeah, our father is a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fan, and because of that I was named Conan, he was named Arthur, and our older brother is named Sherlock!"

"Me too! I love my name!" Arthur was agreeing gleefully to the other fans.

"Ahh… I was worried about the two children," Ran explained to her father after seeing his confused face, "They're both so mature for children. Now seeing these innocent smiles, though I can see it more so in Arthur, I feel reassured. However, that person was a Holmes fan too…" Ran reminisced.

"That person?" Her father inquired.

"You didn't forget, did you? The self confident show-off boy," Ran started, only to be interrupted.

"A maniac of Holmes mysteries, better at soccer than at music, he even won against me and escaped suddenly. You're talking about Shinichi Kudo, aren't you?" A young teenage voice with a Kansai accent asked.

"Hattori-kun!" Ran yelled, "So you're a Holmes fan too?"

"No, no, I came because I thought Kudo would be here." He explained, "However Ellery Queen's works do fascinate me," Hattori started, then catching glares from around the room, he revised, "But I do admit Doyle's work is the best of the genre."

The host then went into an explanation of the testing, Mouri, Ran, Conan, and Arthur then went to their room where Conan and Arthur did their testing.

"Hey, Nisan, why are you doing this half-heartedly?"Arthur asked his brother.

"N-nothing. I was just bothered by what the medium said, that's all." Conan lied, it was in fact that he really wanted to stop this murder, but he knew that this was the murder most important for him not to stop, as it would be the case that would start his alliance with Hattori Heiji.

"You believe in that stuff? Ridiculous." Arthur laughed.

"No! It isn't that she said it, it is just that it has made me think." Conan lied.

"Hey, Conan has handwriting identical to mine…" Arthur noted.

"Ugh, you two are still awake? It's 4 pm!" Ran suddenly remarked.

After a little while Conan and Arthur both finished the quiz and went to wait with everyone at the dining room table. Soon after a car was seen riding towards the cliff and Conan remarked, "I have a bad feeling about this, and that's not to mention that I can see the host in the car," and he, Arthur, and Hattori all jumped out the window after opening it.

The threesome grabbed onto the car and knocked on it, yelling, Arthur and Hattori noting that there was a sound, not coming from the engine, and that there was a blanket covering the dashboard

After most of the guests, besides Mouri, agreed that it was probably murder, Arthur and Hattori bumped heads, and when Hattori was pulling his head away from Arthur he then hit Conan's.

"What are you doing? Looking for something?" Ran asked.

"Yes and no! I just wanted to know whether or not he had air conditioning when these two brats got in my way again!" Hattori yelled, then realized, "Again! Now that I think about it, last case with them we bumped our heads while investigating too!"

"Damn it, I can't see, it's too dark!" Arthur cursed.

"Yeah, you're right." Hattori agreed.

"Here you little detectives in the grass, can you see better now?" A pretty-looking female Holmes fan asked.

"Thanks! A lot better." The two non-time travelling detectives agreed, Conan was too busy looking.

"Hey, how come you can see fine without light?" Arthur whispered, though unwittingly loud enough that Hattori could hear.

"Oh, my glasses have night vision, ultraviolet and infrared depending on what I want to see." Conan explained.

"Who is this kid? Night vision glasses?" Hattori thought, exasperated.

Much later into the investigation, after another murder and an attempted murder, Arthur and Conan started making advanced deductions in mature adultlike voices.

"Hey, those kids really are strange! They aren't talking nonsense, they know what they're saying. They have the body of a child but their minds are like Kudo and Edogawa's! Now that I think about it, the pair of teenage detectives didn't appear until after the children were gone, and the children didn't reappear until after the two teenagers were gone… Then that means, these kids are… Nah, it can't be. Nobody can shrink or grow like that, the one who could do it could commit the perfect crime. It's best not to think about such things." Hattori thought to himself.

Not soon after, Conan and Arthur had solved the case, but they couldn't get Hattori to tell everyone without him figuring out their secret.

"We're going to the bathroom!" Arthur, next to Conan, yelled to Ran.

"Ahh, I'm going too." Hattori said.

When Hattori left the room, a couple seconds after the pair of boys, he looked both ways to try and find the two kids. Arthur then shot Hattori from above, with a sleeping dart, knocking him out cold.

Arthur then solved the case with Hattori's voice, though half-way through Hattori was punched on the head, which worried him. After the case was solved, the pair of boys reentered the room, and Hattori said, "Hey. Hey, you're Kudo and Edogawa, aren't you?"

"What are you saying? Can't you see we're just children?" Arthur asked, nervous, sweating like crazy.

"You can't trick me! You imitated my accent really badly!" The Osakan retorted, then pulling at Arthur and Conan's bow ties, "And these are how you imitated my voice, I saw how you used it, I've been watching you ever since that Rigor Mortis thing. You may of spoken weirdly, but both during the deductions when you imitated my voice, and earlier deductions, but you two's way of thinking and your deductions are both identical to that of Kudo's, and I noticed that Edogawa's was too, meaning that you two are Kudo and Edogawa!"

"But hey, look at us, we're just children." Arthur then looked pleadingly at Conan who was just smirking at him.

"Then you won't mind if I tell Ran-san over there?" Hattori inquired.

"No, I d-" Arthur started but was interrupted by Conan.

"Let's just tell him, he's already figured it out, besides, he'll be a helpful asset in taking them down."

In the bus…

"What? They made you shrink with a drug? And until you find the organization that did this to you, you're living the house of the girl you like?" Hattori summarized.

"I… I don't like her, she's a nuisance." Arthur lied.

"Oh? If you don't like her, you don't mind if I make her mine once we get our bodies back?" Conan half-teased.

"N-no! Not at all." Arthur answered stubbornly.

"Oh! It's good that you've finally become friends!" Ran suddenly interrupted from behind.

"Y-yeah." Arthur mumbled.

"Hey, Ran-san, you know what Kudo and Edogawa said about you?"

"Heh?"

"Well, when I said that you and Kudo were dating, he said that he didn't like you like that, and that you're a nuisance, then Edogawa asked Kudo if he'd mind if he asked you out." Hattori then shot the pair of pseudo-children who were both frantically signaling Hattori to stop, a sly smirk.

"They what?" Ran asked, both angry and flustered.

"Bastard." Arthur glared at Hattori, who was thinking, "That's for shooting me with a tranq dart."

Arthur, squeezing his fists, then whispered to Conan, "I don't think I've ever seen you flustered like that, you're always so calm and collected, do you… actually have feelings for Ran?""

"Eh?" Conan looked at Arthur like he just discovered his biggest secret, "Don't worry, Ran Mouri is all Kudo Shinichi's." Conan answered, avoiding answering the actual question, leaving himself just as much room to flirt with Ran and developer a relationship with her, had he made no such promise, as he was Kudo Shinichi.

Arthur just looks at Conan for a little while, thinking, "That was a weird way of phrasing it…"

Conan soon zoned out and begun thinking, "Ugh, I really wish I had an ally in this timeline, though I don't think it's wise to let anyone know of my actual identity until after the 9 months are up, assuming I manage to save everyone this time… no, that isn't a question, I will save everyone."

The Cornered Famous Detective!

When Ran confronts the child sleuths after the case is finished.

"What's wrong, are you lost? Ran-neechan, let's go back." Arthur complained nervously.

"Yes, we do have to return home. Return to your home!"

"What? What are you talking about? Isn't this Shinichi's house?" Arthur asked nervously.

"Hey, what kind of joke is this? Turns out it was like this the whole time, you lying to us, Shinichi, Sherlock." Ran accused.

"W-what are you talking about, we're just children! Besides, didn't Conan make this clear last time?" Arthur started.

"Your argument is null now that I've seen Edogawa Sherlock! Besides, you never answered how you were able to answer my questions so quickly before! Answer me!" Ran ordered, "And what's more, Arthur's face looks identical to Shinichi's when he was younger! I saw it in the photo album I was looking in earlier!"

"Ran? Why are you in front of my house in the middle of the night?" A sudden voice of a woman in their late 30's asked.

"Shinichi's mom? But I thought you were in Los Angeles?" The teenage Ran responded.

"Ahh, I just got back. Oh, and these kids are…" Yukiko, Shinichi's mom, answered.

"Ahh, now I can get confirmation, this boy…" Ran started, picking up Arthur, "Is your son, isn't he?"

"Ehh, but you are… Arthur-kun, aren't you? How long have you been here? And where's that brother of yours, the one who always looks worn out? Oh, there you are." Yukiko lied.

"You know these children?" Ran asked.

"Sure, he's the nephew of the grandfather of the cousin of the daughter of the brother of my uncle!" Yukiko lied.

"B-but, I thought he was a relative of Yusaku's… and Agasa-Hakase…" Ran butted in.

"Oh, his father is a distant relative of Yusaku and Hakase's, and his mother, Fumiyo I believe, was a distant relative of mine." She lied.

"However, don't you think these children look a little too much like Shinichi?" Ran asked.

"Well, if you ask me, Arthur-kun looks a little smarter than Shin-chan… and Conan-kun a bit too emotionally unstable." Yukiko answered.

"Obaaaaa-san." Conan glared, stretching the word out as long as he could.

"Why you little…" Yukiko growled.

"But the more I think about it, the stranger it seems, how could these children formulate deductions so similar to that of Shinichi and Sherlock's?" Ran yelled.

"Well, they did live with Sherlock, you know, and they visited Shinichi quite often too, so they must've learned a lot from them." Yukiko lied.

"Those two would help them…" Ran asked.

"Ran-chan, just think about it, would Shinichi do something like this?" Yukiko asked, Arthur and Conan hiding behind her, muttering things like, "Ran-neechan is scary."

"Well, not if it was just Shinichi, but he does pretty much anything Conan-kun, or Sherlock, whichever, tells him to do." Ran retorted.

"Think about it, would Shinichi ever follow the orders of someone else? He's a bit too arrogant for that." Yukiko answered, receiving a glare from Arthur, and almost receiving one from Conan who managed to stop himself.

"No, not really, but Arthur-kun seems to follow Conan-kun's orders grudgingly." Ran argued.

"How did we supposedly shrink then?" Conan interrupted, "And assuming we did shrink don't you think Shinichi-niichan would have told you unless it was a really good reason. Whether or not we really did shrink, either way you shouldn't be accusing us, it's either traumatizing a couple helpless children or putting someone's life in danger. Of course, since we aren't shrunken teenage detectives you're traumatizing a couple helpless children, so you should think before you accuse someone of something like this."

"Eh-" Ran mumbled, thinking, "I feel like he just admitted it, but if I think about it, he only implied that I was right… but, if that's the case then does that mean by accusing him… no, he's just doing that to deter me from finding the truth!" Ran re-accused, "Hah! You just implied that I was right!"

"Did I?" Conan asked, "I'm just asking you to stop accusing us of such ridiculous things, as whether or not you're right in your convictions, you are definitely doing a negative thing."

"How is it worse for me to know about this than your mother? We're best friends you know, Shinichi!" Ran yelled.

"W-what? Now you're accusing ME of being Shinichi?" Conan stumbled, nervous as heck.

"Heh? Oh, oops, uhm… you just look identical…" Ran stopped, something just hit her.

Flashback start

"Besides, there is an obvious difference in intelligence between my brother and I, so we can't both be the same person, unless you're suggesting time travel is possible without creating paradoxes and I'm the Shinichi of about a year from now." Conan pretended to laugh.

Flashback end
"That was oddly specific for a joke… unless… I don't think that's possible, but I think I should drop this for now until I know more about Conan and Sherlock Edogawa…" Ran thought, then laughed, "You know what, this is ridiculous, people can't shrink, I'm sorry, we should go home…"

Arthur and his mother sighing in relief, though Conan starting to sweat more profusely. Yukiko said, "I'm sorry Ran, but it's been so long since I've seen the kids, I'd like to bring them with me for a trip. Is that fine?"

"Ahh, yeah." Ran agreed, wearily stealing a glance at Conan who was sweating, she thought, "That's suspicious, does he realize that I'm possibly on to him?"

On the ride to Yukiko's friend's house...

"So, Conan-kun, could you tell me exactly who you are?" His unknowing mother asked, "I'm supposing you're not actually named Sherlock Edogawa?"

"No, I'm not. But my identity doesn't matter. It would be more harm than good for you to find out." Conan answered.

"That isn't much of an answer." Yukiko complained.

"How many kids are you able to fit like this?" Conan changed the subject.

"4 if they're small enough." She answered grudgingly.

One Billion Yen Robbery Case

After Akemi Miyano was shot...

"Akemi Miyano. Sister of Shiho Miyano, the creator of Apotoxin 4869, and code named Sherry. Side effect of this poison is a rare de-aging of the physical body, though the mind remains unchanged. Both you and your sister are members of the so called Black Organization, though you're fairly low ranking. You orchestrated this robbery in an attempt to fulfill an agreement with Gin that your sister and you could leave the Organization if you completed the robbery and gave them the money, but they betrayed you as your sister is an important asset to the Organization, developing the before-mentioned poison, which's purpose is intended to be the perfect poison, undetectable by any tests. You're also the girlfriend of the traitor and agent Rye, who you believe is named Moroboshi Dai, but is actually an FBI agent named Akai Shuuichi. Am I wrong?" A deep voice listed.

"W-who are you?" Akemi cried out, as she was painfully bleeding from the gun wound.

"An ally." The voice quickly went from a deep adult voice to the sound of a child.

"Arthur?" She asked, confused, "I knew you were smart… for your age, but how did you know all that?" She asked.

"No, I'm his supposed brother, thought we're not actually brothers. I'm Conan Edogawa, I like to believe I'm the leading expert on the Black Organization, though I'm not positive if that's true. Anyway, I'd like you to join the witness protection program, I know Moroboshi Dai's phone number, so I'll email him. Of course, we'll be faking your death, but I can do that alone. Oh, I'd appreciate if you didn't tell anyone about the side effect of the poison, or anything about me for that matter." Conan smirked.

"Hai! Oh, the real key to the locker is in my shoe. You should take it." The awed ex-criminal informed him.

"Thanks." Conan said, as he took the key, then got a spare phone, emailing Moroboshi Dai, "I know you're Akai Shuuichi, FBI agent. Don't worry, I won't reveal you. Your girlfriend, Akemi Miyano, was shot by Gin, I suggest you put her into the witness protection program. Please make sure she is not seen by the media at all costs. Don't bother trailing me, don't bother asking how I know all this, don't bother asking for my name, I'm sure we'll meet eventually. - Leading expert on the Black Organization."

Proceeding to apply first aid to the adult, he then left, just in time to escape the FBI bringing Akemi in, and looking around for the dubbed leading expert on the Black Organization.

He then called the police with his teenage voice, "Megure-Keibu?"

"Kudo-kun?" Megure yelled in surprise.

"Sorry to disappoint, I'm his friend, Sherlock Edogawa. I need you to put in the newspapers and in the records that the bank robber, Masami Hirota committed suicide in the warehouse at…" He then specified which warehouse, and how she committed suicide, "And that she was found by Conan-kun. I'd also appreciate it if you didn't tell Kudo, he's a little bad at acting and I'm expecting this subject will come into conversation some time later on. I know, I know, we've only met once, but Kudo wouldn't bring me along everywhere if he didn't trust me! I'm sorry, I can't tell you right now, it has to do with the case Kudo and I are working on, that's all I can say. Oh, also don't mention this to my younger brothers, Ran, that incompetent sleeping detective, his wife, the famous lawyer, or anyone else really. Oh, don't visit the crime scene until I tell you to, and when you do, do it in a small team of people who can keep a secret."

"Can you tell me why?" Megure-Keibu asked angrily.

Hesitated, he answered, "It's a matter of her bosses thinking she's dead. Oh, just a final warning, don't look into this, it's far beyond your jurisdiction." Edogawa warned.

"Ahh, this sounds important, I guess I'll do what you ask. But if someone like Shinichi specifically asks, I'm telling them." Megure mostly agreed.

"That's fine." Edogawa answered.

The Girl from the Black Organization

After the 5 detective boys and Haibara leave the classroom, Conan and Haibara talking in private.

"Miyano Shiho, age 18, code name Sherry, no?" Conan asked.

"H-how did you know that?" Haibara stumbled.

"Sister of Akemi Miyano, inventor of Apotoxin 4869, or to be more precise, daughter of the original creators, but you had to reinvent it after their data was burnt. You were an important asset to the Organization, but I assume after you heard that Gin shot her you decided to rebel, then after being locked in a room with supposedly no escape, and believing that death was the only possible outcome, you opted for suicide using your creation, though luckily shrinking instead, using your smaller body you escaped, likely went outside of Shinichi Kudo's house knowing he had survived the poison as well, probably from the fact that his childhood clothing was missing from his house that you had searched, likely twice, and then you were found and taken in by Professor Agasa who likely faked your records so you could go to school. Am I wrong?" Conan smirked, knowing he wasn't.

"How could you know all that? Who are you?" Haibara gawked, fear that he could possibly be a secretly shrunken Black Organization member crept into her mind..

"Edogawa Conan, the leading outside expert on the Black Organization, that's who." Conan explained arrogantly, then while walking to his friends, he said, "My condolences about your sister, I was too late."

When Haibara, Arthur, and the Professor were about to put the disk Haibara accidently sent her sister into the computer...

"Stop you fools!" Conan yelled.

"Huh?" They all sounded.

"If you put it in there it'll wipe everything on the disk and the computer! We need to do it on a computer from the Black Organization! And since for all we know it has some sort of transmitter in it, we need to put it somewhere with no wifi!" Conan yelled, glad to finally be able to change some parts of the timeline in major ways.

"Ahh. That's going to be tough." Haibara and Arthur groaned, though agreeing that that was the best choice.

Arthur then told Conan, "I'm going home, you coming?"

"Ahh, in a minute, go on without me." Conan answered.

"Okay, see yah."

When Arthur left, Conan told Agasa, "You should go get some sleep. You've had a long night, and you're in your fifties."

"Don't treat me like an old man." Hakase grumbled, but agreed.

"By the way you're acting I suppose you want to tell or ask me something." Haibara deduced.

"Yeah. An old friend of mine was able to make temporary cures from the ingredients in Chinese Liquor, an alcohol that when sick can temporarily turn someone back to their adult form, if only for 15 minutes." Conan informed the small scientist, handing her different packs of the antidote, labeled with different time limits and theorized chance of death, "Don't tell Kudo about this though, he'd want to use them all at once."

"T-thanks. Oh, but I have a question for you as well. How were you poisoned by APTX 4869, it wasn't even put into testing until a few months ago." She asked.

"Ahh, from what I understood the one who poisoned me stole a pill from you, after the drug was finished, but before it was put into testing." Conan lied, glad he remembered that small detail Haibara had told him in his previous timeline.

"Oh, I do remember something like that happening." Haibara remembered, satisfied.

The Desperate Revival…

As the pair was being rushed into the hospital...

"Sir, we've used up all of these children's blood types in previous operations, we're all out." One of the nurses informed the doctor.

"Uhm, I have the same blood type as these children." Ran told the doctors, "But you should check just in case."

"She knows… Wait… BOTH of us children, why does she think that?" Arthur wondered as he fell unconscious.

"She knows! Damn! The only way to convince her that I'm not a time travelling shrunken Kudo Shinichi is to have some sort of supposed acquaintance from my previous life. But how do I do that? Maybe I could claim Haibara is actually my niece?" Conan theorized as he too fell unconscious.

When the two woke up

"If your blood type were any rarer you two would be dead, you should be grateful that Ran coincidently had your blood type and was willing to share it. If you two don't get better I won't forgive you." Kogoro warned the children.

"Hai." The two coughed.

When Kogoro left, and since Ran was still asleep on Conan's lap, Arthur asked, "How did she know your blood type as well?"

"I told her." Conan lied.

"Oh, I suppose you were expecting something like this to happen, like usual." Arthur laughed, then fell into a coughing fit.

Little did they know that Ran was actually half-conscious, and had heard a little bit of the conversation.

'How did… you blood type…?'

'I told her'

'...suppose… expecting… like usual.'

"Why did he lie… unless he knows I'm suspecting him, maybe not about what or who he actually is, but there definitely is some relation between him, Shinichi, and Sherlock Edogawa. And if my theory is right, then Shinichi/Arthur doesn't even know about it." Ran thought dreamily.

"Oh, she's starting to wake up." Conan commented.

"Good morning, Ran-neechan." Arthur greeted.

When Sonoko was asking Ran if she invited Shinichi

"No, he won't come, but I don't mind, as long as these two come!" Ran said, signaling that she meant Arthur and Conan.

"Oh? Are you transferring your love for Shinichi to these two brats?" Sonoko teased.

"No! Of course not!" Ran blushed furiously.

When Hattori visited Conan and Arthur

"I heard that that cute girl you like almost found out your identity!" Hattori teased Arthur.

"Not almost figured out, figured out, she already knows." Arthur moaned.

"I think she's somehow figured out part of my secret as well." Conan whispered to himself, though no one heard him clearly.

"Heh, what'd you say?" Hattori asked.

"N-nothing." Conan lied.

"Anyway, why don't you just tell her?" Hattori asked.

"She's the type of person who carries others' burdens upon herself, crying and feeling pain for them. How could I tell her something like this?" Arthur asked, "Hattori, what would you do if you were me?"

When Haibara came to Conan and Arthur's room

"Haibara, we both know that you didn't actually switch sides again, you just came here to offer Arthur one of those temporary antidotes so Ran could see all three of us at once, then later do the same thing with Sherlock Edogawa and I. Of course, you'd be disguised as the one of us who had gone back to their normal bodies with Ok- -Cough- Obasan's help." Conan yawned as Haibara pointed a gun at Arthur.

"I- I'll never understand how you do that." Haibara sighed.

"A logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other." Conan quoted.

"Ineffable quaddle." Haibara quoted back.

"It's actually 'What ineffable twaddle!' not 'ineffable quaddle'." Arthur corrected.

"Stupid genius detectives." Haibara blushed, leaving an antidote in Arthur's hand, then exiting the room.

Right before the play started...

"Ahh, Conan-kun, I want to speak with you for a moment." Ran said, all dressed up.

"Ahh, Ran-neechan, be right there!" Conan responded, acting like a totally normal 8 year old kid.

When they were close enough to each other, Ran whispered just loud enough for him to hear, "I know you're real identity."

"I- I told you, I'm not Sherlock-niichan!" Conan answered, visibly showing irritation, which he rarely did.

"I never said you were." Ran answered back calmly.

"She knows! I was right, she knows. How do I answer?" Conan thought, panicking, "I don't know what you're talking about, Ran-neechan! Good luck!"

"Yeah, thanks Conan-kun." Ran thanked, sad that he wouldn't admit it, but couldn't really blame the pseudo-child as she didn't even know the circumstances.

As Ran went on stage, she was stunned to eventually find that the man in the Dark Knight costume was actually Shinichi!

"But how? Both of the children are over there!" Ran wondered to herself, stunned, but realizing that this only definitively threw a bump in accusing Arthur of being Shinichi, the determination to accuse them was still there.

Shinichi obviously noticed this, because he gave her a quizzical look through the mask.

Later, after the murder was committed, Hattori revealed himself as Kudo, but his disguise was immediately seen through. Soon after, Shinichi himself appeared in the Dark Knight costume, solving the case quickly after. He was saddened and confused when Ran was constantly glancing at Conan, but quickly was too surprised by a sudden pain spreading throughout his body to continue with that line of thought, and continued to fall unconscious.

While Shinichi was unconscious

"Conan-kun. I need to talk to you, about that thing I mentioned earlier." Ran suddenly blurted out after everyone besides the two of them and the unconscious Shinichi had left the room.

"Yeah. So?" Conan asked impatiently.

"You know that time when I first accused you and Arthur of being Shinichi?" Ran asked.

"Yeah." Conan admitted.

"Well, you said, 'Besides, there is an obvious difference in intelligence between my brother and I, so we can't both be the same person, unless you're suggesting time travel is possible without creating paradoxes and I'm the Shinichi of about a year from now.'" Ran quoted, "That's a little too specific of a lie, don't you think."

Conan let out a quiet sound, presumably a curse, then said, "What exactly are you accusing me of?"

"You're actually the Shinichi Kudo of a little over half a year from now. After something happened that turned you into a young child, which has happened in this reality as well, something happened, something terrible, and you had Agasa-Hakase make you some sort of time machine and you went back in time to fix it." Ran accused.

"She's actually completely correct, wow. Color me impressed." Conan thought, then…

Next chapter, end of The Desperate Revival

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