"You okay there?" Minato called as Naoto seemed to stumble slightly.

"I'm fine!" As if to prove it her speed increased slightly to the point where she was now side by side with him. As the station came into sight however he seemed to notice how hard she was trying to keep up with him as he slowed his paced to match hers. The spark of relief in her eyes just proved it.

'Boom!' The team burst into the station only to be greeted with the same pitch blackness from before. She drew out her pen light as the muffled sound of panicked struggling reached her ears. Naoto instantly raced forwards towards a cupboard in the wall and flung the door open revealing two restrained officers staring at her in panic. She calmly pulled the cloth out of their mouths and signalled to them to be quiet as she had know idea if the culprit was still here or not.

"Shirogane-san! We were – " She raised a finger to her lips to once again signal to them to stay silent. She swiftly untied the two of them before leading them back to the team.

"You two wait outside. We will find the others." Her hushed voice earned an annoyed snort from one of them but they complied nether the less. "We may need some paramedics so you would be of more use going to alert the hospital of our situation." This time they seemed slightly less annoyed as she reasoned with them. She didn't need to but she felt like it was needed.

"Come on. Lets stick together okay?" Minato suggested as she only just then realised she was the only one with a form of light available to her. She nodded before leading the way through the station recovering both officers and detectives one after the other. It would seem like he picked them of one by one to the point where he had over taken the entire station which was a pretty extraordinary thing to be able to accomplish.

Finally they reached the room where she had stolen the Kirijo groups equipment and been thrown into the TV. Ignoring the acrid scent of blood in the room she once again wiped the crimson liquid out of her eye with her sleeve before continuing onwards. It didn't take long before she recovered her gun and had checked everywhere within the area.
"Well, that appears to be everyone. I'll ask the others who was in the building at the time of the attack and see if anyone is missing. Until then we should leave." The team nodded in agreement to the young detectives suggestion before they left the station.

"Shirogane-san!" One of the officers suddenly dashed over to her with a look of great urgency on his face.

"What is the matter Otoko-san?" This was the man who had contacted her before to tell her to come to the station immediately.

"I apologise for luring you into the trap! I was at gun point at the time so –" She raised her hand to cut his panicked apology of. He was always the kind of person to get worried if he thought he had done something terribly wrong. It got annoying at times but then again that's just him and there's nothing wrong with that.

"It's okay. I understand. It really isn't your fault." She stated calmly earning a relieved smile from her colleague.

"Oh thank goodness! I thought you would have surely blamed it on me!" She inwardly rolled her eyes as she shook her head.

"I would rather you lure me into a trap then let him kill you."

"Shirogane-san! What happened here?" Dojima suddenly rushed over to them in confusion as she sighed in agitation. She got the feeling she would have to explain the situation much more then she would normally.

"I'll explain later Dojima-san." She turned her attention towards the others officers to check to see if they were okay.

"Come on Ace." Minato tugged her arm gently to get her attention before motioning to join the team on the steps leading to the entrance of the station. "You should rest that leg of yours."

"No. Not yet. I'm going to talk to my colleagues to see what else I can find out about this. I can rest later." With that she turned towards the officers before heading over to them. She asked several questions about what had been going on at the time and who was in the building at the time and it seemed like her suspicions were correct. The culprit did take them out one by one using drugs to knock them unconscious before proceeding to restrain them in places they wouldn't be able to escape from until he was ready to release them. She'd stumbled a few times as she wandered from officer to officer but she'd always managed to stay standing. Once she'd learned all she could she returned to her friends and took a seat beside Minato.

"It would seem that my assumptions were correct, that the Akuyaku-san had indeed taken them by surprise, using drugs to render them unconscious before restraining them in any way he deemed necessary." She stated calmly. "Everyone seems to be here and no one has brought any major wounds to light so I believe we are done here."

"Good, cause we gotta go back to work. Come on Teddie." Yosuke lead the depressed bear away before the others all departed to.

"Come on. Lets get those looked at." Minato offered his hand to her as he stood up, which she hesitantly accepted.

"Lets go Ace."

"Ready to go Angel?" Naoto nodded calmly at her cousins question. The two were stood at the entrance to the TV world with the recently recovered Investigation Team close behind them

"Lets go." He smiled at her determined expression before the two of them led the team in the direction Rise had directed them a few moments prior whilst going over recent events in her head.

The former detective Waru Akuyaku, had been categorized as the police forces main suspect and culprit in the robbery cases and the attack on the station. Once Naoto had explained what she could in a way that wouldn't be classed as insane she had been given more praise then expected for her efforts, and of course the Investigation team earned a portion of credit as expected. Her explanation wasn't too far from the truth as she had only said that she had been chased out of the station and once cornered she found herself on the receiving end of a loaded pistol. She'd then explained that she had fought her pursuer to the point where she had the upper hand before he disappeared completely. She was then contacted by her friends for help with the same culprit so she had complied and helped them fend of the attacker. However he vanished again before they could apprehend him. They had then returned to the station to rescue anyone trapped inside. This was of course different from the truth as the TV world wasn't mentioned but if it kept her in the good ranks then she didn't care.

Glancing up at her friends she remembered that everyone had been completely drained after the whole experience and if it wasn't for that pendant then she probably would have been in the same state. But wait... That didn't seem right...

"Hello again..." Her head snapped towards the voice that seemed to echo from an ally way to the side of the path they were following.

"Naoto?" Minato's voice pulled her out of her thoughts as she realised she had stopped dead in her tracks at the voice. "Is something wrong?"

"Hmm? N-nothing. I just thought I heard something over there. T-that's all." She stammered with embarrassment as she hid her face behind the brim of her cap with a slight red tint to her cheeks.

"Hmm... I didn't hear anything. Did you?" He turned to ask the others who all shook their heads in denial. "Its probably nothing. Just your imagination. Come on. Lets go."

"Of course..." Her eyes narrowed as she took one last glance at the alleyway. Wait... What was that? She could have sworn something just moved! Stop it! Just continue onwards! She scolded herself as she re-joined Minato.

"Why are you ignoring me?" Naoto's gaze drifted to her cousin warily that voice sounded closer then before. If he didn't hear it then how could she hear it?

"What's the matter Ace?" His concerned tone earned a blank blink in return as she stared at him. The two of them knew each other well enough to communicate with just their gaze to some extent but it seems that this was beyond what he could decipher. He sighed before responding. "If you hear it again, just tell me and we can go and investigate."

"No!" Her head spun round to the origin of the voice once again earning a concerned response from her cousin.

"What did it say?" He seemed to be deliberately keeping quiet to make sure that the others didn't worry. Not like he needed to as everyone else was occupied in their own conversations.

"It said no..." She mumbled in response before turning back to him.

"No? No what?" His confused tone seemed to excite the voice slightly.

"If anyone else comes I'll slight ya throat!" This time she flinched visibly causing Minato to frown in utter confusion.

"What did it say?" She didn't respond. For some reason she found herself unable to speak as she stared at him. "Naoto? What did it say?" By now a few of the others had noticed their conversation and had silenced themselves to listen.

"Don't tell them!" The voice was ever so slightly familiar but not familiar enough to even begin to guess who it belonged to. She shrugged nervously as the voice echoed throughout the area that only she could hear. "Don't tell them! You can't tell them! I'll let them kill you if you tell them!"

"Oooh! Can Nao-chan not take the pressure anymore?" The voices suddenly dropped as presumably a fake Teddie yelled at them from nowhere. "Are you all ready for our Memory Lane Program? Cause I know I am!" Damn that stupid bear! And his annoying shadow!

"Wha – Teddie?! Why does he get to be next?!" Yosuke called out in annoyance.

"Aww, is Yosuke-kun jealous?" It sang happily before a snapping sound like the one Teddie makes when he snaps his stubby fingers blares throughout the area of a deformed Okina City. Suddenly the entire team found themselves frozen in one spot, completely rendering them unable to move at all before a group of four dastardly teens, about the same age as them appeared from the fog.

"Ready for round two pipsqueak?" No...

Authors Note!

HA! LOL! Cliff hangers! Ha! Who do you think these goons are? Take a wild guess! I dare you! Lol okay I should probably calm down now... So yeah I don't like it when in stories of any kind people don't think realistically about how injuries might affect them in their usual routine and stuff so if I went on about it too much then I'm sorry! But thats just how I like to be! Realistic! Okay so I did my best to explain things here and the voice only really jumps in when she is going over what happened when the shadowy guy saved her so ya! Thats what thats all about! Will explain better later! But anyway! I was completely stumped on this chapter for awhile but then I did 'The Spider' story and then started another story called 'Careless Sickness' and I got a few ideas from that. Also please! PLEASE PLEASE Read & Review! I have no ideas for Souji's dungeon that I can actually work out how to write so please let me know what you think about that! Finally I would like to ask for ideas on my 'The Problem Solver' story because I can't think of any decent wishes for the Fox to give to Naoto! HELP! :D :D :D :D THNKS! :D :D :D :D :D

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I 3 Cliff hangers!