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365 Days in America

December 30, Part 2

Antidote Malfantics

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Boarding the plane was a success. Kudo-kun and I were able to get on the plane without any unnecessary suspicions. The final step is to wait for the antidote to wear off so that we may go back to the actual seats we purchased as Haibara Ai and Edogawa Conan. I do believe I have had enough of this man next to me. It's hard to think that there's someone out there in this world that is more annoying than Kudo-kun when he's pressuring you for the permanent antidote. However, my torture has subsided for the moment, so I will watch as Kudo-kun squirms in his seat while that girl chatters her mouth off at him.

"And then there was like this guy, ya know? He was totally hot—not as much as you, though—and he was like, totally asking me to—"

"Ahh! Will you shut up? The plane hasn't even taken off yet, and your mouth is already long gone!" Shinichi couldn't stand this girl anymore and practically ripped his seatbelt off. Across the aisle, Shiho watched with interest at the scene unfolding before her. It was like late night dramas, but with VIP seats. The girl, shell shocked at his sudden outburst (and insult), simply sat there gaping. He was about to tear down the aisle when a flight attendant came by and noticed he was out of his seat. The plane was about to take off.

"Sir, you need to be in your seat. The plane will be leaving momentarily, and it's recommended that if you need to go somewhere, it be after the pilot instructs that you're allowed to." Shinichi turned on her and decided to complain to her about the terrible seating.

"I'll sit back down after you get that girl the hell away from me. She's driving me insane!"

"Unfortunately, we are unable to do that at this time. You will need to bear with it until—"

"To hell I'll bear with it! I'll sit there and suffer slow, painful torture in the form of constant talking while everyone else gets peace and quiet. I hardly find that fair." He had calmed himself quite a bit, folding his arms across his chest and standing defiantly in front of the stewardess. She seemed to be annoyed at this passenger, so she decided it best to quickly ask if anybody would consider switching.

An idea seemed to click in Shiho's mind. She raised her hand to notify the attendant, and said attendant was more than happy to comply.

"The man next to me wouldn't mind switching seats," Shiho said good-naturedly as the guy next to her looked confused.

"What? But I didn't—"

"You are willing to switch, aren't you?" She sent him an icy look that seemed to freeze him right down to the core. However, what came next was hardly expected. He smiled. In fact, he smiled knowingly.

"Ahh, I see how it is. Why didn't you just say so earlier?" The man grinned before patting her lightly on the shoulder (she glared at the contact, feeling rather violated by this annoying person). He carefully stepped out of the row and let Shinichi in.

"He's your boyfriend, right? Of course you'd want to sit with him!" The man grinned even wider, proud of his deduction. The two teenagers just looked at him like he was crazy. He probably was, but that's beside the point.

"That's not even close," Shiho said, no emotion lacing her words. The man's grin faltered slightly, then looked as if he was thinking it over.

"Yeah, we're just good friends." In most cases, the person is flustered when they say this, thus causing other people to think they're lying, but the way Shinichi managed to say it, he sounded like he was telling the truth. The man just shrugged, mulling it over to himself, and then the girl who was chattering earlier.

Peace seemed to return to the plane as it began its takeoff. As they escalated, a strange sound could be heard in the plane. Absolutely sure it wasn't the engine, Shinichi began to look around to find the source of the sound. Other passengers had started doing the same, but Shinichi's thoughts were cut off as he heard the sound of children yelling.

"Genta-kun! Come back here!" That was Ayumi's voice, and it sounded rather distressed.

"I CAN'T!" That was definitely Genta, and his voice seemed to get louder.

"Look out!" Mitsuhiko's voice shouted as a loud thud could be heard somewhere down the aisle, maybe three or four rows down. Shinichi, as well as a number of other passengers, peered out into the aisle to see what caused the thudding. Almost instantly, people pulled their heads back in as a rather large child rolled through the aisle, increasing in speed as the plane was currently at an angle, ascending into the sky. Following him were two other children, who were running after him trying to catch him. Shinichi and Shiho looked at each other in slight alarm before both unbuckling their seatbelts to help catch Genta.

"Hey! Get back in your seats!" A flight attendant called as she, too, began to chase them down the aisle. The other passengers watched in great amusement as the fat boy rolled down the aisle, followed by two other children chasing to catch him, two teenagers that looked like they were trying to catch them, and a flight attendant angrily chasing the whole lot of them.

"Genta-kun! Try to put your foot into one of the rows!" The idea was almost immediately dismissed as Genta was going so fast that he had gotten dizzy, unable to really control much of his body. Shinichi, probably being the fastest runner, tried to pass the kids and jump in front of Genta before he slammed into a wall, which, going at his speed, was going to hurt. Making a mad dash, he was just barely catching up to the children, who were running with extra momentum from the angle in which they were running. Damn, if I don't stop him, he'll get seriously hurt, Shinichi thought in distress as he quickly decided to try a risky plan.

Just as he was gaining speed on Mitsuhiko and Ayumi, he used the split second he had to launch himself over their heads, wishing desperately for him to land in front of Genta. As he flew through the air, all of the passengers stared at him in awe. Shinichi looked like he was going to make it as they continued giving chase, Shinichi flying far ahead of them over their heads. Quickly, he switched to a diving position from which he would land, roll, and block Genta's path before he managed to hit anything that might have been dangerous.

And then disaster struck. Shinichi had grinned, believing he was going to make it when suddenly, he looked ahead to where he was expected to dive. Straight ahead of him was the lavatory, the door open, as if expecting him to fly through it. Shit! I'm gonna land into the lavatory! I need to—ACK! Shinichi winced as he clutched his chest, his bones heating up. He felt the antidote's effects wear off as, in a mere second or so, he landed into the lavatory while blacking out. However, his fainting spell wouldn't last long as he slammed his head quite painfully against the back wall of the lavatory.

Shaking and rubbing his head to make the pain go away, he noticed he was Conan again. He took note of the fact that the antidote's effects had worn off and he had transformed much faster than expected. However, he didn't have too much time to think about it as he quickly kicked open the lavatory door (which had closed behind him as he fell in).

That proved to be the wrong move as he felt the full brunt of Genta slamming his rolling body into him. Conan gave a loud yelp of pain as he was crushed against the lavatory door by Genta, who was so dizzy he didn't know anything at the moment. All of the people who had given chase evidently stopped to see the situation.

"Ah, Conan-kun! Where'd you come from? And where'd Shinichi-niisan go?" Still rubbing his head as he winced, Conan (with help from the others) pushed Genta off of himself.

"Ow…geez, Genta. That really hurt…" He looked up to notice the children were looking expectantly at him for an answer, and the flight attendant was looking at all of them angrily. Shiho had mysteriously disappeared somewhere along the they noticed something else.

"Conan-kun, what're you doing with Shinichi-niisan's clothes?" Conan, frantically, looked at himself and panicked. Crap! I'm still wearing my clothes as Shinichi! What am I supposed to tell them? Conan thought as he quickly wracked his brain for an answer. He decided to just wing it.

"Ah…I, uh, saw Shinichi-niichan pass me earlier, change really quickly, and run off somewhere! He left his clothes here and…I kind of had to get rid of mine because, well, they got torn up. By something. I flushed them down the toilet just a second ago." The children looked rather doubtful.

"You did all of that in the few seconds Shinichi-niisan had flown into the lavatory? And we didn't see him leave, either." Conan had to curse Mitsuhiko for becoming so observant of these things. This whole thing wasn't going according to plan, and the question of why Shiho had magically disappeared during the chase was still fresh in his mind.

"Hey! You kids shouldn't be messing around like that when the plane isn't yet safe for moving around!" Ohh, saved by the flight attendant, Conan though, relief flowing through him. He gave out a sigh as the children apologized and Genta woke up, rubbing his head and wondering what happened. They all felt the plane even out as they were commanded back into their seats where they got a light scolding from the professor.

"My goodness, children. You could've gotten seriously hurt just now! Think what your parents would say. They'd never leave you in my hands ever again," the professor sighed as the children bowed their heads in apology.

"What were you even doing out of your seat?"

"I saw this thing on the floor, so I went to get it. I thought someone dropped it," Genta admitted.

"What thing?" The professor asked. Genta then started describing it.

"Well, I think it was a passport. It was kinda far away, but it looked like one. So, I went to pick it up, but then the plane started moving. I got a chance to see it, though! It was that Shinichi guy's passport," Genta said. Conan, letting what the boy said to him sink in, quickly reached into his (Shinichi's) pants pockets and realized that his passport was, indeed, missing. He started panicking as he swung his head around, attempting to make out a passport.

"Genta! Where'd you last see the passport?" By now, he had his hands at Genta's collar, his face contorted in distress.

"I, uh…don't remember. It was in the aisle, right next to that row down there," Genta said, pointing down about five rows. "After the plane started moving, I guess it got thrown somewhere when I let it go." Suddenly, someone yelled from a few aisles down on the opposite side of the plane.

"The famous high school detective Kudo Shinichi is on this plane!" The people on the plane who had an inkling of who that was were caught in an uproar as people swarmed around the passport with his picture in it. Conan could clearly see his passport over the heads of the people as the man who found it had lifted it high in the air for all to see.

'Oh shit.'

I think this chapter seems really hurried, honestly. Shiho/Ai will make a reappearance next chapter, rest assured. In case nobody understood the chapter's title, Malfantics is a mix between malfunction and antics. So it's basically Antidote Malfunction Antics. At the end, he's still wearing Shinichi's clothes, too. Why I had the flight attendant not point that out is quite the mystery. I'll probably edit this chapter later if it's too hurried.