This one is going to be more serious. I wouldn't say I hate the Shounen Tantei, but I do have to admit they heavily annoy me sometimes. Something like this would fix that because the main problem I have with them is that they never learn from their mistakes. I get that it always works out but if they get anywhere near as scared as the manga makes them seem to be then they would learn not to pull something like what they did in movie 20. (not canon, I know, just an example)
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"Promise me…" Conan breathed out as he lay bleeding on the ground at a construction sight. His eyes were starting to glaze over, but the bullet wound was not deep enough to kill him.
A voice, the voice of the man who had just shot Conan finally spoke, "Because your Vermouth's favorite I won't kill them. But if I ever find them again then they are going to die. I'll leave that scar your going to get from the shot as a reminder." Ayumi, failing to try fighting tears, began to remember how stupid they were to lead to a situation like this.
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They were stupid. The police had told them not to go investigation on their own. Conan and Haibara had been acting weird all day and had demanded that they not get involved with the case. But as Genta pointed out Conan always gets all the good parts and they never get to do anything. Mitsuhiko theorized that the culprit would be looking for a flash drive the police had taken from the crime scene, so, in an act of absolute childish naivety, they stole the flash drive from the police and ran away with it. Soon, they found, they had been right.
A man, wearing all black clothing, first tried to get them to peacefully hand over the flash drive. When that failed he pulled out a gun and demanded that they hand the drive over. Genta in an act of sheer bravery/stupidity, followed what he had seen Conan do once on the bus jack and instead said, 'Yeah, right. When this is over your just going to kill us anyway, am I wrong?' The man knew they were right, so he instead just started shooting his gun. Without Conan to give them instructions they were not able to do anything but run away. With Mitsuhiko having a deep gash in his leg, and Genta one in his arm, the trio was cornered with no escape.
"Help us Conan-kun!" Ayumi yelled in one final act of desperation. Then, it worked. He appeared and stood protectively in front of them, and began having an odd conversation with the criminal.
"Baijiu, right?" Conan had said. "I don't suppose I could convince you to drop the gun." The criminal had death glared instead of shoot.
"Well, you saved my life in Gunma, even if you didn't know it was me. So I'm not going to kill you anyways. But they are an entirely different story."
"What exactly do you think they saw? They don't even know you, there's nothing for them to tell anyone."
"I need the flash drive they have."
Silence. "The one containing the information on how to unlock the safe at Nagano? I'm just warning you, the information is probably all coded."
"Not my problem. Make them hand it over." He said more harshly than before.
"Genta," Conan whispered hurriedly, "give me the flash drive." After he picked it up from Genta's palm he started walking over to the man.
"Oh, you're just going to give it to me? How nice."
"Of course not. I sent the information over to a friend of mine. So either we are going to be able to decode it first, or you'll be able to get it back to the person who knows the code and have them crack it. All I'm doing is turning this into a race." Conan looked up, "Besides, it's for money. It's not something worth sacrificing three human lives for." The man smirked at Conan's declaration while the others cowered in the corner.
Then, everything went wrong. The man picked up the flash drive, then shot Conan in the stomach.
"As a reminder."
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"All of you, calm down. I won't die. But I want you to all promise me that if I tell you that you need to listen to me, you need to do that. I was lucky. This is one of maybe 4 people in that organization who I was able to stop from killing you. Please promise me."
Tears streaking down their faces they started to yell something unrecognizable that sounded along the lines of, "I promise." Finally, Haibara came with a first aid kit and brought Conan to the professor.
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So, Conan got hurt. It's always nice for him to seem human again. I don't know if this will be the last chapter or if I'm going to continue. As I said earlier, I want the detective boys to mess up and have Conan pay the price, so that they can learn that there are times that they should not do anything. That way Conan can ask them to promise to not do anything when the organization is involved. Please review.
