Case Closed AU
By: FunahoMisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter)
"His dad's a smart man then." Richard said snickering in amusement at what Moroboshi had said with the other males in the control room nodding in agreement as the group walked out of the portal.
"Jack The Ripper!" Irene said taking off when she heard a loud feminine scream from nearby.
"Wait Irene-chan!" Rachel and Eva both exclaimed as they took off running after the small girl, the other kids half a second behind and Vi half a second ahead of them.
"Freeze asshole!" Irene shouted spotting JTR standing over an already dead woman with a gleaming knife in his hands.
"Oh no you don't!" Irene said when JTR glanced back at her before running off, causing everyone to gape as she pulled a gun out from under the back of her dress suit jacket and aimed it at the fleeing man. Two bullets went off in quick succession, one hitting JTR in the shoulder and the other causing him to stumble but keep running as it hit his leg.
"Damnitt! I need more work on moving targets." Irene said as she took a cloth out of her skirt pocket and began to quickly but gently clean the police standard pistol before putting it back underneath her shirt, at the small of her back.
"She has a gun on her?!" Richard asked in disbelief as he stared at the video of his granddaughter while McGuire smirked.
"Irene-chan you have a gun?!" Rachel asked in shocked disbelief as she stared down at her 'daughter' who grinned up at her.
"Yep! Aunty Yumi and Aunty Seto said I couldn't rely on my wire or hand to hand skills all the time and needed a projectile weapon too! So they filed the paperwork with Uncle McGuire's permission and backing and gave me the gun! I've even gone to the shooting range with them and practiced using it." Irene said 'innocently' and grinning up at her kaa-san and baa-chan, both of whom were shocked.
"I'm not as good on moving targets with a pistol as Vi-hime is but Aunty Yumi and Seto say I'm really good for my age!" Irene added grinning over at Vi who blushed slightly at the 'title' added to her name but merely smiled back.
"How good are you with that gun?" Eva asked in a mixture of amusement, shock, and annoyance.
"I can hit a stationary target in the head from up to about forty yards away but I can only hit moving ones in the head accurately with a sniper rifle!" Irene answered with a proud grin while the four boys she had beat up earlier were shocked that she had a GUN of all things on her and knew how to use it correctly.
"How good are you with a sniper rifle?" Vi asked turning to look at Irene curiously as a man nearby was shouting in English about there having been another JTR attack.
"I made aunty Yumi fall out of the sniper stand laughing when I shot a man holding a woman hostage in the balls from over 100 yards away instead of the paper targets 50 yards away." Irene said causing all the guys whether they were young or old to do three things at once. They paled, gulped, and covered their family jewels while several women snickered, outright laughed, or just grinned wickedly. That was about the time that a pale man at the computers in the Control Room had hit the auto translate function.
"Quick contact Inspector Lestrade!" One of the bobbies that had arrived while the group had been questioning Irene said causing Irene and Eva both to blink before looking at the man and then at each other but they didn't say anything.
"Alright Doc. You see if you can find a way to contact them so I can tell them exactly what moves to make in order to win the level. Richard, you and the detectives stay here to keep an eye on the progress of the game, I'm going back to check the scene again." Booker said causing them to nod in agreement as he left the room as the players made it to a bridge of stone.
"Oh great we have to find a guy who's remained nameless forever?" Moroboshi said leaning against the stone bridge while Irene noticed that Vi was shivering in her short sleeved dress.
"Here Vi-hime. You're shivering." Irene said removing her suit jacket and instead draping it around Vi's shoulders, causing her to blink and blush but smile at Irene.
"Thank you." Vi said slipping her arms in the sleeves while Irene grinned as Mitch took off his coat and gave it to Amy.
"I told you to wear a jacket sweetie. You're going to catch a cold like that." Eva said smiling as she removed her husband's suit jacket and then her own, giving her jacket to Rachel who grinned sheepishly at her mother.
"Thanks mom and I know you did but I wasn't exactly planning on being sent to London tonight." Rachel said donning her mothers jacket while Eva shook her head in amusement as she put Richards suit jacket back on.
"Join the club kaa-san." Irene said causing Eva to give a small snort of amusement.
"Hello? Irene can you hear me? Are you there?" Doctor Agase asked, his voice sounding like it was coming from the moon to the players as everyone looked up.
"Loud and clear Doc!" Irene shouted up causing him to grin.
"Good! You need to know if you get caught by the police or injured in that stage it's game over for you. Keep your eyes peeled for the appearance of an assist character! Right now you're in the white Chapel district and-"Here Doctor Agase was cut off by the static causing Irene to blink for a minute.
"Looks like Noah's Ark anticipated them trying to contact us. Wait a secon…Everyone off the bridge NOW!" Irene shouted as the sound of something falling into the river hit her ears. The artists son, Kikukawa, turned at the sound as well as everyone began running without question. Kikukawa was a little too slow and began to fall only for his outstretched hand to be grabbed by none other than Irene.
"Gotcha!" Irene said triumphantly as she began trying to tug the boy back up to safety while Eva quickly ran over to help her.
"Here give me your other hand." Eva said outstretching her hand to grab the boys free hand, causing him to quickly latch onto the womans arm as she began to heave the boy upwards as well.
"Come on Guys." George said running over and grabbing one of Irene's shoulders while Amy and Mitch grabbed him, Vi grabbed Irene's other shoulder and Rachel ran to help her mother. Finally after a minute more of them tugging him upward Eva and Irene were finally able to haul him all the way up and onto the side of the bridge.
"It's okay. You're safe now." Rachel assured the heavily panting boy while Irene and Eva sighed in relief that they had managed to save him.
"Nice reaction time Irene. I wouldn't have been able to grab him if you hadn't got to him as quickly as you had." Eva said grinning at her granddaughter who smiled.
"Thank the adrenaline. That stuff has saved my life more times than I can count." Irene said leaning back against Vi who looked like she didn't mind in the slightest.
"And because it saved you it's probably saved the rest of us more times than you can count too." Vi added causing Irene to nod while Rachel and Eva's eyes narrowed in on the two.
"Ohh? And why exactly did adrenaline have to save you? Who was the one endangering you?" Rachel asked with a sickly sweet smile that caused Amy, Mitch, and George to gulp and pale.
"Well let me think. You already know about that Italian Mafia that had us at gun point, hmm there was the creepy librarian guy who had killed a man in the library and was going to kill us, there was that crazy Kevin Simms guy that held you at knife point and had poisoned baa-chan, there was that guy who shot Aunty Seto and the other two detectives and tried to kill me and Kaa-san…there was that guy who hit me on the head with a baseball bat at Tropical Land once, there was that other guy who shot me, there was one guy who tried to stab me, there's also the idiot that killed the man in the basement earlier and caused everyone in the game to be put in danger, oh and there was that guy on the ship who tried to kill me with a metal pipe. Those are just the ones off the top of my head." Irene said counting them off of her fingers before grinning sheepishly as she scratched the back of her neck.
"…I have a list of all the people who have tried to kill her for one reason or another on my computer files. I can print it out and give it to you as well as their last known locations if you want." Vi offered after watching quietly in interest for a minute as Rachel and Eva booth seemed to swell up like bullfrogs in their anger.
"I believe I will need that list so that I can go and…have a small…chat with these people." Rachel said through gritted teeth while Eva nodded in agreement and Richard paled.
"Better have a team on standby to detain them. Rachel alone would torture them for a couple of years, add in Eva and they'll be lucky if they ever die." Richard said causing McGuire to nod in agreement while Shindler raised an eyebrow.
"Any ideas on how we're going to find the assist character without help?" Mitch asked curiously and causing Rachel and Eva to focus more on the situation they were in now rather than on the revenge they were going to seek later.
"Simple Mitch. We follow what the bobby said back there. We contact Inspector Lestrade." Irene said grinning while Rachel blinked for a minute as the name registered in her brain.
"Inspector Lestrade as in the character from Sir Conan Doyle's books? But he was just a fictional character not a historical figure." Rachel said confused while Eva smirked and Vi smiled.
"Given that this is a game, it may take use in its liberty of fiction and reality." Vi pointed out while Eva grinned and looked at Irene who was smirking as well.
"You must be happy about who the assist character is then Irene-chan." Eva said while Rachel and Vi seemed to have figured it out as well.
"So then the assist-"
"Yep! Around here somewhere we're looking for the world famous Sherlock Holmes." Irene said smiling brightly while the Junior Detective League cheered and the suit wearing boys looked confused as to what they were talking about.
"Come on gang! Let's get over to Baker Street!" Irene said grinning as she began to walk forward only to stumble and fall on her face, causing Rachel to descend upon her worriedly.
"Oww. I must have twisted my ankle when I was running off the bridge." Irene said sitting up and massaging her ankle lightly while Eva prodded it for a minute before nodding.
"Yeah it's twisted alright. Looks like one of us will have to carry you Irene-chan. Alley Oop!" Eva said scooping Irene into her arms and carrying her like one would a baby, causing her to squeak slightly in embarrassment.
"It's alright Irene-chan. You're injured so there's nothing to be embarrassed about. This is no different than that time I had to carry you on my back while we were with Serena at her mountain villa." Rachel reassured her daughter who gave her a look of confusion before blinking slightly and holding onto Eva's shirt tightly.
"You mean that time the Ax-murderer was after us and you threw me into a wall on accident so you could kick his ax off?" Irene asked causing Eva and the others to look startled at the mention of this while Rachel was slightly sheepish.
"Yeah that's it and I said I was sorry…well that and I kicked the murderers butt for nearly hitting you with the ax." Rachel said as the group began walking while Richard and Inspector McGuire turned to look at Serena in disbelief.
"I remember that Irene-chan solved that case all on her own but had sprained her ankle after tackling the murderer when he tried to kill Rachel in her sleep. Once Rachel figured out that by staying with her Irene was in danger, she left Irene with me." Serena said thinking back to that case and how utterly terrifying it had been, especially when the killer had drawn a knife and threatened to kill himself.
"Well don't worry about it Irene-chan. If someone tries to attack us right now Rachel-chan is in the perfect position to kick their butts while I carry you, and I promise I won't throw you into a wall or anything." Eva said with a small wink after shooting her daughter a look that said they would talk later.
"Hey I said I was sorry!" Rachel said indignantly causing Irene to giggle slightly as the group kept walking and only paused when they got close to Big Ben.
"Check it out there's something off about that clock." Moroboshi said causing everyone to stop and look up at the clock just in time for it to go backwards…twice.
"From Fifty to forty nine and then down to forty eight…it's most likely ticking off the remaining kids in the game. So two kids in another stage must have been knocked out." Irene said grimacing slightly while the others winced at the thought and watched as the clock ticked back five more times.
"Seven. Seven kids already kicked out of the game. That can't be a good sign." Irene said shaking her head while Eva nodded in agreement.