Okay, next chapter. I know, this is quick, but the idea for this chapter is easier for me than the previous ones were.
Not much to say, aside from what's written in bold and quotes is English.
"So, how are things coming along?" Asked an elderly looking man. Sitting at a table not far away from him, typing rapidly on a laptop, sat a girl. Her eyes were blocked by the glare of the light from the laptop on her glasses. One ear bud was in her ear, its pair hanging limply just in front of her.
She quickly adjusted the stick she was chewing on to reply. "Alright. I should be able complete the next phase without any set backs tomorrow."
"Good. We don't need any, our work is difficult enough as is."
The only response was a grunt. The two quickly fell back into the quiet it had been previously; neither occupant spoke while the girl continued to work. Her typing would occasionally pause as she would read over something she found before she continued. Finally, she shut the laptop with a sigh and turned to the man. "What I can do from here is done. I need direct access to get all the information that we need, but I should be able to get that tomorrow."
"What do you mean? You didn't find their base, did you?"
"I, in fact, did. They are having a meeting tomorrow which means security should be down and I should be able to break in and get all the information."
"Why can't we just go in, arrest everyone, and then get the information while packing them up?" Walked in a woman. She sent a glare at the girl, who just stared back at her.
"That would be suicide. Not only is there going to be a meeting tomorrow, but a high level meeting, meaning that everyone there will be a trained assassin. Plus, even if we did succeed, our loss would be too great, and not only that, but the boss would catch wind of it and shut down all computer networks in and out of there. If they were to do that, not even the most skilled of hackers would be able to retrieve the files needed to take them down. If we lose those files, this mission will be next to impossible, and all of our work will be for not," The girl explain in a calm manner.
"You mean that instead of just capturing known murderers, you're willing to let them go? I'm sorry, but I can't let that happen. Those people have killed so many people, and destroyed so many lives, and should be locked away before they can do more. What you are suggesting is letting them continue to roam free, possibly ruining even more lives, just so we can get some bits of data that we may or may not need. How can you even think that?" The woman shot back.
"I never said that, not that I am going to deny that what you said is true. But we need the files, as it holds information not just on one branch, but on every branch, their objectives, and all members. What I am suggesting is that we lay low, get those files, then devise a proper strategy based on the information we gain, and hopefully risk the least amount of lives."
"Alright, I can see that, but I don't see why you are going. I mean, you're one of them, an assassin trained to kill a child without batting an eye. What makes you think we can trust you with a history like that?"
"You already have my life in your hands. Remember, if I kill anyone during this mission, without any form of permission from the higher-ups, you are allowed to execute me on the spot instead of waiting for my execution at the end of this mission. Besides, I was robbed of my life by them, why would I be loyal to those bastards?"
"That is enough, no more arguing," The man cut in, "she is doing the mission tomorrow, whether you agree or not, understood?" he turned his head to the woman. She looked ready to argue, but quickly thought better of it, nodding without uttering another word.
"Well, I should probably get some shut eye. Don't want to be sleeping in class on my first day of school, no do I?" The girl said, standing with her laptop in her arms. She walked past the woman, not even looking at her. She walked out of the room, down the hall, to another room. The lights in here were off, and all it held were two beds, a desk, and a closet. The girl left her laptop on the desk before changing into her pajamas.
A stir was heard from one of the beds. "Nee-chan? What are you doing?" a voice asked. The girl turned to look at her 'brother', who was sitting the the bed on the opposite side of the room, rubbing the sleep from his eyes.
The girl smiled before walking over to him. "Come on, shouldn't you be asleep. You got a big day tomorrow, what, being you're first day of school in Japan," she whispered, pulling him into a hug.
The boy rested his head on her shoulder, snuggling his face into her neck. "I couldn't sleep…" he mumbled tiredly. He probably misses his mother and home, the girl thought.
Sighing, she released him from her hug and gently pushed him back into his bed. "Come on, you need your sleep. You don't want me to tell Aunty Sara that you aren't sleeping, do you?"
"No…"
"Then get some rest. Don't worry, if you need me, I'll be in the room. I won't leave you," the girl whispered, leaning down to kiss him on the forehead. "Good night."
"Good night," the boy whispered back, fatigue filling his voice. As the girl got up to leave, however, he grabbed onto her sleeve. "Nee-chan? Can you please stay here, at least until I fall asleep?"
The girl's eyes widened before softening. A smile touched her face as she laid back, tucking the covers over her, and curled around the boy. "Of course, baka."
The boy smiled back and snuggled into his sister warm embrace. His breath slowed until he was asleep. The girl, noticing this, slowly got up, trying not to disturb him. He whimpered slightly at the loss of her warmth but quickly compensated by wrapping the covers around him. She smiled fondly at him, thinking He is so cute and innocent. If only he didn't have to deal with all this darkness and evil at such a young age…
Sighing, the girl stood and went to her bed. She curled under the covers and let herself drift into a dark, cold, dreamless sleep she had long adapted to.
The bell rang out, calling the end to another day. Conan quickly packed up all of his items, not waiting for the others. Haibara and the kids noticed this, and followed suit. Conan, while not flat out running, power walked ahead of them. At the front gate, they met up yet again with the Osakan detective. A serious look was on his face until he noticed the kids approach. He turned to them, smiling, while Conan paused.
"Hey, kids, sorry, I got to borrow this little guy for today. Occhan just got a case and needed me to pick him up. We would take ya guys along, but it looks difficult, and we don't wanna keep ya from yer family and doing yer homework. Maybe another time, 'kay?" The Osakan said, not pausing for the groups answer before turning and walking off with Conan a short ways away.
"How come Conan gets to go off on a case while we get stuck here?" Genta grumbled, jealous of his shorter counterpart.
"It can't be helped. The case sounds like it will take them a while, and if we went, we probably wouldn't return until late," Mitsuhiko told his friend.
Haibara wasn't paying too much attention, more thinking over how the two were acting. I don't think it was just a simple case… The way Kudo-kun was acting in the classroom was abnormal, almost as if he knew, but he couldn't, unless…
"I don't think Kogoro-san just got a case. I think Edogawa-kun is planning something with Hattori-san."
This brought the kids to stop and look at her. Ayumi tilted her head in a questioning way. "What do you mean, Ai-chan?"
"The way Edogawa-kun was acting in class. If the Mouris just got a case, he would not have bothered to pack up that quickly. It was almost like he knew something was going to happen, like he was expecting Hattori-san to be there as soon as we got out."
"That's true. Conan-kun never bothers to try and pack up quickly. Generally, it's us waiting on him, not the other way around," Mitsuhiko mumbled, his hand coming to his mouth, a habit he seemed to pick up from Conan.
"Maybe he and Heiji-nii-san are investigating something?" Ayumi suggested.
"What, and didn't bother to bring us along! No fair! We are the Shounen Tantei-dan, we investigate together. I say we follow them and find out!" Genta exclaimed.
"Yeah!" The other two kids agreed, pumping their fist into the air. Haibara just rolled her eyes at their antics. It shouldn't be too bad. He didn't mention about any leads on them, and there hasn't been anything in the newspaper about any dangerous cases.
"Alright, but we should probably not let them know. Think about it, how do you think Edogawa-kun would react if he caught us following him. He would yell at us then send us home. So we can't let them find out."
Mitsuhiko turned to her and smiled. "Don't worry, Haibara-san, they will never know we were there."
"So, this is the place?"
"Yeah…"
Conan and Heiji stood in front of what appeared to be an old office building. They were gazing up at it. It was several stories tall, and had windows on the front. It wouldn't look out of place, unless you happened to know exactly who worked there.
"So how are we go'en ta get in without giving ourselves away?" Hattori asked. There was no way their enemies would just leave the entrances unguarded, especially when such high ranking individuals were gathering there.
"Maybe a trash shoot or something?"
"Ya think they'd be careless enough to have one?"
Conan sighed. "No, but there has to be someway in that we aren't thinking of…" He pushed the button on his glasses, searching the building for any way in. "The roof seems unguarded, but then again, it would be next to impossible to up there without drawing attention."
"Wait, Kudo, I think we just got a lucky break…"
"What do you mean?"
"Look, over there," Heiji whispered, pointing down the side of the building. He quickly found what his companion was pointing to. An unguarded door, marked 'Employees Only'. Even better, almost as if they expected no one to use that entrance, there were no security cameras in sight.
"I highly doubt that it is that easy, Hattori."
"Well, it's tha best shot we got, and personally, I would like to get in an' get out before their meeting is done."
Conan sighed, understanding his friend's feelings. But there was no way that the boss of the BO, who was known to ruin a good plan by over thinking it, would leave something like an entrance into a base wide open. "I guess we'll try it out. But if we wind up getting shot at, I'm blaming you."
"I think we both have some blame in this, Kudo…" Hattori said before taking off towards the entrance. Upon reaching the door, he tried the handle; it didn't budge. "No use, Kudo, it's locked."
"Move aside, Hattori," Conan told the teen. The Osakan sidestepped as his Tokyo counterpart produced two metal wires from his pocket. Quickly, he set to work coaxing the inside of the lock until it clicked open. Conan quickly put back the two wires as Heiji quickly opened the door and slipped inside, barely holding the door open.
"How did ya learn to pick locks, Kudo?" the teen whispered.
"A friend of my mom insisted I learn to pick locks back when I was a kid, saying that it would help me as a detective. So far, this is the only real use I've had to use it for."
"Well, it was really useful in this case," Heiji commented, peering around a corner. "Ghost's clear. No sign of life anywhere."
"Everyone must be in the meeting. I'm seriously surprised this is the base for the Black Org. This just seems too easy."
"Let's just count our blessings an' try and find tha computer that she-devil was talken' about."
"She mentioned that it would be on the fourth floor, just below the room the meeting was held it…" Conan mumbled. He saw movement out of the corner of his eyes and turned. He froze as he saw the door that he and Hattori had entered through open slightly. Suddenly, he caught sight of four heads about his height and relaxed slightly before a whole new kind of panic set in.
"What are you guys doing here?!" Conan barely remembered at the last minute to keep his voice down. The four kids slipped in through the door and walked over too him. Heiji behind him stiffened, quickly realizing the possible repercussions of the four unexpected youths standing in front of him.
"Following you, Conan-kun. You left us behind, and we wanted to see what you two were doing," Ayumi said, not bothering to keep her voice her voice down.
"If you guys were just investigating something, you could have brought us along! After all, we are the Shounen Tantei, we never back down from a case!" Genta added, his voice raising with pride at the mention of the group's name.
"Shh, keep your voices down," Conan hissed, his finger in front of his mouth. After the group was giving him their attention and Hattori was now keeping an eye for danger, Conan explain, "Listen, Heiji-nii-san and I are trying to get evidence for Oji-san. This is really dangerous, and best if it were just the two of us. These people are dangerous, and would have no remorse for shooting at children."
At this, the kids froze with fear, but Mitsuhiko was the first to push past it. "And? Again, we are the Shounen Tantei, no matter how dangerous it may be, we will do everything we can to solve a case. Isn't that what you taught us, Conan-kun?"
A bit of pride welled inside Conan as he saw the other two nod. "Yeah. Besides, we've been through worse. It's not like we're going to leave just because it's dangerous. The case always comes first, no matter what." Ayumi stated proudly, though fear was still in her eyes.
"Look," Hattori butted in, stopping Conan before he could continue to argue, "we don't have time. Tha more time we waste here, the more likely we're going to get caught. Ya guys can come along, just make sure that yer not spotted an' to keep yer voices down, got it?" The kids brightened up at this and nodded vigorously, with Haibara, who stayed quiet the entire time, just bobbed her head slightly in agreement. "Alrigh', now come one, let's get going," he said, before taking off down the corridor towards the stairs. The group silently crept up four flights, making sure to make as little noise as possible.
Finally, they reached the fourth floor. There was one long corridor, with doors on both sides, and an elevator in the middle on their right. At the end of the corridor, it split off into two more, one left, another right. Seeing as it's probably Vermouth's office we'll find the files in, and the boss wouldn't risk any of his higher ups being assassinated, it's probably along the right hand side, as the left side has the large windows…
Conan began checking each door, every time them being locked. Hattori caught onto his thoughts and began to do the same. Haibara also stuck to the checking the doors while the kids checked the right hand side. They made it three fourths of the way down the first corridor before they heard the ding of the elevators.
Suddenly, they all froze, the hallway providing no cover outside of the two potted plants which were right next to the elevators. All six pairs of eyes widened until they looked akin to deer caught in the headlights of a car as two figures, dressed in all black, stepped out of the elevator. The figures froze, noticing the group, before going to pull something from their coats.
Automatically, Conan dropped into a squat, adjusting the power on his shoes. But all that proved useless as the figures pulled the guns before he could even stand.
Suddenly, before either party could move, a leg appeared behind the two and hooked one of them by the head, sending him crashing into his partner. The two quickly tried to stand but were quickly pinned to the wall by what looked to be throwing knives. There, infront of them, stood a woman who was wearing black pant, long blue sleeved shirt, and a long red scarf that covered all of her head. Her eyes, the only part of her face visible, showed no light, and in her hands was a gun. Before anyone could see what happened, the two figures in black were slumped over, out cold, while the woman was back in her same position.
The girl then turned to the group. They all tensed, not sure what to expect from the woman that just took out two armed guards single handedly.
"What are you guys standing around for. Aren't you here for something?" she spoke, pulling the scarf that was covering the lower part of her face down. Conan quickly had to do a double take, as standing infront of him was Suojelija Rey.
Okay, not exactly where I wanted to leave off, but was kind of asking for that. Anyways, why is it that the part at the beginning wasn't supposed to be there, yet it came easier than everything else I have written so far? Anyways, thoughts?