SailorStar9: With Chapter 65 uploaded, this is Chapter 66 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?
Pairings: Established!Furuya Rei (Amuro Tooru)/Mizuno Ami
Disclaimers: I own absolutely nothing, except this plot and pairing.
Chapter 66: The Disappeared Detective Boys
About a week later...
"Where are we?" Haibara stirred, finding herself tied up and lying in the dark after watching the Kamen Yaiba onset filming.
"I"m hungry." Genta moaned. "Where are we?"
"Conan's missing." Ayumi noted. "Is that Conan?" she blinked, spotting a figure in front of her.
"Who are you?" the awakening Tatsumi Masaya exclaimed.
It's the man from before. Haibara recalled.
Flashback to earlier...
"I'm so hungry." Genta whined, the group heading back after watching the final Kamen Yaiba onset filming. "Dumplings, please!" he sniffed the air and ran towards a stall selling dumplings.
"Are you still thinking of him?" Fumio looked at the deep-in-thought Conan.
"Thank you." Nakama Toshie smiled lightly, wheeling her things on a trolley as Conan and Fumio stepped back to give way to her. "Someone help!" she gasped, when a gust of wind blew her wallet open and sent a dollar bill she had lying in her purse flying off.
"That's ten thousand yen!" Mitsuhiko reported.
"Catch it!" Conan instructed.
"Genta, catch that bill!" Mitsuhiko shouted to the over-sized boy who was chomping down on his snack.
"What's going on?" Genta asked, the bill was now stuck on his nose. Expelling a breath, he sent the bill flying away.
"Genta, catch it!" Ayumi pointed.
"Wait!" Genta swallowed the rest of the eel balls and ran after the runaway bill with the others in tow.
"Found it." Mitsuhiko crawled into some bushes and pulled out the bill.
"Me too." Ayumi stepped out from the tree.
"Found it!" Genta raised the bill in his hands.
"Wait a minute, shouldn't there be only one?" Fumio wondered.
"Let me see those." Conan instructed.
"Aren't these..." Fumio frowned, giving the three dollar bills a quick scan.
"Yeah." Conan nodded. "They all have the same serial number. Which means these are..."
"Counterfeit bills?" Mitsuhiko, Genta and Ayumi exclaimed.
"If I recall correctly, a few counterfeit bills were discovered in the city recently." Fumio stated. "Rumor has it that an international criminal organization is involved.
"That must be it." Mitsuhiko noted.
"That grandma is a counterfeiter?" Genta blinked.
"Then I doubt she would've asked us to catch it." Haibara refuted.
"Yeah, this one is a little different." Conan pointed to the bill Ayumi was holding.
"It's a little dump." Ayumi noted.
"It's probably wet from the rain." Mitsuhiko guessed.
"This is orange juice." Genta gave the bill a sniff.
"It must be that." Conan hopped over the bushes and ran towards the vending machine.
"A phone?" Fumio reached under the vending machine and pulled out the abandoned phone.
"What does this mean?" Ayumi asked.
"While someone was drinking some juice, a strong breeze blew away their counterfeit bills." Conan concluded. "They spilled their juice then. They rushed to gather them up, but couldn't get them all and left without realizing they'd dropped their phone."
"Then, that means..." Fumio breathed.
"Yeah." Conan nodded. "Eventually, the counterfeiter will realize what's missing and come back for it."
"I think we should call the police." Haibara suggested.
"I'm going to call Inspector Megure." Conan replied, seeing the other three preparing for the stakeout. "Stay with them."
"I'll give kaa-san a call." Fumio was already on the phone. "I think she's collaborating with the Italian AISE on this case. Kaa-san?" he made the call. "You know the counterfeiting case you're working on with the Italian AISE? We've got a lead."
"Now to send these to the police." Haibara noted, taking snapshots of Hikifune Bella who had approached the vending machine and retrieved the counterfeit bill left under the machine. "Guys, wait." she breathed when she caught the other three following Hikifune.
"Ai-chan, hurry." Ayumi urged.
"She's getting away." Genta reminded.
"Where did they go?" Conan looked around, finding the place empty after he and Fumio made their calls.
"'Tailing the culprit'?" Fumio echoed, reading Conan's new message over the bespectacled boy's shoulder. "Conan, can you send the photos to kaa-san? The AISE will need a face to match with their suspect list and crack down on the criminal organization."
"Right." Conan nodded and forwards the photos.
Back to present...
"Something's not right here." Conan noted as he and Fumio returned to the shipyard. "That tower... I couldn't see it from here before."
"That's because there was a container here." Fumio pointed to the empty space beside him.
"Anyway, where are they?" Conan wondered, making a call to the rest of the group. "Haibara, guys, can you hear me?" he activated the communicator on the Detective Badge after receiving an out-of-range message. "Damn it." he cursed, activating his 'Criminal Tracking Glasses'. "I can't determine the location of their badges."
"Guys!" Fumio shouted over the receiver. "Are you guys okay? Where are you right now?"
"I don't know where we are, but we're moving." Haibara replied. "We're trapped in here with that man Edogawa found suspicious: the counterfeiter."
"Moving and trapped?" Fumio echoed. "Conan, could it..."
"So that's how it is." Conan came to the same conclusion. "Fumio, get on." on his skateboard, the two boys headed out.
"That's it." Conan and Fumio caught up with the two container trucks.
"We can't see outside from here, so we don't know where we traveled." Haibara reported back, after Fumio attached a tracking device on one of the trucks. "The man trapped in here with us doesn't seem to know where we're going."
"Conan, Fumio, in here!" Ami shouted over the pouring rain, the back door of her car was open to admit the two boys.
"Kaa-san!" Fumio beamed.
"They're heading for the harbor." Conan informed the radar in his glasses were tracking the other Detective Badges. "Do they intend to travel overseas from there?"
"Chino-san, I request backup from the Coastal Guard." Ami informed her AISE contact.
"Roger." the AISE agent replied. "Give me the coordinates, Mizuno."
"Got that, Edogawa?" Haibara asked, after having Tatsumi confess.
"Yeah." Conan replied. "If the AISE is also after them, then she's probably a Mafioso. They've stopped." he gaped. "Mizuno-san!"
"Is the ship leaving already?" Ami hissed. "Chino-san, get your team ready and prepare for a hostage situation."
"Roger." the AISE agent answered.
"The two of you, stay put." Ami ordered, exiting her car. "Chino-san." she greeted the arriving agent and her teammates.
"We're ready." Chino confirmed. "Let's go."
A few minutes later...
Inspector Megure's team had also arrived.
"We MPD Criminal Investigations Division One." Inspector Megure flashed his badge to Hikifune. "You must be Hikifune Bella, the owner of this ship."
"We were told your ship was full of counterfeit bill." Takagi added. "We'll be searching it."
"We've also been informed that you've kidnapped and imprisoned the child witnesses." Chiba stated.
"How scary." Hikifune gaped. "But as exceptional Japanese policemen, surely you realize this isn't a Japanese ship. If you don't find anything, this will become a major international incident. How does this sound? You're welcome to search it if you like." she led the officers on deck. "If you find a single piece of evidence..."
"You really shouldn't count your chickens just yet, Hikifune-san." Ami chided, Agent Chino's service pistol was trained on her. "As of this moment, the AISE agents have secured the necessary evidence located in the ship's helm."
"Madam, we have the container." the divers from the Coastal Guard reported via earpiece.
"Guys, you're all alright." Conan breathed in relief after the container was brought onshore and the doors opened.
"Okay, kids, out." Chino thumbed the exit. "The AISE is confiscating these now."
"Could you come with us to the station?" Inspector Megure turned to Hikifune.
"I'm just the owner." Hikifune taunted. "The crew must've done this on their own."
"Can you let me see your wallet?" Fumio held out a hand. "You've got a ten thousand yen bill, right?"
"I don't have any counterfeit bills." Hikifune replied.
"I never said that; I meant the old woman's ten thousand yen bill." Fumio corrected.
"That's it." Genta recalled the bill that had sauce stuck on it.
"But doesn't that make you a thief?" Mitsuhiko inquired.
"You're one cheap Mafioso." Genta noted.
"More importantly..." Haibara stated.
"If you've touched the other counterfeit bills with your hands..." Conan added.
"But they're soaked." Ayumi pointed out. "The evidence must be ruined."
"You mean these?" Haibara unfolded the dry bills she kept in her handkerchief.
"Shall we compare your fingerprints?" Inspector Megure claimed the notes.
"No, there's no need for that." Hikifune admitted defeat.
SailorStar9: Any OOC-ness is regretted, by the way. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Read and review.