Hunt For The Mystical Medals

Disclaimer:
Detective Conan is owned by Gosho Aoyama
Kamen Rider OOO is owned by Ishimori Productions

The various guest characters appearing in every arc are owned by their respective owners.

The suspense part of this arc is now ready to commence as the antagonist makes the move and starts to abduct the Detective Boys one by one, and it'll be up to Ai and Ankh to find out who they are facing against at, but given the heavy rain...will they be able to locate their assailant before falling prey to their suspect?

At the Kougami Foundation, Kousei Kougami is snickering at the footage shown on his laptop where the footage shows that Ankh, who now assumes Conan Edogawa's form, joins the Detective Boys as they head for Hiraizumi, Iwate to search for clues to solve the missing children case and the next footage shows Kyuji and Professor Agasa taking the road to head to Hiraizumi, Iwate.

Erika Satonaka told Kougami the reasons why and Shintaro Gotoh watches the footage intently, wondering how Kyuji and Ai were able to convince Ankh to cooperate with the Detective Boys, though he is concerned that the other children might get into danger.

"What a wonderful sight! The Greed called Ankh has decided to play detective to a group of children imitating real detectives! Yes, a birth of new generation detectives of this era! Splendid! And see how cute Ankh is...assuming the form of a boy...Erika...what's his name again...?"

"Shinichi Kudo, president. He is currently 17 ½ years old. Right now he has assumed the form of Conan Edogawa...aged 10 ½."

"So they are heading for Hiraizumi..."

"President...do you want me to lead a scout to patrol the streets? With Ankh and the one becoming O's are now out of the main city...the Greed might spring a surprise terror here..."

"Patience, Gotoh...Erika...?"

Erika then noted that in the past few weeks, there has been no activities involving the Greed, and Kougami stated that as long as it stays like this for the time being, Tokyo would be safe for now and that O's will take care of the Detective Boys, though Gotoh is still doubtful that O's could protect the children given their current location while the Detective Boys are halfway ahead of them.

"See...? As long as there is no sign of trouble...Tokyo is safe...and with this kind of downpour...I'm sure the Greed wouldn't want to drench themselves...Erika...what is today's forecast?"

"We have an Intertropical Convergence Zone, president. And it is enhancing the southwest monsoon rain which surprisingly, covered almost the whole of Japan...so it'll be a rainy day that would last up to this Saturday. Therefore three days of non-stop rain. "

"Sir...it's not my place but...is it really okay to let a Greed, who is possessing a teen detective's body, to go with those children to find a serial kidnapper that is far from Tokyo?"

"Easy, Gotoh...that won't be a problem..."

"How so, Satonaka?"

Erika told Gotoh that with a Taka Candroid following the five, O's can get a fix on their location as she stated that she wanted to stay and watch the events unfold as she is curious as to who is behind the spate of kidnappings and to see who the culprit is, which Kougami elatedly agreed with this and the three of them then watches the PC monitor screen as the footage is split in two: one on Kyuji and Agasa, and the other on the Detective Boys.

Anything Goes by Maki Oghuro
(Opening Song from Kamen Rider OOO)

(You count the medals 1,2 and 3
Life goes on Anything goes Coming up OOO)

ira nai mota nai yume mo mi nai
furii na joutai sore mo ii kedo
(kokkara hajimaru The show we're waiting for
Count the medals 1, 2 and 3 )
unmei wa kimi hanattoka nai
kekkyoku wa susumu shika nai
(michi naru tenkai Give me energy Count the medals 1, 2 and 3)

daijoubu. ashita wa itsu datte hakushi (Blank)
jibun no kachi wa jibun de kimeru mono sa

OOO! OOO! OOO! OOO! Come on!

Anything Goes! sono kokoro ga atsuku naru mono
mitasa reru mono o sagashi te
Life goes on! honki dashi te tatakau no nara
makeru ki shi nai hazu!

53: Saiko geka-i, Ketsuraku Kizzu, Ningen no Mukade part 3

About less than an hour later, the Shinkansen train arrived at the Hiraizumi, Iwate station and then they left the train station to head for a nearby waiting shed to get a bus, and while they enjoyed the train ride, their feelings were changed as they found out that the downpour is much stronger than the one at Tokyo as the heavy rain nearly reduced its visibility and the strong winds almost broke their umbrellas, but Ankh didn't mind as he isn't using one and relies on his raincoat. By then a bus came and the five of them boarded the bus and tells the driver to take them to Hiraizumi's forest area.

-x-

Meanwhile, Professor Agasa and Kyuji are still on the road travelling to Hiraizumi on board their vehicles when they encountered some minor obstacles such as traffic buildup due to some vehicles crashing and that some of the roads they are about to pass are flooded. Hiroshi called Kyuji via his cellphone and told him that the Taka Candroid 's signal shows that the Detective Boys have arrived at the Iwate District and they are now heading for the Hiraizumi Forest, and there he tells Kyuji to follow him as he is going to take a shortcut that would make their traveling a bit faster.

-x-

About 30 minutes later, the Detective Boys have arrived at the Hiraizumi Forest where most schoolchildren frequented, and where they are last seen, but then they didn't anticipated something as the heavy downpour got stronger and the rain greatly reduces the visibility and thus they couldn't see their way around much as their faces are started to get drenched despite wearing their raincoats as the winds are starting to knock them down

"Whoa! I didn't expect this to happen!"

"My umbrella can't cope with the strong winds!"

"My hood's being blown! My head is getting drench!"

"What are we going to do now?"

"..."

Ankh remained silent yet he is annoyed at his current situation yet he restrains himself from complaining, knowing that he came with the children as he is promised that he'll get an ice cream as a reward if he cooperate and help solved the case. As he looked around, he is able to locate the forest entrance using Conan's eyes in conjunction with his Greed ability. He found a thick tree and told the others that they can go there and use it to shelter them from the rain.

"There's a huge, thick tree up ahead...we can seek shelter there that would shield us from the rain. Follow me."

Following Ankh's lead, the Detective Boys went towards the forest and seek refuge under a huge, thick tree to shield them from the rain, which partially worked yet their lower bodies still got drenched despite their raincoats. Looking around, Ai notes that the heavy rain still reduces the visibility and told the rest to remain here as she believed that this could be the perfect timing for the culprit to show up and try to abduct children.

"Okay, listen up...this is a good timing for the kidnapper, or kidnappers...to spring into action as this scene has reduce visibility...it's best that we stick together should the culprit...and his accomplices, if he is not alone, appear and tries to take us in."

"Okay."

"Got it."

"Cool."

As the minutes passed by the temperature of the area started to go a bit lower which produces a cold feeling and this causes Mitsuhiko to get the feeling that he wants to urinate and he couldn't do so with two girls with him. He told Ai about this, and she instead told him to go behind the tree they are leaning at, which only made him embarrassed even more.

"Eh? You mean I'll have to pee there?"

"It's better than losing you to our upcoming abductor…and Ayumi will look away…I already know what a "pee-pee" looked like…and I'm sure in two years from now you'll be getting circumcised…"

"Er…can't I pee somewhere else?"

"No. and that's final."

Being a "gentleman", Mitsuhiko is unwilling to do that with the two girls around and looked around to find a place to urinate, and saw another tree across him and decided to do it there instead of here so he told Ai that he'll pee there and will come back shortly, which Ai disapproves knowing that the culprit could be anywhere here.

"I can't take it anymore! I'll pee across that tree…!"

"It's quite far from here! The culprit could be somewhere here!"

"I won't take long…and if he tries to get me I'll kick him on the balls! Got to go!"

"Mitsuhiko! Come back here…!"

Despite her protests, Mitsuhiko left and went across towards another tree and there he urinated there which lasted two minutes as the cold temperature causes his bladder to accumulate a lot of urine, and while he is still urinating, he didn't notice that someone is sneaking behind him, readying to strike the boy down. As Mitsuhiko zipped his pants and is about to head back to the others, the attacker struck the 10-year old and he is knocked out, where the culprit carried him away.

-x-

After some five minutes, Ai feared the worse as she realized that Mitsuhiko hasn't returned and both Genta and Ayumi became worried as their friend hasn't come back while Ankh decided to use his ability to scan Mitsuhiko, which he could detect someone else near them and whispered to Ai about this.

"The culprit is here…I can see the intruder…and is carrying someone on the arms…I couldn't tell the gender yet, though…"

"Blast…! Mitsuhiko is captured…"

"Want me to go and…"

"No, Ankh…we can't risk it…there's a possibility that there is more than one suspect…we'll have to stick together and try to use our numbers advantage and try to force the culprit to come out in the open…"

Feeling worried and unwilling to abandon his friend, an irritated Genta told the other to wait here as he goes to the place where Mitsuhiko is last seen despite Ai's protests and the others are forced to stay put and hoped that Genta comes back in one piece. As Genta went to the site he finds out that Mitsuhiko is not around, but saw the ground having a footstep marks, one a child size and the other an adult size. He realizes that the culprit is here and decides to head back to warn the others.

"Blast! Mitsuhiko's been taken! I've got to tell Ai about this!"

However, he is unable to navigate himself due to poor visibility which enabled the culprit to struck Genta down and the boy is knocked out. Given his overweight size, the culprit then drags the boy away from the site and now the Detective Boys members are reduced to three, and after some three minutes the culprit returns to capture the remaining three.

Two more minutes later, a now suspicious Ai is now definitly sure that the culprit has caught Genta, and Ayumi is starting to get rattled and worried, which prompted Ankh to tell the two that they better stick together than going alone, which Ai agreed to the trio went towards the tree across them with Ankh leading them as he is able to see through the downpour and visibility. They then got a respite as the downpour slightly slowed down and visibility is slightly clear so Ai and Ayumi looked around for clues to find the two missing boys.

At the height of their search, Ai saw a wide mark that indicated that someone has been dragged away and concluded that Genta has been dragged away from here and now they are facing a situation, so she took out a Taka Candroid and instructed it to find Kyuji and told him to follow the mark, and as the Candroid flies away, Ayumi slumped to the ground and as she checks her, Ai saw a tranquilizer dart was impaled on her nape and realizes that the culprit is here.

"Damn it! Ankh, evasive action! The culprit's armed!"

Ai told Ankh to be ready but saw Conan's body slumped to the ground and Ankh's "monster hand" flying in the air, just as a tranquilizer dart struck her on her chest, which was meant for Ankh. Though Shiho removed the dart, the effects began to take effect on her and she slowly fell to the ground and is knocked out, just as the culprit arrive, though its face is not shown it shows that it is wearing what appeared to be a laboratory uniform underneath the thick raincoat and is holding a tranquilizer dart. The culprit then carries Ayumi, Ai and Conan's body away and placed them on a body bag, dragging them away, not noticing that Ankh is following behind the culprit.

"So that's the culprit…good thing I decided to move out of the way…better follow them and see where this lead to…and this better be interesting and worth my time…I've sacrificed a lot just to get on that ice cream…and to get back quickly to find my Core Medals…"

After loading the three bodies on the vehicle's compartment, which turn out to be a van, the culprit then checks on the front engine to see if it still has enough gasoline left, where Ankh secretly went inside the compartment and reattaches himself onto Conan's body, and there he saw the compartment door being closed and then the van started to move in a minute. Ankh then saw the rest of the Detective Boys beside him, all sedated and then he decided to use a secret radio to contact Hiroshi Agasa and alert them of the situation at hand.

To Be Continued…

A bit of detective elements are shown as Ai and Ayumi searched the area where Genta and Mitsuhiko are last seen, and then the Detective Boys are captured by the mystery culprit while Ankh tries to call Kyuji and Professor Agasa for help, but will the two adults be able to get there on time?

Preview:

As Kyuji and Hiroshi races to get to Hiraizumi Forest, the mystery culprit is finally revealed and then revealed the reason for kidnapping the children and that's where the GRAPHIC moment comes in, which would shock you BIG TIME.

Characters appearing in this arc:

Now then…a modified list of characters that appear in every arc of this fic so that you'll know which series (or in this case, film) they came from…

Detective Conan

- Genta Kojima

- Ayumi Yoshida

- Mitsuhiko Tsuburuya