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.
Finally...the main antagonist of this arc is revealed...and this would certainly make you cringe once his motive are shown to our heroes and this would put Ankh to the test on how to handle a situation like this while Kyuji and Agasa are racing towards the scene...who are both still on the road towards the Hiraizumi...
As the minutes passed by, there has been no word from Genta after he left to find Mitsuhiko, and a now suspicious Ai is now definitely 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.
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!
54: Saiko geka-i, Ketsuraku Kizzu, Ningen no Mukade part 4
Several minutes later, Kyuji and Hiroshi arrived at the train station where the Detective Boys arrived and there the Candroid that ankh sent arrived and there it connected to Hiroshi's laptop and showed the recorded footage of the kids being taken away and there the two adults realized that they arrived quite too late but the Taka Candroid flew and there Kyuji told the professor to follow it.
"Professor Agasa...let's follow it as it can track the children to where they went."
"I see...okay, let's go."
"Then let's get going. Be careful as the heavy downpour might compound our visibility..."
As the two braved the heavy downpour they raced within the road to head for the spot where the Taka Candroid is leading them which took about 20 minutes before the Candroid stopped right at the spot where the Detective Boys stopped by, which is the entrance to the Hiraizumi Forest. There Hiroshi checks on the signal and then the Candroid flew away as the inventor glances at the signal and there Kyuji realized that the culprit is somewhere within the area.
"It seems that the culprit is not far from here. I'll go there to see if I could find anything. You wait here and wait for my call. I can take care of myself, and someone has to stay here to call the police in case things go wrong."
"I understand...I'll wait at the waiting shed..."
As Hiroshi parks his van and waits at the waiting shed where Kyuji's cellphone beeped and there he got a text message from Ankh, informing him of the situation and there the teen vagabond is relieved to see that Ankh is conscious at the moment and decided to get moving while telling Hiroshi to wait for his call and to call the police once he confirms everything, which the inventor nodded.
"Okay...but be careful..."
"I will!"
Following the Taka Candroid, Kyuji ventures off at the road leading to where the culprit is hiding by using the Ride Vendor but soon realizes that he is heading uphill and hoped that the vehicle is capable to traveling at this kind of terrain.
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About 30 minutes later, the anonymous culprit arrives at a large mansion-like house and one by one he carries the sedated bodies of the Detective Boys, with Genta being the first as he is dragged away given his overweight size and then places him on a hospital bed where he is strapped and secured. Then he carried Ai and Ayumi over his shoulders and secures the two so that should the tranquilizers' effects wear off, they won't escape.
Unknown to the culprit, Ankh detaches himself from Conan's body as he hovers around stealthily and looked around, rather surprised to see the surroundings and makes an observation where he could see several surgical tools around and saw Genta, Ayumi and Ai strapped securely on their hospital beds and hid behind a curtain as he sees the culprit carrying the sedated bodies of Mitsuhiko and Conan as the culprit straps them down to secure them.
"Hmm...I didn't expect this...so this human is a surgeon...but...why do I feel that there is some kind of aura enveloping him...wait...could it be...?"
As Ankh looked at the his surrounding, and having absorbed some of Shinichi Kudo's memories, he slowly deduced that the room where the Detective Boys are kept in turn out to be a makeshift medical ward and wondered why the kids are brought here and learned that he has five more minutes before reattaching to Conan's body, so the right forearmed form of Ankh had to bid his time and wait to see that the coast is clear, and seeing that no one is looking, he secretly reattaches onto Conan, and pretended to be asleep.
By then the culprit arrived after securing the area so that no one would think of coming here as the villain rubbed hands at the "catch" while glancing at the sedated children. The scene zoomed at the surrounding items where surgical equipments are shown, like a scalpel and other tools, such as:
- Graspers, such as forceps
- Clamps and occluders for blood vessels and other organs
- Retractors, used to spread open skin, ribs and other tissue
- Distractors, positioners and stereotactic devices
- Mechanical cutters (scalpels, lancets, drill bits, rasps, trocars, Ligasure, etc.)
- Dilators and specula, for access to narrow passages or incisions
- Suction tips and tubes, for removal of bodily fluids
- Sealing devices, such as surgical staplers
- Irrigation and injection needles, tips and tubes, for introducing fluid
- Tyndallers, to help "wedge" open damaged tissues in the brain.
- Powered devices, such as drills, dermatomes
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After several more minutes Ai was the first to regain consciousness and is shocked to find herself at a precarious situation as the rest of the Detective Boys, except for Ankh, also woke up and there they are greeted with a sight which surprises them. The missing schoolchildren who are also strapped in their beds and are dressed in hospital gowns, and are crying for help, with Ai shocked to see how terrified the children were and glances at the culprit, who turn out to be a man with a German accent, and spoke to them in fluent Japanese dialect..
"Good day, my newest guinea pigs."
As Ai glances at the man, she replied in English and this starts a series of conversation which only Ai can understand the scope of the situation and slowly realized what she and her friends' predicaments are and this would soon cause her to become more worried for her friends' welfares as well as the abducted children.
"So...it was you who did this..."
"My my...a Japanese girl who can speak to me in English. I'm complimented..."
Genta, Ayumi and Mitsuhiko are surprised to see Ai using English and the culprit replied in English and is quite impressed with her "spirit", seeing that she didn't exhibit any fear and started a conversation with her.
"I suppose you're a doctor with a twisted mind...?"
"Twisted? Please...I'm a respected doctor...and will soon be recognized with a Nobel Prize..."
"By kidnapping children? You're a fraud."
"You'll soon regret those words, little missy..."
"And why would I regret to someone who kidnaps children and brought them here?"
"You will soon find out..."
"Really...?"
"Yes, really...but let's keep things in perspective since this is Japan, and for the sake of everyone here...I'll answer you in Japanese..."
"Then let's hear it..."
As if abiding to Ai's request, the culprit spoke to his captives in Japanese and introduces himself as Doctor Heiter, and Ai mentally noted that Heiter appeared to be a crazed surgeon, which he denies this and there he explains that he is a world-renowned expert at separating conjoined twins, but he dreams of making new creatures that share a single digestive system. Ai then demanded an explanation as to why a renowned expert surgeon is abducting children which Heiter diabolically obliges and opens a projector where he shows to them a chart of his "experiment" which she and the Detective Boys are shocked and terrified at what they saw.
"As you requested, young lady...here is the reason why..."
"No...you can't be serious...!"
"Ah...is that real?"
"We're to be connected together through surgery...?"
"I don't want to be a human worm!"
Heiter then describes in detail how he will commence his experiment which involves several "guinea pigs" who are to be surgically connected from mouth-to-anus. He told the newest captives that he is simply not content in saving children and expressed joy in creating his very first "experiment": the "human centipede", which Ai realized that this is what Heiter is doing since the start of the children disappearances and now knows his true intentions.
"So...you kidnapped children so you could create this? You're crazy!"
"What? I am not crazy! I'm a genius!"
"A genius alright…but a genuine psychopath…who is hiding behind a doctor's uniform and license...so that you could do something this horrible! I won't let you get away with this! You're nothing but a fraud! A faker!"
As Ai berated Heiter for being a "fraud", and a "psychopath", Heiter doesn't appeared to be bothered and told her that he has been on this "secret experiment" since last year after performing it on three dogs, which is his very first "centipede" that comprised of three animals connected from mouth to anus which tubes are fused to their digestive systems, however his very first experiment ended in failure as the "dog centipede" died after 24 hours from being "completed" and then proclaimed that he decided to try it on three human adult captives which he claimed that it worked and is a success.
"You can't be serious! How could you do something this horrible and be able to perform such an experiment that involved human lives?"
"I can do anything...so you want proof?"
"You're not serious..."
"I am...and here is the proof..."
Opening a door from a hidden room, Heiter revealed his "very first human centipede" which slowly crawled out of the room, and there the crazed surgeon revels at the screams of terror from the Detective Boys (except for Ankh) and the captive children as the "human centipede" is shown in full view, which consists of three adults, with consists of Japanese national named Katsuhiro being the "head" part, and two American female tourists identified as Lindsay and Jenny, who are the "middle" and "tail" parts respectively.
"Behold, ladies and gentlemen...the human centipede...a lovely successful experiment, no?"
Heiter revealed that his first human centipede has been completed since last month and showed to his captives a device which showed that it can control his "pet", as the scene shows (in an x-ray scene) that he inserted an electrical device inside the brain area of the three and there the three adults are forced to obey Heiter's commands as they crawled around on their hands and knees.
"Okay, my pet...scream for mercy...beg to me..."
Surprisingly, the three adult captives are able to speak and begged the crazed surgeon to release them but are ignored.
"Let us go!"
"I beg you!"
"I want to go home!"
Meanwhile, Ankh has seen enough, as he too is shocked to see this and is rather surprised that even humans could do something like this and peeked, seeing that there are about 28 schoolchildren are held and then heard that Heiter informing the Detective Boys that they, along with the 28 school children, are to be the next, and the first to become a "multiple human centipede".
"This is bad...that human might even use this vessel to form his own twisted experiment...and if that happened, it'll be a big problem for me...I'd better act fast or else I'll be in bigger trouble..."
To Be Continued…
Very shocking as you finally get to see what this arc is about, and with the Detective Boys among the captives, the crazed surgeon is going to have a field day, and with his first "human centipede" being shown, he intends to have the children fused together to become a "multiple version" of his next work.
Preview:
With the villain of this arc revealed, this means that O's will come to their rescue, right? But remember that Kazari showed up a few chapters ago? He's going to spoil the rescue attempt while the Yummy of this arc will soon be revealed and you can guess who the host is...
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