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.
This chapter takes a slight turn as the characters of City Hunter and Detective Conan convenes as they confronted the antagonists of this arc, and Shinichi/Ankh confronts the terrorist leader where they would try to outwit each other to save the hostages…
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Saeko took a deep breath as she braces herself knowing that she has no chance of winning and before she proceeds, Kao Ta tapped her shoulder and glances at her, and tells her that he'll take her place and went towards Big Mac, who is surprised to see that the poker player is volunteering to become the next "sacrificial lamb".
"My, my…that was gallant…and brave of you…offering to sacrifice your life for that woman…you shouldn't have done that…you will be the next to…"
"Shall we begin, sir? If I win…you'll spare the hostages, right? In exchange…I can be your hostage…"
"Hmm…you think you can win, eh? Exchanging your freedom for their releases…I'll consider it if you beat me…okay then…shall we…?"
And so the game began and everyone watched as both men are shuffling their cards which lasted for three minutes, as Big Mac is the first to reveal his combo while Kao Ta played for the remaining 1 ½ minutes before revealing his combo, and to Big Mac's surprise, Kao Ta won, and the hostages were speechless as Kao Ta saved them from death, but Big Mac smirked, earning the impression from the hostages that the terrorist leader is going to shoot him to death, yet all he did is rubbed his chin. He is impressed by the result, in which his shooting spree is halted yet he remembered the deal he made with Kao Ta and ponders on whether he should keep his bargain or not.
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As the hostages watches on, silence enveloped the casino room as Big Mac is pondering on whether to keep his promise on letting them go if Kao Ta wins the game, but after seeing how he dispatched the players who reached a draw, they are skeptical on letting even Kao Ta go knowing that Big Mac intends to kill them whether one of them win or lose and they brace themselves as they expect another gunshot about to be fired, but to their surprise, Big Mac clapped his hands and made his answer.
"Well now…I didn't expect this to happen…but being an avid card player myself…I am very determined…let's have another game…I feel that I'm going to enjoy this…"
"What of the other hostages…?"
"Defeat me first then we'll discuss that matter…"
And so Kao Ta and Big Mac played a second game of baccarat, which lasted about 2 ½ minutes, and the results are shown, with Kao Ta winning again. Of course Big Mac has no intention of letting his hostages leave alive, but feeling determined and enjoying this, he ordered the game to continue as he expects that he would win the next round. Despite losing two rounds in a row, he isn't a sore loser to the least, as he felt the suspense and enjoyed it, wanting to see the hostages get hope, and then expects them to lose hope once he gets the win and then dispose of Kao Ta.
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!
39: Iede Shōjo, Shitīhantā, Kurūzurainā part 9
It's been less than five minutes since the 7th game began. A few minutes ago, about six opponents are quickly disposed of thanks to Big Mac, as he intends to kill his hostages through the game of baccarat by using the "Russian Roulette" method, and is really loving it, hoping to kill them all within 30 minutes, but then, when Saeko is about to be drawn in, Kao Ta, a skilled card gamer who uses his cards as shurikens, joins in. Since then, his shooting spree came to a halt and the hostages got a temporary respite as Kao Ta beats Big Mac two games in a row. Knowing that the terrorist leader has no intention of letting his hostages live, he decided to buy them time and puts his life at risk to save them.
"So…where are you from…?"
"Taiwan."
"Hmm…so are you really skilled at this game?"
"Yes."
"Then better pray your skills would keep you alive…I expect that I will win this round…"
"We'll see…"
The hostages are amazed to see that Kao Ta successfully defeated Big Mac twice at the card game much to the terrorist leader's surprise, as he didn't expect that someone would beat him in his own game, let alone one of his hostages. The gunmen are on standby, wondering if Big Mac would give the order for them to shoot him down or if he'll do it himself seeing that Big Mac has no intention of letting his hostages leave the casino alive. Even Saeko is worried that Kao Ta's sacrifice would be in vain knowing that Big Mac intends to kill his hostages on the spot.
"Kao Ta…"
Surprisingly, Big Mac retained his composure and is even in high spirits as he tells Kao Ta that he is a very good opponent and is looking forward to the next round, which Kao Ta nodded, and so both men began to shuffle their decks as the 3rd game commences and proclaimed that he will win this round.
"I will win this round…any last words…?"
"…"
"No last words? Fine then let's begin…"
And so the 3rd round commences and after about three minutes, Kao Ta won again, and Big Mac became more excited as he is beginning to enjoy the game as his lust to kill his hostages builds up, and he chose to wait until he wins, wanting to see his hostages' looks at how they cling to hope only for them to lose hope in the end.
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Meanwhile, Ryo, Shizuko and Kyuji are carefully traveling while they transverse within the hallway which slowly leads them to the casino, noting that the shooting stopped and wondered what has happened to the hostages. As Ryo wondered if they are safe or if they are killed off, which made the trio feel a bit uneasy as they are pondering on whether they should go there at once to check or buy some more time before making a decision.
"The shooting stopped…"
"Ryo…what should we do…?"
"We wait…we can't just barge in…Mr. Hino…are you prepared for this…?"
"Yes. I am ready…the lives of the hostages lie within our hands…"
But their musing is interrupted when footsteps are heard and they hide behind the pillars of the corridors as a pair of terrorists is walking by, talking about the ship heading for thePacific Oceanso that Japanese authorities won't follow them. Hearing this, the trio jumped on the two and quickly disabled and disarmed them, which Ryo then uses his cellphone to inform his contact about the current situation by text, and managed to send the message successfully before losing its signal.
"Okay…I managed to send the text message to the authorities…so right now the best we can do I stall them until help arrives…"
"So what should we do for now…?"
"Shizuko…you go somewhere and hide…Mr. Hino and I will deal with the rest…"
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Several minutes later, Kao Ta's incredible luck has helped his cause tremendously as he put a halt to Big Mac's shooting spree as he defeated the terrorist leader after more than a dozen rounds of baccarat, which Big Mac calmly admitted that he is a very good player, as he has enjoyed a good game after several years, and his face showed that he is not sore about losing a lot.
"Hmm…not bad…you won 16 games in a row. You're really good. Even my men told me you weren't cheating…and I really enjoyed this…it's been five years since I played a very long game…it's refreshing and puts off a lot of stress…"
However, as the 17th round is underway, the terrorist leader is elated to see that he has found a winning combo and shows it to Kao Ta, and the hostages trembled as he has found a way to beat Kao Ta, and realized that the odds are stacked against them.
"Ha-ha! Looks like your luck has ran out! What will you do now, eh?"
Seeing this, Kao Ta then has to think of a way to stall his opponent and pretends to find the right cards to form a winning combo and stares at his card while glancing at his opponent, mentally finding an opening to make his strike and cause a confusion so he could at least give his fellow hostages a way to escape. However, he, and his fellow hostages are given another respite as Ankh finally entered the casino, and Big Mac glances at the new entrant, and managed to recognize him as Shinichi Kudo, having able to identify him despite the "spiked" hairdo and color.
"You…you're Shinichi Kudo! The teen detective from Japan! What a coincidence…"
"Huh?"
"Oh, come on…you can't fool me…that put-on voice and that hairdo can't fool me…I recognize your face on the papers…"
"Sorry…you're thinking of someone else…I am Ankh…"
"Ha-ha…nice one…but you can't fool me…"
As Ankh ignores Big Mac's taunts, he sees a refrigerator and saw the ice cream bars on display and took one, and opened it. As he is about to take a bite, Big Mac gingerly shoots with his gun, destroying the ice cream and approaches Ankh, taunting him.
"You…"
"Aw…I ruined your ice cream…? Don't feel bad…"
"Foolish human…you're in a heap of trouble…"
"What…? "Foolish human"?"
Angered, Ankh confronted him and revealed his "monster hand" much to the terrorist gunmen's shocks, which even shocked Big Mac himself and wondered how "Shinichi Kudo" did this and assumed he used a "magic trick" but then the terrorist leader got a respite, as some of the henchmen came and brought the chest they find at the vault and Ankh shifts his attention from Big Mac and went to the chest, using his "monster hand" to smash the lock aside and saw the contents. He can sense that the top layer items are indeed Cell Medals, about 100 of them, while the rest are ordinary items. He then took the Cell Medals and drops them on his palm, absorbing them much to Big Mac's surprise.
"What the…? The silver coins! How…what did you…? Are you a magician or something?"
"I told you…I am Ankh…I am a Greed…and I feed on the medals…"
Even the other gunmen are surprised to see this, and at this point Kaito Kuroba made his move and removes his disguise as a terrorist and revealed himself as the Phantom Thief Kid, which Big Mac recognizes and there he made his intentions clear.
"Sorry, gentlemen…but this charade ends here…"
"You! You're the Phantom Thief!"
"Correct, Donald McDonald…and I come for the chest…but I also suggest you release the hostages…you there…the one with the weird glove…I come for the chest and its contents…"
"Fine with me…you can have it…I got what I came for…"
As the terrorists and Big Mac are fixated at the Phantom Thief Kid's appearance, the distraction gives Kao Ta the opportunity to make his move, and he began to use the cards as shuriken to fight his way out, and Big Mac narrowly dodges it but the gunmen aren't lucky as they are struck and killed. As the gunmen fired, Kao Ta dodges them and went to the elevator to escape and then Ryo Saeba arrived, taking the machine gun from a terrorist and joins the fight, killing several terrorists, while Kaito uses his smoke pellets to cover his escape and took the chest with him and hid somewhere out of sight, but Big Mac and some of his men managed to get the hostages and have them move to a room and locked them in while the other terrorists deals with Ryo and Saeko, but after a few minutes of firefight, the two killed the terrorists, thus they put an end to Big Mac's game.
"Saeko…are you okay…?"
"We're fine…"
"Where's Kaori…?"
"One of Big Mac's men took her to his room…he intends to rape her…!"
Saeko then told Ryo that Big Mac's henchman Kim kidnaps Kaori and takes her to his room, which she assumes that Kim intends to rape her. Realizing this, he went straight for the room where she is being held. Inside Kim's room, Kaori tries to outwit him by playing along, attempting to seduce her would-be rapist, but he wasn't fooled, but after several attempts, in a hilarious fashion, Kim was able to pin her down.
"Wait…let me give you a massage…!"
"No need…my body's ready…and I'm ready to take you to heaven…"
"KKKYYYAAAHH! NO, WAIT…! BRUSH YOUR TEETH FIRST! YOU HAVE BAD BREATH! AND I HATE MEN WITH CAVITY PROBLEMS!"
When Ryu bursts in, both men fight which gives Kaori room to back away, but Ryo is slightly overwhelmed by Kim's martial arts skills while she hid behind a door before Big Mac and his men interrupt, capturing Ryo in the process by pointing their guns at him. There Ryo recognizes Big Mac and tells the terrorist leader all he knows about him, such as being a former soldier and businessman who now became a known wanted man.
"Ah…the famous Ryo Saeba…"
"And you're Donald McDonald…a former soldier…then a businessman…and now a terrorist wanted in several countries…had you gone straight and made a clean living…you'd be a peaceful millionaire by now…"
"But this lifestyle has given me a lot of opportunity…and I am also a judge…a jury and executioner…and so I sentence you to die tomorrow morning via a firing squad…"
"Can I ask for an appeal…?"
"Sorry…due to time constraints appeals can't be considered…"
"Aww…"
As Big Mac informs Ryo that he will be executed tomorrow morning, he and his men didn't notice that Kaori sneaked behind them and escapes, bumping into Shizuko, Saeko, and the rest of her acquaintances. They slowly went to a hiding place where Kyuji and Ankh meet up and there they discussed and prepared a plan to save Ryo.
To Be Continued…
Sing si Lip Yan by Jackie Chan
(Movie Theme Song from City Hunter)
May Loy! (Haay)...How som hong ham choy tang (Heaven Haa)...dik chet byhaw bychang (Yeah!) dekquato sing si lip yan! (Ooh City Hunter)
May Loy! (Haa)...red hat anman soy man (Red Hat)...Fu Jet Lehey hang loyyin (Achoo) fard dew sing si lip yan (Ooh City Hunter)
Mo chi De Lay! (CITY HUNTER)...odon dek wai mekquan mekquan (CITY HUNTER) Odoko cheq how leqwan leqwan...Siiii taaaaa!
May Loy! (Haay)...yek yan han yan yo han (Heaven Haa )...chi ho qai cho hok chow! (ahay) kong ho ho sing si lip yan! (Ooh City Hunter)
(Instrumental)
City Hunter!...
I am City Hunter...
Everybody want me...CITY HUNTER!
(Instrumental)
City Hunter! (Repeat 3 times)
May Loy! (Haay)...How som hong ham choy tang (Heaven Haa)...dik chet byhaw bychang (Yeah!) dekquato sing si lip yan! (Ooh City Hunter)
May Loy! (haa)...red hat anman soy man (Red Hat )...Fu Jet Le hey hang loy yin (Achoo) fard dew sing ci lip yan (Ooh City Hunter)
Mo chi De Lay!...odon dek wai mekquan mekquan...Odoko cheq how leqwan leqwan...Siiii taaaaa!
May Loy! (Haay)...yek yan han yan yo han (Heaven Haa)...chi ho qai cho hok chow! (ahay) kong ho ho sing si lip yan! (Ooh City Hunter)
The actions ends here for now…but a new problem arises as the main protagonist of City Hunter is about to be killed off…unless his fellow characters steps in and do the rescue…
Ankh got what he came for, though he is quite not pleased that his Core Medal isn't there, but he did got one that would help O's in future battles with the other Greed…
Preview:
The conclusion to this arc…and a fierce fight within the cruise liner…and this is where all ends…I mean for the City Hunter arc that is…
Notes:
Okay…here is the list of characters of the three series involved, so you'll know…
Detective Conan
- Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa
- Shiho Miyano/Ai Haibara
- Hiroshi Agase
- Kaito Kuroba/Phantom Thief Kid
- Ran Mori
- Hiroshi Agasa
Kamen Rider OOO
- Kousei Kougami
- Erika Satonaka
- Shintaro Gotoh
- Ankh
- Uva
- Mezuru
- Gameru
- Kazari
City Hunter (1993 film)
- Koji Imumura
- Ryo Saeba
- Kaori Makimura
- Saeko Nogami
- Shizuko Imumura
- Kao Ta
- Donald MacDonald
- Kim