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.
In the previous arc, a few things happened:
O – Kazari kidnapped Kazuha and uses her as a hostage to force Heiji to bring him to whewre Shinichi Kudo is, promising that he will release her if Heiji delivers his end of the deal;
O – After their second encounter, O's and Ankh managed to free Kazuha, but then they discovered that the Yummy spawned was a hybrid, where Kazari has absorbed Mezeru's Core Medals and overpowered O's, regaining his Core Medals except for the Tora Medal;
O – And, regaining his Kujaku Medal, Ankh is forced to hide, but as the Yummy rampages, he is forced to loan his Kujaku Medal to O's while Kougami sends the Condor medal to O's as well, forming a new combo to defeat the Yummy, but Ankh regained them and is ready to regain his Greed form.
Later within the day, police and ambulances were all over the Tokyo Port area as many of the corpses are being loaded in, which was alarming because the incident happened all of the sudden without warning,and eyewitnesses claimed that flying jellyfishes were to be blamed as well as claiming that a lion-like being also caused the attack, but without visual proof, the police are having difficulty in accepting them and whether to tell the media about this or not, unwilling to cause a panic.
As the day went on, everything is going along as usual, except that at the Agasa house, no one is outside, and everyone else is inside, as something had just happened aside from defeating the Yummy, and soon night arrived and no one person stepped out of the Agasa house as the occupants are occupied with something…and it all points out in relation to Ankh.
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!
Count the medals! The medals that O's currently have are:
Set 1:
Taka + Kujaku + Condor
Misago + _ + _
Set 2:
_ + Tora + _
Set 3:
Kuwagata + Kamakiri + Batta
Set 4:
_ + Gorilla + _
Bison + _ + Gaur
_ + Kuma + _
Set 5:
_ +Kani + Akaei
114:Yoha, Kaiketsu, Deai part 1
The next day, things went back to normal for now, as the police was able to keep the Tokyo Port incident under wraps and claimed that a group of extortionists were behind this, and were able to persuade, if not convinced, its survivors not to tell the media about the REAL cause of the incident, even though the survivors were not pleased with the way the police handled the situation, but still accepted.
Then the scene is "split" into seven "panels", where each "scene" shows the people involved who witnessed Ankh re-absorbing his Core Medals, and what has become of Shinichi Kudo after Ankh took back his Core Medals. The people of saw this were mostly shocked, though some weren't even affected except a beaming curiosity at what they would expect from this point on.
The following panels where the people who witnessed Ankh re-absorbing his Core medals are:
1) The first panel shows Kyuji, Shiho, Ran, Agasaand Gotoh, who are sitting by the living room and are hurdled around a table where a laptop is placed;
2) The second panel shows Heiji and Kazuha, who are sitting inside the bedroom of Heiji's house, having a serious discussion about the events from yesterday's incident, and they too have witnessed it and are at lost for words at how to accept what they saw since this involves Shinichi himself;
3) The third panel shifts to the Kougami Foundation, where Kougami, Erika and Akira are inside Kougami's office, watching the footage of O's "Ta-Ja-Dor" Combo and Ankh regaining his Core Medals before re-absorbing them;
4) The fourth panel then shows the scene at Kiyoto Maki's office inside the Kougami Biotech Laboratories, where Maki and Kazari are studying the footage that Maki took when O's is fighting the Lion-Kurage yummy before the monster's destruction, which made them curious after seeing Ankh re-absorbing his Core Medals and what results it produced;
5) The scene from the fifth panel reveals Vermouth sitting inside her room of a hotel where a Batta Candroid is attached to her laptop and is watching the footage of O's "Ta-Ja-Dor" Combo and Ankh re-absorbing his Core Medals. She is the only one who appeared unfazed at seeing the results, and is even curious at what she would do next;
6) At a hidden hideout, Irish is sitting inside a room, where his laptop shows the events of yesterday, and is curious to see what would become of Shinichi Kudo after Ankh absorbed his Core Medals. After seeing the results, he is now contemplating on what steps he should take if he were to confront him whether directly or indirectly.
7) The final panel shows Kaito Kuroba, his mother Chikage, and their butler Konosuke Jii watching the scene from the laptop where the Batta Candroid showed to them the footage from yesterday's battle at the Tokyo Port area, witnessing O's new form and the result of Ankh re-absorbing his Core Medals, and are now figuring out what has happened after, after seeing the results.
Each of them are still at loss at what has occurred after Ankh regained his Core Medals and re-absorbed them into himself even while still attached to Shinichi Kudo's body. Except for Vermouth, Maki and Kazari, the rest showed a worried expression in their faces and could not forget what occurred yesterday following their post-battle with the Lion-Kurage Yummy and Ankh's regaining his Core Medals.
-FLASHBACK-
The flashback scene shows that O's"Ta-Ja-dor" Combo delivered the "Prominence Drop" and destroyed the Lion-Kurage Yummy, then he collapsed on the ground while reverting back to normal. After Birth took all of the Cell Medals after the Yummy's destruction, Ran and Shiho tended to a still-battered and exhausted Kyuji as he raises his hands and glances at the three Core Medals.
However, Ankh came and forcefully took them and is now getting ready to absorb them. As he tosses them in to the air, he is about to have them "phase" into his "monster right hand", Shiho caught them, and a tense situation took place, with Birth standing by to interject if Ankh instead to harm her just to get his Core Medals back.
"Hey!"
"Before I let you…I need to ask you a few questions…"
"Don't tempt me, you wench…!"
"I will give these to you…you have my word…"
"What is it you want?"
"About the Core Medals that I have…"
"Then hurry it up and speak!"
Shiho then asked what would happen if Ankh were to absorb his Core Medals, which he answered them correctly, but then she asked what would he do to Shinichi if he were to regain his Greed form, which the Greed stated that he doesn't care as long as he gets his body back. Shiho then makes a deal with Ankh by stating that if she were to give him back his Core Medals, he would tap in to the medals' power and use it to restore Shinichi's health, much to Ankh's chagrin.
"Tell you what…I'll give these to you if you promise to use its power to repair the damage to Shinichi's injury…"
"You sure are a loudmouth wench…"
"I'm trying to make a good compromise with you! If not for Shinichi you wouldn't make it this far!"
"You…"
"Will you accept it?"
"…fine!"
After a few moments of thinking, he agreed, and Shiho reluctantly gives him the Core Medals, despite Kyuji's pleas, but then Ankh told her that he cannot guarantee anything since a Core Medal is compatible with a Greed's body, but said he will try it since he has gotten this far thanks to Shinichi's body. As Shiho stood back, Ran asked her if she is doing the right thing, which she said that it's better than letting Ankh abandon Shinichi's body to die, and that this is a good opportunity to see if this can save Shinichi as well as restoring his health to near full.
By then Ankh absorbs them into his incomplete Greed form and then the next few seconds became tense, as nothing happened, but then, something did, as Shinichi's natural hair color and style reverted back to normal, which surprised even Heiji, finally recognizing him as Shinichi Kudo, and called out his name, believing that it is him and greeted him. Kazuha then woke up and also saw Shinichi.
"Whoa! Shinichi! It's really you…!"
"Huh? Shinichi…? Is that you…?"
But then the next moment, wind blew around him and a huge, rainbow-colored projection emerged from Shinichi's back, forming a right wing, then Shinichi's hair spikes up and changed color, which shows that Ankh is trying to do something to Shinichi Kudo's body while the rest wondered if this is due to Ankh tapping the Core Medals' power to heal Shinichi's internal injuries. This process lasted about near to three minutes, and after that, Ankh, still attached to Shinichi's body, stood still before moving, and glances at himself, seeing that he is still unable to regain his Greed form and tires it again, and again nothing much happened apart from regenerating his right wing.
Trying it out, he is partially pleased that he can fly and that he is able to shoot out fireballs from his right hand, but apart from that, nothing much ground-breaking happened, and as Ankh landed on the ground, he looked calm and collected, but deep inside, especially his eyes telling those around him, he is perplexed as to why he is unable to regain his Greed form like the other Greed, and is wondering what went wrong. He has regained half of his Core Medals yet all he could regain were his right wing and a partial power of his Greed ability.
"Why…? Why is this happening…? I have my Core Medals, but still I'm like this…?"
As Ankh walked away, the other followed, all eyes are on Ankh and they wondered what has become of Shinichi Kudo, and Shiho is mentally perplexed, and is starting to regret using Ankh's powers to heal Shinichi, but then she did not give up hope, which Ran shares the same feeling as they all leave the scene and are heading back to the Agasa house, where Hiroshi and Gotoh are waiting. They didn't notice Kazari still within the area, but he chose not to reveal himself after seeing what just happened.
"This is an interesting situation…I wonder if Maki is watching this…"
Kazari wondered why Ankh is unable to regain his Greed form, but is also concerned now that he has regained his right wing and partial offensive powers, yet he is also wondering if Ankh is able to create and spawn a Yummy, which he would wait and see before judging him. After that, he left and heads back to Maki's office.
-END FLASHBACK-
The people involved are now wondering whether Ankh's case is a "special" one or not, but nevertheless, they, with the exception of Kyuji and the gang, and Vermouth, are now worried, as Ankh may become more of a threat now that the Greed has regained some of his ability and may have to deal with him if they are to succeed with their plans. Kazari is all game in fighting Ankh just to get his Tora Medal back, but Maki urges him to be patient as he is going to hatch a plan.
At Osaka, Heiji and Kazuha are at loss, after Kyuji Shiho and Ran patiently explained to the two teens about Shinichi's situation, and the two teens finally understood the situation yet they are worried if Shinichi is fine or not, and all they can do now is wait and see what would happen if Ankh were to detach himself from Shinichi's body. They were hoping for the best, if not the worst.
"I'm really sorry, Heiji…I…"
"It's all right…you're safe now…that's all that matter…"
"But…Shinichi…will he be…?"
"He'll be all right…that I can promise you…"
"But…as long as that…"thing"…is attached to Shinichi's body…will he…?…I mean…"
"Shinichi would be in danger if this so-called Ankh is away from Shinichi's body if the 10-minute limit went over…but I don't think Ankh would leave Shinichi yet…"
"Then…those rumors about these monsters…"
"Looks like it…"
-x-
At Maki's lab, Kazari is studying the footage again to see if he could find a clue on why Ankh is unable to regain his Greed form, and as Maki studied Ankh from previously, while having the data on his Core Medals, the scientist may have discovered something, as two of Ankh's Core Medals represent the Greed's head abilities (Taka, Misago), while the remaining two represents each for the arms (Kujaku) and legs (Condor).
"This is indeed a mystery…but then it may prove a problem to us as Ankh regained some of his powers…so from this point on…we should be careful…"
Kazari is intrigued, yet he wondered if Uva is aware of this, as he didn't sensed his presence yesterday, and commented that the insect-Greed would be in for a surprise if he were to confront Ankh and O's.
"Hmm…I wonder if Uva has done the same thing I did…? I mean…he has some of the other Core Medals…but I can't wait to see the surprised look on his face when he faces Ankh…"
-x-
At his mansion, Kaito is eating his breakfast while his eyes are glued to the laptop as he is studying the footage of Ankh re-absorbing his Core Medals and wondered if he did the right thing keeping the Hikuidori Medal from the Greed, seeing that Ankh is still there and still attached to Shinichi's body, while Konosuke commented that it is probably better than letting Ankh leave Shinichi's body to die, which Kaito agreed with.
"Master Kaito…?"
"Konosuke…did I do the right thing…? Not giving Ankh this Core Medal that I have…?"
"Yes…and you saw it just now…Ankh hasn't regained his true form…and at this point we don't know if that has helped Shinichi Kudo's body at all…"
"Then perhaps I should have…"
"No…not right now…assuming the current possibility…if Ankh gets hold of his 5th Core Medal…he might abandon Shinichi Kudo's body…so for now…we wait and see before you do anything…"
"I guess you're right…"
By then, Chikage telling them that for now, Shinichi is in "good hands" and said that for now Kaito needs to put his own affairs in order first and showed him a covered dish, where wings are exposed, claiming that it was a winged food, and Kaito thought it was fried chicken, and went on to open it, only to freak out at the sight before him, much to Konosuke's chagrin.
"Konosuke's right…"
"Mom…"
"Mistress…"
"Set your own affairs in order…before you get involved with another…here…breakfast…fried chicken…"
"Wow! I'm hungry that I would…KKKKYYAAHHH!"
The dish revealed to be a flying fish, which wasn't cooked yet and still alive and it flew towards Kaito, which he struggled to get it off him before fainting, which Chikage giggled while Konosuke tries to wake him up. He mentally wished that she stop making fun of her son since this would only worsen his situation when he is at sea, and it might be exploited by enemies he encountered from before.
To Be Continued…
Hope you liked the first chapter of this new arc, and I do hope you understand what occurred here, as I can't "set" Shinichi "free" yet…for a reason. You'll soon know why in the upcoming months…for now, enjoy the ride as more shocking moments are about to come your way.
Preview:
The next chapter is going to focus on Kyuji and the gang as they discuss about Ankh's inability to regain his Greed form, while at the same time, the situation for Ankh would take a turn for the worse, as he is about to get into an encounter with the Black Organization as Gin and his group appears, and a confrontation would soon be imminent.