Time and Space 'Verse: Time and Space and Shinichi Part 2
Also falls under 'would rewrite', for the terribly anticlimactic ending.
Title: Time and Space and Shinichi Part 2
Fandoms: Doctor Who, Detective Conan, Magic Kaito
Rating: T
Genre: Action/Adventure
Characters: Hakuba Saguru, Haibara Ai, Edogawa Conan, Tenth Doctor, Ace McShane
Summary: Conan's in the park with a dead body, a blue box, and a shipload of aliens. The sonic screwdriver is weirding out, Saguru's been captured by the human-eating aliens, and Shiho's wondering why she isn't dead yet. It's because she runs really fast.
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"Where did they go?" Shi nearly screamed. Still carrying Conan, she darted around looking for them. Finally she set Conan down in order to violently kick something. "Damn it!"
The thing she kicked beeped in response and a hidden door slid into the wall. The corridor beyond was darker than the rest of the ship, and quite long. Shi and Conan looked at each other. "Game?" he asked.
"It's as good as anything else," Shi replied, and they started walking down the corridor.
As they walked their eyes slowly adjusted to the darkness. The walls were spotless, no electrical outlets, control panels, or lengths of wire of any sort. What little light there was seemed to come from the walls themselves. They walked for several minutes, finally coming to a dead end. Shi and Conan both searched the close area for some sort of way to open it, to no avail. Shi finally shrugged and kicked the dead end violently. It beeped again and the dead end became another open door.
Shi and Conan looked at each other again. "Someone likes their labyrinths," Conan remarked.
"And I don't like it. Come on."
The corridor beyond was much like the rest of the ship, and not like the one they had just been in. "So who are you?" Conan asked.
"I'm Shi," she responded.
"That's not what the Doctor was going to introduce you as."
"And I stopped him because you can't know me. Not yet anyway."
"So that really is a time machine?"
Shi nodded. "Yes. And paradoxes are dangerous things, so don't ask me again."
They came to a crossroads in the path. On either side were more corridors, and in front of them was a big door. "So do we wander more or see what's behind the door?" Conan asked.
"Door," Shi said. "If nothing else it'll be easier for the Doctor to find us again if we're not wandering."
"By choice or captivity?" Conan asked rhetorically as Shi eased open the door. The two of them walked in, looking around. Conan shivered. It felt like a fridge. Then he saw the large chunks of meat hanging from rows of hooks. It was a fridge. "The Dihaclyds... they eat humans, isn't that what you said?"
Shi nodded numbly. "There's another door at the other end. Let's get out of here before they get hungry."
They quickly moved to the other door, easing it open as well. Shi sniffed, and groaned. "Ugh. Something reeks."
Conan frowned. "It smells like blood. A lot of it."
The room beyond was smaller than the fridge but not by much. In the midde was a large table, large than most human tables. The floor around it was brown with dried blood. The Dihaclyds obviously didn't clean up very well. "It's a butcher's table," Shi remarked. "There's a block of knives right there... really big knives."
One wall was lined with cages, obviously where the Dihaclyds put their prey before cutting them up. Conan noticed that one of them was occupied. "Look!"
Shi rushed to the cage. "Saguru!" She tried to open the cage door but it was locked securely. "Saguru! Saguru!" Saguru didn't respond, thoroughly unconscious.
Conan reached between the bars with his small limbs and felt the other detective's pulse. "He's still alive. Probably just been drugged or knocked out."
Shi cast around. "We've got to find the keys. They've got to be around here somewhere."
Another door that they hadn't noticed before suddenly opened. "Hide!" Shi hissed, ducking herself and Conan into the dim light behind Saguru's cage. A giant reptile, large than most humans by about a foot, strode in. He walked on two feet, had green scaly skin, and large flaps for ears. From his belt hung a ring of keys, probably the ones they needed. Two more Dihaclyds followed him in, each carrying something. The first Dihaclyd walked over to the row of cages, but thankfully didn't notice Conan and Shi. He unlocked two of them. "Stick them in," he commanded, his voice deep and rough.
The other two Dihaclyds each put their burdens in a cage. Conan felt hopelessness start to overwhelm him. It was the Doctor and the woman named Ace! The first Dihaclyd locked the cages, and the other two left. He moved to the table and set the keys on top of it. He then picked up the largest knife and started sharpening it. The loud noise filled the room.
"Shit," Shi whispered. "Even if we could get the keys without him noticing, I can't move all three of them."
"Psst!"
Shi and Conan's heads jerked towards the Doctor, who grinned at them. "You're awake!" Shi exclaimed quietly.
The Doctor looked affronted. "Time Lord physiology, remember? Which'll be a bad thing if they find out, because supposedly Time Lord meat is particularly tasty. They'll obliterate Earth looking for more. Which they won't find of course, but they won't know that."
"Stop babbling and tell us how to get you guys out!"
The Doctor took stock of the occupants of the other cages. "Ace and Saguru, so we're all here. Well, the usual way to get someone out of a cage is to unlock the cage."
Shi pointed at the Dihaclyd butcher. The Doctor's face fell. "Oh."
"Oh indeed. Now how do we get you out oh mighty one?"
The Doctor bit his lower lip. "Well... without the sonic screwdriver... I... don't... know..."
"Surely you have something in those dimensionally transcendant pockets of yours."
The Doctor started searching the pockets of his coat vigorously, muttering to himself. "Piece of string... banana, oh that's got to be old by now... first draft of the Constitution... wind-up mouse... a locket with a broken chain... dead sonic screwdriver... bag of cookies... French-Gallifreyan dictionary... a pear, what is that doing there?" He pulled out the pear and deposited it on the floor of the cage with a look of disgust, then went back to rummaging. "Black marker... my pet budgerigar... Remember when we first met Shi? I had to get a budgerigar just because of that. A blue one, mind you. It doesn't blush though. I don't think budgerigars can blush, even blue ones. It's not in a black box either..."
"Doctor..." Shi warned.
"Right... two triple-A batteries... a toy soldier... hang on." He pulled the sonic screwdriver and the two batteries out of his coat pocket. He unscrewed the end of the screwdriver and two triple-A batteries landed in his hand. He stuck those in his pocket and inserted the two new ones. He screwed the end back on, and the screwdriver lit up. "Bingo!" he said, a huge grin on his face.
Shi and Conan both glared at him, dumbfounded. "The batteries were dead... but you had spares in your pocket," Shi stated evenly.
"Hey, don't blame me. I didn't remember that I had spares in my pocket."
"A super-advanced tool from outer space... takes two triple-A batteries?" Conan asked, the idea completely going over his head.
The Doctor ignored him, attempting to unlock the lock on his cage. Shi glanced at the butcher, who was still sharpening his knives with gusto. "I don't think we have very much longer."
The sonic screwdriver suddenly stopped buzzing. "Deadlocked," the Doctor said simply.
Shi banged her head against the wall behind her. "Start improvising then."
The Doctor grasped the bars of the cage, testing them. "Wood."
"What can you do with wood?"
"Well I can set it on fire, but I don't think that would work very well in the long run. However, for some reason the wood is joined by small blocks of concrete. Not the lightest of building materials, but if the shoe fits..." The sonic screwdriver started buzzing again.
"Now what are you doings?"
"Trying to resonate concrete."
"Hey Doctor?" Conan asked.
"What?"
"How thick do you suppose the heads of Dihaclyds are?"
"Well, they actually get knocked out quite easily," the Doctor responded absent-mindedly. "Which is surprising, because otherwise they're physically sound. Why do you ask Conan?" When Conan didn't answer, he looked up. "Conan? Oh no..."
Conan had left the safety of the shadows and was sneaking around behind the Dihaclyd looking for something round. He finally found something. He would have preferred something that didn't look like (and probably was) a half-rotted human skull, but beggars can't be choosers. Powering up his shoes, he kicked it straight at the large Dihaclyd.
The Dihaclyd was out in an instant. The Doctor started clapping. "Oh bravo!"
"Shi, can you reach the keys?" Conan asked.
Shi got up and grabbed them. "With pleasure." She unlocked first the Doctor, then Saguru and Ace.
The Doctor slapped Ace's cheeks lightly. "Come on Ace. Wake up."
Ace groaned. "Ugh... Hi Professor."
The Doctor grinned. "Hello Ace."
Meanwhile Shi had woken Saguru up. "What happened?" she asked him.
Saguru rubbed his head. "They hit me from behind with something."
The Doctor nodded. "Same with us. Now let's get out of here before the Big Bad Butcher wakes up."
Saguru glanced at the unconscious Dihaclyd, grimacing. "I'd hate to be in the stomach of that thing."
"Let's go." Shi said impatiently.
Together the five of them started wandering the ship trying to find a way out. "So Professor, who're your friends?"
The Doctor grinned. "Oh! Ace, this is Saguru, Conan, and, uh, Shi," he said at a glare from Shi. "Saguru, Shi, and Conan, this is Ace."
"I see. Nice to meet you all. So Professor, after you wandered off to fight a war, you just picked more people up, even though you promised that if you were still alive you'd come get me!" Ace slapped him.
"Ow... I might've deserved that."
"Might've? Might've? You never came back! You said you would and you didn't! You said you had gone to war! I'd thought you'd died! And damn it Professor, you didn't exactly leave me in the friendliest place either!"
The Doctor was confused. "But if I didn't leave you in the friendliest place ever, how did you get here?"
Ace rolled her eyes and got a sadistic look on her face. "I met a Time Agent in a bar. We had a few drinks together, things led to more things, and I slipped him a sleeping pill. Nicked his ship right out from under him. Literally. Poor guy was sleeping on top of it."
"Ace..." the Doctor reproached.
"Hey, he deserved it. Mentioned something about thinking of turning into a con artist. A con artist with a time machine, now there's a scary idea."
"Ace..." the Doctor said in awe.
"Can we leave the angry ex argument for after we escape?" Shi asked.
Ace and the Doctor both looked sheepish. "Oh, right. Sorry," the Doctor said. "Exit's this way thereabouts."
Fifteen minutes and several wrong turns later, they had made it to the sunlight. Saguru shaded his eyes as he looked at the hulking monstrosity of a ship. "So now what do we do about the aliens?"
A second door, invisible from the outside, opened and out stepped a Dihaclyd of obvious authority. "I think we're about to find out," the Doctor stated.
The Dihaclyd approached the group and pointed at the Doctor. "You are the leader?"
"Leader of what?" the Doctor queried.
"Leader of Earth?"
"Earth? Oh no, Earth doesn't have a leader. Though I have on occasion served as Earth's Champion."
The Dihaclyd nodded. "Good. Tell your people that they do not suit our palate and that they have no more to fear from us."
The Dihaclyd turned and stepped back into his ship. The doors closed and thrusters fired, sending the ship flying off into space.
"Well that was... a bit undramatic," the Doctor finally commented.
Conan blinked several times. "I, ah... I should be getting home."
The Doctor nodded, serious. "Yes you should. We can't have you getting into any more extraterrestrial trouble until after you defeat the Black Organization. Or die trying, but it's the thought that counts."
Conan caught Shi's eyes. They each nodded, acknowledging each other. Conan knew who she was, and supposed he now felt like what Ran did whenever she was particularly convinced he was Shinichi. "Goodbye then. Maybe I'll meet all of you again."
The Doctor nodded again. "Maybe you will."
Conan parted ways from the group as they walked back in the direction of the TARDIS. As he walked he heard Saguru ask, "Edogawa Conan knows about the Black Organization?" Perhaps he would have to ask him about that next time they met.
Instead of going to Mouri's Detective Agency, he headed for Agasa's instead. Entering the house, he called out. "Professor!" He heard some strange sort of mechanical grinding noise. Frowning, he entered the living room on the way to the lab and saw Ai sitting on the couch flipping through a fashion magazine.
"What's that look for?" she asked him.
He blinked several times, then shook his head rapidly. All of a sudden it seemed wrong to see her this size. "You won't believe what happened at the park today."
"Try me."
Conan and Ai stared at each other for several moments. Finally Conan looked away. "Nah. Better not. Time is weird." He then ambled off in the direction of the lab.
Because he wouldn't want to accidentally give out a self-fulfilling prophecy. Those things tend to be bad.
Title: Time and Space and Shinichi Part 2
Fandoms: Doctor Who, Detective Conan, Magic Kaito
Rating: T
Genre: Action/Adventure
Characters: Hakuba Saguru, Haibara Ai, Edogawa Conan, Tenth Doctor, Ace McShane
Summary: Conan's in the park with a dead body, a blue box, and a shipload of aliens. The sonic screwdriver is weirding out, Saguru's been captured by the human-eating aliens, and Shiho's wondering why she isn't dead yet. It's because she runs really fast.
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"Where did they go?" Shi nearly screamed. Still carrying Conan, she darted around looking for them. Finally she set Conan down in order to violently kick something. "Damn it!"
The thing she kicked beeped in response and a hidden door slid into the wall. The corridor beyond was darker than the rest of the ship, and quite long. Shi and Conan looked at each other. "Game?" he asked.
"It's as good as anything else," Shi replied, and they started walking down the corridor.
As they walked their eyes slowly adjusted to the darkness. The walls were spotless, no electrical outlets, control panels, or lengths of wire of any sort. What little light there was seemed to come from the walls themselves. They walked for several minutes, finally coming to a dead end. Shi and Conan both searched the close area for some sort of way to open it, to no avail. Shi finally shrugged and kicked the dead end violently. It beeped again and the dead end became another open door.
Shi and Conan looked at each other again. "Someone likes their labyrinths," Conan remarked.
"And I don't like it. Come on."
The corridor beyond was much like the rest of the ship, and not like the one they had just been in. "So who are you?" Conan asked.
"I'm Shi," she responded.
"That's not what the Doctor was going to introduce you as."
"And I stopped him because you can't know me. Not yet anyway."
"So that really is a time machine?"
Shi nodded. "Yes. And paradoxes are dangerous things, so don't ask me again."
They came to a crossroads in the path. On either side were more corridors, and in front of them was a big door. "So do we wander more or see what's behind the door?" Conan asked.
"Door," Shi said. "If nothing else it'll be easier for the Doctor to find us again if we're not wandering."
"By choice or captivity?" Conan asked rhetorically as Shi eased open the door. The two of them walked in, looking around. Conan shivered. It felt like a fridge. Then he saw the large chunks of meat hanging from rows of hooks. It was a fridge. "The Dihaclyds... they eat humans, isn't that what you said?"
Shi nodded numbly. "There's another door at the other end. Let's get out of here before they get hungry."
They quickly moved to the other door, easing it open as well. Shi sniffed, and groaned. "Ugh. Something reeks."
Conan frowned. "It smells like blood. A lot of it."
The room beyond was smaller than the fridge but not by much. In the midde was a large table, large than most human tables. The floor around it was brown with dried blood. The Dihaclyds obviously didn't clean up very well. "It's a butcher's table," Shi remarked. "There's a block of knives right there... really big knives."
One wall was lined with cages, obviously where the Dihaclyds put their prey before cutting them up. Conan noticed that one of them was occupied. "Look!"
Shi rushed to the cage. "Saguru!" She tried to open the cage door but it was locked securely. "Saguru! Saguru!" Saguru didn't respond, thoroughly unconscious.
Conan reached between the bars with his small limbs and felt the other detective's pulse. "He's still alive. Probably just been drugged or knocked out."
Shi cast around. "We've got to find the keys. They've got to be around here somewhere."
Another door that they hadn't noticed before suddenly opened. "Hide!" Shi hissed, ducking herself and Conan into the dim light behind Saguru's cage. A giant reptile, large than most humans by about a foot, strode in. He walked on two feet, had green scaly skin, and large flaps for ears. From his belt hung a ring of keys, probably the ones they needed. Two more Dihaclyds followed him in, each carrying something. The first Dihaclyd walked over to the row of cages, but thankfully didn't notice Conan and Shi. He unlocked two of them. "Stick them in," he commanded, his voice deep and rough.
The other two Dihaclyds each put their burdens in a cage. Conan felt hopelessness start to overwhelm him. It was the Doctor and the woman named Ace! The first Dihaclyd locked the cages, and the other two left. He moved to the table and set the keys on top of it. He then picked up the largest knife and started sharpening it. The loud noise filled the room.
"Shit," Shi whispered. "Even if we could get the keys without him noticing, I can't move all three of them."
"Psst!"
Shi and Conan's heads jerked towards the Doctor, who grinned at them. "You're awake!" Shi exclaimed quietly.
The Doctor looked affronted. "Time Lord physiology, remember? Which'll be a bad thing if they find out, because supposedly Time Lord meat is particularly tasty. They'll obliterate Earth looking for more. Which they won't find of course, but they won't know that."
"Stop babbling and tell us how to get you guys out!"
The Doctor took stock of the occupants of the other cages. "Ace and Saguru, so we're all here. Well, the usual way to get someone out of a cage is to unlock the cage."
Shi pointed at the Dihaclyd butcher. The Doctor's face fell. "Oh."
"Oh indeed. Now how do we get you out oh mighty one?"
The Doctor bit his lower lip. "Well... without the sonic screwdriver... I... don't... know..."
"Surely you have something in those dimensionally transcendant pockets of yours."
The Doctor started searching the pockets of his coat vigorously, muttering to himself. "Piece of string... banana, oh that's got to be old by now... first draft of the Constitution... wind-up mouse... a locket with a broken chain... dead sonic screwdriver... bag of cookies... French-Gallifreyan dictionary... a pear, what is that doing there?" He pulled out the pear and deposited it on the floor of the cage with a look of disgust, then went back to rummaging. "Black marker... my pet budgerigar... Remember when we first met Shi? I had to get a budgerigar just because of that. A blue one, mind you. It doesn't blush though. I don't think budgerigars can blush, even blue ones. It's not in a black box either..."
"Doctor..." Shi warned.
"Right... two triple-A batteries... a toy soldier... hang on." He pulled the sonic screwdriver and the two batteries out of his coat pocket. He unscrewed the end of the screwdriver and two triple-A batteries landed in his hand. He stuck those in his pocket and inserted the two new ones. He screwed the end back on, and the screwdriver lit up. "Bingo!" he said, a huge grin on his face.
Shi and Conan both glared at him, dumbfounded. "The batteries were dead... but you had spares in your pocket," Shi stated evenly.
"Hey, don't blame me. I didn't remember that I had spares in my pocket."
"A super-advanced tool from outer space... takes two triple-A batteries?" Conan asked, the idea completely going over his head.
The Doctor ignored him, attempting to unlock the lock on his cage. Shi glanced at the butcher, who was still sharpening his knives with gusto. "I don't think we have very much longer."
The sonic screwdriver suddenly stopped buzzing. "Deadlocked," the Doctor said simply.
Shi banged her head against the wall behind her. "Start improvising then."
The Doctor grasped the bars of the cage, testing them. "Wood."
"What can you do with wood?"
"Well I can set it on fire, but I don't think that would work very well in the long run. However, for some reason the wood is joined by small blocks of concrete. Not the lightest of building materials, but if the shoe fits..." The sonic screwdriver started buzzing again.
"Now what are you doings?"
"Trying to resonate concrete."
"Hey Doctor?" Conan asked.
"What?"
"How thick do you suppose the heads of Dihaclyds are?"
"Well, they actually get knocked out quite easily," the Doctor responded absent-mindedly. "Which is surprising, because otherwise they're physically sound. Why do you ask Conan?" When Conan didn't answer, he looked up. "Conan? Oh no..."
Conan had left the safety of the shadows and was sneaking around behind the Dihaclyd looking for something round. He finally found something. He would have preferred something that didn't look like (and probably was) a half-rotted human skull, but beggars can't be choosers. Powering up his shoes, he kicked it straight at the large Dihaclyd.
The Dihaclyd was out in an instant. The Doctor started clapping. "Oh bravo!"
"Shi, can you reach the keys?" Conan asked.
Shi got up and grabbed them. "With pleasure." She unlocked first the Doctor, then Saguru and Ace.
The Doctor slapped Ace's cheeks lightly. "Come on Ace. Wake up."
Ace groaned. "Ugh... Hi Professor."
The Doctor grinned. "Hello Ace."
Meanwhile Shi had woken Saguru up. "What happened?" she asked him.
Saguru rubbed his head. "They hit me from behind with something."
The Doctor nodded. "Same with us. Now let's get out of here before the Big Bad Butcher wakes up."
Saguru glanced at the unconscious Dihaclyd, grimacing. "I'd hate to be in the stomach of that thing."
"Let's go." Shi said impatiently.
Together the five of them started wandering the ship trying to find a way out. "So Professor, who're your friends?"
The Doctor grinned. "Oh! Ace, this is Saguru, Conan, and, uh, Shi," he said at a glare from Shi. "Saguru, Shi, and Conan, this is Ace."
"I see. Nice to meet you all. So Professor, after you wandered off to fight a war, you just picked more people up, even though you promised that if you were still alive you'd come get me!" Ace slapped him.
"Ow... I might've deserved that."
"Might've? Might've? You never came back! You said you would and you didn't! You said you had gone to war! I'd thought you'd died! And damn it Professor, you didn't exactly leave me in the friendliest place either!"
The Doctor was confused. "But if I didn't leave you in the friendliest place ever, how did you get here?"
Ace rolled her eyes and got a sadistic look on her face. "I met a Time Agent in a bar. We had a few drinks together, things led to more things, and I slipped him a sleeping pill. Nicked his ship right out from under him. Literally. Poor guy was sleeping on top of it."
"Ace..." the Doctor reproached.
"Hey, he deserved it. Mentioned something about thinking of turning into a con artist. A con artist with a time machine, now there's a scary idea."
"Ace..." the Doctor said in awe.
"Can we leave the angry ex argument for after we escape?" Shi asked.
Ace and the Doctor both looked sheepish. "Oh, right. Sorry," the Doctor said. "Exit's this way thereabouts."
Fifteen minutes and several wrong turns later, they had made it to the sunlight. Saguru shaded his eyes as he looked at the hulking monstrosity of a ship. "So now what do we do about the aliens?"
A second door, invisible from the outside, opened and out stepped a Dihaclyd of obvious authority. "I think we're about to find out," the Doctor stated.
The Dihaclyd approached the group and pointed at the Doctor. "You are the leader?"
"Leader of what?" the Doctor queried.
"Leader of Earth?"
"Earth? Oh no, Earth doesn't have a leader. Though I have on occasion served as Earth's Champion."
The Dihaclyd nodded. "Good. Tell your people that they do not suit our palate and that they have no more to fear from us."
The Dihaclyd turned and stepped back into his ship. The doors closed and thrusters fired, sending the ship flying off into space.
"Well that was... a bit undramatic," the Doctor finally commented.
Conan blinked several times. "I, ah... I should be getting home."
The Doctor nodded, serious. "Yes you should. We can't have you getting into any more extraterrestrial trouble until after you defeat the Black Organization. Or die trying, but it's the thought that counts."
Conan caught Shi's eyes. They each nodded, acknowledging each other. Conan knew who she was, and supposed he now felt like what Ran did whenever she was particularly convinced he was Shinichi. "Goodbye then. Maybe I'll meet all of you again."
The Doctor nodded again. "Maybe you will."
Conan parted ways from the group as they walked back in the direction of the TARDIS. As he walked he heard Saguru ask, "Edogawa Conan knows about the Black Organization?" Perhaps he would have to ask him about that next time they met.
Instead of going to Mouri's Detective Agency, he headed for Agasa's instead. Entering the house, he called out. "Professor!" He heard some strange sort of mechanical grinding noise. Frowning, he entered the living room on the way to the lab and saw Ai sitting on the couch flipping through a fashion magazine.
"What's that look for?" she asked him.
He blinked several times, then shook his head rapidly. All of a sudden it seemed wrong to see her this size. "You won't believe what happened at the park today."
"Try me."
Conan and Ai stared at each other for several moments. Finally Conan looked away. "Nah. Better not. Time is weird." He then ambled off in the direction of the lab.
Because he wouldn't want to accidentally give out a self-fulfilling prophecy. Those things tend to be bad.