The girl slowly regained consciousness.
Her mind was still fuzzy and her vision was blurry, but could see that she was in a bedroom.
She looked around, trying to figure out what happened.
The bedroom had a Victorian fashion in it, especially with the windows and the canopy bed.
She stood up from the bed and now noticed that she was still wearing her very big clothes for a child like her. Her attention then was caught by various photos. One was depicting a young girl, probably a teenager, with closely-cropped dark hair and dark eyes, smiling. The other was depicting seven men: One was an old man with white hair and blue eyes, wearing an Edwardian-era suit, the other was a short younger man in his 40s with a "Beatles-style" bob cut and wearing the same as the previous man but messier and with a bowtie. Another one was a tall middle-aged man with curly grey hair and wearing a velvet suit, another one was a tall, grinning young man with curly brown hair, big blue eyes and bright white teeth, giving him a creepy aura, another one was a much younger man with blonde hair, wearing an Edwardian cricket suit, another was a tall man with blonde curly hair and was a frock coat so colourful that looked like a unicorn puked on it and a short man wearing a pullover with many question marks on it.
The girl left the room and found herself in a large Victorian-esque room, with a console/pillar at the centre of it.
The Doctor, who was fixing the console, noticed the girl.
"Finally awake, eh?" He said, "I was getting worried."
"Who…Who are you?" She asked.
"I'm the Doctor." the Doctor introduced himself, "You?"
"...Shiho."
“Nice to meet you, Shiho.”
“Where…Am I?” Sherry asked, as she noticed the TARDIS door and went to open it.
Her mind blew up when she saw that she wasn’t on Earth, but in the middle of space.
"Well, now you know." the Doctor came closer to her. “Aah, it’s beautiful out there, isn’t it? I can never have enough of it.”
“...Yeah.” Shiho said, still trying to elaborate what the hell is going on. “How…Am I still breathing? An oxygen bubble, perhaps?"
The Doctor was impressed. "Spot on. Not bad for a child."
"Child?" Sherry thought, as he looked down at herself. "Oh, right, I forgot that."
An awkward silence fell between the two. The Doctor closed the TARDIS doors and went to the console.
"Well then, I'm gonna bring you back home. Where is it?" He asked.
"Beika-cho, Japan." She said.
The Time Lord put the coordinates on the console. "Hold tight!" He pulled down the lever and the TARDIS flew high speed.
However he had various suspicions about Shiho while he kept a neutral facade:
“How did she get in here? It should be impossible, I was in deep space, also, this girl doesn’t convince me, is she really a child? She seemed way too composed about it, she wakes up in a spaceship with a weird child piloting it and she isn’t scared at all? What reaction is that? Enough thinking, maybe it’s better if I talk with Conan, he looks like he has more information than me about our “poisoners” than I do.” he thought.
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Meanwhile, the school day ended at Teitan Elementary and Conan and the Detective Boys were investigating the disappearance of a student named Toshiya’s older brother. According to him, his brother went missing a week ago after he said he was going to visit a friend, and hasn’t been seen since. So, the group went to his house to search for clues.
Toshiya brought them to his brother's room and went to search for clues.
Conan found a wallet inside.
“It’s his wallet, I doubt he would have left it here if he ran away from home.” He thought
“There are so many paintings under the bed!” Ayumi said, as he pulled out various paintings from under the bed.
Conan recognised them all. “Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet…They’re all reproductions of famous paintings.”
“My brother is in the Art Club at school, he’s good at reproducing paintings.”
“Maybe they kidnapped him to force him to reproduce various paintings!” Genta proposed.
“I don’t think so, reproducing famous paintings and switching them with the real ones…” Mitsuhiko said.
“I agree, it’s not for that reason. The colours and the personal impression aren’t perfect for being faked, plus, there is one painting that intrigues me the most…” Conan showed the children a painting depicting a man.
“I think I saw him before! It’s Natsume Soseki!” Ayumi said.
“He’s my brother’s favourite author! He liked this painting so much that he presented it in a gallery!” Toshiya said, “However, it was harshly criticised because it looked like a photo, it was only congratulated by that strange woman…”
“A strange woman?” Conan said.
“Yup! She wore a large hat and was dressed in black from head to toe.” Toshiya said.
Conan’s heart skipped a beat when Toshiya said the last sentence. “Did he just say…Dressed in black?!?!” he thought, “When did it happen? When did you see her?”
“Um, 10 days ago, I think…”
“Was she alone or were there other men dressed in black?!”
“Huh..Yes, there were two men in black.”
“I knew it. It’s them , aren’t they?” Conan thought, there was a chance that those who kidnapped Toshiya’s brother and those who poisoned him and the Doctor were the same people.
“Something’s wrong, Conan?” Ayumi asked, worried.
“...Nothing.” Conan tried to regain composure. “Let’s search around the neighbourhood. Your brother’s wallet is in the drawer and his bike is in the hallway, he’s probably held prisoner nearby.
The group rushed outside, searching for Toshiya’s brother.
They searched everywhere, the mall, the café, the arcade: Nothing.
Until, Conan noticed a man with black dressed all in black: black shirt and trousers, with sunglasses and a hat.
He followed him into a market, where the man bought a pack of cigarettes with a 1000 yen bill.
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Conan entered inside when the man left and went to the cashier. "Excuse me, miss, could I see the bill that man just used?"
"Huh-"
"Quick!" Conan gave a punch at the cash, opening it. He took the bill and checked it: There was no filigree on it.
“Ma’am, call the police. This bill is fake.” he said, as he rushed away to chase.
The Detective Boys, seeing Conan running, chased him too.
“Conan! What happened?” Ayumi said.
“What’s with the store? You talked about a fake bi-”
“Sshh!” Conan interrupted Genta, “This man bought a pack of cigarettes with a 1000 yen bill, he waited although he could have bought it from the distributors in front of the store…Because the machine wouldn’t have accepted it, while with a salesclerk…”
“I don’t see the link with the disappearance of my brother!” Toshiya said.
“There is one! Don’t you remember that painting of Natsume Soseki?”
“Right! There is his portrait on every 1000 yen bill!” Mitsuhiko said.
“That’s right!” Conan said, “Now, I have to go.”
“Huh? Why?” The Detective Boys said in unison.
“What about the fake bill?” Ayumi asked.
“Oh, well…My bad! It has nothing to do with it! I have to go now, BYE!" Conan ran away.
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In reality, he continued chasing the man in black without the kids disturbing him
His research led him to Daitoma Train Station.
At the same time, the TARDIS rematerialised near the station.
The Doctor and Shiho,who changed into more comfortable clothes, came out of it and ran into Conan.
“Oh, Conan, there you are.”
“Doctor!” Conan stopped running to talk to the Time Lord, then he immediately noticed Shiho. “Who is she?”
“Her name is Shiho, she’s…A friend of mine.” The Doctor lied for the moment, seeing the boy with glasses so in a hurry. “Anyway, you seemed in a hurry, did something happen?”
“I’m investigating the disappearance of a classmate’s older brother. Plus, there’s counterfeit money involved.”
“Quite the busy case, I see. Do you mind if we join you?”
“Sure.” Conan said.
“Are those kids your friends?” Shiho pointed at…the Detective Boys, visibly annoyed, glaring at Conan.
“Here we go again…” Conan thought.
“Sneaking again so that you could take all the merit, huh?” Genta said.
Conan sheepishly chuckled. “Yeah…I’m sorry…Anyway, I think I know where our kidnappers are…”
“Really?” The Detective Boys said in unison.
“Yeah.” Conan said, “I did some research, and a local editorial board recently bought a printing machine, in an apartment right close to a Police station.” He pointed at the building.
“And what’s wrong with that?” Genta asked.
“Commiting a crime behind a police station sounds like a stupid idea, right? So, nobody would suspect that someone would actually do that…” the Doctor explained.
“Spot on!” Conan said. “I think they’re hiding in that typography. Now, you guys stay here, the Doctor and I will take care of it, since it may be dangerous.”
Conan, followed by the Doctor, went towards the typography.
However, the Detective Boys, partly incited by Shiho, did the most natural thing for a child when they’re given an order: Do the exact opposite of what they’ve been told to.
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“Do you think that the criminals that kidnapped that child’s brother are the same ones as those men in black who poisoned us?” the Doctor asked, as they ran.
“There’s a high chance.” Conan said. The boy called the police and, using his Voice-Changing bowtie, he imitated his original adult voice and warned them about the situation.
Meanwhile, the kids entered in the typography, looking for some evidence.
And in the other room, the lady in black punched the man with the hat.
“W-Wait, Boss! Forgive me!” He said, frightened.
“You idiot, I told you not to use the bills without the filigree!” the Lady in Black said.
“They looked so real that…”.
“Tsk…Just wait and I’ll give you so many bills that you won’t know what to do with them anymore, not only 1000 yen bills…But also 10000 yen bills!” the Lady in Black said, as Toshiya’s brother continued working on the paintings. “I hope you bought the paints I asked for…”
“Y-Yes, everything's here!” The man said, “I did some tests, this paint seems better than the other one…”
“O-Oi! There’s someone in the other room!” A fat man with a moustache and sunglasses said, as he looked at the monitor, “They’re kids! Five kids!”
“TOSHIY-” Toshiya’s brother called him for help, but was immediately shutted by the other minions.
“Huh, so he came here to look for his older brother…” The Lady in Black said, as she pulled out a gun from the bag. “How cute.”
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“WHAT?!” the Doctor and Conan said in unison to the policemen. “They went to that apartment?!”
“They did, they said they went to search for proofs.” one of the policemen said.
Conan and the Doctor rushed to the building as fast as they could, hoping they would arrive in time before things went south.
They arrived at the door, and eavesdropped on the Detective Boys talking.
However, the moment the Doctor touched the handle, the man with sunglasses pointed the gun at the two.
“Sorry kids, but you’re done playing Detectives.” he said.
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“I think we should leave, we might get scolded…” Ayumi tried to persuade her friends.
“Noisy!” Genta said. “If you want to leave, then do it!”
“Guys, look!” Mitsuhiko pulled out various papers with many bills printed on them from a drawer.
“Wow, so many 10000 yen bills!” Ayumi said.
“With this much money, I could buy roasted eels as much as I want!” Genta said, happy.
“Hold on, these bills look strange…” Mitsuhiko commented, as he pointed to the portrait Yukichi Fukuzawa on the bill. “His left eye is missing.”
“Just like a Daruma doll.” The Lady in Black entered the room, pointing her gun at the kids “Both eyes will when the wish is fulfilled…Like if these bills are finally complete…”
“Toshiya!” Toshiya’s brother said, tied up.
“Brother!” Toshiya tried to reach his brother, but him and the Detective Boys were blocked by the Lady in Black’s minions.
“Leave those kids alone!” Toshiya’s brother demanded. “I won’t cooperate anymore if you hurt them!”
“Don’t worry, I’ll leave your brother for last. Bring the girl here.”
The dark-haired man took Ayumi and brought to the Lady in Black, as she pointed her gun at the child.
“H-Hey…What are you trying to do?!” Toshiya’s brother asked.
“I’m trying to motivate you, of course. I’m sure your work will accelerate if I kill one of those kids every time.”
“DOCTOR, HEEELLLPP!” Ayumi yelled in despair, she started to weep.
“Doctor?” The Lady in Black repeated. “Doctor Who?”
“PRECISELY!” A suave voice familiar to the Detective Boys spoke, giving them hope once again.
Suddenly, a soccer ball came out from the door hitting the Lady in Black’s arm, disarming her.
“Who’s there?!” She asked.
“Let me guess, that man with the beard was the original painter, wasn’t he? He got injured before the job was finished, so you kidnapped Toshiya’s brother to do the job in his place. I suppose you were going to use this fake money in various things, pachinko machines, ATMs, hippodromes…So that you won’t get caught the moment they realise the money is fake, am I wrong, madam?”
“Who…WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?!” The Lady in Black asked.
Conan and the Doctor came out of the shadows.
“Hello, I’m the Doctor.” The Time Lord said.
“And I’m Conan Edogawa, a Detective.” Conan smirked.
The Detective Boys were filled with hope when they saw their two friends safe and sound.
“Impossible, I’m sure Inuyama…” The Lady in Black.
“Oh, you mean that fat fellow? I knocked him out with some good old Venusian Aikido.” the Doctor calmly said.
“Venusian…Aikido?” The Lady in Black repeated, perplexed.
“Yup! Also, Conan disarmed you by kicking Inuyama’s gun. Like this!”
Conan kicked with his power-enchanted shoes two paint barrels, knocked two minions.
The Lady in Black was going to take the gun, but Shiho was quicker and shot three times through the window near her, attracting the attention of the Police, shocking everyone and raising the Doctor’s suspicions.
Eventually, the Lady and her minions got arrested, it turned out that the criminals weren’t in any way related to the Organisation and were a notorious group of counterfeit money dealers.
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After all these shenanigans, the Doctor reunited Conan, Shiho and the Detective Boys near the TARDIS.
“What have you called us for, Doctor?” Ayumi asked.
“Well, I’ve thought of a wonderful present of all of you, even if Shiho already knows. Now, close your eyes, everyone.” the Doctor said. The kids obliged.
The Time Lord opened the doors of the TARDIS and brought the group inside. “Okay, you may open your eyes.”
The kids did it, the feeling of amazement overwhelmed them at the sight of the TARDIS interior, so large, so elegant, so majestic.
“Time And Relative Dimension In Space. Guys, welcome to the TARDIS.” the Doctor proudly said.
“What the-?!” Conan was completely flabbergasted, checked the exterior and interior of the TARDIS various times, confused, while the Time Lord watched him amused.
“So, what do you think?”
“It’s bigger on the inside!” The Detective Boys and Conan said in unison, the former with excitement, the latter with shock.
The Time Lord smiled. “I decided to bring all of you with me in my trips across Time and Space, but first, I should warn you.” the Doctor walked around the console, as the kids had all of their attention towards their alien friend. “You’re gonna see all sorts of things, monsters in the past, aliens in the future, stars being born and civilisations collapsing. It won’t be quiet, it won’t be safe and it definitely won’t be calm, but I can promise you what will be…The Trip of a Lifetime.”
The Detective Boys were full of adrenaline caused by the Doctor’s speech.
Conan chuckled. “Well, I suppose getting a vacation for free doesn’t sound too bad…You’ve convinced me, Doctor, I’m in.”
“Me too! I wanna see the stars!” Ayumi said.
“Same!” Genta said.
“I can’t wait!” Mitsuhiko said.
“It seems to be unanimous. I’m in.” Shiho said.
The Doctor clapped once. “Wonderful, hold tight guys, the journey will be turbulent.” He pulled down a lever and the TARDIS dematerialised and as it levitated throughout the Time Vortex, the TARDIS team braced themselves for their new adventures.
<------To Be Continued------