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Detective Conan
Copyright © 1994
Gosho Aoyama

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Welcome to the Dark Side: Detective Conan Republic
Copyright © 2012
jB

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Chapter 2

Nowhere

Shinichi Kudo formerly knownーas I've said in the prologueーthe famous Highschool Detective of the East, now in the body and identity of the not-so-normal Conan Edogawa, stood there, with nothing but a plain set of pajamas over his underwearーor would you have preffered he had nothing?ーin the middle of Nowhere.

Nowhere, a place of nothing but white. Not a color caught his vision. Not a sound reached his ears. Not a matter to be recognized by any of his sense organs.

"Doko da, koko wa?" ("Where is this place?) Asking to particularly no one, the shrank teen observed his surroundings of nothing.

Then came in of Nowhere, a voice very familiar to his ears, forming the words, "Ara? Kudou-kun?" ("Oh? Kudo-kun?)

Those words letter by letter, character by character, one by one, hit the back of his head like flying baseballs.

As the balls hit his head, they bounced back to where it came from, disappearing letter by letter, character by character, one by one, twinkled like stars in the night sky. Then to the boy's surprised, something popped out of the whiteness.

No. It was someone. Someone poppedーlitterallyーout of the whiteness, and almost stumbled upon the clean white floor. Someone whose voice not only familiar to him, but also the face, the features and the icy, freezing personality.

"Haibara?" He muttered staring at the strawberry-blonde girl, in her own set of plain pajamas.

The girl who shared the same fate as him also had the confusion written on her face. However, before she could reply, another voice came to their hearing.

This time, not flying letters but a train of words that ran on the white tracks that they hadn't noticed being drawn on the ground between them. "Konan-kun? Ai-chan?" (Conan-kun? Ai-chan?)

Of course, the two shrank teens just stared at the train of words that passed them and in through the whiteness again. Then, before they could even blink, another familiar character in their complicated lives walked out of the whiteness, rather normally. No exhibitions, no styles.

And I couldn't see it in any other possible ways.

Don't worry. It's just me and my serious favoritism habits.

"Ran-neechan? Doushite koko ni?" ("Ran-neechan? Why are you here?")

So, maybe, this time you were all expecting that the elder girl could answer. But of course, that would be unfair.

So let's bring in the next Celebrity.

Oops.

I meant, bring up the next Celebrity.

A part of the white ground suddenly dropped deep under the floor creating a big hole. From there, words popped out like bubbles from a tub. "Oi! Tasukerou!" ("Hey! Help me!")

As the letters and characters popped like they were really just 3D-alphabet-shaped bubbles, a hand came out from the hole, grabbed the edge of the hole, while grunts could be heard coming from the hole.

It's fun to type "hole" three times, isn't it?

A hand came out. Yes, I know that you already read that. I'm quite redundant most of the times. It's a really bad habit. I already told myself to fiー

Oops. The limit is only 10 000.

Of course, who wouldn't be curious right? So even if that hand might have been a disembodied one, the three previously mentioned characters peeked through the hole, hole, hole of whiteness. Please note that there were no typos in this paragraph.

And I really had the urge of adding emo-letters after that line.

XD

There, I did it.

Fanfiction amateurs are so spoiled.

Fortunately, there was a body attached to the hand. The body of another famous detective. The Detective of the West, Barney!

SMACK

Okay, okay! Geez! These are the jokes, people.

And you can stop that kind of stare now.

Let me grab Barney out of the picture then, and replace the purple dinosaur with the real Detective of the West.

Conan's eyes widened as he recognized the young detective, blurting, "Hattori!" which obviously gained him a weird look from Ran. Smooth, wasn't it?

Well, here's something smoother. Conan, as usual, released a nervous laugh as he rephrased his outburst, "E-eto...Heiji-niichan!" (I-I mean, Heiji-niichan!) Predictably, Ran just shrugged it off.

Very smooth indeed, even Ai agreed with me. If you could just see that roll of her eyes.

"Hayo agete kure!" (Bring me up already!) shouted the almost forgotten hanging detective. The three who just realized they still need to help Osaka's highschool detective, scrambled to lift him up from the hole.

It seemed like Heiji's hell was really scared out of him. But as they managed to lift him up to his feet, I decided to drop down the next character.

Yes, you read it right. Drop...down.

And down went the wood-letter-scream of another Osaka friend on Heiji's head. I'm quite sure you know what happened next. Not half a minute later, Heiji had his face flat on the ground with Kazuha using his back as cushion for her fall.

Kazuha blinked in surprise and confusion, staring at the other three who had their eyes widened at the scene.

However, as this chapter was taking too long for my taste, and procrastination was trying to consume me again, I didn't give them any chance to exchange any dialogs that time.

So before they could speak anything, let's bring the last Celebrity for this chapter.

"Chikazukuna, salmon!" (Get away from me, salmon!) came the ear-piercing cry of the phantom thief as he swam his way towards the aforementioned Celebrities' direction.

Before you ask, yes, he did swam. Just look at how the white ground splashed around him as he swam with his eyes closed.

It would probably be best to wake him up already.

A wall of white formed between the first five characters and the sleep-swimming Kaitou, rendering the five in awe. Only a loud thud pulled them back into the present and silenced them for a good few seconds.

The precious silence that was broken by a loud laugh that came out of nowhere.

Ouch.

My stomach's starting to hurt.

~ Nowhere/End ~

~ jB ~