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He was hiding away in the professors home, the basement to be exact, the last safe heaven he has. Edogawa Conan formerly Kudo Shinichi is now the last one standing of his allies and friends, they all thought that they were ready for the face off but turns out they were wrong oh so very WRONG.
It has been a few years since he was shrunk from his 16 year old body into that of a 6 year old. He was 10 when he decided to come clean to all his friends, to come clean to Ran. And it all went so well at first, everyone he told offered him their support and trust. Everyone that care about him wanted in on the take down of the Black Organization, and so they planned.
But with how well it all first went, with how accepting and forgiving everyone was of his lies he let his guard down.
When members of the FBI, CIA, Mi6, PSB and all other parties, friends and family alike that were against the Black Organization team up and decided to fight as one entity they didn't realize that they had a traitor in their midst, one who was there for every meeting, every plan, EVERYTHING and that traitor took hold of the adults first. At what was supposed to be a normal, safe, conference at the PSB building the traitor made their move and killed everyone there.
The ones that were safe was himself, Heiji, Ran, Kazuha, his parents, professor Agasa, Ai, Furuya Rei, and Akai Shuichi who were all hiding away at the request of their parents in the Kudo manor while listening in on what was supposed to be a normal conference.
Heiji, Ran and Kazuha lost their parents that day. Everyone they know in the police force, and every odd yet reliable friend they made were gone in a blink of an eye. They all died due to poisoning that was released in the conference room, the doors were locked and any attempt to brake it down was useless because the poison was incredibly fast acting, not one of them stood a chance.
What's worse is that it was broadcasted life to the whole world, as an example and warning to everyone who would dare go against the organization.
They went into hiding after that. The Kudo manor and the professor's home was made into a bunker with all the security measures they added. They were safe as they could be.
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Shinichi haven't seen any of his friends smile or make any other expression other than blank acceptance in weeks, the adults were no better.
Professor Agasa was more often than not locked in his house inventing something that he said would save them. Furuya-san and Akai-san were always up at every hour keeping surveillance they said. Ai was couped up in her lab trying to make an antidote. While he and his parents tried their best to comfort his friends.
His parents, professor Agasa, Furuya-san, and Akai-san all insisted that they, the kids, stay inside no matter what, any supplies they would need were taken care off. The children were forbidden from going out, even if they wore his mother's disguises, and everyone agreed.... Everyone except him that is.
He kept trying to come up with some kind of plan, because there must be something, anything, that he can do. He, be it as Kudo Shinichi or Edogawa Conan, who made more progress than any of the government organizations did against the BO, he who was the reason that they all got together to fight, he who caused their deaths. He had to take responsibility for his failings.
Heiji, Ai, Ran and Kazuha didn't see it that way but they have always been far too forgiving of him. So for their sake he pretended to not drown in guilt and self hatred. But once everyone was asleep he would stay awake and try to come up with a plan. Because when he has both Kaito KID and Vermouth at his disposal, both willing to do the work while he be the brains of the operations there's no way that he can make a mistake again RIGHT?
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His answer came in a month with a package sent to their doorsteps address to him from KID. Furuya-san and Akai-san were the ones who open it, him and his parents were the first to see. And everyone else bare witnessed to its contents afterwards.
He told his friends to stay back, to stay inside in case anything happen, so Heiji convinced the girls to stay at the entrance of their home while he went on ahead. Ai manage to convince professor Agasa to stay behind with them as well.
What was inside was the dismembered heads of Kaito KID and Vermouth, their eyes gauge out and mouth stuffed with other bits and pieces of their cut up body, written on their forehead were the words 'traitor' and 'failure' along with that was a note and a box.
The note stated that his efforts while almost successful wasn't nearly enough when other organization members realized Vermouth's fondness for him, realise that Kaito KID lied to them but because Anokata was impressed he sent him a 'gift'. He read the note again and again and again, because there was something about the note that was bothering him. But he once again realized to late.
When his father went to open the box he was to late to warn them, to far away to pull them all to the safety of their house but close enough that he was caught up in the explosion. Because on the note he released that what was bothering him was it's smell, it smelled exactly like the chemicals that were used by Plamya and when he realized it a bright light and flames overtook his vision.
He was blown away from his parents and Akai-san and Furuya-san, straight into the doors of the manor. He lost his conciseness then and when he finally came too he was lying on a bed in the professor's home. The first person he sees after waking up was a sleeping Ai and Ran, both looking worse for ware, then in came Heiji with bandages on his hands and neck.
When he saw that he was awake Heiji scream his name loud enough that it woke up the two occupants of the room as well as having professor Agasa and Kazuha run into the room looking panicked.
When everyone saw that he was awake he was promptly hugged by them all and he felt that everyone was shaking and crying, not really knowing what exactly happened he simply hug them back and gave them all reassuring words to calm them down.
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Once everyone calmed down they explain how the bomb went off killing those who were outside, how he was blown back and passed out shortly afterwards. Heiji was the one who picked him up and he was also the one who had to restart his heart when it stopped beating for a moment while they were hiding.
That right after the explosion some BO members fire at them and they had to run back to the professor's home for safety, while grabbing what they can from the Kudo manor, mainly guns, bombs, and any other weaponry. They told him how they all had to kill their attackers to get to safety, and eventually every other person who tried to get to them.
And everyone became even more protective of him after that. He wasn't allowed to do anything on his own, the incident where his heart stopped traumatized them to much, and because he simply refused to sit by uselessly while everyone else work hard he came up with a compromise that he was to always have one or more person with him when he's out buying their necessities, because without his mother only he could make disguises good enough to fool others and he was adamant about coming along for each supply run.
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And once again everything was peaceful for a few months, until the BO decided that they had enough of playing cat and mouse and attack them when they were all getting ready for dinner. He along with professor Agasa was separated from the others, he heard their screams and the gun shoots and everything else that happen between one moment and the next but he refused to believe that his family were gone until he saw for himself.
Professor Agasa took him to the basement where he explain that he was working on a time machine, a real working time machine, that could take the subject inside to the past. It's not truly complete yet, nor is the machine able to send someone back to a precise time but it does work. The professor explain how he experimented on objects first then animals and it would always work, but he's never done so for a human.
They heard the foot steps of people marching to where they were and they looked at each other a knowing dread filling their stomach, the professor knelt down and hold his shoulders tightly "Shinichi... I could try to send you back. But there's no guarantee that it'll work... What.." And Shinichi, who's adverse to touching and would, on a good day, only tolerate touch from people he is close with HUG the professor, a man who raised him as much if not more than his parents did. Shinichi hug him tightly and smile at him reassuringly "Even if it fail, I would not want to live in a world without my precious people in it... Professor please it it can make everything better, if I can safe even just one person... I'll have to try"
And so that's what they did. Professor Agasa power the machine up as Shinichi steps inside, he took a deep breath and smile brightly at the professor "I'll see you soon, professor Agasa!"
And everything fade away in a flash of bright light.