Audio: Someone's Home!.. and pissed

[deductionrival]

Whoever keeps kidnapping us and stuffing us in a shimatta suitcase needs to go to Hell! Kuso!

[A very angry huff is heard, followed by a much softer 'ow'. Someone wasn't watching where he was going as he stumbled around getting his bearings in the baggage car.]

If you've done anything to my friends while I was gone you're going to regret it! Shimatta!

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[deductionrival]

[That was kind of... sweet. Dare he say the gem thief was happy to hear from him?]

Yeah? Great! I didn't have much time after I heard the voice call me. Like I don't even remember putting it down before.. well, I was waking up here. How long was I gone?

[stealsyourheart]

[ Yes. But he's not admitting it to you! ]

Damn. You've been gone long enough to send tantei-kun twitching. [ He tattles cheerfully ]

We were hoping you'd come back with some decent info.

[deductionrival]

[And that gets a quick laugh out of him. Dammit Kaito! He's trying to be mad here!]

Ah! So Conan actually missed me? I'm flattered.

[He sighs, wishing he had something better to say to that.]

I was hoping I would too, but I don't. The only reason I know what's going on is we were talking about how this happened to other people otherwise.. Anyway, what I do know is I heard the conductor's voice say 'Hattori Heiji, you are needed in the control coach'. It was just like the announcements that come over the ICP. I didn't know where the control coach was but I left the message instead. Then I woke up in the suitcase. It doesn't even feel like any time passed between those two things.

[stealsyourheart]

[ He prefers you happy, k? ]

Damn. [ He sighs ] Oh well. Maybe stuff will come back to you later? I wish I knew their fascination with suitcases though. Like. You could be returned normally but nooooo. Gotta come back in a suitcase. Gives a person ideas.

[deductionrival]

[Most people do. An angry Hattori was never a good thing, just ask his dad's co-workers.]

Right? It's so demeaning! I'd like to stuff whoever is doing that into a suitcase and see how they like it.

[Another sigh.]

So what have I missed?

[stealsyourheart]

[ True. Also, he prefers his Detectives Alive and Well, and (mostly) Happy ]

Maybe they think it's an easy way to return people without stopping at a platform? Gotta be something more comfortable though....

Eh. You missed Conan and I resorting to UNO. It's no fun playing poker with only two of us. [ They do rather know all each other's tricks by now ] And you missed the snowball fights in the garden car - that was Epic. I got soaked. And they had hot chocolate!

[deductionrival]

What I don't understand is why take us in the first place? What are they doing with us and and why?

[He didn't feel like anything had changed, physically.

He laughed about UNO.]

That's bad if you- a snowball fight? I missed a snowball fight?!

[He's so mad all over again!]

[stealsyourheart]

Dunno - was kinda hoping you'd come back with some info!

[ He sighs and laughs ]

You could ask the Spider. Charlotte, I think? She's was hoovering up snow into some subdimensional pocket. Maybe she can make a few snowballs for ya?

[deductionrival]

So was I. Did you figure out my message? I was afraid if I made it obvious the conductor or whoever took me might see it.

[Anyway... now that he missed all the fun.]

Maybe later. Right now I'm starving.

[stealsyourheart]

Conan did. He's better at that sort of thing than I am, anyway. Clever, to leave it in your hat!

[ He laughs ]

Well, we can visit the dining car, then! Sadly I'm no flash cook, but let's see what we can wrangle.

[deductionrival]

[When they meet up in the hallway on the way to the kitchen, Hattori is looking highly amused.]

You just said Conan was better at something than you. Do I need to remind you how bad of an idea it is to say that aloud?

[That is dangerous! Do you want Conan's ego to get even bigger?]

[stealsyourheart]

[ Kaito is waiting for him in the corridor, hands in pockets and grinning ]

Sssh, not where he can hear you! I'm not wanting his ego to increase, am I?

[deductionrival]

[Hattori laughs and shakes his head.]

I wouldn't want to subject the train to that.

[He started down the hall toward the kitchen.]

Have I missed anything besides the snowball fight? According to Madoka, it's been three weeks.

[stealsyourheart]

Yeah about that. And not much really. The snow, the new arrivals. The dinosaurs....

[deductionrival]

Dinosaurs?

[He turned as he stepped through the door to the kitchen.]

Anyone interesting with the new arrivals?

[stealsyourheart]

Dinosaurs.

[ Kaito grins at him ]

We had to catch them with yoyos. Like this!

[ GUESS WHO PINCHED ONE FROM THE LAST STOP. GUESS WHO IS USING IT ON HATTORI ]

[deductionrival]

[Hattori was about to question that further when he looked and saw one of the yoyos aimed at him.]

What? No!

[He didn't move out of the way before the lasso wrapped around him.]

Kaito! You dirtbag!

[He struggled to get out. He was so strangling his friend when he got out of this!]

[stealsyourheart]

[ Kaito is bent over laughing, but he comes over to help Hattori unlock the thing ]

Sorry. [ He wheezes ] I had to!

[deductionrival]

[As soon as Kaito had the restraint loosened, Hattori was tackling him with a martial arts cry. He grappled with his friend, making a show of attacking him without actually causing any harm.]

[stealsyourheart]

[ Kaito bats at him, but he's still cackling with laughter and doesn't put up a terribly convincing fight. Instead he squirms, putting to good use that infamous flexibility that has Nakamori's squad cursing ]