Edgeworth's Christmas Carol

I don't own any of these characters or basic plot. Those belong to Capcom and Charles Dickens respectively. If I did own Ace Attorney, Investigations 2 would have come out in America

Chapter 1: Setting the Scene

Christmas time, the busiest time of the year for Miles Edgeworth. Sure it was advertised as the most "wonderful" time of year, it was also the busiest for a prosecutor of Edgeworth's stature. He was practically wading through paperwork concerning murders, suicides, theft, and all other crimes the holiday season bought about. All of this and much more has caused Mr. Edgeworth to lose his sight of the Christmas spirit and in turn become extremely irritable, and depressed at this time of year. That is until his former mentor and three other spirits from his past help him once again see the light.

We begin our story in the High Prosecutor's office at 9:00 P.M on Christmas Eve, where Miles Edgeworth is still working on the mountains of paperwork of all the cases he had finished earlier that month. He was extremely irritable right now and just about anything would set him off. So imagine his frustration when he was just about to get ready to leave when the door to his office flew open, while someone shouted "SIR!" at the top of his voice, startling Edgeworth and all the while scattering all the neatly sorted files.

Looking up to see who it was, he saw none other than Detective Gumshoe, looking like his usual scruffy self except he was wearing a Santa hat now. Not seeing what he had done quite yet, he yelled "Sir, I wanted to ask you an important question!"

Edgeworth, quite angry that the neatly sorted files were now all over the place, said in a dangerously low voice "Tell me Detective, are you so blind as to not see all of this paperwork, or are you just that stupid."

This was completely out of character for Edgeworth, and Gumshoe was shocked. In their long career together never had Mr. Edgeworth called him stupid. Sure he got that from other prosecutors and detectives at the precinct, but never from Mr. Edgeworth.

Finally getting over the shock and seeing the state the office was in, he replied by saying in a sad tone, "I'm sorry sir. I guess I just wasn't thinking things through.".

"Well that wouldn't be the first time." mumbled Edgeworth, bending down to pick up the now scattered paperwork. Gumshoe decided to help so that he could ease the tension. Wanting to start a conversation (Remember, this is Gumshoe we're talking about, he doesn't know when to back off)he said "Well anyway Mr. Edgeworth sir, I was wondering if I could ask you a question?"

"Oh yes, I believe you said that as soon as you came into my office and ruined a whole evening of work", Edgeworth said in a sarcastic tone of voice. Gumshoe nodded, still taking in that Edgeworth was being rather callous today. "Yes, sir. I was wondering if I could take Christmas off sir.", he said cautiously.

Edgeworth just rolled his eyes and said "Detective, you know as well as I do that this is the busiest time of the year, and you know that you just can't walk in an ask me for a vacation out of the blue."

Gumshoe then got defensive "I've never had a vacation all this year sir!" he shouted

Edgeworth then said "Well if I didn't keep having to cut your salary every other day than I wouldn't also have to cut your vacation to one day a...".

Then the realization hit him. Gumshoe actually beat him in an argument. It was really quite astounding. Who knew he could actually do it. It may be unessential to say but Edgeworth was genuinely impressed.

"Exactly sir, and I want my vacation now." he said in a serious tone, that really meant business.

At this point Edgeworth couldn't do anything but give him his leave, "All right Detective, you win. You get your vacation, but come back all the earlier the 26th.

Gumshoe was ecstatic, "Thank you, sir! I'm going to spend the entire day tomorrow with Maggey, and eat three instant noodle packages instead of one!", he then started dancing about, and Edgeworth couldn't help but crack a smile.

When he finished he than said, "If you don't mind my asking sir, what are your plans tomorrow?".

Then Edgeworth's rank mood came back just as soon as it left. He said in a monotone voice "I have no plans for tomorrow Detective."

Then another voice answered, "No plans on Christmas? Come on Edgeworth you don't mean that."

It was a voice that Edgeworth knew too well, "Hello Wright. I didn't expect your company."

"I bet you also didn't expect my daughter either huh?", he said in the nonchalant tone that he adopted a few years ago.

Through the door came a young girl of 15 in a baby blue top hat, a smile on her face, and a dark blue coat on to keep out the cold.

Edgeworth knew that it was Trucy Wright, but didn't address her and kept his attention on Phoenix, "What are you doing here. You have no business here, your not an attorney anymore." he said in a dark tone.

If Phoenix was fazed, he didn't show it, "Calm down Miles, I just wanted to know if you wanted to go to a little dinner tomorrow at the Wright Anything Agency."

Edgeworth was shocked. Him go to dinner, at a time like this? To him this was an insult, "As you may or may not see Wright, I am taking care of case files, and as you know they take time to do. Or did you forget after forging that evidence, and losing your badge?"

Everyone except Edgeworth had the same expression on their face: shock. Phoenix was now clearly angry at Edgeworth now that he brought up the forgery like that even though his name was cleared. "Watch yourself Edgeworth, your treading on thin ice.", he said, anger apparent in his voice.

Trucy decided to defend her adoptive father, "Yeah Mr. Edgeworth! Besides I thought Polly cleared his name!"

Edgeworth just ignored her and said to Phoenix, "Wright, I'm sorry I said that, but you know how much I deplore Christmas and everything it stands for."

Trucy looked shocked (again), "You hate Christmas! Who would hate the season where spend time with your family and loved ones!", she asked practically shouting

Gumshoe also looked surprised, "Yeah sir, why do you hate Christmas?", he asked in an equally loud tone.

Edgeworth knew he was alone but still he kept going, "For your question Detective, that's for me to now and for you to not find out, and as for you young lady, where you see joy and good will, I see nothing but commercialism and greed. I find Christmas is a day where no one can get any work done because they are too ignorant to realize that Christmas is just another day on the calendar and is nothing special, and as it only seems that I am the only one who knows this, I shall be working here tomorrow. Now good day, Wright.". When Edgeworth finished his rant he sat down to continue sorting the now picked up files.

The Wrights stood there, dumbfounded at Edgeworth's statement. Phoenix was this first to speak. "So you never celebrated Christmas at all? Even when we were children?", he asked, his tone accusing.

Edgeworth didn't answer the question. All he said was "Keep Christmas your way and I'll keep it mine.", in a monotone, disinterested voice.

Trucy responded by exclaiming "You don't even keep Christmas at all!".

Edgeworth was now shouting, "Then let me ignore it! All I want is to be left alone on that accursed day! In fact all I want is to be left alone right now!", he turned to Gumshoe, "Gumshoe, you have your vacation, so you may leave now if you want.".

Gumshoe left without a word, leaving behind the two, rather offended Wrights. Again Phoenix spoke, "You know Edgeworth, you weren't always like this.", he turned to Trucy, "Come on Trucy, Apollo is waiting for us. Besides I don't think we're wanted here anyway.", he said in his now usual nonchalant tone again.

Trucy closed the door as they left and Edgeworth heard a fit of coughing from behind it, but he really didn't care, their was work to be done. At about 10:15 he was finally done again, so he left his office to go down to the indoor parking lot, and got into his sports car to drive back home and hopefully forget all that happened that night. Of course nothing could prepare him for a visit from his now deceased mentor and three other spirits of his past.