In a World

Written by: Gwa Gwunzad

For some reason, Phoenix awoke before the alarm went off. Never before had this happened. Almost automatically, he reached his arm out to hit the snooze button, even though his alarm wasn't going off.

I'm up three hours early. How great.

Phoenix knew. It was that court case. He knew that it was almost impossible to compete with Edgeworth. He sighed at the thought of this court case where he would be defending the Judge's brother. The Judge we usually know, however, wasn't allowed to be the judge for this trial, as he might make an unfair verdict. The Your Honor for today was her. Yes a girl. Her name was Liz Entoome. Of course, she was just like Miss von Karma, tougher than a man.

He finally hopped out of bed and went to the kitchen. The food was hardly recognizable as food. It was more like Instant Noodles and orange juice.

Am I turning into Gumshoe? No offense to him, of course.

Phoenix grabbed the orange juice and searched for a cup, an impossible task. After flipping some papers and files over, he finally came forth to a cup, a very dirty one may I add. He rinsed it out it the sink filled with many dirty dishes, adding a small amount of soap. He only then poured in the orange juice. He drank it and put it down forcefully.

He got up to get dressed, as he thought being fresh during a case made the client more confident. He looked into his drawer and saw the same outfit repeating.

Blue suit, red tie. Blue suit, red tie. I need to learn more about this fashion…

He grabbed his outfit and scurried to the bathroom. He could finally take a long, hot shower. He wasn't going to be late to this case.

When Phoenix stepped out of the bathroom, fully dressed, his cell phone started to ring.

Why did I ever allow Maya to make my ring tone the Steel Samurai theme?

"Hello, this is Phoenix Wright!" he said into the phone

"NIIIIICK!" the voice rang loud and very clear. It was Maya.

"Maya…? You're awake?" He questioned.

"OF COURSE I AM!" she yelled. "WHERE ARE YOU? IT'S ALMOST CAAAAASE TIME!!"

Phoenix looked at his watch.

"WHAT!? HOW IS IT ALREADY 11:45!?"

"GET DOWN HERE!!!!"

Phoenix frantically gathered all of his evidence and ran out of the door. The bus was leaving. He chased after it, but he failed to catch it. Phoenix looked at his brown shoes.

Yeah, Phoenix! Nice going! Taking a shower for 2 hours and thirty minutes and missing the bus!

Phoenix started walking down the road when a car pulled up next to him. He looked at the car. Why did it look so familiar? The window was rolled down to show his face. Miles Edgeworth. He was Phoenix's rival, and the prosecutor in this case.

"What are you doing here, Wright?" Edgeworth asked.

"Walking…." was the reply. "What are YOU doing here?"

"Construction on my usual way to the courtroom. I had to cut through this route."

"Of course." Phoenix said, rolling his eyes.

"Why are you walking?" Edgeworth asked after a pause.

"Oh, I just love walking to the courtroom with 15 minutes to get there!" he said with a roll of his eyes, yet again.

"Get in the car, Wright."

"Why?"

"Do you usually like missing your cases?" He had a point. Phoenix walked around into the passenger's seat. He sat down and didn't say a word the whole way there.

When Edgeworth and Phoenix walked in together, Maya was dumbfounded.

"W-why are you with Mr. Edgewo-" she said before getting cut off.

"Don't even ask."