Mia rolled her eyes. Typical Maya. Somehow, she managed to sneak outside the church instead of being a bridesmaid, and she had found a strange girl who screamed and fainted. Why was Maya always getting into trouble?

"Don't worry, I'll take care of this," Little Pearl said, rolling up her sleeves. "You two just keep getting married, okay?"

"I'll go with her," Misty Fey said.

Pearly marched to the back of the church, with Misty Fey in tow.

"Mystic Maya! You're supposed to be the bridesmaid! What are you doing back here? You're going to ruin everything for Mister Nick and Mystic Mia!"

"Who's this?" Misty asked.

"Mom?" Maya asked. "Mom!"

Maya hugged her mother for the first time in over sixteen years.

"Mom, you're back from wherever you were! Now you can live with us in Kurain, and we can be a family again!"

"Is Mystic Maya feeling okay?" Pearly asked.

"Yes, do you have a fever?" Misty asked. "I came back to Kurain over a year ago."

"Um, right!" Maya said. "I knew that! I just forgot for a moment."

"I see." Misty pointed to Pearl's unconscious body. "Who is she?"

"Uh...uh...this is my friend Pearl!" Maya said. "I invited her to come see the wedding."

"Why did she scream and faint?"

"She's weird like that," Maya said, putting on a smile that said I'm giving a big smile, which means I have to be telling the truth.

Misty frowned. Maya was hiding something, but now was definitely not the time to find out what.

"We'll talk about this later," she promised. "In the meantime, if you have any other strange friends, sneak them in after the wedding."

Pearl woke up five minutes later. It took her approximately 1.2 seconds to get mad at Maya.

"What did you do?" she hissed.

"Nothing," Maya lied.

"You changed the future so Nick marries Mia? That's not nothing!"

"Okay, so maybe I changed a teensy little bit," Maya admitted.

"What did you do?"

"I stopped Nick from meeting Dahlia. And...I kinda told him to meet my sister."

"You set up Nick with Mia?"

"I said meet her, not marry her!"

"Well, obviously, that's what Nick is doing! We have to go back and change this!"

"No! Look, my mom and my sister are still alive in this world! And Nick seems happy, too! Let's give this world a shot!"

"No way. Nuh uh."

"But if we leave now, we'll miss out on the wedding cake!" Maya protested. "And besides, in this new world, you're not grounded..."

Pearl thought about that for a moment.

"Okay, maybe we can stay for the wedding party. But after that, we're outta here, go it?"

Maya and Pearl were seated together with Iris at the wedding reception.

"Hello, I'm Sister Iris," Iris said.

"I'm Pearl Fey," Pearl said.

Iris blinked. "That's the name of my little sister."

"What an amazing coincidence!" Pearl said.

"I remember when I first met Mia," Phoenix was telling the crowd. "It was five years ago. I was investigating the death of my friend Larry Butz. Mia was investigating a serial killer named Dahlia Hawthorne. The two investigations brought us together..."

"Is that what happened...?" Maya wondered out loud.

"Oh yes, it's true," Sister Iris said. "I heard all about Dahlia Hawthorne. She was a really bad person. It's a good thing I never met her."

"Never met—?"

"What happened to her?" Pearl interrupted.

"They executed her six months ago. I heard she tried to get out of it by saying she was someone else." Iris smiled. "It's amazing what crazy stories criminals will come up with to protect themselves, isn't it?"

To anyone else, Iris' words would have seemed perfectly normal. But to people like Maya and Pearl who knew that Dahlia and Iris were twins, these words were a large warning sign that something fishy was going on. Plus, the smile on Iris' face was a little too cruel for their tastes...

Maya reached over and pulled out one of Iris' hairs.

"Ow! Maya, why did you do that?"

Maya held up the hair for Pearl to see. It was hard to see at first glance, but if you knew what you were looking for, you could tell that it was...

"A red hair..." Maya said.

Pearl's eyes went wide. "You're not Iris! You're Dahli—!"

Dahlia's hand was on Pearl's throat before she could finish her sentence.

"Say one word, and I'll kill you right now," Dahlia hissed.

"Let Pearl go!" Maya said. "There are dozens of witnesses here, Dahlia! You can't get away with killing someone!"

"Oh no? I already have," Dahlia smiled.

"You have?"

"The food is poisoned. Pretty soon, Mia Fey and Phoenix Wright will be dead, and my revenge will be complete."

"Oh, man! How many times do I have to save Nick from you?" Maya complained.

Dahlia frowned at this statement.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Nothing."

"Nobody saved Phoenix Wright from me except..." Dahlia's eyes flashed with comprehension. "You. You're that girl from five years ago!"

"I..."

"The one who kissed that Phoenix Wright fool to stop me from giving him the necklace! I knew it wasn't a coincidence that he was the one who landed me in jail shortly afterwards!"

Hearing about Maya kissing Phoenix, Pearl almost fainted from joy (and lack of oxygen).

Dahlia took charge of the situation. "Why haven't you aged in the past five years? How did you know what I was doing back then? And how did you recognize me just now? No one else knows I have a twin sister..."

"It's too complicated to explain," Maya said.

"Tell me now, or the girl dies," Dahlia said, tightening her grip on Pearl's throat.

"We're from alternate universes. I'm Maya from the universe where I'm Phoenix's law partner, and that's Pearl from the future where Nick becomes a drunken hobo."

"And I'm Dahlia from the world where she doesn't believe you."

Pearl's face was turning an unhealthy color. Things were getting dangerous.

"Let her go!" Maya shouted, trying to attract attention.

"Wrong move," Dahlia said, throwing Pearl backwards onto the ground. Pearl tried to take a huge gulp of air, but it was strained.

Dahlia produced a knife out of nowhere. Kill the two quickly, then run, she decided. Then, "Iris" disappears forever.

"Hyaaa-ho!" Maya cried, punching Dahlia in the left eye and knocking her backwards. You don't watch The Steel Samurai every day without picking up on some good fighting moves, after all.

By this time, other people had seen what was going on and decided to stop the fight by restraining Maya.

"What's going on here?" Mia demanded. "Maya, this is the second time you've disrupted our ceremonies!"

"She punched me!" Dahlia said, instantly reverting back to her identity as Iris. "She punched me for no reason!"

"That's not Iris! That's Dahlia! They're sisters!"

"No, Pearl is Iris' sister, remember?"

"Iris has a twin sister nobody knows about!"

Phoenix and Mia exchanged a worried look. "Maya, maybe you need to see a doctor," Phoenix said.

"I'm not crazy!" Maya said.

By this time, Pearl had gotten up off the floor. "It's true, Nick! You believe me, don't you?"

"Okay, I don't even know you," Phoenix said. "Why should I believe you?"

"This is all wrong! You're supposed to marry Maya!" Pearl complained. "Why would you marry her sister?"

"These two are causing a scene," Dahlia said. "I can personally escort them out of here, if you want."

"Don't come near me, Dahlia!" Maya cried. "Mia, she's going to try to kill me! Again!"

"Dahlia Hawthorne was executed half a year ago," Mia said, trying to calm Maya down. "You don't have to worry about her anymore."

"They don't believe us, Maya," Pearl said.

"Oh, fine. Let's just go back to the time machine, then. This new universe is stupid."

Pearl and Maya returned to the time machine without any major interference from anyone. Most people at the wedding reception were glad to see them go, to be quite honest.

"I can't believe what just happened," Maya said.

"Me neither. You kissed Nick? Again?" Pearl hugged Maya. "See, it's true love!"

"Ah, Pearly," Maya said, trying to push her away. "It wasn't like that! I was just trying to protect him from Dahlia!"

"Suuuure you were," Pearl said. "After all, everyone knows that whenever you want to protect someone from a murderer, the first thing you do is make out with him."

Maya turned red. "That's not...it's...just hurry up and start the time machine already!"

"Bossy," Pearl muttered to herself as she pressed the MASON System Start Button.

Five Years Ago...

Pearl and Maya were inside the courtroom library, at the table next to Phoenix's. They were hiding behind some books and trying not to be noticed.

"Why are we spying on Nick again?"

"This is where you messed up the timeline, right?" Pearl said, pulling out her phone and setting it to video recording mode.

"Right."

"So we're here because I need to know exactly what you did so I can set the timeline back in place."

Pearl was lying, of course. She already had the solution to the situation back in the time machine. She just wanted an excuse to see Maya kiss Phoenix.

Fortunately, our heroines didn't have long to wait before Dahlia showed up and started flirting with Phoenix.

Pearl growled fiercely at her.

But Pearl's anger abated as the other Maya appeared on the scene and threw her arms around Phoenix.

"Awww, you're so sweet together!" Pearl whispered to Maya.

"I was just pretending to like Nick," Maya said.

Pearl ignored Maya and double-checked her phone. Yep, it was recording every glorious second...

"I saw you!" the other Maya said to Dahlia. "You were going to give him that necklace as a token of your affection, weren't you? Weren't you?"

Phoenix began to say something, but the other Maya cut him off by grabbing his head and forcibly kissing him.

"YES! You go, Maya!" Pearl cheered loudly.

Immediately, Phoenix, Dahlia and Maya (both of them) looked at Pearl.

"Oops," Pearl said.

"And you blamed me for changing the timeline," Maya grumbled.

"Woah!" the other Maya said. "Is that another me?"

"There's two of you?" Dahlia asked.

"Oh, no, we're twin sisters! Just like you and Iris!" Maya said.

Dahlia squinted suspiciously. "How do you know about my sister? I've never told anyone about her."

Phoenix probably would have said something interesting, except he was still basking in the afterglow of his first kiss.

"Abort! Abort!" Maya cried.

"Let's get out of here!" Pearl said, grabbing her phone in one hand, Maya's hand in the other, and running as quickly as she could.

"Now what do we do?" Maya asked. "I think we screwed up the timeline beyond repair."

"Simple," Pearl said. "You're not the first one to mess up timelines, you know. That's why we invented this."

Pearl pulled out an orange-colored gun attachment that connected to the time machine.

"You're going to shoot me?"

"This isn't a normal gun, Maya. It's a Time Gun," Pearl said, going into lecture mode. "See, the timeline has completely changed. The only reason we haven't disappeared is because we now exist out of time. Understand?"

"Not really, but keep going," Maya said.

"Well, the Time Gun was developed to stop time-travelling criminals. It can sense if a person is out of time, and it will send the person backwards and forwards along the curvatures of space/time until it finds the location where the person first stepped out of time. Fortunately, we know the exact coordinates we first left from, so we can guide ourselves on the trip back to the future."

Maya, who had been zoning out during Pearl's lecture, snapped back to attention at these words. "Back to the Future is one of my favorite movies!" Maya said. "I love the part where the doctor says his computer has 1.21 gigabytes!"

"...Never mind," Pearl said. Time travel discussion was apparently too complicated for Maya to understand.

To make a long story short, the Time Gun worked, and Maya and Pearl were sent back to where (and more importantly, when) they were before their time-travelling misadventures.

"We're back to the normal universe?" Maya asked.

"Yes."

"Everything's back to the way it was? You're sure?"

"Of course," Pearl said. "Only an idiot would go time travelling without some way of getting back in case something bad happened."

"Let's double check with Nick," Maya said, not convinced.

So Pearl and Maya went to the Wright & Co. Offices, where Phoenix was supposed to be reading some paperwork (but was playing around on the Internet instead).

"Nick, I have a very serious question to ask you," Maya said.

"Sure," Phoenix said, taking a drink of water. "What is it?"

"You're not marrying my sister, are you?"

Phoenix started choking on his water.

"Oh no!" Maya said, starting to hit Phoenix on the back.

"Maybe you should give him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation," Pearl suggested.

"You only do that if someone's drowning," Maya said.

"Darn," Pearl said. For a moment, she thought she could trick Maya into putting her lips against Phoenix's.

"Whuh-what kind of question is that?" Phoenix asked. "Your sister has been dead for two years!"

"Answer the question," Maya said sternly.

"No, I'm not marrying Mia!"

"Great!" Maya said. "This is the real world!"

Phoenix rubbed his forehead. "Maya, have you been watching those ridiculous cartoons again?"

"Yes," Maya said. "I mean, no! I mean, yes, I have watched them, but no, they're not ridiculous!"

"I think you should watch something else for a while."

"You have no taste," Maya said. "But hey, speaking of watching things, can we watch Back to the Future this Friday? Please?"

Pearl rolled her eyes as she left the offices. Yep, everything was back to normal, all right.

And while it was very good that they stopped the alternate universe from occurring, Pearl couldn't help but feel kind of let down by the whole day's events. All that work with time travelling, just to go back to the beginning before anything changed. It was like the trip was a complete waste of time!

Pearl pulled out her cell phone and made it play back the video she recorded.

Okay, so maybe the trip wasn't a complete waste of time... Pearl thought to herself.

That Friday...

"Did you get the movie?" Phoenix asked.

"Sure did!" Maya said. "Pearl had a copy, so she gave it to me."

"Figures she'd have a copy of Back to the Future..." Phoenix muttered to himself.

Maya popped in the DVD that Pearl gave her. "This is such a cool movie!"

The TV screen was blank for a few seconds, then the video Pearl recorded came onscreen.

"What's this?" Phoenix asked.

Maya's face turned white.

The onscreen Maya threw her arms around younger Phoenix and passionately defended him from Dahlia Hawthorne.

"Give me the remote!" Maya cried. "Stop stop stop it!"

"What the heck...?"

Then the big moment of Maya kissing Phoenix filled the TV screen.

"PEARL!!!!!!!!!"