Name: Pearl Fey
Vehicle: Her Feet (This is the girl, who at eight years-old, ran from Kurain Village to the courthouse without breaking a sweat- a trip that takes two hours by train. Granted, we don't know the full details, such as when Pearl started out or if she took any breaks; but for all we know, she left Fey Manor at 7:30 a.m., and with the power of the Phaya, rocked that trip in a little over an hour. Pearly needs no vehicle!)
Vehicle Armor: 5/5 (Pearl may be small and dainty, but her unshakable dedication as the ultimate Phaya shipper has given her the resilience and durability of Phoenix dipped in adamantium and given the plot armor of Jar Jar Binks.)
Vehicle Speed: 5/5 (As stated in her vehicle bio, Pearl is able to tap into the power of the Phaya to give herself running speeds that could make the Flash blush.)
Vehicle Handling: Tighter than the Tightest of Tights to Ever be Tight (Pearl is traveling by foot, so she has more control over her vehicle than any of the other contests could ever hope for. Not to mention, Pearl never loses focus of her goals- as seen with how she has been pushing the Phaya for almost ten years straight.)
Special Weapon: 6/5 (Slaps- Pearl has slaps that can knock the indestructible Phoenix Wright unconscious- a task that has only been accomplished by a flamboyant elitist wielding a fire extinguisher, being shocked with 600,000 volts of electricity, and a whip fueled by the fury of a defeated von Karma- and that was when she was only nine! At 18, the power of the Phaya has probably given Pearl more strength than Heracles, Samson, Kratos, the Hulk, the Thing, Superman, One-Punch Man, the Kool-Aid Man, and Brock's Chansey combined.)
Bio: Hello, I'm Pearl Fey, a spirit medium trained in the Kurain Channeling Technique… and I'm angry! Really, really angry! Not because of you- you seem like a very nice, pleasurable person that I could very easily get along with. I'm angry with that big ol' meanie Mr. Gavin! Not only did he break Mr. Nick's spirit for seven years, but he ruined the beautiful progress that I was making in getting Mr. Nick and Mystic Maya happily married in one fell swoop! How dare that awful man deprive Mr. Nick and Mystic Maya of the joy of making a bajillion beautiful babies! Simply put, he decided to break my dreams, so I'm going to break him!
Unlike with other contestants, who he calmly greets with a warm grin and an air of confidence on the side of the road, Kristoph is busy running for dear life through the corridors of an underground bunker, alarms blaring as a series of large, thick metal doors quickly close behind him, his normal air of confidence and grin replaced with nervous sweat and wide eyes.
When Kristoph makes it to the deepest part of his bunker, he stands of in a corner, his body slightly fidgeting.
"This isn't good! This isn't good! What did I do to evoke the wrath of such a powerful monster!?" Kristoph bemoans as he casts a worried look at the thick steel door that serve as a barrier between himself and the winner of Debauched Steel. "Hopefully my steel doors will halt her mad pursuit…" Kristoph takes a deep breath and calms himself down. "Yes, I have nothing to fear. Soon, she will desist and will go home defeated and broken."
Suddenly, in a manner similar to that of the Kool-Aid Man, Pearl, with clenched fists, bursts through the door with a loud crash and glares daggers at Kristoph.
"MR. GAVIN!" Pearl bellows at the top of her lungs, her nostrils flaring like an angry bull, before charging at Kristoph with blinding speed.
Upon seeing the adolescent spirit medium running at him like an angry lioness on the hunt, Kristoph's eyes widen, signifying that this was the exact moment that he realized that he was screwed. "Oh shi-" The host of Debauched Steel tries to scream, but is interrupted by Pearl slapping his stomach, causing his spine to shatter with a loud crack as his body slams against the wall, causing him to become limp and fall to the ground. Though not one to be lenient on her enemies, Pearl grabs Kristoph by the collar of his shirt and lifts him up so that he is at eyelevel with his attacker- terrified blue eyes to grey ones filled with the fiery rage of a thousand suns.
"Heh… Normally people don't get this violent until after I've proven how I'm better than them." Kristoph nervously muses in a futile attempt to calm Pearl down.
Pearl angrily slams Kristoph's head against the wall. "Do you think that this is funny, Mr. Gavin?" Pearl slams Kristoph's head against the wall again, making sure not to slam it too hard- Kristoph needs to thoroughly suffer for his crimes before dying, after all. "After what you did to me!?"
"Please… Please be more specific…" Kristoph weakly states as a feeling of grogginess starts to overcome him as a result of his injuries. "When you have ruined… ruined as many lives as I have… they… they all start to blend together."
"How rude, Mr. Gavin!" Pearl shrieks. "I work day and night for two years laying down the groundwork for Mr. Nick and Mystic Maya to get married, and then you come out of nowhere with your forged diary page and ruin everything in the blink of an eye! And because of that incident, Mr. Nick lost his badge and distanced himself from Mystic Maya for seven years to protect her reputation! So for crushing my dreams of Mr. Nick and Mystic Maya getting married and having a bajillion gazillion beautiful lawyer and/or spirit medium babies, I'm going to crush you!" Pearl yells in Kristoph's face.
Kristoph internally shudders at the thought of Phoenix procreating, restoring his senses, before making a grave error with his next question.
"'Mystic Maya'? As in Maya Fey, Wright's assistant?" Kristoph shakes his head. "You must be delusional. From my time posing as Phoenix Wright's friend, whenever we'd discuss former cases of ours, he would describe her as, and I quote, "A good friend who was a loyal assistant who was like a little sister to me. Too bad she wants nothing to do with me since I lost my badge.' Therefore, there was nary a romantic feeling between them."
"Lies! Mr. Nick and Mystic Maya had the kind of romantic chemistry found only in the most lovely of fairytales. Not only did Mr. Nick risk everything to save her from the clutches of that evil assassin guy, but he also ran across a burning bridge for her, bought her all the burgers she could ever want, and defended her in court three times!" Pearl holds up three fingers to emphasize her point. "And you took that all away!" Pearl snarls as she grabs Kristoph's throat, causing him to gasp and sputter as the young spirit medium starts to choke the life out of him.
"Wait!" Kristoph wheezes. "Don't be so quick to kill me!"
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't crush your throat like a walnut!" Pearl angrily demands, her grip slightly loosening in order to allow Kristoph to have an easier time speaking.
"Don't forget that as the victor of Debauched Steel, I can grant you a wish… any whish that you could possibly want!"
"Okay…" Pearl cocks her head as she pretends to contemplate her options. "I wish that you were dead!" Pearl yells as her grip on Kristoph's throat tightens.
"Sure, you could grant yourself that wish…" A weak smile spreads across Kristoph's face. "Or if you really want Phoenix Wright and Maya Fey to be married, I could make that a reality. Wouldn't that be nice?"
"Yes, but-"
"Granted." Kristoph weakly sneers. However, due to Kristoph using all of his powers to move his head and to resist passing out from the pain coursing through his body, he sticks out his tongue and channels his powers into it, causing it to glow and emit a blinding light.
When the light diminishes, Pearl finds herself standing outside of Phoenix's apartment, where she can hear the distinct mumbling of Phoenix and Maya's voices.
"Mr. Nick…? Mystic Maya…?" Pearl asks as she opens the door, only to be quickly rushed by Maya, who is wearing a pale purple dress and has a black eye, who covers her younger cousin's mouth.
"H-Hey Pearly, what are you doing back so early?" Maya nervously whispers.
"But I just got here, Mystic Maya." Pearl notices Maya's black eye. "Mystic Maya, what happened to your eye?"
"It's nothing, Pearly. I just… got hit with a baseball!" Maya whispers, a nervous smile forming on her face. "But can you please lower your voice. You know how Nick doesn't like excessive noise."
Pearl cocks her head in confusion. "Since when?"
"Ever since he lost his badge and had to get those new jobs. I swear, ever since our wedding, he's-"
"You two got married!" Pearl squeals at the top of her lungs, completely ignoring her cousin's warning. "I just knew you were special someones, Mystic Maya! I knew it! Tell me all about-"
"What the hell is going on in there!? What's with all the yelling!?" Phoenix screams from the other room.
"Oh no…" Maya whimpers as her body starts to tremble. "Now we're really going to get it!"
"Why are you so scared, Mystic Maya? It's just Mr. Nick."
At that moment, Phoenix, who is wearing an outfit identical to Zak Gramarye's magician attire, only in dark blue, and is holding a bottle of grape juice, stumbles into the room as he takes a hearty swig of his beverage.
"What the ****, Maya!? How many times do I have to tell you to keep your bastard cousin quiet? Do I have to beat some freakin' sense into that moron head of hers!?" Phoenix angrily asks as he glares at Pearl while brandishing his grape juice bottle, causing the young spirit medium to hide behind her cousin.
"Yeah, go hide behind your cousin like the big baby you've always been! What's wrong, big baby, you gonna cry?" Phoenix sneers upon noticing Pearl's eyes filling with tears as she pokes her head from behind her older cousin. "Then go on! Cry for me, baby! CRY! Ha ha ha!"
"Stop it, Nick! You have a problem! Every time you drink that grape juice of yours it turns you into a monster!" Maya yells.
"Don't you freakin' tell me what I can and can't do, old girl! I work long and hard as a magician/poker shark to support this damn family, so if I wanna relax with a freakin' bottle of grape juice, then that's what I'm gonna do! Maybe I'll stop drinking my grape juice when you stop stuffing your fat-ass mouth with burgers! How about that!?" Phoenix yells in Maya's face, making sure to use his height advantage to really drive his point home by towering over her, causing the spirit medium to wince.
Finding her courage, Pearl marches up to Phoenix, her face formed into a glare.
"Mr. Nick! How dare you speak to your special someone in such a rude fashion! You'd better apologize to Mystic Maya, or else…!" Pearl rolls up her sleeve and clenches her fist.
"Or else what?" Phoenix asks with a wry smile.
"Or else THIS!" Pearl slaps Phoenix's stomach, which has no effect on the ex-attorney.
Phoenix chuckles as he ruffles Pearl's hair. "You call that a slap? Well, then allow me show you a real slap, old girl!"
Phoenix rears back and slaps Pearl with his grape juice bottle, launching her a foot back and leaving a nasty purple welt on her face, causing her to start crying.
"Serves you right, runt! That's what happens when you mess with someone bigger than you." Phoenix remarks as he starts brandishing his grape juice bottle and starts walking towards Pearl. "Now to finally put you in your place…"
As Phoenix gets closer and closer to Pearl, her mind wants nothing more than to flee from her now-abusive father figure, but her body, frozen in place by fear, won't allow her to move. With Phoenix standing right over her, a sinister, toothy grin spreading across his face as he rears his bottle to deliver the coup de grace, Pearl curls up into a ball, whimpering as she covers her head with her hands in preparation for Phoenix's attack. However, before Phoenix can strike, both he and Pearl are distracted by the sound of a gun being loaded.
Looking in the direction of the noise, Phoenix and Pearl are shocked to see Maya, tears welling up in her eyes, aiming a pistol at Phoenix with a shaky hand.
"Leave Pearly alone, Nick! Leave her alone NOW!" Maya demands as she struggles to hold back her tears.
"Aw, look at you- thinking you're sooo tough with your little pistol." Phoenix sneers as he takes a step towards Maya.
"S-Stay back or… or I'll shoot!" Maya yells.
"Who are you kidding, Maya? We both know that you don't have it in you to shoot a gun, let alone at me, your best friend." Phoenix calmly remarks.
"No. The Nick that I know would never even think of harming me or Pearly. The Nick that I know was a kind, gentle man, not a bully! Where's my husband!?" Maya yells, her face reddening as tears stream down her cheeks. "Where my best friend!?"
"The Nick you knew is gone, Maya- fed-up with being repaid for his kindness with his badge being taken from him and being stuck with a useless little burger glutton like yourself."
"Listen to yourself, Nick! What would my sis think if she saw you now?"
"Ah, Mia…" Phoenix cocks his head upward, giving the ceiling a longing look as he thinks of his late mentor. "Now she was a woman: strong, independent, and attractive; whereas you're like a can of soda that's been left open for a day- bland and flat!"
Maya puffs her cheeks in rage and glowers at Phoenix. "T-Take that back, Nick! Don't forget who's holding the gun!"
"And another thing that Mia had that you don't: follow-through. If she wanted to do something, she'd do it and wouldn't stop until she was done. Whereas you just make a bunch of false promises and then forget them within five minutes."
"I-I do so have follow-through!" Maya pouts.
"Then prove it." Phoenix walks up to Maya with his arms outstretched. "If you really think that I'm a monster, shoot me. I bet that you-"
Phoenix is interrupted by the loud boom of the gun being fired and forever silenced by the bullet piercing his heart. Meanwhile, Pearl just stares wide-eyed at the scene before her- her body stiff and her jaw hanging open as she witnesses the body of the man who was the closest thing to a father figure fall to the ground as crimson blood oozes out of the ex-attorney and stains the room's beige carpet red.
"M-Mystic Maya… What did you…?" Pearl weakly asks, a sorrow tone prevalent in her voice as she witnesses Maya standing over the corpse of her former husband and best friend, her body as still as a statue with unblinking eyes that don't move off of Phoenix's corpse.
Then suddenly, like being hit with a tidal wave, the realization of her actions wash over Maya as she falls to her knees, dropping the gun.
"I'm sorry, Pearl… I'm sorry, Nick…" Maya whimpers with a sniffle as her tears flow forth with no restraint, wetting the carpet.
Pearl gets to her feet and attempts to go over and comfort Maya, but before she can reach her cousin, the sound of sirens can be heard outside the building as several police officers barge into the apartment. Maya, in her current state, fails to acknowledge the officers as two of them lift the emotionally-broken spirit medium on her feet, slap a pair of handcuffs on her wrists, and read her rights to her as they guide her out of the apartment. All the while, Pearl tries to plead with the officers to let her cousin go, but they choose to ignore her- leaving the adolescent girl in the one situation that she had feared for as long as she could remember: alone and unloved.
And so, with only the corpse of Phoenix to keep her company, Pearl begins to cry, her wails of sadness filling the air in a similar fashion to the wails of the sirens of the police cars that are taking the woman whom she thought of as her mother away from her forever.
Outside the apartment complex, Kristoph, who has managed to fully heal himself, watches the situation with a sinister smirk. "All's well that ends well, am I right?" Kristoph sneers at the camera. "I'm Kristoph Gavin, and I thank you for watching Debauched Steel."
A/N: I would like to thank Aria and Clive for submitting the idea for this chapter.