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A/N: I pretty sure I've thank all of you already but once again thank you all for keeping up with this story! Let's see if Phoenix can make it shall we?

District Court: Courtroom #2... 4:45 pm...

The Judge slammed his gavel and coughed a bit. "All right, is the defense and prosecution ready?"

Both my mother and I nodded. I was ready for what Lotta had to show us.

He continued. "Very well. Bailiff. Please bring in Ms. Hart."

The bailiff went out, and a few seconds later brought Lotta in. She didn't look too good though.

"Ms. Hart!" The judge exclaimed. "What is the matter?"

Lotta sighed and scratched her afro. "Well, I got to the place I was stayin', and looked for my photos. Almost all of them were gone though! I put them on top of that darn dresser! I only managed to find these two." She handed two photos to the bailiff who placed them on the projector.

"Ms. Hart, what is it that we are looking at?"

"Well ya see, these here pictures are the only thang I managed to find. Sorry. I can tell you though. The blurry one on the left is right before the lights went out Ya Honor. The other ones a picture I took after them light's came back on."

The judge looked at th photos curiously. "I don't see anything wrong here."

I eyed those pictures though. I couldn't put my finger on it, but there was definitely something there. My mother also looked at the picture.

"Is that it?" Lotta asked.

The judge nodded. "Well it appears that there is nothing here showing other wise that the defendant didn't do it. Regardless of the current situation I am now ready to give a verdict. I hereby state that Maya Fey..."

"OBJECTION!"

The whole court got quiet. The judge wide eyed. "Wh...who said that?"

My mother pointed her pen up to him. "I did Your Honor!"

"Mrs. Wright, why would you yell objection? After all I was about to give the verdict that you would have wanted after all."

She crossed her arms, flicking some hair out of her eyes. "Your Honor, I know that I said that I wanted to get the guilty verdict no matter what. However I am also wanting the truth. After all isn't that what a true prosecutor really wants?" She again pointed her pen over to him. "Your Honor, I will gladly give Maya Fey the guilty verdict... once I have found the entire truth! This picture here contradicts a small bit of truth."

"Mrs. Wright, if I may ask what does a little piece of truth have to do with anything?"

"It's simple Your Honor. In that second photo I have come to a giant contradiction. That means there is a giant piece of truth missing somewhere in this investigation!"

The court got loud. People began shouting.

"Just give her the guilty verdict!"

"Yeah! We all know that she did it!"

"It's obvious! Let the girl get it!"

"She tried to kill that poor Deseat!"

"GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!"

The Judge slammed his gavel several times until the court had finally gotten quiet. The judge had his eyes closed in thought for a minute, then looked over to me. "Mr. Wright, it's up to you. How would you like to precede about this?"

Mia smiled. "Remember Phoenix, she's on our side now. I'm sure she's got a plan right about now."

"Right.' I looked over to him. "Your Honor, I'd like to give her a chance."

He nodded. "Very well. Mrs. Wright. Tell us exactly what contradiction you see."

She went over to the projection and pointed to a point right under where the body of Bastrek was. "TAKE THAT! Right there Your Honor... is a bullet!"

Again the court got quiet. My mother was smiling. "In an earlier testimony I seem to remember that there was no bullet. Yet as we can see there is clearly a bullet right there under the body."

Mia looked to Lotta. "That means that there's only 2 people that it's possible to hide the bullet from. It's either Lotta... or Deseat." She looked over to me. "Phoenix, be careful how you approach this. We still haven't heard from Edgeworth yet."

I nodded and looked over to Lotta. "Ms. Hart, can you explain that bullet there?"

Lotta's eyes went wide, she grabbed onto the edge of the stand. "I... I can't Mr. Lawyer! I don't know where it is!"

I slammed the desk. "Yet look at how close you got that shot! It's highly possible that you could have took that bullet."

Lotta slammed on the desk. "Now hold on just a gosh darn minute there city boy! Now why would I, a freelance photographer, take away a bullet! Are ya accusing me of something Mr. Wright!"

I shot back, never have I seen her glare at anybody like that. The judge looked over to me.

"Mr. Wright," he said calmly. "Please refrain from accusing the witness of anything unless you have some kind of evidence!"

"I...I'm sorry your honor."

Lotta crossed her arms and looked away from me. "Real smooth ain'tcha city boy?"

I looked down. "I'm sorry Lotta. Let me try this again."

After that I had another book thrown hard at my face. Looking at the cover it read Badgering the Witness: Do's and Don'ts. "What is this!"

My mother smiled slightly. "That son is yet another book you should have read in law school. AKA... another strike. I feel generous right now so..." she glared at me. "One more chance... that's it. I raised your chances by one. You can thank me now."

I looked over. Oh yeah ma, thanks a lot!

Mia smiled at me again. "If it makes you feel any better, I was just about to do the same exact thing."

"Oh thanks Mia."

The judge nodded. "Do you have anything further you'd like to say Mr. Wright."

"Actually I do. Ms. Hart, I know I may have a gone a little far, but that picture along with your reaction shows us you do know something about this bullet. Please, tell us anything you can to clear this up."

She stuck her nose in the air. "Fine."

-The Missing Bullet-

"After I took that picture I looked on the camera and just barely saw it. So I ran down and tried to take more pictures thinking that it might help if I were ta get stuck here. By the time I managed to get through every cottenpicken' person it wasn't there! Nothing was except the body! I swear!

...

I pointed over to her. "Lotta! Is that the whole truth!"

She started grinding her teeth. "Of course it is! I admit I may be a deceitful person at times just to get whut I want but the one thing I would never do is lie!"

I'd beg to differ.

"Damn! There's nothing! Nothing here! Nothing to use! They said there was no bullet entry point or exit point! What else can we do?"

I looked over to my mother. She had her elbows on the desk, her hair was covering her face but I could still see it. She knew there was nothing that we could do. Looking over to Mia I saw the same thing. I looked up at Deseat, he was still smiling.

I looked up at the judge. "Your Honor," I said hesitantly. Maya, I'm so sorry. But there's nothing I can do. I'm sorry. But this is for you and them. "Your Honor... the... the defense... it..."

However my sentence was interrupted. A man in a white lab coat slammed the doors open.

"Your Honor!" he shouted. "We just found something of interest!"

The judge slammed his gavel. "Sir! Who are you!"

The man pushed Lotta aside. "Your Honor I work with forensics and the autopsy. We found something I thought you'd like to see!"

He handed the bailiff an envelope and took it over to the judge. When he opened it his eyes went wide. "I see, thank you very much sir. But would you mind explaining this?"

"Yes Your Honor. You see at first we said that there was no bullet hole, but our lead autopsy doctor told us to look one more time with somthing that could magnify. And we did! We managed to find a small almost not noticeable hole that had burnmarks. Further analysis showed that it was only there a couple of days! We went inside and found this!" He pulled out an evidence bag with a small round object.

"Ladies and gentlemen of the court! This here is what's known as a cap-shot. It's a special bullet that only the KGB should actually own. This was found inside of John Bastrek. It's so small that it's impossible to tell where it went in or out from."

The judge shook his head. "You said you found this inside correct?"

"Yes Your Honor."

"Then there should be only that one whole correct?"

"The KGB were smart when they created this. As soon as it goes to a halt it emits intense vibrations. These vibrations are enough to cause inner body trauma. Also as a result the vibrations cause several holes to go form around the body. As a result we can't tell where it went in or out from. However I'd like to get back to the capstone. We realize that there is one piece of evidence still missing." He looked over to the picture. "As we can all see that bullet there is missing. That bullet is just a shell that this bullet hides in. When shot this cap-shot actually goes at a much higher velocity than that of the shell. The shell is actually so heavy that it only goes about 2 inches from where the gun was shot."

The court began to get loud, and again the judge hit his gavel. "Order! Order! Is there anything else you'd like to say?"

"Yes actually. It is still impossible to tell which he died from. The gunshot or the stabbing. Both would cause enough shock for him to die then and there. His heart was busted up from the stabbing, however the vibrations this sent out destroyed several nerves and part of his brain too."

"As that all?"

"Yes Your Honor."

"Then you are dismissed."

The forensics guy walked out and Lotta went back up to the stand.

"So Mr. Lawyer. Is there anything else you'd like to ask me?"

I shook my head. "No, there's not."

The Judge nodded. "Very well then. With this bit of new evidence and the fact that we are still missing the shell for this cap-shot, I have no choice but to postpone this until-"

Both my mother and I raised our arms. She pointed the pen, myself my finger. "OBJECTION!"

The Judge got wide eyed. "O-objection? To what?"

My mother glared. "Your Honor! I believe we can finish this today!"

"But Mrs. Wright, we don't have sufficient evidence to-"

"Your Honor! I believe we do have enough evidence to obtain the truth!"

"Explain to me then Mrs. Wright. How do we?"

She shot back, her right eye covered by her bangs, she's grasping one arm. "I...I...I don't know."

The Judge looked over to me. "What about you, Mr. Wright?"

I had my hands on the desk and looked over to my mother. She really had no idea what to do next. Mia looked at me and whispered.

"Phoenix, be careful what you do. We have to keep this going, but we have to make sure he doesn't realize what we're doing. We have to keep playing the act. He already knows all of us are acting, but he believes that we'll get her in prison. You have to really think on this one."

I know that... but is there really a way to turn this... wait! That's it! It's a long-shot and I really really have to bluff on this one but...

I slammed the desk. "Your Honor! There is one person in this court who'd I like to hear testify one more time! In fact I believe he's already hear. Mr. Ace A. Deseat!"

I looked over, he kept his smile on. Mia looked over to me.

"Phoenix, you're the one that called it out. Be careful. I can sense it, the final battle. How it all plays out depends on how you play your cards. Play them right. We're going to need a hand that can beat almost anything. I've seen you gamble a few times, your horrible at it but granted even you know what we're going to need here. A 'Royal Straight Flush.' And of that fails..."

I just watched Deseat as he slowly walked down the isle going over to the witness stand. He was already in character.

I whispered back to Mia. "I know... if that fails we're doomed... however I have to get that Royal Straight Flush... he's going to have the same hand... so I have to make sure I have spades. Because Spades beats those with the same hand. I have to win."

"Remember Phoenix, a bluff is the best weapon for a Lawyer. That is all we can do now. Bluff."

He got to the isle looking frail, like he did the first day. He bowed. "How may I help you... Mr. Wright?"