Disclaimer: I do not own Ace Attorney and its characters. Capcom owns them.

Surprise Extra Happy Ending

"Long time no see, Daddy. The End."

Trucy was balancing on her feet back and forth, intensely staring as Athena read out loud the last lines of her fiction story. The lawyer had a little more than one hundred letter format papers between her hands, with tiny letters printed on both sides with the said story. The magician was now eager to hear what her employee had to say about her typed "masterpiece" now that she had reached the end of it.

When Trucy had told Athena she had an interesting job for her in this Wright Anything Agency this morning today, Athena didn't expect this! The young lawyer didn't believe it'd take her whole shift for that new job, which was to read the entire piece of fiction! It took her boss's daughter about a two weeks to write it as a school homework!

Slowly raising a hand with a pointed index, Athena opened her mouth to give a comment. Yet, no words came out from it and at the same time her higher finger suddenly curved down. Maybe the junior attorney felt a little faint. After all, who wouldn't after spending long, consecutive hours to read more than two hundred pages in one go? Disappointment could be seen on Trucy's expression before she raised an eyebrow at her friend's exasperation, but she managed her enthusiasm. "Soooo, what do you think, Athena?" Trucy wailed with a grin.

Athena scratched the back of her head then left out a long sigh that would have compete against Mr. Starbuck's. She directed her stare on the side, not even looking at Trucy. "Well, that was… original… Or I don't know…" Athena admitted.

Shocked, Trucy put her fists on her hips with an unhappy sulk. "Aw, c'mon! Try using more passion in your comment!"

A sudden frown appeared on the lawyer. "Hey!" she exclaimed, nearly protesting. "I've just spent like… the whole shift reading your fiction story! I mean… please give me more time to gather my thoughts together. I kinda need… hours of mental rest so I can make something out of it. And aside, I'm kinda thirsty and hungry… I even skipped dinner and my break to finish reading this in time!"

Crossing her arms in disagreement, Trucy looked away, attracting her attention on the ceiling that suddenly looked more interesting to her eyes. "Daw, you're no fun! I had spent hours trying to write this piece for school! My teacher said she wanted a little drama story."

A horrified gasp came out from Athena's lips. "Little drama story?" the lawyer cried out before she was stuck by a moderately long pause. "Trucy! This story is more than two hundred pages long! A short story is about… like… no more than two to five pages long!"

"Well she said a minimum of two pages, so I reached the required minimum, at least!" Trucy cheered on her work.

That poor teacher's gonna spend an entire day reading this thing! Athena thought, pitying on the woman who was going to read the fictional story.

Another realization hit Athena when she thought about the said characters of the "little" drama story. "Also, why did you use real life people in this?" she asked, perplexed.

Trucy was unable to hide her enthusiasm when she made a sudden jump toward her friend. "Well, since I learned Polly's my long lost big brother, and since I saw… how badly we treated him, I knew I had to give him more love! So I made him the main character and I made his best friend alive! I think after all the bad things we did to him and with the more recent loss of his friend Clay, he definitely endured too much lately, the poor guy! So why not imagining how life would have been if we were all together since forever? It should have been so much fun!"

Athena was speechless. She knew about their blood relationship since it was revealed several months ago, but she would never think Trucy would go as far as writing a long story of her together with her newly revealed older half-brother, and with vampires to top it all! "Huh, I guess so… did Apollo actually read your story?" Athena questioned.

"Gosh, no!" Trucy immediately answered with a yelp, nearly mortified. "I'd feel… too embarrassed if he reads it! I mean… I made him a vampire and stuff! How will he react to this?!"

The lawyer felt like giving up to Trucy's short despair. "All right, then!" Athena exclaimed. "But, I mean, you can't just write a long story like this and only let two people read it, and by two people I mean me and your teacher!"

"Three actually!" Trucy objected with a grin.

Athena jolted. "Huh? Who's the third?"

"Daddy, of course!"

And dumbfounded Athena was. Since when did Mr. Wright love to read long fiction stories? "The boss reads the entire thing?!" Athena blurted out. If she would be drinking water, she'd spit it all out.

"Yeah!" the magician replied with a beam in her shining eyes. "And Daddy thought it was cool! But he was disappointed when he'd been overshadowed by his own pupil! And that I made Kristoph nicer, but he kinda giggled a lot when Klavier died!"

This left Athena silent for a long minute. Since when people sneered at other people's misery, even in fiction? "Huh… That was awkward," she whispered to herself, rubbing her chin and frowning at her boss's slight sadistic side.

A surprise awaited the two girls when they heard the office door behind them making a creaking sound when it opened itself, revealing the main subject of the fictional story itself. "Hey there Athena, hey Trucy," a brunette young man called Apollo calmly greeted them from the door. "It's time for your show at the Wonder Bar."

Horrified that she hadn't taken the time to watch the clock above her head since Athena had started reading her story, Trucy suddenly grabbed the sides of her head with her gloved hands. "Oh no!" she shrieked with panic. "I totally forgot! And I don't have much remaining time to get there!"

Like a super heroine, Athena made a step forward, pointing her finger to the sky above, grinning like she was going to save the world from a malicious evil. "Don't worry, Trucy!" Athena pompously cried. "I came with my bike today! Just hop behind me and we'll get there in no time!"

Relieved, Trucy made a joyful jump and went to give a big hug to her savior. "Thanks Athena! You're a life saver!"

After she released the lawyer from her arms, the two girls rushed to the door, with Trucy leaving a "Bye Polly!" before she disappeared with Athena to the exit.

"Bye Truce, bye Athena!" Apollo left out as he watched the entrance door closed itself. He gave an exhausted sigh, just wanting to go home in his small cozy apartment and get a good night sleep. However, something over the corner picked his curiosity. He took a glance at it and saw the big pile of printed papers. He gave the first page a quick read.

"Hum... 'Everlasting Turnabout, the dramatic story of a vampire hunter, by Trucy Wright'. Hey, that must be Trucy's school work. Maybe I can help my little sister with her homework!"

He started reading the prologue…

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The End. For Real.

Author's note: I had to add that ending because of my tradition to give all my stories a silly ending, even for super serious and tragic stories.

I actually wrote an alternate bad ending for this story and I'm writing a second bad ending too. I'll post them later. Of course, since they are bad endings, you are not required to read them because they are extremely depressing. One ending should be read just after Chapter 3, and the other one after the 3/4 of the Chapter 23.