A/N: I am working on requests, so be patient, please.

Ever wondered why gumshoe has been gone?


"My goodness!" Wright stared at the clad detective. "Detective Gumshoe?! How have you been? I haven't seen you in a long time."

This overwhelming sensation of relief and nostalgia brushed over him as he saw the scruffy detective. No longer sporting that old dirty trench coat he constantly brought along with him on his back, but with a brand new beige one. He unexpectedly looked slightly more classy, even if that is hardly possible for this oaf of a detective.

"Hey pal, yeah it's been a while." Gumshoe responded cheerily. "I'm doing great. I was finally reinstated after a while."

"Reinstated? You were fired?!" Phoenix yelled almost in shock. Concerned curiosity was seeping slowly into dread and guilt when he may have quickly come to a conclusion that it may have actually been Phoenix and Maya's fault for causing his shortcoming. Though it may not have been voluntarily their fault for his negligence and leaking out authorized intel on them without realizing it. "How come? It wasn't us, was it?"

Gumshoe shook his head nonchalantly. "Nah pal. It was something else." He scratched his head. "After the few cases I took with Mr. Edgeworth for a good several years, I managed to buy myself a better phone."

Gumshoe pulled out the cellular device. Wright mulled over it lightly. It was actually way more advanced compared to his brick of a phone. "I can tell. You have better quality garbs on too."

"Yeah, well. Not only the clothes changed, but I thought to myself, 'hey, since I no longer eat just plain old ramen and a got myself a new coat, why not go more ahead.' I thought I'd get to know technology a little better, so I got a new phone. It had all kinds of neat stuff, Internet and a camera."

"Wow…" Phoenix sagged. "Your phone has a camera…" He moped, 'And Internet…'

"Yeah, pal!" Gumshoe tilted his head triumphantly. "So, I thought I'd work on this new thingamajig and well…" He moped. "It got me in a bit of trouble."

"How?" Phoenix asked.

Gumshoe scratched his head once more, "You know how kids are these days. They do this thing called a "selfie."

"Oh. I know that." Phoenix reconciled. "Athena, Pearl and Trucy always try to crowd us into one huge photo."

"I didn't really see myself as photogenic, but I thought, what the hell? I took a nice pic of myself and decided to send it to Maggey. It took her a while. She sent one of those 'blush emojis' and said 'thank you.'"

Phoenix's brows furrowed. "I don't see how that got you into trouble."

"I'm heading to that part, pal." Gumshoe wearily spoke. "So I decided to send it also to the chief prosecutor. And I got suspended for a bit..."

'WHAT?!' The internal scream was so loud, it almost erupted from the lawyer's lips. "Edgeworth suspended you?! Why?"

"It took me a while to realize too! Though, it was almost half a year until I realized there was no check coming in."

'That sounds more like fired to me…' Phoenix inwardly thought. "Did you see Edgeworth why he suspended you? There must have been some misunderstanding."

"Sure did, pal…"


"There's something wrong, pal. You haven't received a check in almost half a year nor any cases since!" Maggey cried loudly. "What happened? Did you get fired?"

"Mr. Edgeworth, fire me? No way, Maggey." Gumshoe responded. "He isn't like that! I haven't done anything wrong… Not that I know of…"

Maggey crossed her arms, "Dick, please look into this. I'm very concerned now. I know Edgeworth would have been concerned for you by now too. Go to Criminal Affairs and see why you haven't received anything from them."

"Aww… Okay…" Gumshoe moped.

The drive there wasn't rushed, nor was he taking his time either. The chief of police gave him a funny stare as he came into Criminal Affairs. "Detective Gumshoe? Why are you here?"

"Why am I here? I work here, Pal!" Gumshoe yelled. "Why haven't I received a check or any work recently?"

"The Chief Prosecutor told us to suspend you for misconduct…" The Chief spoke.

"Misconduct!" Gumshoe yelled. 'I don't remember doing anything bad… except that time the guy in blue yelled at me for handing that little girl a gun...'

"Why?"

"Why don't you ask him." The Chief pointed. "Head to the prosecutor's office."

Gumshoe walked towards the office that was just across the street. The scruffy detective was never riled up, and never just happened. He would never think the prosecutor which he had worked for years with would do this to him without even sending him a message! He told off the receptionist and went up to the prosecutor's office.

"Mr. Edgeworth!" The detective yelped into the office.

"Gumshoe…" Edgeworth deadpanned as he put down the files he was working with. "May I help you?"

"Sir! Why would you suspend me?!" Gumshoe almost looked like he was going to cry. "What have I done that caused you to do that?!"

Edgeworth walked around his desk and approached the detective with a grimace. "I would have thought you'd come around to it sooner. Six months ago, you sent me an image which I can insinuate is quite inappropriate." He crossed him arms, tapping his bicep, "which caused me to take action."

"What picture?" The detective winced.

"The one you sent to my phone some time ago." He turned several shades of red.

"Picture…" The detective's eyes roved around in ponderance. "You mean… the one I sent you of me?"

"Yes…"

"Sir, there was nothing inappropriate about it, I just sent one of those 'selfies' people are doing nowadays." He explained.

"Then please explain to me, detective, why it says…" The prosecutor paused before sputtering, "Dick Pic?"

The detective saw the prosecutor's face turn crimson as his clothing. "Sir!" Gumshoe yelled. "I would never send a picture of… that!"

"Then explain, detective, in fifty words or less..."

"I was just taking a self portrait picture of myself," he skimmed through his phone where the conversation between him and Edgeworth were. "See!"

The detective touched the image before it started to download, Edgeworth wanted to look away before it appeared, but as the loader stopped turning, it was actually a picture of Gumshoe with a stupid grin. Edgeworth let out a huff, "So… I guess my skepticism has gotten the better of me."

He turned back to his desk, "Forgive me, Detective Gumshoe. I will tell the Criminal Affairs to remove you from suspension."

Gumshoe breathed a sigh of relief, before staring at the prosecutor, "Thanks, sir, but I was wondering..."

"What detective?"

"Why is that you think I sent you that picture without presuming what it was?"

Miles turned several shades of pink once more before turning his view away. "I've had… terrible experiences before…"

"Welp, pal! I hope we get over this!" Gumshoe giddily walked out of the office.


Phoenix's mouth flopped open and closed like a fish before answering, "So, the chief thought you sent him a nude?"

"Yeah…Turns out, my phone had old style texting where my signature of my name comes up before the text. Quite embarrassing really." He shook.

"Well… Welcome back, Gumshoe."

"Thanks, pal."


Later that night, Edgeworth looked nervously at his phone when it chimed, an unnamed image and phone number popped on his screen. As soon as it downloaded out of fear, he read the message, "Like what you see, Edgey-poo?"

"CONFOUND IT, WOMAN!"