Prompt: [paraphrased] something based off the music video to A-Ha's song 'Take On Me'.

I was immediately reminded of the literal music video for that song (available on youtube by DustoMcNeato). If you aren't familiar, this might not make much sense to you.


[Close-ups shots of figures in a courtroom, hands on desks, a gavel slamming, fingers pointing.]

[Camera on Phoenix in a booth at Trés Bien]

Maya [narrating]: Reading a book. Jean brings a new glass of grape juice.

Phoenix: Peek at your menu? I would rather keep on reading.

Maya: Look at the frame.

[closeup of charming smirk Edgeworth]

Phoenix: There's a handsome guy inside this comic.

[Phoenix vs. Edgeworth cross-examination style shot of their eyes]

Maya: Close up eyes... (Close up eyes)

[Edgeworth winks. Phoenix's eyes widen. Edgeworth reaches out, beckoning to Phoenix.]

Maya: Hand comes out... (Hand comes out) Sketchy arm... Grab the hand!

[Phoenix grabs on and is pulled through into a sketchy courtroom world. Edgeworth's cravat is now visible.]

Edgeworth: So now you're inside. Everything's drawn and vaguely medieval? Lots of squiggly lines... When I stand here it makes me human.

[He stands behind a magic frame, which does as promised.]

Phoenix: You're handsome either way.

Edgeworth: You know you like the way I cross-examine too. Come to me... (Come to me)

[Phoenix approaches, standing on the other side of the frame.

Maya: Magic frame... (Magic frame) Argue with you... Court montage!

[Montage of them facing off in court, along with the Judge and several witnesses]

[Armstrong comes across Phoenix's empty table, only the comic left behind. He grumbles angrily while crumpling the comic and throwing it in his trash can.]

Armstrong: Ahh, mon dieu! Hey! Stupid flee-before-food-ers! Makes me want to crumple something! Ohhh, boy. I'll show them. March it right over - right in the trash!

[Back to Phoenix and Edgeworth. Phoenix is slamming his hands down on his desk with a flirty expression. Suddenly, von Karma leaps into view wielding a stun gun.]

von Karma: Told you to stay away from my magic frame! Rah!

[He tazes the frame, shattering it, then attempts to taze Phoenix. Edgeworth hits his mentor, then pulls Phoenix away through the broken frame.]

Phoenix: Let's get outta here!

Edgeworth: Come on, Wright!

von Karma: Take a swing at me, will you?

[Dahlia and Gant burst into the room. In keeping with the sketchy world's fashion sense, they are inexplicably dressed like von Karmas.]

Dahlia [furiously]: What are they doing with our magic frame?!

[Phoenix and Edgeworth run away down a hall, hand in hand]

Edgeworth: Come on, this way!

Phoenix: Ah, I tripped!

[The villains give chase, fumbling after them as the hallway keeps turning and the lawyers continue running.]

Gant: Whoa, where the hell am I? What kind of hallway is this? Is this your house?

Dahlia: Is that them? Oh, we're gonna getcha.

Phoenix: Oh no, a dead end!

von Karma: This guy's gonna get 600,000 volts of stun gun!

Maya: Oh, watch out for them. They're gonna murder you like your father.

Edgeworth [pulling open the wall]: Climb through this hole.

Maya: Show Godot then cut back to these two.

[quick shot of Godot throwing back a mug of coffee]

Edgeworth: You go through first... I'm gonna kick some ass with flawless logic.

[He points at von Karma. Cut to Gumshoe leaning down next to Armstrong.]

Gumshoe: Objection...?

Armstrong: Say what now?

[They are looking down at a bedraggled Phoenix, who has fallen out of the trashcan. He grabs the comic, then runs out of the diner.]

Maya: Take that home... (Take that home.) What happened? To cravat guy? Courtroom fight... (Courtroom fight)

[back in his office, Phoenix opens the comic again, frantically smoothing the wrinkles to see what happened]

Phoenix: Is he dead? (Is he dead?)

[In the comic, the Judge's gavel is banging, shaking the walls of the frame below which holds Edgeworth. Phoenix spins around, and Edgeworth is in the door frame, shaking back and forth and glitching between sketchy and solid.]

Maya: Wait, what's this?

Judge: He's innocent!

[Phoenix gets a slow, wide smile. Edgeworth, fully solid now, smiles weakly back at him. Phoenix begins to run towards him as the camera fades to black]


Another anon on the kink meme suggested that this would be made by Moe's band, called 'A-Ha! A-Ha! A-Ha! A-Ha!' which I absolutely love and fully accept.