It was another slow day at the Wright Anything Agency.

In point of fact, the more Phoenix thought about it, the more he realized they had more slow days than busy ones, by a few orders of magnitude.

Or...wait, what were orders of magnitude? Phoenix was bad at math.

He was trying to reorganize the legal books on a shelf, so as to appear busy and professional to his underlings, while the others were all faffing about.

Trucy was cleaning, Apollo was reading manga at his desk, and Athena was on her phone.

Things were quiet, until Athena started laughing.

Hard.

So hard, in fact, she snorted in the middle. "Trucy, come here, you need to see this."

Leaning the cobwebber against one wall (no doubt coating that part of the wall in dust and cobwebs), Trucy dashed over quicker than when Phoenix told her dinner was ready, looking at Athena's phone screen with rapt attention.

Phoenix's daughter didn't laugh quite as hard as Athena had, but she was still clearly amused by what she'd seen. "Polly, set that comic book down and come here!"

Grumbling about how it wasn't a comic, Apollo grabbed a legal document off his desk to serve as an impromptu bookmark and joined the others in looking at Athena's phone. Apollo's laugh was snappier, and quite loud.

Curious, Phoenix asked, "What's so funny?"

Without even asking first, Trucy snatched Athena's phone out of her hand and brought it over to him.

He...did not get it.

It was a short video, and Phoenix vaguely recognized the start of it from some superhero movie from like a decade or more ago. Someone asked the hero to do a flip, but then it cut to...some man running down a highway at night, almost naked, doing a flip while sprinting? And then it just looped back to the beginning.

Phoenix just blinked, uncomprehending.

Almost feeling bad for asking, he had to know. "Why...is this funny?"

He got three answers at the same time.

"It's a classic Vine!" "The editing is really perfectly timed!" "I always just liked that scene in Homecoming."

At the very least, Apollo's answer helped Phoenix remember the name of the movie that the first part of the clip was from. But he had a new question. "What's a Vine?"

The stares he got for that question felt rather mean.

Athena looked shocked. "Seriously, Boss? You don't know what Vine is?"

"No, I don't."

"Poor Daddy..." Trucy was putting on the full 'oh isn't it so sad my dad is ancient' act. "So old, he has no ability to appreciate dank memes."

"...doesn't dank mean...moist?"

At least Apollo tried to stick up for him. "Hey, he can't be that bad. Mr. Wright, you at least know what updog is, don't you?"

Sadly, the question did the opposite of help. "What's updog?"

They all said the same thing simultaneously. "Not much, how about you?" Then, they just started cackling.

Now, it was beginning to feel like they were all laughing at Phoenix's expense. "Okay, okay, you all know stuff I don't, you're very funny, but can we all go back to what we were doing?"

He'd made a fatal mistake. It was obvious now he didn't care for these jokes he didn't get.

The sharks smelled blood in the water.

"Hey, Trucy did you hear that new solo album Prosecutor Gavin put out? I thought it slapped."

What is 'slapped'?

"Hmm...Athena, I don't know. It had a few bangers, but it just didn't give my brain goblin goo."

Were they still speaking English?

Apollo rolled his eyes. "If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go throw myself into the ocean now."

That one actually confused everyone, girls included. "What's that from, Polly?"

"BDG?" They still looked at him with blank stares. "Unraveled?" Nothing. "I sent you both the playlist months ago!"

That seemed to answer some question for them, at least. "Ohhh, it was one of those things you send us."

Trucy didn't look apologetic in the slightest when she told Apollo, "Sorry, but we never actually watch those."

That, at least, seemed to take the steam out of him enough that things quieted down.

At first, Phoenix thought they'd gone back to their separate tasks, and he did the same with his own. It took him far too long to realize that they were all on their phones now.

They were co-ordinating. Against him.

The bomb didn't drop until one of their phones started playing music. Some...kind of hip hop song?

It only got more confusing when the lyrics started, and all three of them, without looking at each other or stopping what they were doing, started singing the lyrics at the same time. "We're finally here, recording for you. If you know the words you can join in too."

This was easily the most mystifying thing they'd done so far. This song sounded awful to Phoenix, but they were all clearly having a blast singing it, eventually even getting up and dancing around the office.

When it ended, Phoenix unable to help watching on in absolute befuddlement, Apollo said, smiling, "That was fun. Man, I need to replay that game."

"What game?" Trucy asked.

Apollo blinked. "...the game it's from?"

"There's a game?"

They actually did go back to work after that, and Phoenix once again let himself think it was over.

It was days later when he realized how wrong he was. Edgeworth had come to talk to him about something Phoenix had done in his last trial, and while chastising him for being reckless, told him, "...I must say, it was far from poggers of you."

"..."

"You are not a pogchamp, I am sorry to tell you."

It was almost a minute before Phoenix was able to answer that. "...how much did Trucy bribe you for this?"

"Nothing. The sight of you rendered speechless was payment enough."