The curtains rose and smoke filled the stage giving a very mysterious atmosphere. A drumroll began softly, and before their very eyes, Trucy emerged as if out of thin air. What really happened, based on how she appeared, was that she was simply hiding behind her cape, virtually making a giant handkerchief matching the back curtain, but the fact that it was such a simple trick was completely overlooked by how shocked everyone was at how seamless her arrival was. Trucy bowed as the applause flooded the Wonder Bar, but it stopped as soon as she raised her hand. She had a face of seriousness that they've never really seen before as she began her act.
The drummer kept a steady beat as Trucy strode across the stage, once she stopped, a drumroll began. She focused on her hands as if summoning all her magical energy and with a flick of a wrist, a dove appeared. The crowd applauded and she released it for the top of the stage out of sight. She continued just as before, but this time she got of stage and began to walk through the crowd. She stopped when she reached the Judge's table giving one of her mystical hand waves to another drumroll. She reached for his ear and pulled out a huge line of handkerchiefs. The Judge sat mortified as he stared at the huge ball of cloth that emerged from his head; Trucy placed it in his hand, gave him a wink, and moved on.
She approached their table and set her sights on Apollo. He feared for the worst as she began to wave her hands again all around him. Once the drumroll began to reach its climax she slowly began to raise her hands and Apollo began to rise from his table. He let out a scream as he slowly levitated a good five feet above everyone else, and they all stared completely shocked at the jump in performance. All of her previous tricks, though impressive to look at, were fairly simple. She had to have attached some invisible wire around Apollo when she was waving her hands, Phoenix thought, but that still didn't take away from the expert execution of the illusion, not to mention the amount of effort and planning it would have taken just to set up this one trick in the first place.
The crowd applauded louder than ever as Apollo was slowly lowered back down to his seat. He let out a sigh of relief as Athena gave him a reassuring nudge as if to say good job. The applause continued as Trucy returned to the stage and raised her hands a second time, "Thank you all for coming. For this next trick, I'll require a volunteer," she announced looking straight at Phoenix. He tried not to think of the consequences if he didn't comply as he slowly raised his hand in defeat. "Yes, your sir! Please come up!" Phoenix let out sigh as he slowly trudged up the steps to the stage. "Thank very much sir," Trucy smiled as a stage hand rolled in a fairly small box. He opened the lid "If you'll please sit in hear," she said pointing to it. Phoenix couldn't refuse as he sat down in the wooden box. Trucy walked up behind him and pushed him into a hunched position so she could get the box covered. She removed her cape and draped over the box, "Now on the count of three, I will make this box disappear before your very eyes," she said dramatically. She waved her hands over the box, "One. Two. Three!" She shouted as she pulled back her cape revealing that the box had effectively disappeared from the stage.
Again, the trick was impressive, but the implications behind the trick were even more astonishing. To their knowledge, the Wonder Bar didn't previously have any trap doors on stage, so what happened to Phoenix exactly? Trucy waited for the applause to die down again, "Thank you, for this next I ask for one man and one woman from the audience!"
Athena turned to Apollo, "Common Apollo, let's do this one!" She said clearly excited.
Apollo hadn't even thought of volunteering for one of Trucy's tricks; that was always Mr. Wright's job. The more he thought about it, though, the more he wanted see the tricks performed up close, "Alright," he said as they both raised their hand.
Trucy beamed to see them volunteer for her act and practically shouted, "Great, please come on up you two!" Apollo and Athena didn't waste any time getting up on stage. This time the stage hand brought in another box that was just a little taller than the two of them. It was all black and had several white dots that looked like stars scattered across it. Trucy opened the box and motioned for them to enter. Apollo went in first, but to his surprise the box was extremely narrow. He turned around once he reached the back just as Athena walked in and they practically collided with each other. Trucy closed the door to the box as soon as Athena stepped in, and they soon realized just how tight a fit the box really was. Athena was pressed up against Apollo's chest, and when she looked up, she saw how close their faces to each other. They stared straight into each other's eyes for a brief moment until embarrassment got the better of them and they both turned away. Athena quickly pulled her hands off of Apollo's vest after realizing that she kept them there for far too long, and Apollo, whose hands were up already in the air out of surprise respectfully put his hands behind his back. It was clear that both of them were blushing, despite the fact that it wasn't very bright inside the box, but this caused them to realize something: How were they able to see in the first place? Surrounding the box were several small slits that let in just a small amount of light. It was just as they noticed this that they heard Trucy say softly from the other side of the box, "Make sure you guys don't move and you'll be fine." Neither of them knew what she meant by this, but soon after a long sharp blade flew right across Apollo's face between two of the slits.
It took him a second to register what had happened, and he immediately began to tense up. The sword was quickly followed by two more that ran between their legs and past both their left arms. Apollo let out what sounded like a tiny squeak when the next sword flew past the two spikes of his hair. Beads of sweat began to run down their faces as a gale of swords continued to sweep past them in every which way. Athena was getting more and more nervous with each sword that pierced the box, and just when she felt like she was going to fall into the pit of despair, she felt something touch her hand. It didn't feel like a sword; rather, it was warm, soft, and comforting. She looked down and she saw it was Apollo's hand grasping her. She looked up at him and she saw a face of reassurance, a face that told her that everything was going to be alright. The swords finally stopped, and one by one they were each removed. When she pulled out the last one, Trucy finally opened the box. The two, completely drained from their little ordeal, trudged back to their seats.
Edgeworth gave the two lawyers a concerned look. It was then that he noticed that Wright hadn't returned to his seat yet either. Everyone, worried about what the little magician had in store next, knew that this was going to be a long night….
