Man, oh, man… how long has it been? More than two years! I honestly thought I'd never continue any of my old fanfiction, but I recently returned to FF for something else, saw a message from Nami-chan07, telling me that she/he liked the story. This made me go back to this story and read its first chapter again. I decided that this story wasn't too bad and that I could at least add another chapter to it.
I'll have to tell you, though, I was such a fool back then to only start a story with just an idea of how to start it, not with an idea how to end it. In fact, I still don't know how to end it. After this chapter this story may as well go into hiatus for a long time again, but we'll see about that. For now, enjoy this little chapter I quickly came up with.
A whiplash sounded… another one followed… and yet another one!
"Fools! All of you! If you'd been more alert, this would never have happened!" A fiery, white-haired lady yelled at several police men.
"Miss von Karma," one of them tried, "We have no clue as to how they got those guns into the courtroom either!"
"NONSENSE!" she yelled, as she whipped the police man who said several times, "You're too lazy!"
"Now, now," a familiar voice sounded behind her, "There's no use to abuse them. It's happened, however much you lash that whip at everyone, that fact won't change."
That voice alone managed to make Miss Franziska von Karma even more angry than she already was. She turned around and stared right into the face of Detective Dick Gumshoe.
"YOU! WHAT in the name of EVERYTHING that's illogical are you doing HERE!?" she yelled infuriated.
"Well, where else should I be?"
"A smart detective would be out there chasing the escapees!"
There was a second of silence.
"Ugh, nevermind… I shouldn't have expected any smart actions from you."
Franziska kept looking at Detective Gumshoe for a long four seconds before bursting out in anger again.
"Why are you still standing there!? Get out here and chase them!"
"No, well… uhm… we lost any track of them. There's not really any use for me to go out there anymore…"
That earned Detective Gumshoe another whiplash and more furious words from Franziska.
"I DON'T CARE! GET OUT OF HERE!"
Under the cover of whiplashes, Detective Gumshoe ran away. Franziska turned around and looked at the police men.
"You too, fools!" she yelled as she lashed out her whip at all of them, as they scattered and ran after Gumshoe.
"Fools! They're all fools! I'm surrounded by foolish fools! Ugh!"
Just as she finished her sentence, her cell phone started ringing. Hoping that there was news about the escaped criminals, she quickly took her cell phone out of her pocket and took the call.
"Franziska von Karma speaking," she greeted.
"Hello, Franziska… it's been some time, eh?" a child's voice came from the other side of the line.
There was a short silence before Franziska hesitantly said:
"Who is this?"
"It's me, Phoenix! Phoenix Wright!"
"I know Wright was a brat, but he didn't sound like that! Don't be a fool! I don't have time for your pranks! Goodbye!"
And with that, Franziska had pressed the red phone-button on her cell phone, ending the call.
"Fools!" she mumbled to herself, as she was about to walk away, also starting a search for the two black men, when her cell phone rang again. Again hoping that this was information on the chase for the two black men, she quickly answered the call, but was disappointed to hear the same voice.
"With Phoenix Wright. Listen-"
And Franziska had already angrily ended the call.
But within a second, her cell phone rang again. She took it again, this time expecting the same voice again. And indeed, it was the same voice. Her thumb wanted to press the button to end the call already, but what the voice said this time refrained her from doing that.
"Manfred von Karma."
Her thumb was less than a millimeter away from the button, but didn't press it.
"Kurain Village. Maximillion Galactica. Matt Engarde."
Her thumb was slowly raised from the button.
"Have I now at least convinced you that I'm worth listening to?"
"Speak," was Franziska's command.
"If I'm correct, you have a problem with two escaped criminals, am I not correct?"
"You are correct. How do you know this?"
"I met them."
"What?! Where?!"
"You'll need to come to the Wright Anything Agency if you want to know more… It'll be hard explaining the rest over the phone."
Franziska was contemplating her options for a moment, but then answered:
"I'll be there within ten minutes."
When Franziska rang the bell of the Wright Anything Agency, the door was quickly opened by Trucy, who greeted her.
"Good afternoon! Thank you for coming."
"If this isn't important, I'll whip you all to death!"
"Oh, don't worry… this is important," came the same voice from the phone call. Phoenix Wright stepped into the hallway, with his 8-year old body. Franziska was dumbfounded to see Phoenix like that.
"Is… is that you, Phoenix?!"
"Of course it's me!? Do you still have to ask that! I told you a bazillion times!
"Doesn't he look cute?" Trucy said to Franziska, which caused Franziska to open her mouth in surprise and blush.
"O-of course not!"
"We have more pressing matters to discuss than my obvious cuteness," Phoenix said, as he walked into the living room. The two girls followed him, where Franziska met the second kid, Apollo, which she had never seen before, but had heard of before. When their eyes met, Apollo introduced himself.
"Apollo Justice, lawyer," he said.
"I know. Your name is not uncommonly mentioned among lawyers these days," Franziska answered sternly."
"Ah," was Apollo's short reaction.
Phoenix immediately sat down and while there were other chairs available, Franziska didn't sit down, perhaps to still be able to lash her whip around, as this was harder when sitting.
"If you'd cut to the chase, that'd be great," Franziska said, "I don't have a lot of time to spare."
"Very well. Apollo had a case in the same court as you at the time and I was there as well. We both were so stupid as to run after them and get knocked out. We were fed a poison which we believe was meant to kill us. Instead, it changed us into this pitiful state. And since you were the one leading the case on one of those men, we assume you know more of this than we do, so we're kinda wondering what the heck has happened to us."
Throughout the short, undetailed explanation, Franziska's face brightened up considerably as she heard this information.
"If what you say is true, this is a major breakthrough. Those two criminals are associated to an organization only known to us by the name "Black Organization". I was put on this case by request of Interpol, who's been after this shady and mysterious organization for years now. All we know is that the organization's headquarters are somewhere in Tokyo, Japan."
"Japan?! What is a Japanese evil organization doing here in the States?" Phoenix said surprised.
"Don't ask me!"
Franziska looked from Phoenix to Apollo and back again, contemplating what the best course of action would be.
"I'll have to make some calls… I'll contact you tomorrow."
With that, Franziska turned around and walked towards the hallway again.
"Hey, wait!" Phoenix yelled as he jumped off his chair and chased her into the hallway.
"There's no time to wait, Phoenix. I'll be leaving now. I have to make some calls to the higher-ups in Interpol. As I said, I'll contact you tomorrow with more information."
After those words, Franziska opened the front door and stepped outside, before closing the door again.
Well… I hope you liked it. If you like my writing, be sure to go to my deviantart, where I'm called SpeedlionFF and where you can find my recently started webcomic (Still one page XD) and to my FictionPress account, where I'm called Speedlion as well, with my story "Freedom Card" (you can just ignore the rest if you want) which is also just a little over half a year old. In any case, if you're still reading this, I hope you'll be able to make some time to review this. Even just a "nice" would be very much appreciated… Tells me I didn't write this chapter for nothing. ^.^