I'm so sorry for the late update! Tomorrow's my birthday and I've been making a lot of preparations.
I admit, I may have had some obvious errors the other chapter, and I apologize for them. _ Please turn a blind eye to those errors since I'm running out of time and I can't edit them as of now. Thank you!
I hope that you'll enjoy this next chapter.
-drops of jelly
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Sixth Turnabout
A few meters from Borscht Bowl Club
June 5 5:58 pm
"………………"
Phoenix Wright woke up from a nap. He was fatigued ever since he was brought into this unfamiliar room, still wounded, then tied up to a chair.
Earlier that morning, he miraculously found a sharp edge where he could cut off the ropes tying him. He severed the annoying knots tied around his wrists and untied the rest of his limbs from the chair. He reached out for his phone and sent those text messages to Miles Edgeworth which led him to where he was.
His injury had stopped bleeding, it was not a critical wound, but his white polo had absorbed quite an amount of blood.
After a few seconds, he took a quick peek outside through a small window in the room to see if the outside changed. He saw a familiar car pass by, and then decided to welcome the person who owned that car.
Don't worry Franziska, Edgeworth's here to help you. He thought. He didn't make any contact to her since they were captured. He didn't want to blow his cover. If she were to know where he was, she'd insist on taking him with her, and he couldn't go back just yet. He had to find clues to build his case too.
He thought of a plan to attract attention from the outside.
Phoenix Wright set up the scene. His plan turned out to kill two birds with one stone. He planned to get Edgeworth's attention, and stage his own death.
The china teapot and cup and the entire room were the perfect tools for this feat.
O-o-O
He turned the cup containing tea over and it spilled over and poured onto the floor.
He stained his white polo with a little of the tea, then knocked over the china set.
That noise attracted Edgeworth's attention, and then he began to communicate with him, actually typing messages.
After he communicated with Edgeworth, he turned off his phone and slipped it back into his pocket. Unlike Franziska's abductors, his did not think of searching him and confiscating his phone. He was too lucky indeed.
He tied his feet back to the chair, then tied back his blindfold, and tied himself back to the chair. He knocked himself down on the floor with himself faced upward- his wound reopened a little because of the impact, but he had to force himself awake. He laid with his chair on the floor next to the mess of the china he broke and the tea he spilt. The bleeding of his wound was enough to convince anyone that he bled to death.
To his better advantage, moments later, a blackout occurred and unlocked and opened all the electronic doors, including his.
He planned to stage his own death by bleeding since the setting gave way, and have the kidnappers discover him at this state.
After half an hour after the lights went back on, one kidnapper stumbled across this 'crime scene' and discovered Phoenix Wright's 'corpse'.
"Hey… This one's finished." One of the men called the other's attention.
"What happened to this one?" the other one entered the scene.
"Looks like he bled to death, from when we stabbed him." He laughed.
"What a guy. He must have tried to escape, but knocked himself down and worsened his wound. Pathetic." He laughed along.
"Oh well, we'll have to clean this one up too, like the boss always tells us." One of the men proceeded to lift Phoenix's body.
They placed his body at the back of the same van he traveled in, and drove a kilometer or so away from the building, the Gourd Lake Park. They laid his body under a tree and began to dig a grave for him, not too deep, about just two feet-enough to terrify any passer by.
When the two of them lifted Phoenix's body together and laid it in the hollow space. The second they let their guards down, Phoenix quickly sprayed some pepper spray into their eyes and kicked their stomachs.
Heh, pepper spray tactics, a classic. Trucy was right, pepper spray does come in handy in more ways than one. He sighed, remembering the times his doting daughter slipped in random things in his blue suit.
The two men wailed in pain as Phoenix grabbed a thick, broken tree branch nearby and hit the two men unconscious, despite his wound.
It was convenient enough that there were tree branches nearby.
He dragged the two unconscious men and placed them inside an unused boat shack in the vicinity. He tied the two men up very securely with one of the ropes used to tie the boats together. He took the other man's clothes and one of their cell phones and ID cards. He could use these pieces of evidence. Then he securely sealed the shack- using one boat to block the door.
He turned on his phone and checked Edgeworth's location by GPS.
It was on an unfamiliar spot a few meters away from the Borscht Bowl Club. He was alarmed and suspected it was still at the place he was held hostage in. He walked all the way back after treating his wound.
O-o-O
Where could those two be now? They're not responding at all… he thought, nervous.
In his disguise, he went back to the building and found his 'place of death'.
Coincidentally, the cell phone that he took from one of the men rang.
The name that appeared on the cell phone was BOSS
He answered the phone.
"B5, six cases have been reported so far. Have you anything new to add?" it was a man who spoke through a voice converter. It must be the mastermind.
Six?! Please be okay… Edgeworth, Franziska… he prayed in his thoughts.
"Make that seven, sir. The attorney, Phoenix Wright died earlier and we have disposed of his body at the Gourd Lake Park." He replied in his altered voice.
"That attorney, eh… Yes. Let me see his corpse tomorrow. You will take me to where you have disposed of him. He was quite a thorn on my side ever since he took on Dr. Steelbird's case…" the voice replied.
This person… knows Dr. Steelbird personally? Phoenix thought.
"Yes, sir." He replied and hung up after.
Alright, the perfect trap… But I'll have to be careful. I'm going to meet with this person and trap him.
He took his cellphone and sent a single text message to Apollo Justice, to get things moving on the other side- so Apollo could start gathering evidence and uncover the truth.
I found the mastermind, and now he's gone, but don't tell anyone.
He sent this of course – his objective.
He received a reply in return, but he didn't entertain it any further. He had to make more careful steps from now on, knowing that Edgeworth and Franziska might be alive or dead.
Gourd Lake Park
June 6 11:00 am
Phoenix Wright, in disguise was walking across the park with the mastermind- a man in his forties, as he appears.
So this is BOSS… he thought, moving towards the boat shack, and pushing away the boat he used to block the door with.
The boss went ahead and opened the door.
But, once he opened the door and saw his two men tied up but still asleep, in a split second, he was severely knocked unconscious.
I guess I can think like a criminal sometimes. Phoenix sighed nervously.
He tied the boss up as well and once again locked the door and blocked it with the same boat.
That took a lot of strength out of him.
Criminal Affairs Department
June 6 12:12 pm
*beep beep beep*
"Hello?" Detective Gumshoe answered his phone, startled at the sudden ring.
"I managed to get out somehow, and I've got the mastermind and two accomplices under custody. Please have the police come over now at the Gourd Lake Park, the boat shack to be precise. I can't hold out too long. These men are merely unconscious." Phoenix reported.
"WHHHHAAAT!! Alright pal! We'll rush over there in ten minutes!" Gumshoe leaped off his chair and hung up.
"Guys! We've got Phoenix Wright, with the real killer in his custody! We've got to hurry there now!" Gumshoe summoned the police men and rushed into the police car.
Don't worry pal. We'll take it from there! You'll be okay now! Gumshoe thought to himself as their police car raced across the highway.
However… Things were far from over- if that's what Phoenix thought.
to be continued
Again, I'm sorry for the late update! I had a little of a writer's block honestly, trying to examine all possible angles to this case, trying to make it as realistic as I can while turning it around too! (So this is how Phoenix feels a lot.. sigh) But I'm trying my best too! I'm definitely going to turn this whole thing around!
Updates might come later next time… Sorry! TT_TT
-drops of jelly