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Chapter 7: Hell Breaks Loose in Makai

Present day, dark city…

In a narrow street between brick buildings was a certain shop with tall wooden double doors. Unlike its other neighbors, this one was a bit archaic, which contrasted with its bright neon light sign, reading "Devil May Cry". This was the home base and "office" of sorts if one could call it that for Dante the Devil Hunter. Inside looked more like a two-story studio with some sofas, a jukebox, a pool table, and a metal staircase going to the second level. In the back was an ornate desk with an old-style telephone and a mini bar. The most distinctive feature was that the back walls were decorated with numerous Devil Arms Dante had accumulated in his previous jobs.

Currently, Dante sat behind his desk with his feet propped up. Trish sat on the top of the desk on the left and Lady leaned against it at the right. Their "guests" were standing about or seated at the sofas. After the latest debacle, they all decided to gather at Dante's shop to trade information once formal introductions had been made.

"Well, tonight has been interesting, to say the least." said Dante.

"No kidding." said Chris. "First BOWs, then supernatural demons, and now spandex heroes?"

"Hey man! The correct term is Henshin Heroes!" said Joe indignantly. "Don't you ever watch superhero movies, dude?" He looked around the shop in awe. "But man! Such a sweet setup here!"

"Just don't touch anything, Joe." said Silvia.

"I'm still confused about that black substance, though." said Jill. "In my time fighting against bio-terrorism, I've never seen anything like it."

"Still shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, Jill." said Leon. "It's the reason we all didn't get caught in that lab explosion."

"True, but it still worries me."

"And you two actually came from a world where movies are real?" Claire asked Joe and Silvia.

"You got it! And I'm the hero!" said Joe with pride.

"WE'RE the heroes." Silvia corrected.

"I'm having trouble wrapping my head around that." said Frank.

"Sounds like fun." said Trish.

"Guys, something's been bugging me since we got here." said Barry. "Maybe it's just me, but aside from those monsters, didn't the streets seem a bit empty?"

That got the attention of his allies and Frank.

"Hey, now that you mention it..." said Chris.

"I mean, I'm sure the fighting might have attracted someone like the local authorities or something." said Barry.

This got Dante curious as he picked up the phone and dialed a number. After a few rings, the call dropped. He tried several other numbers with the same result.

"Damn! No one's answering..." said Dante as he put the phone down.

"So who were you calling?" asked Leon.

"My usual pizza joints are open at this time, and they're not answering. I was trying to order out."

"Oh man, really? I was getting hungry, too!" said Joe.

Everyone except Trish and Lady nearly face-faulted.

"Typical Dante." said Lady.

"This is pretty alarming..." said Claire. "Is there really no one out there?"

Suddenly, the whole building shook for a second, catching everyone off guard.

"What the hell!?" said Chris. "What was that tremor!?"

Everyone regained their footing as they all shared the same thoughts. Soon after the tremor happened, the interior of the shop suddenly darkened as if a black light illuminated the room.

"Great, now what's happening!?" asked Leon.

Everyone looked about, not daring to breath, but after a minute passed, nothing seemed to be happening. Frank then broke the silence.

"Hey, does anyone feel like we're moving?" asked Frank.

"You mean like a boat?" asked Lady.

"Yeah, it does..." said Chris as Jill and Barry nodded. Chris and Jill knew this feeling during the Queen Xenobia incident and Barry when he took a boat to Sushestvovanie Island to rescue his daughter, Moira.

Trish tried looking out the window, but they're to dirty to see through clearly. "You really need to lean these, Dante."

"Hey, I've been busy!"

Curious, Joe walked over to the door. Taking the knob, he slowly turned it and opened the door. What he saw on the other side completely floored him as he fell backward in shock.

"What is this!?" said Joe, getting everyone's attention.

Silvia, concerned for her beau, quickly ran toward him. "Joe? What's wr-" Her words died in her throat as she saw what was outside the door.

Everyone gathered to where Joe was at and were equally shocked. On the other side of the door was nothing but a huge blackened void. It almost looked as if they were in outer space.

"What in the!?" said Claire.

Frank couldn't help but take a picture of the outside.

"What's going on!?" said Barry.

"There's nothing out here!" said Jill.

"Make way."

Everyone turned to see Dante walking up while grabbing a nearby empty beer bottle from a table. Getting to the edge of the door, he dropped the bottle, which fell into the darkness as if it had been swallowed up in shadows. They all waited, but didn't hear the telltale signs of breaking glass.

"Okay, show's over, people." said Dante as he quickly shut the doors. "I think it would be best if we all stayed inside."

No one argued with that.

"This is just crazy..." said Chris. "What the hell just happened?"

"Well, if I had to hazard a guess, I'd say Dante's shop just got plucked into another dimension." said Trish.

Frank and the Raccoon City survivors turned to look at her in confusion.

"What? Are you serious?" asked Leon.

"It's kind of a thing high level demons can do." said Dante. He thought back to how his brother, Vergil, used his Yamato to slice between dimensions. "Good news is, we're all still alive."

"If you could call this that." said Barry.

"You know, I've seen some movies like this before." said Joe. "Some guy's house got plucked out of existence then found itself in another world."

"Well this is real life, Joe, but even that is questionable at this point." said Frank.

"So what do we do now?" asked Jill.

"Nothing, that's what." said Dante as he went over to lean against the front of his desk. "We're just going to have to play the waiting game for now until we stop moving."

"That's your plan?" asked Chris.

"You got a better idea? Unless you feel like skydiving without a parachute, we're pretty much stuck."

"He's right, Chris. What else can we do?" said Claire.

Chris couldn't refute Dante's point. Going outside right now would be suicide.

"In any case, I need a drink." said Dante as he walked over to the mini bar.

"You know, I could use a cold one myself." said Leon as he followed Dante.

"Same here." said Barry.

Chris could only sigh. "Dammit… give me one, too."

Back at the dark city, the place where the Devil May Cry shop once stood was now nothing but an empty uprooted lot.

Castle Zeltzereich…

Demitri was feeling annoyed at the interruptions to his plans for Makai. It was bad enough he got some unplanned visitors in his castle, but something was apparently happening literally at his doorstep.

"You know, you all don't have to follow me." said Demitri as he looked at everyone following him.

"Hey, I'm interested to know what's going on myself." said Morrigan. "It could be fun."

"Same here." said Felicia. "It's gotten me curious if it has anything to do with what happened in the human world."

"You know what they say about what curiosity did to the cat, kitty."

"Shut up, Morrigan..."

"I'm not too keen on staying by myself in a place I know nothing about." said Maya as she stood close to Phoenix.

"Me, too." added Pearl.

"I'm just curious about the castle, that's all." said Edgeworth. He wouldn't admit out loud he shared the same concerns as Maya and Pearl since that haunted house incident he was involved in. The prosecutor was only lucky that he was hit by a hard prop sword instead of a real one that time or we would've been killed.

"I'd just be bored if I stayed in place." said Cody.

Demitri could only sigh. "Fine. Do what you want."

The vampire noble opened the large double doors leading out into one of the castle's upper courtyards, which was quite spacious and archaic-designed. It was more like a glorified balcony that overlooked more of the castle's exterior below. The skies were cloudy and dark that occasionally flashed purple lightning.

"It's certainly dreary out..." said Phoenix.

"It's standard for Makai." said Morrigan casually.

"Standard, huh?" said Haggar as he looked out at the dark sky.

"If not for the creepy atmosphere, it would be quite a view." said Athena.

Felicia's ears and tail suddenly tensed up as her fur stood on end. "Something's coming..."

Jon, Morrigan, and Demitri also tensed up.

"I can feel it..." said Jon as he looked ahead.

"Hey! Over there!" said Maki as she pointed at the far end of the courtyard.

The ground further down was littered with many shadows gathering together. A moment later, the strange humanoid blobs emerged from the shadows, totaling nearly eighty. Each of them formed a short shaft in both hands resembling kali sticks.

"By any chance, are these the strange creatures you mentioned before?" asked Demitri.

"Yes, but they appear to have a different fighting style this time." replied Jon.

"Well they certainly don't feel native to Makai." said Morrigan.

"I will not have these things make a mess of my castle." said Demitri as he flared his aura, causing the whole castle to flash briefly.

"Huh? What was that just now?" asked Guy.

"A security measure that will keep potential threats from entering. It will dispel once they're dealt with."

"So we just have to take out the trash, huh Sounds simple enough." said Cody as he cracked his knuckles.

"Wait, what!?" said Apollo as he and Athena quickly ran for the door, only to find it not budging. "No! It's locked!"

"We should've stayed inside!" said Athena.

"Hey! You could've said something to them, first! They can't fight!" said Maki in annoyance.

"If you care about them so much, you can protect them yourself." said Demitri without averting his gaze from the humanoid blobs.

Maki gritted her teeth as she looked at Guy, Cody, and Haggar before looking at Phoenix's group. She then looked towards the humanoid blobs and didn't like their chances of dividing attentions between fighting and keeping the civilians safe.

"This doesn't look good… They're just civilians who have been dragged into this mess." said Guy. "Trying to keep them safe will be complicated."

"He's right. They're not fighters. Shouldn't we get them someplace safe?" asked Felicia.

"It's pointless, Felicia. As Demitri said, the castle is on lockdown." said Jon. "Also, what if the rest of the world is like this? There isn't anyplace safe for them."

"Wait! You can't mean that!" said Phoenix. Their friends disintegrated into nothing, but the ones who didn't are trapped in this dangerous situation.

Morrigan then turned to them. "Hmm, so basically, all you need is to keep yourselves safe, right?"

The lawyers and spirit mediums looked at the sultry succubus.

"What? But I can't! I don't know how to fight!" said Phoenix.

"Neither do I." added Edgeworth.

"Actually, I was thinking about those kimono girls there." said Morrigan, catching them by surprise as she looked at the two spirit mediums. "Maya and Pearl, was it?"

"Us!? But we can't fight any more than Nick and the others can!" said Maya in shock.

"Fighting isn't part of our training!" said Pearl, but all things considered, she was beginning to wish it did.

Demitri looked at Morrigan, who was beginning to understand what she was planning. "Morrigan, you are referring to their necklaces…?"

"Exactly." said Morrigan then looked at Maya and Pearl. "Maya, Pearl, I'm going to charge your necklaces with magic."

"Huh? Magic?" asked Pearl in confusion.

"Huh, I feel like we've done this before..." said Phoenix. "Wait! I remember! Didn't you do this before, Pearl?"

"Huh? But that was just to activate its ability to see Psyche-Locks!" said Pearl.

Morrigan smirked. "These Magatamas are quite the special artifacts. You'd be surprised at what they can do. Now, try wishing for power. Go on."

Maya and Pearl looked at each other before looking down at their own Magatamas. What could be the harm in it?

"Uh… I… uh..." said Maya, trying to figure out what to say before blabbing out the first thing that came to mind. "I wish I had the power of the Steel Samurai of Neo Olde Tokyo!"

"Then I wish I had the power of the Pink Princess of Little Olde Tokyo!" said Pearl.

The two then gestured to Phoenix, Edgeworth, Apollo, and Athena. "And we wish they could weaponize their attorney skills and lay out their enemies flat with a loud 'OBJECTION!' !"

The four lawyers couldn't help but feel a bit embarrassed at what they said.

"Are you sure that's the right way to do it…?" asked Apollo incredulously.

"That'll work. Here you go." said Morrigan as she steped up and touched Maya and Pearl's Magatamas. Once she did, the jeweled beads suddenly started to glow with a green light.

"What the!? What was that!?" asked Maya as she and Pearl looked at their now glowing Magatamas. A moment later, both girls' bodies started to emit a light blue aura.

"The Magatamas are glowing? No, not just that, your bodies are…!" said Phoenix.

"Hey! What's happening!?" asked Athena as her body started emitting a light blue aura.

Phoenix, Edgeworth, and Apollo looked at themselves to see that the same thing was happening to them.

"What? What is this?" asked Edgeworth.

"I see. It's not that she charged them with magic, but expanded their inherent spiritual energies." said Demitri.

The glowing auras ceased around the lawyers and spirit mediums. Morrigan folded her arms satisfied with her work. "Now you should be able to keep up in a fight. What do you think?"

"I'm still taking this all in, but… I feel strange… like I do right after particularly intense training..."

"Same here… I feel like I can take on anything!" said Pearl.

Demitri gives an amused smirk. "Hmph, Morrigan, you have the oddest hobbies."

"Do you guys feel up for this?" asked Felicia.

"I don't know what's going on, but I'm as ready as I'll ever be." replied Phoenix.

"If I really do have powers now, then yes!" said Athena.

"GO! GO!" said Widget on her neck.

"I might sound crazy right now, but let's do this!" said Apollo as he felt power in his bracelet.

"This is just unbelievable..." said Edgeworth.

"Well, you better figure out how because here comes those freaks!" said Haggar.

Everyone turned to see the kali stick armed humanoid blobs advancing towards them.

"Hmph… insects..." said Demitri as his aura flared.

The vampire noble threw both his arms back gathering his energies at the same time Morrigan raised her fist in the air collecting energies into it.

"FLARE!"

"SOUL FIST!"

A huge ball of searing fire and a ball of ethereal light shot forth at the front of the kalihands, taking a good number of them out in a combined explosion.

The moon shined brightly in the night sky as Jon looked up at it, feeling his power overtaking him.

"I guess it can't be helped..." said Jon as he clutched his head. His hair got wilder as his teeth started to elongate and sharpen. To everyone but the Darkstalkers' surprise, Jon bent over as he underwent his lycanthrope transformation with a snarl. His body bulked out enough for him to tear out of his top and shoes followed by his body growing out white and dark blue fur, leaving him clad in just his dark purple kung fu pants and a yellow sash. His feet reformed to look like white furred wolf paws with three-inch yellow claws protruding from each digit. His hands suddenly grew out white fur with four inch claws from his fingers. Jon's head reformed and elongated to form a wolf's head with his blue and white hair spiking out. Finally, a a thick wavy tail sprouted from the small of his back. Once his transformation was finished, Jon looked up and let out a howl at the moon.

"He's a werewolf!?" said Apollo.

"Was wondering when you'd suit up." said Demitri.

"Like I had a choice." said Jon. He had to admit, he was stronger fighting in his werewolf form.

"Then it's first come first serve." said Morrigan as her wings suddenly changed into what looked like a jet pack, causing her to rocket forward.

Demitri followed by quickly flying forward with his arms folded. Felicia and Jon ran after them on all fours. The citizens of Metro City managed to get over their initial shock as they remembered the fight ahead and ran to join them.

Demitri dashed in with a hard straight punch at a kalihand's head which knocked it hard into another behind it then lashed out with a side kick into a third's gut, knocking it down. Another kalihand jumped at Demitri, swinging its kali sticks down on him, but the vampire lord quickly draped his cape around himself to block it. After stopping the attack, Demitri smashed it away with a backfist punch. He dashed forward, vanishing from view as another kalihand attacked him before reappearing behind it, landing a high kick to the back of its head. Three kalihands suddenly jumped at Demitri from above in different directions. Before they could land their attacks, his cape suddenly transformed into large bat wings as he launched himself upwards while going into a topspin followed by an energy beam spiraling around his body.

"DEMON CRADLE!"

The three kalihands were instantly sliced to bits from Demitri's attack.

Morrigan charged in with both feet as they were wrapped up in her wings, forming a drill point, plowing through two kalihands. Turning, she wrapped a wing around her fist to form a spike as she punch through another kalihand then back kicked one behind her. Three kalihands charged at her from the front, which Morrigan responds by spreading her wings, in which spear-shaped tendrils shot out and skewered them. Another kalihand tried to attack Morrigan from the side, but was blocked by her wing.

"SHADOW BLADE!"

Morrigan goes into a rising uppercut with her wing that took the shape of a blade, slicing the kalihand in twain.

Felicia scratched down a kalihand with a cross slash attack from her claws before flipping forward to kick out at another while balancing on her tail. She scratched at another kalihand in the face before punching it away then upperscratches a second kalihand, slicing its upper body in twain. A kalihand jumped at Felicia, but is met with a high kick in its gut before being flung aside into another. The catwoman crouched down as two more kalihands charged at her.

"SAND SPLASH!"

Kicking out her leg, shot forth a wave if ki that knocked the kalihands down and out.

Jon snarled as he slashed a kalihand's arm off with his claws before sending it flying with an uppercut. He does a reverse spin kick that knocked out two other kalihands trying to attack him then chomped another kalihand by the throat before throwing it like a spent chew toy. Jon then jumped to avoid a kalihand's overhead attack that hit the ground where he was a moment ago and countered it with a flying kick. Another kalihand struck at Jon, who quickly took out his steel nunckahus to block the attack before pushing it off and whacked it a few times with them. Pocketing them, Jon looked ahead to see two Kalihands rushing him from different directions before flaring his aura.

"AWOOOOOOO!"

With a howl, Jon was surrounded in blue flame as he rocketed toward one of the kalihands, resembling a comet. After taking it out, he suddenly switched direction and bashed the other kalihand down.

"Of course they'd be strong since they're basically like movie monsters." said Cody as he uppercuts a kalihand away from himself. He dashed forward to deck a kalihand with two hook punches then does a jumping spinning kick that knocked down two other kalihands trying to get him from both sides. Cody jumped and dropped down on a kalihand with a knee kick before quickly lashing out with a high kick, knocking it away. Upon landing, Cody wound up and whacked another kalihand in the head with an overhead punch before jumping over it to hit another with a flying kick. Clenching his fist, Cody thre his arm back.

"TORNADO SMASH!"

Throwing his fist forward, Cody shot a ball of high pressure wind at a kalihand's chest that knocked it over.

Guy did a fast sliding kick that knocked a kalihand off its feet before being punched away. Dodging a kalihand's thrust, Guy got behind it and slammed it to the ground before finishing it with two downward punches. Guy jumped at another kalihand, planting his foot on its chest before lashing out with his other leg in a backflip kick while striking down another behind him with a downward kick on landing. He jumped into a topspin, knocking away two kalihands with a rapid spinning kick. Landing, Guy strikes a kalihand in the chest with a charging elbow strike followed by a backfist punch. Gathering ki into his hand, Guy punched another kalihand in the gut with a palm thrust, causing a blast of ki to erupt out its back.

Maki spun her tonfas as she struck out at the kalihands. She tagges two of them in the heads then blocked a stick strike from another before giving it a tonfa punch to the face then hits another in the head with a spinning kick. Maki went into a flying kick at a kalihand in which she springboards off it to flying kick another one then springboards off that to do an overhead double tonfa smash on a third. Rearing back, Maki downs a kalihand with a tonfa hook attack.

Haggar uppercuts a kalihand high where it crashed painfully into the ground then grabbed another where he jumped and piledrived it onto another unfortunate kalihand under them. He then runs up and hits a kalihand in the chest with a rushing drop kick, making it roll away. Getting up, Haggar grabbed the wrist of a kalihand that tried to swipe at him before overhead slamming it into the ground. Haggar looked up to see more headed his way and laced his hands together.

"VIOLENT AX!"

He swung his fists into a horizontal swipe with knocked the first kalihand to the side, then spun around to hit the second up and flying behind him with an upward swing, then smashed the third into the pavement with a hammer punch.

Some of the kalihands broke through to charge at Phoenix's group, thinking them to be easy targets.

"MAYA! LOOK OUT!" shouted Phoenix as a kalihand leaped at her.

"KYA! S-ST-STEEL SAMURAI!" shouted Maya as she held her arms up in an attempt to shield herself. Suddenly, the kalihand was knocked away from her. Looking up, she and her friends were shocked as to what they were staring at. Floating before her was a silverish bulky-looking man with a black samurai topknot, thick ropes tie around his torso, and red hakama pants. In his hands was a red-shafted spear with a straight blade. He looked robotic but somewhat human at the same time. The sound of taiko drums could be heard.

"No way..." said Phoenix.

"It's… the Steel Samurai?" said Edgeworth in disbelief.

The Steel Samurai said nothing as he swiped at more kalihands with his spear.

"Yeah! The Steel Samurai is here!" said Maya.

"Well, maybe this will work, too!" said Pearl. "PINK PRINCESS!"

Suddenly, a female version of the Steel Samurai appeared, but more lithe in build and wearing a pink kimono and pink hair done up in a geisha style with a long tail.

"Oh! She really came!" said Pearl.

Taking out her rapier, Pink Princess charged in and stabbed out at more kalihands.

"I feel as if I walked into an unaired episode!" said Athena.

"That's all well and good, but how are we supposed to fight?" asked Apollo. "Didn't their wish affect us, too?"

"Wait, they did say they wished our lawyer skills have become weaponized." said Phoenix in thought. "Maybe..."

"WRIGHT!" shouted Edgeworth.

Phoenix looked up to see two kalihands jumping at him.

"GYAH! HOLD IT!" shouted Phoenix as he held his hands out in an attempt to ward the monsters off. To his and everyone else's surprise, the kalihands got knocked back by what looked like a huge speech bubble reading "HOLD IT!" before vanishing. "Did… did that actually work?"

More started heading their way.

"This is ridiculous, but… HOLD IT!" shouted Edgeworth as two more kalihands were send flying from a huge speech bubble.

"Maybe, but it's working!" said Apollo. He felt something in his pocket. "Huh? What the…?" Reaching into his pocket, Apollo pulled out a cellphone in an evidence bag. "Is this crime evidence? Where did this come from and what am I supposed to do with it, present it?"

As if on cue, the cellphone glowed and shot up three energy orbs that floated above a surprised Apollo's head, which then each shot out a laser that blasted through three kalihands before vanishing.

"Apollo! You discovered something!" said Athena as she checked her own pockets, where she found what looked like a file folder she knew she didn't have before. She yelped when a kalihand ran at her, causing her to reflexively hold the file out front, in which a large energy orb slowly flew forward. It exploded as soon as the kalihand ran into it, sending it flying back.

"Looks like you've figured out your abilities! Shouldn't expect less from the best attorneys I know!" said Maya as she had Steel Samurai run through more kalihands with his spear. Pearl had directed Pink Princess to rapid-stab at other kalihands, turning them into pinchusions.

The four attorneys nodded and prepared for battle, and not in the courtroom.

After seeing what Apollo and Athena did, Phoenix checked his pockets where he also found crime evidence he knew he didn't have before. One was a knife in an evidence bag, the other a photo with a shadow silhouette. He held out the knife, which shot three energy beams in a spreadshot, taking down three kalihands. After that, he tested the photo, which shout out a fast piercing straight laser that blasted through two more.

'So the knife is a three-way shot, and the photo is like a laser gun. These could be useful!' thought Phoenix.

Edgeworth checked his pockets where he also found two pieces of crime evidence on himself like Phoenix, but his was a cracked flower vase in a plastic bag, and a broken watch in a plastic bag. He held out the vase first, which shot an arching energy beam that slammed on the head of a kalihand. When he tried the watch, it shot out a large fast moving energy orb that blew away three other kalihands.

'So the vase is like an arcing arrow while the watch is used like a hand cannon. Ridiculous, but effective.' thought Edgeworth.

Apollo used the cellphone to fire more beams at the kalihands until one that got past rushed at him. Not having enough time to use the phone, Apollo reflexively punched at it. To his surprise, the bracelet shot a ring-shaped projectile, knocking it away.

'Did my bracelet do that?'

Athena ran around leaving behind energy orbs in her wake with the file as she tried avoiding the kalihands pursuing her.

"There must be something else I could try!" said Athena as she tapped Widget on her neck, activating her Mood Matrix as its holo-screen appeared before her. "It worked with everyone else, so I hope this does, too!"

Seeing more of the monsters running toward her, she tapped the surprise icon. The holoscreen suddenly shot a large rock right at a kalihand.

'A rock? Then what do the others do?'

Athena tapped the sadness icon, which shot a torrent of water to knock a second kalihand down. Next, she tried the joy icon, which shot a large ball of pressurized air that knocked down a third. Finally, Athena tried the anger icon, which shot a gout of flame that roasted two more kalihands.

"I'm an elemental princess!" said Athena.

Now that they discovered how their abilities worked, the lawyers and spirit mediums were no longer afraid and fought back against the monsters.

The carnage continued until every last one of the kalihands had fallen.

Demitri flapped his cape. "Hmph. Worthless."

Jon let out a triumphant howl to the moon.

"Finally over..." said Maki.

"If they know what's good for them, they'll stay down!" said Haggar.

Like before, the humanoid blobs melted away upon defeat.

Morrigan raised her eyebrow. "Well that's new."

"It happened before the last time We fought them." said Felicia before turning towards Phoenix's group. "Hey! You okay back there?"

"We're fine, Felicia, surprisingly." replied Phoenix, still not believing what they all just did and actually won. "I never thought I'd have a courtroom battle like that..."

Steel Samurai and Pink Princess then vanished once the fight was over.

"Your trick worked, Morrigan! I feel like we've become like superheroes or something!" said Maya.

"Well that was your wish, after all." said Morrigan.

"After everything that's happened, even I have to be forced to accept it." said Edgeworth. First those monsters, then supernatural creatures, now characters from a show he's secretly a fan of coming to life, it had been a crazy day.

"It looks like we've won for now." said Guy. "Who knows when more will show up."

"By the way, shouldn't the castle be unlocked now since the monsters are all gone?" asked Pearl.

"It is now." replied Demitri. "Like the red-clad human said, more might show up. I've better use of my time than to waste on insects."

Before they could all head inside, the ground began to shake.

"Hey! What's going on now!?" said Jon as he and the others tried to maintain their balance.

Everyone looked around to see where the source of the shaking was until a huge globe of dark energies formed near a part of the castle's exterior.

"What in the hell is that!?" asked Haggar.

"Is it more of those things?" asked Apollo.

"No, it's something else!" said Morrigan.

The shaking stopped once the dark energy globe dissipated. In its place was what looked like a piece of a brick building with big wooden double doors. It seemed to have merged with the castle's structure.

"What? Just what is that inelegant thing formed on my castle!?" said Demitri in an indignant tone.

"It looks like… a shop?" said Felicia as she looked at the neon sign above the door. "Hmmm… 'Devil May Cry'…? What kind of shop is that?"

"Hey, I hear something." said Athena.

Voices were heard behind the door.

"Hey, I think we just hit solid ground."

"We did? Does it mean it's safe outside?"

"Hopefully. Better check."

The door opened slightly. After a moment, it was flung open by a white-haired man in a red trench coat.

"We've got solid ground, people!" said Dante.

Joe suddenly jumped past him and fell on all fours. "LAND! FINALLY! SWEET LAND!"

"It felt like forever..." said Chris as he and the others exited the building. "But, where is this place?"

"Looks like a castle. Terrific..." said Leon. He didn't have a good experience with castles since that time in Spain during the Los Illuminados incident.

"Feels like the Demon World..." said Trish.

"More humans?"

The voice of Demitri caught their attention as they looked over to the group of people to the side. Ten of them looked human, but the other four looked like supernatural beings.

"Who are you and how did you get on my castle?" Demitri demanded of the newcomers.

"Uh..." started Silvia who was at a loss of how to answer.

"Owner seems annoyed at us." said Trish.

"Sorry for barging in like this, buddy, but it wasn't exactly our fault. We just got transported here somehow." replied Dante.

"Please! We mean no harm here!" said Jill.

"Well they certainly look human." said Pearl.

"Ooh! And what a fine collection of ladies..." said Dante as he eyed Pearl, Athena, Maya, Maki, Morrigan, and Felicia.

"You said it." said Frank as he got his camera to bear. He took a shot of the group, marking "Special" on the screen. He then zoomed in to take shots of Maya, Athena, Maki, and Pearl, which labeled "Erotica" on the screen. Frank then turned to take shots of Felicia and Morrigan, who reflexively posed for him, causing him to do multiple shots for each, all getting "Erotica" repeatedly on screen.

"Hope you took good ones, sweetie." said Morrigan.

"Did you get my good side?" asked Felicia, her star personality showing.

"That and then some! FAN-TASTIC!" replied Frank.

Joe immediately rushed up to the succubus and catwoman.

"Hey there, ladies! Would you like to go out with a Henshin Hero? We'll have a grand time!"

Before Felicia or Morrigan could respond, Joe gets whacked on the head from behind by an annoyed Silvia.

"Keep it in your pants, Joe." said Silvia as she dragged him back. Felicia looked worried while Morrigan just giggled in amusement.

"They don't seem to be enemies." said Phoenix.

"Hardly." added Jon.

"Um, maybe we should discuss this inside?" suggested Maya.

"I'm with the kimono girl." said Lady.

Demitri could only sigh in annoyance. "Very well. I suppose it's the gentlemanly thing to do. I am Demitri Maximoff, Lord of Castle Zeltzereich." He flapped his cape as he turned around. "This way."

He walked towards the doors leading inside.

"Finally! I could use a rest after that fighting!" said Athena as she and the others followed the vampire.

"Is this really a good idea?" asked Barry.

"Where else can we go, Barry? Our options are quite limited." said Claire.

"True..."

"This scoop is getting really big." said Frank.

The doors to the castle opened to provide the large group entry.

To be continued…

Based the Ace Attorney crew's fighting off of how Phoenix and Maya fought in MvC3 and PxZ2.

Looks like Demitri's castle has a new addition, whether he likes it or not, plus more unannounced guests. Next time, more trouble comes to Makai.