"Aw come on Nick!" Maya complained. "It'll be fun! And the experience of a life-time."

"Maya, I am kind of busy." Phoenix muttered walking across the office in front of her, his arms filled up with case evidence. "Just go by yourself."

"But, that's not nearly as fun! Half the fun is being with some-one else!" Maya exclaimed. "Beside, experiencing an event like this first hand will be sure to change your mind!"

"I highly doubt it." Phoenix muttered sitting down the box. "I've seen a couple of episodes with you, I been at the studio, the Steel Samurai just isn't my cup of tea Maya. Maybe If I hadn't been so busy, I would consider it, but this case is really taken it all out of me." he frowned picking out a file and flipped a couple of pages looking over the text. "There must be a contradiction in here some-where, I have to find it!" he frowned as a wrinkle in his forehead suddenly became possible.

The thing was, that finally after much anticipation, Mayas beloved children's show "The steel Samurai." Had gotten a movie.

And the big pre-premiere was to be right in the Centrum of town, there were bounds to be things there to promote the show and the movie, and according to Maya, tickets to the invent had been sold out in a matter of hours after release, she kept telling her brave daring stories about how she had managed to get her hands on just two of the rare sought after tickets.

It was honestly a shame that Maya put so much energy into this, and Phoenix had trouble muster up enough energy to even care about it, and now, a big case had come up and he was sincerely pressed for time, it was in fact pretty ill timed that Maya wanted him to spend an entire afternoon and evening out in town tomorrow.

Maya though looked extremely disappointed. "Even legendary defence attorneys need some time off!" she exclaimed. "Come on Nick! I got the tickets and every-thing! Tomorrow night will only happen ones! It's aone in a life-time opportunity! Please Nick! PLEEASSS! I don't want to be all-alone out there, that's just sad! Please say you'll come."

And Phoenix sighed deeply. "Maya… why don't you ask around with other people?" he asked. "Wouldn't it be a shame if I used a ticket some-one else could get great pleasure out of? You said it yourself, those tickets are extremely rare and valuable, don't you think some-one else out there would be ecstatic to be given that chance?" he asked.

"I.. suppose." Maya muttered. "Well fine! I'll fine some-one else!" she hissed stomping out of the office, slamming the door after her as she walked out the hall-way.

Phoenix blinked stunned as he turned his head to the door, then blinked again. "Erh.. it's nothing personal Maya." He commented a little stunned.

Out-side Maya was taking her time to cool off though as she crossed her arms. "Typical lawyers going back on promises. How can I find some-one else so quick! Then I'll be all alone there." She muttered. "And it was going to be so much fun!" she stated kicking the door frame only for her eyes to widen in pain as her toe impacted with the harsh wall. "AUW!" she hissed jumping up and down holding unto her foot.

"I would imagine that assault on the wall was hardly warranted." A dry British clinging voice sounded right behind Maya.

"ARGH!" Maya yelled in shock as she stood up straight and wide-eyed turned around to face a tall proud looking man, wearing a wine-red suit jacket and three double cravat around his neck.

"Unless a wall suddenly grew the ability to offend people." Edgeworth commented dryly crossing his arms.

Maya pouted. "I was just letting off steam." She muttered, glancing at a large file in Edgeworths hand, obviously it was some-thing Phoenix had asked him to bring and look at, as time had gone on it hadn't become to rare a thing that Phoenix and Edgeworth would help each other out doing cases, they had an odd sort of friend-ship/partnership/rivalry going on.. never was it mentioned, because that was obviously how Edgeworth preferred it, simple and without to much sentimentality.

Also now as he simply nodded at her, compleately dismissing their previous encounter. "I presume Mr. Wright is in his office?" he asked simply and courtly.

"Yes, he's busy." Maya confirmed in a biting tone.

"Ah, I see." Edgeworth nodded walking past her towards the door, then though he halted and slightly turned his head. "Excuse me for priding, but did some-thing happen?" he asked.

"What?" Maya asked in a blink looking up at him. "What makes you say that?"

"I know you usually are indeed a very emotional individual, but even for that you seem upset towards Mr. Wright, you did not have fight did you?" Edgeworth asked.

"Oh, it's just silly really." Maya sighed. "I managed to get these super rare tickets to the pre-premiere of the steel samurai tomorrow see?" she asked reaching up the tickets. "But Nick wont come with me because he's busy!"

Edgeworths eyes though festooned on the tickets as his mouth slightly twitched, then he tore his eyes away. "Ah, I see." he commented. "Well then, he will be missing out, the joke is on him."

"I don't want to meet up there all alone." Maya sighed deeply. "Half the fun is being with some-one at these sort of things, don't you agree mr. Edgeworth?" she asked.

"I.. Suppose." Edgeworth hesitated.

"Hey wait a minute!" Maya exclaimed looking up. "Will you come with me mr. Edgeworth?!" she asked excitedly.

Edgeworth looked like he had been whiplashed as his eyes widened. "Wha.. What me?" he asked. "At a big public premiere for a kids show? That would be highly improper! I can't do that!" he exclaimed.

"Oh please!" Maya begged. "It'll be fun! I promise!"

For a moment Edgeworth looked longingly at the tickets in Mayas hand as he swallowed, then at last shook his head. "No, it would be ridicules."

"I know! If you are worried about what people will say, we can just pretend you're my father taking his kid into see a movie!" Maya exclaimed happily.

"HEY HOW OLD DO YOU THINK I AM?!" Edgeworth yelled red spots appearing on his cheeks. "For that matter, how old do you think you are?" he asked.

"Huh that's funny, Nick said some-thing very similar to me." Maya blinked rubbing her chin. "Then again I keep forgetting how young you two are, I guess it's with all that lawyer business, you should be older in my head!" she grinned biting her tongue knocking on her own head with a fist.

Edgeworth sighed deeply. "It would be a far more likely story that I was asked by Wright to watch over you while he's busy, and you just insisted on this premier which I agreed to for your sake." he commented dryly.

"I guess that's a pretty likely story actually." Maya blinked.

"Right then, so it's tomorrow I gather?" Edgeworth asked. "I should be done in court at five PM and I need half an hour to make sure any paper work or loose ends are tied up, would it suite you if I pick you up at six PM?" he asked.

Wide-eyed Maya looked at him. "Erh.. yeah, sure." she told.

"Do you have a preferred address?" Edgeworth asked crossing his arms looking sternly at her as if she was a cross-exanimate witness or some-thing.

"Huh?" Maya blinked.

"For me to pick you up." Edgeworth asked impatiently.

"Oh." Maya realised. "Yeah, let me give you my address." she nodded finding a paper and a pad. "I'm also giving you my phone-number you know.. just in case." she mumbled writing down.

Courtly Edgeworth accepted the adress and nodded. "Thank you Maya, i'll be seeing you tomorrow then." he told offering her a slight bow, before he went ahead and entered Phoenix's office as if nothing had happened at all.

Maya though were pretty stunned as she stood back with blinking eyes. "Okay… right.."

Pretty quickly Edgeworths business was done and he left the office, just offering Maya a courtly polite good-bye before he walked in and Maya walked past him being very confused and quiet.

For some time she just walked around like that, looking kind of weird.

"Urhm.. Maya?" Phoenix asked awkwardly.

"Huh?" Maya looked up.

"You erh.. are awfully quiet." Phoenix told. "I didn't really upset you did I?" he asked.

"Oh.. No.." Maya blinked. "I just… erh.. Well I guess you would be doing Mr. Edgeworth a favour if you would claim that he is going to the cinema with me as a favour to you.. Should any-body ask"

That made Phoenix spew out his water. "Wha.. What?!" he asked.

"I asked him if he wanted to go see the Steel Samurai movie with me." Maya told. "I guess he said yes.. But only if that was our cover story.. so if any-thing weird happens there and people question Mr. Edgeworth.. that what you should probably say to make your testimonies align."

"Oh.." Phoenix blinked. "Well.. I guess that's good then." he told looking very stunned. "I.. really hope you two will have fun together."

"Oh I'm sure we will!" Maya grinned. "Mr. Edgeworth can come across like a stick in the mud some-times, but underneath it all he's really nice! And he's your friend! So this is going to be great, maybe I can even make him loosen up a bit." she grinned then thoughtfully rubbed her chin. "I guess I can't even blame him that much for being such a stick considering his childhood, first that whole elevator incident, and then that Von Karma guy, brrr." she shook.

"Yeah." Phoenix smiled amused. "I do remember him being just a little more loose when we were kids, before all of that crazy stuff happened. He absolutely loved all of his samurai movies and superhero comics! His collection were the greatest! Larry and I would always beg to sleep over at his place so we could stay up all night watching Samurai movies and reading comics, and he was an expert on those things, becoming down-right annoyed when we got it wrong! Oh.." he then blinked as if the light bulb turned on.

"What?" Maya blinked.

"Edgeworth always really really loved samurai movies and comics." Phoenix blinked. "Huh.. I guess it figures he never stopped loving them, oh that's great!" he beamed. "Haha! You two must have a great time together!"

"Oh.. OOOOHHHH!" Maya realised. "He actually likes Steel Samurai! HAHAHA! I'm so glad I didn't get you to say yes now! Going with Mr. Edgeworth sounds like fun!"

"I'm glad to." Phoenix smirked amused. "You're right, Miles really could need to loosen up a bit, and he deserves some fun! Be nice to him Maya, have a good time."

"You know me Nick." Maya smiled sweetly. "I'll make sure we'll have a great time together!" she beamed.

"Pff! That's not a real samurai at all!" A little eight year old Miles edgeworth proclaimed as he stood in front of his two best friends in his class.

"Why not?" Phoenix asked his friend, he was sitting down on the floor with crossed legs.

"He's not following the samurai honour codex!" Miles exclaimed loudly. "A samurai, a real one! Is a agent for justice! A real samurai would never stoop to dishonour justice, then he'll rather die! Because that's what a samurai is!" he grinned clinching his fist. "He defends the weak ones! And stands tall for justice and some day, I'm going to be just like that!" he told.

"You're going to become a samurai?" Larry asked in a lifted eye-brow.

"No Larry! I'm going to become a defence attorney!" Miles proclaimed. "They are just like samurais! They stand for justice and help those whom can't help themselves! And they never ever become corrupted!"

"Really?" Phoenix asked. "Your sure it works like that for lawyers?"

"Well, that's how it works for my dad!" Miles proclaimed. "He's just as cool as a samurai, he brings the bad guys to justice and free the innocent!"

"Can't we just pick a movie and watch it all-ready?" Larry asked annoyed.

Miles pouted annoyed, clearly scorned after being cut off in the middle of one of his speeches.

"How about a ninja movie this time?" Larry then suggested.

"Ninjas are not as cool as samurais." Miles pouted crossing his arms. "They work for themselves not for justice, it's not noble in the same way at all."

And Phoenix laughed loudly as he bended his head backwards and laughed.

"Hey! What are you laughing at?" Miles asked annoyed.

"No.. Nothing!" Phoenix laughed wiping away his tears. "I just… I sure wished I was so sure about these things like you Miles!" he told beaming. "Hey! You think I could become a defence attorney to?" he asked.

"No way!" Miles snorted. "A guy whom can't even stand up for the weak can't be a defence attorney!"

"I can do that!" Phoenix exclaimed.

"Then why did you walk away from that girl being bullied?" Miles asked in a lifted eye-brow.

"It was scary!" Phoenix exclaimed. "They were like, three against one!"

"That sure didn't stop Miles." Larry commented.

"You were all-ready three miles away from there Larry." Miles snorted.

"All-right that does it I'm decided!" Phoenix exclaimed. "From now on, I wont run away either when the weak needs my help!" he told pointing at Miles. "Like a samurai!" he proclaimed. "Or, a defence attorney!"

"Pff." Miles snorted. "A prosecutor maybe, they can get away with being cowards like the ninjas, you're not defence attorney material!"

"Am to!" Phoenix exclaimed.

"Am not!" Miles retorted.

"Can't we just watch that movie?" Larry asked again.

"NOT NOW THIS IS IMPORTANT!" The other two children yelled at ones, suddenly at each others throats in what turned out to be quite the formidable physical struggle.

Though soon, it all ended in laughter as the three children laid across the floor and finally the movie was put into the vhs machine.

Amused the three kids laid back on the floor watching. "Hey Miles." Phoenix spoke quietly.

"Yeah?" Miles responded.

"I'm sure you're going to be an amazing defence attorney one day!" Phoenix grinned. "Like a real samurai! Standing for truth and justice! Dunne what I am going to do yet, but that's okay, because you'll do great for all three of us."

"That's an awful lot to put just on me!" Miles pointed out.

And Phoenix laughed. "You can do it!" he grinned. "I know you can!"

And Miles glanced at him before he smirked. "You better believe it!" he stated.