Number One Apprentice - Randall AscotLuke sat on one of the many benches that littered the museum, watching his own feet as he swished them back and forth in a vague attempt to keep himself amused. Sadly, nothing could detract from the fact that he was very bored right now.It wasn't that he had to come to these talks very often, as usually his dad would leave him at home, but sometimes his mum would be away and there'd be no one to look after him, so he'd have to come. Which is what had happened today.He didn't understand why his dad was still so obsessed with listening to famous archaeologists blather on about what new facts they'd discovered after looking at some fossil th
Lunch“Are ya quite sure, master?” Raymond asked, raising his eyebrows in surprise. And when you had eyebrows as thick as Raymond's were, raising them was indeed an interesting sight to see.“Unfortunately so,” Descole muttered, face still buried within the piles of books and papers he'd been pouring through, “Which would be just our luck.”“I don't think that anyone cares about the Golden Garden any more though. Or at least, nae one important. It'll just be tourists you'll have ta watch oot for,” Raymond replied.“Tourists are considerably easier to deal with than Targent would have been,&rd
Number One Apprentice - Phoenix Wright“Why is he here, Nick? Tell me why you have a little boy in your office! Are you secretly some kind of sicko? Maya’s going to be so mad when she gets back from the mountains and finds out!” Larry whined, pulling a face.His expression was no match for the look of disgust that Phoenix gave him in return, however.“Larry, we’ve known each other since we were kids. I’m hurt that you’d even think something like that about me,” he replied.“That doesn’t answer my question though,” Larry insisted.Phoenix sighed, knowing that he wasn’t going to get rid of him without a defi
Organised Occult"You can't be that desperate to get our help on this job if you're willing to waste time like this first," Fiona commented, eyeing the mess of papers, books and who-knew-what-else that Finitevus had horded around this current hide-away of his."All things are worth taking time over, yes?" Finitevus replied, smiling at her in his mild-mannered way."I… suppose so," she muttered.She knew that he was just using her as an excuse to clean up his 'office', she just knew it! He was testing her patience. But more than that both of them knew that he was her only way to get to the No-Zone and rescue Scourge. If she wanted that then she had to
Quick TipDimitri had come to the restaurant to talk with Claire about the recent developments of the time machine they'd been working on while having something to eat. He had not gone there to be harassed by a waitress. But that was currently what was happening."I can't believe that you would be so… so… uncharitable!" a girl with short brown hair, who Claire had mentioned earlier was called Stephanie, was yelling at him."Why am I being uncharitable? You've just brought us our drinks…" Dimitri mumbled, trying not to recoil in fear from her wrath."And didn't you notice what good service I provided? Didn't you think that you should b
BaggageAki should have done many things when he turned up on her doorstep and letting him in was not one of them.But she had done.And now the haggard, travel-worn figure of a man who had once meant, no, been the whole world to her was sat slumped against the wall of her living room breathing heavily. In the cradle that sat at the opposite end of the room the baby, her baby, whined uncertainly.It had taken Aki a long time to get to a point in her life when everything seemed to be heading down the right track. She had been happy enough following Yuusei a year ago, but at the same time she wanted to make a career for herself and be something she'
Festivity and RobotsThere were two things that Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik liked very much in life. Those things were control and ownership.His desire for control came from a lack of trust in the control that everyone else had. He lived in a society where his grandfather, Gerald, was violently murdered for the advances he made in the field of science, where presidential figures sat around just watching their world crumble, never lifting a finger to use the power they apparently had, and where the species who referred to themselves as mobians had the gall to form their own societies, as if they deserved the same rights that the human race has. And nobody stopped
Number One Apprentice - Granny Riddleton“But I have seen you before! You're Granny Riddleton! You do this every time we meet you, pretending that you've never heard of us before,” Luke proclaimed.“Us? I don't see no 'us', sonny. I just see a young boy who's wandered into my puzzle shack and got very angry,” replied Granny Riddleton, frowning at him.“Oh... well, when I mean us I meant when me and... and the Professor used to find you during our adventures,” Luke clarified, “But he's not with me because I moved away. So does that mean it's actually me you're following around and not him?”“I ain't following anyone around,&rdq
Number One Apprentice - Dimitri AllenThe time that Luke spent with the scientists could be summed up as an examination of background noise. It wasn't as if there was total silence in the room, but any sound that did occur came from the clang of machinery or the grunt of someone trying to figure out a particularly difficult equation. No one spoke to anyone else unless it was absolutely necessary and certainly no one bothered to speak to Luke.He didn't doubt that the scientists would have told him to leave if Dimitri hadn't ordered them not to. And he also didn't doubt that Dimitri would have told to leave if, in turn, Clive hadn't made it very clear how important Luke was to th
Number One Apprentice - Don Paolo“Nothing shall stand in the way of the Great Don Paolo's Number One Apprentice! Not Layton! Not Scotland Yard! N-not...!”This great proclamation trailed off into a a spluttering cough that made Don Paolo look over from where he'd been working on his latest flying machine. He frowned at the sight of young Luke, almost hacking his lungs up in front of a mirror.“Kid, stop trying to imitate my voice. You can't do it. And if you keep trying I'll have to take you to the hospital,” he grumbled. It didn't even do to imagine such a thing, given that he was a wanted criminal who probably wasn't free to wander into anywhere w
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