~~*Organzation XIII goes to court*~~

OoC: Sure. Why not? Sounds like fun.

Roxas was starting to understand, but was as lost as before. "So, what is happening now?" he yawned. Wow. Almost a day, and still no rest for the wicked. Such a pity everyone had to suffer along side them.

Grabbing a sleeping Stitch, he put to head on the blue fluff ball and yawned again.

"Good night Namine... Wake me if anything happens."

The nobody fell into a slumber, and dreamed about Murluxia having his case handled.

 

OOC: Playing the bailiff is fine with me. Go for it.

Harvey sighed. He had no idea still why the Judge was so blind to the fact that it doesn't matter if a parent condones a harmful act against a child or not...it doesn't make the deed any more correct. But ah well. The fight was over. Just because Larxene did not get charged with it didn't mean Marluxia wasn't connected and responsible and had done worse any way. He let it drop.

"Alright, I'm settled with the decisions, your Honor." Harvey watched as his bird, Avenger, flew through the window with a new cup of coffee. He was grateful and sat down, patting Avenger and waiting for this to be done.

 

Oh! Forgot! Sure DF go on ahead. I don't see the problem in you being the bailiff.. and I think it'll do good to have one too... O_O

 

Pika_power watched in awe, as the bird flew in and gave the Birdman a cup of coffee. "What? Why not object? We will not get Murluxia for this, as best we will get Vexen. Although if he declares Larxane innocent, Vexen will get off too. I will keep fighting."

 

The judge looked around one last time before speaking.

"So... we're all agreed with this, right? The charges are okay with everyone, and no more random outbursts, right? RIGHT?" he asked, raising his gavel in one hand, looking as though he was going to throw it at the next person who objected. He wasn't going to though. The court needed a recess; everyone, including the audience, were at their wits end. Except the Pikachu, though. Said Pikachu was looking more and more like the Energizer Bunny with each passing second. The judge rubbed his eyes. He could have sworn the Pikachu had turned pink for a second there. He looked around, waiting for the response of the attorneys.

OOC - Cookie to anyone who spots the vague anime reference in my post.

 

18 year-old Bailiff Zack Powers was pretty bored with the entire proceedings. He was only called here because the official bailiff who was supposed to be here ended up walking out when the first judge was injured and taken away. "Can't believe this," he muttered as he brushed his spiky red hair. "A genius like myself demoted to a lousy security guard. How annoying." His eyes scanned the courtroom. He had seen many fantastical sights involving spiky-haired defense attorneys and frilly prosecutors with braided hair, but this was the first time he'd seen an odd assortment of characters in one courtroom. The defense attorney Janexna seemed pretty normal to him (and thought she wasn't all that bad-looking.) However, her partner and the defendants were particularly odd. Wearing full-length cloaks in this weather? The air conditioner wasn't THAT turned down. And they were all guys with strange-colored hair. (Except the red-haired one that seemed to mirror his hairstyle.) Of course, he was wearing all leather himself like a biker bar brawler. He refused to wear that pansy "officer" uniform. It lacked dignity. But what really took the cake was the prosecutors. Some luchador with a reverse-Sephiroth complex and a pipsqueak. Literally. A pipsqueak. That talked.

On the other side of the courtroom sat a buncha hooligan teenagers. It was hypocritical coming from him, but he'd seen more than all of them combined that he SHOULD be older than them. In particular, he didn't really like anyone in the courtroom except the girls. He respected the judge, though. Especially since he had a bet going on with Erkz that by the end of Xemnas' trial, the mouse and the cloaked prosecutor would be locked in a deathmatch where only one would reign sole victor of the courtroom. If a fight did break out, he'd win the bet which gave him not only bragging rights, but an excuse to let loose his powers of chaos on the two combatants. If he lost the bet, he'd have to fork over his newly acquired Porsche, DeLorean and vacation home in the Caribbeans to Erkz.

So, there he stood with a serious look on his face. Fortunately, he was wearing equipment that would nullify any powers and attacks that would usually harm a normal human being. And with his advanced Area-51 training, he was pretty sure that the defendant's weapons would be useless against him. As for hand-to-hand combat...he wouldn't mind getting his hands dirty.

He absent-mindedly cracked his gloved knuckles. But he wondered what the pipsqueak's problem was. He talked too much.

 

"OBJECTION!

You have not commented on my past points, please do so."

 

OOC: Pika_Power....*_*.

Janexna by long had sat down, reading the charges, and it seemed almost the same because the prosecution kept on talking and no one was stopping them. And neither would she. All that they said was already argued over before, if the judge wanted to look over the evidence that they had both presented to what they were saying right now, to look back, because she was honestly frustrated. Not to mention the judge's decision kept changing by what the prosecution said. She was even starting to doubt herself just what was this court about, and she waited for the charges to go back the same way they were at the beginning as it was looking like it because of the talking, so the whole thing was even pointless to have gone through for these past long, long, long hours.

Maybe the exhaustion was getting to her to think this way. Still, she merely said, "I have no problems at all." She did, but she would just be repeating herself with the same thing, and she was sure the judge had read and gone with what they all discussed before and went deeply into what the prosecutors were saying now.

Larxene just eyed her blankly.

"I told you, I don't care anymore if they put me all the charges. I'll just go back and die myself if I have to then face the decision of this trial, as it's obvious something is wrong, with not only this, but whole idea to have this case against us...." Larxene told Janexna coldly, watching her expression turn into one of hopelessness and fatigued. Why was she so concerned? She sure as hell wasn't. Now the whole trial was looking useless to have even gone through, and they were still on the end of closing it. However, there was a distraction...not the usual out of the blue one, but a voice breaking at them from behind, complimenting Janexna. She scoffed, recognizing it, giving a frown as her eye twitched in annoyance. What the hell was that about all of a sudden? And sexy? She gave a disdainful and unimpressive sideways glance at her attorney.

"Hmm?" Janexna startled, looking over at Axel as a huge grin glowed from her face, a blush on her cheeks. Did he just say I look sexy!? OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. Okay, okay, don't look too excited, just pretend and take in a neutral manner. Clearing her throat, her body shaking from the held on happiness, she said in a very squeal-ful voice. "Thank you! I-I tried to look good since you were here and all."

For the first time in the court room, Larxene appeared disgusted, as her nose cringed. You got to be kidding her. Shaking her head unbelievably, with a sarcastic chuckle, she remarked harshly, "The only good thing you can find in him is that he's attractive. Otherwise, inside, he's a slimeball who's a murderous coward. Do us a favor, and combust yourself again, Axel."

 

The judge blinked.

"Huh, what? Sorry. I'll do so now."

"... If memory serves me right, Riku Replica kept attempting to murder the original Riku while he was still in possession of his memories, then during the events where he believed himself to be Riku, he did not, then after regaining them, went back to trying to kill him, and eventually died at his hands." the judge said, miffed. "Hate to say it, but he was alot more productive when he wasn't himself, don'tcha think? Oh wait, scratch that, he tried to kill Sora instead of Riku at that time. And was then Mind-Crushed by Namine. Right..."

He coughed before continuing.

"Your logic is flawed. He'd have died at Riku's hands whether or not he had his mind wiped or not. The mind wipe is not the cause of his death, nor did it make him go insane, but his irrational hatred towards his original is at fault."

He paused, and cracked his neck before continuing.

"Sadly 'keeping someone sealed unconcious' doesn't entail bodily harm, grievious or otherwise. Sora over there can attest to that. Anyway, if that was their intent, they would get attempted kidnapping. Alas, since there is no clear way to show, nor defining evidence, that they did, in fact, attempt to murder Xemnas, they cannot obtain an attempted murder charge."

He cleared his throat, and looked the pokemon square in the eyes.

"Are we clear on this, Mr. Power?"

 

Zack looked up at the judge. His eyes were saying "You want me to crack his neck? Apply some pressure points? Render him unconscious? Summon a Groudon? Maybe bury him under a mound of dirt? Because I'd be cool with that..." Of course, he didn't actually say a thing.

 

The pokemon mentally kicked himself. Should have seen that coming... If I get out of this case without charging Larxane with one of these two crimes, I will go and kick that big guy in the shins, and accept a painful demise.


'Doesn't really change the point. She got Namine to brainwash him into attacking Sora. This is coercion. The fact that the guardian allowed it means nothing, for she was coercing Repliku into committing crime. If the injection the doctor gave happened to convince the subject to hunt down and kill people, it does not make a scrap of difference if the guardian gave permission or not. Repliku was a living being, not a toy or a robot. He was not Vexen's property."

"Not attempted murder, conspiracy to murder. But if you insist, I suppose we could downgrade it to conspiracy to aggravated assault. After all, they were grooming Sora into being their slave, so they would be strong enough to 'take on Xemnas' and 'overthrow the organization'. Whatever way you look at it, they were planning to attack Xemnas with Sora. Sora uses a massive metal pole (occasionally with pointy bits on the end) to fight. Conspiracy for aggravated assault?"

Pika_power stared right back, using Mimic to copy Erkz' gaze. "I have offered a compromise on the Xemnas charge, I think it is more reasonable. So will you add the charges of Coercion for Repliku and conspiracy to aggravatingly assault?"

The pokemon glanced at the baliff. He really hoped that one of those charges would go through.

 

OOC: Pika_Power, I am seriously, seriously this close to snapping at you. LET IT BE, damn it :yelling:. Move on. Look, Erkz, the judge's word are final (he shouldn't have even had asked them, really) if that's the decision of the court, then that's it. You have the right to. Slam that gavel.

 

OOC: And he was wondering why Kairi and Naminé were frustrated...:huh:

BIC:

Zack's fingers were twitching. Electric attacks wouldn't work on him. He was also wearing shin guards and a cup underneath all that leather. He wouldn't mind just ending the little pipsqueak right then and there.

Kairi felt like getting up from her seat, grabbing Larxene's kunai and tossing it at the Pikachu prosecutor. Seriously. Enough was enough.

 

The pokemon shivered. "Wow, a lot of bad aura is around here, it seems to be directed at me. I wonder if this place is haunted. When was the last time someone used a silph scope?"

OoC: I am compromising the charges with the judge, like I was told.

 

Harvey sighed. "Repliku did not just go to challenge Riku for NO reason! Vexen challenged Riku in the first place to get the material he needed to -finish- his Replica. He sent him to do it. Therefore, he used Repliku...Larxene and Marluxia used Repliku against Sora after. Both are reasons for coercion. What reason would Repliku have to attack Riku OR Sora otherwise? The last time Repliku and Riku fought it was by Axel's coercion. You miss the point, but moving on. As I said before, just because Larxene avoids it does NOT mean that Marluxia should. She was a sidekick. I expect to see this dealt with more justly. Repliku proved he was not just some hellbent evil creation when he turned around and helped Sora. He was used from the beginning."

Harvey shook his head. "I think we should just move on since the Judge is being harsh on it, even if it is disagreed. As for the other point, Pika, we aren't going to keep fighting about what Xemnas decided. Let's just move on before I have a conniption!" Harvey gulped down the coffee...burped a bit and sighed. This was all confusing trying to deal with the Judge missing something so absolutely clear to him and then Pika still going for the murder charges. Avenger and he just exchanged looks like Mindtaker court was more comprehensible.

Repliku shook his head. He really now wasn't sure this judge was so impartial at all but he had nothing of caring anymore for the moment. The case was growing annoying and Larxene was a person that couldn't admit her own guilt in anything but abusing Namine...and Repliku wasn't so sure he actually 'liked' Namine either because she had used him too and an apology so long after...it didn't hold up well to mean anything. However, would he still probably protect her over a phantom promise? Probably, because he saw good in her. Life was so complicated.

Sora scratched his head. The judge had said his words and yet the little yellow prosecutor was going on strong still. If it kept going on, he saw that Pika Power was probably going to be really scolded like that Xanex or whoever guy over on the other side that was just as volatile. He wondered who was going to have charges filed next. Probably Marluxia, if they were going in order of numbers backwards. Sora really didn't like that guy much. He had been really rotten and all. However, if called up this time, Sora of course would tell the truth as he knew it. Larxene was mean and confusing. Girls weren't usually like that which he had known. Maleficent and Ursula were well...not like Larxene. His young naive mind was now open to the fact that even nice cute looking girls could be mean. What a revelation.

Riku yawned and looked around the court. A new bailiff walked in like he was straight off the streets. Riku mentally thought...I bet I could kick his ass...because the guy was seeming much like a poser to Riku and Riku was very bored. The bailiff was doing his job of trying to deal with this rowdy bunch. Riku almost felt sympathetic for him because the other bailiff had ditched the area rather than try to keep this zoo crew in line. "Can we get this show on the road?"

 

Zack didn't miss the glance that the silver-haired emo gave him. To him, he looked like Sephiroth and Xemnas' offspring. "Punk," he muttered. "I can take him on, no problem..." He looked back toward the Pokémon prosecutor. Zack wondered why the judge didn't penalize him for contempt. The wimpy mouse was holding up the trial. If he had only a few moments alone with him, he'd put that Pika in its rightful place as an underling. Crushing his skull underneath his gold-toed boots. No one would miss him...

 

OOC: OMFG. I'm going to shoot, I swear this time. I could reply easily to those, but seriously, there's no freaking need to. The battle is over, should've presented that before. And this time, is not even against the lawyers, but the f*cking judge. You two will never be damn satisfied, will you?

 

OOC: I did present it before but it was utterly ignored. I have no idea how the hell Erkz is ignoring it but oh well. I already said it was fine to be dropped ON Larxene. Please chill. In the end, Pika, please just drop it so we can move on. It's a trivial matter and though in real life this would never be tolerated, it's an rpg. Let's just go on please.

Riku noted 'punk' coming off the bailiff's lips and covertly gave Zack the bird so that others would not really notice it but Zack of course might. He smirked and leaned back in his chair. Now he would possibly have some entertainment.

 

Kairi noticed Riku and the new bailiff starting a little covert intimidation ritual. She rolled her eyes. Typical guys. Never knew when to let stuff alone. She almost wondered what would've happened if the audience was more female than male. Or better yet, the judge. Would "she" have stood for this?

Zack cocked an eyebrow at Riku's gesture. Of course, he couldn't actually do anything back to him since he was "on the clock" so to speak. (That and he promised to be on his "best" behavior while inside the courthouse.) Finally he just ended up staring at him square in the eye and mouthed the words, "I...will...end...you," before shifting his gaze back to the courtroom floor.

Naminé realized that Roxas had shifted his position from Stitch right onto her lap. She couldn't help but blush. He just seemed so cute when he was sleeping. It was almost a shame when she would finally have to wake him up.

 

With all the arguing, Stitch woke up. Looking around he reaized a few things.

1. There was a baliff.

2. Everyone was pissed off at the pokemon in the center.

3. Roxas was lying on top of him.

Trying not to make a noise, Stitch decided to test the new guard. Picking up Roxas' hand, he slowly moved towards Namine, and soon had the hand over Namine's lap. Chortling to himself, the blue menace bit into Roxas' hand, then dived under a row of seats. The effect was comical. Roxas yelped, and put his hand down to lever himself up then recoiled after he noticed Namine and where his hand was. Sitting upright, Roxas knocked Goofy's 'coffee' over Donald, who promptly let off the first spell that came into his head. "Magnega!" summoning a glowing ball near the roof. Objects not held down flew up to it. Hewey Dewey and Lewey Flew up with all the coffee, scalding them. M&Ms and skittles flew out of the packets like missiles, up into the glowing ball. Papers got sent up, along with the owner, Pika_power.Hats flew off and havoc reigned. The glowing ball had paper, boiling water, three ducks a pokemon along with a PDA, weapons and pair of underwear Stitch brought from home.
Stitch resisted the pull by clawing his way into the floor.

The pokemon got hit by a steel-toed boot and was knocked out cold. He would wake up after the Murluxia case had started, vague memories of the past hour.

OoC: I think I have outdone myself this time. DF gets time in the limelight trying to stop this, Pika_power's honour is saved and I would hazard a guess at a recess. Oh, and the chaos is nice too. ;)