This is a alternate Ace Attorney timeline where the bad ending from JFA is canon, if you do not want the story spoiled for you, please leave and go play Justice for All.
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As Matt Engarde walked back onto the streets a free-man, Phoenix questions what he fought for, he fought for Justice, but this isn't Justice... this is for Phoenix's own benefit, Maya may of walked away alive but that still doesn't change the fact Phoenix got a innocent person convicted of murder, and now the public hate him, even Maya hates him, so Phoenix decides his time in the US is done, so he leaves...
ATTENTION! THIS IS NOT A WRIGHTWORTH/NARUMITSU OR ANY SHIPPING FAN FIC! THIS IS AN AU FAN-FIC!
I do not make any shipping content.
ATTENTION! I do not own any characters in this story, all of the characters here and all of the property here is Capcom intellectual property (IP), Ace Attorney is owned by Capcom and Shu Takumi (the writer of the first 4 games and investigations and tgaa).
I should also mention this but SPOILERS! For the Ace Attorney series.