The likes of Dark Persecutor left everyone with their jaws gaping. "Gadzooks!" Raven squawked like a flabbergasted crow. "Normally, prosecutors are cold and robotic, but this one is literally a cold robot! Have we reached the singularity?!"
"And I've reached the single-larity." Mina sighed, remembering Blind and how dreamy and non robotic he was. He was truly one of a kind and the only one for her kind. Now the prosecutor was just some stupid robot.
Speaking of stupid people, the blond detective with his curly twirly mustache approached them.
Mina expected his sharp and caustic tone, followed by some of his greasy french-canadian food being thrown in her face. But instead, he moved towards Monica Montero with half lidded eyes and suave smirk on his face. "Allo mademoiselle, you are looking simply ravishing today!"
"Que?!" Monica exclaimed.
She had met with the detective yesterday and she had said he was as curt and insensitive as before. But something has changed within him. Even his face changed. It wasn't needly and nasally, it was dapper and suave like a box of gourmet French chocolates rather than escargot.
Without warning, he took her hand and planted a no-doubt fuzzy kiss against the edge of her knuckle. His mustache curling in the shape of a heart.
"How is that physically possible?!!" Monica screamed.
Inspector Croix-Saint stood up. "Even my mustache knows a fine Mademoiselle when he sees one!"
"How does a mustache have a gender?!" Mina shouted.
But Croix-Saint narrowed his eyes at her. "I 'ave no interest in you, cur. I just came here to wish zis woman the best of luck in the trial! May eet be a trial of love!"
If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. Please report it.
Monica started wide eyed at him. "This isn't my trial! Mi hermano is on trial. After all he is...M..."
The detective just answered with his lids falling halfway over his eyes. Mina wanted to slap that smug detective silly for his obnoxiousness, but even she noticed personality was completely different. It was a different brand of obnoxiousness entirely.
"Au revoir!" the detective said, and he gave a mirthful chuckle. It wasn't a "haw haw haw!" but rather a debonair and coy laugh of a gentleman.
Even Maria Santiago herself was dumbfounded and she had stolen and crushed hundreds of hearts during his enormous crime spree.
The bailiff announced the five minutes deadline. Mina looked dumbfounded at her pair of clients. Between the sinister prosecutor and the shady detective, a long shadow stretched over this case, cloaking everything in a veil of darkness.
***
As always, the honorable Justice Divine Justice presided over the case and though she herself had been traumatized by Blind's demise, she vowed to keep a strong resolve in and out of the courtroom. She gave a firm nod to Mina, disguising the pain behind her eyes with a strong veneer. "All rise for da honorable justice!" the bald behemoth bailiff announced.
Mina did so and so did Dark Persecutor. "The defense is ready!" Mina said.
"SO IS THE PERSECUTION!" the robot man said, reflecting the whole surprised courtroom in his helmet.
"Mommy!" a child said audibly from the audience. "Why is there a robot action figure in the courtroom?"
"Yeah," Mina said. "I hate to object so early in this case, but should we really be using a robot to decide on human matters?! Especially after we've had such thoughtful and handsome HUMAN prosecutors in previous cases."
"PERHAPS THE DIM-WITTED BUBBLE BRAINED DEFENSE ATTORNEY HAS NEVER HEARD OF A CYBORG BEFORE?"
Dark Persecutor's helmet reflected none of his true feelings. But his voice, even when garbled was deeply sarcastic.
"What the huh?" Mina exclaimed. "You're a..."
"A CYBORG IS A COMBINATION OF ROBOTICS AND HUMANITY, SPLICED TOGETHER IN AN UNHOLY BUT SYMBIOTIC WAY."
Knowing quite a bit about sci-fi from her ChickFlix binges of Venus Warrior From Mars, this kind of tech was familiar to the plucky young attorney. But it created a whole new mystery for her. Who was this Dark Persecutor guy? She vocalized the storm brewing inside of her.
"Who the huh are you anyway?!" she exclaimed with her hands slamming against the podium.
"YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ME. BUT I KNOW ALL ABOUT YOU DEFENSE ATTORNEY. AND I WILL USE ALL OF MY DATA TO END YOUR CAREER!"
The Persecutor thrusted his gloved finger straight at Mina. "FOR NOW YOU CAN CALL ME CYRUS BORG!"