Turnabout Storm Bad Ending Contest Entry: Destined To Be Here Forever

Destined To Be Here Forever

From the viewpoint of Phoenix Wright, attorney at law

It was over.

The "Guilty" verdict had been declared. Rainbow Dash was to be banished from Equestria.

I failed her.

I failed to get her acquitted. I failed to prove her innocence, and keep my promise to her. I failed everything... and everyone.

Twilight was crushed. She didn't blame me for this, though. It seemed there really was nothing else I could do, as the Judge's gavel slammed down for the final time in the entire case. It was the end. For good.

It hurt Twilight so bad, she found herself unable to send me back home. I can't say that I'm surprised, because I'm not. After what happened today, who, in Twilight's position, would have the presence of mind to beam a guy back to a place in an entirely different dimension?

So I was stuck here. In a world full of pastel-colored ponies. And not a single one of them wanted anything to do with me. No unicorn would help me go home, and even if they wanted to, it turned out they didn't have enough power, or the know-how, or in some cases, either one.

I was alone. Everything I believed in - my friends, my world, everything - was rapidly crumbling. It was just like that class trial all those years ago. Except this time, literally no one was on my side.

I wanted to go home and forget everything that happened here. But things being as they are, that was an impossibility beyond even my world's standards.

Here stands Phoenix Wright, ex-defense attorney. The man who could not save another's dear friend from banishment. And I hear she's probably not coming back.

Was this how things were supposed to end? How could this have gone down differently? Is this fate's idea of a cruel joke?

Here I am. I can never go home, and return to the friends I had been taken away from. I'm not sure anymore, why I was given this case to begin with. But the results were what could only be described as "worst case scenario".

It seems this was my destiny. Destined to fail. Destined to send dear friends to certain doom.

Destined to be here, in the place they called home, stuck with it on my conscience for the rest of my life. I suppose some would call this...

"Forever".