Needy's Destiny II: The Legend Of Fox Cipher

PROLOGUE

Fox Cipher was a legend

It was a name that had been heard a lot over the past thirty years even though nobody was really sure of who, or what, it was.

It had shown up in witness testimonies, had been whispered about on the cortex, and was found regularly near the top of the Alliance’s most wanted list.

Was it a man or an organisation? Nobody knew for sure, there were so many different stories floating around. Some might even have you believe it was something far more insidious – some dark creature from a lost world.

It was a ghost story, an urban myth. Or at least, that’s what I had been told, what I had been led to believe.

Turns out, Fox Cipher was so much more than that, and had been around for a lot longer than anyone could have ever imagined.

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It had been three months since Frankie had disappeared.

Three long months.

And yet, even though she had grown up at the companion house of Crescendo, spent the majority of her life there… in just three months it seemed that everyone had forgotten about her.

Everyone, that is, but me.

I was back on my feet; the injury sustained during the Sammy D incident had long healed. Even the officers had stopped paying me visits with questions – questions intended to make me slip up and confess to a crime I wasn’t responsible for. That I was glad of at least, I could go back to my normal life.

Only I couldn’t.

I couldn’t think straight, couldn’t concentrate on my work, and couldn’t even perform on one occasion – which, needless to say, can prove absolutely detrimental to ones career.

I knew I needed to focus but I couldn’t. Frankie was on my brain, day in, day out.

Where was she? Was she okay?

And what of Nemmi?

Some would suppose that the disappearance of both of them meant one thing – they had fallen in love and left in secret, starting a life together far away from home.

I couldn’t believe that. Maybe it was just wishful thinking on my part, that I simply