Chapter one

Phoenix Wright had never known the office to be so quiet. Usually after a case win he'd go with his staff/friends for a meal but Athena and Apollo were in Europe and Trucy hadn't yet returned from school.

The silence however was short lived as the office phone rang.

"Wright anything agency"

"Is this Phoenix Wright?" The voice asked, there seemed to be some voice modification going on.

Taken aback by the voices strange sound he replied "Y..Yeah that's me, who might I be addressing?"

"That is of no concern to you" The caller answered curtly. "What is important is that we have something that belongs to you"

'That sounds ominous' Phoenix thought "What would that be?"

There were sounds of movement before he heard a voice say "Talk to him"

"Daddy?" came the shaky scared voice on the other end of the phone.

"Trucy!" Phoenix's heart sank

"Daddy please, help!" she cried

"Don't worry I'll find you I promise!" he told her as determined as he could muster at the time.

The electronic voice returned and Phoenix dialled up the volume on the phone to maximum in hope of finding a clue. "I trust we have your attention now?"

Phoenix didn't reply immediately, what was that faint noise in the background? 'Church bells?'

"What is it you want?"

"The case today, you got it wrong, Blake Johnson was the perpetrator!"

"Wha..? No he wasn't I proved he was innocent!"

The voice replied crisply "Let me explain in another way, he was guilty or she perishes, you have 48hrs to acquire the evidence you need to send him away, if the cops get involved , the outcome wont be good for the girl" with that the caller hung up.

He sank on the sofa "Oh god, Trucy!" head in his hands and then came up with an idea.

He may not be able to ring the police but there was still someone to call.

After hastily punching numbers on the phones keypad, he managed to get through.

"Miles Edgeworth" the voice answered.

"Edgeworth its Phoenix, They've got her, they've got Trucy!"

"Slow down Wright, whose got Trucy?"

"I...I don't know, they wouldn't say, just that if I don't 'acquire' as they put it, evidence to put away the defendant I found innocent today, they're going to kill my daughter! They've given me 48hrs to do so and no police either" he replied rapidly.

After a moments pause the chief prosecutor asked " Any clues to their whereabouts? Caller Id or did you hear anything?"

"Er it was on the hour, so I heard some church bells I think" he recalled.

"Church bells? Well its not much but its a start, you managed to prove without a shadow of a doubt to Prosecutor Blackquill that he was innocent, so I think the best course of action is to find her before time runs out. Wait at the office, I'll be there presently" He put down the phone.

Phoenix dug out a map of the city and began circling all the churches he could fine.

True to his word 20 minutes later there was a knock at the back door of the office.

"Wright" The prosecutor nodded in greeting as he entered the agency.

"Er, why the back door?" he asked perplexed.

"It wouldn't be too presumptuous to assume that the office is being monitored, as such I was certain my car would attract unwanted attention so I parked round the corner and came here guessing they would be monitoring the main entrance" The taller man explained.

Phoenix nodded quickly ushering Edgeworth into the agencies lounge area where a map lay across the coffee table with circles marked around all the churches he could find.

"There's too many" Phoenix stated in a panic. "I don't know where to start!"

Edgeworth put on his reading glasses and scanned the map.

"The churches seem to be evenly spread east and west" he took the map and tore it down down the centre. "I suggest we take one side each, start from the edges of the city and work inwards, as it is most likely that she would have been taken to somewhere more remote than the city centre."

he paused thinking a little more. "What time would Trucy have finished school?"

Phoenix replied quickly "3.15, why?"

"If the call came in at 4pm and there were no noises of a vehicle, its safe to assume that the call was made from the location she was taken to, in that case, calculating the furthest they could have got to would have been the outskirts of the city"

The prosecutors calm logic helped placate the defence attorney a little now there was a plan and at least for the time being she was most likely still in the city.

"o..okay " he replied taking half of the map. "You leave the way you came in here and I'll wait a few minutes and leave from the main door" he instructed, hating the idea of waiting but had no option if it didn't want to look like they were up to something.

He thanked the prosecutor as he departed and after what felt like the longest 10 minutes of his life, he made his way to the nearest subway station and caught a train to the edge of town, repeating a paraphrased version of Apollo's oft aired mantra in his head "She's fine, she's fine, we will find her!"

My first real attempt at Phoenix Wright fanfic, hope its okay and remember evidence is everything! So please leave a review :) W.A.A.