It was a hot, summer day in the boisterous city of Los Angeles. Phoenix Wright was currently sitting alone in his office at the Wright Anything Agency, checking through his emails. The office was rather quiet today with Apollo at a trial and Athena investigating a crime scene for her case. Even Trucy was being quiet in the office, attempting to finish the last of her summer reading before school started back up again. It was rather boring, but Phoenix slightly appreciated the change in atmosphere; it wasn't everyday he could go through his inbox in peace. As he scrolled through old messages, he noticed another person's presence beside him, and he didn't need to turn around to see who it was.

"Either you've finished reading A Tale of Two Cities, or you're just taking a break." He said without taking his eyes off his computer screen.

"Taking a break." Trucy admitted. "But I'm almost done, I swear! I only have twenty pages left!"

"Get it done, Truce."

"Ugh, fine." The young magician sighed as she was about to go back to her dreaded homework assignment, but then decided to stall for time as best as she could. "Whatcha doin', Daddy?"

"Just checking my email." Phoenix responded. "Seeing if there's anything important for me to read. Just your typical grown-up stuff."

"Sounds like fun." She said sarcastically. There was an unread message in the middle of the inbox that caught her eye. "Hey, Daddy, you missed one. Hmm…'from Pyrosaurus X.' Daddy, who is that?"

Phoenix blinked as he moved his cursor right to the email. "An old friend of mine. I haven't heard from her in a while though. I wonder what she could want…"

Trucy hovered over her father's shoulder as he clicked open the message and began reading it. It was rather short, and the words were all italicized:

I nominate you for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. You have 24 hours to complete it.

"Oh no…" Phoenix buried his face in his hands as he leaned back in his chair, exasperated. "I thought I could avoid that somehow…"

"Ooh, the ice bucket challenge!" Trucy exclaimed, a little too excited for Phoenix's comfort. "A lot of my friends did that at camp and put their videos online."

"Truce, do you have a hundred dollars?"

"For what?"

"So I can donate to the cause? I'd rather do that than dump ice cold water on myself."

"What?! Daddy, no! That's no fun! You have to do the challenge. Pyrosaurus X said you had to! Come on, it'll be fun! I can help you get set up, Polly can hold the camera…and you get to nominate other people for it too."

"Nominate other people…" Phoenix thought aloud. A few people came to mind, and he knew it would be absolutely entertaining to watch them pour buckets of cold water on their heads.

"Please do it, Daddy?" Trucy continued to convince her father to do the challenge. "It's for a good cause."

Phoenix sighed as he relented to his daughter's pleads. His great aunt did pass away from the disease, and he supposed he never really did get a chance to properly honor her.

"Alright, fine." He finally gave in. "I'll do it."

Trucy nearly jumped up with excitement. "Yay! This will be so much fun!"

Yeah, for you. Phoenix shook his head. "But you have to finish your reading first."

That quickly put a damper on Trucy's enthusiasm. "But I…oh fine. But we can do it once Polly and Thena come back?"

"Yes. When they get back to the office, we'll do it."

"Okay, I'm going to go finish right now!"

As Trucy scurried off to speed read through the rest of her book, Phoenix couldn't help but feel a sense of anxiety in his stomach. These silly challenges always made him nervous for some reason; maybe the accident with the cinnamon traumatized him for life. But he already promised his daughter he would do it, and Pyrosaurus X wasn't really giving him much of a choice. He was going to have to prepare a lot of towels for this one.

PX: Alright readers! Do your part to help support the cause and nominate your favorite characters to complete the challenge (of course, you can also donate money to your local charity as well). One character per person and anyone in the franchise can do it, even the characters who died. I don't know how this idea came to my head, really. But anyways, this story is dedicated to those whose lives are affected by ALS (for those of you who don't know what that is, it's a nasty degenerative disease that shuts down motor neurons and ultimately ends with death; for more information, see Google) and for the families who have or have lost a loved one to the disease. Let's find the cure together!