9 Trainer Igi 2 «95% TRUSTED»

A dying I.G.I. founding member, Director Alma Sorensen, surfaces. She has one last asset: the unredacted "Course 9" manual and the location of Trainer 9. She gives Fox an impossible order: "Build a team from scratch. You have nine slots. You have fourteen days. Stop Volkov."

Fox stands before the surviving seven (Spike and Rook are KIA). Director Sorensen offers to reinstate I.G.I. with Fox in charge. 9 trainer igi 2

Fox refuses. He looks at Zero.

"I trained nine," Fox says. "But only one was ready to train himself." A dying I

He hands Zero the unredacted Course 9 manual. The final line of the story is Zero's callsign being officially entered into the new I.G.I. roster – not as a trainee, but as She gives Fox an impossible order: "Build a

A disavowed I.G.I. instructor must train nine raw recruits in two weeks to execute a near-impossible infiltration, or a stolen bioweapon will annihilate a capital city.