"A shoe? Who would lose something like that?" Happy asked.
"Oh! This is simply tragic!" shouted a voice in the nearby car.
The heroes ran to the car. "Lost your shoe, miss?" Sanji asked.
"Heavens no. As I was telling this detective, I'm missing my little boy!" she said.
"Yes. It seems this woman lost her son, Tom I believe." Chelmey said.
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"Whoops, should've dialed back a bit." Indigo said. "I was practicing. Did you guys hear Mr. Wright is coming to London to take place in court?"
"Mr. who now?" Chelmey asked scratching his head.
"Phoenix Wright. The famous attorney?" Rainbow said.
"Must not be famous if I hadn't heard of him. But I got bigger cases than that. I gotta deal with the murder case and now a missing boy case." Chelmey said.
"Oh, so you admit that youre tracking down the case of the Elysian Box?" Sunset asked.
"Who else do ya think arrived at the crime scene first? Not Grosky ever since he got promoted for bringing in Targent." Chelmey said.
"Well, Chelmey, we're on that case too. What do you know so far?"Tails asked.
"All I can share are a few details. The old man was found dead in his flat, the box was stolen and the killer fled from the window. The only evidence left behind were the photo scraps, which I am holding onto." Chelmey said.
"You guys think it's Don Paolo?" Indigo asked.
"Hard to say. I could have been anyone." Jexi said.
"Now, why don't you do some real detective work and try and find if that boy is hiding on the train somewhere." Chelmey said as he walked off.
While the heroes looked for Tom, they were talking about Mr. Wright.
"I cant believe we are actually gonna see Mr. Wright! The actual Ace Attorney." Sunny said.
"I heard something about him coming over here for a Legal League of Attorney's exchange." Sunset said. "Apparently, they send an attorney from London to America and they do the same over there."
"You think that we can meet him as soon as we get back? I wanna see him in action, ooh, or maybe even join him in defending someone." Indigo said.
"Ah, so you're talking about a court of law, eh?" asked a new voice as they saw a short old man approach them. "An interesting topic you have there."
"I know you. You're Mr. Beluga. You own this entire railway." Sunset said.
"Oh. So you know about me do you? Well, sad to say I can't say the same about all of you." Beluga said.
"I see. We were just talking about Phoenix Wright, he's a bit of a celebrity back home." Sunset said.
"Is that so? Well, I hope you get to see him when the train makes its return trip in a few days." Beluga said as he walked off.
"I've been practicing Mr. Wrights catchphrases a lot. Like OBJECTION and TAKE THAT!" Indigo said as someone bumped into her while carrying a small dog. "Pardon me." she said as she went to the next car.
"Wait! DId you happen to lose this?" Indigo asked holding a small shoe.
"Sorry. Too small for my feet." she said shutting the door behind her.
After a while of searching the train, the heroes came up empty handed with only two more shoes and a small hat. Chelmey then approached them. "So, no luck, eh? Guess that leaves only the obvious, the child must have fallen off the train." Chelmey said.
"Wait a second, maybe these shoes and hat can give us some clues. Mr. Wright always finds the right thing." Indigo said.
"But how can they be clues? These shoes are obviously too small to fit on anyones feet, let alone a child." Nami said.
"Excuse me miss, but does your son carry around a doll?" Layton asked.
"Of course not. He's always a happy one, walking about on all fours." she said.
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"If he still is around that age, then… got it!"
"So have I." Layton said. "The reason we are unable to find Tom, is because we're looking for the wrong species."
"And thats because hes a dog!" Luke added.
"What? I've been wasting my time trying to find someone's dog? I've got better things to do than that." Chelmey said walking off.
"Would this be your dog, miss?" Sanji said walking up with the girl from before. "We saw her carrying it with her."
The dog happily barked as it leapt out of the girls arms, knocking off her glasses and bandada, revealing her to be Flora.
"Oh my! You're Flora! Why are you here?" Rarity asked.
"I...didn't want to be left alone again." Flora said.
"Well then, we'll just have to be extra careful then, won't we?" Layton said smiling as Flora did the same.
"Now arriving in Dropstone! Come on passengers! Let me hear you scream!" the conductor said.
"Dropstone?" Usopp asked.
"It's a small farming village and I hear their celebrating the towns founding." Hope said.
"Let's stop and try to gather some info about the box. It might have passed by here." Jexi said.
"And maybe have some fun." Pinkie said.