Hello, everyone! Welcome to another chapter! It's been a while, and I do apologize for the wait! Work has been very hectic lately (working 32-37 hours/week) but it will hopefully go down at least a little after the school season starts up in August. Anyway, big thanks to everyone for being so patient with me while I'm still getting into the groove of things! This chapter is written a little differently. I thought that a different writing style for this chapter would be a good way to try something fun. You'll understand when you read the title. This chapter is a little on the short side, and I'm sorry about that! I can never make Jack's chapters very long!

I don't own rights to Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds! Enjoy!

Inspector Atlas

Jack POV

12:46 PM

My eyes darted across the screen as I searched the surveillance footage of the other day. After Martha had left, Crow and Yusei decided to go check the store to see if this mystery girl would show up out of the blue. Highly unlikely, if you ask me. While they are out playing guessing games, I am here looking for legitimate clues. My finger pressed the spacebar as her glasses fell and took a screenshot of her face before bringing it into a program to enhance it. I grabbed a snapshot of the license plate and pasted it into the internet browser. Irritation grated my nerves as it came up with a load of nothing. Grabbing my phone, I pressed the number four and talk button. It was a split second after the first ring that the line connected and a woman's voice came through. "Carly, you can trace a license plate without getting Secutiry's attention, correct?"

"Jack?! Is that you?! Where have you been?!"

"Can you or not?" I sighed into the phone as she complained of how I had been keeping her out of the loop for as long as I have. "Do this for me and we will give you those interviews that you've wanted."

"You can't dangle that in front of me whenever you need something, it starts to lose its value. I want to be a part of whatever you three are up to! This is a major thing! Will you three give me permission to participate in this whole investigation?" I glared at the phone in my hand for a few seconds. Message received loud and clear.

"Fine, send the plate and I'll run it really quick."

I ended the call and sent the file to her personal email. Now all I could do was wait until the program was finished and for Carly to get back to me.

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1:02 PM

Carly has gotten back to me. The plates belonged to a Edgar O'Nichlow, a man in his late forties. Edgar wasn't anything special; receding hairline, occasionally visited his younger brother who lived overseas, lived in the southern part of Domino. There was one thing in particular that stuck out: he had been hired close to two months ago by a private employer that refused to be named. She had sent a picture and it matched the man that had ushered the mystery girl into the car. Perhaps we should pay him a visit.

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1:22 PM

The image of the mystery girl has finished. Crow wasn't lying when he said that she looked a lot like Akiza. Not only were the eyes the same, but so were her high cheekbones and coloration. I placed it in a facial recognition software that Mina had given me when we first started this "project". An idea came to mind as I recalled the sunglasses the girl had been wearing. She hadn't retrieved them and they had been placed in the garbage bin next to the door. I grabbed my phone and punched the five. "Mina. I have a favor to ask."

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4:40 PM

Mina stopped by two hours ago to pick up the glasses and has sent a copy of her findings to me. There were a few fingerprints on the sunglasses that she managed to lift as well as some skin flakes. The facial recognition isn't finished yet, though it should have hours ago, but this new information should help us. The DNA strands looked Greek to me, but the fact that there were no matches told me that something was preventing us from finding out more about this girl.

Crow and Yusei have returned, turning up empty handed. They seemed surprised that I had managed to put this together. They should have realized by now that I'm more than just the Master of Faster. Yusei offered to visit Edgar and I agreed, pointing out that I needed to stay in case the facial recognition finished. Since he had nothing better to do, I requested that Crow made dinner tonight.

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5:28 PM

Yusei has returned from Edgar's place. The man had been welcoming at first, even offered to make him tea, but turned into a brick wall when he was asked about the girl. We weren't going to get anything from him. Crow had made an average beef stroganoff, needed some more spice though. The facial recognition still isn't finished. Thinking that I should as Mina to check the software. Showed the DNA that Mina sent to the others. Yusei couldn't make sense of any of it and Crow is Crow. It was as if this girl didn't exist.

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6:44 PM

The software has crashed. There went over six hours of my precious time. Yusei took over the computer from there, attempting to salvage any of the information or files that it was holding.

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6:51 PM

Yusei called us all to the living room. He had found an outside IP address that was altering the software's programming. My hunch of outside intervention was right. He attempted to trace it, but it had been bounced around the world, making it virtually impossible to find its source. At this point, we had only her name to go from: Autumn. Taking to social media, we began looking for any profile pictures or usernames that would pose any sort of lead. There were twenty "Autumn", each between the ages of 14-22, one "AutumnRose" with unknown age, two "Autumn44" between the ages of 20-31, and at least fourteen "AutumnGold ranging from 13-45. We each took 13 profiles and started searching them for clues.

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7:23 PM

One of my profiles has a possible lead. "Autumn Rose", no known age, only one profile picture. She looked nearly identical to the picture that I had enhanced from the surveillance footage. Only social media accounts were Photobucket and Floralbook. It seemed that she had a green thumb, judging from all the posts and pictures that she had. No mention of siblings, family members, or any other personal information. Her interests included gardening, reading, and composing music. Interesting girl.

Yusei had two possible matches and Crow had another three. They were all close to how old she would be now, but that could all change in a week. Her birthday is coming up. If any of the profiles changed or posted pictures that even came close to a celebration, we would know where to start. Until then, we needed to keep our eyes and ears focused in case anything came up.

And there you have it! Again, sorry for it's shortness! Let me know what you think! Xoxoxxxoxoxoxoooo!