As the next day would come around, Arthur would groggily get out of bed and grab some breakfast and quick shower before suiting up and heading out to Highpoint to hopefully find Nagual. Landing in a resident alley of the Cat's respective district to change costume, remembering that they were going to canvas the area first in civilian clothes.

"Alrighty, time to give Cat-Guy a ring. Hm, wonder if he would come a-running if I said I had some lasagna here for him."

"Oh, I wasn't following any cases. I was just out over the water when I felt all of you gathering. Curiosity was why I showed up. So lead the way I am your Pinkie Pie and you be my Maud Pie."

Arthur would turn to Diego and offer a smile back to him as well.

"Ah, come on hanging out in alleys build character. And I actually was going to be on my way to Starbucks, but I wanted to revel in a little cross town swinging before changing into my civvies. Name's Arthur by the way.

He would walk with Diego as they made their exit from the smelly alley. As far as looks go, Arthur was a pretty basic guy when it came down to appearance. A Caucasian male with dirty blonde hair which he usually wore in a more 'unkempt' style whilst wearing a black beanie, black t-shirt with what looked to be a white thermal-knit shirt with the sleeves rolled up, a pair of generic dark-blue jeans, and black sneakers with an off-white sole trim.

Kate strolled along the sidewalk, her cane gliding in front of her. She was clad in dark blue Chucks, khaki shorts, and an unzipped sleeveless hoodie. Underneath the hoodie was a tee that depicted Anthem charging, her gauntlet cocked back in preparation to deliver a haymaker.

As she turned onto the brick path of the park, Kate suddenly caught the strong scent of ozone. She turned in the direction it was coming from and soon reached a bench with one occupant. She smiled down at them. "Morning. Mind if I join you?"

"I don't have any skills in detective work... but I might be able to do something. Just well it's iffy, how do you feel about me changing your brain chemistry? Nothing bad! Just a bit of right chemical mix and you think sharper and notice things you might have missed before. All temporary your body will return to normal it's basically me tricking your body into releasing the right set of chemicals to get you added focus." In another universe, this would be called Clear Mind.

"I guess I'm the useless member of the party until someone is hurt. I know I'm smart for my age but heck I may look 15 but I'm only three so I'm not experienced. My Mother native species don't even raise their young. Thought how much raising do you need to do for a species that live on solar radiation in the vacuum of space. Here on earth... I struggle to appear normal."

"I'll pass on my brain being messed with... I'm not exactly a detective either, so you're about as useful as I am here. Just look around, look for things that are here that shouldn't be, or that aren't here that should be... Maybe check if any nearby buildings have outside security cameras that might have caught something."

"Your abuela makes a good suggestion, but sadly the magic and witchcraft scene isn't really my thing. I'd definitely suggest we look into some surveillance tech as our best bet. It is the 21st century after all so we'd might have better luck that way."

Arthur takes a brief moment to adjust his beanie.

"As far as super senses go, your's would beat my own by a long shot. I usually can pick up scents by a couple of feet or so, but as far as tracking goes, you can forget about it!"

Rio pulled out Broach's phone and brought up her notes. "From what I could find online, there's a Titan Taco at the edge of search area. I checked it out. The restrooms are gender-neutral and clean, easy for me to scout ahead and make sure they're not in use before I make a full portal. Then it's a block northeast to the last place Kevin Van Rijn was seen, as far as I can tell." She struggled with the last name, pronouncing it with a short "i" and a "j" in front of the "n". "Rikki's is one of those 'seventeen and older' clubs, no alcohol on the premises, on one quarter of the first two floors of a skyscraper. I figured we start asking questions there, see what you can find, maybe shake a few trees for clues to fall out."

"Somewhere in that sentence lies a joke about it never being too early for clubbing, but I'm just going to leave it at that. As for other angles, we can swing by Victory Beach where my missing gu-...er...girl was last seen. I figure it be best to take advantage of the daylight we have to scout for any other clues left there, if any."

"It's not exactly dark, but thanks or whatever... Speaking of the others... What do you think of them?"

Hauntress pushes some of the alleyway trash around with her foot, clearly not wanting to touch it with her hands.

Kate smiled and nodded. "Sounds like a plan. Please, lead the way." she said, motioning towards the sidewalk.

"Empathic remember. That what caught my attention when everyone was together." Sighs "I don't even know what I'm not seeing. Is that dent in that trash can from a fight or some garbage man having a bad day? Is that blood over there or ketchup. Let's head to the birdnest and wait for the others."

She then spun around and look at Hauntress "Of course you got people. This is Titan City where the odd is normal. Look at me I'm not just a freak I'm not even a carbon-based life form from this planet. My ancestors evolved in space feeding off the light and rays of the sun. My mother can be anything she wants not even human shape, me I can change my look but I mutated a skeleton I'm becoming more adapted to this world. I don't even have a species to consider my own not to mention a people. I could follow my mother and be all mopy and anger filled or just to accept I'm an Alicorn in a Pony world." Okay that three year old nature showed itself at the very end.

Rio stood, thought momentarily about offering an arm, but decided against it. After all, Kate had gotten here on her own, and might not like the assumption that she might need help just to walk down a path. Phone still in hand, she checked out the restroom. Darkness, except for the faint reflection off the walls of the daytime sky coming through the tiny hole. "Mind the edges," Rio advised, as she moved and enlarged the portal. The edge was cutting many more molecules apart, but in daylight the effect was barely noticeable. She stepped through as the motion sensor turned the light on, then stepped aside and watched as Kate came through before closing the portal.

Rio closed the portal behind Kate with a *pop*, then opened the restroom door. The Titan Taco was only moderately busy. "Need to grab anything to eat or drink? The chupaquesos are pretty good..."

"Has to be. But I do think we should all proceed with caution when it comes to these investigations. I, personally, find it all too convenient that all these missing persons were not only teenagers but people who were in or from neighborhoods we respectively patrol."

Arthur would place his hands in his pockets while glimpsing around the Victory Beach boardwalk.

"I think we can handle it, but just need to be wary of the idea that this could be a ploy to get all of us in one location and do who-knows-what to us. For what, however, I don't know."

Recalling an old movie, Rio cocked her elbow and shifted so that it brushed Kate's hand, allowing Kate to take Rio's arm. Together they got to the counter. Rio ordered, "Two beef burritos, two [url=https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Chupaqueso]chupaquesos[/url], and a medium drink, and..." She breifly laid her free hand on Kate's. "...for my friend...?"

"Mutation, maybe? Unless someone enchanted me without my noticing..." Rio kept her voice down, as well. "I kept it secret for a few months before I had to use it in public."

Arthur would stop just as suddenly as Diego did and would also pick up the sound of the clean up crew on the beach, he would then take a quick look at Diego.

"I hear it, sounds like a couple of lackies for whoever's responsible for this!"

Arthur would take one step in the direction of where the voices were coming from, only to note that he wasn't in costume and was in fact in public.

"Mm, lets just take a quick peek at what they're up to. If we're lucky they could lead us back to their hideout."

Rio looked up the street, and found the orange glow of the neon mongoose over the door, faint in the afternoon sunlight. "Rikki's is northeast one block, and on the north corner of the intersection. Oh, here's a picture to show witnesses." The image was printed from one of Kevin's social media pages. "If he hadn't been snatched, he'd have caught the bus two blocks southwest of us, and gotten off in Aurora."

"Right..."

Arthur takes a minute to calm himself, the excitement of finally getting a lead would clearly be getting the better of him.

"I don't recall ol' Birdbrain giving out his number or at least someway to contact him. Although we could always set up a birdhouse with some granola or something, that'll certainly get his attention."

Kate heard the crinkle of the paper and smiled at Rio. "Could you do me a favor and fold the top of the photo back just a bit? That way, I know I'm not holding it upside-down or backwards."

Rio looked at the picture and folded one corner, creasing it. "Upper right, folded towards the viewer.".

The lights flicker and Hauntress is there, sitting with her feet up on the couch in the 'living room area.'

"A lot about me isn't fair but it's balanced out a bit by you being able to look however you want. With the exception of dying my hair I'm stuck like this, forever as far as I know."

"You should do acting, you wouldn't need make up and you could play most any role they had."

Hauntress shrugs

"No clue how they're doing. Don't have a phone, or their numbers. Though it may appear so at times I can't be in multiple places at once... As far as I know. If I knew where they all were I could go check."

"Dōitashimashite," Rio replied, "you're welcome." She then took her own copy of the picture and started asking people closer to the street.

"Yep... At least those with phones should have exchanged numbers... What's going to happen if someone gets into trouble out there? I guess that's why we went in pairs... Though they weren't picked out too well. I'm not so great in a straight up fight and you just... Do whatever you do... Good thing we didn't run into trouble."

Hauntress thinks for a moment

"Though terrifying goons is always fun... If anyone thinks I'm creepy now they haven't seen anything yet."

"So with you scrambling thoughts and me being spooky we can seriously mess people up mentally is what you're saying?"

"And what, pick up some walkie talkies at the mall?"

"That sounds like a call to snooping. Think he has anything weird around?"

After looking around she found what looks like the main computer "Hey Hauntress think you can get this communication system going? Looks like a private version of Skype or something. The last thing we need is to mistakenly call his dad."

Hauntress was also snooping around, currently in the kitchen.

"Calling his dad would be pretty funny. But someone left their number here, so we don't have to call random numbers."

Hauntress pulls the number off of the fridge and her voice comes from behind Starlight,

"If you have a phone this would be easier. But I can see if I can mess with this."

"Could be. What's in it?" Rio wondered whether any of her new teammates could use the wallet to track its owner down...

Arthur nods to the question.

"Definitely. That way in case if something -is- to happen to us, which I hope nothing will, there'll be something left of us for the others to go off of."

He continues to keep his attention locked on the mooks that are at the beach.

"We may also want to keep our distance somewhat when tailing them. The second we spook 'em with the possibility of them being followed, it's surely a mission failed."

"Always am. Lets go catch...or in this case, follow us some bad guys."

While not exactly gifted with his own way of 'quick changing' from civvies to his costume, Arthur would follow behind Diego while racing beneath the pier, he would be wearing his own costume beneath his clothes which he would strip himself of before finally slipping on his mask and following behind Nagual via rooftop.

Thanks to his own background in parkour/free-running and even gymnastics as well, Arthur was able to keep up with Nagual surprisingly well thanks to the superhuman enhancements to these prior skills that he possessed. Utilizing both speed, agility, and use of his Grapnel Bracers, Arthur made effective use of whatever was to be in his surroundings. Like Nagual though, Arthur, or in this current case, Scarlet Striker also made use of conventional structures like street lamps, billboards, and even possible water-towers perched upon certain rooftops to keep his own flow of momentum built-up.

Scarlet was also able to still hear Nagual quite well.

"Gotcha! I'm going to see if I can scout ahead, probably put myself a couple feet in front of them!"

Scarlet nods back.

"Should be a piece of cake! Most of the rooftops around here have plenty of air conditioning units I can make use of!"

With that Scarlet jumps from the roof he was running on to then fire a grapple cable onto another nearby roof, making sure to stay out of sight. He would effectively traverse past anything these roofs were to have perched upon them, while also making sure to not do anything too flashy that would draw too attention to him.

Eventually arriving at the bridge that connects North and South Titan, Scarlet would use his grapple cables to swing beneath the bridge and arrive on the opposite end thus putting him at Liberty Harbor and about 15 feet ahead of the van. Striker then 'parks' himself behind a billboard that was overlooking the highway from Victory Beach to Liberty Harbor.

Watching as the van makes it's merge onto 3128 and into Ironport, Scarlet leaves his original position to continue following the van.

"Ironport? Aw man, lets hope these missing persons haven't boarded the cruise to God knows where!"

Still making use of whatever buildings and/or obstacles that are to be surrounding the freeway, Striker keeps like he's been doing and staying out of the van's line of sight. Just like he did previously, Striker would cross into Ironport just to get some distance ahead of the van and position himself at a nearby building that would be adjacent to the loading docks, out of sight.

Hauntress doesn't seem phased by the sudden appearance of a team member

"I'm here. Starlight too. They actually found something? Huh. Alright, where to?"

Hauntress puts her hood up.

"Nope. Not bad at all I must say. I'm finally glad that we're at least one step closer to getting some answers."

Arthur chuckled and leaned against an external ventilation shaft that was on the roof.

"Also now that you mention musky thugs, I think one of them went a little too heavy-handed with whatever aftershave product they use. Woo!"

"This is true, very true actually. Its does beat the scent of dumpster juice, which is kind of a combination of rain water and garbage."

Taking a moment to overlook the thugs during their smoke break, Scarlet looks back Nagual and nods at him a few times.

"Yeah I think we can do that. There is only three of 'em after all and I think they could use the nap given all the effort they put in today."

Striker lifts a fold of his mask up just high enough past his mouth to where it reveals a smirking grin to his feline comrade.

"You could try a bird call."

Hauntress leans against a nearby counter presumably awaiting to leap into action. Or at least watch the action.

Scarlet would fall back and wait, still leaned against the AC unit.

"Got it, that would make reasonable sense. After all, there's no 'I' in 'team work'. Heh...God that was corny...Birdbrain better get here soon. Feels like he's been holding out just investigating one lead."

As Rio checked out the rooftop for surveillance, Kate took the time to finish bagging the wallet she'd grabbed with an inside-out baggie. She tucked it into her purse and withdrew the wide silk sash she used to obscure her face the night before. She tied it on, then zipped up her hoodie and flipped the hood up. After depositing her purse on a nearby counter, Kate raised her cane into a fighting stance. She moved through a quick kata to limber up, then looked to Rio. "Ready when you are."