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[color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
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[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 14 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color](153/140)
[b][color=Aqua]Rika: Level 10 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aqua]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]//////////////////////////////////////(72/100)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Mafia Town, Deep Blue Seaside
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Central hub: Smash City Alcamoth
Accessible locations:
Peach’s castle
Limsa Lominscuttle Town
Lumbridge
Twilight Town
Kosm’s Beach
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[color=SpringGreen]”You bet I am!”[/color] Jr responded to the ‘wizz kid’ question, having been entirely willing to work on the gun right here on the table despite how silly that notion was. When he didn’t get what he wanted he just slumped back in a huff again. He did have to admit, to himself and to no one else, that Juri’s whole ‘take no nonsense from nobody’ attitude was actually kinda cool even if she was also kinda a jerk.

Rika meanwhile was more, well maybe not concerned, but tuned in to the state of the deep blue. It was where she had been born, so to speak, after all.

[color=Aqua]”So they just went and replaced the fleet? Just like that?”[/color] she asked, before glancing at her brother and asking [color=Aqua]”That’s one of those ‘irony’ things, right? Because that’s how the fleet treated everything like me as disposable, but in the end the whole fleet was all that to I, big bosses included”[/color] and then upon getting a nod stated rather flatly that [color=Aqua]”I don’t get how Irony is meant to be that funny though. I think it just makes me feel worse”[/color]

Jr gave his sister a hesitant pat on the arm (he couldn't reach her shoulder) but Rika wasn’t done being a downer

[color=Aqua]”Also I guess things are just worse now over there strategically? The fleet never really got close to the city, just threatened it a bunch I think? Plus getting used to fighting on land as a ship girl is a real pain”[/color] she added after that vocalized bit of self reflection, looking briefly confused about feeling empathy for the entire navy when she’d barely considered them before. Rather than reflect on that as well however, she sidestepped the feelings and instead wondered [color=Aqua]”I wonder where I got the cannon ship from anyway, if it's that dangerous?”[/color]  throwing a bone to Jr in the process that got him talking.

[color=SpringGreen]”Maybe it just spawned after we beat the fleet? Must be something that stops new stuff from being popped in while old stuff is there. Asgore said whole places would get repopulated overnight, and seeing as places that don’t get, uh, all unpopulated don’t just flood with stuff then it must be reactive to when there's, I dunno, space?”[/color] Jr theorized before complaining that [color=SpringGreen]”Also I guess guardians are the only things they can’t replace, coz even if we knock down one of these Consuls, apparently they can just make someone else into a new one. So I dunno how much of a point there is in going after them”[/color] 

He did however note that [color=SpringGreen]”Kinda weird that none of them jumped on the possibility of getting one of their own ‘lieutenants’ powered up though, and so in the end that crazy C guy made Peach into one as a… a joke or something?”[/color]

[color=Aqua]”So maybe we can go back to the city, sink the ship, and then sink I when she shows up afterwards? If it’ll take them a bit to replace her, we can use that space to go take down the big bird”[/color] Rika suggested before adding [color=Aqua]”Plus I don’t think I like Consul I very much? I mean, the fleet would have been the way they were anyway, probably, but it's all also kind of her fault”[/color] 

[color=SpringGreen]”Huh. I guess so”[/color] jr tentatively agreed. It was sort of a Galeem situation if he thought about it though. The state of Rika’s life was both it and I’s fault, but that in a way included her existing at all, which left him strangely grateful to them in a way he did not like.

Rika, it seemed, did not have this dilemma, declaring simply [color=Aqua]”So I think I really want her dead”[/color] before going back to munching on what was left of their meal.