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[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 15 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color](234/150)
[b][color=Aqua]Rika: Level 11 [/color][/b] EXP:  [color=Aqua]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color](180/100)
Feat Miss fortune
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Once they’d finished chatting, the kids took a look around the area they’d landed in, and decided to go with the plan they thought up before coming here, which was to go for a drive instead of hoofing it on foot.

Jr promptly deployed the very on thematically fitting tractor themed metal attacker [url=https://i.imgur.com/8lZJBeK.jpeg]Kuebiko[/url] onto the main track, before popping inside. Jr took the controls and got to driving, while Rika put her feet up, pulled the games console she’d shown Sakura out again, and started beep booping away on it. 

This put them comfortably at the head of the pack, though not at all alone in that fact, as after about 30 seconds of driving there was a metal clunk as Amatarasu, indigent of having been stuck behind the fume trailing machine that was taking up the whole road, leapt up on top of the roof.

She ignored the yelling and fist shaking coming from inside and promptly jumped in front of the moving vehicle and then raced ahead.

Slighted, Jr hit the gas, and promptly raced after her, only for this sudo-race to come to a screeching halt as they almost crashed into the back of the milk transporting wagon, the prince having been too focused on the wolf sprinting ahead of him to see the impending obstacle till they were almost on top of it.

After stopping, he promptly honked on the machine’s horn and demanded they [color=SpringGreen]”Get out the road!”[/color] despite the un-feasibility of this.

Technically, he could have just tried to jump/hover over her, but it was the principle of the thing (and not wanting to crush them with a bad jump). 

It was while he was grumbling about this that Miss Fortune came sailing alone across the rice fields, catching up, and prompting Rika to suggest [color=Aqua]”Why don’t we just copy her?”[/color]

[color=SpringGreen]”Huh. Yeah sure why not”[/color] her brother replied, prompting them to pop out of the vehicle, set up a magic circle to send it right back up to the armory, before hopping the fence and touching down on the water, prince and princess both floating above the paddies thanks to inherent or copied ship girl tech.

Zero consideration was given to helping the poor milkmaid out, nor to helping Amatarasu with helping her. Instead they sailed out after Miss Fortune, who was in the middle of inspecting a big fish.

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In front of them, in a basin between several hills of terraced rice paddies and wheatgrass fields, lay a large pond. With a couple wooden bridges, piers, and surrounding footpaths, it served as a junction for three of the serpentine rivers that flowed around the Fields of Gold, which would have made it an excellent route for travel via bamboo raft if not for the gilded lunker that seemed to have taken up residence. The demon catfish, longer and girthier than a minivan, had evidently eaten so well since its arrival that it could no longer escape via the waterways, a problem it seemed eager to rectify. As Nadia watched, the fish released a huge fountain of water from its mouth, raising the water level a millimeter or two. By now, two tiers of terraces had been submerged, and the rivers were almost deep enough to swim through again. Not content with the pace at which it was flooding the farmland, it looked like the catfish had used its remarkable bulk to smash up the bridges and piers, and debris from the destruction floated among the reeds.

[color=SpringGreen]”Hey Miss! Thinking of making more sushi?”[/color] Jr called out as he headed straight for Nadia, while behind him Rika sailed too and fro in a weaving pattern just for fun, taking a small joy from being on her element while she could. 

“Oh, hey!” Having heard them approach with the help of her feline ears, Nadia was ready with a cheerful wave when the kids approached. Having braved the Deep Blue Seaside together, she was no stranger to sailing alongside these two. She could trust them to go along with her hijinx, and right now it seemed like the three of them were of one mind. “Yeah, I’ve been pond-ering it. Looks like this thing’s been makin’ a real mess. It’d be a lot better use in our mess…the mess hall, that is!” She crossed her arms, smiling. “We’re all use to fusion by now, but are you ready for some fission?”

[color=Aqua]”Huh?”[/color] Rika replied with a head tilt, before re-righting it as she got it  [color=Aqua]”ohhhh. Like fishing”[/color]

Jr who’d at least given her a nose exhale of amusement for her efforts, before agreeing [color=SpringGreen]”Yeah. We were on the avenger for a bit before we came down to Mafia Town and the less we eat like that the better!”[/color] to which Rika nodded in agreement.

“Sweet!” First things first, though; with the big boss’s orders in mind, Nadia needed to do her due diligence. “Gimme one sec.” She leaned forward, skating through the fronds of rice across the the paddy she’d stopped on. With a hop, she landed on the surface of the pond. Thanks to her rigging the impact barely caused a ripple, but it was enough for the catfish to take notice. It turned toward her, glossy eyes bulging from its scaly indigo face. “Hey buddy, do you understand me? Would it be ‘morally questionable’ to fry you with cornmeal and lemon pepper?”

In lieu of a reply, the river monster let out a bellow like a foghorn. Nadia scrunched up her face as the thing’s breath blew her hair and ears back, bits of spittle flying all over. Then the fish threw itself toward her. “Hup!” The feral leaped into the air, propelled up and over her assailant by jets of pressurized blood. Beneath her the catfish slammed down with a tremendous splash, disappearing underwater. After a couple fancy flips, her rigging arms folded up for less drag, Nadia came down on the water in a deft three-point landing. She looked up, grinning, as her rigging unfolded again, her cannons locked and loaded as the catfish surfaced in front of her.. “Gonna take that as a ‘no’.” She straightened up, claws sharpened. “Purr-pare for pan-nihilation!”

Rika and Jr hoped into the pond, both tossing small objects as they did so, and then landed by her side, paintbrush and halberd in hand.

A second later two more allies arrived. From Jr’s pokeball, his ghost-tailed Brionne Dazzle splashed down, and then a fair bit further away and with a much bigger splash Rika’s warship turret toting white whale arrived, having been summoned from her golden spinner.

[color=SpringGreen]”Yeah, prepare to get cooked!”[/color] Jr called out with a toothy grin, before Rika retorted jokingly that [color=Aqua]”no, those both come after we fill-slay it”[/color] spacing out the words just a bit too much for the fillet pun to work smoothly.

Nadia grimaced, but decided not to critique Rika’s attempt since the catfish breached the water and slammed back down in a giant belly flop. A big wave rolled outward, interfering with the feral’s shot, so she naturally decided to accelerate forward and ramp off the wave instead. By the time she’d taken to the air, however, the catfish had filled its cheeks with water, and it spat at the same time that Nadia unleashed a salvo. They traded, blood shots for water blast, and like a bug sniped by an archerfish Nadia fell from the sky. “Ack!” She landed a split second after the wave past by on all fours, sprawled out like a water strider as she tried to steady herself. Her cannons fired another double salvo, pelting the catfish with bolts of condensed blood at a minor health cost.

Dazzle executed a Twisting Dive to punch straight through the wave at his trainer’s command, who himself more carefully navigated over the wave, following in the wake of Rika’s whale. Once there, he followed the second command, which was to hit the foe with his disarming voice, the pokemon belting fourth a beam of pink soundwaves that sapped the foe’s fighting spirit, fatiguing them.

Rika meanwhile launched herself up above even Miss Fortune via featherfall rune, before hurling her halberd down like a harpoon at the great fish. The needle pointed weapon cutting through the water blasts while Rika herself used her maneuvering thrusters and double jumps to dodge water blasts that were being slowed by her dated sunglasses.

While Nadia’s blood shells were more insult than injury, the debuffs that followed set the catfish up for a heavy, painful javelin toss from Rika. It sank at least a foot into the fish’s flesh after grazing by its armored helmet. It bellow again, bucking angrily, and at its call spiky red spars of rock burst up from beneath the water in concentric, sequential rings around it. Now back on her feet, Nadia narrowly avoided a spike with an airdash, then fired off another double-blast from her cannons as she slid sideways. Its helmet would block damage from the front, but not attacks aimed at its sides. Of course, the catfish wasn’t going to make it easy. It launched itself at all its opponents in quick succession, threatening them with a crushing belly flop and bite.

Floating up above, Rika was out of leaping range, while down below the others had to make their own dodges. Dazzle simply twisting dived to the side to avoid being splashed, while Jr’s similar Magma Rush left a floating disk of magma that detonated when the demon fish splashed down on it (though given the watery environment, it wasn’t that effective).

Rika’s whale was nowhere near as agile, and promptly got flopped, but given the lesser size difference involved, it wasn’t harmed too badly from being smashed down under the water.

In the scramble to avoid the monster’s lunges, Nadia got clipped by a slam meant for someone else. “Ugh!” As she flew to the side, though, she twisted around in midair and extended her arm to grab onto its dorsal fin. Immediately it yanked her after it, towing the feral along through the water. “Bubububububub! Ububububub!” Once her arm retracted, she fought against the current to stab its upper body again and again with one Athame, which did low damage but lowered its defense. Finally, the catfish came to a stop, reared up, and fired off a dozen water orbs that shot off toward their targets like homing missiles, three each at Junior, Rika, Dazzle, and the white whale. It did not seem to notice Nadia composing herself until she revved up one arm like a drill. “This is NOT a drill!” She plunged it into the wound she’d made, sending blood and scales flying. “I’ve o-fish-ially had it!”

Rila, now touching down, caused her spear to reappear in her hand and then switched it to lance and shield mode, the princess using the latter to block the water orbs while she closed in to use the former. Jr used much the same strategy, raising his wrist towards the incoming projectiles, and rapidly forming an iron shield to block the strikes. It buckled under the strikes, but he managed to reinforce it enough in between that he could endure the volley. 

Unable to raise defensive armaments, Dazzle did his best to [color=SpringGreen]”Dodge!”[/color] ducking under the water before trying to dash under the homing shots, avoiding two, but taking the third despite this, though the water pokemon naturally resisted this aquatic attack. Rika’s whale meanwhile didn't so much resist as it simply endured, though again its sheer size ment the demon catfish’s attacks were far less of a threat to it than the smallfry fighting around it.

At Rika’s command, the beast then surged forwards, jaws opening to reveal two rows of teeth, the outer sharp and monstrous, the inner uncomfortably human, which it bit into the hit sunned  catfish, grappling it in the process.

With the whale in the way, it would be quite tricky to hit it in its exposed flank. 

Its commander ran up its back, lept up, and then used maneuvering thrusters to add a burst of speed to a downward thrust with her lancet, one which made the foe more vulnerable to her ranged attacks, which she aimed to land near where Miss Fortune was already drilling.

Jr meanwhile got around this by painting electrical goop around his battered shield, before flexing and shattering it into metal shards that were promptly launched at the head. Rather than uselessly hammer it however, an orange glow to surround the shots, causing them to orbit around the whale and then strike it in its opposite side

As his shots flew, the prince commanded his pokemon to attack from [color=SpringGreen]”Underneath!”[/color] with [color=SpringGreen]”Bubblebeam”[/color], prompting his pokemon to swim down and left fourth a stream of highly compressed bubbles through the water, ones that burst with quite a bit of force upon impact.

While the bubblebeam hurt the catfish even less than its water orbs hurt Dazzle, the strong impale and electric flechettes from the Koopa Kids hurt the beast a great deal. It bellowed and leaped from the pond with a powerful sweep of its tail, pivoting around to come down in a tremendous upside-down crash. Nadia managed to disengage and narrowly avoid getting crushed between the monster’s bulk and the water’s surface, though the ensuing wave did bowl her over as the catfish dove down. “Whew! Close one!” When she rose and tried to spot her foe underwater, though, all she saw beneath the surface was a ripple of red light. Then the spikes burst up from below, several of them piercing the underside of Rika’s whale. One spike struck the feral with such force that she flew upward, blood flying from fresh gashes. “MRROW!” She landed in the water on her back, stunned by the ungainly impact with her rigging arms splayed out in every direction.

When she spotted a shadow rising beneath her, though, Nadia took action. She used Charge to blitz straight upward as a bolt of lightning, just in time to avoid getting swallowed hold. “Seriously?” she growled through a smile, her teeth gritted. “You look at me and seafood?” As she fell, she airdashed toward one of the little piers, where she would take a second to compose herself and straighten out her rigging. “Need a second!” she called.

Of course, by then the catfish was already going after the others. It breached beneath Junior, trying to chomp him like it almost chomped Nadia, then plummeted toward Rika in a tremendous belly flop. Once back in the water, it whipped around to follow up with a giant tail slap. 

The prince Magma Rushed away, leaving the catfish a lovely mouthful of magma. Rika meanwhile fired her maneuvering thrusters as she bullet jumped forwards, avoiding being smashed but not splashed as she was sent tumbling by the wave kicked up by the big fish’s impact with the waters. That left her in prime position for the follow up, the tail slap, that sent her flying over to where Miss Fortune was, the ship girl crashing down into the rice paddy beside the pier.

Thanks to her ship-girl levels of durability, she was more banged up than busted, pulling herself up unsteadily out of the stalks.

She straightened, when Junior called out [color=SpringGreen]”Afflatus Solace!”[/color] and expended the freshly grown blue lily on his healing gauge to restore her, before the prince also cast [color=SpringGreen]”Cure!”[/color] to heal up Miss Fortune for good measure as he sailed over.

Behind him, Dazzle continued to pelt the fish with ineffective bubblebeams due to a lack of additional instructions, while the heavily bloodied whale opened its maw and spat a triple volley of skull and crossbone tagged bombs at the opposing sea creature. 

Though Nadia’s regeneration had already begun to mend her wounds, the magical heal from Junior sped up the process considerable. In a flash, the feral was right as rain, blinking at the whimsical green wisps and sparkles that swirled around her. “Oh hey, thanks! Always knew I’d look good in heals.” After seeing that Rika had been helped as well, she turned her attention to the catfish. It returned fire while swimming away from the bombs, its water orbs sailing toward Dazzle and the white whale. Their shootout looked inconclusive, but it did give the Seekers a chance to jump back into the action.

Nadia’s mind raced as she tried to consider all the paw-sibilities. If the trio did too much damage to the beast, or outright killed it, there wouldn’t be any meat to send the Avenger. They needed to subdue it, but how? With a skull that thick, knocking it out would be impossible, even if they did pry the armor off. Then she remembered Junior’s electric paint–maybe, with enough lightning, they could zap it into submission? Either way, it was hard to get a hold of this thing while it was in its element. That, though, could be changed.

“Hey, conch sucker!” The feral jumped back onto the water, her rigging activated. A couple blood shots aimed right at the catfish’s eye got its attention. She then span in place, taunting it. “Water you waitin’ for? Come and get me!”

With a bellow, the monster briefly submerged, then launched itself out of the water in a full-body tackle, its huge bulk poised to smash the catgirl flat. Instead, the Harbor Demon manifested around Nadia, her huge clawed mitts raised around Nadia to block. The catfish slammed into the striker’s guard, but with her ordnance platform at her back, the Harbor Demon held fast. She grabbed the big fish by the jaws and pried them open as Nadia jumped up to grab the crane hooks from the ordnance platform, and before the beast knew what was going on, the feral had it hooked. “What’s the matter?” She teased. “Cat got your tongue?” With a tremendous heave, the Harbor Demon yanked the demon catfish from the pond. It flew through the air and crashed down in a much shallower rice paddy, out of its depth.

[color=SpringGreen]”Nice catch!”[/color]

Nadia waved goodbye to the Harbor Demon as she disappeared, then turned to her target. Yellow electricity crackled around her scars as she grinned ear to ear. “Fish on!” 

Beside her, something else cracked with electricity, as Rika had summoned her Vespikan Ichor Queen, and the crimson scaled wasp was raising its towering cleaver to the sky, causing it to crackle with electricity,  before it thrust it forwards to blast their foe with a lighting bolt. As it did so, the princess herself was busy tossing her spinner out to retrieve her wounded white whale, preferring to take it out of the fight rather than having to have her brother focus on healing it back up.

Freed from that concern, Jr called Dazzle to his side, prompting the seal to dive up onto the pier. Once there, he commanded his pokemon to [color=SpringGreen]”Sing!”[/color] while he doubled this up with [color=SpringGreen]”Repose!”[/color], intending to put their fishy foe to sleep for a bit so they could close the gap after Rika’s striker’s lighting blast.

The lightning bolt shocked the catfish into action, prompting a flailing fit that would have walloped Nadia if she tried to go in, but the double sleep spell put an end to its tantrum. Overcome by sopor, the beast went limp. “Wow, nice!” Impressed by the pair’s teamwork, Nadia skated forward and hopped up the terrace tiers toward the fish. It had been enough time since her last Charge that she’d recovered her energy, leaving her fully juiced. “We wish you a merry fish-mas…” In a lightning-quick lightshow, she used Charge five times back-to-back, creating an electric star that left the catfish spasming. “...And a zappy new year!” 

[color=SpringGreen]”Flank and zap!”[/color] Jr called over to his sister, as both surfed through the shallows, each priming a paint brush covered in electric goop to bring in more shocking power.

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Fan-Brush-Spear (Crossover - Bowser Junior): Rika can transform her halberd into a copy of Jr’s paintbrush, only with a [url=https://i.imgur.com/yHf5Vbr.png]fan[/url] like head and a longer spear length handle. It produces ink(poison, flaming and electric) that functions identically to her brother’s mechanically. It also retains its warping ability from the other 2 forms.
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With her newly switched up weapon, Rika began swiping away with the brush in one hand, the other was held palm up to fire more shocking goop from her grizco blaster. On the other side, Jr slashed away with his own brush, while commanding Dazzle to use [color=SpringGreen]”Disarming voice”[/color] to further fatigue the fish.

Although the catfish struggled mightily, its frenzied thrashing very dangerous, the Seekers’ strategy seemed to be working. The Koopa Kids coated it with electric sludge faster than it could wash or rub it off, and as it spent its strength, the damage kept piling up. Making the most of her limited lightning-aspected arsenal, Nadia kept up the pressure with a series of Smacks, Charges, and Batteries, all gleaned from her fusion with Cat-5. With her target stuck in waist-deep water and increasingly overwhelmed, both physically and mentally, the fight had become one-sided. If anything, the Seekers needed to take care to make sure they didn’t go overboard at this point. It wasn’t long before the demon catfish, too sore, exhausted, and numbed by electricity to keep fighting, finally gave in. It flopped down in the mucky rice paddy, alive but defeated, with smoke streaming from its scales.

Nadia slid to a stop and wiped her brow with the back of her hand, grateful for the temperate breeze. “Whew! Now that’s what I call a warm-up! High fives all around!” She skated around to Rika and Junior to slap their hands with hers, even giving Dazzle the chance to boop his snout against her palm (it made an amusing clown nose honk). Then she slapped the catfish for good measure. “The Lost Numbers are gonna be eatin’ good tonight! Now that we’ve done our good deed for the day, we can slack off to our hearts’ content, eh?” She chuckled as she pulled out a fulton, then stared at the briny beast with pursed lips. “Uh…might take more that one to airlift this guy, though.” 

[color=Aqua]“Wait we’re not gonna eat it? Awww,”[/color] was Rika’s reply to this news, but she didn't actually nay-say the plan as she set about taking a Fulton from each of them and rigging the fish for it's first and last flight. 

As she did that, jr healed everyone up back to full (including Rika”s whale) while he suggested [color=SpringGreen]“maybe they'll send us specifically some if we ask? we could send the armory lady a note or something?”[/color]

“Um…purr-obably!” Nadia hadn’t actually thought about how to get in touch with the Avenger if need be. If it came up, she’d probably just call Sandalphon and let the archangel figure it out. [i]That’s what leaders are for, after all![/i]

Once all three fultons were attached, one to the tail and another to each horn of its helmet, the packs popped open together. Their balloons inflated in an instant, heaving the heavy fish off the ground, and after another moment the beast shot skyward. Nadia watched it go, hands on her hips, until it disappeared from sight. Then, a couple seconds later, the smile faded from her face. “Oh, carp! We’re gonna be so far behind!” Her rigging activated, and the catgirl sped away across the rice paddies back toward the southern path. “Last one there’s a rotten egg!”

[color=SpringGreen]“You're on!”[/color] Jr called after her, before starting to magma rush after her, while Rika was briefly confused, before calling out [color=Aqua]“wait for me!”[/color] And then putting her pile of mobility fusion to work, bullet jumping, manuring thrusting and grapple hooking after them, giving both of the other two a real run for their money despite their headstarts.