A Koopa in Remnant

Unexpected Guests

Underwater

The Doomsub was currently going at a rate of 20 knots. With that in mind, it will only take them a few hours to get there. The captain, Bowser, had many questions running through his brain. How is Darkland? How are his minions? What are they doing now? Were they looking for him? What's happening there now? So many questions yet no answers.

The girls were exploring the many rooms in the Doomsub's interior. Yang found a training gym filled with many exercise machines, dumbbells, and a few sports training simulators. She decided to work up a nice sweat until they arrive.

Weiss, surprisingly, found a research center. Inside were a bunch of diagrams and and screens showing the experiments that he performed with power-ups and dust. So far there were only three successful ones: The Perma-Leaf, The Nova Flower, and The Blizzard Flower. Weiss decided it was best not to interfere with his work, fearing the results of what might happen if she did.

Blake found a library filled with books on the mushroom world's history, The origins of the Koopa Klan, and to her shock, tomes on magic. She picked up the first magic tome and started reading. The book contained Koopa Magic, so it was kind of useless to the cat faunus. The book said that not all Koopas can do magic, and those either of Royal blood or learn under the tutelage of a skilled Magikoopa can attempt it. She laid a stack of many books to read through, curious about the knowledge his world shared.

Ruby was in the game room playing a video game with Jr. They were playing a racing game called, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, on a game port called the Nintendo Switch. Ruby chose the green dinosaur while Jr picked himself. Sprout's pot sat at a porthole looking at the underwater world. Ruby was currently losing, but was doing pretty good for a rookie. Bowser Jr led the whole pack and won the whole cup.

"Yeah, I win! No one can beat the Koopa Prince!" Jr cheered and rubbed the victory in the scythe girl's face.

"No fair!! That blue shell hit me and I fell behind! I wasn't even in first place!!" Ruby complains.

Junior smirks at the huntress in training. "Ruby, oh sweet, silly Ruby. Items are just what make the game more interesting. It's about the many car customizations you can use to help balance out your vehicle so you can ask in the sweet rays of victory." Jr explains.

Ruby's dramatically sighs. "Why didn't you tell me sooner!?"

"You didn't ask." Junior retorts.

Ruby gently tosses the controller onto the back couch. "Let's do something else."

Jr thinks on that and comes up with an idea. "Come on, there's a cool place on the ship that you might like!" Junior hops up and grabs Ruby's hand and leads her to another room on the first floor.

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The Observation Deck.

They came to a new room where it was mostly a glass dome. They could look all around and and get a good view of the ocean around them. In the center was a periscope that would allow them to see the surface.

"Wanna to take a look?" Jr asks. Ruby got pretty excited at the thought of looking up from the ocean. They've only been in here for an hour and Ruby was already sick of the water.

"As if you even needed to ask!!" Ruby dash forward to the Periscope and began looking through the lens. The scope began to rise up from the ocean and popped up out of the waves. Turns out there was nothing but open ocean, but she did see some dolphins jumping out of the water. She could also see an unknown island a couple miles away. That must be Darkland.