Level 1 - (5/10) EXP
Location: 1-1 Central Path
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"I through this was how fights were supposed to go." Linkle replied to Blazermate, dodging to the side as a koopa troopa charged past whirling its arms. "You beat up on fodder till the boss shows up, then defeat them." The Hammer Bros had shown up right on time by her metric, immediately launching a hammer attack to try and take control of the battle back. Linkle actually felt bad for them after seeing what Bowser had done to those stacked Goombas. 

As she was watching that brutality the little cat guy she'd come to back up took the opportunity to introduce himself. She smiles wide at him. "I'm Linkle. Nice to meet you, Ratchet. Here." 

Without even thinking about it she flipped one her crossbows in the air, caught it by the business end, and extended it toward him. "And I can give it a shot if you want to take on those hammer turtleOH!"

She jumped back as the koopa she had dodged earlier came back around for another pass. She aimed her crossbow at its back, but stopped before pulling the trigger. Arrows just bounced off those things shells. That problem could be solved just by aiming for a limb or its head, but in all honesty Linkle had always been a quantity over quality sort of girl. She couldn't hit a target right in the center, but she could hit that target a hundred times along with anything unfortunate enough to be near it. This also wouldn't be a problem with bomb arrows, but that would require her to still have her bombs. She needed something with more punch if they wanted to take on the small turtles, let alone the big hammer throwing ones.

As she watched the koopa come around for a third attempt, though, she had an idea. That shell of his was the right color, same general shape, and about the right size. Instead of dodging this time, met him with a charge of her own. Spinning on her heel she brought one leg up and whipped it around, her heel leaving a streak of fire to trace its path as it collided with the koopas head.

There was a [i]crack[/i] as the koopa was knocked right out of its shell, which went spinning upward. As it came down and reached up and caught it on the palm of her hand as her spin finished. "Da da daaa daaaaa." She sang, awkwardly loading the shell into the firing mechanism and admired it for a moment. "Turtle Arrows."

She had no idea if this stupid idea was viable. She hadn't even really thought about it beyond the words "turtle arrows." This is the crossbow she handed to Ratchet. "Let's go, I'll cover you! Bowser?" She asked, calling to the koopa king. "Throw us up there, we'll take those hammer turtles!"