[center] [img]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6b/f9/b7/6bf9b7a36abd51b6a8d149b70943268f.png[/img] [color=SpringGreen]Location:[/color] Peach's Castle, Out Front [color=SpringGreen]wordcount:[/color] 1,506 (+3) [b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 2 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]/////////[/color]///////////// (9/20) [/center] [color=SpringGreen]”Only two!?”[/color] Jr said in dismay before stomping his feet angrily. When this mini tantrum failed to produce any more pokeballs he snatched the 2 balls he was getting out of Stone’s hand, telling him: [color=SpringGreen]”Gah, fine whatever.”[/color] before turning away and marching back to his kart. [color=SpringGreen]”hmmm. Now which Pokemon to catch and make my new minion?”[/color] he asked himself, before hopping into his clown car. The horrid Synapse bio-gun undulate in response to his return, much to jr’s dismay. [color=SpringGreen]”ew. Gross. Quit wiggling!”[/color] he told it. In response the tentacles of the gun drooped a little as if it was upset. Jr did not care. [color=SpringGreen]”The whole spiked throne of weapons thing was cool, but if your going to be like that, then you’re all going down in the bomb box.”[/color] he said, before proceeding to shove the larger armaments down into the car’s storage compartment. [hr] Over at the Bowser Mobile Kamek had returned from his minor skyward scouting expedition and was quite adamant that there should be no racing. It helped that no one else seemed to be interested in the prospect. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Sure,”[/color] he was saying [color=DeepSkyBlue]”the road going ahead looks pretty smooth going. No obvious course hazards as far as I could see. But there were a large number of vehicles patrolling about the place. They did look like they were made of junk but they still might be dangerous and their drivers are likely as deranged as the Rabbids back there if their building style is any indicator. The road splits some way away after that, north goes to the ‘dead zone’, while the south goes to the ‘land of adventure’. There's some sort of building at the intersection, maybe it’s an out of the way inn or a shop?”[/color] [color=FD0000]”Then we’ll trash these goons and then take a pit-stop at this shop place. See if there's anything good to loot in there. Money, something for lunch, that kind of thing”[/color] he responded before informing the rest of the team [color=FD0000]”THERE’S SOME OF GALEEM’S GOONS ROVING ABOUT IN CARS ON THE ROAD UP AHEAD. WE’LL DEAL WITH THEM AND THEN MEET UP AT A SHOP LOOKING BUILDING THAT’S AT A FORK IN THE ROAD”[/color] [hr] Jr hovered above the convoy to get a bird’s eye view of all the Pokemon scurrying about. There where so many and Jr barely recognised any of them despite the fact that Pokeballs with captured Pokemon in them were a staple of smash. There were bunnies, bugs, goats and more, but most of them looked pretty scrawny to jr. [color=SpringGreen]”It’s just like my luck in smash.”[/color] he complained, on elbow leaning on the lip of the car, face in hand, fingers tapping disappointingly at his cheek as he stared down at a fish flopping about by the side of the moat [color=SpringGreen]”Other people get Zapdoses, Mews and Giratina but all I get is Goldeens.”[/color] the fish bounced and flailed around for a few more seconds before it finally rolled back into the water. [color=SpringGreen]”I bet they cheat to get the good stuff.”[/color] Then he saw it, a glimpse of a yellow mouse sized Pokemon with long narrow ears in one of the castle windows. [color=SpringGreen]”Wait. Was that pikachu?”[/color] Jr perked up instantly at this brief sighting, a nasty grin on his lips as he thought of getting revenge for every KO the lightning rodent had inflicted upon him by shoving the speedy rodent in a tiny ball. [color=SpringGreen]”Dad! I’m going to go beat up and capture pikachu in the castle!”[/color] he yelled at his father who yelled back [color=FD0000]”Show him who’s boss son!”[/color] while Kammek, who had taken a seat in the bowser mobile’s spacious glove compartment, called after him [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Don’t take too long, we’re bound to set off sooner or later once this lot get their act together”[/color] [color=SpringGreen]”Yeah yeah don’t worry I’ll be quick”[/color] Jr responded, brushing of Kamek’s comment as he parked the flying clown car next to the library window. He briefly ducked his head down to peruse his arsenal for appropriate Pokemon hunting equipment. [color=SpringGreen]”To big. To week. To gross.”[/color] he said as he dismissed the paint brush, splatter shot and synapse. [color=SpringGreen]”Ah ha! Perfect”[/color] he said, coming up with the Necro Smasher. [color=SpringGreen]”Just the thing for whacking a mouse!”[/color] he declared as he gave a few practice swings, before he forced open the library window and hopped into the room beyond, that turned out to be the library. With most of everyone gathered outside in anticipation of the hero’s departure the library had been left dark and abandoned for the moment. Baring Henry anyway, but jr had no time for the sorcerer, who had their nose buried in a book like the massive nerd he was. Jr crept in between the shelves of the library, mallet in one hand, Pokeball in the other, looking under tables and behind piles of books for their quarry until they felt a tap on their right shoulder. Jr glanced to his right. No one there. [color=SpringGreen]”Huh?”[/color] A tap on the left. An angry gance. Still no one there. [color=SpringGreen]”Hay. That's not funny!”[/color] Jr complained right before they were tapped on their right shoulder again. This time they glanced left instead and swung their hammer at the first thing they saw, a pair of black tipped yellow ears. [color=SpringGreen]”Ha ha! Got... you…?”[/color] Jr began to claim victory before his words turned to confusion as a semi transparent Pokemon that looked like a handmade Pikachu plushy phased up through the hammer head and then landed itself atop it. [color=SpringGreen]”Huh?”[/color] The [url=https://i.imgur.com/hu2X7Fi.jpg]Mimiku[/url] used Copycat (a move that let a Pokemon use the last move that was used in the battle, even if the last move was by the user) causing it to produce a comically over-sized mallet (compared to 20 cm tall spook at least) out under its disguise that it held in one of it’s long shadowy clawed limb. It then proceeded to chase jr back to the window while giggling and bopping him on the head with it. [color=SpringGreen]”Ow, stop. Quit it!”[/color] jr yelled as he ran, before vaulting out the window and into the clown car. He emerged a few moments later with the Synapse primed and ready for ghost busting. [color=SpringGreen]”Take this!”[/color] he shouted as he pushed what passed for a trigger on the bio gun. A beam of electricity shot out of the front and struck the Mimiiku, but it’s disguise served it as a decoy, absorbing the damage. The neck of the disguise snapped, causing the head to droop limply backwards. [color=SpringGreen]”Take that!”[/color] Jr shouted, thinking he had won. [color=SpringGreen]”you're actually kinda useful, even if you're disgusting”[/color] he told the bio gun, which wiggled about in what might have been happiness [color=SpringGreen]”Ew, no I take it back, quit doing that!”[/color] The gun sagged back into a state of being sad and rejected. He was unable to berate the sad gun any further however, as he was then hit by the (physically) unharmed Mimiku’s retaliatory strike, knocking him back down into the clown car. It was livid that its disguise had been damaged, and had used copycat again, this time to blast a beam of lightning from the fake Pikachu tail that it held in its other tendril. Rather than follow up on it’s first attack however, the Pikachu wannabe ended up gazing at its tail stick with astonished glee. It had used an electrical attack, just like the real thing! Its anger was forgotten right up until the point that it was hit with a blast of ink from the splattershot. It stood there, stunned for a few moments before it shook itself as clean as it could and then used copycat again, only to find it could shoot ink now, instead of lightning. The Mimiku was dismayed by this turn of events and launched itself into the Clown car to rectify the situation. [color=SpringGreen]”hay no get out of here!”[/color] Jr yelled at it while trying to grab the untouchable specter. He received only scratches in return for his effort as the Mimiku madly scrambled around the interior of the car in search of the Synapse. A few rambunctious moments later the clown car touched down on the grassy lawn outside, having been knocked off course from it’s stationary hover by the window by the brawl happening inside it. The victories Mimiku hopped out of it, its long claw wrapped around the stolen living lightning gun. It began happily bouncing back and forth while firing the equally happy infested weapon skywards and letting off its own shots with copycat, until a Pokeball, that jr had finally remembered he had, bonked into it, popped open and pulled both it and the Synapse inside. The ball wiggled back and forth a few times until it made the pinging sound denoting a successful capture. The frazzled Jr more or less fell out of his car and then walked over to pick up the Pokeball. [color=SpringGreen]”You better be worth the trouble.”[/color] he told it.