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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
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[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 5 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]/////////////[/color]///////////////////////////////////// (13/50)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 3 [/color][/b] EXP:  [color=SpringGreen]/////////////[/color]///////////////// (13/30)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 2 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]////////////////////[/color] (20/20)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Paved wilderness
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Bowser: new Power: Dark Magic (size shifting): Bowser uses dark magic to increase or decrease his size. Bigger for power, smaller for door access. Also affects items he is wearing such us the suit, hat, mecha mit and anything in his pockets. These will return to regular size if removed. Major damage and anti magical effects can now forcibly shrink bosser down to his smallest size, which is about a head taller than peach.

Jr: new strength: Scrap Mechanic: jr has learned how to better work with broken machinery others would simply throw away, be it fixing the team’s gear or salvaged enemy equipment for reuse, repair materials or upgrade components.
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Three things happened in quick succession that made jr’s mood whiplash.

First the fat hamster blew him off for a ride onward with the Rabbids which was outrageous

Then the two humans came along and offer their help with the car, which was great.

Then the clown mech exploded because some dumb rat pushed its self destruct button.

[color=SpringGreen]“Why! Why why why gahhhhhhhhhhhhhh”[/color] jr raged, stomping his foot on the bettle back of the monster truck [color=SpringGreen]““what coind of absolute moron puts a self destruct button in their robot, and why do dumb rodents keep making my day worse!”[/color]

Jr was left panting after his temper tantrum but eventually got a hold of himself [color=SpringGreen]“ugh. Suuuucks.”[/color] he complained one last time before turning to look at what was actually left of the enemy's machines. This turned out to be a bunch of wrecked cars, robot parts and disabled monster truck.

As he looked it all over he could see rather clearly what needed to be done to get the most out of all this junk. Jr grinned to himself and set to work.

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After he’d the rabbids had finally retrieve his vehicle (and he's kicked them out to go back to their own wagon or stay to help jr) he’d spent part of the rest of the journey admiring peach’s new form, part enjoying the cowboy mercenary acting as the car’s new radio system and the rest wildly swerving to avoid the consequences of not paying attention to the road well enough. Bowser’s love for peach was not a physical attraction, more a kind of reverse Stockholm syndrome, but her transformation had certainly moved her appearance closer to the king’s preferred aesthetic. He’d mentioned that to her. It had not gone down well.

When Bowser rolled up to the rest stop there was only thing that interested him. Engineers and cool/edgy/pretty dudes he could take or leave, but the cozy looking restaurant called to the king.   

He turned off the Bowser mobile’s engine, pocketed the key and step out of the car. He stomped over to the front door of grillbys before being confronted with the problem of its small door size. He frowned momentarily before snapping his fingers. Dark magic drained from his body like purple smoke as he shrunk down to a size similar to that of the greater dog sitting at the table inside. His suit and mecha mit, repaired by jr before he left, shrunk with him. After taking a few moments to set his clothes in the right place he pushed open the door and headed for the bar. Its patrons, mostly a bunch of dog people, where the most normal looking group Bowser had met so far in this whole adventure. The king had no idea why every other universe seemed to be filled with only people from the metro kingdom but it made them, in his opinion rather samy and hard to tell apart sometimes. He nodded to the courier as he passed by him sitting at the poker table and then found a seat at the bar. The Barkeep himself was a robot that was on fire, but they did not seem to mind, so that was fine.

 [color=FD0000]”TWO BURGERS AND A SIDE OF FRIES FOR ME BARKEEP”[/color] he told robot, who he incorrectly presumed was the titular Gribly, after they’d received the courier’s order for a liquid lunch.

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Quite a while after he had vacated the battlefield Kamek re-appeared in a puff of smoke. He’d gotten distracted reading and had lost track of time. Fortunately his absence did not seem to have been of great import to the battle, nor had he been left behind. Down below he could spot Koopa prince, along with a few others, who were all putting the finishing touches on the repair job of the massive monster truck that had attempted to destroy them less than an hour before. 

Mostly jr had used the remains of the other smaller cars to fuel the necro smasher’s insatiable hunger for scrap, supplementing the dispensers slowly regenerating supply, and then turned the stated hammer on the various damaged parts of the machine. Rather than brutishly smacking the thing in any which place he had focused his efforts on beating the most important parts back into shape. The wheels where back, the front axle mended and the engine successfully patched together. The skeletons chained to the back had also been cut down and graffiti now marred the outside of the vehicle, scratching out Grimm own symbols in  favor of the team's own. The koopa clan’s logo, painted in multi colored ink, was on prominent display on the hood of the car.

A few new modifications to the truck had also been made in addition to the repairs. Most notably half a dozen more seats had been stuffed inside the massive drivers compartment to accommodate the number of party members that had stayed behind without any other form of transport. A pile of guns, ammo, engine blocks and fuel tanks salvaged from the wrecks of the other cars were also chained down to the truck bed, along with useful bits of the sweet bot like the remains of it’s head and minigun arm.

As Kamek approached he saw that Jr’s clown car extend a pair of saw blades mounted on slim mechanical arms which the boy used to hack apart one of the remaining junker cars for scrap metal. 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”I see you got those working again“[/color] Kamek said to the boy as he drifted down on his broomstick to float next to the propeller lifted cart. 

[color=SpringGreen]“yeah the big ear yellow rat guy, Spanner or something, found the crossed wires that were stopping them from coming out when I pushed the button.”[/color] Jr said as he absorbed the scrap pile into the necro smasher. [color=SpringGreen]“I’ve got some ideas for improving them and the monster truck if we ever find any kind of workshop.”[/color] he added.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Very good young master. Lord Bowser has gone ahead again has he?”[/color] Kamek responded, doing his best to hide his disinterest in mundane machinery.

[color=SpringGreen]“yeah yeah. Probably at the rest stop by now.”[/color] jr said between hamer swings which smoothed out the last of the bumps in the truck's frame. 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]“Let’s be off and catch up with him then?”[/color] Kamek said, turning his broom towards the direction the party had been headed before they had been so rudely interrupted. 

Jr nodded [color=SpringGreen]“Hope there's still something left to eat there. I’m starving”[/color] he said before turning and yelling at the rest of the repair crew. [color=SpringGreen]“Try not to break it before you get to the junction. Also one of you two”[/color] jr pointed at the gta team and then to the soul of needles currently sitting in a jar he’d gotten from his father that itself sat on the dashboard of the car [color=SpringGreen]“crush the clown’s soul already! If you don't like whatever clown cannon pops out throw it on the back with the other scrap. Alright I’m outta here!”[/color]

[color=DeepSkyBlue]“Good work today minions.”[/color] Kamek added, thanking them in Jr’s stead. 

With that the two Koopas soared away though the sky towards a reunion with their king.