[center][img]https://www.mariowiki.com/images/thumb/b/b2/Koopa_Troop_artwork.png/658px-Koopa_Troop_artwork.png[/img] [h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2] [b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 1,298 (+3) [b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 5 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]///////////////////////////////[/color]/////////////////// (34/50) [b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 4 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]/[/color]/////////////////////////////////////// (4/40) [b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 3 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]/////////////////[/color]///////////// (23/30) [b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Morgensloft Field (Hamlet), the Land of Adventure & Charnal Lane, Dead Zone [/center] [color=DeepSkyBlue]”I’ll be right back.”[/color] Kamek announced while pre flight preparations where ongoing before vanishing a burst of smoke and appearing above a well reaped field. He glanced around a few times before spotting the tracks of a cart drawn by reptilian footsteps that must have belonged to his king leading towards a strange village full of narrow houses. The wizard sighed to himself as he noted the royal family had ignored him once again and wandered off before turning his broom towards the village and heading after them. [color=SpringGreen]”Yeah, uh hu. Cool. Got it”[/color] jr said, nodding along as he struggled to grasp the particulars of the mayor's fancy talking. While most of it was useful, it was the last part about a terrifying beast caught his attention however. [color=SpringGreen]”Think that's it papa?”[/color] he asked, referring to the theory of each area having one boss each. The king didn't know and was frustrated by that fact as he replied [color=FD0000]”It’s different from the plains one. So that makes two it might be already. Gah. How many big monsters are there out here? how are we supposed to know which is the right one!”[/color] Jr shrugged. The pair then continued to listen to the pig and hamster’s conversation and learned about another quest, though this one would likely not earn them any prestige with the guild, and of a huntress who might be able to aid them. Most of the group seemed eager to move on, stating that they had better get a move on with their task of hunting down Galeem’s lieutenants. Not that they knew where any more where, but hunting down green things for pig money wasn’t likely to help in solving that issue. [color=FD0000]”HARD PASS. LUGGING THIS THING AROUND IS GOING TO BE A PAIN.”[/color] Bowser complained after they had bade the mayor goodbye, while jr pointed that [color=SpringGreen]”There might be good stuff in town though?”[/color] [color=FD0000]”If they do maybe we’ll come back. First though we're gonna check out this hunter lady. Maybe we can get her to do the rest of the work for us.”[/color] he said before glancing at the centurion [color=FD0000]”YOU SAID YOU COULD HUNT RIGHT? IF THIS LADY DOESN'T HELP WE’LL JUST GO BACK AND BUY YOU SOMETHING TO HUNT WITH IF NOTHING ELSE WORKS. FASTER WE TURN ALL OF THIS INTO CASH THE BETTER ANYWAY.”[/color] the king concluded as he jostled the cart laden with gems and ores. As they headed towards the inn there came a call of [color=DeepSkyBlue]”There you are sire!”[/color] from the sky as Kamek reappeared. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”my deepest apologies for taking so long, your army in the Dead Zone is meeting stiff resistance. They have little to spare and I’ve already offered to assist them for a little while longer as I do believe they are heading in the right direction when it comes to finding one of our targets.”[/color] [color=SpringGreen]”Yeah that place is a mess. Its the tree right? Pretty obvious over there where to go.”[/color] Jr noted before grumbling [color=SpringGreen]”So I guess it's good [i]they're[/i] making progress while we still have no idea where to go… wait your heading back?”[/color] Kamek nodded before asking [color=DeepSkyBlue]”If that's alright with you sire?”[/color] Bowser nodded in turn before informing his advisor that [color=FD0000]”We’re heading back to town soon. Getting rid of all this stuff. Meet us there.”[/color] [color=DeepSkyBlue]”As you say. Here. take these with you for the chef”[/color] Kamek replied, adding the small number of slime balls they'd gotten out of the nuclear creeper incident to the cart’s load. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”And also all of this. You might find a use for them in town.”[/color] he added, before depositing most of his other non essential items into the cart such as medical herbs and the foul smelling breakfast, which was carefully isolated from anything remotely edible in its own sack. [color=FD0000]”Right. Oh and take this to help or trade or something.”[/color] Bowser said, before retrieving the half empty minigun that he didn't have any use for anyway. With a thanks the drifted closer and grabbed the weapons handle. He then hoisted the gun with surprising strength for a few moments before it shrunk down to a more carry-able size and was left hanging off of his broomstick. [color=SpringGreen]”Also these.”[/color] Jr added, following his father's example by tossing the cartoonish black wick lit bomb and the strange crystal grenade he’d gotten from the dead zone to Kamek. The Magikoopa fumbled briefly with the two explosives before they too were shrunk down and placed in pockets. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Thank you both. Be safe. I’ll see you both for dinner at the latest.”[/color] Kamek thanked and then promised his royal masters before disappearing once more back to the Dead Zone. A few moments after he vanished Bowser facepalmed. [color=FD0000]”GAH. Should have got him to shrink the cart.”[/color] he admonished himself before sighing and shaking the thought free of his mind. While they'd been talking with their wise underling the pair had fallen behind and so arrived at the inn last. Bowser set down the cart and, after thinking for a few moments, first grabbed a few gems of varying qualities form it and then summoned his minions. Mallet, Sledge and Heel all appeared before him and where ordered to [color=FD0000]”GUARD THE CART”[/color] Jr also dismounted his clown car and entered the bar. He first sent out and then attempted to get Mimikyu to guard his cart alongside his father’s minions, but instead the fake mouse snuck its way onto his shoulder the moment he turned to enter the Inn. [color=SpringGreen]”Sigh. Fine you can come.”[/color] he told it, before he entered after his father. [hr] Kamek reappeared just as everyone was finally finishing with their preparations. The demonic tree, perhaps a lesser kin of the vast eldritch location devouring the city Kamek though, had politely waited for them all to get ready. Kamek took the opportunity to summon his illusory copies and then he too was then ready to go. When the teams self proclaimed not leader decided it was time to go and taunted the tree. In response the tree moaned dreadful, as if displeased at being stirred to life. But stir to life it did, as did a number of squat rag covered minions, that might have been its seeds, armed with crude weapons and far to many teeth. Kamek, not wanting to be anywhere near the swarming little buggers, ascended upwards and then leaned forwards to grab the minigun. The weapon hugged the front of his broom, the shaft of which was slipped between its horizontal handle. The gun had then been shrunk, causing its handle to grip the broom and preventing it from putting the broom into a nosedive. This essentially turned the broom into a miniature A-10 warthog. He tumbed the trigger, causing him and his four duplicates to let out a burst of miniature minigun rounds which peppered the minions charging their position. The weakened rounds did minimal damage individually, but the sheer quantity being hosed down at the minions still stung, gradually shredding some and giving others pause. Then the Ent made its third move, stomping the ground hard to produce a massive omni-directional shock-wave, similar to the ones Bowser could produce after jumping. Some of the others flew over it as Kamek well could, but instead he bobbed down closer to the team. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”I can give a boost!”[/color] he called out, doppelgangers vanishing as he offered the real broom as a handhold to grant some upwards momentum. He hung there for a few moments and then, whether or not he had a passenger, rose up and over the shockwave. (edit) all the other members of the team showed themselves to be entirely capable of jumping the shockwave on their own and so Kamek instead inadvertently saved one of Blazermate infected. the hunchbacked thing grappled onto the broom and road it to safety either by accident or design before hurling itself onward towards the ent like a deranged monkey that wanted to clime the most dangerous of trees. (edit) As he ascended Blazermate called out that the roots had some strange things in them which was both helpful and unhelpful in equal measures. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Strange things in the roots?”[/color] he asked, hoping for clarity.