[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] 1,104 (+2) [b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 5 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]//////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]/ (49/50) Stress: 0/100 [b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 4 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]///////////////////[/color]/////////////////// (2040) Stress: 25/100 [b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 4 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]//////////////////////////[/color]////////////// (26/40) Stress: 25/100 [b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Ancestral Farmstead, the Land of Adventure [/center] Bowser’s rash action immediately bit him in the ass as the monster dodged away from his butt stomp. Instead of crushing their foe he instead found himself planted in the dirt like some oversized scaly potato. One that was about to become a punching bag. [color=FD0000]”OH CR...”[/color] Bowser began to say as he realized his predicament, but was cut off by a slime coated right hook hammering directly into his face, impacting with both a splat and a crunch. Bowser watched in slow motion as one of his teeth fly through the air before it struck a left hook from the beast. [color=FD0000]”...UD”[/color] Bowser finished before being struck again. He didn't even see the third attack as the monster headbutted him in the face with enough force to free him from the hole and send him sprawling backwards till he fell onto his back. Bowser face was left a battered bloody slime drenched mess and his head was spinning but the monster backed off instead of moving in to take advantage of his stunned state. Bowser could not think as to why, he couldn't think of much at all with how his head was pounding and face was bleeding, and was instead simply relieved that the beating was over. He sat up and then shook his head violently to try and clear both the minor concussion and to try and shake off the goop. It was sticky stuff however and much of it refused to budge. [color=FD0000]”UGGGG. THIS IS DISGUSTING”[/color] he complained as he tried to scrape it off with his hands, amassing a load of the gradually reddening goo on his claws before shaking them off, splattering the slime around himself. The king was not left alone to feel miserable however, as the calcified farmers attempted to strike the one who had dared to bypass their gauntlet of farming implements. Unfortunately said farming implements where of little use against the massive armored reptile, clanging off his shell and scales. They inflicted little noticeable harm or at least nothing comparable to the beating Bowser had just received. Instead of harming him one unfortunate farmhand found themselves grabbed by a large claw and used as a face towel, with Bowser using the ragged cloth on the farmhand’s back to wipe away a lot of the rest of the goop before tossing them aside. Now that it was more visible it could be seen that the king's face was a mess of bruises, swellings, broken scales, chipped teeth, blood and a few spots of slime now indistinguishable from that blood. It was also twisted into a mask of vengeful rage. Long orange blades extended from bowers right hand as the mecha mit fired up and mechanical arms ending boxing gloves deployed from his hat as Bowser activated his weapons. [color=FD0000]”I’M GOING TO TEAR YOU APART!”[/color] he growled at the Brachydios before taking one step towards it. And then the goo exploded. [hr] Meanwhile Jr and Kamek had far better luck with their fist strike. Or so they thought. Fire and death engulf the thing that had not even tried to avoid their attack as if the idea that things born beneath the stars could ever harm it didn’t even ross its mind. Yet as the smoke cleared and they could see it remained standing it seemed like maybe it had every right to be unconcerned by their attacks. The Koopas’ allies didn’t let this phase them however and instead bravely raced in to attack, Linkle and Peach peppering it with bolts and pellets while the centurion got in close and personal with his sword. The legionary got a face full of crystal for his efforts but through their combined efforts, it seemed like the battle might actually almost be over, as to Jr it seemed like the thing was both badly wounded and unable to deal with so many of them at once. Then everything changed as lightning surged from its body and lanced out to strike their ground based allies. Kamek and Jr momentary thought themselves safe as they so often where in the sky, but then the lighting arched upwards, racing towards the stars above and zapping the wizard and prince quite a bit harder than it had those below. It didn't actually damage them, the fact that Kamek’s clones where still about proved that, but it was terrifying to experience nonetheless, though Mimikyu once again remained unaffected. It had yet to occur to either of them to think about why this was. As Jr and Kamek felt their hearts racing in their chests and their confidence frey things got worse for those blow. Mainly for Torra, as the hamster and his robo companion had gotten bogged down in the farmhands. Still they managed to take a few down as they fought on until one of the bodies of the slain farmhands finished compacting into itself and exploded, doing more than just physical damage as the Tora proceeded to freak out about the light it emitted upon detonating. Kamek watched this from above and quickly assess the threat the corpses of their foes presented. He also noted that the ones that had been blasted earlier by Poppi did not detonate, their conversion from corpse to bomb interrupted seemingly halted by damage. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Destroy the bodies before they explode!”[/color] he called out before blasting the aberration spawned by the Thing as it had used return to the stars using his wand, causing 5 sets of colored shapes to bombard the crystal. As he did this Rora’s run of foul luck continued as he managed to escape from the horde, which seemed happy to mostly act as a wall standing between the two groups for the moment, only to run right into the waiting maw of the Thing From Beyond The Stars. Like a leech it gripped onto tora with a disgusting anemone like tongue that was thick as a tree trunk. It was horrible, it probably hurt like hell and it also meant the arbitration was stuck in place was it tried to devour Tora. [color=SpringGreen]”Kamek! We’re ending this!”[/color] Jr shouted as he pulled one of the fire axes, which he had taken from his father’s car’s loot boot once it was clear no one else would, from his clown car’s hammer space compartment and brandished it. [color=SpringGreen]”I’ll take its head, so make this big enough!”[/color] he commanded as he flew to a spot above the thing. Kamke nodded and directed his wand towards the axe as he chanted: [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Look out wretched thing, as pain this spell will bring. For the prince's justice, surely won’t be bloodless.”[/color] Jr slammed the car into a rapid descent while Mimikyu clung to him with their tentacle arms and swung the axe as Kamke’s magic took hold, causing it to increase in size from large to almost comically oversized in his hands. When it hit Jr was more following its decent than they were swinging. The large metal blade struck hard, but as the handle splintered and shattered in Jr’s hand it was clear that something has changed, for the monsters flesh was now bolstered by a new kind of strange otherworldly light. The battle, Jr suddenly realized as he put himself right in the line of fire with his supposed finishing move, was in fact far from over.