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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b]  1,160(+2)
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 5 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]///////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (51/50)
Stress: 20/100
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 4 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]/////////////////////[/color]///////////////// (22/40)
Stress: 85/100
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 4 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]////////////////////////////[/color]//////////// (28/40)
Stress: 60/100
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Ancestral Farmstead, the Land of Adventure 
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Splinters bit into the boys flesh as they forced their way between his scales. Before him the ax head to which the disintegrating handle has been attached barely pierced the skin of their eldritch foe. As jr came to fully realized his predicament, namely far too close to a thing he had barely harmed with that finishing move, and grappled down for the controls the blade shrunk back to its normal size and fell down to the ground with a weak thud. 

Others came in on the attack, each and every one of their strikes being dampened by the same horrible energy barrier. Yet they were doing it. Together they were wearing down the beast as more and more of the party got a hold of their senses and join the frey, eager to put down the thing messing with their minds as quickly as possible even as they risked their sanity to do so. 

As jr grappled at the controls of his machine with injured hands the time came again like clockwork for the beast to wrack their minds with its horrible lightning. Jr clenched his eyes shut as he saw it build, felt the burning of his scales and in his veins. As the assault passed by Jr realized it wasn't quite as bad as it had been last time when he had been airborne but he didn't have time to dwell on this fact as the moment he opened his eyes again the scything arc of the Thing’s Vorpal Strike clipped past two of the others and then struck him in the chest.

The small boy was launched by the strike, his body striking the edge of his car as he left it and was sent tumbling to the dirt. Half blinded by the maddening light and pulsing of pain through his body Jr watched helplessly as the thing ready to finish the job, only for Poppi to throw herself at the monster like an avenging angel. 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Y...ng M..te.! C.. Y.u .ov.?”|[/color] someone tried to speak but him, but Jr’s ears were ringing to loud and his head thumping with too much pain to understand what was being said. A hand grabbed the collar of his shell and began to drag him backwards and away from the creature as it battled Poppi. For a moment there was hope as the mechanical maid wrought devastation upon the Thing from beyond the Stars with fists and missiles. Then it hit her even harder than it had him, sending the metallic warrior flying away to crash into a building, and Jr’s mind edged one step closer to breaking. 

As he stared helplessly at where Poppi had been something small and yellow entered his narrowed cone of vision. Mimikyu, having landed far more gently than jr after the boy had been ripped away from beneath the Pokemon, approached the Thing and glared at it angrily. It was an absurd image, jr thought, the tiny poorly made Pikachu doll staring down an invincible monstrosity that could shatter minds and bodies alike with ease. 

“Mi-mi-kyu-YU!”

As the light shifted and the world around them fell away Mimikyu raised up their long spectral limbs, but instead of lashing out at the they drove them down into the ground. For a moment it seemed like nothing happened, not even the ground was harmed as meters of black limb vanished into the ground. Then the circular surrounding shadow that the tiny creature cast from the light of the all encompassing green void split into dozens of individual shadows that grew longer and longer, racing towards and then under the thing. Shadowy tendrils suddenly lashed out from half a dozen large shadowy apparitions, reminiscent not of the mimicry of the popular mascot but the shapeless formless maddening thing that dwells beneath, rose up behind the eldritch horror to attack it. 

(Mimikyue used [url=https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Shadow_Sneak_(move)]Shadow Sneak[/url]!)

The specters’ long arms grabbed the thing, wrapping themselves around it like boa constrictors, endeavoring to crush the life from the thing that had dared harm their master. In doing so they also tried to hold it back so it could not seek to chase after Kamek as he dragged jr away from the Thing.

The wizard had flow down to the prince's side the moment he had recovered from the return to the stars and seen what the thing had wrought. Then once he realized jr was in no fit state to protect himself or even respond he tried to get him clear. Kamek’s doubles had vanished the moment he revealed himself as the true Kamek by grabbing jr and so his firepower was diminished as he blasted the farmhands in his way with his wand.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Rise rise bones and skulls, give us a few just a few lulls!”[/color] Kamek chanted once he had blasted a moment of breathing room. The Dry bones rose from the ground and began a delaying action against the farmers, neither side capable of downing the other. Farmhands would strike down the skeletal minions clawing at their bodies, then take a Pause from Labor to recover, only for the Dry Bones to rise back up and begin the cycle all over again. 
 

While the skeletons created a lull in the fighting around him Kamek reached into his robe and grasped one of the vials of Bloodwort tonic he had acquired from the dead zone.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]Young master. Jr. drink this. please.[/color] his instructed Bowser jr, his words shaky and fraught with worry as he unstopped the vial and press it to the boy’s lips. Mercifully the Jr began to drink the fluid after only a bit more prompting, beginning a slow healing process. The process of imbibing the tonic was hampered somewhat both by Kamek’s unsteady hands and the way the earth was shaking.

[color=FD0000]”WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY BOY!”[/color] roared the source of the tremors. Bowser plowed through the hordes of farmhands as he raced towards the creature that had dared to harm his precious son. He’d come to his senses just in time to see the blow strike Jr, the boy having been one of the first things he looked for as he tried to regain his bearings. His face was a bruise, scorched, bleeding mess, his hand where pockmarked with scores where the explosives had lacerated them and he was vaguely aware that they were now probably trapped in another dimension, but none of this mattered to the father as he had immediately abandoned the battle with the Brachydios that had sullied his pride and instead rushed to his son’s aid.

He thundered past Kamek, Jr and Mimikyu, crushing several of the battling farmers and dry bones in the process. Then as he got in close he lashed out at the Thing from Beyond the Stars, the orange energy blades of the Mecha-Mit driving towards the thing to stab, grab, rip and tear it asunder so that it could never hurt his son again.