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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 1354(+3) (jr is napping, no xp for him)
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 6 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]//////////////////////////////[/color]/////////////////////////////// (30/60)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 5 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]//////////////////[/color]////////////////////////////// (18/50)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 5 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]///////////////////////[/color]////////////////////////////(23/50)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Gneidxick‘s Casino
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[color=FD0000]”Not looking like a conveyor belt so far”[/color] Bowser noted with relief after he took in their surroundings, which appeared to be some kind of magician's lair. 

There was no time for additional commentary however, as Gneidxick clearly wanted to get the show on the road. His hand plunged down into a top hat that was about as large as the Koopa King and pulled their opponent out of it.

[color=FD0000]”Giant animal. Classic”[/color] Bowser commented when confronted by the oversized bunny rabbit magician, while Kamek merely grumbled about that being his gimmick as he quickly mounted his broom and took off into the void filled with cards and roses surrounding the table. Unlike Bowser’s previous foe the oversized rabbit did not introduce themselves. Instead they let out a bout of manic laughter as they unleashed their fist spell, beginning the summoning of several rabbit skull shaped skulls around Bowser. These began to rapidly rotate around the king as they formed, phasing through the floor as they did so and in so doing making it abundantly clear that they were also forming below him even if he could not see them.

[color=FD0000]”Hey no fair, you can't just surround someone with projectiles like that!”[/color] Bowser yelled at the rabbit but the bunny seems to have little interest in fair play. Instead with another wave of its wand it completed the conjuration, causing the skulls to cease spinning and instead begin to closed in on the king.

The bunny cackled evilly as the ring closed in on the rapidly panicking Bowser until a call of [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Sire. Over here!”[/color] caught both of their attention. The rabbit scowled at the other magician, only for shock to suddenly grip its features as Bowser leaped [i]sideways(!)[/i] into the void, laughing as he soared towards one of the other floating cards.

[color=FD0000]”Welcome to the third dimension cheater!”[/color] 

As the ring of skulls crashed harmlessly together the rabbit ground its teeth together angrily before shouting wordlessly at the Koopa as he crashed into a floating card and barely managed to hold on as his momentum caused it to drift out further into the void. Then it formed another ring, not around either of the Koopas but instead around the card floating on the table, after which it gesture wildly to the gap at the bottom of the circle it had formed through which Bowser could have escaped. Then it crossed its arms and stared at Bowser angrily because in the rabbit’s opinion it was he who has cheated by going out of the bounds of the stage. 

[color=FD0000]”Oh come on how was I supposed to see that!”[/color] Bowser yelled back as he continued to float away into the void. [color=FD0000]”Don’t put the gap under ground next time!”[/color]

Several more bouts of yelling and gesturing resolved nothing as Bowser insisted that the rapid spinning made it impossible to see the gap and asking how was he supposed to know he had to stand on the card in-order to dodge the first cheap shot. This all gave Kamek plenty of time to sample one of the giant flowers. They tasted rather good in the wizened turtle’s opinion. His second breakfast was rudely interrupted however when the rabbit decided they were done with words, or rather frustrated about their inability to speak them in order to argue with Bowser, and went back on the offensive. 

With a slash of their wand they formed a row of card suit symbols just ahead of them and then sent them hurtling out into the void after the now rather distant Bowser. One of these symbols was pink, but seeing as neither of the koopas were familiar with the mechanics of Gneidxick’s universe this meant absolutely nothing to them. Instead Bowser did as he had done before, launching himself from his card to another one before the line of symbols scythe through his former position, causing the two haves of the card to plummet down into the void. 

[color=FD0000]”ALRIGHT IT’S ON,”[/color] Bowser roared before returning fire from his new perch by taking a deep breath and spitting out a massive fireball at the bunny. The weightless projectile rolled through the sky towards the rabbit who, after a short moment of sweat inducing panic, grabbed the sides of the hat he was in and hooped it to one side like they were in a sack race. After they came to a rest the two glared at one-another for an intense moment, which ended as Kamek’s own contribution, a swirling mass of 3 colored shapes, slapped into the rabbit.

Hostilities immediately erupted for a third time, with the rabbit sending wave after wave of projectiles at Bowser as he leapt from card to card, while simultaneously forcing Kamek to fly around avoiding rings of skulls. Meanwhile Bower and Kamek returned fire when they could, fire and magic bombarding the tabletop as the Rabbit bounced too and fro to avoid them. This went on until Bowser started running out of cards.

[color=FD0000]”Uh. Um. CHARGE!”[/color] he yelled, before launching himself back towards the table top, leaping from card to card as rings and waves tried to blast him to bits. Then with one final leap he hurled himself at the rabbit. Instead of dodging the rabbit saw their chance to end this and instead forming a wall of projectiles in front of the incoming turtle. In response Bowser retracted into his limbs into his shell and then, at the last second, Kamek cast enlarge upon him mid flight. The flying spiky shell increased in size for just a moment and then plowed thought he shots causing the spell to lose its potency. Bowser instantly shrunk back down immediately but thanks to the spel they made it through with only a few scratches to his name rather than suffering grievous bodily harm. 

Bowser smashed into the stunned rabbit, rendering it literally stunned as the collision sent the bunny reeling while Bowser fell back down to the table cloth with a thud. The bunny shook its head to clear the stars floating around it’s skull, and then, once its sense quickly returned to it, grinned evilly. The turtle was out of cards to jump between, it thought to itself, and  now he was trapped on the table where it belonged. Victory would now it’s to claim! This thought lasted right up until the point where a second not quite as massive hat was plonked down on top of it’s own, trapping it between both of the hat’s velvet interiors. Then it felt both hats were being lifted and before it could do anything the shaking began. The horrible horrible shaking.

Outside Bowser, enlarged by both his and the now static Kamek’s channel enlargement spell, gabbed the top of each hat and lifted them up while keeping their bottoms pushed together so that the rabbit could not escape. Then he began shaking both of them like a cocktail mixer.

After a minute of vigorous mixing the rabbit could take no more. A minute after that it finally managed to jab it’s wand out of a crack between the hats. Bowser immediately gabbed for it but discovered that it had not been poked out to blindly attack but instead to wave around a white neckerchief tied to the end in surrender.

In response revived and Thoroughly scrambled rabbit was unceremoniously deposited on the back onto the table by Bowser. With the thread dealt with Bowser immediately began to shrink back down as Kamek ended his spell and flew down to join his master, though not before he retirved one of the floating roses for a post brawl snack. 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Another spectacular victory over Gneidxick‘s minions your majesty”[/color] the wizard congratulated his king.

[color=FD0000]”Yep. That's what happens when you mess with the best!”[/color] Bowser replied smugly before tossing the rabbit magician’s wand, which had shrunk with him, to Kamek [color=FD0000]”Here. Least we might get something useful out of this.”[/color]

Kamek thanked him and then, after a tap with his own wand to adjust and fix the size of the wand, popped it into a pocket in his robes. While the two had been congratulating themselves and mugging their foe the portal had opened leading back to the center. The two turned to go, but not before Bowser laid out some more criticism.

[color=FD0000]”So yeah, make the ring gap more obvious. Also no idea how you were supposed to deal with the walls in a flat plain. You need to put some work in if you wanna measure up to the best!”[/color] he told the bunny before hopping through the portal after Kamek, ready to spin the dice once more.

They missed the conversation between peach and Gneidxick by a long shot, but arrived just in time to watch as the green Kamek clone put the last touches to its very helpful creation.