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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 819 +2 (+3 form colab post)
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 6 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]////// (55/60)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 5 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]///////// (41/50)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 5 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]/////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]/// (48/50)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Lumbridge
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[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Right then. One teleport back to Peach's castle coming right up. You!”[/color] Kamek pointed at his red doppelganger [color=DeepSkyBlue]”You’re going to check if it's safe for me to do this.”[/color] 

The clone, who had been standing around looking for threats saluted and then began to march in the direction Kamek ordered it.

[color=SpringGreen]”Kamek! Take this too!”[/color] Jr called before tossing the old wizard the coffin smasher, the wooden hammer that worked exactly the same way as the engineer's wrench. After a few comical missed/juggling grabs Kamek finally caught it and popped it into a robe pocket. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”To get it up and running I take it?”[/color] he enquirered, receiving a [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Yup”[/color] in response from Jr.

The Koopa trio marched over to the teleporter and oversaw the red mage Kamek clone successful teleporting back and forth unharmed a few times. Satisfied that he wasn't about to disappear to his doom Kamek bid the royals farewell, stepped on board and vanished.

[color=FD0000]”What do you even want to see this Steven guy so bad anyway?”[/color]

[color=SpringGreen]”Well. See. Mimikyu’s been super helpful”[/color] Jr explained, petting the bobble-head of his only Pokemon as he praised it, [color=SpringGreen]”But I have no idea how to use them properly. Like they’re some kind of... Plush doll ghost copy of pikachu with shadow powers or something? You remember that Pokemon trainer right. THE Pokemon trainer. He knew all about what his minions could do when he was ordering them about and he had this wicked elemental combo attack with them right? But I have barely any idea what Mimi can do or what they’re gonna end up being able to do. And if, no when, I catch more Pokemon I need to know stuff about them, know as much about them as I do about my Koopas and Goombas and other minions. So this guy seems like a good start with that. Plus maybe i can get more balls and any other gear he’s got on him”[/color]

[color=FD0000]”Uh huh. Sounds good son.”[/color] Bowser replied, not following the details but proud of his son’s decision to seek self improvement. [color=FD0000]”Here, take some of this. And this,”[/color] he then added as he got some gold and rupees out of his pocket and handed them to Junior [color=FD0000]”, in-case he has got stuff”[/color]

[color=SpringGreen]”Wow,”[/color] jr said as he found himself holding a pile of money, [color=SpringGreen]”Ok. Yeah. I definitely need a bag or something”[/color]

At that moment Kamek reappeared and announced [color=DeepSkyBlue]”It is done,”[/color] loudly so anyone intending to pop back would know [color=DeepSkyBlue]”We now have a way back. Make sure you all get back by four as i will be moving the teleporter back to its original position at that point”[/color] 

[color=SpringGreen]”Yeah yeah yeah. Also toss my hammer back in my car now that you're done with it”[/color] Jr replied before waddling onto the teleporter with his pile of gold and jewels. [color=SpringGreen]”See you in a bit papa,”[/color]  he said before vanishing.  

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”With your leave sire?”[/color] Kamek asked his king as he deposited the necro smashed in jr’s clown car that was parked next to the Bowser mobile upon which the teleporter was still mounted.

[color=FD0000]”Yeah yeah, you two go off and learn stuff,”[/color] Bowser replied, waving the mage off off.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Thank you sire. I’ll endeavor to learn all I can so I can continue to advise you as best I can,”[/color] Kamek said before he bid the king farewell, stepped up onto the teleporter and disappeared.

[color=FD0000]”Right. Wait. So now what am I doing?”[/color] Bowser asked nobody in particular, suddenly realizing that they were all going to be hanging around town till early evening and he had zero plans for what he was going to do with that time.

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On the other side of the teleporter Kamek and Jr found themselves in the foyer of Peach’s castle where the mage had temporarily set up the exit. 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Remember to be back for 4 jr.”[/color] Kamek called after Jr., who was in the process of wandering off looking for the Pokemon expert. After receiving a dismissive agreement from the prince from the boy Kamek shook his head and then remembered something. He rummaged around in his cloak and retrieved the [url=https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/bloodborne/images/6/69/MadmansKnowledge.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20150325200035][b]Madman's Knowledge[/b][/url] from his cloak. He had not had time to deal with it back during the Gneidxick incident, but even then he had sensed its yearning to be unleashed, absorbed, learned. He’d had some reservations, it was a skull after all, but the hypothesis some had raised that the place they would be going might be a realm of otherworldly terrors like the Thing from Beyond the Stars made Kamek brushed his few concerns aside. After all what, Kamek thought, was trepidation in the face of the potential to gain power through knowledge?

With some effort he crushed the skull between his hands, extracted the glowing light within and pressed it against his head as he might do a spirit.