[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] 1919 +3 [b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 6 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (62/60) [b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 5 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]/ (49/50) [b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 6 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]//////[/color]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (6/60) [b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] the Land of Adventure [/center] [hider=Kamek level up] Kamek ability: Summon Toadies: Kamek's number one minion when it comes to baby napping. Toadies are rather agile fliers with their propeller hats and are very good at lifting things many times their own weight, but have no real combat feats beyond grappling and lifting things, and they aren't particularly sturdy. As with the Kamek clones, these homunculi are created (and can be recreated) via a spell. Only 4 can exist at any one time. [/hider] After the koopa troop made the first move the rest of the team raced into the fray, pummeling and pounding the subspace army into dust with admittedly a bit of trouble. The sheer number of low level enemies were a bit of a pain to anyone lacking a lot of aoe or crowd control, but everyone started getting both the hang of it and the upper hand fairly quickly. It looked like the team was going to win the first real encounter of the G rank quest handily right up until a spooky specter rose out of the ground and let out an eardrum splitting shriek [color=FD0000]”Oh ouch. A Floow. Those things are nasty!”[/color] Bowser grimaced as the sonic assault bombarded the courier's position, before yelling [color=FD0000]”KILL IT QUICK OR IT’LL JUST REGENERATE!”[/color] The ghost’s banshee howl was a herald of things to come as the subspace army rolled out some of its nastier troops right as the Koopa Troops’ own where timing out, the few that remained at any rate. The poor troopas and goombas had mostly acted as distractions while the rest of the team got the job done. Only a few souped up dry bones remained, who congregated around the sentry turret, helping it fend off attackers while it gradually ran out of ammo once the engineer disappeared. The size increasing sumo Nagagog’s, demonstrated their ability right off the bat when they were struck by a grenade from peach and promptly doubled in size as a result. There was also the terrifying scythe wielding Greap and, considerably down the totem pole from those, some fluffy Spaaks, incredibly annoying Trowlons and a whole host of fire Primids adding some numbers to their bigger, badder comrade’s charge. Despite the wide array of enemies that had already come at them, Bowser was well aware that the sub-space army had plenty more tricks up its sleeves that might come in as even more additional waves. That was an issue for later, for now there were two Nagagog’s heading straight for the Koopa King. Another when for Jr, but from what the king saw he and Kamek were having more issues with the flying, zapping Spaaks than the grounded goliath. That was about all Bowser saw before he put all his focus on the two fat yellow Nagagog closing in on him. [color=FD0000]”YEAH, YOU KNOW WHO THE REAL THREAT IS HERE, BUT YOU STILL DIDN’T BRING ENOUGH GUYS!”[/color] he roared as he counter charged them and their small escort of fire Primids. The Nagagog, Bowser remembered from both commanding them and fighting them, where straight up sumo wrestlers in their fighting style, meaning they favored their bellies over their limbs for attacking. The pair jostled each other as they came at him until one pushed ahead and got to be the one that clashed with Bowser. The two heavyweights charged one another in what looked like it would initially be a head on collision. At the last moment however, the Nagagog leaped forwards, launching itself the last bit of the way towards Bowser, trying to strike him with its full mass in a belly flop. Bowser meanwhile, remembering this was how they acted, turned at the last moment, presenting his spiky shell and then launched himself with a leap towards the Nagagog with his own full body attack. The two collided with epic force, each harming the other with the bone jarring collision. Bowser’s shell, spikes and mallow sticker gave him an edge, the Nagagog stumbling away from the collision point with several large holes stabbed in it. Rather than go down however, it laughed with a creepily childish voice as it rubbed its belly, before doubling in size again to become a veritable red titan. [color=FD0000]”Oh right. You can do that again”[/color] Bowser noted with a hint of dismay as he looked up at the hulking sumo, right before it raised a fist and brought it down to try and crush the now comparatively small Bowser. [hr] Jr made a grab for his bandolier of pokeballs with one hand as the other gripped the controle stick of his clown car, jerking it back and forth to dodge the incoming ball lightning projectiles coming from the half cloud half machine enemies that where harassing anyone in the sky. When he finally managed to grab the singular filled pokeball he had he cracked it open with a cry of [color=SpringGreen]”Go Mimikyu!”[/color] With a flash of light Jr’s Mimikyu appeared on the edge of Jr’s clown car, flailed with her long arms to try to keep her balance as Jr continued to dodge lighting shots, before grappling the pompadour like horn on Jr’s head, reeling herself in and then nestling herself against the boy’s topknot [color=SpringGreen]”Copycat those lightning shots!”[/color] Jr ordered once the pokemon was in position, which delighted the pikachu wanna be ghost pokemon immensely, causing it to merrily bob its fake head back and forth a few times before it pointed its lightning bolt shapes stick it used as a fake tail at the closest mechanical cloud. ”mimi-KYUUU!” she cried, causing a slow moving bolt, identical to the Spaaks’, to fly out of the end of her stick-wand-tail. The bolt soared towards the slow moving cloud, striking it with ease. The spark seemed to have no innate resistance to its own attack, looking rather angry at being struck. They could tell the red eyed, spike jawed thing was angry because as the pair watched, the cloud shifted from a happy white to a stormy black. [color=SpringGreen]”Uh oh”[/color] jr said, ducking and veering off to one side as the storm cloud pulled a quick loopdeloop, building power as it did before unleashing a fast moving lightning bolt instead of one of the slow moving shot’s of its fluffy peers. The bolt struck the clown car with deadly accuracy, causing it to wobble in the air, emit smoke and setting off a bunch of warning alarms. [color=SpringGreen]”Gah, Mimikyu keep copycatting while I, uh”[/color] Jr kept jerking the control stick on the car around wildly to try and dodge while his searched the storage compartment and found the necro smasher. [color=SpringGreen]”Ah hah”[/color], he cried happily, before smacking the inside of the car, repairing the damage just in time for them to be hit by a second lightning bolt. Ducked down inside to avoid getting shocked jr frantickly hammered away, rapidly draining supply of metal in the smasher as the ship was hammered again and again with lightning while mimikyu returned fire, seemingly ineffectively. [color=SpringGreen]”Bolts to this I’m taking us down.”[/color] jr yelled, predicting that if he didn’t he would just end up down there anyway, only in a crash rather than a landing. He popped his head out of the top of the rim of his car and rapidly guided them down to the ground, the go kart wheels deploying right before they landed. A glance upwards revealed one still angry cloud, as He watched it blasted one of Kamek’s red clones out of the sky, and a shower of Spaark sprites slowly drifting down to the ground, which where joined by another as Mimikyu copied the storm cloud’s lighting shot again to vaporize another of the still white clouds in a single powerful lightning shot. Jr didn't have time to debate whether this had been cheeky insubordination on the part of Mimikyu who wanted to mimic the poke mascot for as long as possible or if she was actually being pretty clever, because his attention was drawn to the sound of something stomping towards him. The fifth yellow Nagagog had never given up its cause and so now it came lumbering towards Jr. [color=SpringGreen]”Oh come on!”[/color] Jr yelled, as he hit the gas. [hr] Kamek’s last remaining red clone (he’d lost one already learning how the Spaark’s worked independently from Jr) charged the storm Spaark with its spiked tentacle drawn after it took down its comrade. The green clone cast a defense spell upon the clone, allowing it to survive the Spaark’s final strike before the clone clubbed it over the back, smashing the Spaark’s battery and poofing the cloud into its spirit. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Ak. This is quite the dust up.”[/color] Kamek said, mostly to himself as the remaining red clone rejoined him, its form flickering, close to dissipating. No amount of defence buffs would keep it alive now, he predicted. Which was an issue, as doing a one two punch with the first shot darkening and then a second killing the Spaark wasn’t reliable enough with just two of his slow moving shots (if either one missed he was screwed), and using melee charges wouldn't work with the red clone so beat up. So instead of continuing to try and clean up the skies Kamek took off, sweeping away from the cloud of Spaarks while avoiding their shock balls and taking in the rest of the battlefield. This let him see first Jr driving frantically away from the yellow Nagagog that was lumbered after him, possibly while screaming, and towards the sentry nest of the now timed out engineer which was mainly occupied by the few remaining dry bones, all hideously and uniquely mutated by Blazermate. It also let him see Bowser rapidly rising away out of a mob of fire Primids and two Nagagogs, both now red. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Oh no. Sire!”[/color] [hr] [color=FD0000]”WOWOWOWOW WHERE ARE WE GOING!”[/color] Bowser yelled as the Trowlon finally managed to sneak under him in the chaotic brawl he was in and began to rapidly hoist him skywards. Unfortunately for the Trowlon Bowser and fall damage were not well acquainted, and there was no arbitrary ring out height for it to reach. Which meant that when the King punched a fist through through the red gems that seemed to be its eyes and destroyed it the King, foolishly, fell without fear. [color=FD0000]”LOOKOUT BELOW!”[/color] he roared as he plummeted down towards the pack of enemies fist first, only for his fall to suddenly slow and then stop. [color=FD0000]”Huh what!”[/color] he grunted, glancing around and spotting four familiar looking [url=https://i.imgur.com/jiG3Awh.png]Toadies[/url] holding onto his shell, their surprisingly strong arms and propeller hats keeping him aloft. Kamek’s minions rapidly carried him away from the mob waiting below to crush and or burn him to death and instead quickly hauled him over to where jr had set up camp next to the sentry turret and dispenser. The rapid fire and knockback of the cannon had proved a perfect counter to the Nagagog, knocking it away while it enlarged and then finishing it off as it tried to charge the second time. Both jr and Mimikyu were madly hammering away at it to refill its ammo stores when the Toadies dropped Bowser off there. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Good work, now get back out there and make sure no-one else gets dropped on their heads!”[/color] Kamek, who had also joined jr at the turret, commanded his propeller powered minions, causing them to salute him and then fly off, their small and nimble forms easily avoiding the shock balls from the Spaarks, in order to look for anyone else being hoisted skywards. They’d either try to bring them back to the sentry or, if given orders, would follow thee to the best of their ability. [color=FD0000]”Ahh, that’s better,”[/color] Bowser said as the healing beam of the dispenser locked onto him, gradually clearing of several scorch marks and one giant fist shaped bruise [color=FD0000]”good work Kamek”[/color] [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Thank you sire.”[/color] replied [color=SpringGreen]”Fights not over yet.”[/color] Jr reminded them [color=FD0000]”Alright! Together this time!”[/color] [color=SpringGreen]”Rig[/color][color=DeepSkyBlue]ht!”[/color]