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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 1372 (excluding hiders) (+3) (+5 from encounter)
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 7 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]//////////[/color]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (10/70)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 6 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]///////[/color]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (7/60)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 6 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]//////////////[/color]/////////////////////////////////////////////// (14/60)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] the Land of Adventure
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Jr power: warp graffiti: Jr can use his magic paintbrush to paint a [url=https://i.imgur.com/yhST3mx.png]M with two accent marks above it[/url] within which can be seen a distant location. These paintings can be entered, warping the entree to the start of that location (in front of peach’s castle’s gate, just before the ramp for the approach to The End, the base of the argent energy tower, etc.) The best rule of thumb would be that it warps a person to the start of a level in a game. These warps are one way and jr is unable to spam them willy nilly, but they can still add up to create a decent warp system across the world.

Bowser Level up: Super Bell: Bowser attaches a bell to his spiked collar and undergoes a transformation into [url=https://www.mariowiki.com/File:SMM2_Meowser_Artwork.jpg]Meowser[/url]. In this form he has white and orange fur with brown stripes similar to a tiger's, a ringed tail, cat ears instead of horns, whiskers, and his nose is black. His hair is colored red, white, and brown, his shell appears to become more gray-blue, looking similar to Dry Bowser's (but without red gaps), and the rings around his spikes are more red.

Bowser gains the ability to perform a tail whip using his elongated cat tail and the ability to navigate vertical surfaces via climbing up slowly, leaping up quickly, or sliding down slowly, using his cat claws. Said claws can also be used for scratch attacks
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By the time the Koopa troop regrouped and hyped themselves up for round three the battle was all but over. A few scattered Primids remained but they were rapidly dealt with by the remaining automated defenses or spirit gatherers.

[color=FD0000]”Oh. Was that it? Just two waves huh.”[/color] Bowser said before chortling [color=FD0000]”Gah ha ha, this lot must have gone soft without someone as awesome as me in charge!”[/color]

[color=SpringGreen]”You lead these guys papa?”[/color] jr asked

[color=FD0000]”Yeah yeah, me plus Ganadorf, Wario, Ridley, few other guys… Hmmm, Wonder if that backstabbing wizard and oversized space lizard are around here somewhere? Anyway yeah, we had this thing going with the Master Hand before it turned out to be a puppet on someone’s stings. The big glove’s really been getting pushed down a lot lately huh.”[/color] Bowser explained casually before hucking a fireball at one of the remaining subspace soldiers.

[color=SpringGreen]”So could I also...?”[/color] Jr asked

[color=FD0000]”Yeah probably.”[/color] 

[color=SpringGreen]”Sweet!”[/color] jr said before hopping out of his clown car and going scavenging for spirits. As he did the two elder koopas got the Toadies to bring them some spirits of their own from the battle while they worked their way through the ones Jr and Kamek had gathered on the road. One exception to this destruction was the Trowlon that had attempted to airlift Bowser, which he easily convinced to become a striker to be used as a temporary hoverboard later on.

[color=FD0000]”Your name is now Carrie”[/color] he told it.

Jr then came back with a stack of the highly numerous Primids and Bytan which he absorbed into his army of minions. Mimikyu had also picked up a Spaark sprite. Her desire to shoot lightning was a well known factor by this point, Kamek a was curious as to whether the creature could in fact absorb spirits, and jr interested in the power that might bring him. All this culminated in the first pokemon fusion experiment between the living cloud and the pokemon. The result was... interesting. The doll looking pokemon gained a battery on its back, its shadowy body became fluffy, cloudlike and highly pettable, though it maintained its dark hue. [url=https://i.imgur.com/ltyv4Xd.png]It also gained metal teeth sewn where the drawn-on mouth once was[/url]. Everyone agreed this was the worst and something should be done about it as soon as possible. Mimikyue seemed both oblivious to this and very pleased by her new [url=https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Electro_Ball_(move)]Electro Ball[/url] move.

[hider=spirit summary]
Crushed by Bowser and Kamek
12 bullet kin
3 scorpions
3 mactera
1 rhino beetle
1 Nagagog
1 Spaark
1 Borbora
3 fire Primids

Absorbed as strikers
Bowser: 1 Trowlon
Jr: 1 squad of Primids, 1 squad of Bytans

Absorbed as powers:
Mimikyu: 1 Spaak: Gains power: The move Electro Ball and the ability to learn more electric moves going forward
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Once they’d sorted everything out and Peach gave a vicious derision of the Subspace army’s right to live they set off into the canyon. They had to leave the cars behind, meaning some of Bowser’s shopping ended up being transferred into jr’s clown car and duffel bag. The amount of sweets within said shopping took a sharp drop as a result. This also gave people their last chance to grab items from the leftover pile, along with any meat or candy they happen to want from the King’s shopping trip.

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[url=https://i.imgur.com/csOPsgB.png]iron horse armor[/url]

[url=https://i.pinimg.com/originals/22/82/2a/22822ad0adf878ca276900ca1fdf1a32.jpg]burn heal[/url]

[url=https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/warframe/images/d/dd/DENamiSolo.png/revision/latest?cb=20140529190718]Cutlass[/url]

[url=https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/amnesia/images/8/86/Sanitypotion_cutout.png/revision/latest?cb=20181201202609]Laudanum[/url]
[i]A potent narcotic capable of stimulating healing and calming the nerves.[/i]

[url=https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/images/0/06/Onion_seed_detail.png?34a78]Onion Seeds[/url] x 3
[i]With a lot of preparation, attention, and hard work, you too can one day harvest a bumper crop of vegetables that can't even be eaten on their own.[/i]

[url=https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/gothamcityimposters/images/7/76/Ninja.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20120220180025]Ninja Smoke Bomb[/url] (set of 3)
[i]A glass of ninja powder that releases a cloud of ninja smoke when shattered. The powder makes anything it settles over practically invisible for a short time.[/i]

[url=https://gamepedia.cursecdn.com/darkestdungeon_gamepedia/6/6b/Thing_hide.png?version=39c225165ff8409b5106edad8b3ab558]Phase-shifting Hide[/url]
[i]A malefic remnant of the revolting nightmare, since gone back to lurk among the farthest reaches of space. Holding it close reduces incoming stress by 15% if the holder is above 40% vitality, but halves incoming stress if the holder is below 40%[/i]
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With last minute preparations all sorted out the team set off on foot though along the treacherous canyon road, which included a few tight spots that the king complained loudly about whenever he had to push himself through them. Fortunately they did not come under any more attacks while traversing this dry landscape and with Kamek’s aid they traversed their way through the maze towards a grassy area that ran right up against the great distortion with relative ease. After one final cramped cave they emerged into the verdant valley and came face to fist with a familiar foe. 

After Bowser made a failed attempt at fireballing the shielded Master hand the Troop resigned themselves to listening to it indirectly insult Bowser repeatedly via the mockery of his double and a warning about the otherworldly power of the guardian that the troop arrogantly ignored before it clicked its fingers and spawned a large stone tower atop the spiral mountain at the center of the valley. Atop it there appeared six fighters, one of whom Bowser and Linkle both recognized as Link, the hero of Hyrule. 

The hand vaguely described changes it had made to their foe’s weapons before vanishing, leaving them at the mercy of the snipers, who were armed with an equal mix of bows and weapons like Micheal‘s sniper rifle. The troop didn’t need convincing to move, they were raring to get going after being forced to sit though even a few moments of the hands yapping and were already in the process of charging the tower the moment their foes opened fire. Peach’s yelling for them to get to cover was ignored right up until the first black arrow found its mark. 

[color=FD0000]”Gah. How come they don't have to use oversized [url=https://www.ssbwiki.com/images/4/44/Dark_cannon.jpg]hunks of junk[/url] to fire those!”[/color] Bowser yelled as he rapidly changed direction from a frontal assault and tired to find king sized cover

Fortunately for him Kamek had immediately recognized their disadvantageous position the party was in and had flown straight into the foliage of one of the trees that dotted the valley, and fortunately it was not the one that got obliterated by the titan’s arrow. Once there he did not cower, but instead rapidly  cast two spells in quick succession. As the arrows rained down on the party Kamek’s tree suddenly and rapidly quintupled in size, roots bursting from the ground, trunk thickening and foliage spreading across the sky till the tree towered mighty and proud above an area to the left of the entrance. The now massive leaves and branches of it’s foliage provided visual and physical cover, making it harder for the snipers to spot and get a clear shot at those below, while the trunk had scratched tall as the spiral mountain itself. Several Kameks could be seen from below, each hovering below a branch of the mighty tree’s foliage, all of them remaining still, the copies acting as decoys for the real one who was focused on maintaining the enlargement spell. 

[color=SpringGreen]”Nice one Kamek”[/color] Jr called, as he rapidly ascended under the cover of leaf towards the entrance to the tower.

Bowser meanwhile had an idea during the brief refuge in audacity the tree’s sudden enlargement granted. He rummaged around in a pocket and received a silvery spherical bell which he affixed it to his spiked collar. In a flash of light he transformed himself into the cat like Meowser, complete with cat ears, tiger striped fur, long sleek tail and sharp claws. He made zero comment about his new lees than intimidating feline appearance.

Instead he yelled [color=FD0000]”TOUCH THE BASE OF THE TROPHY TO FREE PEOPLE”[/color] at the team in general but also Linkle specifically, before scampering towards the tree on all four paws and narrowly avoiding getting obliterated by a ballista sized shot from the sharp eared giant, bell jingling as he ran. With sharp claws he gripped the side of the tree trunk and, after waiting just a moment for potential passengers, began rapidly climbing it in leaps and bounds, relying on the leaves above and the thick trunk in front to protect him from harm while he ascended. He also summoned Heel, and commanded the Rabbid to reach inside and grab the ball within the bell in-order to try and get it ringing so loudly.

The toadies, who had been hovering around uselessly took this command to be an instruction, and flew over to help speed up the rate that the mechanical beetle was dragging Euden towards linkle.

High above Bowser Jr ordered Mimikyu to use the move copycat before bursting from the foliage in his clown car. Sitting on the rim of the car his now cloudy ghost pokemon used its long arms to form a titanic bow as part of its copying of the Giant's attack. A severed stick from the tree formed the bow itself while one of its long ropy arms formed the string. With its free arm it was pulling back a Black Arrow like the ones being fired at them and with a cry of “Mimik-kyuuu!” loosed the arrow at the very same moment as the pair emerged from the tree line. 

The tree branch bow shattered as the pair’s retaliatory titan arrow flew upwards, blindly aimed at the battlements of the tower in an attempt to ward off counter attack, while they themselves flew towards the door of the tower with all the speed Jr’s clown car could muster.