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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 1282 (+6) (Kamek not in the post, no exp for him)
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 7 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]////// (64/70)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 6 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (61/60)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 6 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]/ (59/60)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] the End - central island 
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Jr’s silent request for aid was answered, as Linkle joined the fray surrounding Bowser’s self-inflicted endermen onslaught. The heroine ran into much the same issue Jr had, aggroing multiple endermen and having to deal with the consequences as being assailed by three warping foes at once, who popped in and out of the battle whenever they wanted in an incredibly dangerous and aggravating manner. Unlike Jr, however, she too could play that game, and so began a, to Jr, un-track-able teleporting game of cat and mouse, the three lanky fiends and the young woman duked it out in a way only those unbound from space could. 

Where Linkle fought the endermen by copying their movement advantage, other reinforcements,in the form of Sectonia’s minions, arrived who could challenge their height advantage. The towering mace wielding ants dropped out of portals and if they could Jr was sure they would have yelled “pick on someone your own size” before laying into the equally tall but comparatively spindly endermen. They were big, they were tough, but, unfortunately, like Bowser, they were also slow, which meant that while they acted as an excellent distraction it meant they had trouble actually landing the blows that would end the skirmish for good. When they did hit they hit hard, allowing to krump the more badly damaged endermen with one blow, but after landing the first hit follow up hits were few and far between.

The feral fury of the Brachydios which had driven jr to charge the endermen with little strategy had burnt out by this point. This allowed the arrival of the ant minions reminded Jr that he had his own mooks he could use in this fight, and not just the gradually increasing number of Stus bubbling up from the goop splattered across the ground from his initial brawl.

[color=SpringGreen]”Koopa troopas! Get out here and support those ants! Goomba swarm, form up, I’ve got some special weapons for you this time!”[/color] Jr called out, summoning his own smaller but more numerous minions. The koopas immediately got stuck in as soon as they were out, charging the endermen warping around the antmen, fists swinging and turning their own swarming advantage against them. While the koopas weren't exactly strong compared to the towering foes and allies they were around, they were still able to cover the ant’s flanks, bopping the knees of endermen appearing out of reach of the giant insect’s spiked scepter and, as always, dying in droves in the process.

The minion’s of the Koopa Troop didn't really get to show their chops till Jr’s little scheme came into play, as the brawl was joined by the goomba’s who Jr had decked out with a new and deadly weapon. 

Swoopin' Stu’s sat atop their heads.

The goombas charged the remaining endermen and then, when they got close, the Stus leaped off of them at the endermen, exploding on them in a shower of hazardous goop. The endermen rapidly got inked either by these attacks, or by clawing goombas with their own Stus already on top, popping them and getting their claws coated in the stuff. Jr laughed as the endermen’s predictable aggro was overwhelmed by the sheer number of (often exploding) targets which was, finally, enough to bring an end to the crisis. The lanky foes where either crushed beneath the ant’s maces or slowly whittle down by jr’s minions and the dot damage from the goop.

The only ones not dealt with by the minion team up were the ones chasing Linkle, who were instead finally dealt with when she lured them beneath Bowser’s foot, where they were promptly squashed by his immense stomps, much to the king’s delight [color=FD0000]”HAHAHA. GOTCHA! THAT’S WHAT YOU GET FOR CHASING LINKLE AROUND!”[/color]

[color=FD0000]”You alright down there?”[/color] he then asked, looking down at the heroine and his son, before quickly looking away when his gaze started to trigger Linkle’s uncomfortable enderman spirit weakness [color=FD0000]”Right. Sorry. You're like a Boo now. Good job. All of you. Those things are super annoying”[/color]

[color=SpringGreen]”Yeah, you did ok, but it was mostly me”[/color] Jr said to Linkle and the ants, self congratulated himself, before adding [color=SpringGreen]”and my minions”[/color]  offhandedly to the list of contributing warriors.

There was little time for praise or self aggrandizement however, as the battle was still ongoing. During their little scrap with the enderman swarm the troop’s allies had been dealing with the dragon. A pair of massive explosions had been landed, rocking her to her core. Unfortunately those explosions had not ended the fight as their detonators might have hoped, and worse they’d taken out both Link and Euden in the process. Fortunately the cat stretchers got them as well and whisked them off to somewhere, though where exactly they were being evacuated too Jr realized he didn’t know.

[color=SpringGreen]”Pretty handy cats huh. How many of those things even are there?”[/color] Jr asked, before realising he didn’t actually know who they belonged to either. 

This was followed by another airblast attack, which the troop tanked without issue, but which sent several of the party flying towards the edge of the island. The Cadet, Fox, and Hat Kid where fortunately snatched out of the air by the ever handy Queen Sectonia while Kamek’s toadies swooped in to grab Peach, banjo and Kazooie, one of the propeller headed minions grabbing the bear and princess under their arms and slowing their outward tumble enough to deposit them on the island’s edge. 

The dragon wasn’t done though, and ended up targeting Tora, whom she reduced to quite a state that required Blazermate to ditch everyone else in order to focus on keeping the (admittedly surprisingly durable) ball of fluff from biting the dust.

With Blazermate busy with the beleaguered Tora, healing the rest of the party was left to, among others, Kamek’s final remaining clone. The White Mage magikoopa, carrying its wand in one hand and Poppie’s lost leg in the other, swooped in to aid the king. Bower instead directed it downwards to his defenders, to which the mage delivered aid via swinging its wand in their direction, causing a burst of green and green motes energy to surround them before raining upwards and dissipating, healing a smattering of Linkle and Jr’s injuries in an a pair of bursts of instantaneous healing magic before it needed to recharge.

While his son and allies were being healed Bowser charged into the fray in-order to prevent Blazermate from being crushed by the dangerous position the foolhardy fluff ball had put her in. Quickly reattaching the lucky bell, Bowser transformed back into Meowser the king crouched down on all fours and prepared to pounce. Tail swishing to and fro and eyes wide he began to rapidly gauge the distance between where he had been assailed by the endermen and where their foe was in the middle of trying to blast Blazermate and Tora with her remaining store of acid. Once he’d got measured, the titanic cat-like Bowser pounced, launching himself skyward with a complete disregard for gravity. He sailed high in the air, his arch easily bypassing the area the Dragon was guardian with her tail whipping and angling himself downwards, cat claws bared and mecha-mit talons deployed as he deceased upon her, aiming to strike her in the spine if she failed to avoid his strike.

Jr meanwhile wasn't going to have the luxury of going over the tail and so instead, got a bottle of water from his duffel bag. He took a swig and then said to Linkle [color=SpringGreen]”After you”[/color], gesturing in the general direction of the swinging tail weapon warding them away from the dragon’s body.