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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=SpringGreen]wordcount:[/color][/b] 986 (+2)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 7 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]//////// (62/70)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 7 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]/////////// (59/70) 
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Location:[/color][/b] Edge of the Blue – Open Ocean
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Kamek’s aid saved the beleaguered ship girl, his white mage clone restoring her vitality while the red clones and the magikoopa himself bombarded the muscular ship with fire magic till it sunk beneath the waves. In comparison the green one’s fortifying spell was functionally useless as the girl was not struck again, though this was possibly for the best for everyone bu the green one's sense of self worth. While the battle was going on, Kamek’s toadies hovered about, fishing for spirits out of the water and attempting to avoid being eaten by stray shark minions. 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Glad to hear you’re alright miss”[/color] Kamek called down [color=DeepSkyBlue]”If it’s weaponry you lack, then might I suggest crushing the spirit of that ship I just killed?”[/color] he added, pointing towards where the muscular vessel‘s spirit was drifting down into the water. He was about to explain the ability to crush spirits in more detail when an explosion rocked the back of the Atomos. Jr and Geralt were buffeted by the tail end of the shockwave rolling in the still open back door while those on the back were rocked by the full force of the mortar. Primid’s were scattered and annihilated while the diminutive Mimikyu was sent blasting off through the air with a cry of “Miiiimiiiiiii!”

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Oh blast!”[/color] Kamek cried out in alarm, turning his broom and soaring upwards while directing the two red clones to attack the turret pile, aiding the two newly arrived ship-girls in taking it down. The mage meanwhile flew higher and snatched the light and cloud-like Mimikyu out of the air before she could be lost to the wind or sea. The little mon herself seemed unharmed, but her disguise had been busted by the attack. The ragdoll-like outfit was covered in soot and its ‘neck’ was broken which agitated the little creature greatly. It looked around angrily to find the culprit of its besmirched appearance and then, when it found and watched the turret pile get wrecked, became deftly shy and quickly ran to hide inside one of the pockets of Kamek’s robes.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Oh dear. Don't worry. We can get it fixed up as soon as we get back.”[/color] The mage told the mon, whom he saw to be acting a bit like a shy guy who had lost or damaged its mask.

Inside the ship meanwhile Jr sighed in relief as he saw his minion was safe and then yelled down at the floor at Sakura to [color=SpringGreen]”Close the freaking bay doors you’re going to get us all exploded!”[/color] as the girl tossed fireballs out of the open bay doors, unaware that she intended to block any bullets coming her way.

After a bit of helpful fireball bombardment from Sakura and the red mages the two ship girls had taken care of the turret pile and then they proceeded to speed over to Ranger(the aircraft carrier girl)’s side to warn her about a ‘water princess’ who had appeared among the enemy ranks and who had prompted a retreat by the ship-girl forces. Jr didn't have to be told to start leaving. All around them, the battle was ending, with the abyssal fleet clearly having won as their remaining forces harried the retreating ship-girls. Those in the airship’s impromptu escort wasn't exempt, as the airship’s hovering position on the outskirts of the battle rapidly became the center as the ship girl's line collapsed. 

Kamek was already returning to ship when things went all the way south to Antarctica as what he was guessing was the water princess crashed in and smoked one of the newly arrived ship-girls before taking aim at the other one with a massive tail mounted maw cannon. The bespectacled ship girl in the line of fire seemed to have been utterly stunned by the sudden death of her comrade, forcing Ranger to rush forwards to try and save her. Kamek could see what was going to play out immediately, one ship would trade her life for the other, and there were a lot of calculations that could be made into how he should intervene if at all. Hatakaze was catatonic but still armed, he thought, while Ranger was a sunk cost who was more alert but she'd lost her weapon earlier in the conflict. 

In the few moments Kamek had to make the decision of who should live and who should die Ranger covered the distance and shoved her ally aside, only to be herself pushed aside as well by the green clone that had (alongside the white mage) been sticking to her side like glue this whole time. Its limited mind felt a facsimile of joy to have finally been useful before it was promptly annihilated by the princess’s cannon tail shot.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Distract it!”[/color] Kamek shouted, driving a finger towards the water princess, sending the two red clones to attack it while he simultaneously retreated. It was time to go. The red mages brandished a pair of stereotypical magician’s wands, black bars with white tips that Kamek had stolen from Hopus Pocus all the way back in the devil’s casino, and used them to call forth two spinning rings of rabbit skulls around the spot where the princess was hovering above the waves. They rotated around her for a moment before, with another flick of the clone’s wands, they began rapidly closing in on her.

Kamek meanwhile landed atop the scorched deck of the Atomos as it was finishing its turn away from the battle and back towards Limsa. With a snap of his fingers called forth Quiet and The End. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Keep the tailed one busy”![/color] he commanded while hurrying into the back door of the ship and slamming it shut behind him, leaving the two snipers to glance at one another and then take up point on the back of the ship. Each hooked a leg through the remains of the railing on the deck of the ship to brace against the incoming acceleration before opening fire on the princess, firing their two very different sniper rifles between the Atomos 's twin engine pods. 

Below him, three of his toadies had already slipped in through the still open bay doors and headed upstairs carrying the spirits of the turret pile, the imps and a pair of the [url=https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/kancolle/images/7/7f/Destroyer_I-Class_Full.png]lowly underlings[/url] of the abyssal fleet. Now the final one flew in just as the fate of the ship girls vanished from Sakura's sight, carrying [url=https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/w/images/thumb/0/06/Arashio.png/388px-Arashio.png]Arashio[/url]’s spirit, having snatched it from the winds after she died. It flew right past Sakura just as the bay doors began to close, Jr having found the cockpit’s own controls for them at last, the spirit of the dead ship girl's spirit held in its palms.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Time to leave, young master!”[/color] came a call from above as Kamek slammed the door to the deck shut behind him.

[color=SpringGreen]”No kidding? Already on it!”[/color] Jr replied, before the ship began to accelerate even before the bay doors were shut, leaving the ship girls to their fate as bait and Sakura with a dilemma of her own.

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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa King[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 458 (+1)
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 8 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]//////// (72/80)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] The Dead Zone - Hell-bent City
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Bowser didn’t catch the shadow but his wreck-less dousing of the flame, empowered by Blazermate’s kritz, did let him vaporize hordes of undead, including one of the tougher buggers their foe had just summoned up. Eventually however the eight seconds of super powered striking came to an end as the supercharged medibeam returned to its usual state of healing and storing up power, gradually charging up another tide turning powerup. 

In the meantime however, Bowser had swept the area around himself clean of foes and had a straight shot at the diminutive skeleton queen, which he took. He wasn't alone. The team had pushed through the hordes of minions and now looked poised to converge upon the girl from all sides.  All she had was her shadow, which was admittedly a piece of work, of that there was no doubt, and whatever she managed to pull up in the moments before she was overwhelmed. Unfortunately, what she had time to summon was an ace in a hole.

The diminutive, casually dressed skeleton was not much to look at and Bowser’s arrogance meant he initially ignored him as he closed in on their main foe. Unfortunately San’s looks were incredibly deceiving, which he apologetically demonstrated when with a flick of his wrist he hauled everyone into the air, in which the king helplessly flailed for a moment of utter confusion, before slamming them back down into the ground.

The king undeniably hit the ground belly first, his shell absorbing most of the impact. Unfortunately for him, all his armor did nothing against what came next. The wave of spectral bones rolled forth from the small skeleton, rising up front the ground and then stabbing back down, the wave driving straight through the king as he was trying to stand. The bone that hit him ignored his armor entirely, piercing through the massive turtle, touching him for longer than it did anyone else who got hit thanks to his size, and wrecking his body to the core. 

Only his equally large vitality prevented him from being crippled immediately, but Bowser could feel the damage burning away, rapidly eating away at his life-force. Others were not so lucky. With three of them going down front his first attack alone, this skeleton was no laughing matter.

He retaliated with a trio of fireballs, but Sans casually sauntered around the slow moving shots while keeping an eye out for other threats. Bowser lurched as the burn came to an end, claws hitting the deck and finding purchase on the crystalline platform they were fighting on and then, instead of breathing out, inhaled. A vortex of air swirled in towards the king’s maw as he used his vacuum breath on the small skeleton man.