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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa King[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 430 (+1)
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 8 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]////// (74/80)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] The Dead Zone - Hell-bent City
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Bowser pinwheeled blindly into the shadow, who rose to stop him striking down the heart. The king roared wordlessly with frustration and anger as she slowed his strike, only to feel 4 familiar shots strike him. A brief belief that he had been betrayed and shot in the back by Dante for some reason was flung away in the powerspin that the shot’s induced, the King buzz sawing through the shadow’s defenses and smashing into the heart.

The resulting explosion flung Bowser far away from their foe, his form bouncing once twice and then coming to a stop on the broken ground, the king left a bit dizzy and befuddled from the added uncontrollable spin and the subsequent explosion.

[color=FD0000]”uuuurgh. That hurt...”[/color] he muttered, complaining about the grueling approach, the subsequent ‘help’, and the resulting detonation all at once right as Nadia ripped the heart from what remained of Marie’s, well,  remains. 

[color=FD0000]”Wowowowow wait!”[/color] Bowser popped his limbs and head out of his shell and scrambled for support as the platform they had been fighting on started to collapse, but fears that he was about to be dumped down into a bottomless pit were unfounded, as the rather gentle collapse merely deposited them back down in the now ruined library. Slowly, Bowser picked himself up and checked the ruins for hostels, but after a few moments decided it looked like they were in the clear. Neither Sans nor Mari had been particularly subtle, so the lack of flying skulls and bones made it highly unlikely either of them were in a position to cause an issue.

After toasting a suspicious looking bookshelf, he did not put it past the mimics to still be lurking around even after their hidey hole had been wrecked, Bowsers slowly stomped back towards the group as Nadia went through some character growth and then the skull heart made its tempting offer.

[color=FD0000]”Oh, yeah sure, you're totally trustworthy, not prone to backstabbing whatsoever. Take it from a guy who’s been in a fair share of evil team ups, you only do it if you know you can double cross them before they double cross you, and this little rat’s gonna get stab happy right off the bat”[/color]  He said with unusually quiet venom as he swept his gaze over the ruins around where the heart was laying, and failing to find what he was looking for. When he realized he might never be able to find it [color=FD0000]”HEY! WHERE’S MARIE’S SPIRIT YOU SPLINTER! TELL ME BEFORE I CRUSH YOU INTO DUST!”[/color] he demanded as he made a grab for the heart, looking more than willing to go through on his threat.

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[b][color=Aquamarine]Midna: level 2[/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aquamarine]////////////////////[/color] (21/20)
[b][color=Aquamarine]Location:[/color][/b] Sandswept Sky (desert): Vah Naboris at Lakeside
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[color=Aquamarine]”Allies then,”[/color] Midna replied to the dwarf’s correcting of her- saying his friends weren't here, an unsurprising if a little sad thing to say. Then he scooted off, grappling up on top of Vah Naboris just before the lightning struck. It was fortunate she’d been watching him zip up onboard rather than her targets as she got only a little dazzled rather than straight up blinded again when the lightning struck its target.

[color=Aquamarine]”Ugh, finally… huh, not bad Vah”[/color] she complimented the giant construct, confident no one would over hear, as she squinted down the result of Vah Naboris’ thunderous introduction to the battle. It might not have killed very many of their foes, but the disarray it had thrown them into was more than enough to give the escapees time to breach the fence and start getting clear. They weren't out of the woods yet however. Even if that had killed all their foes, they’d still come back, keep harassing them and wearing them down till they were dust. They needed a solution. Sectonia’s plan to ice them was, Midna had to admit, ingenious, but she felt sticking around to try and pull it off  on all of their enemies was an unnecessary risk. As was trying to destroy the room they kept coming out of. Either they’d have to push to it, very dangerous, or try and stomp it down with Vah Naboris, and Midna was loath to give them more time to work out how to knock the divine beast out of commission in the same way fox and co had when they’d first captured it.

Distance, she felt, was what would be best. The briefly mentioned briefcase and announcer Sectonia’s quick rundown of the situation had spoken about didn’t seem important enough to her to tackle right now. Neither were going anywhere as far as she knew, whereas who knew what was going down in the pyramid as they burned time out under the sun. Putting distance between them and the resurrection room would give them time to figure out if it was worth going back for. Or so Midna hoped. 

The fastest way they were going to get out of here was, of course Vah Naboris, so she sent it to swing round behind the escapees, again, leaving space to avoid making them into flatbread and then called out to them from her lookoutspot, [color=Aquamarine]”I’m setting the camel down. Hurry up and get on so we can ditch these hunting dogs!”[/color] 

The giant construct did just as it was told, carefully strutting its way round and to the side of the escape’s route of flight before setting itself down just in time for them to be reaching it. The camels body angled at 45 degrees to their rout so that, once the last of the runners was out of the way, it could lower its neck down to to act as a wall, preventing anyone from getting to, or at least shooting at, their side of the camel while the yellow team mounted their getaway vehicle.

[color=Aquamarine]”Quick, up here!”[/color] Minda, who’d shadow hopped onboard again, called down, directing a massive glowing pointer finger towards a stairwell leading up one of the pagodas that the legs extended out of that would be the best way to get onboard.

[color=Aquamarine]”Now then, we should probably make sure we don't have any uninvited guests”[/color] She suggested, both to the Scout and to any fliers or fast climbers who were on hand to ripple borders. There was, after all, a slight flaw with her plan, in that while it meant that the team should be able to get onboard without being harassed, it also left the entrances on the other side open to be boarded by the Red and/or Blue teams, so they might need to kick some unwanted hitchhikers off before they made their escape.