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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=SpringGreen]wordcount:[/color][/b] 914 (+2)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 7 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]/// (67/70)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 7 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]////// (64/70) 
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Location:[/color][/b] Edge of the Blue – Open Ocean
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[color=SpringGreen]”Yessss. So cool. I mean. Ok so the teeth are kinda weird. What is it with these things and teeth?”[/color] Jr asked as he quickly looked over the now bigger and badder pig. Tyrant had, coincidentally, gotten some freaky new dentures just like Mimikyu had out of the transformation process, but the main draw was the large gun mounted on his now deck like back. Not being pink anymore was also a plus for jr’s image, though the deathly pale white wasn’t the biggest improvement in the world over that.

[color=SpringGreen]”Ok let's see what you can do hey wow!”[/color] Jr said as he held Tyrant, only for the beast to wriggle in his grapes and in the process accidentally fire off his gun while attempting to escape. The shot ricocheted around the room, causing jr to lose a grip as he ducked for cover, letting the tyrant hop back down onto the floor.

[color=SpringGreen]”Careful! You could’ve hit me with that!”[/color] Jr admonished his minion, with Tyrant only looking a little apologetic about it. They were mostly confused by the whole ordeal.

[color=SpringGreen]”Whatever,”[/color] Jr sighed [color=SpringGreen]” just go out and help Kamek”[/color]  

Tyrant looked from his master to the open door from which the sound of battle was emanating and after weighing up its options looked inclined to decline the order. Jr frowned, but before he could get royal mad at this hint of insubordination he had an idea. Quickly rummaging through his car’s glove box he pulled out a small piece of candy and, with a dexterous claw, unwrapped it single-handedly to wave around in front of the beast's snout.

[color=SpringGreen]”You want this? You want it! Kamek catch!”[/color] Jr taunted the gluttonous pig with the treat before tossing it out at his magly minder. The small sweet flew through the air with a pitcher’s precision and bounced off the side of Kaemk’s head. The mage scrambled to catch the object, which had bounced up into the air and then turned to shout back at his ward only to see an excitable and drooling Tyrant trotting out of the airship after the tossed threat. The beast was noticeably bigger and a little ungainly on its feet thanks to its new ship-like parts, which gave Kamek just enough time to toss the sweet for Tyrant to catch to avoid being accidentally gored or shot by the creature if it tried to forcibly get it off of him.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Well now, isn’t this interesting”[/color] Kamek said as he examined the mutated Baby Behemoth. Then, after a moment he grinned devilishly at the sweet scoffing creature. 

As Jr had been doing his animal experimentation Kamek’s remaining clones had continued to do what they could to help fight the Princess, directed by their safely distant creator. One of the red mages fought valiantly against the bomber squadrons alongside Ranger’s fighters, only to be obliterated by the Princess’s scattershot bombardment, becoming its only casualty. The final two, one red one white, moved to Ranger’s side as she recovered from the blast. The white mage raised his staff and got straight to work cleansing the injuries she’d received from her near miss. It would have aided Sakura as well, but some power was preventing her from actually being wounded and, whatever it was, the mage had no way to help restore it.

The red clone which had had to pull out of the air duel to be healed and thus avoided being exploded joined it by Ranger’s side just in time for the princess to show off her plane spawning stamina, throwing out a wave of bombers that sailed forth free from any retaliatory fighter harassment. Sakura hucked a a swarm of mini fireballs at them and the red mage joined in, using the small amount of mana Kamek had regenerated to launch out a seeking fire shot using the fire materia, before switching to the wand of Hopus Pocus to pull lines of playing card suits up out under the bombers. They were about to switch again to the tentacle spike for a last ditch charge when a hail of bullets suddenly hammered down, sweeping through the bomber squadron before the stream arched round to suppress the Princess herself.

The source of this fire swept by, revealing itself to be Kamek, holding Tyrant under one arm like a football. A toady was having to aid in this, flying alongside the mage hand holding the pig the waist, because Tyrant’s size had been increased yet again. He had been  buffed to be 50% bigger than he already was by the mage and, thus, the shots he was firing from his back mounted light machine gun were also 50% larger. As a byproduct of being touched by the magic and logic of Kamek’s world however, they were also a little bit slower, indeed they were visible to the naked eye as they flew, but this made them no less deadly.

The mage ended his strafing run and swept skywards again, circling out and away. Behind him, Jr was already pulling the airship around and away, getting the larger target out of range of the Princess’ ire while Kamek’s remaining toadies dived down to grab the incapacitated Abyssal fleet member, relying on the fleeing fighters to acted as a distraction or, worst come to worst, they'd act as a distraction themselves to help the others get away.

If even Sakura was deciding that retreat was their best option, then neither Koopa was inclined to get bogged down in the fight any longer.