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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=SpringGreen]wordcount:[/color][/b] 1,176 (+2) 
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 9 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]///////  (82/90)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 7 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (73/70)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 7 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color](70/70)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Edge of the Blue – Bottomless Ocean
Feat: Rika
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The Atomos flashed gold for a final time and then came out of stassis with jr gripping the controls and fearing for the worst. But instead of lurching or falling like he had feared however, the ship continued on just as it had before it had been frozen in time. Or, not quite as before. At the back, before the Hat Kid’s very eyes, her seemingly ineffectual hammer strikes all took effect at once, the smoking engine being revitalized in an instant of miraculous engineering, halting their slow sinking. 

[color=SpringGreen]”Nice work back there!”[/color] the boy called back to her as he gently guided the ship back up into the air and way from the roiling sea below, staving off the threat of becoming fish food for a moment longer. Or it should have. Apparently some of the violent sea-life wasn't content with staying in the water where it belonged, as a long bony spine of a creature floated up out of it and rapidly scythed across the deck of little Shippy.

Not that the gang was going to take that laying down, as a hail of gun and arrow fire rang out as those onboard peppered its body with lead and steel.

Their accurate eye sniping was joined by an indiscriminate hail of gun and cannon fire from Rika, who had skated back to the ship once Bella had landed safely in Sakura’s heroic arms in search of ammo. The loud chorus of cannon shots and machine gun fire rang out and then was suddenly replaced by a click click click as the rifle expended the last of its ammo while the cannons simply fell silent

“Shoot” the girl cursed and then clambered onto the ship while the spinny thing arched around for another pass.

“Hi there, room for one more?” she asked the boat riders as she rolled over the railing and made a run for the dispenser. There the problem of having 4 separate sets of guns presented itself when the dispenser spit out several racks of small shells for her rigging,  one of heavier shells for her abyssal gauntlet and a drum mag of rifle rounds for the machinegun. Extra problematically, thanks to how her gauntlets here strapped to her arms, she didn't exactly have her hands free to properly load them (though the traps meant that she could at least let go of them to try and use her hands at awkward angles unlike someone going guns akimbo, but they were still super in the way), which meant that when the when the spine fish came around for another pass she was standing fiddling with the latch to extract the spent rifle cartridge while holding the new one in her mouth like a piece of toast. 

“Mmmf m. immm mmmf m me” she mouthed off through the box of ammo before, having failed to reload anything in the short time frame, spitting the magazine rifle ammo back onto the pile of shell racks and charged towards it on the ship’s deck while yelling “GET LOST FISH!” as a battle-cry. As she and it approached one another she leaped to the side and tried to deliver a solid right hook to the side of it’s head to knock it off course with her still abysal-y gauntlet and her right side hull blade, before leaping out the way of the other’s firing lines.

In the distance Bowser was blind to all of this as he ascended the (rapidly disintegrating thanks to their new giant single eye’d friend’s repeated hammering) sea stack. Cat claws found solid purchase on wind beaten rock as the dragon-turtle-cat-squid-ship hauled himself ever onwards towards the little monstergirl who was causing the team no end of trouble thanks to his ill conceived rescue attempt. On his back, his cannon segments either hammered the two harassing tentacles with acid, water or sonic or acted as parrying shields, lashing out to try and punch, bite or tentacle whip the giant eels when they got close.

Unfortunately for him, speed was not something most of the koopa’s component parts were known for. Certainly not compare to the mostly cat Nadia, who took the king completely by surprise when she zoomed past him faster than a speeding train with a ‘NYAAAAAA[b]AAAA[/b]aaaaaah’ and then completely blasted past the summit, before dramatically stopping at the pinnacle of her launch and then descending meteorically upon the monster girl with her blades primed like a guillotine. 

[color=FD0000]”WAIT NO!”[/color] Bowser cried out, not wanting to see her befall the same fate as Marie, but there was nothing stopping their clash now. 

The monster girl pulled her tendrils away, the razor shoals boon making the very air scrape against them like a jagged coral reef, freeing Browser from being harassed by them, and used them to defend herself. Nadia’s blade sliced one in half as she fell, causing the monstergirl to shriek as the game suddenly became an actual real danger to her. Before the final blow could be struck she flicked the half bisected tentacle aside, dragging Nadia’s blade and the women herself along with it and tossing them into the open air, before lunging at her with her remaining tentacle. 

Bowser's fear flipped from girl to woman in an instant, but he was still climbing, too far to have intervened in any of this. Bella had no such restriction, and after having so recently been rescued herself, the princess passed on the favor by hitting a perfect bullseye of a shot on the lunging tendril with her railgun, vaporizing it in the blink of an eye. There was still the matter of the fall, but Bowser stopped himself from leaping out to try and help her when she casually and cockily gave him and the Ace Cadet a salute as she dropped past them

That left only him and said Ace to seal the deal, and there was no way the King was letting the hunter beat him to the top. Pushing through his fatigue, the king scrambled and then threw himself to the top of the stack and landed in front of the diminutive monster girl. 

[color=FD0000]”Playtime is over little lady, and you are going on a time out”[/color]  he told her sternly as he pressed one hand to his chest and pulled out a friend heart, while behind him his turrets all geared up side by side and pointed over one shoulder. Then he charged, the set of eight tentacruel beak tipped turrets and their dozens of tentacles being used to try and grapple/hold off the last wounded tentacle if/when it made to attack him. The king himself made an attempt to grab Scylla like he had a certain princess dozens of times over the years so that she would be forced to hold still while he gave her a proper telling off before/when he freed her.

Also so that she wouldn't tip off the tower when the inevitable next strike from the pissed off octobeast came. That guy was getting an earful next, mark Bowser’s word.