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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 992 (+2) 
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 9 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]/////  (85/90)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 7 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (80/70)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 7 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color](78/70)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Edge of the Blue – Bottomless Ocean
Feat: Rika
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[color=SpringGreen]”No! Or maybe yes? Is that coming up a good thing?”[/color] jr said when accused of activating the lift by Sakura.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”We’re about to find out”[/color] Kamek told the prince before everyone squared up to face whatever was emerging from the depths. Turns out that what was coming was a bunch of small and overweight creatures that looked a bit like humans. As human as a certain garlic loving yellow menace perhaps. They had none of Wario’s self confidence however, as they immediately started cowering upon seeing the Blue Team, which caused the troop to drop their guard again.

While this was going on the king was trying and failing to interrogate the drunken guards.

[color=FD0000]”What. What are you saying? English minions, do you speak it?”[/color] Bowser demanded from the mooks he’d slapped awake, but in the end it didn’t really matter as their boss appeared via hologram shortly after, from who’s ire the king may have unintentionally saved them. 

[color=FD0000]”Ah forget it.”[/color] the king said to them when the green armored man in charge introduced himself, and then stomped over to join the rest of the team, leaving them to do whatever with themselves. [color=FD0000]”Nice place you’ve got here”[/color] he added to the talk with Tyl Regor, and again, Bowser was never anything but genuine with these things it was an actual compliment, before listening to what the guy had to say.

They got an offer to trade a favor for access, but they also got a second shot at the option that they’d been trying to avoid, namely the Maw, which reared its ugly head to welcome in the overweight guests Tyl Regor had produced. Unsurprisingly, Sakura was not happy about this and Kamek suspected that most of the others wouldn't be either.

The matter of what they could do about Rika and the rest was still up in the air as well. Sakura offered some suggestions, one of which was Jr paint them a portal out of here.


[color=SpringGreen]”I could, but that’d be a one way trip. If there's a whole bunch of these beacons then I won’t be able to make a painting that comes to a specific one. The place I paint has got to be i-coac-... I-cone-... Special. There's only one peach’s castle or smash city or whatever that adventure town was called, so those are easy, but if there's loads of these beacons then the magic won't work. Guess I could try and paint the whole sea, but I’ve no idea where that would make you appear. Maybe back at the river?”[/color]

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”I could shrink them all to about an eighth of their original size, and then people could carry them. Risky for self explanatory reasons, and Shippy would still be quite large and be a bit trickier to transport”[/color] Kamek suggested

“I mean. I don't know if we wanna be a burden like that” Rika said, that being somewhat of the point of her offering to stay behind. 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”You’d only be a little burden”[/color] Kamek helpful supplied, before steering the topic away from that and onto what their plan should be [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Now as for what we should do-”[/color]

[color=FD0000]”I say we go in and crump whatever creepy things run’s that ‘maw’ ship and take it for ourselves!”[/color] The king interrupted, very much onboarded with a warped interpretation he had of Sakura’s not quite suggestion that they destroy the spooky ship.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Sire, if I may, that may not be a safe idea”[/color] Kamek replied

[color=FD0000]”Yeah it is. Whatever’s in there can't be stronger than the area’s boss, so we can take it no sweat! Then we get a cool spooky ship that can take us anywhere!”[/color] the king retorted fearlessly. A little spookiness was nothing to someone who used haunted houses/castles as a line of defense, or at least that's what the king’s bravado told him.  

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Because we have been advised not to eat anything in there, food that, if I remember rightly, is supposed to be supernaturally enticing, and, well”[/color] Kamek said carefully [color=DeepSkyBlue]” there was that incident with fawful’s super-food that, ah, indicates that you’d be at risk.[/color]

[color=FD0000]”I dont know what you are talking about”[/color] Bowser insisted, refusing any knowledge of the time he’d eaten so much fatty food in one sitting that he’d become incredibly overweight, causing him to crashed through, and then get stuck in, the floor.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”I did some interviews to see if we could try and find a way to protect ourselves from future temporary takeovers after the fawful incident,[/color] it hadn't worked, it never did [color=DeepSkyBlue]”and the boos can get rather talkative if you know how to deal with them”[/color]

[color=FD0000]”Gah, those leggless jerks! It was all their fault too. They just wouldn't stop serving stuff up”[/color] Bowser grumbled. 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”You could have just not eaten what was put in front of you, could you not?”[/color]

[color=FD0000]”Look I can't just not...”[/color] Bowser began to say, then stopped when Kamek tipped his head to indicate that yes, that was his point. 

[color=FD0000]”Oh. Um. Gah. Well... how about that eye of the storm then?”[/color] Bowser said, admitting defeat and changing the subject.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”That does seem to be our target, going by what the Regor fellow let slip yes”[/color] Kamek agreed.

[color=FD0000]”Well. If we know that’s where we’re going, then why don't we just do what Sakura said and fly over the storm to it?”[/color] 

[color=SpringGreen]”Yeah, you could shrink everyone except me so they can all fit on the Atomos, and then we soar over all the storms and stuff and go kick some butt without anybody's help!”[/color] Jr butted in, somewhat more hyped about the prospect of being larger than everyone than they were about the potential time saver the trick could provide.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”I’m not sure if it would be that easy. But we could try. Carefully.”[/color] Kamek said.

[color=FD0000]”Feels kinda cheap,”[/color] Bowser muttered, having been victim to one to many warp whistles over the years. But it was on the table.