[center][img]https://www.mariowiki.com/images/thumb/b/b2/Koopa_Troop_artwork.png/658px-Koopa_Troop_artwork.png[/img] [h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2] [b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 1,530 (+3) [b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 9 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]/// (87/90) [b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 7 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (83/70) [b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 7 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]///////////[/color]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////(11/80) [b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Edge of the Blue – Bottomless Ocean Feat: Rika [/center] [hider=Kamek level up:] [url=https://i.imgur.com/m47FIcu.png]Shinkify:[/url] Size is not just something Kamek gives, it is also something he can take away, allowing him to reduce objects and people to one eighth of their original size. Unlike the growing, this can be done without permanent channeling of the effect, however it is also done via shooting the target with a large sparkling projectile, meaning it is entirely possible for the attack to miss an agile opponent. High degrees of magic resistance can also prevent the effect from occurring unwillingly. [/hider] In the end they spent two much time arguing, and the universe decided the timer bar for making the conversation choice had run out and promptly moved on without them. A titan of metal, greater than any of the monster they had seen so far, approached, driving the base they had been thinking about entering into crisis mode and a lock-down, sealing them outside. Worse, they’d just bid goodbye to one transport, and the other, the Atomo’s was reduced to a giant paperweight by some kind of power disrupting all machinery. [color=SpringGreen]ahhhh![/color] Jr yelped as his clown car’s propeller suddenly died and he and Mimkyue where unceremoniously dropped to and then tipped onto the ground. At the same moment Rika also was dropped to the deck as the gauntlets she used to support herself stopped doing so and instead became arm weights. Blazermate had it worst of all as she dropped to the ground, seemingly lifeless. Only the fact that she didn't poof into dust was evidence that she wasn't straight up dead. Entirely appropriate panic gripped the group as the titan bellowed at them with deafening sound. Peach commanded that they take the only sane course of action: as insane as it was to do so, they should make a run for the Maw. [color=SpringGreen]”But my ship!”[/color] jr cried out as he pulled himself out of his car and realized that they might have to abandon the bricked airship to be destroyed by the titan. [color=FD0000]”kamek, shrink it. I’ll carry it. Jr help the girls!”[/color] Bowser ordered, stomping towards it to do his part of the acction [color=SpringGreen]”But i have to carry my car as well!”[/color] Jr retorted as Mimikyue jumped back onto his shoulder [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Put it inside the airship and I’ll shrink everything!”[/color] Kamek shouted, an instruction that was quickly followed. The clown car was tossed into the open hangar of the airship and then with an incantation of [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Happening right before your eyes, a ship made a more portable size!”[/color] Kamek fired a sparkling bolt out of his wand, which struck the airship and rapidly shrunk it eight-fold to the size of a small car. Then the Koopa king picked up the airship and carried it, and two micro pigs that where now trapped with it, towards the maw. Meanwhile while Jr tired to haul the limp Blazermate along with him wile Kamek, and a copy of himself, grabbed Rika’s two gauntlets and hauled them upward, acting as supports and allowing the woman to run for the maw along with the others. Possibly with a fair bit of help with their respective cargoes the Koopas just barely made it inside the maw before its entryway slammed shut behind them. There was hardly time to catch their breath however, as while they may have escaped the giant robot, they went out of the woods yet. Indeed perhaps they had just entered the woods, and found them horribly haunted, for awaiting them was the slender mistress of the vessel. Peach attempted to negotiate a peaceful stay upon the vessel and, all burdened down by their various cargoes, the troop didn't stop her or start a fight. Things seemed to be going well right up until they didn't, which occurred when the rather creepy creatures the lady sent out tuned out to not be chaperons and instead to be hypnotists. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Oh not again”[/color] Kamek managed to groan, before they all whited out. [hr] [color=SpringGreen]”uurgh”[/color] jr complained in response to something bapping his face and then drowsily rolled off of the pillow he’d landed on to try and get away from it. And then kept rolling. And rolling. All the way down the pillow pile till he hit the blanket beneath with an [color=SpringGreen]”oof”[/color] [color=FD0000]”WHAT! WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT MINION? WHERE ARE JUNIOR, AND PEACH, AND AKMEK, AND EVERYONE ELSE!?”[/color] Came a voice that was on the edge of throwing a tantrum to which jr was forced to keep listening to as he waited for the stars dancing around his dizzy head to go away. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Sire, I am Kamek”[/color] the person being yelled at insisted, barley audible when compared to the yeller. [color=FD0000]”WHAT! NO YOU AREN'T! JUST LOOK AT YOU, YOUR JUST A REGULAR OLD KOOPA CHILD”[/color] the angry one retorted. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Magikoopas do not come pre-wrapped in blue robes when they are delivered by stork you know. You have to earn those through years of study and dedication to the magical... Oh. Oh dear”[/color] the far away voice said before fading out and being replaced by a much closer one called out “mikyu?!” Jr looked to the side and found Mimikyue racing down the pillow pile towards them, though the pokemon was for some reason missing her now distinctive metal parts and looked exactly like she did the day he had caught her. With a final hop down she stopped in front of her trainer, cocked her false head to the side in prepexion and then proceeded to bap him in the face with a shorter long limb again to try and get his attention. [color=SpringGreen]”Yeah yeah, hold your Yoshis, I’m getting up. Nice to see you too Mimi. What happened to your bits?”[/color] he asked as he sat up, to which he got a shrug and then a grumpy harumph from the pikachu mimicking pokemon who was very annoyed that her electrical powers had been stolen from her. Jr, still a little dizzy, waited for a moment for mimi to take her traditional spot on his shoulder and then, not noticing anything amiss with himself, walked round the pillow mountain a bit till he found the source of the voices that had been arguing. There he found 3 people: A generic koopa child, standing surprisingly firm despite being yelled at. Jr’s mirror image, the only difference between him and them being that his double’s bib/bandana was blank, who was doing the yelling. And sitting passively on the ground while the koopa and doppelganger argued was a small pale human wearing an oil black one-piece swimsuit featuring a white strip on the chest with symbols Jr did not understand written on it (in a style Sakrua might have recognized from her school swim classes if it had been blue) and a wee pair of booties who also had glowing blue eyes, short black hair and had a pair of gauntlets, that looked a lot like bizarre metal sock puppets, covering her hands. [color=FD0000]”THEY HAVE TOO! HOW ELSE WOULD YOU TELL THE MAGIC ONES FORM THE NORMAL ONES!”[/color] The other Bowser Jr was yelling at the young koopa before jr intervened with a confused [color=SpringGreen]”Um? Hello?”[/color] [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Young Master! There you are!”[/color] the young koopa gasped and cried out with surprise and delight upon turning to see him while the doppelganger took a few moments to catch on. When they did they too were delighted, calling out [color=FD0000]”Junior! There you are”[/color] before running over and giving the still perplexed Jr a relieved hug. [color=SpringGreen]”Huh? Who? oh. Papa?”[/color] jr said, figuring it out at last as the last of his dizziness went away. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Yes it does appear we have been de-aged by those awful creatures, as well as having any spirits we have fused with or employed stolen as well. And we have quite possibly been skunk on-top of all that? Or perhaps this palace simply enlarged? Or designed to look like it is enlarged? All of those have been things that I've seen happen, so it’s hard to tell which it is”[/color] The Koopa who was [color=SpringGreen]”Kamek?”[/color] speculated and then nodded to confirm his identity. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Also that is Rika over there”[/color] Kamek also pointed out. The girl didn't react, prompting the koopa to add [color=DeepSkyBlue]”That’s your name, remember?”[/color] “Oh? Oh right. Hello” the girl who had her name written across her chest said, with a voice lacking much of the personality it had gained over the past 24 hours, before adding simply that “I still can't walk very well” [color=FD0000]”Gah, am I going to have to carry everything today!”[/color] the mini Bowser complained and then ignored Rika’s insistence that no, it was ok, they could just leave her here if it would make their lives easier as he picked her up and gave her a piggyback ride in an ample demonstration that koopa royalty were just built differently than mere commoners. [color=SpringGreen]”Wait, so why am I still the same?”[/color] Jr asked while that was happening. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”It seems we have been set to a specific age rather than having a set number of years taken off. Otherwise I would still be mostly the same while you, well, you wouldn't exist. As it is, I think if we had a measuring tape we would find you would have lost a an inch or two, but that is about it”[/color] [color=SpringGreen]”What! Gah those big jerks I’m going to kick their butts so bad next time we see them!”[/color] Jr declared, having been immensely proud of every inch he had gained since he’d started measuring himself. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Well be sure to give them a few kicks from me, as I, like Rika over there, won't be much help in the butt kicking department. I mean, what am I going to do? Slowly walk into them?”[/color] the mage made a frustrated sound at the mere thought of relying on such physicality. [color=FD0000]”Alright that’s enough dawdling, let’s go find the others!”[/color] Bowser announced and, along with his piggybacking cargo who found it in herself to enjoy the ride, started to match off in a random direction in search of the rest of the party. Jr went after him. Then came back, picked up the slow walking turtle that was Kamek and carried him over his free shoulder, much to the formerly old koopa’s protestation, and then together the five of them all went to try and find the rest of the party so that they could try and figure out what in the world they were going to do to get out of this one.