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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 1,588 (+3) 
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 9 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (90/90)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 7 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]////////////////[/color]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (16/80)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 7 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]//////////////[/color]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////(14/80)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Edge of the Blue – Bottomless Ocean
Feat: Rika
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Jr fire breath: Like his dad, Jr can breathe fire, though he came into it a bit later than his old man. Jr’s football sized fireballs can either be gravity defying straight shots, hit the ground, slowly seek their target and create a small burning area or be quick and bouncy like large fire flower fireballs. He can also breathe a small thin stream of fire about a meter and a half in length.
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[color=DeepSkyBlue]”It looks like people are coming to us”[/color] Kamek noted from atop the pillow pile. Bowser’s attempt at wandering round at random had failed as soon as they established that no one else was on the bed yet. Well, no one apart from tyrant the baby behemoth, who they’d found with his horns stuck in the mattress and his little legs flailing uselessly above himself.

After freeing the pig they’d climbed atop the pile of pillows on the bed, and from there identified the smaller groups of heroes slowly making their way towards their larger group.

[color=FD0000]”They really got everyone huh. Well except Blazermate”[/color] The already rather small robot didn’t seem to have been affected one bit [color=FD0000]”Guess she’s around your age then jr?”[/color]

[color=SpringGreen]”Well or a robot who’s always been like that”[/color] Jr pointed out

[color=FD0000]”Well yeah, but they shrunk Rika and she’s a robot”[/color] 

[color=SpringGreen]”Cyborg,”[/color] Jr replied, before looking down and asking her  [color=SpringGreen]”You were young like this once, right?”[/color] 

“I don't remember being anything other than what I was. Or being alive for very long before the big light flash happened and we came here” Rika replied from where she was lying next to jr while the prince tried to reboot her gauntlets with little success. The machinery all seemed to be intact and functional, the time rewind having inadvertently undone the EMP damage that had crippled them before, but in their partially developed state they seemed to lack the power to function correctly as they did when Rika was older, namely supporting their own hulking weight for her less than muscular frame.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Perhaps you where grown quickly using magic or machinery?”[/color] Kamek suggested before speculating that [color=DeepSkyBlue]”It would be quite interesting to see how the Abyssal fleet produced its soldiers.”[/color]

“Maybe?” Rika wasn't sure on either count.

[color=SpringGreen]”If they could just grow more, why would they be resurrecting their people over and over?”[/color] jr pointed out.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Efficiency perhaps?”[/color] The magic-less mage replied. Ultimately it was uncertain if they’d ever have the need or opportunity to find out, but the speculation passed the time till people started congregating on the bed. When that occurred the troop slid and/or clambered down their pillowy height and joined them.

Unlike some of the party, the troop had seen basically everyone in their base form already, so most of the members were easy enough to identify, barring the de-witchered Geralt who helpfully introduced himself. 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”I’ve sometimes wanted to be young again, but this most certainly was not what I had in mind,”[/color] Kamek joked to the other man who’d lost something close to a century and, by the looks of things, the spark of magic that made they unique among the majority of their kind. 

Last to join them was Peach, who despite being four again was apparently never to be found without a version of her signature parasol, who pointed them towards a vent high in the far wall that they might be able to use to start climbing out of whatever depth they’d fallen with the aid of Mirage’s dart gun. They were also warned about some kind of creature lurking in the random junk strewn across the floor, prompting the troop to take a look over the edge for it.

[color=SpringGreen]”Yeesh, What a mess”[/color] Jr commented, taking the first proper look at the state of the floor. Not that you could see said floor for all the stuff piled up, which was kind of the issue.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”and this is why you need to clean your room from time to time”[/color] Kamek was helpful to remind him.

[color=SpringGreen]”Yeah yeah”[/color] 

[color=FD0000]”Bet it isn't so tough, whatever it is! We can just smoke it out and then not have to worry about a buncha platforming!”[/color] Bowser declared, blowing out a little wisp of fire to show where said fire would come from.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”That might not be wise. Firstly because we’re trying not to attract attention, and also lets try and avoid setting fire to the submarine while we are in it. Last thing we want is it burning down with us inside it,”[/color] Kamek suggested against the idea

[color=FD0000]”How can it burn down when it’s in the water?”[/color] 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”If the fires so bad that the waters coming it to put it out, then that waters coming for us too”[/color] Kamek pointed out, which got an [color=FD0000]”Ah”[/color] from Bowser

[color=SpringGreen]”Wait, you could breathe fire when you were this age?”[/color] Jr asked, a little surprised by this information.

[color=FD0000]”Huh? Yeah, I could breathe fire since I was a baby!”[/color] Bowser declared proudly, initially missing the blow that might do to Jr’s ego.

[color=SpringGreen]”Oh”[/color] jr replied, before muttering [color=SpringGreen]”I’d only just gotten the hang of that”[/color] dejectedly.

[color=FD0000]”Oh. Uh. Well yeah but... You can do a bunch of stuff that I could never do with mine! That homing one you do? And the bouncy ones too? You're really talented with it son, so what if it took you a bit longer, you're great at it now and you're just gonna keep getting better! When you grow up you’ll be as good as me, better even!”[/color] Bowser told him, clapping his identically sized son on the shoulder.

[color=SpringGreen]”Thanks dad”[/color] jr replied, a little perked up, but still sad that he wouldn't be able to help using fire like his dad was going to be able to.

“Um i think people are heading out already” Rika interrupted from where she was sitting, and indeed several people were already off. Mirage and his pop gun were climbing up and all over while Sakura was either being very clever or very foolhardy with her plan of using two pillows to leapfrog her way across the room.

[color=SpringGreen]”Yeah that is cheating, you cheater!”[/color] jr yelled after Sakrau as she stepping stones her way across the floor before more quietly saying that he [color=SpringGreen]”Didn’t know she had it in her”[/color] to Mimi, as if he was a little impressed by this underhanded tactic.

[color=FD0000]”If we’re splitting up then seeing as we’re the tough guys we’ll take the toughest route!”[/color] Bowser declared, pointing a finger along a route that would involve quite a bit of daring jumping to pull off.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”I’m not so sure all of us could manage that Sire. Perhaps we could instead  tare up the sheets and use them to create the envelope of some kind of hot air balloon powered by your majesty’s fire breath and hey wait no put me down aaaaaaah!”[/color] Kamek speculated, before being picked up and unceremoniously thrown by the still inhumanly strong Bowser across a rather large gap and landing atop a large toy-box shaped like a treasure chest. The young koopa scrambled a bit to avoid sliding down the curved lid of the box, but managed to find it in himself to avoid slipping down into the sea of junk below.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Sire. Please warn me next time.”[/color] Kamek shouted at the king who had lobbed him so recklessly.

[color=FD0000]”Yeah yeah”[/color] Bowser called back before Jr joined in and called out [color=SpringGreen]”Here, catch!”[/color] before tossing Tyrant through the air. The koopa did his best to catch the bay behemoth while avoiding being impaled by the beast’s massive horns that made it and BB something close to the most deadly weapons the group had at their disposal at the moment.

The flying pig was swiftly followed by Mimi, who didn't need to be caught at all as she gently floated down to land with them. Finally she was followed by Rika, who’s landing was nowhere near as smooth. Larger than Kamek by a fair bit (adult koopas where practically child sized already, leaving the koopa as quite the tiny tot) and covered in some underdeveloped metal parts, the girl just barely cleared the gap and then, upon landing, that same amount of dead metal weight caused her to slide down the side of the toy box chest, while her bound up hands offered little in the way of ability to grab hold of things to stop her slipping down.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”oh dear oh bother oh dear”[/color] Kamek panicked, running after her and grabbing an arm, only for his small and weak form to do little but get dragged along. Mimie grappling on as well did little to help improve the situation. Then two thuds behind him herald the arrival of the royals, who rushed down and, with claws for grip and raw strength hauled the three of them back up to safety from which Tyrant had refused to budge.

“Thanks. And sorry. I’m just dead weight thanks to these.” Rika said, heaving the heavy gauntlets on her arms up with a great deal of effort. 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”It’s not your fault”[/color] Kamek assured her.

[color=SpringGreen]”We’ll keep an eye out for anything that can help. Maybe something with a battery?”[/color] Jr suggested, thinking maybe he could rig something up to help the girl’s gauntlets get the juice they needed externally.

[color=FD0000]”Sure. But we’ve wasted enough time here already. Let's keep moving. Jr, you go across before we throw Rika for this next one so this doesn't happen again.”[/color] Bowser ordered, already eyeing up the next gap they’d need to traverse.

[color=SpringGreen]”Sure thing dad. Come on, up you get and let's get moving. The faster we get outta here, the faster we can kick some snake butt and you can get back to blasting everything to bits with like a bazillion guns”[/color] Jr said, helping the girl up and with that bit of motivation in mind, their little gang kept moving across the mess of a room towards the vent.