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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 1,065 (+2)
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 9 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (98/90)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 7 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]////////////////////////[/color]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (24/80)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 7 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]//////////////////////[/color]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (22/80)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Bottomless Sea – the Maw - the Belly
Feat: Rika
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[color=FD0000]”Ya got 4 gold coins to pay the ferryman?“[/color] Bowser quipped as he pulled the tarp up and ushered Ace onboard his lifeboat [color=FD0000]”Nah I’m kidding, but grab an oar and get rowing to pull your and your piggy’s weight or we’ll be here all day.“[/color]

The mini king scooted to one side of the small ship, leaving the other oar open for the Cadet to grasp. They’d both need to put their backs into it if they wanted to make it past what came next.

Back on the big boat Jr pulled the tiny miss fortune onto the ship just before her tyre transport was devoured by the thing in the junk.

[color=SpringGreen]”I don't know,”[/color] Jr said, as they watched the junk swimmer finishing its work on choking down the catgirl’s improvised transport [color=SpringGreen]”if that was a really cool or really stupid plan”[/color]

The prince didn’t get much time to deliberate on which it was as Kamek and Rika emerged front he ship, the little koopa carrying a split in half of Magnet and muttering about the impossibility of it (the pair had figured out the basics of how they worked fairly quickly after finding them by messing around using some of the trash inside the ship) while Rika (who had the had the other half slung under her arm) immediately noticed their new party member. 

“Hi Miss kitty. When did you get here?”

[color=SpringGreen]”Oh she just rolled in a few seconds ago”[/color] Jr supplied.

It was around that time that Bongo Bongo decided it had had enough of being a passive sentry duty and decided to start actively interfering with them. Presumably having worked out where they were going based on the movement of their disruptions across the room (and the presence of the only exit being on the side they were headed for over on this side) and so the big jerk brought its body down into view of them in full and then started banging the junk like a drum, its mighty disembodied hands sending shockwaves through the area around it.

Out on the junk sea, Bowser and Ace, along with Bella, would have to contend with this like a little wave machine. If they could, Bowser would suggest they try to link up with the exhausted looking ship girl so they could all get in one ship and combine their efforts to fight against the pounding roiling scrap sea.

The Troop, plus the temporary addition of Nadia, meanwhile had a shorter shot towards the exit,  which conveniently went around the big bad bongo drummer. They were also close enough to see there was going to be an issue getting through the vent, because, as vents do, it had a fan inside it to help circulation. That would be a problem that needed to be dealt with, and with their sudo-jailer getting more and more irate, the sooner it was gone the better..

At Nadia’s prompting, they set off towards the couch, Tyrant and Mimi following along this slightly easier path on foot rather than being thrown, while Jr carried Kamek again and Rika hauled both the magnets. With all the noise being made by Bongo himself, Blazer had managed to abandon stealth and put her fully developed frame to use, yeeting some of their allies towards the exit before jetting to the front of the pack from her previously lackluster position on the progress chart, meaning she got to the fan before them. 

Her plan to deal with the fan was, apparently, to drop kick the thing’s glowing center like it was a weak spot. Which it probably was, to be fair. If that didn’t work, once they got close Kamek would use the red magnet half on it, hoping it would give him some way to manipulate it. Unscrew it? Pull it out? Whatever worked if anything.

That left the others trying to think of something to do to help the others out.

“I mean I have these” Rika said, hefting her gauntlet “but don't know if the guns work yet, and if they do well...” unlike Mirage’s pop gun the mini navel cannons would be incredibly loud if they fired off, almost certainly giving away her position.

[color=SpringGreen]”If someones gonna get totally wrecked, run out a bit, shoot 'em, and then run back? But till then I think I have an idea that’s sneakier. Hey. Mimi? You still able to do that cool move where you hit them with your shadow?”[/color] Jr asked his only pokemon.

The specter rolled her eyes at this question, as if to sarcastically say “Did she know shadow sneak? Only babies fresh out the egg didn't know shadow sneak!” before realizing this was not being communicated thanks to her completely featureless and, in her opinion, cleverly hidden eyes, so instead she nodded her decoy’s head enthusiastically in acknowledgement that yes, she could do the thing. 

[color=SpringGreen]”Then go spook him!”[/color] Jr commanded with a dramatic point. Mimi pumped her arms to hype herself up, and then pushed the two dark tendrils down into her shadow, which grew and grew and grew, the longer and longer shadow still as thin as her tiny body as it impossibly stretched out towards Bongo Bongo. It stopped growing below him, out of his vision, and there a little shadow clone of Mimi popped up, bore its own long arms and then did a one two scratch attack at one of the hands when it came down to pound the ground.

As Mimi pulled a sneaky on him, Rika circled back to the ship quick as could be and, after finding a hiding spot, lined up her maybe functioning guns, ready to try and shoot at Bongo Bongo if someone's cover was well and truly blown and it was shoot or they die time.

Jr meanwhile suggested that maybe Nadia could use her fan to help them launch ripped up fabric or fluff from the couch to knock something over or just distract the big eyed brute for a moment with the fluff itself.

[color=SpringGreen]”Or like, make a little parachute for a red piece of metal junk and then we blow/magnet repel that away so it goes way off to where he’s looking and that means he gets distracted swatting at it like he did to you when he showed up?”[/color] was his final idea that he’d lend his claws too, though it would involve fishing for some red metal junk in the sea as the blue magnet, that would have made that retrieval mission easy as pie, was (probably) currently being used to try and mess with the fan's red spot.