[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] 1628 (+3) [b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 9 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (137/90) [b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 8 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]//////////////////// (62/80) [b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 8 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]//////////////////// (59/80) [b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Bottomless Sea – the Maw - the Depths Feat: Rika [/center] Kamek was, frankly, about as surprised as anyone when his attempt to talk to the big guy (who’s name he still didn't know despite asking) sort of worked out. Kinda. It bought time at the very least for Nadia to scurry around and shout down a suggestion to Jr without giving away where he was. Unfortunately there was only one slight problem with her plan. Jr, looking up at Natia as she called down, scrunched his lips up and then darted his eyes back towards flow control when Nadia rhetorically asked him if he still had her fan [color=SpringGreen]”Uhhh. Yeah. Sure I just got some stuff to still do down here you know”[/color] he replied, words running together as he tried and failed to cover for the fact that the fan was still back in the sub, having been entirely forgotten till Nadia reminded him of it. [color=SpringGreen]”Like find that suit”[/color] he suddenly said with a click of his fingers, very happy to have an actual real excuse [color=SpringGreen]”Like idk where he went and we can’t just leave it right? Coz there was like a copy of Mirage in it or something?”[/color] Jr didn't actually know and, up until this very moment, had not cared either about the suit's whole deal or what had happened to it down in the water after it disappeared. Now, however, he’d just talked himself and, probably some of the others, into worrying about Mockingbird’s fate. [color=SpringGreen]”I'll be right back!”[/color] he called up, and then scampered back into the wreckage just in time, because Kamek’s distraction tactic stopped working a few moments later, the sick as a parrot fish giving in to fatalism and wrecking a section of platform and sending the Ace flying. If he landed safely in the unsafe pit then at the very least Jr’s forgetfulness might mean they could both try and get out the same way, but, for now, the boy was scampering through the water back the way he came towards flow control and the fan that would get him out of this mess. And would have gotten him out of it even sooner had he remembered it was there. Above Kamek hadn't overheard what the pair had said to each other, and had also tried to avoid looking over there in case he gave Jr away again, but that the young prince was moving with purpose was a good sign. He just needed to buy more time, for Junior to do what he was doing, for the others to get down and, depending on how Ace’s flight ended, for the monster hunter too get to safety. Unfortunately he still only had his words, which their tormentor was likely forcing himself to be deaf too, and his brain, which after a few moments of wracking he called up the only idea he had at the moment. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Nadia, or someone, there's a... creature up near the entrance, and a tank of black goop that created it. If you can try throwing both it might help?”[/color] The eyebally thing had certainly had a certain hypnotic allure, though whether it would be enough to get the guy’s attention was debatable. What he was more confident in being helpful was the goop, which he could not imagine interacting well with flesh while doing its thing. The only other thing he had that he could do was to try again with their pitiable foe, though the odds here were even less in his favor than they had been before [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Let us pass, help us escape, and we will owe you in a way your current boss doesn't. I guarantee you we have more at our disposal than she does in this rust bucket. An entire city of heroes with wisdom from a hundred worlds and a royal treasury’s worth of money to back us up. We could work to try and cure you, rather than simply stave off the worst of your... illness. From where I’m standing, it doesn't look like her help is doing you much good”[/color] It really was appalling, in Kamek’s opinion, both on the basis of simple empathy and as a fellow minion. Something like this would not have gone on under his watch back home, that was for certain. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”In fact, there's a clear conflict of interest going on here. She will never try to resolve your condition, or treat it in a way that impacts your use as a weapon, because if you're better or cured, then you aren't useful to her monsterous ends. We have no such concerns. Help us now and you won't have to be a weapon any more. Here, I can even start our end of this deal right now”[/color] Kamek said, before calling out [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Moogle? Are you still around? Can you take some notes about this poor gentleman’s condition for me and take them back with you? Run them by the heroes back at base, see if any of them are familiar?”[/color] [color=DeepSkyBlue]”and if there's anything you can tell us about it, that would be most helpful. This is free by the way, I’ll be asking base for their knowledge whether you help right away or not”[/color] Kamek finished. It was worth another shot, as long as it was. What else could he really hope to do? [hr] When the crane wasn't enough to finish the peg legged monster, the three shots from the two former abyssals soared forth with the power of friendship at their back and sent the proxy wobbling on the precipice, but only that. The joy Rika had felt at being joined in her endeavor by Bella toppled when their effort failed, her mind splitting three ways between running, pushing Bella out of the way of the inevitable retaliation or trying to throw her weak body at it to try and finish the job, paralyzing her while Bella snarled in anger at the wretched stompy thing. Fortunately, while the two semi mechanical girls were unable to finish off the foe, a savior of iron came to their rescue. Blazermate, damaged thrusters flaring as she launched into the room, kicked off of the wall above the chair Mirage had used and with one final strike shield bashed the teetering thing down into the pit. Rika found herself holding her breath as it fell, and then, like Mirage, was unable to hold in her jubilation when a thud confirmed it was gone. “Yessss! Way to go Blazermate!” she cheered loudly, pumping her arms up with exhilaration and relief that she wasn't having to be quiet any more, before turning to the other ship girl telling “and you Bella. Thank you thank you thank you for helping with my stupid idea, I would have been sunk without you for sure” before giving her a quick hug, only to let go just as quickly and looking a little sheepish while moving away to give her former boss her personal space back. She glanced around to see if everyone else was ok, thinking of thanking Mirage for helping her too, but he was already out the door. Then there was a thud as he fell over something and shouted about a monster, which sent Rika scurrying over only to find he’d tripped over a magnet. “You scared me-” she began to complain before a loud clattering of metal resounded from out the door where Geralt and Sakura had presumably hauled Peach which gave her another fright before the source of that noise made itself clearly known. [color=FD0000]”Peach?! Are you ok?! Hey, Blazermate?! Blazermate where are you, drop whatever pointless thing you're doing, get over here and help peach right now!”[/color] Came the yelling of Bowser, who’s stomach full of paper was now companing at him in a way that wasn't really an improvement, just different. “Hey. She just saved us, don't be mean” Rika said back to him from inside the corridor [color=FD0000]”From what?”[/color] he demanded “The thing that hurt Peach. Punched it down into that pit” she explained poking her head out the command center door to speak with him [color=FD0000]”Oh. Well. Great job as always then.”[/color] Bowser half apologized to robot who had already on the way to help when he started making a racket. “What have you even been doing while we’ve been getting attacked” a little annoyed that the King was making demands when he hadn't even been here to help in the first place. [color=FD0000]”Found another key. Except we need to print this one? Also half a scissor one. And some metal to make stuff.”[/color] he explained as he stepped out the way and let Blazermate get to work. “Oh. Is there a lock we need to undo down there?” Rika asked [color=FD0000]”I mean I haven't found one yet”[/color] He replied, and when he got a skeptical look he elaborated that [color=FD0000]”Where there’s keys, there's gonna be doors that need them. Duh. When we run into one and don't have to come all the way back here for them you’ll thank me.”[/color] “Uh huh” [color=FD0000]”Plus someone can use the scissors half as like a knife or something. Or we can print two and get some scissors I don't know,”[/color] he said while gathering up his scrap and templates and then commanding Rika to [color=FD0000]”Keep Peach safe while I deal with this”[/color] before stomping his way into the machine room to try and finagle the machinery in it into doing what he needed done. Rika shook her head, knowing that now that Blazermate was basically done with fixing her up that Peach was capable of handling herself about as well as she could, went and took a look in the vent the monster had come out of to make sure there weren't any other surprises just waiting to leap out of it at them. [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/5r7OTIh.png[/img] [b][color=Aquamarine]wordcount:[/color][/b] 558 (+1) [b][color=Aquamarine]Midna: level 6[/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aquamarine]////////////[/color]/////////////////////////////////////////////////// (12/60) [b][color=Aquamarine]Location:[/color][/b] Sandswept Sky - Al Mamoon Northeast - Rocket Inc. [/center] Midna got a very nice overview of the opening moments of the battle as she flickered from shadow to shadow to shadow, keeping herself in ones that wouldn't be eradicated by the flashes of gunfire that opened up from both sides of the battlefield. Not an easy task, but now that she was more familiar with the futuristic (to her) weaponry it was a feasible one. The first obvious issue was the titan in armor with his massive energy shield which he had used to block her potted rain and basically everything else thrown at it up until a point, keeping his squad safe in a way their own had no such luxury of. Then he charged forwards as the lines broke apart rather than stay back and try to smash into them rather than stay fast and cover his team. Not that they needed it. Gunners and mages split up to use the pillars of the arena as cover and started hailing anyone they could with fire, while the other brawlers raced forwards, whether they wanted to or not in the sword and shield wielding warriors case (and, again, Midna wanted no part in dealing with him on an instinctual level). They were all perfectly split up and able to be ambushed and picked off by her shadow sneaking strategy. Unfortunately, the one with that namesake basically had the same plan, and he launched his into action first. After a far more effective opening barrage, shadow also floated up and around to observe, only to blink right past their lines and boot Ciella into the path of Reinhardt’s charge, causing the rocket propelled knight to smash into her, and then smash her into a wall, eliciting a shout of pain. Thoughts of her own ambush were dropped as Midna reacted, appearing out of the shade of a pillar as Shadow finished his kick, and then ramming a shadow hand towards him in an open palmed smash. As that flew forth she portalled in her size up wolfos and sent it hurtling into Reinhardt’s side in a titanic body-slam aimed at knocking him away from Ciella. She didn’t really like that she was helping the woman, but the giant thorn in her plan of liberation was still better alive than dead. Or so she hoped. She was stopping the mini mind control from getting away with her area surrounding shroud (how much magic did this woman have?) after all, and Midna suspected that it wouldn't stay up if she went down. So, in-order to stop the cause of this mess from escaping, then the rabbit woman had to live. As both blows did what they did Midna sprinted forwards towards Ciella, drawing back her shadow hand from where it had been lunged at Shadow, ready to guard her from attack, and in its place hurling a spray of twilight sand up at the speedster. Then she tossed a friend-heart at the the woman (it was worth a shot) and hoped that the massively armored man would be able to tough out at least some of her inevitable retaliation. If she could she’d try and slide into the woman’s shadow to allow her to teleport away to reposition, and if not then shield, shadow hand and speed would have to see her through whatever retribution her strike had garnered.