[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] 1,293 (+3) [b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 9 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (148/90) (-7) [b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 8 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (81/80) (-6) [b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 8 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]// (78/80) (-6) [b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Bottomless Sea – the Maw - the Kitchens Feat: Rika [/center] Bowser’s headbutting of one of the koopas turned into a very very short lived dust up, or rather sud up, as the inevitable Galeem thing happened to the troopas in response to one of your friends being attacked by some random kids, who they didn't find nearly as scary as the chefs, even if they talked big game. This turned out to be a poor assessment, as they were no match for the royals, who quickly beat some sense into their minions and reminded them of their duty. “Oh shoot. Prince Junior! Sorry we didn't recognize you!” the first troopa to be free said as he got his senses back, before standing up with pride and saluting “Chef Bros, ready for duty” prompting the other three troopas to do the same, before they all looked back and forth a little confused and the first asked “but, uh, why are there two of you?” [color=FD0000]”Coz I’m Bowser, thats why”[/color] the king informed them, jabbing a thumb towards himself before explaining [color=FD0000]”The freaky witch lady who runs this place put a curse on me and my new troop, making us all young. Not that that managed to keep us down”[/color] [color=SpringGreen]”Yeah! But we gotta hurry now. Remember?”[/color] Jr insisted, thinking they had wasted quite enough time on these minions already and wanting to get moving. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”The young master is right. Time is of the essence”[/color] Kamek agreed, despite them freeing these koopas being his idea. There was of course logic to it, which he displayed now by asking, [color=DeepSkyBlue]”So tell me, do you know another way into the Kitchen that is just round the corner?”[/color] “Oh that one? Um. well. That’d be...” The Koopa glanced towards the door Nadia had disappeared through quite a while ago “quite a long way round. Past all the, urgh, ‘guests’" The koopa shuddered at the memory of them "and then down through the kitchen, past all the chefs…” despite being free and in the presence of their boss, the troopas still weren't exactly thrilled about the idea of going up against the soup-makers “It’d be this whole thing” [color=SpringGreen]”That’ll take too long. How about the door? Got anything that can go through it. Like a fire axe? Or a bomb or something!”[/color] Jr asked quickly [color=DeepSkyBlue]”They don't exactly keep explosives in kitchens I'm afraid, young master”[/color] Kamek corrected the prince, [color=DeepSkyBlue]”thinking of all the open flames! It would be a nightmare! There’s a reason you never see any bob’omb chefs”[/color] “Uh, well, there’s no intentional bombs about, but every good chef has to know how not to blow up their kitchen and uh, well if we work backwards from that there might be something...” The Chef bro explained before, hesitantly, explaining what he meant. [hr] “Oh oh, that’s smaaart!” Rika said, agreeing with Bella’s plan, before whisper-shouting down to Mimi to “hey, you’ll help her when she bites her right? Pull a sneaky on him or something?” which got her a salute from the mon, who then hurried away from the edge of the fireplace, where she’d probably besotted if Bella’s plan worked, and went to find a nice ambushed spot from which she could assail the chef. “Cool ok now. Uh. How do I cry?” the girl, who had been a nameless faceless mook all of a day ago, asked, only to find Bella already slumped over and playing dead already. “Bella? Bella? Oh. Oh dear” “I uh, oh no um um um” Rika said, starting to panic “Wah. Wah. Wah. That's what crying is isn’t it? Or no, that sounds really fake. I don't know if. How am I supposed to? um. I’m sorry. You’ve been really smart and i don't know how to. I. im sorry I'm just. I'm so hungry. And tired. And stupid and ” she sniffed and kept rambling “and i don't want you to die. I don't want to die. But I. I don't know how. How to” she sniffed again, harder, her nose getting runny “I’m sorry. I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorrrrrrry.” She wailed the last and then had all the stress, fear and exhaustion of the day catch up with her as she broke down into genuine tears, loudly sobbing and crying as tears streamed down her cheeks for the first time in her life. [hr] While the others used stealth speed and trickery to navigate the maw and try and make their escape, the Koopa troop was resorting to what they did best. Brute force. [color=FD0000]”Faster people, faster! Get those sacks emptied out”[/color] Bowser shouted as he hauled another one into the kitchen from the pantry they’d passed by. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Sire please! This is incredibly reckless. We are in a pressurized submersible, badness knows how deep beneath the ocean! This could kill us all!”[/color] the mage shouted up to his king from the door to the washroom, incredibly concerned by what was unfolding. [color=FD0000]”Ah quit being such a baby! We’re gonna show those schmucks what happens when you try to keep us out! Really shake things up around here!”[/color] Bower shouted back as Jr ran past him shaking his own sack all over, filling the air in the room with flour dust, who added [color=FD0000]”yeah, those big jerk chefs won’t know what hit em!”[/color] “Uh, Boss! Bosses! That’s gonna be enough. I think” the now de facto leader of the chef bros squad said as he and his troops finished emptying their own sack. [color=FD0000]”Alright alright! Then let's blow this popsicle stand!”[/color] the king announced, tossing his sack aside and then hustling out the room along with the others as they all headed back into the washroom where the fork people were currently cowering in the corner, wanting nothing to do with these crazed brutes but equally fearful of leaving their workplace [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Oh dear oh dear oh dear. At least scrub yourselves off before this goes down! We're covered in flour!”[/color] the mage instructed, resigned to the incoming carnage and hastily using the soapy suds to get himself clean, before finding something, anything, to hide behind. In this, at least, his advice was heeded and the troop rapidly cleansed themselves (and any children who they’d found cowering in the kitchen and had herded out of it) of potential explosives before taking cover. Rather than join them, Bowser went and found an angle that let him see into the room and towards the flour cloud swimming around, which was mainly being kept there by the humidity in the washroom on one end and the fact that they’d blocked the way they’d come in on the other. Once everyone was ready and taking cover, the king took a deep breath and hucked a fireball across the room towards the door, its slow speed for once a blessing as its lazy flight gave him time to leg it to cover as well. [color=SpringGreen]”So if flour explodes, why couldn't we have just pile it up next to the door?”[/color] Jr asked now that they weren't running around filling the air with the stuff. “Oh, no, so see” one of the chef bros began explaining “it’s because flour has a lot of energy in it. So it burns quite well. But normally just the outside of a load of flour burns because it’s the only bit touching the air. But in there, all of the flour’s touching the air at once as it floats around in it, meaning it can all burn at once, meaning that when it ignites-” And then the world went white.