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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 1,645 (+3)
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 10 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (102/100) 
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 8 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (115/80) 
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 9 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]///////////////////////////////////////////[/color]///////////////////////////////////////////////(42/90) 
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Bottomless Sea – Carcass Isle
Feat: Rika
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Jr’s taunting had the expected result, which was that the shark giant he was mocking got royally mad and turned its focus onto him, flailing his anchor at the boy as he buzzed backwards in his clown car, laughing in the face of danger as Mimi clung to his shoulder for dear life. Nadia’s assessment that the cocky little shit was going to get hit sooner or later was most likely accurate, so it was fortunate for him that she decided to intervene, darting in to claw at its guts and face, and forcing it to switch targets again.

[color=SpringGreen]”Yeah, get im!”[/color] Jr cheered as Nadia stuck out at the monster, before the feline dexterously flipped away from its retaliation when it turned its attention back to her. He was going to follow up her attack with one of his own, however before he could it raced off after Nadia, leaving the prince to follow in both their wakes and only catching up at the same moment as Kamek and Ace reentered, which meant he also caught up just a moment too late to try and prevent it from absolutely clowning the woman with its anchor, impaling her with the blunt implement and then hurling her away with a second swing.

[color=SpringGreen]”Oh nononono”[/color] Jr panicked, forgetting for a moment how resilient the feral was. He was relieved to see both her picking herself up off of the floor and Kamek rushing towards her with a [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Don’t worry, I’m coming!”[/color] before directing his minions to heal and buff her, while the mage and Jr both put themselves between Ms fortune and the shark giant to make sure it couldn't come and finish the job.

Fortunately they wouldn't have to try and body block the titan or anything so desperate, as it was fully preoccupied with the Ace Cadet, with whom Kamek had had something of an odd experience with a few moments ago.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”It was the strangest thing. He didn't take well to my assistance at all”[/color] Kamek briefly explained to Jr as the monster hunter went at it with the shark, notably not using the blade he had enchanted, but a different one he had drawn moments after receiving the buff. He glanced back at Nadia, worried that maybe the same might happen to her, but of that there was no concern as the woman leapt over the top of the hovering pair with a pun on her lips and with Kamek’s three fold buffing magic glowing on her body without a hit of discomfort.

She absolutely laid into the shark giant with increased vigor and power before parrying it and sending it flailing, ripe for a final blow. The prince and the mage had been staying back while Nadia did her stuff, not wanting to risk getting in her way, but with her parry Hook, the scentinet meathook, forced them to get involved as it launched itself out of Jr’s clown car on its own accorded with a; ‘Let me get that fish for you’ before whipping round and impaling itself into the mouth of the monster. 

[color=SpringGreen]”Hook, line and sinker! Now pull!”[/color] Jr shouted, slamming the clowns car into reverse as Kamek, all his clones and a hastily summoned shadow Bowser all grabbed the length of chain and together they all gave a serious tug, turning the shark giant’s flailing into falling, tipping it all the way over onto its back with its belly exposed to the Ace’s blade, while the koopas fell over in a heap as the hook slipped free a moment before it was crunched down onto by the shark giant’s many rows of teeth.

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[color=FD0000]”Run! Run! We’re coming for you gahahahaha”[/color] Bowser yelled as he practically bounced down the street, bunny hopping across the waves after the last of the fishy flankers.

“Aaand pop!” came the voice of Rika from his shoulder, followed by a loud bang as her heavier arm cannon fired off, slamming into the back of their final floundering fishy foe, blasting the sorry sap to bits 

“looks like they didn’t run fast enough” she joked as the two splashed down and the ship girl dismounted from the shoulder of the king.

[color=FD0000]”Not nearly enough, nothing gets past me”[/color] Bowser replied with a blatant lie, before glancing around the now empty street and then back up it towards the now somewhat distant square [color=FD0000]”Now let’s get back to the others. Bet they’ll be nearly finished by now. Hopefully”[/color] he said, with a little hint of concern on his lips.

“Mmm” Rika agreed with a nod as the two hastily skated up the street and into the square where all the action was happening, finding that, yeah, it looked like things where more or less finishing up with everyone accounted for and working together to deal with the big baddies. The only exception to the teaming up on the titans rule was one Delsin Rowe, who was in the mists of being chased by a bunch of, or in fact most of, the remaining small fry.

[color=FD0000]”Tch. Amature. Well let’s go help him out”[/color]  Bowser grunted, misinterpreting the man’s intentional strategy as a folly. Rika at least thought that he looked confident enough that this was a situation he wanted to be in. Either way, they moved to take part in his unstated plan.

Bowser circled in on the conduit’s right, his multiple cannon emplacements unlocking from his back and slotting onto his side before blasting the murlocs with, of all things, water. The high powered blasts sent some of the locks tumbling, while others were mostly pushed back a bit while being drenched in seawater which turned out to be a bit cleaner  than the stuff the sea monster blood and village detritus tainted affair they were swimming in, making it almost refreshing.

There was some mocking gurgling that might have been laughter from the fish, that was quickly cut off as Posidon’s blessing kicked in and turned the air itself around them into razor sholes, slicing at the murlocs as they tried to move through it, hurting them more they faster they tried to go.

Some tried to race forwards regardless and catch up on Delsin’s heels. Those ones where practically shredded for their efforts, rendered easy prey for the conduit’s fire blasts, while the rest slowed down and became easy targets for Rika as she came in from Delsin’s left in a simple pincer movement. Turrets swiveled, slugging locks with shells while the ratatatat of her rifle and thump of her arm cannon brought the pain as she closed in and met the last of them in melee. 

She charged at one of the small ones, driving a smash of a punch into it that sent it staggering back, stunned but alive much to its surprise. A second surprise went off a moment later as the Brachydios slime that the hit had splattered on it detonated and ended its life. Not even looking at the explosion the shipgirl spun a quarter circle and blocked a swung club by making an X with her gauntlets, before using her hull blades to chop out her attackers guts and then slamming 6 small shells from the rigging’s elbow mounted cannons in there for good measure. A third tried to take her down while she was finishing the second, only to receive a meteoric hammer down swing to the dome as one of Bower’s hammer bro’s came flying in, tossed by his king. 

Then the king himself showed up, bull charging a puss filled fish with his horns, knocking it over and leaving it unable to prevent the king roasting it with his firebreath, while his tendrils snatched up a little one before strangling, poisoning and beak biting the life out of it while the king was otherwise occupied with helping Rika and Delsin deal with the final few Murlocs.

“This’s the last one?” Rika asked, while pumping the last of her rounds into a bayonet speared murlock, its club held in the loose grip of her cannon arm’s jaw unable to strike her.

[color=FD0000]”Yup. Gottem all,”[/color]  Bowser confirmed, dusting off his hands before telling them [color=FD0000]”Nice work you two”[/color] which got a beam of a smile out of Rika and, in a roundabout way, a request for fire from Delsin.

[color=FD0000]”Fire huh?”[/color] he asked, before looking up at the rain and instantly regretting it when he got water in his eye [color=FD0000]”Urgh. Nah. Way too wet for any of this sodden mess to light.”[/color] 

“Can you do that fireball that jr did? The one that left fire on the ground for a bit? Maybe that'll be enough?” Rika suggested, but received a shake of the head [color=FD0000]”Nah. My boy’s the one with the fancy tricks. Real prodigy. Me, I can only do smaller or bigger ones”[/color] 

Rika thought for a moment and then asked “Like those really really big and slow ones?”

[color=FD0000]”Yeah? What about em?”[/color] 

“Well if you can charge while you walk then maybe that’ll help you?” she turned to Delsin to say while Bowser said [color=FD0000]”What?”[/color] not having gotten it. It took a few more moments to outline the plan, but after that Bowser set himself up, sucked in some air and then with a huff and a puff and a fwooomph of flame a titanic fireball nearly the size of the king himself was lazily drifting back down the street they’d entered through, lighting it up as it traveled at a gravity defying walking pace and put out heaps of heat and fire that Delsin could hopefully nab to fuel his batteries. 

[color=FD0000]”So how’s that work anyway? You gonna eat the fire or something?”[/color] Bowser had to ask the man as he turned to check out the rest of the battlefield to see if anyone needed a hand or if it was all over.