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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 1,348 (+6) 
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 10 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (155/100) 
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 8 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (169/80) 
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 10 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]/////////[/color]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////(9/100) 
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Bottomless Sea – Carcass Isle
Feat: Rika
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Raise (the dead) (B’giotahmo  Bravha): Kamek can raise the dead back to life, or, rather, his white mage clones can. The process requires all of the fallen’s ash and their spirit, or spirits, to be in one place and free of external impurities, meaning it is best used when the body is freshly slain and the ash has not yet had time to be scattered by the elements. Sweeping can be done to coalesce the ash, but the risk of contamination (physical blemishes/mutations, and increased fraying of personality / inclination to madness) is high, especially on an ash-filled battlefield. This process is very mana intensive, but is a full and true resurrection back to life. The subject is raised at a weakened state (at 25% hp and with a 25% reduction to strength, dexterity, magic, and healing for a minute and forty seconds) one that is perfect for friend hearting.
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In and out, dodge and strike, hit and run. That was the name of the hero’s game. Chip away at the monster, one drop of blood at a time, and eventually, they surly prayed, it would bleed its last drop. It was a game that the badguy’s present knew all too well, but that didn't mean they were going to join in. 

Unfortunately one of their favored strategies, just hit hard and rely on being tougher to tank anything they throw at you, hadn’t worked out too great. Another of their strategies, just stay out of reach and pelt them with stuff, was also about to be proven ineffective as well. 

That moment came during a sudden lull in the fighting, when everyone coincidentally was doing the run part of the hit and run at once, leaving the Orphan without anyone tussling with it, which at first looked like a boon to the shooters.

[color=SpringGreen]”Mimi copy me!”[/color] jr commanded, before raising a hand up in the air and then shouting [color=SpringGreen]”eat this!”[/color] and slamming his fist down on a big red button. A cannon deployed from the clown car’s mouth and shot a flaming clown head shaped balloon, which was quickly followed by a smaller pikachu styled one and a standard cannon round from Rika. All three hammered down onto the Orphan , kicking up a cloud of sand and smoke.

[color=SpringGreen]”You like that you creep!”[/color] Jr taunted down at the orphan as it burst from the smoke screaming. And then it was jr who was screaming [color=SpringGreen]”It can fly!?”[/color] as the monster hurled itself into the air right up towards them (with a jump so good it made Mario look like a goomba in comparison) far faster than either could react.

With one grotesque hand it grabbed onto the car’s rim, and when jr leaned forwards to look down it found that wizened face leering up at him. Then it smashed its club into the side of the already sinking car, causing the whole thing to lurch in the air.

[color=SpringGreen]”Gah! Get off get off get off!”[/color] jr shouted as he hammered the controls to try and do something, anything, to remove the monster. Drill arms deployed front he side, only for one to be smashed off by the second blow. The other, however, rammed itself into the Orphan’s side, and then a moment later the mouth of the car opened up and extended a whirring saw blade that jammed itself right into the monster's ugly face, spraying viscera everywhere, which honestly just made the whole situation even more of a nightmare.

As Jr’s machine tried to slice the horror apart his friends tried to help him detach the monster, from atop the prince’s shoulder Mimi clawed away at its face with her long tendril like arms. Meanwhile Rika swooped closer, hammered it with a Brachydios slime splattering gauntlet punch before unloading all of her guns, and one glob of spit, right into the Orphan’s back, shells punching into and detonating inside its flesh, while the hail of rifle fire added more venom to its already poison laced veins. Despite their efforts the nonplussed horror simply sung its blade a third time, which caused a bang to bark from the clown car. Sparks burst off of its machine arms that turned limp a moment later as the whole vehicle started leaking smoke and sinking even more rapidly.

[color=SpringGreen]”No no no no!”[/color] jr panicked, desperately trying to find the necro smasher as they began to go down. With one flying pest dealt with, the Orphan launched itself off of the car and right into a horrified Rika, dragging her and the toadies carrying her, down with it.

As jr spiraled down out of the air to crash land somewhere off in the distance the monster and the abyssal slammed into the sand. Rika’s spine was only spared from snapping because the toadies who had been carrying her acted like airbags in their final moments, cushioning her fall and bursting into magical dust in the same time. That did nothing to get the Orphan off of her however, and neither did much of anything else she tried to do. Even with her hall blades flailing at it and it's back literally exploding when the Brachydios slime went off, it took a sock to the face from Bella to prevent it from simply cleaving her pinned form in half.

As the princess and the street cat held the Orphan’s focus Rika scrambled backwards through the sand in a panic, only to find a pair of arms wrapping under shoulders and pulling her up. 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Up you get, Rika. I’ve got you”[/color] came the reassuring voice of Kamek as she and a white mage clone helped pull the ship girl back onto her feet. The clone helping her directed its wand at the wound on her waist and sent a curing spell through it, while the other three pointed at Bella and caused a burst of magic to race through her, reassembling her shattered hand in a single pulse of sorcery. 

“Thank you-” Rika breathed shakily, her nerves shook by the incredibly close call, before starting and asking simply and worriedly “what about jr?”

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(a few moments earlier)

[color=SpringGreen]”Wow wow wow waaaaaaa!”[/color] came the cry from the sky as the koopa prince came spiraling down out of it, leaving a trail of smoke bleeding behind it.

[color=FD0000]”Hold on jr, papa’s coming!”[/color] Bowser called up to him as he pumped his legs as hard as they could go as he ran after the path of the descent, before leaping the last several meters between him and his son, snatching him out of the air with the skill of an expert receiver and turning so that he landed on his back, which skidded through the sand and then rapidly came to a stop close to the back of the cove.

[color=FD0000]”See, I gotcha”[/color] Bowser said, as his son gave him a hug out of sheer relief, before coughing at the smoke leaking out of the clown car.

[color=SpringGreen]”Oh, sorry, let me get that”[/color] jr said, before shutting down the machine, but unfortunately that did not improve much of anything, [color=SpringGreen]”gah, stupid-”[/color] jr growled , but stopped himself from doing even mild cussing infront of his dad and instead  [color=SpringGreen]”Thanks for the save, dad. But can you put me down so I can fix this?”[/color]

The king nodded as he lightly laid the vehicle onto the beach beside where he was lying, before pushing himself to his feet.  As the king picked himself up off of the floor jr hopped out of the car, and then grimaced upon seeing the extent of the damage. [color=SpringGreen]”Urg that… rotten jerk really did a number on it huh…”[/color] he said, before doing a calculation in his mind and then saying to his number one minion [color=SpringGreen]”Hey, Mimi! Go with dad and give that that stupid ugly old fart a couple dozen claws in the face for this, yeah?”[/color]

“Mimi!” the mon replied with a little salute, before hopping off his shoulder and up onto Bowser’s own via climbing the mess of spikes, domes and tentacles that was the king’s shell.

[color=FD0000]”So how do I…?”[/color] Bowser started to ask, not actually knowing that much about how to best use Mimi, but his son was already on the case

[color=SpringGreen]”Kamek knows, just hand her over.”[/color] Jr insisted, before reassuring his old man [color=SpringGreen]”Now go. I’ll be fine”[/color]

The King nodded, knowing that, most of the time, this was true, and started jogging back into the fray, heading specifically for where Rika and Kamek were in the midst of glancing back at him and jr and being relieved the young prince was OK. Right before the sand exploded behind them, causing them both to start back and away from the still far from neutralized threat that had brought both fliers down.

This was far from over, and the Troop were going to need to work together and pull another villainous tactic out of the (evil) bag if they didn't want every clash to end in the broken mess the first two methods had resulted in.