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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 998 (+6) 
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 10 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (173/100) 
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 9 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (113/90) 
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 10 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]/////////////////////////////////[/color]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////(33/100) 
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Bottomless Sea – Carcass Isle
Feat: Rika
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[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Rise and shine princess, now is no time for beauty sleep”[/color] Kamek told Peach as magikoopa minions and medical medabot all put their healing power to work into getting her back into tip top shape. Some might have thought this a bit excessive, but Kamek was quite sure Peach’s death could quite literally break her king's heart, and so the mage was all to happy to go the extra mile when it came to preserving the apple, or peach, of Bowser’s eye.

While Kamek herself got all the help she needed on her resuscitation mission, the white mage clone she had sent to try and resuscitate Delsin needed all the help it could get to achive it's task. This was a problem, because it was taking all the effort of the team to simply stay alive, never mind pinning down the Orphan for long enough that the healer construct could do her thing. Bowser had quite possibly been the only person who could physically restrict the orphan, and look where that had gotten him.

Rika and Jr joined the party late, and once there it took most of their effort to simply stay clear of the flailing monstrosity, ducking, weaving, belly sliding (Jr) and sailing (Rika) across the goopy terrain the prince was spreading everywhere simply by attacking. Even with the ground burning and slipping away beneath its feet, the Orphan would not be slowed, let alone stopped.

And then it was too late.

The monster threw itself skywards, ripped a globule of meat from its blade and hurled it down into the sand. And then the beach exploded, ripping the clone that had been trying to sweep the ash into a pile to pieces, and blowing its efforts to the four winds in the process.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Gahhhhhh”[/color] Kamek raged wordlessly at this upset and then bit off several curses to instead turn her anger into aggression. The mage joined in with the princess at his side’s fire, blasting shadow empowered fireballs at the monster (and gaining 60 gold in the process).

Down below Rika and Jr picked themselves up from the ground and immediately got back to pouring on the fire, but it really didn’t feel like it was working. The monster would not stop matter how many shells or electro balls smashed into it and so there was no stopping it from completely annihilating the cliff-side and taking some of gravity along with it. 

Being much too close to the center of the calamity, Kamek went hurling upwards into the air, robes fluttering in the wind as she desperately regained control over her flight and weaved to avoid being splattered by the shower of boulders. Her duller minions were not so skilled, being reduced to puffs of smoke one and all by the carnage.

Even with her daft broomstick-womanship, the last in the volley of stone looked like it might claim the mage anyway, till she thrust out her wand at the oncoming stone and cast a glimmering bolt. It struck the stone, shrinking it several times over to merely rock sized, after which the mage caught it like a baseball. 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Ah drat that still hurt”[/color] the mage cursed. Then she became consciously aware of the strange antigravity affecting everything, and came up with an idea. She tossed the rock up like the start of a tennis serve, resized it, planted a dark mine in the resulting boulder, shrunk it again, and then whipped around on her broom, grasping it like a tennis racket and batting the pebble back down towards the Orphan with all her might.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Here, you can have this back!”[/color] she shouted, resizing the stone (and the dark mine implanted in it) as they flew, and then adding [color=DeepSkyBlue]”with interest!”[/color] as she supersized her projectile moments before impact.

Down below, Rika merely had to pick herself off the ground a second time, having been standing well back from the site of the detonation, but the sight of the Orphan seemingly just… walking away, made her absolutely furious.

“Don’t you dare run away you… You.. You JERK! RAAAAGH!” Rika screamed, first in rage and then in pain as she tapped into the Pacific Princess’s power. Raw vitally was ripped from her body, causing her to stumble to the ground as the sand beside her erupted, and a [url=https://imgur.com/dA43tVS]white whale[/url] hauled itself onto the beach. Unlike its beached (and rotten) kin however, this one had two things that let it rumble forwards towards the Orphan rather than simply founder and die. The first were the pair of stocky and disturbingly human arms in place of its front flipper. The second was that someone had turned down the gravity, and so the earth’s crushing’s grip on the sea creature was softened enough that it could haul it's bulk across the sand, its massive jaws hanging open in a roar that was felt rather than heard. At the same time the entirely audible roar of its naval guns barked out as they spat fire at the orphan as it approached.

Jr, who had been closer and had more or less joined the hail of rocks as a dangerous projectile by withdrawing into his shell, ran over to support the collapsing Rika as soon as he was able, more or less scooping her limp form up into his arms so he could carry her out of danger. 

Not that that meant he wasn't going to let the Orphan just walk away without doing anything either.

[color=SpringGreen]”Primids party, Murlock marines, Gooma swarm! Escort that whale!”[/color] he commanded, summoning a small army of stickers to support the white whale's lumbering advance towards the Orphan. The assorted minions, armed with massive boomerangs, crude cubs and raw determination respectively, fanned out to either side of the whale. They were there mostly to act as tarpit to bog down the orphan with the weight of their bodies in order to give the actual threat among them, the hulking whale, enough time to turn on and chomp the Orphan with its multiple rows of teeth.