[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] 858 (+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] (125/90) [b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 10 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]///////////////////////////////////////[/color]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////(45/100) [b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Bottomless Sea – Carcass Isle Feat: Rika [/center] [color=SpringGreen]”uh oh”[/color] went Jr as the shells didn't really do much individually to the monster. No karts were sent spinning here. Instead the Orphan only received a series of annoying bonks that served to get the it’s attention and draw it to the prince who was wheeling around giving a volley of fire and alongside Kamek, Mimi and Peach, with Rika edging around, still hurt, trying to find a line between safety and usefulness. A line the prince failed to balance upon. Blasting boils hurled by the monster failed to strike him down, but a brutal swing caught him on the shell, launching the small prince out into the waters with a cry of fear and pain, along with his sholder-born companion. “I got you! I got you!” Rika cried out as she used her remaining strength to dash into the prince’s path and catch him in her arms, an action that fortunately only bruised her torso rather than impaling it on the prince’s spikes. The light little Mimi meanwhile found herself drifting down onto Kamek’s palm, and as effectively the only member of the troup not hurt and/or worn down to the bone. Getting to ride the battle out on your trainer’s shoulder would do that after all. The other three members still on the field looked haggard to hell and back, and yet the fight still wasn’t over. Closer to the beach the others pulled up what might well be their last reserves in a series of attempted finishers. Nadia got herself all wrapped up around it and then seemed to more or less blow herself up, which was an alarming desperate looking play. Even more alarming was the fact that Blazermate’s massively blasting mega beam got her struck by lightning for her troubles. Which rapidly become everyone else’s troubles as another wave of lighting washed out over the bay. “Oh shoot not again! Uh, Uh,” Rika panicked as she found herself holding a hurt and groaning Jr as the lighting approached with nothing but water behind her rather than a nice safe cliff to scale. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Up here”[/color] Kamek called as she drifted down with Mimi riding at the tip of her broom once more. The mage held out an arm and said [color=DeepSkyBlue]”young master! Take my hand!”[/color] [color=SpringGreen]”uuuugh, everything hurts”[/color] the prince complained as he reached up, gripped the mage’s offered arm by the wrist and was grabbed by his own in turn. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”I’ve got you”[/color] the prince’s long suffering caretaker insisted as she strained to haul him up into the air and up out of Rika’s supporting arms. To the prince’s holder Kamek asked [color=DeepSkyBlue]”You’ll be alright too, won’t you?”[/color] The shipgirl nodded and gave her a not so reassuring “mmm” as she backed away into the sea, leaving the koopas to just barely manage an ascend high enough that the lightning swept under them. The ship girl got as much distance as she could, took a deep breath, and then sped back towards the wave of energy. Not exactly being built for jumping or athletics, when she jumped and tried to clear the hurdle leg power alone wasn't enough. Even as she turned all her guns and cannons downwards and blasted them into the waves, using both the recoil of the guns and the updraft of the explosions to give her extra height to it was just not quite clear the electrical shockwave. Rika cried out in pain as the lighting arched up from where her feet clipped the wave of lightning, and then stumbled her landing, winding up with one gauntlet down in the surf. Jr dropped down from Kamek’s lift to try and help, but he too stumbled his landing, and found himself up to his knees in water and clutching the side of his shell where a crack ran alongside it. Ahead of them, the attempts to finally just end the Orphan continued, as the previously stunned Link came in with a hail Mary of an uppercut, the ace cadet wielded a frozen hat kid as a hammerhead and the Witcher clad himself in spellcraft. All of them assailed the beast with all his fury and skill, seeking that last blow that would end this fight. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”I only have a bit of mana left, but it will have to do between me and you”[/color] Kamek told Mimi, deciding she’d best put it back to work with the old reliable spell. Under her orders the little mon lept off of Kamek’s broom and plopped down into the, for her, rather deep waters as the mage chanted [color=DeepSkyBlue]” You who once was littlest, And now will be largest, Show this child of the grave of whom it should be afraid!”[/color] And pushed the remains of her mana reserves into Mimi, causing the pint sized pokemon to grow and grow in size till her cotton clad bulk formed a cloth barrier between the hurt young ones under Kamek’s care and the child of Kos. With a grand and deep “Miiii Miiii” the now towering hidden horror extended her kraken’s tentacle of an arm and then plunged it into the surf. At first it might be thought that she was simply standing there, until you noticed how her engulfing shadow began to stretch out further and further, blocking out more and more of the moonlight as it snuck its way beneath the orphan and the heroes fighting to bring it down. Then a specter joined their dance of death, a hulking thing of ghostly might reaching up from the darkness at their feet and clawing at the orphan's back again and again and again, adding the oversized Mimiku’s power to the battle without ever getting in the way of the others, or her leaving her towering guard over the tired and hurt troop. At least that is what she would do until Kamek overtaxed magic reserves finally gave up the ghost, and that would not be long, of that the mage herself was quite sure.