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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 1,135 (+2) 
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 10 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (258/100)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 9 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (225/90)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 10 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color](153/100)
[b][color=Aqua]Rika: Level 5 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aqua]///////////////////[/color]/////////////////////////////// (19/50)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Smash City Alcamoth
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[color=FD0000]”Me and Peach had a big brawl which, you know, obviously I won. Ain’t nobody but that pesky plumber who can get the best of me, and I’ll get him one day, that's for sure!”[/color] Bowser gloated in response to Sakura asking them about how their practice bouts had gone, before half bobbing his head to the side and adding [color=FD0000]”But hey, Peach’s come a pretty long way, mind. Even managed to leave a scratch or two which is honestly pretty impressive”[/color] 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”I’d say it was a touch more than a scratch”[/color] Kamek said, remembering the not insubstantial chuck of scales she’d seen blasted out of her king’s chest before he got patched up [color=DeepSkyBlue]”As for me and the young master, well, we had something of a minion battle rather than fight ourselves and I suppose I technically won, however that’s hardly fair to say when unlike the young master I cant run out of troops. It all ended up as something of an endless survival game for Mimi and Dazzle rather than a straight up fight, and I think they did rather well, all things told”[/color] 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Oh, and I also worked out how to do this while we were at it”[/color] she added, conjuring a shadow clone of Rika for a brief moment which did a dramatic combat pose, before giving a blank faced wave as it dematerialised, all in the span of a few seconds [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Rather neat, yes?[/color]  

A only a little bit later an announcement blared through the halls, informing them all that the railway mission had been successful, which put something of a damper on Jr’s plan to have lunch before setting out, as did Nadia’s challenging the others to a race and then proceeding to splatter herself on the ground several floors down, the watching of which was at first harrowing and then appetite killing.

[color=Aqua]“Are you ok down there Ms?!”[/color] Rika called down to the cat girl, and then sighed with relief as she started to pull herself together down there. Then she glanced to the side as a propeller started whirring and Jr began to take to the skies to chase her down and win the race.

[color=Aqua]“Oh no you don’t! Your not leaving me behind this time!”[/color] Rika shouted as she hopped up, grabbing the size of the car with the jaw of her gauntlet, and then ,using the hull blades for extra leverage, hauled herself up and into the car [color=Aqua]“So scoot over”[/color] 

As the prince complained the shipgirl sat herself bedie him and then reached a hand down and out to Omori and asked him [color=Aqua]“Wanna come with?”[/color] 

However which way they got there, the blue team all found their way to the meeting chamber and got the sit-rep, and then headed on down to the vehicle bay, though not before Jr held everyone up by detouring to get a BLT sandwich on the way there (he got over Nadia’s accident pretty quickly).

Once there they went past their still busted airship, and the princess had to have a giggle at what everyone else had been saddled with instead of it, namly dinky wooden rowboats.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Now now young master, that’s hardly becoming of a prince”[/color] Kamek tutted, but even she had to cover her mouth and suppress a laugh when Bowser stepped into the boat… and it promptly slowly sank with him onboard. Amusement quickly turned to panic however when the king proceeded to also sink like a brick to the bottom of the dock and proved unable to just swim back up to the surface. 

Fortunately, after a muffled ringing of a bell the king reemerged in his Meowser form, claw climbing up the side of the dock and then violently shaking off all the water like a dog, much to anyone nearby’s displeasure.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Bleh, sire really!”[/color] Kamek complained, while Rika moaned about her new sundress getting all wet for the second time today.

[color=FD0000]”Yeah yeah, complain all you want, but you’ve got way less to moan about than me, coz I’m stuck”[/color] Bowser retorted, understandably a bit miffed at the prospect of being left behind after all he’d done for the cause.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Now now sire, don't give up so soon, I’ll just have my Toadies carry you”[/color] Kamek said after she’d dried herself off, before waving her wand and summoning the stocky hooded and propeller hatted creatures with which to hoist the king up.

[color=FD0000]”Yeah and what if they drop me, huh? I’ll just sink like a stone. I need something waaaay more resilient before I even think of going out there”[/color] the king replied, not wanting to trust his life to the grips of those floaty wee henchmen

[color=Aqua]“Oh Oh, I can help with this!”[/color] Rika announced before scrunching up her fists and eyes and holding her gauntlets in close to her chest while focusing, only to suddenly rise them up with a cry of pain as she summoned Pacific Princess’s [url=https://imgur.com/dA43tVS]white whale[/url] at the expense of her vitality, the ship girl bending over, panting and bleeding from her nose as the great beast filled up much of the docks.

[color=FD0000]”Wow hey I’ve got you”[/color] Bowser said as he carefully caught the shipgirl by the shoulder before she just completely collapsed [color=FD0000]”you didn’t need to do that you know”[/color]


[color=Aqua]“What not, it's fine, it's fine!”[/color] she replied while appreciatively leaning on the big guy for support before adding [color=Aqua]“Besides, Kamek and Blazermate can just fix me up right?”[/color] which was something the mage was already in the process of setting up white mage clones to start doing.

A little bit later she was all patched up and they were ready to go. Kamek and Jr hovered above the group as usual, though the prince did take the time to send out his Popplio, Dazzle, to go for a swim, the sealion happily leaping to and fro among the boat riders, eager to set out into the water unknown.

Despite his playful antics, the pokemon was out and about mainly to act as an escort, a task he was joined in by Rika (who as a shipgirl was of course entirely suited to keeping everyone safe as she scooted across the waves) and the unlikely pairing of her great white whale and Bowser, who was riding just behind its array of cannons was, and who was primed and ready to add his own firepower to the great sea beast's own. Woe betide anyone who got on the wrong end of that barrage.

With them all set, all that was needed was for everyone else to get ship shaped and then they’d all head out on their watery adventure to Twilight town. With it being a quick scoot along the coast after all, so what could possibly go wrong in that short a distance?