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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 840 (+2) +11 
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 11 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (219/110)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 11 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]////////// (98/110)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 11 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]//////////(97/110)
[b][color=Aqua]Rika: Level 6 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aqua]//////////////////////////////[/color]////////////////////////////// (30/60)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Under - The Ruins
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After the Troop had finished ripping up thanksgiving dinner they gathered together and bathed in more of Jr’s Medica pulses and some targeted Cures to patch up the worst of their wounds from the fight. The former of these magics seemed to catch a certain fellow in a cloak who Jr had not realized had followed after them till the moment he picked himself out the flower bed and quickly made himself the prince’s problem. 

That’s what good deeds got you, the boy guessed. Specifically it got you no thanks, sass, a backstory, and a pile of questions

[color=SpringGreen]”We’re the seekers, and we’re”[/color] the boy’s explanation as to what they were doing, namely working their way up to slaying galeem, proceed to just slide off of the galeeming man’s think pan without him noticing it had happened due to that great multiverse destroying glowball’s curse, before the boy concluded with [color=SpringGreen]”and your now at the bottom of a pit full of monsters”[/color]

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”The creatively named ‘under’ … or ‘underground’ according to F, the one who dropped us down here”[/color] Kamek interjected 

[color=SpringGreen]”F? What kind of a name is that?!”[/color] Jr asked, to which Kamek just shrugged, leaving Jr to turn his focus back to the self-titled Adventurer and saying [color=SpringGreen]”Well whatever. Long story short, your ways home are up”[/color] he stabbed a finger up to the massive tunnel they’d fallen down, and then moved it to point vaguely in the direction the monsters had come from  [color=SpringGreen]”or uh… somewhere down there?”[/color]

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”I believe there is another train station somewhere deep down below that we were meant to go straight to before we were redirected up to dirtmouth … which I am going to blame F for as well”[/color] Kamek helpfully informed them both

[color=SpringGreen]”Right. So… I guess you can stick with us, if you're useful in a fight. Or as monster bait. Either works. Or you can go wander off and face that on your own”[/color] Jr concluded, jabbing a thumb over his shoulders at the monsters.

Unfortunately his point was slightly undermined by what he ended up pointing at was Bowser laughing in the face of one of the little monochrome monsters due to how pathetic they were, followed by them being effortlessly mind controlled by Sectonia. 

[color=SpringGreen]”… Look, the ones that we're here before you woke up were way scarier, trust me. Here see …”[/color] he held up the spirit of the monster the troop had killed, and, well, let us just say that the fork welding turkey was not very intimidating either in this diminished state

[color=SpringGreen]”Look, unless you are some legendary butt kicker, you don’t wanna go out there on your own if you wanna live … and if you are a legendary butt kicker we could kinda use you on the team”[/color] Jr said, but ultimately it was up to the adventurer.

Speaking of going off on your own, that was exactly what Bowser realized Nadia had done (after he was done picking on the Loox that was) which had him a bit worried.

[color=FD0000]”I’m going after Ms. Fortune!”[/color] he announced after a  few moments thought, which Rika quickly followed with a [color=Aqua]”Me too!”[/color] before she went thruster boosting off into the darkness after the cat girl, leaving the king to go stomping on after her, the ship girl easily track-able due to the pair of torches glowing in her Brachydios styled rifle gauntlet’s eyes.

They almost caught up with their flighty feline at the fragile platform filled cavern due to her getting distracted by bits of paper (that the pursuing pair had no idea what the deal with was), but then got left behind again as the aforementioned fragileness of the platforms resulted in one or two… interior redecoration moments when heavy turtle dragon met architecture made for light bugs. 

As a result, when the huffing king and not at all winded ship girl arrived the bout of misfortune was already over. The kind guardian of the ruins was dead, and the evil king was free, not that they knew anything about the character of the former. They were, however, just in time to hear the genie Nadia had apparently freed from the bottle offer her a favor in return for freeing him.

Bowser gave a single gawf of a laugh at hearing it, kinda undermining the moment a bit, before commenting [color=FD0000]”Classic stuff from an unbottled evil. Bit overdone maybe. 7/10. Good to see you're still on form Ganondorf”[/color] with just a little bit of sass.

 [color=Aqua]”Huh, you know this guy?”[/color] Rika asked, while giving the king an odd look.

[color=FD0000]”Yeah we go back a bit. One of the smash crew. Oh and Link’s nemesis too”[/color] Bowser said, before remembering one important detail regarding their prior interactions that caused his brow to furrow. Then a moment later the expression was gone and, with a fair bit of cheer, the king actually said hello to the familiar fellow [color=FD0000]”So yeah hey there, my ol partner in crime, how’s this hole the ground treating you?”[/color]