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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 2974 (+4) 
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 11 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (223/110)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 11 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]////// (102/110)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 11 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]//////(101/110)
[b][color=Aqua]Rika: Level 6 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aqua]//////////////////////////////////[/color]////////////////////////// (34/60)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Under - The Ruins

[b]Level 1 [color=922b21]Ganondorf[/color] (13/10)[/b]
[b]Exp:[/b] 9 + 4 = 13/10[/center]


Kamek and Jr caught up with the others just in time to watch Bower’s jaw fall to the floor at the sound rejection of familiarity from the king of evil. 

[color=SpringGreen]”Huh? Wait we for sure know that guy, he was in the smash thing”[/color] Jr commented as platformed over.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Perhaps Galeem prevents those in its influence from remembering other meetings of worlds?”[/color] Kamek, hovering beside the boy, theorized, before they joined the group. Rita scooted over and quickly filled them in on what had happened while Ganondorf was explaining his sword to their copycatting magus. Then they sat or stood while listening to the Gerudo King’s explanation of how this area was going to work: a classic sealed final dungeon strategy which Bowser would for sure have commented on if he hadn’t spent the entire thing standing there gobsmacked.

So while Jr went back to tinkering with his car and Rika took a seat and fished out a candy to snack on, it fell to Kamek to actually engage with this, and the main thing he did was dispel some arrogance.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”I would not underestimate the Counsel who goes by F. I fought him and just barely survived. He can unleash vast amounts of projectiles, produce vines the size of trains, moves incredibly fast over or through terrain and, worst of all, appears to be able to manipulate either time or space, as on two occasions he translocated me back to a place I had already been, once when trying to catch you, and once when i tried to gain distance between us.”[/color] the mage warned, wanting to ensure no one else thought it a good idea to challenge the sun helmeted child one on one.

Finally, they got a bit of a description of the surrounding areas from Ganondorf, although given that he had presumably spent most of if not all of his time in the world of light locked up, he was unsurprisingly a bit light on the details.

And with that, it was getting time to set out. Or should have been, but jr was still tinkering with his car, and Bowser was still suffering from the ego damage the other king had inflicted.

[color=Aqua]”Hey, um, Bowser, are you ok?”[/color] Rika asked, waving a gauntleted hand in front of the king’s face. That got a little reaction and, although not directly, an answer … and the answer was no, no he was not ok.

[color=FD0000]”THERE IS NO WAY YOU DON’T REMEMBER ME! I’M THE KING OF AWESOME, THE BADDEST OF BAD GUYS, THE ORIGINAL EVIL AND ALSO THE BEST!”[/color] Bowser suddenly burst into roaring before quieting down only a little to ask [color=FD0000]”You're seriously telling me you don’t remember the whole subspace thing? Working for the hand? Taking on all the heroes, stealing big chunks of reality?”[/color] getting more and more frustrated as it became clear that he did not, before he finally launched into [color=FD0000]”OR THAT YOU STABBED ME IN THE BACK!?”[/color]

[color=922b21]”No. I don’t.”[/color] said the Gerudo King at the start of Bowser’s tirade, his tone dismissing. Some of the things the Koopa King ranted about sounded… familiar? No, no of course not. He brushed it off in his mind, there was not a single thing about this raving reptile that he found familiar. [i]Him[/i]? The Great King of Evil? Work for a ‘hand’, whatever that meant? Never. Ganondorf would never in a thousand years be caught dead serving anyone, let alone alongside a childish creature such as this. And then there was that last part. Stabbing him in the back. Well, that sounded a little more like him, but still impossible. This premise that he had worked for or served any being or entity was absolutely absurd.

[color=922b21]”...[i]Should[/i] I have?”[/color] he then asked with a condescending smirk, now growing genuinely annoyed by this creature. At this point Ganondorf may as well have been taunting him.

The koopa king stood there for a moment literally smoking with rage, jaw working to try and find a response. Then, he found one. He took a step forward towards Ganondorf

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Sire, please, calm yourself-”[/color] Kamek attempted to step in and stop what was about to happen but his king pushed on , ignoring his advisors advice as he so often did, growling [color=FD0000]”Oh, don’t worry. I’m just going to knock some sense into him”[/color] as he continued to advance, shooting down Rika’s offer to help with [color=FD0000]”No, just me. Gonna feel even better to beat the smug look off of the face of the real thing”[/color] 

Watching the Koopa’s anger, something about it just made his day, though Ganondorf couldn’t quite put his finger on why. All the same, as soon as the big fool announced his intention to fight, the King of Evil got an idea. Without a word, he silently clenched his right hand into a fist as Bowser traded some words with his followers. In Ganondorf’s fist, a fiery dark heat began to rise. It always took a moment or two for this one to charge up, and so making it do so in secret and without warning was usually the ideal way of using it. While it was a good bet that Bowser wouldn’t notice the fiery dark energy building up in Ganondorf’s fist, one of his servants probably would and attempt to issue a warning. But that was also the exact moment Ganondorf’s punch would come. A sucker punch, admittedly, but oddly satisfying nonetheless. And it wasn’t just any punch, it was an empowered Warlock Fist, releasing the built up dark energy upon impact in only the most explosive manner possible.

[color=922b21]”Maybe next time don’t loudly announce your intention to attack, you fool!”[/color] Ganondorf said, loosening his fist which now briefly had a bit of smoke wafting off of it from the attack. A few wiggles of his fingers dispelled it and he let the golden triangle on his hand shine briefly with its raw power. Then he did something odd. He removed both swords from his person and stabbed them both into the solid ground at his feet. In fact he did so with enough strength that only he would be able pull them back out again. After all, no reason to risk having someone try to steal from him while he was indisposed. But the message was clear enough. He’d fight with Bowser if the latter wished, but could and would do so without any aid or weapons.

[color=922b21]”But if it’s a fight you want, then it’s a fight you shall have!”[/color]

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The other king, who had indeed taken the sucker punch just as Ganondorf had expected and been sent tumbling back as a result, picked himself off of the floor, his expression having darkened from the vicious if eager grin he had had on his face before it got smacked. Literally darkened, infact. As had the rest of him, the koopa king seemed to be devouring the light as he snapped his fingers, dropped a strange rabbit creature out of thin air into his hand and then used a device on said creature's back to revitalize his smashed in face. 

Somewhat, anyway, you didn’t just undo a warlock punch. 

[color=FD0000]”Good”[/color] he grunted as he dropped the striker to the ground, and then with a roar, came at the king of evil with a graceless bull charge, fist reeled back far to deliver a punch of his own.

The incoming punch wasn’t exactly hidden like Ganondorf’s had been. But rather than try to dodge it or even block it, Ganondorf instead decided to take it head on. Maybe he was showing a shred of pity for the Koopa, or maybe he was just so confident that he could take it? Either way the punch came, and similarly threw Ganondorf back a ways and tumbling. To his credit, the King of Evil was at least able to flip himself back onto his feet without losing a beat. He rubbed his chin, feeling a few minor pops in his jaw as if having fix it from being dislocated, and then he spat out a smattering of blood from his mouth and smiled.

[color=922b21]”Not bad… for an overgrown lizard.”[/color] then Ganondorf sprang into a forward leap, fist poised for what looked like another Warlock Punch. But his opponent would quickly realize that this strike wasn’t directly aimed at him. Instead Ganondorf smashed his charged fist into the ground for a Dark Impact, creating a shockwave attack. This wasn’t necessarily used to harm enemies, so much as disperse them and to keep them at arm’s length from him. But he wasn’t done, Ganondorf immediately lunged forward again, this time with a Wizard Foot kick that sent him gliding forward straight at his quarry.

Bowser’s heavy footing was unsteadied by the shockwave, which left him in a prime position to have his leg taken out from under him by the sliding kick. He stumbled, flailing, only for the center of his shell to pop up and a set of four long crab like legs to pop out in a flash. These and the king’s hand caught him before he could fall face first into the ground, and then swiftly he reversed the fall into a leap, the king landing some way off and then performing two more short hops to cut his momentum, each landing sending out a radial shockwave of fire that hugged the ground as they lashed out. If the others had not cleared out of the area already, they most certainly would do so now.

When the Koopa made his first leap, Ganondorf thought to run in his direction in pursuit, interpreting this as the lizard running scared. He saw the incoming shock wave of flame and hurdled over it, and while he was able to jump quick enough to clear the second one as well, the third one was where he had issues. Each jump gave him less time to react to the next shockwave, and so he missed the timing for the third one and ended up taking the shockwave for his efforts.

[color=FD0000]”Hah, Mario’d have cleared that no- huh?”[/color] 

And yet, miraculously, the King of Evil still managed to stand tall. Despite the fire of the third shockwave clearly enveloping him, he was not daunted by it. He looked a bit singed in some places, but otherwise was still in fighting form. His Triforce of Power glowed mightily, having likely been responsible for protecting him from taking too much damage. And instead he restarted his run for Bowser to close the distance.

Once close enough, Ganondorf would reach out his hand glowing from the Triforce and attempt to grab ahold of the Koopa King. If successful, he would lift the considerably larger turtle up with his mighty strength only to chokeslam the Koop back onto the ground while also releasing a small explosion of dark fire right in the other king’s face in the process. His fearsome Flame Choke, another of Ganondorf’s trademark moves alongside the likes of his Warlock Punch.

Bowser had brought up a boxer’s guard in response to the incoming attack, having assumed it was a punch, and though this did prevent his neck from being grabbed, the king still went up and then down into the ground via a grabbed arm. Again, crab like Dreugh legs popped up to right him, but this time instead of back off the koopa king spun on his foe with a round swing of a claw attack, long claws of burning energy extending from his own, before flowing that up with a right hook and then finally a rapid fire set of stabbing strikes with his electrified Dreugh limbs.

Ganondorf brought up a boxer’s guard of his own when the claw attack came. This kept him from taking a serious blow to his head or anything vital, but the claws still got his arms and that was not a pleasant experience. But he didn’t let a pair of bloodied arms slow him. When the right hook came he was able to bat it away with his own right hand. He had to quickly go back into the boxer’s guard for the stabbing strikes. He managed to evade a few of the strikes, but others were able to land glancing blows on his arms and shoulders. Though for one in particular he managed to catch the Dreugh limb with his right hand. The Triforce glowed furiously, as if it was currently the sole source of Ganondorf’s remaining strength and will to keep fighting. The Gerudo King spun his body around to try and fling the Koopa King away from him and toward the big Black Egg.

After this, his arms drooped from the injuries they’d sustained. The Triforce looked like its glow was beginning to flicker. But no matter how battered he may be, the King of Evil remained as tenacious and strong-willed as ever, refusing to let himself show any weakness or fatigue.

The other king slammed into the black egg door, and if being used to toss him hadn’t crippled the Dreugh in question, then slamming into the door certainly did, along with the other four. All of them were pulled back inside as the king picked himself up. While his scales and shell meant he didn’t show any external injuries, besides the lingering blast to the face and the new one on one of his arms, being thrown about was doing a number on his bones and muscles.

Also his head hurt from having his tiny brain rattling around his skull.  

Time to put the power he had been building to work. The dark aura that had surrounded him the whole fight dropped away, revealing the red tentacruel orbs in his shell to be glowing brightly where before they had been passive and dull. He pushed himself up just enough to turn his maw, towards the king of evil, light flooding from the orbs into his fire pouch, causing his mouth to glow brilliantly before the king unleashed a flash cannon laser blast at Ganondorf.

Ganondrof tried to close the distance, but just couldn’t. Despite him not openly showing it, he was tiring out. His legs just weren’t pushing him forward as fast they had been earlier. If he hadn’t been so drained or injured, he might have been able to reach the Koopa King for a quick Gerudo Uppercut that might have been enough to forcibly redirect the Flash Cannon’s aim elsewhere. But not so in this instance. All he could really do was put his arms defensively at the last moment as the brilliant laser blast collided with him.

When the dust cleared, Ganondorf was somehow [i]still[/i] on his feet… but only for a moment. He heavily dropped to his knees, and then all the way to the ground and slow and heavy thud. His right hand was reached out as he lost consciousness, as if he was still somehow trying to continue fighting. And finally, the Triforce at least was reduced to a faint dim that faded away until no longer visible on the King of Evil’s right hand.

[color=FD0000]”Hah! Ha ha ha ha ahhhh that did not feel as good as I hoped”[/color] Bowser bemoaned, before making a grunt of pain as he straightened.

[color=SpringGreen]”You ok papa?”[/color] came a call from jr as he poked his head back into the room, and then hurried over once he saw it was all over, with Kamek (carrying the out of it froggit under one arm) and Rika not far behind.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Sire, that really was … quite foolish”[/color]

[color=FD0000]”Nah, I totally had it in claw all the time-”[/color] the king insisted, then giving a contented sigh of [color=FD0000]”ahhh thanks junior”[/color] as his son patched him up with his healing magics. Then he continued and insisted [color=FD0000]”Plus, I’ll be worth it to see his face when he remembers me, right at the same time as he know I beat him fair and square”[/color] despite the fact that had, technically, broken the unspoken rule of it being fistycuffs with his last maneuver.

[color=Aqua]”Soooo, now what?”[/color] Rika asked, to which Bowser responded by snapping his fingers and summoning a friend heart, which got the ship girl asking [color=Aqua]”Even though he stabbed you in the back”[/color]

[color=FD0000]”Eh, he’s useful … and it just means we have to stab him in the back first this time”[/color] he said, tapping his forehead. The king might have been a slow learner, a very slow learner, but he did learn. 

That said, he dropped the heart onto the king of evil’s body, and then stood tall above him so that, once the king was done going through the process of coming to and remembering, he would be in prime gloating position.

The color slowly restored itself upon Ganondorf. When it did, the Triforce suddenly and violently erupted with a brilliant glow. The Gerudo King angrily pushed himself to his feet, looking absolutely furious. But not at Bowser. Well, not only at Bowser. He remembered everything alright. Including how it was he came to be down in this goddess-forsaken hole. He clenched his fist and a dark warlock aura enveloped him. Then, all at once he let out a very loud bestial scream. One of pure rage and hatred. As for what he actually said…

[b][color=922b21]“GALEEEEEEEEEEEEEEM!”[/color][/b]