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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 822 (+2) 
[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] (110/110)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 11 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]/(109/110)
[b][color=Aqua]Rika: Level 6 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aqua]//////////////////////////////////////////[/color]////////////////// (42/60)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] The Under - The Colorless Wood
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Jr’s plan of action worked like a charm at first, especially thanks to Primrose lending them her aid and bolstering the power of Rubick, Bowser and Dazzle’s sweeping AOE attacks. Those laid waste to swaths of unseen foes, while the carpet of goop the prince and his clones produced created an exclusion zone where their foes could not tread safely or swiftly. They could still repel down, but Kamek, after summoning the clones, made sure to swat any incoming bugs down with magic blasts as soon as they came into view.

[color=SpringGreen]”I am a Genius!”[/color] Jr declared once the plan had held steady for a few moments …. And then right on cue everything went wrong as Rika’s volley of shells sailed towards the giant spider … and it promptly teleported right on top of them. Literally. 

[color=Aqua]”Oh no!”[/color] the ship girl cried out as she realized what she had done, firing her maneuvering boosters to dash out of the way as the massive spider came careening down from the sky, its arrival heralded by a blinding flash and then a deafening crash as it landed amongst them.

Jr, his doppelgangers, and Kamek managed to swoop out of the way as well, though all the fliers were sent spinning by the resulting pressure wave of the queen’s landing hitting them. Bowser, not built for such swift motions, could only duck down and be stomped on. Right on his spiky armored shell.

It still hurt, but at least he wasn't going to be the only one suffering from the exchange. The one that came almost immediately after however, was one he did not want to meet head on as well, as the giant demonic spider teleported to the side and then came charging in to perform an over-head strike with her big meaty claws.

The king could not dodge roll, side step, or block the titanic blow. But he could still do one thing, and that was jump good. Straight up. 

Defying gravity and the spider queen both, the king’s stubby legs sent him sailing up over the spider’s attack … and right into the webs strung above them that had been two high for the troop to consider clearing. 

Bowser became stuck by his shell, dangling in the air above the brood mother, and likely drawing her children to him like moths to a flame. Yet, if he had his way, then just like that flame he would burn all the bugs that came to him. The king unleashed screeching sound from all 6 of his turrets, his new position above his friends and family meaning he could unleash all 360 degrees of his firepower without worry for friendly fire. He also blasted off a flurry of spiky missiles from his shell, forcing the spiders above to run a gauntlet of explosive spines if they wanted to try and attack him. 

Heeding Kamek’s earlier warning, however, he did not unleash his flames upon them also, so as to not risk engulfing them in an inferno via setting first webs and then trees alight. The queen however, below in their clearing they had made, presented no such fire hazard, and so she received a dose of firebreath in a (likely vein) vain attempt to dissuade her from plucking him from the web like a tasty fly.

None of this would free himself, which left the rest of the Troop to deal with his predicament. 

[color=SpringGreen]”I’m coming papa!”[/color] was Jr’s immediate response once he’d corrected his flight and taken stock of the situation. The prince soared upwards in his flying machine to clear yet more webs with more goop in-order to try and free his dad. Riding in the car at his trainer’s side, Dazzle unleashed the bright pink sonic beam that was his disarming voice at the prince's command, the sonic attack being used to try and clear spiders in a way that would not collaterally hit the king the way his icy wind would.

As Jr flew he called more commands to the others [color=SpringGreen]”Kamek! The little spiders! Everyone else, the big one”[/color] 

Rika was already on this, the ship girl sailing across the goop patch and unleashing fire upon the spider queen, cannon batteries barking, machine gun chittering, and main gun roaring as she counted that final weapon’s shots under her breath [color=Aqua]”Three… Four…”[/color] while also mentally eyeing her dwindling ammo stores with worry. 

Kamek meanwhile half followed the prince's instructions. He made the shadow clones spread out to try and clear more room on the ground with their imitation paintbrushes, splatting web, ground and spider alike as best the could though needing to be more spread out due to the queen in their midst likely left them more vulnerable than they had been when doing this earlier. The mage himself, however, used his time to cast [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Sphere of Protection![/color] upon his king, causing a [url=https://imgur.com/QxEFNju]blue shimmering barrier[/url] to form around him, that would massively increase the king’s resistance to physical harm. Such as the physical harm being smashed by those massive hammer claws could cause.