[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/6W7bqko.png[/img] [h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2] [b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 1,885 (+3) [b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 11 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (226/110) [b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 12 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]///[/color]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (3/120) [b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 11 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color](112/110) [b][color=Aqua]Rika: Level 6 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aqua]/////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]/////////////// (45/60) [b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] The Under - The Colorless Wood [/center] [hider=level up] Jr Divine intervention(B’giotahmo Bravha): grants Jr two white mage spells: Benediction, which can instantly fully and freely heal a target within 30 yards, but which has a two minute cooldown and Holy, which deals damage and stuns foes (for 4 seconds) in an 8 yard radius around him, but has a 2.5 second cast and recast time. Each successively chained stun a target receives lasts half as long as the last (4-2-1-0) [/hider] [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Stars, that is some ability”[/color] Kamek marveled as Primrose’s dance spread the shield he had just put on Bowser to every other member of their party. Then he promptly marveled at just how durable the spell made his king, for though Bowser was beaten and bruised from being used as a strung up punching bag by the spider queen, when she plucked him from the web like an oversized fly and attempted to chow down on him, not only did the blow not finish the koopa off, it hardly scratched the pigment on his shell. Then there came a call of [color=SpringGreen]”Cure!”[/color] from jr, as he, upon failing to get close to his pa before he was snatched, had instead switched strategy to casting a healing spell upon the battered king. Vitality rushed through Bowser thanks to his son’s new magics, enough for him to give the queen a flailing swat to the snout while she was fruitlessly munching on him. That, plus the fact that she was hardly tickling him with her teeth, prompted her to toss him away … into yet more webbing. The king got stuck fast again, and was far too disorientated from the toss to do anything about the spiders that promptly swarmed him … and found they had exactly the same problem as their queen, as their tiny bites failed to do much of anything to the reinforced king. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Shadow minions! To your king!”[/color] Kamek commanded, directing the closest two jr clones to help free Bowser. They sped forwards and lashed out with paint, being careful as to not coat the king (they did not neat a repeat of a certain incident) but in doing so leaving themselves open to attack. Spiders leapt upon the clones … and found that they too, had barriers, which let them ignore the little attackers for long enough that they could pull the king out of the web and try to clear him of creepy crawlies while they themselves died a death of 1000 cuts. [color=FD0000]”Son…? Thank you for saving me”[/color] the still mentally confuddled from the hammer blows he had taken king murmured as he was rescued by the two shadowy copies of his boy. Meanwhile his actual son was busy trying to avoid being flattened by the spider queen, who, after she had finished trying to hurt Primrose, had turned her focus to attempting to splat him and Rika like rats. The prince’s response to this was to hit the deck and drive, little go cart wheels deploying from the bottom of the clown car letting him put all his racing experience into practice as he did powerslide across the ink, causing blue sparks to form at his wheels, and then releasing the stored up power to boosted to avoid the attacks. As he drove, Dazzle the Popolio acted as his double dash partner, leaning out the back of the car and harassing the queen with belts of his disarming voice. Rika meanwhile took full advantage of the goopy terrain to shipgirl around, skimming across the surface as if it were the sea, allowing her to move any which way she desired. She had to put all that agility to work because the queen quickly focused on her rather than the prince of the racetracks. She drifted and weaved away from the strikes rather than take them, because while being bopped by only 20% of a crushing blow wasn’t close to lethal, it was still dangerous to those who were not built like tanks like Bowser was, even those built like a cruiser like she was. This went well when she used just her rifle or her lower caliber rigging guns, but when she tried to raise her main gun’s shot count, that was when she ran into trouble. [color=Aqua]”Five…”[/color] Rika counted her main cannon shot, only for the recoil to leave her movement predictable and letting a blow land on her and break her shields, leaving her with an alarm sound ringing in her ears. Undeterred, and assuming it was simply an unlucky blow, she went and tried to follow up with shot [color=Aqua]”Six…”[/color] only to cry out [color=Aqua]”Ow!”[/color] as a second blow clipped one of her gauntlets, jarring her arm and sending her stumbling. [color=SpringGreen]”Dazzle, bash her!”[/color] came a call as the queen moved to follow up her blow with a grab on the staggered ship girl, only for she herself to be staggered as in the blink of an eye Dazzle had launched himself from Jr’s clown car like a missile, aqua jet and penguin leap combined to turn him into a living battering ram which slammed into her. Rike got to recover and get clear thanks to the intervention, while Jr sent out a red beam to call back Dazzle back to his pokeball before the queen could try and smash him in retaliation. As she backed away, Rika fired another shot of her main gun to the tune of [color=Aqua]”Seven! ”[/color] Only for Silitha to warp away, leaving the shell to sail into the dark forest [color=Aqua]”Hey no fair! I need you to stay still so I can blast you!”[/color] [color=SpringGreen]”She’s gonna drop again!”[/color] Jr reminded her, getting both of them moving again. Koopa and ship both race across the goop side by side, using speed to make gauging where to drop in-order to land on them a tricky proposition. This side by side race also let the pair scheme without calling their plans out loud that the spider matriarch might overhear them. Kamek, meanwhile, had his own strategy, which was to simply use the fact that the queen hung in the air a moment before dropping to do a teleport of his own to get out of the way. That he started to hover above a planted dark mine every time she warped away simply added insult to injury whenever she did try to get the drop on him. That left Bowser as the only easy drop target of the troop, but with the shield + his own natural armor, that was simply a recipe for Silitha to get shell spikes stabbed into her as she came down, something she traded for very little damage. Bowser used this to his advantage to ward her away from Rubick, giving her a pain in the foot whenever she tried to land on them. Then, once she did fall, the four of them laid into her as best they could while also avoiding her as best they could, though the shields did mean they could be somewhat carless. Kamek used his powerful yet slow magic blasts to harry her. Junior used an assortment of gadgets, spells and a freshly sent out Mimi’s electroballs. Rika bladder away with her rifle and rigging turrets (but holding back her eighth main gun shot as part of a plan she and Jr had concocted) Finally Bowser began to fearlessly jump at the queen rather than out of her way as he had at first, Kamek’s barrier allowing him to damage trade with the mighty queen, while Jr could heal up what little harm he did take reliably. This dance ended when Bowser delivered a [url=https://i.imgur.com/1m6gzy2.png]Bowser bomb[/url] to the queen’s back, causing her to shriek in pain and warp away once again. [color=FD0000]”Hahahaha, take that! With this barrier, nothing can stop me!”[/color] the king gloated … right as the barrier flashed on him and vanished, along with everyone else's. [color=FD0000]”Hey, what’s the big idea! Put it back on right now”[/color] Bowser complained to his mage, who agreed [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Right away sire”[/color] before warning him that [color=DeepSkyBlue]”but I can’t keep it up forever”[/color] as the mana drained out of him and into another golden shield for the king. [color=FD0000]”Doesn’t matter. One more should be more than enough … yeah you hear that! you're going down!”[/color] the king taunted out into the darkness. The darkness, in response, answered with a volley six bolts of glowing venom fired from the was of the deephunters Silitha had summoned. While the rest of the troop took evasive action, Bowser laughed at their insignificant attack … right up until the mix of fire and blight damage pierced right though the shield and dealt its full damage to the king [color=FD0000]”Gah-ha!”[/color] he cried out in pain as it burned away at his scales. [color=FD0000]”Why isn’t it working!”[/color] he demanded to know as he got moving, to which Kamek called out [color=DeepSkyBlue]”It’s a physical defense spell, it does nothing against elemental attacks!”[/color] inadvertently giving the game away to their foe as she reappeared right in time to receive this news. As Bowser used Heel the Rabbid supporter striker to recover from the venom burns, Jr came up with their new strategy to deal with the latest variable [color=SpringGreen]”We need to end this quicker in case these things keep coming, so let's pull out all the stops”[/color] Jr called out as he swerved to and fro in his go-karting clown car to avoid the incoming toxic rain, the prince dredging to think how bad this could get should the big spider lady call out for aid again. [color=SpringGreen]”Kamek, get the minions to splash the areas where the shots are coming from! Dad, keep moving to not get acided! Rika! I’m gonna try the plan!”[/color] he called out. That last plan deliberately left vague as the ship already knew the details from their earlier scheming and, as the clones swept into the dark and Bowser used short hops to stay mobile, the prince set said scheming into action. Jr started by casting [color=SpringGreen]”Presence of Mind”[/color] on himself to boost his casting and attack speed, before charging towards the queen instead of keeping away from her after her next landing. He held up his paintbrush for 2 seconds as he got closer, before he finished channeling as near to her as he could and cast [color=SpringGreen]”Holy!”[/color] causing a burst of pure white light to burst out around him. The aoe spell centered on him washed harmlessly over any allies, but potentially stunning the spider queen for up to 4 seconds. If it did, Rika followed up Jr’s move by racing close as she dared and calling out [color=Aqua]”Eight-shot, all out assault!”[/color] as she pulled the trigger of her main gun, fired the 8th shot in a row, and activated the called out ability, unleashing 5 triple shots from the single barrel in quick succession, her closeness and the stun together there to ensure that every last one had the highest chance of hitting as possible without some missing, or the queen warping away in the middle of it. Thunder roared throughout the cave as the shells unloaded in attack that Kamek and Mimi's accompanying shots paled in compassion too, and then there was the softest click as Rika tried to go for shot 24 and found her main gun’s ammo stores drained. Which put its wells just as dry as she had drained her other guns in-order to get the queen down to half health. [color=Aqua]”I’m out of ammo!”[/color] she warned, leaving her with having to hope she’d done her part to ensure the kill … or with having to follow Bowser’s suicidally daring head on strategy for attacking for the rest of the battle.