[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/6W7bqko.png[/img]
[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 987 (+2) (B and K only)
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 12 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (201/120)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 12 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]///////////////////////////// (89/120) 59
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 12 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]///////////////////////// (74/120) 42
[b][color=Aqua]Rika: Level 7 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aqua]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (85/70)

[b]featuring [color=BB2F56]Ichiban: Level 3 (Level Up!)[/color][/b]

[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] The Under - Home of Tears
[hider=warp locations]
[s]
Central hub: Smash City Alcamoth
Accessible locations:
Peach’s castle
Limsa Lominscuttle Town
Lumbridge
Twilight Town
Kosm’s Beach
[/s]
[/hider]
[/center]

Nadia’s guess that the old koopa would be the one to explain things to Ichiban turned out to be entirely correct [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Ah yes. My apologies for not doing that sooner, but, well other things where weighing on my mind”[/color] he said, before clearing his throat and beginning

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”So, if you will look up into the … ah, well, I suppose that won’t work down here”[/color] he faltered almost immediately, before thinking and re-adjusting [color=DeepSkyBlue]”If you were to look up into the sky, you would see a great ball of light. It is not the sun, for it has wings of every hue, and it is the source of your confusion: Galeem”[/color]

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”If you think back, to a time before you were here, and at the end of when you were in this ‘Japan’ place, you might recall a bright light before everything changed. That was Galeem, ending your world. Ending all worlds. Stealing them away, ripping them apart, and then once it had done that, it stitched them all back together into the world we are in now. A world made from many worlds, perhaps all worlds, and home to people from them all too”[/color] he explained, painting the tapestry of what had been done, before turning around and talking about how things where now.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Those people are all like you were before today. Blinded by Galeem to what it has done, ignorant, and thinking that this is all that has ever been. We call them the Galeeming, and you can spot them, clear as day, all around us, with Galeem’s red ‘lifelight’ filling their eyes. On top of making them blind, it also makes them unwilling to back down from a fight until they are beaten, so ah, try not to provoke any of them unless, because only strength will get them to back down, not words.”[/color]
	
[color=DeepSkyBlue]”We, meanwhile, are the ‘seekers of light’ according to some, and ‘de-storied’ according to others, but, well, in my humble opinion we are simple the ones who are free”[/color] the mage concluded, a bit smug in his simple refutation of the other two groups terminology.

[color=FD0000]”and what we are gonna do with that freedom is crush the 9 left over guardians who are still stopping us from getting to Galeem, and then we are gonna ride up into the sky and smash that stupid glowball like the cheap baubles it is! It's a jumped up nobody! Doesn't even have a unique gimmick! Some guy called tattoo already did this whole making your own world out of bits of other ones while controlling the master hand jazz, and I punched him in his stupid face for that, just like I’m gonna punch Galeem!”[/color] Bowser declared confidently, while again misremembering Tabuu’s name.

[color=BB2F56]”Wow, that’s…”[/color] Ichiban didn’t finish his sentence, not sure how to really sum everything going on in his brain. [color=BB2F56]”Whatever ‘world’ I’m from doesn’t have anything like this,”[/color] he continued, [color=BB2F56]”back what I remember I was just tryin’ to figure out who killed my boss. Now it’s all, world collidin’, Galeeming, guardians?”[/color]

Ichiban paused, staring at the made of the under they had on the table, and took a sip of his tea. [color=BB2F56]”.......that’s freakin’ [i]awesome![/i]”[/color] In a sudden change of mood Ichiban stood up, hands planted on the table, toppling his chair over. [color=BB2F56]”I mean, it’s super terrifying and I’m sure once I have a moment to process things will feel even weirder, but- man, this has been my dream for years! Becomin’ a hero, fightin’ bad guys, saving the world and shit!”[/color] ([color=fa0200][i]+1 Passion![/i][/color])

There was a little moment of silence caused by the unexpected hard right turn in the man’s reaction, which was broken by Bowser giving a single [color=FD0000]”Ha!”[/color] and knee slap before declaring that [color=FD0000]”Now that’s the kinda spirit I like in a new recruit”[/color] despite the whole hero part of it, and then offering a raised handshake and a [color=FD0000]”Welcome to the team!”[/color] to the newly filled in member.

Ichiban wasn’t one to leave a guy hanging. He took Bowser’s hand, despite how much it dwarfed his, and shook with all his might. [color=BB2F56]”Yeah!”[/color] Then he looked around the group and his excitement diminished a little. [color=BB2F56]”I mean… if it’s alright with all of you. Savin’ the world, fighting some huge powerful god thing, sounds like you need a lot of good muscle. I’d be happy to lend a hand, though I’m not sure I could stack up with what’d be needed…”[/color] 

[color=FD0000]”Hey, any extra hands are a help”[/color] Bowser insisted as he released the man’s own (and silently approving of his hand shaking skills), before explaining that [color=FD0000]”Plus, there’s this whole spirit power stuff that can help you stack up”[/color]  before turning to his mage and telling him [color=FD0000]”Hey Kamek, explain the whole fusion thing again”[/color] 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”We really do need a pamphlet or something for this, but yes, I shall quickly cover it”[/color] Kamek agreed, before swiftly outlining the 4 uses of spirits, namely fusions for power or skills, cruising for items, and recruitment for strikers.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”All of these can be used to increase your power. Plus, with this little device”[/color] he showed him the snacktivator [color=DeepSkyBlue]”we can limit the fusions, which are normally full body, to just a certain body part. That can help mitigate the, ah, side effects somewhat, or at least the visual ones. It is not quite clear if the downsides are also reduced, but we can only hope and gather evidence I suppose”[/color]

[color=BB2F56]”Usin’ these, uh, ‘spirits’ of other people to make yourself better? Huh… that’s kinda like XP.”[/color] Ichiban rubbed his chin. [color=BB2F56]”Maybe I’ll fit in around here better than I thought…”[/color]

[color=FD0000]”Dunno what you mean by that, but yeah, that’s the spirit!”[/color] Bowser declared giving the new member a thumbs up as his initiation/catch up session came to a close.

Ichiban raised his styrofoam cup of tea in a mock toast. [color=BB2F56]”So, where to first?”[/color]