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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 1960 (+3)
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 12 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (216/120)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 12 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]//////////////////////// (97/120)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 12 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]//////////////////////////////// (91/120)
[b][color=Aqua]Rika: Level 7 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aqua]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (93/70)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] The Under - Home of Tears
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Central hub: Smash City Alcamoth
Accessible locations:
Peach’s castle
Limsa Lominscuttle Town
Lumbridge
Twilight Town
Kosm’s Beach
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The troop had wanted to head to bed, but the second brat of the underground apparently had other ideas, first getting all their attention, and then decided to sick the whole city on them somehow. Another bit of safety, ripped away, the promise that the whole world might turn against you if you made the wrong move that the galeeming masses had always held, finally being fulfilled. 

[color=FD0000]”Gah! Stop it doctor!”[/color] Bower roared at Natasha, as he blocked an explosive shot from her grenade launcher she had fired right at him with his energy buckler. Then he saw a rifle being raised and aimed in his peripheral vision and moved faster than he ever had in his life to grab the gauntlet it was attached to and jerk i upwards, causing the spray of bullets it unleashed to fly over the crowd rather than end the life of a whole bunch of kid’s favorite person.

[color=FD0000]”Rika! Don’t shoot the nice orphanage lady!”[/color] He demanded of her, to which she respond with a momentary confused look, then a shrug, and proceeded to start to aim her other gauntlet at someone else, only for Kamek to catch this one and add [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Or anyone else, young mistress, if it can be avoided”[/color]

[color=Aqua]”But they’re trying to kill us?”[/color] the ship girl rightly pointed out, before asking [color=Aqua]”What else are we meant to do, stand here and die?”[/color] with a tone that made it far more of a question than it really should have been, as if she might well have done just that if told it was what they were supposed to do.

It was that, as much as anything, that jolted Bowser’s mind to their exit strategy, the king calling out commands and having his team assemble a blubbery escape vessel onto which they leapt.

After waiting for a few moments for others to board, the monster of a whale set off, the strange mechanical whale propelling itself not by a great finned tail (for in place of one of those it had an anchor) but via jet propulsion from gill like protrusions on its side, which made for a much smoother ride than might be expected from a monstrous mount.

It was not, unfortunately, the only monster who was most at home in water

“Mermaid guard!” came a bellowing cry from the leader of the city’s defenders “AFTER THEM!”

The watery wardens where, of course, already on it, but a command from their leader induced a bout of order to the blind murderous haze, as ranks of mermaids pushed through the crowds that had stalled at the water’s edge and then leapt into it to give chase at a speed which finally demonstrated exactly why the half drowned city’s police force where aquatic in nature.

[url=https://i.ibb.co/Khf6X2s/Aerial1.jpg]half[/url] [url=https://i.ibb.co/WHZcK23/CC-Irenes-Artwork-Remaster.png]a dozen[/url] [url=https://i.imgur.com/f3G0BfO.png]diferant[/url] [url=https://i.imgur.com/Nokka02.png]kinds[/url] of [url=https://i.imgur.com/xxusFwZ.png]mermaid[/url] surged through the water, putting the speed they normally put into rapidly responding to crimes into a high speed police chase across the city

Ironically, their leader did not join them, as her armor weighed her down too heavily to swim in the water. Instead she joined those pursuing on foot. It would be a long and for many fruitless chase to do so, as the whale sped away, and so only the most determined of pursuers would keep going the whole way.

Of course, among those that followed, none were more determined than Undyne, and her steel steps added a constant percussion to the chase, ever hot on the heroes’ heels.

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Through the canal the troop’s mighty [url=https://imgur.com/dA43tVS]white whale[/url] did sail and onto its protruding spine, they did cling. On the beast’s long trailing anchor tipped tail came the mermaid guard, armed with tridents and swords, and at their rear was [url=https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/monster_train/images/c/cf/Tethys_Titansbane.png]Officer Tethys[/url] who conjured [url=https://i.imgur.com/ARqM19F.png]frozen lances[/url] to hurl at the heroes, and if they could not withstand those, they stood no chance against her captain.

[color=Aqua]”Can I shoot these ones?”[/color] Rika asked as she ducked a spear.

[color=FD0000]”No!”[/color] Bowser told her again, before readjusting [color=FD0000]”Not if you don’t have to. Just. Kick them off or something, we just need to get away!”[/color] before he deployed his own guns, but rather than unleashing death he started blasting water, creating a rather ironic situation where the aquatic cops who tried to grab onto and board the great whale where being blasted off by high pressure water cannons.

In response Tethys called out for the guards to “Stop trying to get on and get stabbing! Slow them down!” which like a school of sharks they began to do, blades and forks beginning to be slammed into the whale, often from below where there could be no retaliation.

Jr did his best to heal their steed, but it slowed ever so surely as its oily blood filled the water, which worst of all slowed its speed, allowing more mermaids to catch up.

[color=SpringGreen]”This is bad. Uh, um”[/color] he stammered as he tried to come up with a plan. Then it clicked [color=SpringGreen]”Mimi! Copycat Kamek and take over keeping the whale big! And then Kamek, uh, do magic stuff!”[/color] 

“Mimi!” the mon called out as it was sent out from its ball, and then took over enbiggenment duty, while Kamek was released from it, replying [color=SpringGreen]”magic stuff coming right up, young master”[/color] sardonically before doing just so.

[color=SpringGreen]”First, let’s put a stop to all that stabbing shall we”[/color], he said, before raising his wand and surrounding the entire whale in an magical yellow barrier, one that rendered in near impossible to harm beyond what Jr could heal, what with the 80% reduction to all physical damage it provided.

Then he summoned a green clone of himself, one that boosted the whale’s defenses further, before also increasing its speed.

He felt very smug about having countered their foes, right up until Rika called out [color=Aqua]”Little boats up front!”[/color]. Indeed, just as she warned, up ahead were numerous paper boats that had launched from the shore of the river, and upon them many monsters where arrayed. Parked next to that launch point where a number of monster drawn carriages that had been commandeered by some of the place footsloggers, who had overtaken the whale as it was being slowed by being hacked at, and now launched this surprise ambush from the market.

Along with those hunters, the ships hosted many of the market’s denizens such as  [url=https://i.imgur.com/pQD5qd9.png]Professor Goopton[/url] armed with several of his goop based guns, and [url=https://i.imgur.com/ZsqcSae.gif]Seam[/url] who was armed with the overused pair of shears Bowser had sold him. 

It was because of those two, not any of the other dozens of people in her way, that Rika did not need to be told what to do.

[color=Aqua]”Diving! We’re going under, so hold on!”[/color] she called out in warning before making the whale do just that, the great beast who had been about 60% under the water line sinking lower and lower till only  its spine and cannons were above the waterline.

It surged beneath the boats, washing them aside but not crushing them like it would have had she kept it atop the waves.

Unfortunately, this incredibly low waterline left it in a perfect position to be boarded, and so once it rose back up on the other side of the ships, the whale had a fair few more passengers, with shopkeepers and citizens at the front, and a host of guards at the back.

After that, there was nothing to do but brawl as the whale kept racing for the edge of the city.

Jr deployed his car’s boxing gloves and laid into the brain washed folks, while calling out Dazzle the popplio, and having him strike from the water itself, the pokemon launching itself back out of it in mighty penguin leaps to knock people off of the whales back and into the drink.

Bowser used grabs and water blasts to do much the same, seeking to simply throw off their unwelcome gust, and hoping that they could swim, or that the guards already in the drink would prioritize drowners over keeping up the hunt.

Kamek summoned steams of toadies, replacing each one as they fell, and having them grapple the monsters and haul them off of the whales back, while also using castings of magic fist, shifted to be more of a magic shove, to get others off.

Rika was mostly on guard and steering duty to avoid any more paper boats, as no one really trusted her to not do a cold blooded murder of strangers due to not knowing any better. That was until she worked out she could use her grappling hook to disarm people, resulting int the ship girl stealing half a dozen swords, tridents, and other weapons and tossing them all overboard. More often than not this prompted the ones who were armed with these to give up the fight, because they sure as hell weren't going to get through the mountain of scales that was Bowser with their bare fists. 

This all came to an abrupt halt when they ran out of river, the whale bursting over the edge of a waterfall, and then crashing down on top of a cliff of cheese, while the water itself drained down into the crack between the city and the cheesy cavern floor.

[color=FD0000]”Everybody off, abandon whale!”[/color] Bowser commanded, leaping off of it, quickly followed by the rest of the troop (minus the pokemon who were recalled to their balls) who all began legging it. The poor whale was left behind as bait, one that had been reduced to nothing once Undyne caught up.

She took one look at the mess, at her exhausted guards and the civilians, and at the heroes rapidly receding into the distance, decided to take drastic action “Tethys, get home base on the line, deploy project S.A.Y.U!”

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Heading in the opposite direction from everyone else was, and blissfully unaware of the chaos that had overtaken her home, was backpack hero [url=https://i.imgur.com/xEWQY7A.png]Purse[/url], who was in the midst of doing one last cheese run before calling it a day when she spotted some familiar faces coming the other direction.

She called out “Hi Jr! Hi Rika!” to her former fellow cheese runners, only to be taken aback when they turned towards her with fists at the ready, as if expecting a fight.

“Wow wow what’s the big idea? Did I spook you? Why are you so on edge?” she asked, waving both hands ahead of her and backing away carefully.

[color=SpringGreen]”Wait what? You're normal?”[/color] Jr asked warily, to which the mouse replied with a confused “Normal? What do you mean normal?”

[color=SpringGreen]”We killed P, but then F mind controled and sicked the whole city on us! Gotta run”[/color] jr told her, as the troop immediately picked up the pace once more now that they knew she wasn’t a threat.

“You what? He what?” she replied, very confused, before focusing on the one thing she did get, and shouted “Wait, the only way out of here is Pizza tower, and it's super dangerous!”

[color=SpringGreen]”Can’t be worse than fighting a whole city!”[/color] Jr called back, before the troop leapt up to a higher cliff and vanished from sight, leaving the mouse scratching her head in confusion. Then she looked back to the city, and was even more confused as a team of [url=https://i.imgur.com/r69uTVn.png]human kids[/url] (disguised as monsters) combined their artistic talents and a great mass of static and pixels rapidly formed into a [url=https://i.imgur.com/D1Sx2cu.png]grand defender[/url] (tall as a 3 story building from head to tail tip) for the city.

One that started [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3b_HOyVtM4]singing[/url] as she swooped forwards, trident in one hand, captain of the guard in the other, and a small host of monstrous fliers flanking her as they spread out across the caverns to hunt down the fleeing seekers. Any they spotted would have to contend with a rain of both spears and oversized pen nibs hailing down on them as they retreated.