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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 906 (+1)
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 14 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (186/140)  (+1 bonus pending)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 14 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (69/140)  (+1 bonus pending)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 13 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (66/130)  (+1 bonus pending)
[b][color=Aqua]Rika: Level 9 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aqua]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]///// (85/90)  (+1 bonus pending)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] The Under - Mercy Dreams
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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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[color=SpringGreen]”Wait but what about kirby?”[/color] that was jrs first question when Kamek relayed the information they’d received from Asgore. They were doing so not upon a paper boat, or on stag back, but instead in a [url=https://i.imgur.com/pSCeHTF.png]little catcafe[/url] (a cafe for cats!) which served all sorts of [url=https://i.imgur.com/q87pQ9D.png]delightful drinks[/url] as well as snacks galore. 

Outside cats pulling trains and cats not pulling trains went about their day, fortunately not all swarming to take them down this time. The others were out there somewhere as well, most likely hunting pons, but the troop had delegated that to Minions, specifically Kamek’s toadies.

That left them plenty of time to catch up on important exposition (the trip here having been taken up mostly by first consoling and then listening to Jr complaining about his near drowning experience) hence the resulting Kirby question. 
 
Kamek sighed upon hearing it, having failed to explain general relativity to his king, only to have an idea, pushing his spectacles up, causing them to flash in the light as he grinned.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Why by using time travel of course young master!”[/color] he lied, or perhaps simplified, depending on how you looked at it [color=DeepSkyBlue]”In order to outrun Galeem’s shot, he traveled so fast that he raced into the future, hence avoiding multiversal annihilation by simply not being here when it happened. It being a spur of the moment thing however, it seems he overshot the start of all this by quite some time. Who knows how long really, but Asgor claims it has been a lot. In people years anyway, I imagine it has still been the blink of an eye compared to the age of our own universe, hence how Kirby’s landing was a bit off”[/color]

[color=SpringGreen]”Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh”[/color] Jr replied with comprehension, while Bowser asked instead [color=FD0000]”why didn’t you just say that the first time instead of going on about how, uh, something about going fast making time slow or something?”[/color]

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Oh, ah, because I needed some time to process it all, is the thing. My apologies for doing such a poor job earlier”[/color] Kamek lied again, before getting ahead of the next question and saying [color=DeepSkyBlue]”and no, I can’t just build another time machine and travel back in time to fix things, because we had no idea where the cliff face upon which Galeem first fought is, if it even exists at all any more”[/color]

[color=SpringGreen]”Lame”[/color] Jr complained, while Rika asked what was probably a pretty key question, which was [color=Aqua]”So how are we going to avoid that? The light I mean? Because that’s very fast, right, and papa couldn’t avoid it last time. So what do we do when we go fight Galeem?”[/color]

[color=FD0000]”Last time was a fluke! A cheap shot! This time I’ll, uh, um...”[/color] Bowser replied, before failing to actually find an answer and scratching his head and failing to come up with an answer

[color=SpringGreen]”Couldn’t we use the time machine for that?”[/color] Jr asked, making Kamek grimace for a second about how his white lie was coming back to bit him, only to actually think about it for a moment.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”It wasn’t exactly combat capable. However… Perhaps we could use something like F’s rewind? To undo the beam attack when it occurs”[/color] Kamek theorized [color=DeepSkyBlue]”but any kind of time based solution would take, well, time to develop, not to mention resources and a magical workshop to perform my work in, none of which I am sure are available. Gallo and his Tower are the only real instance of magical learning we have really seen now that I think about it, myself and that dingy little dungeon excluded”[/color]

Suddenly Bowser pounded the table, causing their half finished glasses to jump into the air and land back down before he declared the solution he’d thought of [color=FD0000]”A big mirror! That overgrown disco ball tires to blast us with light but then, ha, gotcha, big mirror to reflect the beam right back at it”[/color]

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”I, well, hmmm”[/color] Kamek attempted to object, and yet failed to find any real objections to the base principle other than that surly Galeem was to powerful to be foiled by meer glass and silver, resulting in the others running away with the idea [color=SpringGreen]”We could make you a big shiny tower shield!”[/color] [color=Aqua]”or maybe reflective armor?”[/color]

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Oh dear”[/color] Kamek murmured as he rested his head on the table as they kept going, only to perk back up when his toadies appeared, carrying their collected spoils, namely the pons they needed to get a ride out of here.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Ah thank badness. Looks like it’s time to hit the road. Or the rails rather”[/color] he said as they entered, before rising and saying [color=DeepSkyBlue]”let me just go settle the bill”[/color] before going and doing just so.

While he was at it, the royals received their pass paying pons from the toadies, after which Bowser demanded to know if they had seen any mirrors. 

They had not.

[color=SpringGreen]”We’re going to a desert though, right? And you make sand out of glass… right? So they might have some”[/color] Jr pointed out, which enthused his father, who clapped him on the shoulder with a [color=FD0000]”That’s my boy!”[/color] before declaring [color=FD0000]”Let’s move out troop, we have a train catch!”[/color] and setting them on the path towards the yellow line. 

Then they came back a couple of seconds later because Kamek was still fussing with paying. 

But after that was done they were off to sunnier pastures!