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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 1,032 (+2)
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 12 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (235/120)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 12 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (120/120)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 12 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]///////// (112/120)
[b][color=Aqua]Rika: Level 8 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aqua]/////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]/////////////////////////////////// (46/80)
[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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[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Sausage, sweets and pepperoni!”[/color] “No!” “No!” “No!”

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Cheese, peppers and seafood!”[/color] “No!” “No!” “No!”

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”fruit, mushrooms and honey!”[/color] “No!” “No!” “No!”

[color=FD0000]”Kamek?”[/color] 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”mushrooms, sweets and pepperoni!”[/color] “No!” “No!” “No!”

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”peppers, seafood and pepperoni!”[/color] “No!” “No!” “No!”

[color=FD0000]”Kamek!”[/color] 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”sausage, sweets, and honey!”[/color] “No!” “No!” “Ohhh, now that’s my pizza!” Arno broke the tune of the last however long as he looked at the offered pizza with something approaching love, before snatching it and adding  “Took ya long enough! Wasn’t my sweet tooth obvious?”

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”pepperoni, cheese, and peppers!”[/color] “No!”  “Mmmm, yes! Now that’s more like it. Nice and spicy“ Willa declared before snatching up the offering

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”seafood, mushrooms, and fruit!”[/color] “No!” Shyler cried out in fury, before his eyes suddenly dropped the rage at bad pizza they had been filled with, and focused on the final pizza “Oh, no wait! yeah that sounds good actually.” before politely asking “can I have it?” 

[color=FD0000]”KAMEK!”[/color] Bowser roared in his advisor’s ear, which finally got his attention, causing  both him  and the dry bones holding the pizza to leap into the air, and spilling the dish to the ground as a result

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”A, um, oh, yes sire?”[/color] he turned to ask after landing, leaving Shyler dancing with impatience yet unwilling to simply snatch the pizza now that his senses were back

[color=FD0000]”We’re heading up”[/color] the king simply informed him, jerking a thumb towards

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Oh, ah, yes, of course. My apologies. I got a little caught up in solving the puzzle”[/color] 

“Can I…. Can I have the pizza now, please?” Shyler repeated, edging closer

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Hmmm? Oh, yes, of course, here you go”[/color] the mage replied, before waving the dry bones closer [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Enjoy”[/color] 

“Thank you” the final troll said, sounding genuinely touched as he took the pizza

“Alright! 3 .. 2 .. 1 .. Pizza party time!” Arno chanted, before all three pizzas tossed their pizzas up in the air, and then swallowed them in one gulp

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”I uh … huh”[/color] Kamek said as he looked on, stunned as all his work vanished in an instant, with nary a moment given to savor it.

That said, despite their speed eating, the trolls still looked like they had enjoyed themselves immensely, rubbing their bellies in a satisfied manner.

[color=FD0000]”So”[/color] Bowser asked [color=FD0000]”Was it worth it?”[/color] 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Ehhhhh”[/color] The mage examined the mess resulting from rejected pizzas, and wasted ingredients as a result, and then shrugged 

“Course it was worth it. Because now we can tell you where you need to go to get out” Arno 

[color=SpringGreen]”Staff only, boss door”[/color] Jr called over 

“Uh. yeah. Good guess” Arno conceded for the trio 

[color=SpringGreen]”Uh uh”[/color] replied noncommittally, before calling out [color=SpringGreen]”now hurry up, we have a pizza to face”[/color] and then giggling at his own joke.

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[color=FD0000]”yeah booooo, weak! Where’s the presentation!”[/color] Bowser jeered in tandem with Nadia’s laughter, not rating this bad guy highly at all so far. 3/10 at most.

[color=SpringGreen]”This was the guy we had to get out of the levels before he showed up? Yeesh, we coulda taken it slow if we’d known that”[/color] Jr complained

Either in response to the mockery, or because he was just going to do it anyway, the big bad boss of the pizza tower summoned a whole host of cronies to do his bidding.

As Artorias aptly demonstrated as he flipped first into action, those minions were going to be a real hurdle when it came to actually getting a chance to hit the pie in the sky.

[color=SpringGreen]”Two can play at that game!”[/color] Jr (who was still fighting on foot due to not having had the time or energy to fix up his machine) called out, before summoning minions of his own. 

[color=SpringGreen]”Flukefey flight, dive bomb those piggy snipers!”[/color] he called out, sending a wave of tooth and wing swooping down at a squad of piglins armed with crossbows, before following it up with [color=SpringGreen]”Murlock Marines! Koopa Corps! Goomba Swarm! Meet those mooks head on!”[/color] creating a veritable swarm of strikers that surged forwards with the prince at their center.

Goombas trampled over cheese slimes only to be skewered by fork knights, who themselves were knocked down by spinning koopa shells and beaten down by the murlock’s crude weapons. Sympathetic recoil damage peppered the prince as his strikers got hurt, but by using his aoe healing spell, he turned that same sympathetic connection into a boon, healing himself far more by hitting his whole swarm than using single targeted heals on himself ever could.

Of course, he wasn’t the only minion summoner, with Kamek joining in with a pronouncement of  [color=DeepSkyBlue]”More than two, actually!”[/color] before conjuring up a horde of drybones and a quartet of magi-clones to join the fight, chump blocking and spell blasting more of the minions.

Now, it could probably be argued that adding all these extra minions, on top of the antlions already cluttering the tower top thanks to a certain bee-queen,  simply made more of a chaotic mess rather than fixing the issue, but the other two Troop members did their best to work around it. 

Or rather, over it.

[color=FD0000]”One royal fastball, coming your way, you cheap third rate villain!”[/color] Bowser called out as he reeled back and then hurled the deadliest projectile he had available.

Namely Rika.

[color=Aqua]”woo hoo!”[/color] the princess cheered as she sailed through the air, before yelling  [color=Aqua]”I’m going to get a slice of you!”[/color] while chopping sideways with a fly-by swing with her halberd like lance, before using her maneuvering thrusters to spin around, her feather fall rune to get a double jump’s worth of extra altitude and then her grappling hook to latch on and come swinging around for a second hit.

She warped the spear under her other arm and aimed to deliver a piercing strike to the back of the pizza pile, before flipping her weapon around in an instant, and opening fire with its rear mounted cannon, along with her rifle and rigging guns, using the recoil to blast herself back towards Bowser.

The king for his part shoulder barged through a scrum of mooks, before lashing out with tentacles and dreugh claws deployed from his shell while he used his own claws to catch his boomerang of a projectile before she could get into trouble crash landing among their foes.