To Brawl

Queen Lin took in a deep breath and looked at the enemies before her. Bowser was back to his true form, while his wizard stood behind him, looking more curious than dangerous. The pair's conversation before about how to use the idle profile for Peach danced in her head along with the knowledge of all the trouble they have caused. All of it resonated in her in a much deeper way than she would have thought. She wasn’t from the land, but with the addition of the Princess Crown the ill fitting profile within her felt much more comfortable like she had changed to fit it. Still, it wasn’t perfect, Lin still needed to get back home to save… her Princess, but she was a Queen and as one she couldn’t leave Bowser to sow chaos when she left.

Meanwhile Bowser straightened his back, flexed his fingers as the fire within him started to burn once more. The loss of the crown was trivial, he was physically stronger this way, he was a man through and through yet… part of him liked being pretty, not that he would ever say that out loud. ‘I’m going to destroy this elfin boy, cut him to shreds and burn the rest till they were ash, I’m going to…’ His thoughts trailed off as he looked the figure and down, his eyes roaming over her figure multiple times. To him it was like someone turned the dial up to eleven on Princess Peach. He knew the work of the crown, there was still the skin tone, hair color of the young man that had come here, not to mention the pointed ears. Yet the person in front of him was no boy, no girl, they were all women. Appearing more mature, more regal and very much more appealing.

“Here is what you are going to do.” Lin said, her voice hard and yet at the same time musical like an opening line to a rock song. She felt in control, like her voice held the power of command. Yet before she could say more the large brute stepped closer and latched onto her upper arms with his powerful clawed hands.

“Mmmm, Queen Toadstool.” The King of the Koopas looked at the woman in his arms hungerly. “Yes!” He threw his head back, a barking laugh coming forth, knowing exactly what needed to be done. “A King is meant to have a Queen, a Princess was wrong all along!” Wedding bells rang in his mind, not caring one bit about the battles the recently transpired or the origin of the young woman in his grasp.

The transformed hylian’s eyes went wide, struggling just enough to know that despite her increase in strength it still wasn’t nearly enough to match the creature holding her. An image came to her mind, back in a wedding dress and tied up while Bowser wore his white suit. ‘That is not going to happen, I am not some damsel needing to be rescued!’ Snapping her fan closed, she brought it up and slapped the heavy metal binding hard into Bowser’s nose. There was no real leverage to get any power behind it but it had been enough to startle him and that was the opening she needed to slip free from his grasp.

With more room to move Lin leaped into the air, getting more distance from the ground than she was expecting and slammed the metal of her fan hard down into her foe’s head. Her heeled feet landed lightly to the ground as she came down into a crouch, turning in place so that her new weapon collided with the back of the koopa’s knee causing him to stumble. As she held that same arm out to the side, sliding her thumb on her fan, causing it to open. A smile played at the corner of her pink lips as she swung her arm as hard as she could, causing a powerful gust to throw Bowser from his unstable feet into the air and to collide with his minion.

Seeing Bowser going crashing to the floor, Lin let out a breath she didn’t know she was holding. Princess Peach had beaten her in combat the last time they fought and yet she had felt powerless after they had swapped profiles. Yet here in her home world she was the one being rescued. It made her think about how the overgrown lizard didn’t know what he was messing with when she really came into her own. For now, though she needed to make sure her world… this world was safe while she was away. Taking one confident step forward after another, she strolled forward confidently, her his swaying with each step as she moved closer to Bowser. She watched amused as he struggled to get back to his feet. “Before I was interrupted, I was about to tell you how things are going to work.”

Wincing, Bowser rubbed the side of his head, much more confused at what had happened then angry. “What?”

“Here.” Queen Lin pointed her now closed fan at his face. “Is what you are going to do moving forward. You are going to come with me to Brawl, so I can keep an eye on you.”

Cracking his neck, Bower slapped the mental fan out of his face as he brought himself back up to his feet. ‘Link, the pretend Princess Peach… now queen…’ Bowser had to fight himself from leering at the figure before him and keeping his thoughts in order. ‘They have gotten too high and mighty, catching me by surprise was nowhere close to my defeat. I’m going to catch her and make her mine’ He bared his teeth, starting to take in a deep breath to start the next round with a gout of flame.

The way Bowser stood made Lin think he was about to start another fight, and while she now felt confident in defeating him, she wasn’t so sure that would hold true if he went into that Giga form. Reaching her hand forward, quick as a snake she pinched the scales a fat on the side of his head where his internal ear was and then pulled. “I wasn’t asking, you are coming with me.” Lin said with a level of confidence even she wasn’t aware she had.

The buildup of fire inside of Bowser fell away as she struggled to keep up even though she had a much smaller stride than his own. No one had grabbed him like this since he was a child, it felt like this newly crowned Queen was going to rip out his ear. “Ow! Hey, HEY! Let GOOO!”

Pulling the much larger man along and not acknowledging please, Lin Turned to look at the remaining koopa in the room. “Kamek.” Lin spoke, waiting for the wizard to give her his undivided attention. “Your King is coming with me, until Princess Peach comes back there will be no assaults on the Mushroom Kingdom. Is that understood?”

“Ahh.” Kamek looked to his liege, they had kidnapped the Princess countless times and while he knew this wasn’t her it was close and she was **** King Bowser. “Understood.”

Having to hold his head down at an awkward angle, Bowser put one of his powerful hands onto Queen Lin’s, his hands large enough to circle around her entire forearm and he knew he was strong enough to crush it if he desired. “You will do…” He was about to say “no such thing” and squeeze the delicate arm to take back control of the situation, but was cut off as she pinched harder and pulled more on his sensitive ear.

“As I command.” Lin finished Bowser’s sentence. While Kamek had already said he understood, she waited for him to nod once more before walking back to the door that would take her to the Land of Brawl and along with her she brought along Bowser who seemed as powerful as a kitten while she held him in her grasp. Between the profile within her and the power up Lin knew she really couldn’t stay in this land. Already she was feeling the attachment to it growing, a need to protect her… Peach’s people. Taking one last look over her shoulder, she smiled brightly, knowing that the land was safer than when she had arrived, even if it was only temporary.