Grounded

This was probably the best and worst day of Jr's life. It was the best day because he found his dad. However, it was also the worst day because his dad found him.

Bowser saw the state of his Clown Car. His face was unreadable at first, but when he walked towards the wreckage, he fell on his knees.

"OOOOH NOOO!! MY CLOWN CAR! RUINED!!" Bowser exclaimed.

He then turned towards the group behind them, anger evident on his face.

"WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS!!!?" Bowser demanded, flames burning from his mouth.

No one spoke up.

"Someone better talk to me!!" He growled.

"ItwasNoraItriedtostopherbutshedidn'tlistenandsheblewitupwe'resorrypleasedon'tburnusuptoacrisp!!!" Jaune said rapidly, panicked at the Koopa King's rage.

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"It was the orange haired girl, your highness." Pom Pom said, still stuck in the ice.

Bowser looked furiously at Nora, walking to her. His every step shook the street.

"It wasn't my fault! They were blowing up the city!!" Nora pointed at Jr and his team.

"Yes Professor Koopa, she's telling the truth." Pyrrha said.

Bowser said nothing, contemplating how he was going to settle this. He snapped his fingers together.

"You," He pointed at Nora. "You and your team have detention for a whole week!"

"WHAT!? THAT'S NOT FAIR!!" Nora shouted.

"Well so was blowing up my vehicle!! Do you know how much it's going to cost!? I don't even have any insurance here!!" Bowser stated, then turned to Jr.

"Jr, as happy as I am that you're okay, you're in big trouble! You're grounded!!" Bowser scolded.

Jr knew his fate was sealed when he stole the car, but he didn't know it would get worse when Nora destroyed it. He said nothing, but ran to him.

He wrapped his arms around his dad, embracing him in a hug.

"I'm glad you're okay, Papa." Jr said.

Bowser knelt down, putting his hammer aside, and returned the hug.

"I'm glad you're okay too, son." He said.

Team JNPR was watching the whole scene unfold before them. Pyrrha had tears in her eyes, Ren and Nora had a small smile, and Jaune was almost on the verge of tears himself. Unfortunately, the moment didn't last.

"Not wanting to ruin the family reunion, but can we get me out of this ice!?" Pom Pom asked, annoyed the forgot about her.

Bowser looked over his shoulder and blasted a fireball at her.

Pom Pom was scared, thinking the blast would hurt her. It hit the ice and it blasted into pieces. Pom Pom was a little shaken up, but she'll live. At least she was free to move around.

Bowser and Jr released each other and decided to head back to the academy.

However, a large blast was heard in the distance that did not go unnoticed by Bowser.

"You, Blondie!!" Bowser pointed at Jaune, who yelped at the sudden action. " Have your team take my son and minions back to Beacon! I'll be back shortly!" He ordered.

Jaune nodded quickly, taking the still unconscious Boshi from Pyrrha and lead them to the academy. Jr didn't move a muscle.

"Papa, what's wrong?" Jr asked.

"There's trouble coming here, go with them to safety! I say this as your father and your king!" Bowser said.

"But-"

"NOW!!" Bowser ordered.

Jr reluctantly did as he was told. Bowser understood what he wanted to do. He just got his father back and didn't want to lose him again.

"Hey, Jr!" He called out.

Jr turned around, looking at his father. Bowser grinned at him, his hand in a proud fist.

"I'll be back! I still need to talk to you about your punishment!" Bowser said.

Jr smiled, feeling a little bit better. But then frowned at the word "punishment." He did not look forward to that. Regardless, he kept his chin up and went with the team.

Bowser picked up his hammer, and ran towards the sound of danger.

47 Minutes Later

Most people think that carrying a massive hammer around with you would get tiring. If it were an ordinary person, then they would be right.

However, to Bowser it was nothing. He went through a lot worse. He even kept a record of the many events that would kill an ordinary person. So far, the worst one was "Destruction of an entire galaxy."

Bowser was right when he said that there was trouble. What he didn't account for was Team RWBY fighting a giant robot on the highway. He saw two other people he didn't recognize.

He was a blonde teenage boy with a monkey tail. He wore two red wrist bracers over black fingerless gloves and an open loose-collared white jacket with no shirt underneath, displaying his muscular physique. He also had blue cargo pants tied up with a white belt. He wore white bandages on his legs and has a chain hanging from the belt loop on the right side of his pants. This is Sun Wukong, leader of Team SSSN.

The other was another teenage boy with tan skin, dark-blue eyes and messy light-blue hair that is shaved on the sides and in the back. He wore a white dress shirt and black tie under a red jacket adorned with a wide, upturned, black collar, and a silver reticle across the back. He also sported a pair of gray jeans with black padding strapped to the sides, as well as black shoes fastened with straps instead of laces. Within his attire also included black fingerless gloves and a pair of yellow-tinted goggles typically worn on his forehead. This is Neptune Versailles, member of Team SSSN.

He then gazed at the robot. It was gray for the most part. It was equipped with at least two arm-mounted energy guns, rear-mounted rocket launchers, and double-barreled guns attached to the aforementioned energy guns. Inside, was a cockpit that houses and secures one pilot, with several holographic displays.

Bowser squinted his eyes a little and saw that there was a man piloting it. He had bright, long, orange hair with long bangs covering his right eye. He had slanted, dark-green eyes as black eyeliner traced his visible left eye covered by a black bowler hat with a small feather tucked into its red band and wore an immaculate red-lined white suit with long black pants and black shoes. His accessories include a small gray scarf, black gloves with buckled sleeves. This is Roman Torchwick.

"Giant robots again? Man, I can't catch a break today, can I?" Bowser said sarcastically, then ran towards the chaos.

Highway

So far it wasn't going well for Ruby and her team. Sun and Neptune were thrown aside by the robot, unable to continue. Weiss used an ice dust bullet from her Rapier, Myrtenaster, causing the paladin to slip and fall off the highway. It fell a long distance and crashed under the bridges, where Ruby waited.

The Paladin stands back up, and the rest of Team RWBY falls beside their leader to take up positions. Roman chuckles upon seeing the girls, but frowned afterward. He had just about enough of them.

Before anyone can make a move, a fireball blasted the robot's right arm causing it to drop the weapon. Roman lost control of it for a second, but then slowly regained his balance. He looked where the fireball came from and saw Bowser.

Team RWBY saw their new combat instructor rushing towards the robot.

"Professor Koopa!? What are you doing here!?" Ruby said, surprised at his sudden appearance.

"Truth be told, Cherry-"

"Ruby." She corrected again.

"Whatever, I'm here because I saw some explosions. Not from this robot, but from my son." Bowser explained.

All their eyes widened. He had a son? Did that mean he had a family? Were there more of him?

Their thoughts were interrupted when they heard the sound of a energy gun charging up. Roman's mech shot a blast at the Koopa King, who barely dodged it.

"Look less talk, more destroying that robot, okay!?" Bowser suggested.

"Finally, something I can get behind!" Said Yang, cracking her knuckles.

"Let's go! Freezer Burn!" Ruby orders.

Ruby and Blake jump back out of the way as Weiss performs her same ice-circle trick, this time generating a slick circle of ice. Yang jumps into the air, hitting the epicenter of the circle with their weapons. Yang's explosion with her gauntlets, Ember Celica, creates waves of mist.

"God...ugh, I hate it when they blind me!" Roman growls.

Immediately, the Paladin activates its laser sensors to make up for the lost sight, but it barely sees anything through the thick layers of black and white. As it tried to look around, Blake and Bowser rush the back of the mech. A hit from Bowser manages to make its mark at the area between its arms, but out from the back only causes it to falter slightly. Blake does the same thing getting the same result.

"What is this thing? It's built tough!" Bowser noticed.

"That is Atlesian Paladin-290, a massive mechanized battlesuit developed by the Kingdom of Atlas, where I was born." Explained Weiss.

"Kingdom? There are kingdoms in this place?" Bowser asked with interest.

If that were true, it could still work out for him in the long run. He used the transport spell to go capture a kingdom, so technically the plan can still work. But it's not just one, but four kingdoms. He'll have to plan on checking them out.

"This is not the time to be asking questions!!" Shouted Blake, avoiding the incoming projectiles.

"Yeah, get in the game shell head!!" Said Yang.

They were right. He needed to focus on sending this machine to the scrap heap. Not wasting time he charged at the mech, his hammer at the ready.

However, Roman saw him coming and swat him away. Bowser was sent crashing towards the far right corner. That actually hurt him, despite his new armor.

"Checkmate!" ordered Ruby.

Blake and Weiss go in this time, each girl going for the feet until Weiss jumps up and stabs a sensor before leaping off of a white glyph. Roman lifts the Paladin's foot to crush Blake, but Weiss summons another glyph under her teammate to launch her backwards before the crushing blow can land. Roman growls and fires off the missiles, but Weiss and Blake flip backwards as the explosions merely hit where they were.

Bowser got up, his rage building up fast. His body started to glow fiery orange and dark purple, like he did when he got his aura released. Only this time Bowser felt different. He started to feel heavy and slow, but then he felt strength coursing through his being. He started to run towards the mech, albeit slowler than normal.

Finally, Weiss jumps up too high, and Roman fires a double energy blast at her. Myrtenaster absorbs the damage, but Weiss is thrown back, so she casts a beam of light from her weapon to the ground under Blake, forming a yellow clockwork circle that's absorbed into the Faunus girl and lets her slice through each launched missile with ease in a flurry of super-fast slashes.

"Ladybug!" Shouted Ruby as she shot forward, Blake beside her.

"Enough!!" Shouted Roman in fury, and pressed a couple buttons.

Before Blake and Ruby could attack, a force field surrounded the mech, repelling the two girls. They fell, rolling on the pavement. Yang saw this and scowled at Roman, angry at him for hurting her sister and teammate.

Yang didn't waste a second, jumping onto the Paladin's back and punching the top with fiery shotgun blasts. Roman is knocked around in the cabin, but seeing as he can't reach her, he runs backwards through two columns and leaves her embedded in a third before backing away and turning towards her. Just as she fell down, the mechs arm extends a closed fist, and punches her, sending her flying through the column.

Roman smiled at his supposed victory, but then heard a crunching noise. He looked and saw that his mech's left arm was completely ripped off. Suddenly, the torn arm slammed against his mech, sending it crashing against one of the far pillars of the bridge.

He looked and saw that it was the same beast from before, but it looked different. He saw that its entire body was silver like metal. Everything from its hair to even its irises were silver in color. He was also a bit taller by a foot than his previous height.

"I'm getting pretty sick of fighting robots!!" Bowser said, slowly walking towards the mech.

To be continued.

I hope you people enjoyed that little moment with Jr and Bowser. You might be seeing more of that in the story. Also, Bowser's Semblance, Adapt, has finally been introduced. I wanted to see how I could use this and I decided that this battle was appropriate. As for timelines, this takes place a few weeks before the Vytal Festival. Oh, I can't to unleash the thoughts on how I'm going to write this! Gwahahaha!!! ...Ahem. As I was saying, I can't wait for it! I'm PangoroGrunt saying see you whenever and tip your waitress. Or your waiter if you swing that way.

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