Bowser Jr.'s Journey

**"Bowser Jr.'s Journey"** is the second episode of *Bowser's Koopalings* Season 6 and the forty-sixth episode overall. In this episode, Bowser tells the Koopalings to get along with Bowser Jr. to prevent a woman revealed to be Bowser's ex-wife Karen, from taking custody of Junior.

## Plot

The episode starts with King Boo and Bowser watching TV and relaxing until someone knocks at the door. When the person reveals themselves, they turn out to be a woman named Karen. Ludwig informs his siblings about Karen's arrival at the castle, and they procceed to tell Travis about her; Bowser married Karen sometime after Peach went missing in an Airship Crash in 2012 and together they had Bowser Jr.. However, due to Karen having an unbearable personality and trying to get rid of everything that could remind Bowser of Peach, including the Koopalings themselves, they ended up getting divorced, with Bowser gaining custody of Junior as he is heir of the kingdom.

During a meeting with Bowser, Kamek and King Boo, Karen reveals that the reason she has come to the castle is because she is outraged at the fact that Ludwig was made heir to the throne after Junior, which she found out thanks to King Boo making a KoopaBook post about it, even though Bowser tells her that is only until Junior has kids of his own, and because Junior has told her that the Koopalings have been mistreating him, although Junior's account actually consists of things he has done to the Koopalings. Because of this, Karen believes that Junior is not in a safe environment to grow up in and states that she intends to take full custody of him. Kamek then assures her that Junior and the Koopalings actually get along pretty well, and they come to the agreement that if Junior and the Koopalings spend the day together and he tells her that they had a good time, she'll allow him to continue living with Bowser, but she will take him to live with her and her new husband in Ocean Side if he tells her that they have been mistreating him.

When Bowser informs the Koopalings about he and Karen's agreement, they initially refuse as they would actually be happy if she were to take Junior away forever, but after they realize Bowser would be very upset if Karen took away his son, and after he bribes them with two weeks off, they agreee. When the Koopalings ask Bowser Jr. to hang out with them for a day so they can please his mother, he initially refuses, but quickly changes his mind when Wendy assures him that they'll do anything he wants.

After almost forcing Wendy into kissing him, Junior, the Koopalings, and Travis all go to the Dark Valley Goomburger, where Junior throws a tantrum over both his meal and the toy it came with, even beating up Kawasaki over it. After it, Junior goes to the restroom, notices a window, and uses it to get away from the Koopalings, not before making a mess out of the restroom. After being informed by Dedede and Kawasaki that Junior has run away, all of them, except Iggy and Roy, decide to split up and look for him across the valley. Junior is then revealed to have gone to the Statue of Sir Lemcelot and has urinated on it. There he is confronted by the Chargin Chucks, who proceed to kick him away from the statue. In turn, Junior steals their car and drives off with it before crashing it.

Meanwhile the search party for Junior doesn't have many succesful results; Wendy and Travis get no information regarding his whereabouts, Lemmy comes across Eddie, whom he invites for drinks, and Ludwig and Larry come across Lauren, who tells them that she saw Junior urinating on the Sir Lemcelot statue.

Meanwhile, Junior has arrived at a Wishing Fountain and is stealing coins from it, which Lucy and Courtney call him out for. At that moment, the Charging Chucks find Junior and beat him up and use him as a ball up for crashing their car. Back at the statue, Ludwig, Larry and Lauren come across Bully and Spike, who inform them about Junior being chased off by the Charging Chucks. Back with Junior, he is approached by a suspicious looking man in a black van. The man, who is named Drake Francis, tells Junior that he is a friend of Bowser and that he sent him to pick him up. Bowser Jr. agrees to get in his van after Drake promises to teach him how to use a Bill Blaster.

Back with the Koopalings, Travis accidentally reveals that he has a secret activity at night and causes concern in Wendy. Travis promises that he will eventually tell her what it is, but that he can't just yet and asks Wendy to be patient, to which she agrees. Meanwhile Lemmy and Eddie exchange stories as to when they found out about their homosexuality, with Eddie telling a camping experience gone wrong when he was 12 and Lemmy stating that he found out when a hairdresser hit him with a magazine for checking him out, all while Morton eats chicken from a trash can.

Drake has taken Junior to his hideout, where he reveals that he is not actually an associate of his father, but rather a former Joke's End aristocrate of the Bohnenkraut Kingdom who fled to the Koopa Kingdom after Johann XVIII's death and the other aristocrats' arrest, who deflected to the cause of the Shadows to get revenge on the Koopa Family and that he has intention of kidnapping him in order to prove his loyalty and become an official member. Junior however doesn't care about that and just asks where the Bill Blasters are, to which Drake tells him that he has none because he is not trusted with firearms. Bowser Jr. then throws a tantrum over being lied about the Bill Blasters and destroys Drake's house, causing a fire and killing Drake in the process. Junior, completely angry, decides to go look for the Koopalings.

The three search groups have meet up again, and in that moment Junior walks in and tells all of them that he blames them for him running away and talks about all the things he has done as if he were the victim; saying that he was abducted by the Charging Chucks when he left Goomburger on his own, that he saw people stealing from the Fountain of Dreams when he was the one doing that, and that they set him on fire when he himself did that by destroying Drake's house. Junior then demands to go to the arcade and when the other Koopalings refuse, he threatens to tell Bowser that they have been mistreating him, completely convinced that Karen won't take him away and that Bowser would just kick the Koopalings out of the castle. Completely fed up with Junior's whining, Eddie hits him in the head with a wooden plank, causing him to get amnesia and forget everything that happened after he left Goomburger.

After cleaning up Junior from the fire's soot and bandaging up his head, Ludwig, Larry, Lemmy, Wendy and Morton take him back to the castle, where he tells Karen that they had a wonderful day. In accordance to their agreement, Karen agrees to continue letting Junior live with his dad and allowing her to have him during the weekends, but also states that she will come back if she finds out the Koopalings have been mean to him.

## Youtube Description

A familiar figure from Bowser's past returns to the castle and tells him the Koopalings have been horrible to Junior. To make up for this, Bowser attempts to have the Koopalings and Junior bond. Unfortunately for the Koopalings, Junior is Junior.

Special thanks to:

* Popplio Power: Travis/Kamek/Dedede/Paratroopa/Chuck #2
* Carmen: Wendy/Karen/Lucy
* TrashyKoopa: Lemmy/Lauren/Courtney
* Swoldow EVGRB: King Boo/Eddie/Blue Koopa
* Insta: Drake/Kamikoopa
* Mononerd: Kawasaki
* Cowabunga: Assistance with Spriting Locations
* PLK: Intro & Transition Music
* KavehKoopa: Scene Transitions
* RidgeTroopa (Larry, Iggy, Morton, Lemmy sprites)
* NeoZ7 (Roy, Ludwig & Bowser Jr. sprite)
* Tebited15 (King Boo sprite)
* CrusperButter (Chargin Chucks sprite)