In deep space, a giant castle with spiked, green, dome-shaped spires flew. Inside that castle, there lived the emperor of a species called the Koopas. The Koopas were humanoid turtle reptiles that had an empire with many other species in it. Their leader was named King Bowser Koopa, a large horned koopa with a red mane of hair and a green spiked shell. His skin was tan and he had claws on his feet and hands.
A normal koopa, often called a Koopa Troopa was a turtle that stood up, with a green or red shell and shoes matching their shell's color. They had yellow skin, and a large beak. But more common that even koopa troopas were goombas. A goomba was a brown short triangle-shaped creature with fangs and long eyebrows. The goombas had a leader named Goomboss, a goomba with a crown and grey eyebrows and a gray mustache, who was crowned by Bowser.
The Koopas were a military-based species, but were also able to use their abilities for other purposes (that's how they're still alive today). For example, a member of the Koopa species called Hammer Bros, were able to use the hammers they created for both military and construction purposes.
However, at this moment in time the Koopa Troop was working on a plan to test a planet-destroying bomb and take over the entire universe, but had to do so in another dimension in case they messed up. However, everything necessary to carry out this plan was under construction. Bowser's adopted children (and therefore potential heirs to the throne) along with his son, Bowser Junior and advisor Kamek, a Magikoopa, which were the koopa equivalent of witches, were working on an interdimensional portal, a giant drill, and a planet absorbing bomb.
Each of Bowser's children (7 of them were called "The Koopalings" and the other was Bowser Jr) had certain similarities to bowser and each other. They each had Bowser's basic face shape, and spiky shells. Bowser Jr looked like a young version of Bowser.
First, there was Lemmy Koopa and Iggy Koopa. The two had the same plantlike hair, except Iggy's was green, and Lemmy's was multicolored, and more Mohawk-shaped. Iggy was tall, a genius, insane, and very thin, and had a green shell. Lemmy was less insane and short, as well as the funny one in the Koopalings, but always stood on a yellow ball with orange stars, and had an orange shell. While Iggy fought with a chain chomp cart at times but always used a wand, Lemmy sometimes threw his bouncy balls or bombs by hand. Lemmy also has two striped-shaped birthmarks on the side of his head.
Larry Koopa, the youngest of the Koopalings, with few defining traits. He likes sports, is a little mischievous, like Lemmy, has a star shaped birthmark on the side of his head, and gets dizzy more easily than the rest of the Koopalings. He has blue hair in the shape of a Mohawk but very long. He had a blue shell to match his hair. His wand was the simplest, firing only a blast of magical fire like most wands
Next, there was Wendy O. Koopa and Ludwig von Koopa. Wendy was a female Koopaling without horns and with a ribbon on her head and a red necklace, as well as a pink shell. Ludwig had two large dark blue tufts of hair, a single tooth, and a dark blue shell. While Wendy was a greedy spoiled Koopa and Ludwig was a self-proclaimed "leader" of the Koopalings, but was almost as intelligent as Iggy. Wendy had large Ring-Bracelets that bounced off walls, which she could also create using her wand. Ludwig had slight flight abilities, but only used a wand in battle, but always fired multiple blasts at the same time.
Next, we have the bully Roy Koopa and mysterious Morton Koopa Jr. Morton was a large, strong, grey shelled Koopaling, with a star birthmark who wielded a hammer. Roy was similar in shape to Morton, but wore pink sunglasses and was just, pinker, with a pink shell, and a wand that fired pink blasts. However, later Roy decided to use a cannon rather than a wand, and Morton preferred a hammer to a wand. The cannon Roy used fire Bullet Bills, a species of, well, missiles.
However, by now, you're probably tired of me describing the species of the Koopa Clan, so I'll tell you what they were doing at this time. Well, Iggy, Wendy and Kamek were working on an interdimensional portal ray, using Iggy's knowledge of trans dimensional physics, Kamek's knowledge of magic. and Wendy's rings. Lemmy, Ludwig, and Roy, were working on a planet absorbing bomb because of Ludwig's scientific knowledge and Lemmy and Roy's love of explosives. Finally, Bowser Jr, Larry, and Morton were working on a giant drill, Bowser Jr because he's constantly riding a Koopa Clown Car (A flying cup with a propeller on the bottom basically) Larry because he is good at construction, and Morton because this construction mostly requires physical strength.
During a test for the portal beam, a small portal opened up. A child named Steven saw this portal, and with stars in his eyes (literally), he ran inside a large statue with eight arms, with three of the hands broken off.