Giga Dragon

Giga Dragon aired on June 28th, 2013 alongside its sister episode, The Dam.

## **Synopsis**

On another part of the island lies Bowser's Castle in the Lowlands. A group of goombas head over to his throne room and attempt to let him know that the flood intended to destroy the Mushroom Kingdom was stopped, revealing that Bowser was actually the one who managed to create ruptures and cracks around the Dam walls and cause its collapse. Bowsers becomes enraged by this news and blasts away the goombas with his fiery breath. A band of koopas quickly barge into the room and let Bowser know that Mario has been taking care of crime in the Mushroom Kingdom and was also the one discovered to thwart his plan behind the dam. This causes Bowser to go into a fury and he decides to take a visit to the kingdom to deal with Mario.

While at the kingdom, Mario and Luigi are playing a game of ping pong when suddenly Squirt barges in and yells out in a panic about how his first day of high school is the next week. Luigi tries his best to reassure squirt that everything will be fine despite the fact that he himself has never been to high school nor knows the troubles that come with it. Suddenly, a commotion occurs outside and Bowser reveals himself to the team and to the greeting of Mario. Mario and Bowser battle around the rooftops of the houses and local stores. Peach throws Mario one of Luigi's inventions and shoots it at Bowser which causes him to fall down and become engaged in a fury. He lets out a fiery roar and with it, a large blast of fire breath. Mario gets burned by a smidge of the fire leading to him being injured on his arm. Just before Bowser could deal a final blow, Mario jumps and blasts Bowser with a fireball from his hand. Everyone is shocked including Mario who once again is shocked that he was able to shoot fire once again. Luigi takes this moment to shoot Bowser with a stun ray and it causes him to become paralyzed. His goombas and koopas carry him away on his clown flyer car and they flee the scene.

That night, Peach, Squirt, and Luigi examine Mario to see his injuries only to find that he hadn't been injured at all. Mario becomes confused at this and decides that he may have just overreacted and thought Bowser had struck him when in reality that wasn't the case. They tell him to get a good night's rest but Mario finds himself unable to sleep it off. He goes outside to the back courtyard and tries to see if he could shoot fire again. After many failed attempts, he does succeed but is only able to shoot out a small flame.

At Bowser's castle, he and his minions discuss that Mario is a threat and needs to be taken care of. Bowser points out that both he and Luigi are humans just like Peach, adding onto the mystery to them on their origins. A boo asks him if he knows any other way they could potentially get rid of him. Bowser decides that there is one way he could take care of him: to squash him out. He then walks into another large room to gaze upon a large machine. He tells the minions to inject him with a growth serum, which according to him, he keeps for times like these. They insert it into a needle which is injected into Bowser, causing him to grow exponentially.

The next morning, Mario wakes up to the sound of constant shaking from the ground. He and the team go outside to see Bowser but as a giant heading toward the kingdom. The toads begin to panic and flee but Mario sees this as the time to try out his new learned power. However, he ends up falling in trying to perform it correctly. Bowser grabs a chunk of building and chucks it at the team, destroying an entire block. Luigi hatches an idea of using his shrink ray from the lab but the rubble from Bowser is blocking the entrance. Bowser hurdles toward the castle and bashes into it causing a massive chunk of it to fall off and cause the team to become separated. Mario becomes trapped under a rubble pile and becomes enraged in extreme emotion. His eyes suddenly glow red and his gloves become fiery. He bursts out of the rubble and shoots Bowser with tons of fireballs. Bowser scoffs and decides to try and lift the castle from the ground. The ground begins to shake and the castle begins to crack along with the foundation breaking and structural damage occurring. Before he can lift it. Mario shoots him in the eye and Luigi takes this as the opportune time to shoot the shrink ray at him, returning Bowser to normal size. Once back to normal, he is also revealed to have been shorter than his normal height, about 3 feet shorter. This causes him to become enraged once more and goes to attack Peach who is unaware of him due to trying to escape a piece of rubble. Mario shoots a large fireball at Bowser which causes him to fall and become unconscious. His minions once again take him away, vowing revenge on the Mario bros. The team rushes to Mario's aid and he says that he will try to figure out his power more but now, their primary focus is to fix the kingdom up a bit. Squirt then asks if he could try out the giant ray Bowser used to which the team abruptly answers no.