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One of the shots of it in the opening scene was a direct reference to the opening scene for the SNES Star Fox game (called StarWing in Europe).Bowser's Omega Doomship seems to resemble Star Destroyers from Star Wars.In the beginning, Bowser's theme originates from Super Mario Galaxy."The Great Doomship Offensive" is in reference to The Great Cave Offensive, a sub-game from Kirby Super Star and its remake, Kirby Super Star Ultra.Bowser, watching Mario and Basilisx from a monitor in his throne room with Peach, laughs with a wicked smile, while Peach looks in terror as Basilisx prepares to kill Mario. Unwilling to harm his brother, Mario is quickly defeated. Seeing this, Basilisx grabs the petrified Luigi statue, using it as a shield to stop Mario from attacking. Mario gains the upper hand against Basilisx by throwing a hammer at him and smashing him to the ground. Robotnik) working with Bowser, Basilisx is a very good fighter, matching Mario in strength and agility. As a result of an experiment performed by the mysterious scientist (Dr. After saving the remaining 6 Koopatrols, he demands a one-on-one fight to the death with Mario, wanting revenge for killing his friend, and petrifies Luigi, Yoshi and Sonic, to stop them from interfering.īasilisx then draws out Wolverine-style claws, while Mario uses a hammer suit to transform into Hammer Mario, gaining armor and dual hammers. Sonic and the group finish off a total of 90 Koopatrols, but are interrupted by Captain Basilisx, an elite Koopatrol soldier with the ability to turn things to stone by gazing at them. Using his new flame based powers, Sonic starts annihilating Bowser's troops, and is quickly joined by Mario, Yoshi and Tanooki Luigi. Sonic survives the explosion, and uses the Fire Flower to transform into the powerful Fire Sonic much as Mario and the gangs surprised. However, he is overwhelmed by the soldiers and the Fire Flower ends up in a load of Bob-omb. Mario flies Luigi and Yoshi out of the way of the troops, while Sonic attempts to retrieve a Fire Flower Luigi dropped. The army attacks them, but, Mario and Sonic save them. The two end up in a hangar, but unfortunately, they run into an army of Koopatrol soldiers. Yoshi and Luigi, still in the Sky Pop then blow a hole in the hull, and charge in ahead of Mario and Sonic. The duo land on the hull and fight their way through the troops stationed there. After dodging enemy fire, Mario and Sonic jump from the Sky Pop and free-fall towards the Doomship, Mario transforming into Raccoon Mario during this time. Bowser orders Captain Basilisx to fire the cannon twice to hit the heroes but they manage to dodge. The group eventually find the Doomship, and come under attack from the ship's now-operational defenses. Their plan spectacularly falls short when Waluigi falls just short of the plane, and plummets down to earth. Wario and Waluigi make an attempt to ambush the group, by Wario throwing Waluigi to intercept the plane. The group then take off in the Sky Pop Mk II (via giant slingshot) in search of the Omega Doomship. E.Gadd reveals that he had bought supplies for them, anticipating their rescue attempt, and had also fixed up and upgraded the Sky Pop, Mario's old plane. The remainder of the group (Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Sonic and Stuffwell) then head to E.Gadd's lab. Shadow leaves the group, feeling that his and Sonic's interests would only end up clashing with each other. Sonic asks what changed Shadow, who then has a flashback of him holding the dead body of his friend Rouge, implying that her death was responsible. Sonic reminds him that he was never like this in the past, never fighting for pride and amusement, and being one of the most compassionate people he's ever known. This starts an argument between Sonic and Shadow, ending with Shadow threatening to kill Sonic. In the letter, Bowser states that he's holding Peach for ransom, and demands that Mario and his team bring him the Chaos Emeralds that they currently have.Įveryone agrees to help rescue Peach, except for Shadow, thinking that they would be wasting precious time they should be using finding more Chaos Emeralds before Mecha Sonic does. Mario and company hear about the tragedy through a letter sent from Bowser. Bowser kidnaps Princess Peach while Mario was away, but this time she's held captive in Bowser's newly constructed, flying Omega Doomship.