"Crab legs, come get your crab legs here!" Dry Bowser exclaimed as he was selling seafood, with Mario rushing right by as the boney reptile squinted his eyes, turning his head to the human plumber. "Hey! Pay me some mind!"
Mario turned around, and chucked a giant mallet at the boney reptile, reducing him to a bunch of bones as he kept on his journey, with Dry Bowser grumbling to himself as he fixed himself up after the unlucky encounter.
Back to the hero of the show, Super Mario made his way out of the horizontal blue warp pipe and entered another circular shaped arena, this time the ground being covered with yellow-white sand and the environment reflecting that of a craggy coastline, rocky mountains being seen in the back of the tropical palm trees that stood among the rocks. Mario did some exercise, stretching out his arms as he waited for the boss of the area to show up, when he noticed the ground starting to shake. Water then surrounded the outlines of the arena as a gigantic red crab with large pincers appearing across Mario, in the right corner. Mario gulped as he knew something was similar about this giant crab... something too similar. Mario, though, had no time to ponder such questions, as the giant crab started chucking boulders at the red-capped plumber!
Oh! Now I remember! Mario thought to himself as he rolled out of the way, heading towards the giant crab, That guy is Clawgrip, the one from my dreams oh so many years ago! What the heck is he doing here, anyway!?
After remembering who the giant crab was, Mario got his act together as he tossed two fireballs into Clawgrip's right side. Clawgrip hissed as he felt the flame going right into his body, but he somehow managed to shake off the feeling and grabbed Mario with his righ pincer, squeezing the life out of the plumber. Mario moaned in pain as he tried to squeeze his way out, but instead, he closed his eyes, and his hands began to warm up, red flares forming over them as Mario burned his way out from Clawgrip's grasp. Clawgrip screamed in agony from the burn as mario kicked him in the face. Now enraged, Clawgrip roared as he tossed too many boulders at the same time, unfortunate for Mario was he was unable to avoid all of them.
However, this gave him a great idea. As he waited, Mario grabbed a big boulder that Clawgrip tossed after the storm of mini boulders, and waiting three seconds afterwards, Mario ran forward and tossed the big boulder right at Clawgrip, wounding his face. Clawgrip covered his wounded face as Mario picked him up from behind and tossed him out of the arena. Mario watched as the giant crab screamed for his life, falling into the ocean that surrounded the arena. Grinning with victory, Mario turned around and collected the golden key that popped up shortly afterwards, sticking it in his blue overalls as he headed into the blue horizontal warp pipe that appeared in the right corner, heading on strong into the next world.
