Part 6
Curled up, waiting for the worst, Yoshster was certain whatever the alien creature had in mind, for him, wasn’t going to be anything good. Eyes closed and trembling, the only thing he felt he could hope for was a quick end.

“Oh, if I knew it was going to end like this,” he whimpered. “I would have eaten more cookies!”

As he felt the claw of the creature touch his head, he tensed up, but instead of pain, he received nothing more than a gentle petting. “There, there,” spoke the Dr. Shroom in his alien tongue. He was just as nervous as Yoshster was about all this, terrified that he might be eaten by the dino despite already certain the Yoobs on this planet were not the monsters they had been on his home planet, at least not till Project Sunnycide was done with him.

After a few seconds of being patted, Yoshster found some courage to ease up and lift his head up, seeing the creepy smile of the yellow mushroom creature with spectacles on. “W-Why did you bring me here?” asked Yoshster timidly. “What are you going to d-d-do?”

The Shroob stopped petting Yoshster and spoke more, in its strange language, but no matter how hard he tried, the young Yoshi couldn’t understand any of it. Seeing the look of confusion on the Yoshi’s face, the Yoob tried again to communicate with him. This time, he held up what Yoshster quickly recognized as a cookie, albeit a weird purple-hued one. Even in spite of his situation, Yoshster couldn’t help stare at the Yoshi treat with hungry eyes, drooling a little.

Seeing the reaction he got, the Dr. Shroob smiled, happy the subject looked interested. He then tried speaking, using a couple of words native to the planet, “Cookie… Eat…” He then offered the round, purple treat to Yoshster.

With the cookie in hand, the hungry dino looked at it curiously. Aside from the color, it didn’t appear any different from the cookies he enjoyed back home. Still, it was something that a creepy creature unlike anything he had ever seen before had given him after he had been kidnapped and leashed in some weird room. Clearly, he couldn’t trust it, this cookie, or anything around him.

“Cookie… Eat…” the Dr. Shroob told him again.

“Ok,” replied Yoshster, his desire to eat cookies far exceeding his sense of caution. Shoving the cookie into his maw, he munched it up with the greatest of joy. It tasted a little strange, but nonetheless, it was a cookie and that was more than good enough for him. “Yoshi!” he cheered as he smiled and rubbed his cheeks.

Cackling happily, the Dr. Shroob then turned and called out of the room in his normal language. A couple more Dr. Shroobs then appeared, each carrying big bags in their arms. They were nervous like all other Shroobs, to be near this Yoob-like creature. The first Dr. Shroob waved them in, acting perfectly calm, even while the dino was right behind him and could have gobbled him up at any moment. Every second he wasn’t eaten gave them courage to approach and soon they came close enough with the bags for the smell leaking through the opening to reach the Yoshi’s nose.

“That smell,” sniffed Yoshster, already certain what was in the bags without having to look. Instinctively, he rubbed his belly and watched the Shroobs, his heart pounding with excitement. “Cookies.”

The two Dr. Shroobs turned the bags upside down and emptied the contents onto the floor. As Yoshster already knew, it was more of those purple cookies, dozens and dozens of them. It was rare for Yoshster to see so many cookies at one time, usually, only when the Yoshis of the village gathered for a party, but, even then, he had to share them with the others. However, here, he was the only Yoshi around.

“They must be for me,” he spoke, both to himself and the weird creatures observing him. “They are for me, right? All of them?” He waited for an answer, trembling, not from fear, but because he was finally going to get to fulfill his gluttonous desire to eat all the cookies he wanted.

“Cookie… Eat…” the Shroob instructed him again.

Yoshster didn’t need to be told twice this time. He immediately snatched up the cookies, cramming two into his maw at a time, munched them up, swallowed, and then repeated with another two cookies. The more cookies he ate, the faster and greedier he ate them, soon stuffing four and then even six cookies into his face at once with the greatest joy he had ever known. “Shooooooo happy!” he mumbled with a stuffed maw, unable to contain himself. Swallowing a half dozen cookies, he didn’t hesitate to stuff six more cookies into his maw and munched them up too.

As the pile of cookies dwindled fast, the Shroobs laughed with devious glee. Yoshster, too busy being one big pig of a Yoshi didn’t notice this. He just kept on eating till every last cookie was devoured down to the last crumb. With a hefty belch, he rubbed his gut, loving the feeling of how stuffed his gut had become from his meal. “Oh, I’ve always dreamed of eating as many cookies as I wanted, but even then, it was nowhere near this wonderful. Urp!”

The Dr. Shroobs chatted amongst themselves and then took their leave of the room, the door sliding closed behind them. With no cookies to distract him, Yoshster calmly watched them leave. His fear of the creatures was forgotten while he was so overly joyous from the cookies they provided him. “I hope they’ll be back soon, with more cookies,” he thought as he rested, a bit weary after such a filling meal.


“Wow! That was incredible!” exclaimed one of the Dr. Shroob trio. “Just wait till the other Shroobs hear we practically just hand fed a Yoob and lived to tell the tale. Oh, now I wish I had taken a picture.”

“To be fair,” the second one replied. “This thing could hardly be considered a Yoob. A Yoob from our home planet wouldn’t be simply content with the few what we just fed it. To a Yoob, those would hardly even be worthy to call crumbs. It’d have eaten those cookies and us, just as a warmup, before going on to consume everything it could get its creepy, long tongue on.” Holdings his sides, the Dr. Shroob shivered. “It gives me chills just thinking about it. Are you sure we really wanna go through with bringing back that nightmare?”

“There is no going back now,” the leader of the trio told his two cohorts. “It was hard enough to convince Her Poisonous, Princess Shroob, to let us resume this mothballed project. If we back down now, if we can’t even get this to work, then we’ll incur her wrath!”

“Why didn’t you say so before?!?” the other Shroobs cried. “We’d have never agreed to help you otherwise.”

“Why do you think I didn’t tell you,” he replied. “Now, it’ll be fine. We have a more than willing subject and he already had his first helping of the Shroob Cookies we laced with some of the Sunnycide compound. Once it starts to digest them, they should start to alter the Yoob’s biological structure, making it just like the ones from back home.”

“Then he’ll be a mindless creature of pure gluttony,” one of the other Shroob sweated.

“And thus, the nightmare will return,” added the other.

“Only this time,” the lead Shroob reminded them. “It’ll be our enemies that will be the ones having it.”

Hearing that last part, all three Yoobs grinned and then chortled deviously. Back in the room, Yoshster had fallen fast asleep and he had already begun to digest the cookies. As the Sunnycide compound circulated through his body, it began to change him. His normally green skin began to change, starting to turn faintly darker shade while the white on his belly started to turn a very pale green. Even his orange spikes, on his back, darkened and his body started to gain a little more pudge.


With a yawn and some stretching, Yoshster awoke to find himself still in that strange, alien room. “I guess I must have dozed off,” he mumbled to himself as he rubbed his eyes. “I still feel a bit groggy and-” His stomach gurgled and groaned. “Oh, hungry.”

He patted his empty belly, causing it to jiggle a bit. When his paw pressed against it, his fingers sank a fair bit more into his pudge than it had prior to his nap. The plump dino didn’t take notice of this or the slight change in coloration on his body. The only thing that Yoshster did take notice of was the pile of cookies that had been left for him. There were easily twice as many as what he had been given last time, possibly even more. Along with that, the Shroobs provided him with something to help him wash it down with, some nice, cold milk, though unlike the silky white hue that was normal for milk on his planet, theirs was lime green. But, other than that, it smelled the same and, after taking a sip, found it tasted the same too.

“Cookie… Eat…” instructed the Dr. Shroob through a speaker, as he observed the hungry Yoshi on the monitor. Though he doubted Yoshster was anywhere near close enough to becoming a Yoob of insatiable gluttony yet, he preferred to remain cautious of the creature, especially when it came to feeding the monster.

“Heheh,” chuckled Yoshster as he snatched up three cookies in one hand. “You don’t have to keep telling me. Just provide me the cookies and I’ll gladly eat them.” Licking his chops, Yoshster then began his cookie feast anew.