Junior Shrooboid: Difference between revisions

When [[Princess Peach]], [[Toadiko]] and [[Toadbert]] use [[Professor E. Gadd]]'s time machine to travel to the past, they arrive in the middle of what is later discovered to be a Shroob invasion and end up captured. The Junior Shrooboid ends up sent back with the time machine somehow, and winds up in [[Princess Peach]]'s throne room. When E. Gadd and [[Toadsworth]] approach the damaged time machine, with the latter expecting the princess, the Shrooboid emerges, and [[Mario]] immediately confronts the alien as [[Luigi]] runs away in fright. Once the Junior Shrooboid is defeated, it remains collapsed near the wrecked time machine as E. Gadd alerts the Mario Bros. to the presence of a time hole in the castle's garden.

Later, once the Mario Bros. return to the present with their baby selves through the time hole in [[Bowser's Castle|Baby Bowser's room]], Professor E. Gadd has the Junior Shrooboid in a fluid tube, keeping the alien alive for study. [[Stuffwell]] then remembers a shimmering shard they picked up in the castle, and shows it to E. Gadd as he reveals it to be a shard of the [[Cobalt Star]], the time machine's fuel source. The shard floats near the Shrooboid's tube, causing a brief and strong reaction from it. The professor hypothesizes that the Cobalt Star could be used to destroy the Shroobs, and tasks Mario and Luigi with recovering the remaining shards, unaware that the source of the Shrooboid's reaction would later be revealed as [[Elder Princess Shroob]], their leader who was imprisoned inside the artifact itself.