"I just needed to warm up!"

I say with a quiver as I make my best pace away from whatever that place is, struggling against my ballooning body in both size and weight. I thought that it might have been a blessing to find it out during the blizzard on the planet, might even be able to find something good since these ruins always seem to hold some good stuff. But it turns out that the Apex within weren't too welcoming to a intruder. Even worse they started saying something about "the mutagen" and went from just trying to push me out to trying to bring me in!

As I turned to run, a sharp "Deploy immobilization plan!" rang out behind me and many a soft *pfts* followed. It didn't take long for me to find out what that meant as what must have been half a dozen jabs of pain struck me all over, one landing on my cheek allowing me to see just what it was. To my dismay, it was a purple dart, one that looked as if whatever it was carrying was now in me. It was immediate as I began to swell all over and my stomach jutted out as if I had taken an entire buffet to it. Whatever this stuff is was working fast and I needed to be faster!

Dart after dart struck me as I began to bloat up within moments, just barely managing to escape as I began to tire out... i'mma get some distance from this place before I warp back to the ship as I really don't need them finding out where I went.

Man, this isin't how I wanted to warm up...



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A second part to the Starbound moo's adventures in Starpounds! I've been sitting on this one and a third part for awhile now and finally overcame my procrastination to at least get this one out. Hopefully that'll mean the third and final one will be out soon!


Starbound belongs to Chucklefish, Starpounds belongs to Dispatch, the corpulent cow is mine