Cake-tastrophe! (One Shot Wonder)

Nenji · Last edited by Nenji on Wed Feb 01, 2006 2:21 am; edited 1 time in total

Nenji walked in the door, shut it and almost collapsed onto the ground; spilling the contents of his shopping all over the floor. After a few minutes of lying on the ground and panting, Napalmman piped up from his PET which had fallen near Nenji’s face.

“Are you okay Nenji? I thought you were going to have a coronary!” The Asteroid Navi said half concerned, but also half amused.

“I don’t…*huff*…run for half a…*wheeze*..bloody hour to the shop and…*huff*…back often!” Gasped out the fireworks maker.

“With that belly it’s no wonder your so unfit.” Napalmman added slyly from the PET.

“Don’t make me…*big huff*…strangle you Nenjiro!” Wheezed Nenji, his face turning a rather spectacular shade of red.

“Oi! I’m not Nenjiro already!” Cried the Asteroid in reply, earning his PET a sharp bop from Nenji who was in reach of said PET, unfortunately for Napalmman.

Nenji managed to gather himself a while after that and took his shopping into the kitchen. He put the bag of flour on the floor and the butter, sugar and the eggs on the bench. Then he rummaged around his kitchen for a few minutes, trying to find a mixing bowl and a cake tin; both of which had been presents he’d never expected to actually use.

“Nenji, do you actually have any idea what you’re supposed to do?” Napalmman quipped sarcastically which earned him a glare from Nenji.

“Of course, I’m an Ameroupe Pasty Chef who makes Cakes for Princess Pride all the time. No I haven’t got a clue where to start, so open up a Cookbook program or something!” Nenji said, his face now merely pink instead of the flaming red it had been a few minutes before.

“Of course, I’d hate for you to have another fit.” Came a jibe from the PET, which earned Napalm another bop from an already irritated Nenji.

“Lets see…first step is to: cream butter and sugar. That means you mix them together until they’re a kind of cream judging from the associated images.”

Nenji opened the sugar and poured a huge pile in the bowl, then added in a tiny bit of butter.

An hour later, Enzan was walking up to Nenji’s door and knocked. He hoped that Nenji was in, as he didn’t seem the most reliable person to the cool and efficient Net Saviour.

“Just come in!” came a feeble shout from inside. Enzan did so and opened the door, upon which stepped inside into a bizarre kind of miasma.

“Flour?” Enzan though, confused. He had the house to be messy, but not some kind of occult cooking laboratory. He stepped forward to where he thought he had heard the cry had originate from. He had just turned round the corner when Nenji dove to the floor.

“DUCK!” Nenji cried out, but Enzan didn’t have time to react before a giant ball of Pastry rocketed from the Oven, and into Enzan’s chest.

“Wow! That one went boom nicely! I didn’t even know you could blow up cakes!” Napalmman cried excitedly from his PET, which was now covered in flour dust.

“What, exactly, are you doing?” Enzan asked with a hint of irritation in his voice.

“The Net Saviour Boy asked me to bake a cake for him, since his mother has gone away for a few days.” Nenji said, washing off what could be mistaken for dough from his hands.

“So why didn’t you buy one?” Replied Enzan irritably, but paused at the look on Nenji’s face.

“Nothing is worth doing if you don’t do it yourself!” The fireworks maker declared, in chorus with a sigh from Napalmman.

“Look, let me handle this” Said Enzan, coolly taking the required ingredients and untensils, then setting them down infornt of him.

“First you cream the butter and sugar, like so.” Demonstrating as he talked Nenji through the steps.

“Then you add eggs and flour into the mix.” Enzan deftly cracked some eggs and added them, along with flour, into the bowl.

“Finally, you mix in any flavouring you want in, then stir it all up.” Enzan reached over to some cocoa powder and added that in, causing the cake mix to turn a satisfying shade of brown.

“Now, we cook it in the oven.” He finished off, placing the cake mix into a tin and then sliding the tin into the oven. He didn’t have to wait to warm the oven up though; it was already quite hot from the numerous attempts Nenji had made of baking a cake earlier. The inside of the oven looked as if a gooey bomb had detonated inside, spraying it’s contents everywhere.

“I was going to ask you to help me with some tests, but I think we need to clean up first” The Net Saviour said, glancing around at the wasteland of pastry gone wrong.

“I think that may be for the best.” Nenji said in agreement. Napalmman groaned inwardly, trust the Net Police to end the source of his amusement.

“Okay, that’s about right.” Said Enzan, opening the Oven and placing the tin on a now clean bench.

“I need to leave it to cool, is that correct?” Nenji asked Enzan while watchin him remove the Cake from the tin. Unsurprisingly, Enzan was not going to take any risks at this point.

“Yes, that should do it. Look, I think it would be easier if you came to Sci-Lab for the tests. We’re just looking at the Syncronisation Rates for you and Napalmman, to see how an Asteroid Navi operates compared to a Normal Net Navi.” Enzan said matter of factly to a relieved Nenji.

“Just make sure to let me know when you want to run your tests, so I can get someone to look after the workshop.” Nenji replied, looking at a calendar in his PET.

“We’re looking at other potential candidates for Cross Fusion. Oh, and next time Nenji, just go out and buy a cake and save yourself the hastle.” A rather exasperated Enzan said. “Netto probably only asked you since you wear an apron.” Blues added dryly from Enzan’s PET.

“I told you, it’s not worth buying something that’s machine made, it’s got no Spirit!” Nenji started, but was cut of by Enzan handing him a business card.

“Talk to the owners, they make cakes for our company functions. Tell them I sent you and they’ll give you a reasonable price for a simple cake.” Enzan then opened the door, and walked out to his Limousine.

“People can really surprise you sometimes can’t they?” Nenji asked Napalmman.

“You don’t know the half of it.”[/b]
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Midnight · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:30 am Post subject:

Cute.

I admire how you've characterized Nenji in this fic--it's not often that he takes center stage in a work. It's admirable that you have Nenji so bent on making a pastry, even though he knows that he will make a gigantic mess about it. It was a bit hard to read at times, since some of the wrong words were used, but other than that, it was a cute vignette. Good work.
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Unknown Neo · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:18 pm Post subject:

Ha Ha Ha funny. After playing exe 5 I noticed how useful napalmman is. Plus you did charicterize him pretty well. But that's to be expected from a nenji fan like you HK.

Nenji · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:19 pm Post subject:

It was really hard to try and write for him, when I've only got tone of voice and body language to work off. I don't know much Japanese so I don't really understand much of what anyone says in the Anime. Laughing

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Unknown Neo · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:48 pm Post subject:

Yeah. But a lot of us don't either. Heh heh

Anime Master ZERO · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:15 pm Post subject:

This parallels with Neko's fluff fics in terms of quality. It's good to see the more human side of the characters. Well done.
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Nenji fic!

Fanboying aside, it's rather well written. You've characterized him quite nicely and I didn't get bored at all. The way you've written it is pretty easy to follow too, which is always a good thing.

Neko · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 10:13 pm Post subject:

XDDD That was awesome.

Hilarious and so... Nenji. I applaud you greatly for this one X3
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**Sol** · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 10:20 pm Post subject:

Heh...I have to agree with Neko. This one shot stays true to Nenji's character, and is overly humorous to boot. Very cute fic, and very amusing to read. Not only that, it's pretty easy to read and just something to kick back and read without any sort of worry.

Nice job.
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Nenji · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 2:12 am Post subject:

Ah yeah...to be honest I wrote it at about 11pm without much proof reading...so there are kind of a few errors. I'll run through after this post and fix them up.

Edit: All done! Hopefully that's much easier to read now.
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