Submission (#503) Approved

Staring down the cake mix in front of them, Claramay began to sweat nervously.

Cursor walked into the kitchen, seeing their friend staring intensely at the cake mix.

“Why’re you staring at it like that? It’s not gonna make itself.” Cursor said, freaked out by how their friend was just unmoving, the cotton candy in their visor seemingly twitching.

“But…. How do I make it..?” They asked, looking up at cursor who deadpanned.

“Uhhhh follow the instructions..? Aren’t you literally an edible terra? I’d think you know how to bake sweets..” cursor sweat dropped.

“Oh yeah and you know how to program because you’re a computer Terra?” Claramay fired back, snickering when Cursor twitched angrily.

“Oh shut up!! Let’s just make this damn cake!” They hissed, snatching the box from Clara.

Staring down at the box blankly, suddenly Cursor knew why Clara had been staring at it how they had been.

“These measurements make no sense! WHA- AN INCHSECT AS A TOPPING??” Cursor yelped, recoiling away from the box.

“Well, now do you see why I was so confused?” Clara sassed, huffing.

“Uhhhh where are we even going to get the inchsects? It needs like 5 of them!” Cursor began to sweat nervously.

“We can look for them in the tundra!” Clara said brightly, their cone tail wagging.

“Right and freeze my processors. Pass.” Cursor shot them down.

“We can supplement the inchsects for glow vials it says.” Clara said, reading the box upside down.

Cursor sighed. “I have one of them. Hopefully it doesn’t need more.” They said, opening the box.

Taking out the bag of cake mix, they grumbled, asking Clara for a bowl and a mixer.

Handing Cursor the mixer and bowl, Clara watched as the other terra took the necessary ingredients out and began mixing them together, first the flower and mix, then eggs, pincher potion, milk, and butter.

Clara watched with curiosity as the synthetic terra mixed them together as the instructions ordered to, following it to a T.

Once the mix was prepared, they set the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit and stirred the mix constantly as the oven heated up.

Once the oven was finished warming up, they slid the mix into the oven.

“Okay, time to make the icing, we need… two glow vials…” cursor said, shuddering. They remembered how hard it was trading Scope for the first vial they had, they never wanted to have to do it again.

“I have a vial!” Clara said, pulling out a second vial which made cursor sigh in relief.

“Let’s make it.” Cursor said, earning a nod from their friend.

Once the icing was made, the radioactive looking substance glowing an eerie green in the stand mixer, the oven then beeped and they pulled the cake out.

Taking the icing, after trimming the cake, Clara began covering the cake in the glowing green icing, humming softly to themselves. Once they were finished, both of them stared at their masterpiece with pride.

A three tiered chocolate cake with glow vial icing and Crystal conches stood before them.

“Oh right!!” Piping the words ‘happy birthday’ Clara finished their cake.