Gilda has just finished cleaning her claws before grabbing an apron. Gabby came from the storage area with some large mixing bowl on her back. Their teacher is now at the chalkboard where he is trying to draw on it, but nothing is happening. Gilda just looks at him while she works on her apron with an annoyed look. He moves to the pencil sharpener, which makes her speak up.
"What are you doing?"
"The darn chalk... not working." He then sticks his piece of chalk into the sharpener, "Just needs a new point to it."
"Uh, I don't think that goin-" He then turns the handle to make a loud chunking sound echoing throughout the room. This causes the Griffins to cringe at the noise. He pulls out his chalk to look at it. Gilda rubs her ear before trying to speak up but failed when he decided that his chalk wasn't sharpened enough. Once satisfied, he blows at the tip before moving back to the board. As he does, Gilda finally speaks up.
"Hey, you do know that you don't need to sharpen chalks, right?"
He stops writing to look at her, "Sure you do... if you don't... you won't get your point across."
"Look genius," Gilda moves toward him with a pencil in her claw. "You sharpen pencils in the pencil sharpener." Then shoves the pencil in his face, "Not chalk!" The sharp end of the pencil shines for a second.
"Well then..."He then grabs the pencil, "why didn't you say so." He then raises the pencil to the chalkboard.
"No! Wait!"
Now, this teacher is an elder stallion, so his ears don't work as well as they used to. However, Gilda's and Gabby's work just fine. So he is unable to hear their cries of pain as he continues to write with his sharp pencil on his chalkboard. It was no better than nails on a chalkboard. After he was done, it reads Baking 101, by Mr. Loaf. He turns around to notice his students are on the floor, clutching their claws over their heads on the other side of the room. He shakes his head at them as they slowly move a claw off their head.
"What are you two doing?..." Mr. Loaf moves away from the chalkboard, "This is no time to play..." he stops at the dried food shelf, "dunk and cover."
Gilda growls to herself, "I will show you duck and cover." she mumbles as Gabby picks up the mixing bowls.
"Now then... we will start today's lesson... baking cupcakes... Let me get the indigents." Mr. Loaf moves to grab a rather large bag of flour on the third shelf. He starts to climb the rake, which started causing everything to shake and cause the bag of flour to tilt towards him. Along with boxes of heavy ingredients to moves to the edge of the shelf. Now, usually, Gilda doesn't care much for any pony else safety. However, she doesn't want to be a suspect in the murder of a hundred-year-old stallion.
"STOP!" Gilda shouted, causing Gabby to see what is going on, as she flies to the stallion.
"Don't worry... I will get it." Mr. Loaf said as boxes of dried raisins drop off the shelf to the side. Gilda grabs the stallion, pulling him off the shelf before the larger box fell off the shelf and crashing into the ground.
Gilda lets out a sigh of relief. She puts the stallion away from the shelf and interrupts him before he could say anything. "Are you trying to get yourself KILLED!"
Mr. Loaf blinks at her, outburst, "No more than... you are."
She huffs at him and moves back to the shelf, not noticing the bag of flour still tilting off the edge, "Look, if you needed something from up high, you could have just as-" Just then the bag of flour fell off the shelve crashing into Gilda. There was a cloud of white smoke before a white Griffen appear where Gilda was earlier with a brown bag over its head.
Mr. Loaf notices the newcomer, "Oh hello there... are you here for the basic... class as well?"
Gilda's left eye twitch before she shook herself like a dog returning to her original colors.
"Oh, it just you... Nevermind."
After cleaning up the mess, they manage to get the rest of the ingredients onto the prep station without any more incidents. Mr. Loaf moves to one side of a station in front of the girls, "We will now... be making the batter... for our cupcakes. First, crake some eggs... into a large bowl." The girls did so, "next, add your flour, baking powder, baking soda, and oil." They did, "Okay, next we are..” A fly suddenly enters the room.
Every pony looks at the fly as it got closer to the food. Gabby moves her claws to cover the food as Mr. Loaf grabs a fly swatter on the side of the station. Armed, he lifts the weapon above his head as the fly land on the corner of the station. As quickly he could, he attacks the fly. It was a direct hit; however, the fly still flew away. He lifts his weapon to see no fly he simply says, “Miss,”
“Give me that!” Gilda grabs the fly swatter and looks for the fly. She can see it moving to the nearby station. Slowly she moves in close, ready to strike when Gabby sneezed. This caused the fly to fly away, as Gilda glares at her friend, who smiles back sheepishly.
The fly moves to the dried ingredients shelf as Gilda goes after it. However, she came to a screaking stop before getting too close. Looking at the shelf, she can see the flour has tilted towards the front again. She moves the flour bag further back into the rack to prevent another Albino Griffin to appear. Backing up, she can see the fly in front of her and attacks it in mid-air. She misses and instead hits a bag off the shelf. Quickly she manages to catch the bag before anything could happen. She puts it back on the shelf and looks for the fly. It was now heading to the dessert display when she spotted it. Not wanting to ruin food, she moves quickly to the display and swings the fly swatter above the food, scaring it away. She chases it to the back of the room to the front, multiple times until halfway through going back to the front; it landed on her beak. Now Gilda is not dumb; she is not going to swat herself trying to get the fly. She is just going to-
*SWAT*
Gilda squawks as Mr. Loaf got another flyswatter and did what she wasn't going to do. She rubs her face as Mr. loaf looks around. "Did I get it?"
The fly buzzes away from the floor, "No,"
They watch as the fly moves closer to their food station before Gabby claps her claw together, trapping it between them. She smiles at them, "I got it."
"Good now, get rid of it." as Gabby was leaving the room, Gilda moved back to the display shelf to see if anything happened to them when she was swinging earlier. Mr. Loaf followed and walked on the other side of the display. "Well, everything seems to be alright."
"What?"
She lends towards him, "I said that everything looks alright."
He looks at her and then to a plate of Twinkies in front of her. Without missing a beat, he turns them to the side, facing away from her, "Don't talk into the Twinkies." As he moves back to the station, they were using.
Gilda just looks at the plate of Twinkies, trying to figure out why he keeps doing that. Gabby came back into the room to see Gilda lifting the plate of Twinkies for a closer inspection.
"Ah, Gilda?"
This startles her, almost causing her to drop the plate, "I wasn't doing anything!" She quickly puts the plate down. Gabby shrugs at this before they join Mr. Loaf back at the station. After cleaning their claws, of course.
Mr. Loaf was going to continue the lesson when Gabby got his attention that he still had the fly swatter in his hoof. Notice this, Mr. Loaf puts the weapon back hanging on the side of the station, "Now, where were we?"
"We just added the baking soda."
"Right, now mix it," They did. once the batter was well mixed, Mr. loaf spoked up, "Now the batter is done."
"Question," Gilda asked,
"Yes, miss?"
"What about the rest of the ingredients?" She gestured to the small pile of flavor additives and ingredients on the other side of the table, "Or are those just there for show and tell?"
"No, you are going to use them."
"Okay, which one?"
"All of them,"
"WHAT!" Gilda looks back at all the ingredients and is trying to figure out what kind of flavor cupcake they are going to make.
Mr. Loaf notices this clear this up, "Well, not in the same bowl." Mr. Loaf reaches under the prep station and pulls out many smaller bowls, "Each cupcake is going to be a little different from the next."
"Oh,"
They followed his directions and did their best not to cut themselves with a knife, or burn themselves with a hot stove, or make a mess. The Griffins had two cupcake trays worth of cupcakes with twelve different flavors: Vanilla, Chocolate, Red Velvet, Pineapple, Lemon, Coconut, Peanut butter, Rasberry, Snickerdoodle, Carrot, Pumpkin, and Strawberry. Gilda wipes her forehead as she looks at what they have created. "That is a lot of cupcakes."
"Not really... but for you, yes." Gilda gave him a playful glare,
"We did it!" Gabby jumps in her spot,
As her friend celebrates, Gilda is left bewildered as she looks back at what they have made and takes a bit out of the pumpkin. It was good; she never knew you could make vegetals taste like this. She knew that they came here to learn about baking, but isn't this a bit much for a basic class? She swallows and turns to face Mr. Loaf, "Are you sure this isn't the advance class?"
"I am sure. We haven't even... mix and match... the flavors yet."
"Wait! You can do that!"
"Of course you can... how else do you think you get... Strawberry cheesecake flavor?"
"And this is basic?"
"Correct."
She then puts a claw to her chin thinking, "If this is what I can learn from a basic just what does an advance class going to have?" "You know-" She talks out loud, "Even those you are the dumbest pony I know."
"Gilda!"
"You seemed like a pony who still can do something new every now and then." Gabby just shakes her head softly at her friend with a small smile on her face.