Cupcakes, Friday 7/8, period 2

[stykera]

Class was meeting in the home ec room today as cupcake class nearly always did. Stark was standing at the front of the room as he nearly always did. There was a box on the counter in front of him as there nearly always was. There were also trays of chocolate and yellow cupcakes currently lacking in frosting.

“Welcome. And welcome back to some of you,” he said, looking around the room and turning his head slightly to do so. “I’m Stark, if any of you don’t know me.”

“I thought, today, since this is the first day for some of you, we would wait on baking. I have some unfrosted cupcakes here, and a few types of frosting, and some and you can decorate if you like.”

Stark paused and opened the box in front of him warily. “I have some frosting in here. Chocolate. Vanilla.” He pulled those two out and placed them on the counter before reaching in to the box again. “Peanut butter. And…some candies and fruits you can mix in if you like?” He was frowning at the box now, confused. “It seems that everything in the box today was meant to be in the box today.”

Summer was absolutely getting a confused but relieved look right now if she was there to be looked at.

“Right. Well. You can decorate some cupcakes if you like. First, introductions since I don’t think we all know each other. You can say as much as you like, or as little, but at least your names? Why you’re here, if you want. Maybe your favorite cupcake ingredient?”

Please don’t tell everyone your favorite cupcake ingredient is some sort of seafood or maggots Summer. Don’t make the alien sad.

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Re: Decorate some Cupcakes

[gospel_of_oblivion]

Illyana usually used her powers for punching. Or running. They were good for that.

"How many sprinkles fit on top of a cupcake?" she intoned, focused on her work as she micro-adjusted the tiny portals, totally focused on what was in front of her. "...wanna grab another jar full and start pouring them on?"

There was no way this could end poorly. Really.

Re: Decorate some Cupcakes

[giveittoyoursister]

None at all. Good thing Vi had excellent judgement.

She grabbed a jar of rainbow sprinkles. "You want me to pour fast or slow?"

Excellent judgement.

Re: Decorate some Cupcakes

[gospel_of_oblivion]

"Fast, probably, I don't know how long I can hold this," Illyana admitted. "It's hard to calculate mass and trajectory on something as small as a sprinkle."

"Once we get that jar fully balanced, maybe we can manage another... see if we can get more sprinkles than cupcake."

Re: Decorate some Cupcakes

[giveittoyoursister]

"That'd be pretty awesome," Vi said, because this is what happened when you had a habit of encouraging your baby sister when she did things like try to invent bombs. "Fast it is, then."

She didn't quite upend the container so the sprinkles tumbled out at in quick, steady stream.

Re: Decorate some Cupcakes

[gospel_of_oblivion]

Okay maybe this hadn't been a great plan, because that was a lot more mass than what she'd just been handling, and Illyana wrinkled up her nose in concentration as she had to pop up more mini portals to handle cascading sprinkles that were bouncing off what was already there, re-routing them back up above the cupcake.

"Maybe we need more frosting? For structure?"

Re: Decorate some Cupcakes

[giveittoyoursister]

It wasn't the worst idea anyone had had regarding frosting around Vi recently. "It can't hurt," she said. "Did you want that through a portal as well? Or should I just try and glob it on?"