Salmon.

Did you read that as salmon the fish or as some sort of digimon? If the ladder, you've probably been on this site too long. (It's okay, I was the ladder.)

Genre: Humor, friendship

Characters (ages): TK (15), Davis (15), Izzy (17), Matt (18), Tai (18), Kari (15)

Warnings: Well uh Easy Bake Ovens are dangerous, right?... Don't try this at home, kids? Plus some minor coarse language

Song: Never Grow Up by Taylor Swift

Notes: To my knowledge, I don't own Easy Bake Ovens or EBay. This is just a silly story I thought of.

"Don't you ever grow up."

Never Grow Up

"Davis, what are you doing?"

"…Nothing."

"Please tell me you're not-"

"No, of course not!"

"Davis?"

"What?"

"Tell the truth."

"…"

"…"

"ALL I WANT IN THIS UNIVERSE IS SOME CAKE! Is that so wrong?"

TK took one look at Davis then to the Easy Bake Oven. "When we're in the middle of breaking into our friends' apartment, yes."

Davis grumbled something about the world today and its lack of readily available cakes while TK just rolled his eyes and urged, "Come on, we have a limited amount of time before Tai and Kari get back, and we don't even know what our prank is!"

The brunette blinked and leaned back in the Kamiyas' kitchen chair. "You mean we broke into Tai and Kari's place, and we don't even have a plan?"

"Well we would have a plan if someone had brought the sour cream like he said he would."

Davis sighed. "I told you the store was out. Now help me work this." He repeatedly pushed the buttons on the front of the Easy Bake Oven but to no avail.

TK raised an eyebrow and stepped closer to the table. "Don't you think it's a little odd this was just sitting here?"

"Oh come on, dude, ever since the Prank War started you think everything is some sort of conspiracy. Someone waxed the floor? It's so you'll trip and fall into a pie. Dropped your pencil in class? The start of an elaborate relay of traps that'll end with a pie. Door's open slightly? A bucket of water's waiting to fall on you… then a pie."

"What? Do you think I have some deathly fear of pies?"

Davis shuddered. "I know I do. All that sugar and cream…"

TK rolled his eyes. "Maybe I've gone a little overboard, but at least I'm still in the game…. You do know those buttons are only stickers, right?"

Davis grabbed both sides of the oven and dragged it closer to him. "Seriously! Ugh why would they even do that? Are they trying to make it harder than it needs to be?"

TK took a seat on the other side of the table and began reading one of the many food packets that lay there. "I really don't think you're their target audience."

"Are you saying Easy Bake Ovens support discrimination?"

"What? No, I'm saying advertisers-"

"Stop right there! I know what you meant." Davis stood up, placed a fist to each hip, and might as well have had a flag flying behind him in the background. "And I think it's a sad world where a teenage boy cannot play with an Easy Bake Oven in peace without getting judged by his so called friend and the advertising industry."

"…I'm not sure if that was inspirational… or what."

Davis shrugged. "I was inspired. Inspired enough to make a cake that is!"

TK raised an eyebrow. "How much sugar did you have before you came here?"

The brunette was already buzzing around the table choosing a cake packet and gathering the necessary items. "For your information all I had was some coffee."

"With how much su-"

"ONLY A LITTLE!" Davis bellowed. "Ooh white cake mix sounds good!" He quickly got to work getting out a bowl, adding water, and creating his delicious cake leaving TK alone to ponder on what their big prank would be.

"It's gotta be something… brilliant," TK thought aloud, "So brilliant that you won't even be able to look at it dead on for fear of catching blindness."

Davis blinked. "Can you catch blindness?"

TK scratched the side of his head. "Well I mean you can become blind; you can attain… The point is this prank has to be good."

The other slid his tiny cake pan into the oven carefully, a huge grin plastered on his face.

The blonde eyed the yellow concoction as it slid into the oven. "Are you really going to eat that?"

"Yep." He set a timer on his phone to go off in a few minutes.

TK sighed as they heard a knock at the front door.

"I'll get it," Davis announced and got up from his chair.

"No, you mustn't!" TK called throwing an arm between Davis and the door.

"Why not?"

"Because when you break into your friends' apartment you don't answer the door for them," he stated bluntly earning an eye roll from Davis.

"Come on, whoever it is will never know we aren't supposed to be here." Ignoring TK's arm, he turned the knob only to have it be pushed open causing them both to stumble backwards out of the way.

"Hello, TK, Davis," Izzy mumbled quickly with a nod in both of their directions as he walked right passed them and into the living room where he began inspecting the inside of a flower pot.

"Hey," Matt greeted much more calmly as he took the time to stop and close the door behind him.

Davis backpedaled a few steps from the door. "Wait, are you guys here for the Prank War too?"

"Hmm? No, I got out last Saturday because someone put blue hair dye in my shampoo." He glared over at TK who chuckled guiltily.

"The box said it would wash out in a couple days."

Matt reached for the tips of his hair which were still a dull blue. "Whatever I have bigger concerns at the moment. He went into the kitchen and began searching through the cupboards. Davis and TK followed.

The ladder asked, "So why are you here?"

Matt stopped searching for a moment and leaned his hands on the table as he asked, "Remember when Tai and I found that potato chip that looked like John Lennon and sold it on EBay?"

TK sighed, "Unfortunately…"

"Well we found another chip at Izzy's house that looks like Jimi Hendrix, but Tai stole it and plans to keep all the money for himself!"

Davis blinked. "Seriously, how much money do you make off of those?"

He shrugged. "Enough that we were willing to break into this apartment if you guys hadn't opened the door." With that he joined Izzy in the search.

TK shook his head in mock disappointment and teased, "Izzy, I'm ashamed in you. How could you get dragged into this?"

The redhead shot his head up from where it was previously looking under a couch cushion. "It's quite simple actually. You see my whole web site designing business hit a bump in the road, and I needed the money, and… are you playing with an Easy Bake Oven?"

TK laughed and slid to his left on the wood floor, so he stood directly in front of the oven. Davis remained seated behind him chuckling nervously. With a crooked smile and an incredulous voice he said, "Wha-? Nnnooooo, little kids play with Easy Bake Ovens."

Just then the timer went off with a high-pitched 'ding!' causing Davis to spring from his seat yelping, "My cake! Move, TK, it's gonna burn!"

He rushed to grab the plastic handle to take the cake out as Matt began to laugh. "Maybe Izzy and I should leave you girls to your baking."

Davis continued fussing over the oven leaving TK to defend them. "You bake."

Matt folded his arms and scoffed, "I cook. There is a major difference!"

"IT'S HOT! OW! OUCH, OH THE PAIN! THE AGONY!"

The other three looked over to Davis startled.

"Is it really that hot?" Izzy asked.

Davis quit blowing on his finger and shrugged. "Mildly so, yes."

"I can't believe you could make anything with this," Matt muttered.

"Someone's mister negative," Davis taunted as he stuck his tongue out.

"No, I just don't get how a light bulb could cook anything," He defended but even as he spoke he was already reaching for the nearest cooking packet and reading it over.

"Maybe it's because it's only a little cake," TK suggested.

"Or the magic of childhood nostalgia?" Davis guessed.

"Actually the heat created by…" Izzy continued with his long, scientific explanation that seemed to fade into the background.

Matt whispered to the other two, "So you came here to play with an oven?"

"No!" Davis protested loud enough to make Izzy stop his explanation, "We broke in to do something for the Prank War!"

Izzy came over to the group at the table. "And what exactly are you going to do now that you've broken in?"

TK scratched the side of his head. "We haven't um gotten that far yet."

"Of course not," Matt muttered, "Well you're doing great so far. Using their Easy Bake Oven without their permission? That's hard core."

"Oh!" Davis yelped, "What if for the prank we use up all of their cooking packets and don't leave any for them?"

Izzy leaned over the table to peer at the yellow creation in the little pan that had been pulled out of the oven. "Something tells me not having anything to cook with this wouldn't be a bad thing."

"I'm sure my cake will be delicious."

"Wasn't there a recall on these?" Matt mentioned.

"Why would there be?" TK asked.

"Because they're a fire hazard or something."

Davis folded his arms. "I'll have you know this Easy Bake Oven and my cake are both safe and scrumptious!"

"Davis."

"Yeah?"

"Your sleeve is on fire."

"What are you…? What the hell! I'M ON FIRE!" Davis screeched and began furiously blowing out the small flame that had started on his jacket sleeve. With a sigh of relief, it went out, but he soon caught sight of the fireworks show going on with the Easy Bake Oven. "MY OVEN!" he cried and began blowing on the contraption as TK took matters into his own hands and retrieved some water in a pan from the kitchen sink.

In the midst of all this chaos a key could be heard turning in the lock as loud as thunder crackling in the sky. They all froze as two voices and two sets of footsteps could be heard entering from the lavender, front door around the corner.

"Are they even allowed to do that?"

"It's always been like that, Tai."

"Nuh-uh, then why are tomatoes in the little vegetable picture?"

"…What?"

"The little picture of vegetables on the food pyramid has tomatoes right next to the carrots!"

"Tai, they got rid of the food pyramid."

"Seriously?"

"Yeah, it's a plate now."

"Alright, now I know they're not allowed to do that."

They rounded the corner and stopped to merely stare at the scene before them.

Davis ceased blowing on the fire, TK stopped mid-turn with the pan of water halfway between the sink and its destination, Izzy blushed slightly, and Matt casually leaned back in his chair as though he had nothing to do with all this.

Tai pushed his soccer bag farther up over his shoulder and asked, "So… why are you all in my kitchen?"

Kari rushed over to the table and squealed, "My oven! What have you done?"

She looked directly to Davis who with a half-hearted grin replied, "We cooked."

Matt raised a finger in the air. "I was only a victim in all this."

Izzy scoffed, "Hardly! You were at least an accessory."

"Fine, how 'bout a bystander?"

Kari grabbed the pan of water from TK and poured it over the oven successfully putting out the fire and causing a few sparks and loud buzzes before dying. Davis, TK, and Izzy sighed in relief, but Kari turned around with a look that struck more fear into them than the oven fire.

"You all owe me a new Easy Bake Oven," She growled then marched away and into her room slamming the door behind her.

Davis chuckled nervously. "Seems she's more heated than the oven."

The lame joke got a laugh out of everyone present for the earlier shenanigans, but Tai only narrowed his eyes in confusion.

"Seriously… I can't believe you both fell for it."

TK's eyes grew wide as realization dawned on him. "F-fell for what? You mean we were pranked? What, no we weren't! We're not out! I'm still in this!"

"No, you're not," Izzy replied calmly.

Davis gasped. "Izzy, you're a part of this?"

"Well yeah I'm still in the Prank War which is why I helped Tai with this little charade."

Davis blinked and turned to Tai. "So you anticipated that we'd break into your house?"

"Uh-huh," he confirmed.

"And that's why you left out the Easy Bake Oven?"

Izzy nodded. "Yep."

"But… But what was the prank?" TK blubbered as he stumbled up to Tai. "After all that I still have no idea what the prank was!"

"This." With a smirk, Tai took out a banana cream pie from behind his back, and it was smushed in TK's face before he even had a chance to react.

While the others were busy laughing at TK's misery, Izzy pulled a pie out from one of the cabinets and threw it at Davis.

"AUGH! NO, MY ONE TRUE FEAR!" Davis cried as he picked pie crust off of his goggles before even bothering to clean himself up, "I TOLD YOU WE WERE GONNA GET PIED!"

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