A/N: So this is my first fan fiction ever. I was having a hard time on deciding on what to write about, and then I suddenly started thinking of my beloved show, The Backyardigans. So I started thinking about what the plot was going to be, then this little number randomly popped into my mind! Hope you like it!

And, please comment and review. This is my first fic, and your feedback is greatly appreciated. I just want to get better, and your feedback will help me get better.

Disclaimer: I do not own The Backyardigans; I only own the concept of this story. And hey, if I did own The Backyardigans there would be a lioness named Monique on the show, and she would be the main character, and bffs with Tasha! Yeah, I just want to be a character on the show... So if any of you just so happen to have the legal rights to The Backyardigans lying around with you, send 'em over to me. I'll be more than happy to sign them.

Enjoy, and don't forget to review!

Today was supposed to be a good day. No, scratch that. Today was supposed to be a great day. Tasha, Uniqua, Pablo, Tyrone, and Austin were all seated in a circle on the floor of Tasha's living room. They were all there for a sleepover. It had been about an hour since they all woke up. That's when they heard it. The sound that they all dreaded: rain.

Tasha was the first one to hear the tell-tale pitter-patter of the first drops of rain crashing down onto the cement outside.

"Did you hear that?" she asked, looking up in alarm out her friends. They all listened intently.

"Yeah," agreed Uniqua.

"Is that..." Tyrone trailed off.

"Rain?" Austin finished for him. The group of friends shot up from their seats on the floor, and scrambled to the window. Their jaws dropped when they saw it. The torrential downpour coming down from the sky, rain being harshly sloshed against the window, and to top it all off: a clap of thunder and a burst of lightning.

"Oh no!" Pablo started running around in circles. "Oh no! It's raining-"

"Pablo..." Tyrone deadpanned. Pablo ignored him, and ploughed on with his panic attack.

"It's raining! Now we can't go play outside! We can't play outside! And if we can't play outside, then what do we do?"

"Pablo..."

"And if we don't have anything to do, then what do we do? This is terrible! This is inappropriate! This is an abomination! This is... This is... This is-"

"Pablo!" all his friends yelled out finally. He stopped running around, and faced his friends as if nothing even happened.

"Yeah?"

"Calm down," said Tyrone.

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure that there's something we can do!" Austin said. Tasha crossed her arms, and walked away from the window.

"Oh for goodness sake! Of course there's something we can do!"

"Uh-huh, Tasha's right guys!" exclaimed Uniqua. The girls sat on the couch while the boys lounged on the floor. Silence engulfed them.

"How 'bout two of us pretend to be Mounties and-"

"We already did that, Tyrone," Austin interrupted. They all sighed.

"Oh yeah, we did already do that..."

"Hey! How about we have a jungle race?" Uniqua proposed.

"We've done that already too."

"Oh for goodness sake!" Tasha yelled angrily, jumping up from her couch. She stalked around the room. "There has to be something we can do! I mean, c'mon! We cannot just sit here!" Her friends looked at her blankly, obviously out of ideas.

"I can't believe this is happening!" sang Tasha. "We have nothin' to do! This is really crazy, and I'm feelin' rather blue."

"The rain is pourin' down. It's hittin' the ground. What to do, what to do?" joined in Uniqua. Together they all sang,

"The rain is pourin' but we're not snorin', we need something to do-oo! The rain's still pourin' and we're not snorin', we really need something to do!"

"This is a first," sang Tyrone.

"Yes it is, my friend," sang Austin and Pablo.

"We're just sitting here!"

"Yes we are, my friend."

"We need to do, we need to do, we need to do..."

"Something!" they all chorused. "The rain is pourin' but we're not snorin', we need something to do-oo! The rain's still pourin' and we're not snorin', we really need something to do! I said we really need something to do! I said we really need something to do! I said we really... Need... Something... To do-oo-oo-oo-oo!"

"Well, that little musical number certainly wasted some time," observed Austin after they finished singing. "But not enough."

"I know this doesn't really help, but I am so hungry!" Pablo said, his stomach growling in agreement. Tasha's face immediately lit up.

"Oh Tasha, what are you thinking?" asked Uniqua in mock sing-song voice, being careful not to start another musical number.

"We've never done a cake-making competition before!" Tasha exclaimed. Her friends all stared at her incredulously.

"A cake-making competition?" they asked, sceptical.

"Yeah!" said Tasha enthusiastically. She was skipping into the kitchen as she explained her idea to her friends,

"You see, I was watching TV with my mom one day. There was this really cool competition where these teams of two would make these really cool and big cakes, then at the end, the judges decide who the winner is!"

"Oo-oo-oo! Can I please be the judge?" Austin asked as they entered the kitchen.

"Sure! Uniqua and I can be on team, and Tyrone and Pablo can be the other team, okay?" Tasha proposed.

"Okay!" Tyrone and Pablo said in unison, high-fiving each other.

And their adventure began.

Austin was standing in a giant high-tech kitchen, which was staged in front of an audience.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am Austin! Your host and your judge of this week's episode of: The Amazingly Amazing Super Duper Awesome Really Really Really Exciting One of a Kind Cake Bake Off! Today's contestants arrrrrrrrrreeeeee..." Austin motioned over to the giant flat-screen video screen hanging from the ceiling in the middle of the room for the audience to watch. "Tasha and Uniqua!"

Tasha and Uniqua jumped up and down, waving. Then, the camera switched over to Tyrone and Pablo, who were doing the same.

"And Tyrone and Pablo!" Austin paused dramatically. "Okay contestants, today, your challenge is to make the best chocolate cake in the history of chocolate cakes! And to make it even harder, you have to make it look really, really, really awesome! And as you know, you first need ingredients to make a cake. So, you need to go get them! Sounds easy, right?"

"Yeah!" yelled Tasha, Uniqua, Tyrone, and Pablo.

"Well, you're wrong! You can only pick up two ingredients at a time!" Austin said. The audience gasped. "That's right! But since we're on a time limit here, this is what you have to do: You pick up your first two ingredients come back here, to the studio, then you can get the rest of the stuff that you need."

Tasha and Uniqua got into their purple convertible, Tasha at the steering wheel. At the same time, Tyrone and Pablo were getting into their blue convertible, Tyrone at the wheel.

"On your marks, get set... Go!" yelled Austin, and they sped off down the road towards the grocery store.

A/N: Well, there's chapter one! Honestly, while I was writing the beginning, I had no idea on what "adventure" I was going to have them go on. Then I randomly thought of that cake challenge show on the Food Network, and I'm like YES! Now I just need to make their journey to the grocery store a difficult and music number inducing as it possibly can be, and make their cake-making as messy as can be! Oooo, there's lots of stuff in store for our favourite musical animals!

Please don't forget to review! Flame if you really have to, but constructive criticism is much more helpful.

Later!