YAY! I'm so happy you all like it… maybe I should switch from fluff-fics to food-fight fics! Relax, talkstoangels77, I'll finish RJ/Fran. Thank yous to: talkstoangels77, fanficrulez, hawaii50girl, kellybird, and filkcatwearingabell. All right, the plot bunnies are back with more sugar! I got some data I used from a website but isn't letting me say its name so sorry... but I'm going on record saying I don't own it.

Dr. K and Ziggy were having fun in the lab that afternoon. She had lent him one of her lab coats, and had to smile at how bemusing he looked in it over his green T-shirt and khaki pants. Ziggy ran a finger down the length of her nose when he noticed her watching him. Going cross-eyed, she observed what had happening to her nose before refocusing on their latest project.

Out in the Garage's kitchen everyone was sitting around and wondering how on Earth to gain access to the lab. Sipping his glass of orange juice Dillon noted, "I'm glad those two are getting closer to being together but I'm scared of the idea that they might reproduce someday."

Everyone shivered.

"A wee lad or lass who is the result of combining K's and Ziggy's DNA? Sweet mother of molasses!" Flynn shook his head, disturbed. The twins nodded. They loved K like a little sister, but the idea of merging her and Ziggy troubled them as much as the others. Colonel Truman, clean now, rubbed his temples.

"Why did they pull that prank with the jellybeans? And why did they have to use the leftover items from their honey prank on me?"

"Not enough to do," Summer predicted. "If they had something constructive to do they would be doing that instead of thinking up food-related activities."

Scott sighed. "Like what?"

"Summer school," suggested Dillon.

Faint peals of laughter could be heard through the steel doors. Flynn rapped on the door.

"Dr. K? Ziggy? You all right in there?"

"Yes!" they chorused before falling back into laughter and work. Flynn stepped away, shrugging.

Tenaya commented wistfully, "I wish Venjix's palace had been this much fun; that would have made trying to destroy you all less boring."

The others all stared at her. She rolled her eyes.

"I'm just saying!"

Meanwhile, in the lab, Dr. K dipped each digit on her left hand in a different shallow bowl before running the hand through her hair. Ziggy admired the effect.

"Cool!" Using his right hand he did the same with his own hair. "How do I look?"

Dr. K grinned. "Very colorful."

Ziggy stuck his whole hand into a mostly unused bowl and then pressed it against the front of Dr. K's lab coat. She gasped in surprise, then decided not to get mad but even. She upturned a bowl over his left shoulder, giggling.

"Aw, K!"

Sharing wicked grins, they silently agreed to stop playing and get back to work on their craft.

After waiting two hours, during which they swapped stories and had a dinner of rice and herbs, the others let Scott approach the door. Knocking, he asked, "Dr. K? Ziggy? Can we come in now?"

Inside, the two exchanged questioning looks, checked their project, and then looked back at one another. They nodded curtly, so Dr. K got to her feet and pressed the button to open the lab doors.

Fully expecting some food attack everyone entered carefully. Then they halted, flabbergasted. Almost completely covering the floor was a woven mat of xylem, or woody tissue. But that was really stunning about it was the colors it had been dyed. It was divided by blue lines into seven sections, each with a specific color scheme although the designs had no other order beyond that.

Crimson; scarlet; shades from lavender to violet; and gray-violet to black was in one-seventh. Bright red to garnet; pink; deep maroon; and off-black in another while in the third was: blue-violet; purple; blue-black; silver, grey, and black; and more grey.

In the fourth section was yellow; yellow-orange, gold; and a lot of soft green. In the fifth was brick red; bright orange; burgundy; and off-black. In the second to last section there was yellow; cool lemon yellow; rich yellow; sage; and soft green. And in the final section was yellow-brown; red-brown; brown-black; and medium brown.

After a few minutes of staring at the riot of colors the group turned to the consul where they found Dr. K and Ziggy standing proudly side by side. Streaks of colors were in their hair, and a line of pink ran down K's nose while Ziggy's face was 'freckled' with purple. Both were in formerly white lab coats, now dabbed with colors. The area around Ziggy's left shoulder was lavender while there was a sage handprint over K's heart. Scott did a face-palm at their appearances.

Dr. K folded her hands behind her back as if about to start a lecture, which she was.

"Ziggy and I obtained a large quantity of xylem, which we wove into a giant mat using one of my devices. We then sought out the metals aluminum, tin, chrome, iron, and copper to to combine with the plants indigo, cochineal, brazilwood, logwood, fustic, madder, weld, and catechu. These combinations provided the colors seen here; we added a bit of water and voila!"

Ziggy smiled proudly at his and K's 'artwork'.

"We're planning on hanging it on that blank wall in the Garage."

Everyone looked at one another in concern. Sure, their craft was large and colorful but that was all it was. Surely Dr. K and Ziggy weren't serious about hanging it in the Garage?