It hung in the air, the stench of defeat. It was unmistakable, the damage could never be undone. It was far to late to turn back now, she would have to live with it for the rest of her life.

"no," Gidget whispered desperately, "No." She added a small amount force to her wavering voice. Her hands shook uncontrollably. She couldn't let this happen; not again, not now. After everything she had worked so hard for, after everything she given up to be here, she couldn't lose now.

Her hands began to shake, she body quivered with unshed tears. "No." She repeated again. "No, no. No!" She pleaded to the merciless gods. She shook her head furiously, a feeble attempt to wake her self from this nightmare. It did nothing.

Her will abandoned her, her knees became traitors and buckled under a lack of hope, she fell to the ground. The weapon, the Destroyer, was still clinched in her fists, the gore of her defeated enemies stained her fur. The cream splattered against her black chest, it stunk with a burnt smell that would never leave her.

"NNNOOOOOOOOOOO!" Gidget screamed suddenly, she couldn't take this, not again. She had sacrificed so much, she had given her all, and for what? This? This black, dead creature that was unrecognizable for what it was meant to be?

A cool metal hand rested on her shoulder. Gidget turned her batter and tear streaked face towards Otto, her friend and mentor. This made it harder to look at him, he was the one she had so horribly let down.

"It's okay Gidget," Otto said with what was suppose to be a reassuring pat on the back, "You couldn't help it, you're still just learning. You didn't know any better, you couldn't have stopped this." Gidget looked up at him with total despair and remorse in her eyes. She didn't even attempt to smile like she so often did in these situations, never had she ever felt so hopeless, so useless. Everything she had worked so hard to accomplish was lost in just a few seconds. Just a few too many seconds on that damn eye had caused this. Because Gidget was reckless, because Gidget was incompetent, because Gidget was a failure.

"We can always just go to the store and buy some more pancake batter." Otto said with a happy smile, "You can try again. I'm sure you'll get it next time." Gidget sighed.

"Yeah, I guess you might be right." She said disheartened. Otto's smile widened.

"That's the spirit! Let's go clean up the mess in the kitchen and try again." Otto pulled Gidget towards the dungeon she would never conquer. The spatula- that had been wielded by a girl too untrained to know when to flip the pancakes- dragged across the flour covered floor. I guess she just wasn't meant to be a chef.

Yeah….. I just wrote an entire short story about pancakes. I made you think it was something serious, right? Well, ha! I got you, huh?

Or I didn't and you saw this from a mile away. Well here is finally the one-shot you have all been waiting for. This is something Gidget would get super angsty about. Yup, pancakes.

The best thing about it? It's like a sneak peak into the next episode of Book 1: Gidget! Sorry it took so long, I've been super busy these last few weeks and still have 3 more till I graduate and high school is behind me. Exciting and scary times! This means more time to write in the summer (hopefully) but I really, really want Book 0 to wrap up, and Book 1: Gidget reaching the climax before school ends (HA yeah right). At my current rate, it looks like we might get done with Gidget by the end of the summer, Book 0 done and started on Mandarin's past, and This Can't Be Happening over. So in short, don't expect any more one-shots for a while.

Alright, bedtime!