an: So... After how dark both AGaHB's Volume 1 finale and the RWBY V8 finale were, I needed something cute and lighthearted. So! Have this cute and wholesome little Chibi snippet!

Someone's in the Kitchen with Bumblebee

Yang Xiao Long hummed happily as walked into the kitchen carrying a bag of flour in both of the hands she still had. What explosive disarming? Yang is clearly still symmetrical in all ways except how she's dressed. Because symmetrical fashion is boring, and Yang Xiao Long most certainly is not.

"Hey! Could you please not derail?" Yang snapped back as she removed the eggs from the fridge.

Ahem, right, sorry there.

Anyway, all was well with our beloved, Super Deformed Chibis, as she grabbed the…

The salt?

"Duh, it adds flavor to the cake!" Yang remarked.

If you're certain…

Ahem, regardless, as this happened, the sound of a roaring engine could be heard from the garage, and a yellow motorcycle smashed through the wall, careened through the living room, before unfolding into a bipedal robot in the kitchen, to thunderous applause from the live studio audience!

"Hey uh, Yang, what's going on here?" Bumblebee questioned, "Why are we so horrifically shrunken and mishapen?"

"What are you talking about?" Yang asked, "We've always looked like this!"

"Oh right!" Bumblebee replied, "I completely forgot!"

"Did you forget our cooking lesson too?" Yang asked.

"Pfft, no," Bumblebee answered, "Do you think I would've trashed your house to get to the kitchen if I had?"

"In hindsight, we probably should've just set up a kitchen at the Ark for this," Yang remarked, "Anyway, as you can see, I've already got all the ingredients we need!"

"What's with the Fire Dust?"

"We can throw them in the oven with the ingredients to speed up the cooking process," Yang replied as she put on her "Save the Bees" apron.

"That… Doesn't sound right," Bumblebee remarked as he put on his "Why did we make an apron this big? We don't know about the giant robots!" apron.

"Hey! Which one of us has been on this planet longer?" Yang asked.

"... Me, technically," Bumblebee replied.

"... Shaddup," Yang replied, "Now, first we've gotta wash our hands!"

"I'm not sure my hands will fit in your sink."

"Well then," Yang remarked as she held up a bottle of dish soap and a gardening hose, "We'll improvise."

"... Where did you-"

Yang turned on the hose and poured the soap into the stream, covering Bumblebee in suds.

"Oops!" Yang quickly sprayed off the suds, revealing that Bumblebee was now red. "Wait a second." One more blast of suds and water, and Bumblebee was back in his Cybertronian look.

"Uh… Yang?"

"Don't worry! I know what I'm doing!" Yang said before literally rinsing and repeating, revealing Bumblebee in his Remnant form again, but now sparklier and shinier than before. "Perfect!"

"Okay… Now what!"

"Now you have to dry your hands before handling the ingredients," Yang replied, before holding up a flame thrower and turning it on, sending a steady stream of flame into the air, "This should only take a second!"

"I'LL JUST USE A TOWEL!" Bumblebee shouted as he grabbed a dish towel and got to work drying his hands like a sane person instead of letting his friend set him on fire.

"Hey! I would never set my friends on fire!" Yang argued as she turned off the flame-thrower, "I just thought heating the air would be quicker!"

Whatever you say, you pyromaniac.

"So!" Bumblebee cut in as Yang huffed, sensing the oncoming argument, "What now?"

"Okay so, first thing's first," Yang answered, "We're gonna need a bowl!"

"On it!" Bumblebee announced as he placed a bowl on the counter.

"Now, we put some flour in it," Yang remarked.

"Oh, is that what the garden's for?"

"No, those are flowers," Yang replied as she took a bag out, "THIS is flour!"

"... Those names are very confusing…" Bumblebee remarked.

"Just help me open this thing," Yang requested as held up the bag. Bumblebee took it out of her hands, threw it into the air, and sliced through it with an Energon blade.

PUFF!

The bag exploded, and flour landed everywhere, but by some miracle, most of it landed in the bowl.

"Next, we need to add the eggs," Yang explained as she opened the carton, "Just put three eggs in the bowl with the flour while I grab a frying pan."

"Okay," Bumblebee replied as he reached for the carton.

"And be careful not to break them!" Yang added as she dug through the pots and pans.

Bumblebee froze for a second, then carefully took a single egg from the carton, lightly pinching it between his index and pointer fingers, lifted it out of the carton, and gently lowered it into the flour. He grabbed a second egg, carried it over to the carton, then lost his grip.

Thankfully, it landed safely inside the bowl.

Bumblebee's hand shook as he reached for the third and final egg, only to pinch it too hard and send it flying through the air.

In defiance of all odds, even this one landed in the bowl, unharmed.

"Oh thank the AllSpark!" Bumblebee sighed in relief.

"Okay!" Yang replied as she placed down the frying pan, "Now, since this next step only calls for the egg whites, I'm gonna use the rest to make some scrambled eggs."

"What?"

"I mean, the only white part of the egg is the shell," Yang replied as she took two eggs and broke them over the frying pan, before tossing the now-empty shells into the bowl, "Now, while I work on the scrambled eggs, could you add everything else on this list?"

Bumblebee took a sheet of paper from Yang and scanned it.

"... Cross-referencing abbreviations with the lexicon you had me download," Bumblebee muttered, before pouring in baking soda, milk, sugar, the salt Yang had sat on the counter, and…

Yeast?

"Yeast makes bread rise!" Yang defended as she used a whisk to stir the scrambled eggs she was working on.

Did you even look up the recipe before starting on this?

"Shaddup!" Yang replied, "Anyway, if you're done adding ingredients, you're gonna want to use the large spoon I set out to stir it until we get a gooey batter!"

"Okay," Bumblebee replied as he took the large spoon thing in his right hand and the bowl in his left, before he began stirring, "So uh… What's your best dish?"

"I dunno," Yang replied, "Something's always destroyed my food before anyone could eat it."

"Oh…" Bumblebee replied, "It's uh… Getting pretty hard to stir this!

"Okay then!" Yang placed down the frying pan on the burner, "I'll grab the cake pan, and you'll just have to pour the batter in!"

Yang dove offscreen, tossing various pots and pans over her shoulder as smoke rose from the scrambled eggs.

"Found it!" Yang announced as she rose up with the cake pan, the scrambled eggs now consumed in an inferno more fitting the pits of Heck than the Rose/Xiao Long kitchen, the hens that laid them no doubt sensing a disturbance in the cosmos.

"Uh… Yang?"

"Don't worry, they're supposed to do that," Yang replied, "Now hurry up, this cake isn't gonna bake itself!"

"You're the food expert," Bumblebee remarked as he poured the batter into the pan. Yang then opened the oven door and shoved the cake mix in, before grabbing the Fire Dust Crystals off the counter.

"Can't forget about these bad boys," Yang remarked as she threw the crystals into the oven and closed the door.

"So… Now what?" Bumblebee asked

"We crank the temperature up to the highest setting and set the timer for ten minutes!" Yang answered, before doing exactly that.

KRABOOM!

Akai glanced out her living room window at the mushroom cloud in the distance.

"Oh boy," she sighed as she took out her Scroll and dialed the hospital, "Hello doctor? Yeah… She got into the kitchen again, could you hurry and send an ambulance? And maybe a construction crew while you're at it? Thanks!" She hung up her Scroll and shook her head. "Idiots."

Smoke rose from the crater that used to be the Rose/Xiao Long residence.

"Ow…" Yang groaned, "... Did the cake make it?"

"... I finally understand why Waspinator's so cranky all the time," Bumblebee groaned.

The live studio audience erupted in laughter, grateful that the evil that is Yang's cooking had been thwarted once again!

The end!

a/n: You can pry "Yang is an atrocious cook" from my cold, dead hands. Anyway, this is based off of the Japan-only animated short where Charlie Watson teaches Bumblebee how to cook! Everything else was the product of my own mind.

I hope you enjoyed!

Update 4/13/2021: I just fixed a huge typo in Yang's and Bumblebee's first conversation, where Yang asks Bumblebee if he remembered their cooking lesson and he answers with "No". Even though his entire motivation for wrecking the house is that he wants to get to his cooking lesson on time.