It was time for the final exam. Spyro, Bianca, Hunter, and Elora sat in their usual desks in Mrs. Blake's room. They were all twitchy and nervous since her nervous breakdown yesterday. Then they switched to decaf. Now the effects of espresso were wearing off and had died down to a slight twitch.

Mrs. Blake walked into the room with several copies of their exam. She handed them each a copy. "You have two hours to finish this. Now complete the test and don't talk!" She went to her desk, sat down and started meditating.

Spyro silently slipped his test to Hunter, so did Bianca and Elora. Hunter looked at Spyro, who nodded, and Hunter rummaged around inside his desk.

Mrs. Blake was on the verge of relieving stress when she heard some clinking sounds and a low electrical hum. She looked up to see that all four tests were missing and Hunter was passing out glasses filled with some green stuff. "Where are the tests?" she demanded. "Hunter, did you eat the tests again?"

"No."

"Good! Then where-"

"We're drinking them! Look! Smoothies!"

"Why did you make four tests into smoothies???"

"Because I'm not hungry anymore."

"How does a smoothie made out of paper even TASTE!?!?"

"Oh, it's not all paper, see, I added some grapefruit, bananas, pears, and apples and some flavored syrup."

Mrs. Blake quickly dealt out four more tests. "Now, these are the last test I'm giving you. You are not to give them to Hunter or anyone else but me! No sticking them down air vents, no mailing them places, and NO EATING THE TESTS!!! In fact, just to make sure..." Mrs. Blake dug around in Hunter's desk and pulled out a coffeemaker, a deep fryer, last year's history test, a pressure cooker, a waffle iron, a frying pan, a skillet, a ladle, a casserole dish, a bread knife, a bread maker, a toaster, a crock pot, a toaster oven, a marshmallow toasting stick, three bottles of mustard, some ketchup, and three cases of baking soda.

"Well, you've certainly surprised me!"

"Me too, I thought he had more than just that in there!" said Spyro. "Hunter, didn't you also have a fondue set?"

"Not anymore, it got confiscated last week."

Mrs. Blake finally got them under control and they took the test. She quickly delivered them to the principal and waited for his remarks. After an hour of waiting, the principal came out of the office. "I just ran these answer sheets through the computer, let's go back to your room."

They entered the room as Spyro and Hunter quickly hid their poker game and Bianca and Elora put the ceiling panel back in place. "Kids," said the principal. "I have just scored your tests and....you passed! You are now in the fourth grade!"

He and Mrs. Blake left the room to let the foursome have time to celebrate. Hunter started to say something but Bianca stopped him. "Wait for it." she said. The principal stepped back inside for a moment. "Oh, and Hunter. Mrs. Jones emailed me and told me to give you back your fondue set." he said handing it to Hunter and walked back out.

"Well guys, I think we've all learned a valuable lesson from all this." said Elora. "It really pays to know how to hack into the school's computer system." They exchanged high-fives. "What I want to know is why we didn't think of that sooner!" said Bianca.

Hunter happily started using his fondue set. "Fondue anyone?" he offered.

(Woo! Another story complete with the required randomness! Fondue all around!)