Chapter 31

"Davis! You nut brain! You're supposed to put the sugar in BEFORE you add the water!" scolded TK as he tirelessly stirred the bowl of cookie dough.

Everyone was currently in Home Economics class. TK, Davis, and ken were in one group, Kari, Yolei, and Cody were in another.

Ken sweat dropped when he glanced over to see how his friend was doing.

"What are you laughing at Ken?" Davis demanded.

ken ducked his head, still stirring the bowl. "Nothing" he mumbled.

Yolei looked over at the boys on the other side of the room. Kari followed her gaze and sighed.

"It's amazing that just last week Ken was near death" she commented.

Yolei nodded slowly. "Yeah...It really kind of scares me though Kari..."

Kari turned around to Yolei, stirring the bowl in her hands. "What do you mean?"

"Well, just look at how things happened Kari. I dumped him and then look what happened to him. he was so depressed afterwards that he would rather have Kaiser in charge than face the world. Then, after that didn't go well, he tired to drown himself. I don't think I can handle that kind of pressure..." Yolei explained.

Kari smiled. "But Yolei, there is no pressure. Don't you understand? This way you know that Ken will never hurt you. He's completely devoted to you Yolei. If I didn't know any better I'd say he was ready to marry you, but that's way off into the future..."

Yolei went silent. That was true...She looked up at the laughing Ken across the room. Was she really going to spend the rest of her life with the ex-Digimon Kaiser?

"Alright Mr. Genius! Let's just see how well our cookies turn out!" cried Davis when the oven beeped, announcing to the room that they're cookies were done. Ken, Davis, and TK all reached in one by one with pot holders on their hands to grab their tray of cookies.

"Aha!" cried Davis in triumph when the three of them compared their cookies.

Ken's cookies ended up looking rather beaten up. The star shapes that he had used for his cut-outs were far from perfect. They were chipped and a bit burnt. Ken frowned at them, disappointed.

Davis's cookies on the other hand looked perfect. Not a single thing seemed wrong with them. His stars turned out perfectly made, and not a hint that they looked over cooked, and Davis made sure ken saw this.

"Look at that Ken! Looks like even a genius like you can't always be perfect.

Ken mentally kicked himself for feeling so much anger and jealousy towards Davis.

'Hehe..." cackled a voice inside Ken's head. 'Well, well. He beat ya! Didn't think the dork had it in him...'

"Shut up" ken hissed in his head, or at least, he thought he said it to himself.

Davis' eyes went wide. "Dude, no reason to get upset. S'just I don't always win when I'm against you" commented Davis.

ken blushed. "Sorry Davis, I didn't mean..."

"It's okay dude! Everyone gets angry sometimes!" smiled Davis, patting Ken on the back. Davis then turned back to his cookie tray, leaving Ken to deal with the annoying voice in his head.

'Hahahahaha! That's was rich! Too rich!' laughed Kaiser. For several minutes all Ken could hear was Kaiser's sadistic laughter. 'Oh boy! That was funny! Not everyday that happens! Snapping at your best friend! What's that about?'

'I didn't do it on purpose' thought Ken. 'I meant to say it to you.'

'Yeah! But ya didn't! That's what makes it so funny!' said Kaiser, still chuckling.

Ken ignored Kaiser and turned back to reality.

"Okay" TK was saying as Kari, Yolei, and Cody walked over to their station. "There's only one way to see who's is the best cookies."

He picked up a cookie from Davis' tray and bit into it. His face turned from happy, to sour in seconds. He stopped chewing, and for a few moments, looking as though he was going to hurl. Which he did. In the sink. He spat out the cookie, taking several gulps of water from the tap and sighing.

Davis was in denial by this point. "Wha- They don't taste that bad do they TJ?"

"Maybe they would if you called me by my actual name!" snapped TK, nervously taking one of Ken's cookies into his hands.

'Here goes' though TK before taking a bite.

TK winced, thinking they were going to taste awful.

Heaven...

Ken's cookies were outstanding!

TK quickly gobbled up the rest of the cookie and smiled at Ken.

"Wow, these are fantastic Ken!" praised TK. Ken blushed.

Inside his Ken's head, kaiser was having a fit, but Ken ignored him.

"thank you..." Ken mumbled, rubbing the back of his head.

"No! That's not fair!" yelled Davis. "His turned out so...crappy!" Yolei hit Davis upside the head. "But it's true!"

"That just goes to show that you can't judge a cookie by it's looks. Or anything for that matter" inquired Cody thoughtfully.

Ken smiled. They liked his cookies. Yolei was the next person to try one. She beamed with delight after she ate it grabbed another one, but not before giving ken a giant hug. Kari tried one, then Cody. They were amazing.

Davis on the other hand, was sulking in the corner. Ken smiled sadly at his friend and grabbed one of Davis' perfect looking cookies. He walked over to Davis and made sure Davis watched him eat it. Davis froze, hoping that maybe TK had been just giving him a hard time. Maybe Ken would like them...

Ken chewed slowly, almost afraid to taste it...But he knew he had to... To make his friend feel better about his cookies.

He swallowed. Disgusting...

'Oh! Mother of - That's just nasty! Get rid of it! Get rid of it!' cried Kaiser internally, being able to taste the same things Ken could.

"Well? How are they?" asked Davis tensely. After several moments Ken grabbed his stomach. He groaned. He just finished the cookie and his stomach was already rejecting it. It was as though ken just ate cardboard...

Covering his mouth, Ken went to the sink to discard the nasty vile creeping up his throat.

Shivering, and finished discarding the unwanted food, Ken sat down in a nearby stool.

"Ken! Are you okay! I'm so sorry! I had no idea my cookies would make you throw up! Otherwise I wouldn't have made you eat it!" whimpered Davis as he rubbed his friend's back. Ken looked up.

"But you didn't make me eat...I ate it on my own free will" reasoned Ken.

'Yeah...and don't you EVER do that again!' sneered kaiser.

Ken smiled. "It's okay Davis, I have a delicate stomach."

'That's the understatement of the year' snarled kaiser. ken stood up.

He turned to TK. "How did your batch turn out?"

TK blushed. "Alright I guess..."

"There just as great as your Ken" said Kari, eating one. ken reluctantly tried one and smiled. They were very good. For the rest of the period, everyone sat around trying each other's cookies, ken eating in tiny bites. He smiled. He didn't want to upset his stomach again.

'These cookies...are...' began Kaiser nervously. Ken perked up, listening hard to see what his alter ego was going to say. 'They're really...good..' Kaiser mentally winced at saying that. Ken smiled. It was times like this when Ken really didn't mind that the kaiser was always there, watching him at his every move. Besides, it was funny to hear him complementing his enemies..

'If you ever tell them I like their cookies I'll-'

Ken smiled as he listened to Kaiser's empty threats.