Chapter 3: A Special Task
Endive had already finished choosing the right sort of monster cake she wished to make to face Mung Daal's, and other chefs' cakes at the arena. So, she then turned to her apprentice Panini for a special assignment to which case, her apprentice was still quite well lost in being in love with Chowder who wasn't but the least interested.
"Panini!" shouted Endive as she got her apprentice her attention.
"Yes?" asked Panini as she turned around to Endive.
"I have a special assignment for you" replied Endive.
"Does it include me being with Chowder?" asked Panini.
"Er, sure, you would have to spy on Mung and Chowder and see what sort of a monster cake they're going to make" replied Endive, "once you find out what sort of monster cake, report back to me at once, and I can add some additional weaponry icing to our monster cake."
"But Ms. Endive, why would we want to have to do this?" asked Panini, "We already are making a green tea monster cake, with a samurai-style special added to it."
"Yes, yes, I know, I know" replied Endive, "but you can never be too sure about what your opponents are making, now go, and find out what Mung has cooked up."
"Yes ma'am" replied Panini as she quickly left the scene.
As Panini traveled all the way toward where Mung Daal's place was located, Mung Daal along with Shnitzel were watching the cake inside the oven being baked.
"Wow, this Royal Guard monster cake is certainly picking up more muscle!" cried Mung with joy as he was seeing the progress through the oven's window, to which Mung then turns to Chowder who was quite busy liking the large mixing spoon, "Chowder, I got a special assignment for you."
"Like what?" asked Chowder as he kept on slobbering all over the large mixing spoon.
"I suspect Endive might try something like sending a spy over here to see what sort of a monster cake we're making" replied Mung, "your job is to ensure that spy of Endive's doesn't get any were near the window of the oven where the cake is being baked."
"Don't worry" said Chowder as he then swallowed a big piece of cake dough which was on the spoon, and swallowed it whole.
"Radda, radda radda?" whispered Shnitzel to Mung after Chowder left the scene.
"What?" asked Mung to Shnitzel, "Of course we can trust Chowder not to give away our secret."
"Radda, radda, radda" grumbled Shnitzel as he then went back to clean up what was left of the various dishes meant to bake the monster cake.
A few minutes later, Chowder had arrived at the front entrance of the kitchen and began to march back and forth like a real Royal Guard would pretending that the spoon he was carrying was a pretend rifle. This then caught the attention of Truffles who was busy trying to take down customer orders from the phone.
"Chowder, what the heck are you doing?" asked Truffles as she turned toward him.
"I'm guarding the entrance like a real Royal Guard would protect the Queen!" replied Chowder.
"Well then, if you want to act like a real Royal Guard, you know what real Royal Guards do?" asked Truffles.
"Oh please tell me what real Royal Guards do?" replied Chowder as he had such excitement in his eyes.
"They shut up!" cried Truffles to which broke Chowder's excitement, "They stand in the place were they are suppose to stand all day, until their shift is over and then some other poor sap comes to take their place!"
"So how the heck can I be a real Royal Guard?" asked Chowder.
"How about by starting to keep quiet with not asking so many questions for starters, now please, I'm going to take a little rest" replied Truffles as she began to leave the scene.
"Got to be like a real Royal Guard" said Chowder to himself as he then just simply stood stiff like a stick stuck in the mud.
As Chowder attempted to certainly take his pretending in a whole new level, Panini came into the scene as Truffles wasn't at her post. She then recognized Chowder standing quite still.
"Chowder, hi!" waved Panini as she raced toward Chowder, "What are you up to?"
Chowder simply stood still iin silence.
"Oh come on" replied Panini, trying to get Chowder to talk, "what are you trying to pretend to be, like one of those Royal Guards that are not suppose to speak?"
All Chowder could unfortunately do was say nothing as he stood right in front of the kitchen entrance.
"You can please tell me what sort of monster cake you're making for the Monster Cake Melee Bash contest?" asked Panini.
Yet Chowder still stood quite still as a stiff.
"Oh come on, I bet the spoon you're holding, you probably tasted how good that monster cake really was" said Panini as she attempted to flirt with Chowder to which he then began to sweat a little, "I know how to crack someone like you, let's play the staring contest and see who'll win!"
Panini then immediately ran right in front of Chowder and glared at him right into his eyes. Chowder did his best not to move, but he didn't seem to like Panini to obviously be right in front of him. The staring contest for poor Chowder seemed to have lasted for hours, yet it was only simply minutes in real time.
"You're never going to get the secret!" shouted Chowder as he moved from his position to which made Truffles came right into the scene.
"You're a bad Royal Guard!" shouted Truffles to Chowder.
"You don't understand, it was Panini!" cried Chowder to Truffles.
"Radda, radda, radda?" asked Shnitzel as he came into the scene as he was finished finally cleaning up the dishes and noticed the commotion.
"You, get out of here, at least until the contest for the monster cake is over!" cried Mung as he also came into the scene with Shnitzel and noticed Panini, which she immediately scattered off back to Endive's, "I should have known that woman Endive could pull off something like this, sending a spy to see what we're making for the arena battle."
"Radda, radda, radda" said Shnitzel to Chowder.
"Finally, I can stop pretending to guard the kitchen" replied Chowder.
"Come on, we don't have any time to waste here" said Mung, "we have to get our monster cake to the arena, and win the half a million bucks!"
As Mung and company scattered to try their best to prepare for the upcoming contest, Endive was very much displeased with Panini's progress as she arrived back at her place.
"Did you manage to retrieve what was Mung making?" asked Endive.
"No" replied Panini as she was trying to catch her breath.
"Too busy with that Chowder boy I see" sighed Endive, "well, our monster cake is finished anyway, we should prepare ourselves to use it to face Mung's."