Melody tied the belt of her pink quilted bathrobe snugly around her waist as she went down the hallway. She wanted to be up earlier than everybody else so that she could supervise the chibis while they helped Duo cook breakfast. After dinner he had asked if he could make breakfast the next morning with such a winning smile and big blue puppy dog eyes that she just couldn’t say no. And, of course, all of the chibis had offered to be assistant chefs; for some reason that combination filled her with dread. However, as she walked down the stairs she could hear that the kitchen was already full of little helpers for the enthusiastic-but-unconventional cook. Melody sighed; she’d been sure that Duo would have slept later.

Melody entered the kitchen with not unwarranted fear and trepidation. She saw Duo helping Trowa to put the right amount of batter in the waffle iron but there was something wrong with the batter. She looked at the stack of waffles on a plate next to the waffle iron and couldn’t believe her eyes—they were green!

“Good morning!” Duo greeted her with a grin and the chibis did the same.

Melody returned the greeting, minus the smile, speaking louder than normal to be heard over the din.

Quatre tugged on her soft pink sleeve. “We’re havin’ green eggs ‘n Wham!, jus’ like in the book ‘cept it’s veg'tablearian ‘stead!” he proudly announced as he took the slices of bread from the toaster and started spreading a more than generous amount of butter on each one. “Wasn’t that a Great Idea?”

“But Duo says that we can’t make green toast ‘cause it wouldn’t work an’ would just make it all soggy,” Wufei added, yanking the stubborn refrigerator door open to get the jelly.

Relena was standing on a chair watching the scrambled eggs for Duo while he helped Trowa. Melody could see from where she stood that they were green as well. Milliardo lifted something out of the other frying pan with a fork and turned it over; she saw that in that pan were the slices of Wham!, a vegetarian ham substitute, which was not its normal color either.

“Hey! It looks like a mud puddle! Well, kinda,” Chibi Duo announced delightfully as he stirred the contents of a large pitcher while Heero squeezed the last few drops of the food coloring into it. They had used the rest of the small bottle of food coloring to see if it would turn green if they used just a little more.

Duo wiped his hands on a towel and went to look at the strange brown liquid. “That looks great! But I told ya it wouldn’t turn green.”

“What is it?” Melody asked dubiously, crossing the room to get a closer look. Chibi Duo was right—it did look like muddy water.

“It’s orange juice, a course,” Heero answered in disbelief. “You shoulda guessed that ‘cause you make us drink it every mornin’.”

Relena climbed onto a chair at the table to get a good look at the unappetizing-looking juice. “I’m NOT drinkin’ THAT!,” she declared. “An’ nobody can make me!”

Melody watched Treize remove the lid of the saucepan on the back burner, fearing that her suspicions about its contents would be correct, and they were—it was green oatmeal. She’d forgotten to tell Duo not to give them oatmeal because it was just asking for trouble.

“We’re just about done so take a seat,” Duo said cheerily as he scraped the scrambled green mass into a serving bowl because he didn’t think that Melody would want him to put the frying pan on the table.

“Why is everything green?” Melody asked.

“’Cause Duo says it’s funner this way,” Quatre answered with a bright smile as he set the plate of butter-soaked toast in the middle of the table.

The meal went uneventfully except that Melody could not convince Relena that it was only orange juice in the pitcher and there was absolutely no mud in it, but she could hardly blame her for not wanting to drink it because it really looked disgusting.

When everyone was finished with their ‘funner’ meal, Melody unwisely decided to leave the cleaning up to Duo and the chibis. She was hardly out of the room when she heard Duo and Chibi Duo simultaneously shout, “FOOD FIGHT!”

The oatmeal was flying.