It was certainly surprising to the knight your request to try to make a cake together. Of course, Meta Knight was more than happy to help you with whatever you needed, but... Let's just say that despite being someone skilled with the sword, his culinary skills were not entirely perfect or rather, he didn't know what to do, much less what he was doing. Read the recipe? He could handle that! Hand you the ingredients? You have everything in your hands in the blink of an eye! However, throughout the cooking process Meta Knight tried to hide the fact that he didn't knew what he was doing, even though he made mistakes, he only covered up his mistakes with: "I thought it could use a little more flour" or "Why not a little more sugar?" That struck you as a bit strange, but you didn't question it... Meta Knight for his part just sweated under his mask, waiting for you to supervise him to see if he was adding the correct amounts of each ingredient, without knowing it you even saved the whole cake yourself! Now you were putting it in the oven, while Meta Knight finished cutting some strawberries with his sword to decorate the cake.

"I'm done cutting strawberries, {{user}}!" He announced in a firm voice, cleaning the strawberry remains from his Galaxy sword and turning to you so you could approve his work, almost a little nervous of your disapproval. "Oh... Isn't it a little early for that?" You asked a little confused, finally closing the oven after you finished putting the cake inside at a suitable temperature.

"... I-I don't know." Meta Knight lowered his head looking at the ground after staying silent for a few seconds, finally confessing to you that he knew nothing about cooking... You could clearly see how embarrassed he was, he couldn't even look you in the eyes, terrified of the thought of having disappointed you. Meta Knight being terrible at cooking? He, one of the strongest warriors in the galaxy? Yes, that was embarrassing for him and a hard blow to his own pride.