Chapter 4: Blender

"...Okay, so now install the power source. Make sure the power switch is off first!" Tails told Sapphire, guiding her through the creation of the device they were making.

"Hm-hm," Sapphire replied. She already knew the basics, but she wanted to do this as a warmup. So she listened to Tails' instructions carefully, and wrote down notes on what she was doing.

They were working on that first machine Tails promised to help Sapphire make. For Sapphire, this was the first step to becoming a great mechanic.

They finishing up, adding the outer shell to the device, when Sonic came in.

He strolled up to Sapphire, and put his arm around her. "Hey, how's my new little sister?"

"Oh... I'm fine," she replied.

"I see you're feeling better after yesterday."

"I- uh, yeah. Thanks..."

"Like your new outfit?"

Sapphire smiled and nodded. She was now wearing her new mechanics' outfit, a blueish-gray top and pants with blue sleeves, grey boots with zippers, and a set of mobian-made welding googles. It was practical, and fairly cute and comfortable, too.

Sonic looked over at Sapphire and Tails' device. "So, whatcha makin'?"

"A blender!" Sapphire proclaimed.

"Really...?"

"Well, she's got to start somewhere," Tails replied.

"Um... I do already know how to do most of this kind of stuff myself. But some of it is new," Sapphire commented.

"Huh... Welp, when you finish that thing, are you planning to test it?" Sonic asked.

"Yes. Though, um, we may need some fruit or something."

"Well, we've got a few fruits in the fridge. Anything in particular you like?"

"Oh, do you have strawberries. I really like strawberries, they're my favorite food."

Sonic put his hand to his chin, then dashed out of the room for a moment. In seconds, he came back with a box of strawberries. "We have a few left."

"Yay!"

"Don't get too excited now," Tails replied. "You still have to finish the machine, first."

"Right." Sapphire returned to the blender, and began working with Tails to finish the lesson.

All they had to finish up was putting on the shell of the machine, put on the glass container and lid, and other small fixes and adjustments. Then finally it was time for the testing.

They ran the kitchen tool a couple of times to make sure it ran properly. When it did, they gathered the ingredients they needed for a strawberry smoothie.

"Okay, first official test. Time to make a smoothie," Sapphire exclaimed.

She looked over to Tails, who nodded in response, then to Sonic, who did the same.

Then they put stuff and hit the power. At first, everything was going okay.

Then it all went wrong. The blades began to spin faster and faster and then Tails said, "wait... GET BACK!"

Everyone stepped back as the glass of the blender's top burst open. Luckily the glass didn't hurt anyone, but they were covered in an unfinished strawberry smoothie.

Everyone was quiet, until Sonic spoke up, "welp, that was fun."

"Wh-what happened," Sapphire said, shaken, "I thought did everything right."

"It's okay," Tails replied. "I think the power source was too strong." He opened up the mechanical base, and looked inside. "Yeah, we put too many power wires into the mechanisms."

"I'm... sorry, I didn't mean to-"

"No, no, I said to do that. You did okay. Next time, I'll readjust the power source requirements... and bring fewer glass materials, next time."

Sapphire nodded.

Sonic dashed away, and came back, cleaned up and holding towels for everyone. As Sapphire and Tails took them, and cleaned themselves up, Sonic asked, "so, who wants to order a pizza?"

"Sonic, this wasn't lunch. Also, they don't deliver here. We're the Mystic Ruins, way out of the way from the city."

"I know. I was kidding. Trying to lighten the mode."

Sapphire looked over. "Maybe could you pick one up? I liked pizza, too."

"Sure, coming up, with Sonic speed!"

Sonic sped off, and Sapphire sat down, while Tails started cleaning up the mess.

"I screwed up, didn't I?" Sapphire said.

"Hey, it was just one mistake," Tails replied. "We don't learn if we don't make mistakes, and then try to do better."

Sapphire nodded.

"It'll be okay. We'll get back up, and we'll try again."

"Okay... we'll try again." And Sapphire got back up. "Mind if I help you?"

"Sure."

And the two of them finished clean up, as Sapphire recollected herself, and readied herself to do better next time.

Author's Note: This is supposed to be a very small first story. Mostly because I couldn't really think of anything better. Next time, I'm going to look up prompts to use for later. Then maybe later, I can make better short stories. But really, don't expect me to update these often, unless I make a multi-parter.