Chapter 14, Welcome to the Resistance.
Resistance HQ.
The airship arrived at the Resistance HQ, other than Gadget only eight others had decided to join the Resistance, Gadget and the others left the airship and was greeted by Espio, "Greeting, I am very thankful that you all have decided to join our fight against the Eggman empire" he said.
"Now then I must ask, have any of you ever been in a battle situation before" asked Espio, everyone shuck their heads, "Very well, do any of you have any useful skills worth mentioning" asked Espio.
A grey bear raised her hand, "I'm a good cook" she said eagerly, Espio sighed clearly that wasn't the type of skill he was talking about, at this point Vector walked up "Don't mind Espio, I'm sure you all can do your part" he said reassuring some of the new recruits.
"Come on I'll show you around" said Vector, the nine new recruits followed Vector into the Resistance base, inside they found that many members of the resistance was running around trying to deal with the increasing number of Eggman attacks.
"Ok this is the war room where we plan our missions" said Vector showing the group a room with a large computer, Knuckles and Amy was inside arguing about something, "I'm telling you he's not dead, I won't believe it" shouted Amy, "Maybe we should come back later" said Vector as he quickly led the group away.
"Right then, this is our R&D lab, where we design all of our new equipment" said Vector as he showed the group a lab where Tails was working, "Hey Tails meet the new recruits" said Vector, "yeah, yeah, sure, whatever" said Tails too busy working on a new project to take any notice.
The Resistance was very different to what Gadget had expected, he had thought that they would be far more organised, but half of them seemed to have no idea what they was doing.
"Ok, I guess next is the medical department" said Vector as he led the group to a room filled with beds, several of which was occupied by people with different levels of injuries, Vanilla was wearing a nurses outfit and checking on some of the patients.
"Hi Vanilla, how's it going" asked Vector, "Oh, it's just awful Vector ten of our troops came back injured, and six didn't come back at all" said Vanilla sadly, "That's not good, and how's Cream dealing with all this" asked Vector, "She's fine, I don't have the heart to tell her how terrible the situation really is" replied Vanilla, "Ok, let me know if you need any help in here" said Vector as he led the group away.
"Well I guess that's everything worth showing you, let's see if we can find something for you all to do" said Vector.
1 hour later.
Resistance HQ, storage room.
Gadget was filling a wooden crate with equipment, he had been assigned to help load the airships for any new missions, this wasn't the job that Gadget thought he would get, although he wasn't going to complain he was slightly relieved that he wasn't going to be on the battle field.
For a moment Gadget wondered if hr had made the right decision when he joined the Resistance, he wondered whether or not he still would have joined if his friends had survived the attack on Sunset heights.
Gadget forced the thought out of his head and tried to focus on the job he was doing, Gadget placed the last of the equipment inside the crate and then sealed it, he then picked up the crate and carried it out of the storage room and towards the landing bay.
Resistance HQ, war room.
Knuckles had called a meeting in the war room, he wanted an update on the current situation, standing in the room with Knuckles was Amy who was still mad at him, Rouge, Silver and Vector.
"Ok everyone what's the situation" asked Knuckles, "G,U,N are holding out against Eggman, but their far too busy to send us any support" said Rouge, sadly Knuckles had expected that they wouldn't be receiving any help from G,U,N.
"I'm sad to say that our defence of Sunset heights was a bust, Eggman's concerned the town" said Silver, "Eggman's probably torn the whole town down by now" said Knuckles.
"Vector, what about those new recruits, are they settling in well" asked Amy, "Their fine, I assigned them some odd jobs to do around the base" said Vector, "Good we need all the help we can get" said Knuckles.
Suddenly Tails burst into the room carrying a strange white devise, "Guys I'll done it, I've finished it" he said excitedly while holding up the strange device, "What exactly have you finished" asked Knuckles, Tails had told none of them what he had been working on.
"I've finished my new invention, I call it a wispon" said Tails, "A what?" asked Amy, "A wispon, it's a weapon I made that can harness the hyper-go-on energy of the Wisps" explained Tails.
Everyone gave Tails a questioning look, "Tails, how did you get any hyper-go-on energy, I thought all the Wisps went back to their own planets" asked Amy.
"They did, but do you remember that Eggman warehouse we raided last week" said Tails, everyone nodded, "Well it turns out that Eggman had tons of hyper-go-on energy stored there, so I thought that maybe we could use it" explained Tails.
Everyone relaxed, for a second they had thought that Tails was using the Wisps themselves to power his wispon.
"So how does this thing work anyway" asked Rouge, "Its simple, it works just like a gun, you just pull the trigger and" said Tails as he pulled the trigger and the weapon fired a laser into one of the walls, "Sorry, I thought the safety was on" said Tails.
Tails placed the wispon on the table and the weapon fired again, this time almost hitting Amy, Tails quickly grabbed the wispon and pulled out the capsule of hyper-go-on energy that was powering it.
"Tails that thing seems to be a little faulty" said Amy trying not to shout, "Sorry Amy, I didn't mean for it to do that" said Tails sadly, "Maybe you should take this thing back to the lab and try to work out all the bugs" said Knuckles.
"Ok" said Tails sounding a little depressed as he left the room with the wispon in hand, "Do you think he'll be ok" asked Vector, "He'll be fine, and with any luck maybe he'll fix that thing, it could give us an edge against Eggman" said Knuckles.
