Chapter 15, Lab assistant.
Resistance HQ, loading bay.
Gadget was loading supplies into one of the Resistance airships, the ship would be delivering the supplies to a hidden village where many refuges was living, Gadget placed the final crate into the ship and then sealed it, the ship would be leaving in half an hour.
With his job done Gadget left to see if he could help anywhere else, Gadget walked down the halls of the base, everyone seemed glum they had just suffered a defeat at Green hill and the area was now under Eggman's control.
Walking a little farther Gadget soon found Mighty unloading a large crate filled with boxes, "Excuse me Sir, do you need any help" asked Gadget a little nervously as he hadn't spoken to Mighty yet and he didn't know if he was friendly or not.
Mighty smiled at the thought of some help, "Thanks rookie, would you mind delivering these packages to the correct people, there labelled so you shouldn't get confused" said Mighty as he handed Gadget six boxes, "Sure thing, I'll get right on it" said Gadget as he left with the boxes.
The first two packages was for Vanilla, Gadget entered the infirmary and found Vanilla tending to several survivors from their loss at Green hill, "Miss Vanilla, I have you supplies here" said Gadget as he handed Vanilla her two boxes, "Thank you dear, I was wondering when those would get here" said Vanilla.
The next two boxes was for Knuckles, Gadget went to the war room and found Amy typing something into the computer, "Ms Rose, I have some packages here for Commander Knuckles" said Gadget, "Thanks, just leave them here, I'll let him know when he gets back" said Amy.
The last two packages was for Tails, Gadget entered Tails's lab expecting to find the young fox working, but instead he found that there was no one inside, Gadget placed Tails's packages on his work bench and was about to leave when something caught his eye.
Tails had left his prototype wispon laying on the workbench, he still hadn't managed to get it working, Gadget looked at the devise with curiosity, he knew that he should leave it alone but the tinkerer inside him was screaming at him to take a closer look.
Finally Gadget's curiosity won out and he picked up the device, Tails had already taken it apart trying to find out what was wrong with it, at the side of the wispon was Tails's notes that he had written down.
Gadget looked at the wispon and read Tails's notes, they said that the wispon was unstable and that it kept firing by itself, Gadget remembered that he had had a lot of trouble with some of the gadgets he had worked on in the past as well.
Gadget looked closely at the device in his hands, he could see that the wispon used a lot of power and for a second he wondered if that was what was wrong, he remembered that he once had a similar problem with a blender he tried to fix up.
At that moment Tails entered the lab, "Hey what are you doing" he said as he ran up to Gadget and grabbed the wispon, "Oh I'm sorry, I only wanted to help" said a very nervous Gadget.
Tails examined the wispon seemingly checking to make sure that Gadget hadn't tampered with it, "I suppose you can't break something that's already broken" said Tails as he put the wispon back on his workbench.
"Sir, you've probably already thought of this, but have you tried to reduce the power output, it might be what's causing that thing to malfunction" said Gadget unsure of how Tails would react.
Tails raised his head and his eyes widened, "Oh my god, the power output, I spent so much time trying to make the weapon as powerful as possible that I forgot no to overdo it" he said as he quickly picked up the wispon and started to work on it.
"Could you pass me that C2 power cell" asked Tails, Tails then realised that Gadget probably didn't know what a C2 power cell was and he was about to explain what he wanted when Gadget handed him the correct cell, "Thank" said Tails surprised that Gadget understood him.
After a few minutes of working Tails finished his modifications, "Ok, let's see if this thing works" said Tails as he loaded a hyper-go-on capsule into the wispon and aimed it at a corner.
Tails already had his hand on the hyper-go-on capsule in case something went wrong, with hesitation he pulled the trigger and a laser shot out of the weapon and hit the corner of the room leaving a small hole.
Tails waited a few seconds expecting the weapon to fire involutory but nothing happened, Tails shook the weapon to see if it would malfunction and nothing happened, finally he pulled the trigger again and another laser shot out, "I don't believe it, it works, it actually works" said Tails in amazement.
Tails placed the now functional wispon on his workbench, "How could I have not noticed the problem, it was so simple" thought Tails failing to realise that his fault was caused by all the stress he had been under recently.
Tails turned to Gadget, "What's your name anyway" he asked realising that he had no idea who this recruit was, "I'm Gadget Sir, Gadget the wolf" said Gadget stumbling on his word a little, "Well Gadget, I'd like to thank you, you really helped me out here" said Tails, Gadget felt flattered.
"By the way, what's your job here at the Resistance" asked Tails, "Well, I help load the airships for missions" said Gadget unsure why Tails was asking him this, "Your kidding right, with your tech skills you should have been assigned to R&D" said Tails.
"Oh well I'm, I mean, I don't think that I'm really that great" said Gadget unused to this much praise, "Don't put yourself down so much, if it wasn't for you I'd probably still be working on this thing" said Tails.
"Tell you what, how would you like to be my lab assistant, you could stop me from making anymore amateur mistakes" offered Tails, "Well, if you think I could help then I'll do whatever I can" said Gadget.
"Great, then its decided, I bet that together we can build all sorts of gadgets for the Resistance" said Tails.
Later that day.
Tails had shown the now working wispon to the rest of the Resistance, the others was worried that the weapon would misfire again at first but soon learned that it was now safe.
Knuckles was highly impressed with the weapon and asked Tails to start mass-producing them so that their troops could be equipped with them.
When Tails returned to the lab him and Gadget started work on mass-producing the laser wispon, Tails also showed Gadget some blueprints that he had for several other versions of the weapon, these included a burst wispon, a lightning wispon and a void wispon.
