Chapter 23, First mission.

Resistance HQ, Tails's lab.

Gadget was in the lab working on a new project that he had thought up, he was putting the finishing touches on a grappling hook that could be attached to someone's whist.

Gadget finished the grappling hook and then aimed it at a wall in order to test it, Gadget fired the grappling hook and then was pulled across the room at high speed hitting his head on the wall.

"I think it still needs some adjustments" thought Gadget as he rubbed his head, at that moment Tails entered the lab and saw Gadget sitting on the floor, "Did something happen" asked Tails a little confused.

"Nothing important, I just need to lower the strength of this grappling hook" said Gadget as he stood up, "Well then let's have a look at it together" said Tails, Gadget nodded and placed the grappling hook and the workbench.

Since becoming Tails's assistant Gadget had proven himself to be a very capable mechanic, together him and Tails had repaired Omega, and finished creating several new versions of the wispon.

Together Tails and Gadget readjusted the grappling hook to the point where it worked perfectly, after finishing work on the grappling hook Tails got a message on his communicator asking him to meet Knuckles in the war room.

Resistance HQ, War room.

Tails entered the war room and found Knuckles and Amy looking at a computer, "Hey guys what's up" he said, Knuckles looked up from the computer "Tails I need your help with something" said Knuckles, "What's wrong" asked Tails.

Amy pressed a key on the computer and an image of six armoured trains appeared on the war room's big screen, "Tails we just got a report that these trains are carrying weapons to one of Eggman's stations, we was wondering if you could reroute them to go to a deserted station so that we can collect the weapons" said Knuckles.

Tails looked at the trains, he knew that he could reprogram the trains if he could get inside of them, but there was one problem, "Sure I could reroute them, but Eggman has his trains under constant surveillance, there's no way I could get inside them without being seen" said Tails.

"We've already thought of that" said Amy as she pressed a few keys on the computer and the screen changed to show a certain location in Rail canyon, "We've found that there's a blind spot in Rail canyon where Eggman can't see his trains, if you make your move here then Eggman wouldn't know what's happening until it's too late" explained Amy.

Tails looked at the screen, based on the size of the blind spot and the speed of the trains Tails calculated that he would have about twenty minutes to reprogram all six of the trains.

Sadly Tails doubted that he would be able to reprogram all of the trains in such a small amount of time, but then an idea occurred to Tails that just might make this mission possible, "Ok guys, I'll just go and prepare first" said Tails as he left the room.

Resistance HQ, Tails lab.

"Gadget I need you help" said Tails as he entered the lab, "What's wrong, does Knuckles need us to build something important" asked Gadget, "Not exactly, I need your help on a mission" said Tails.

Gadget's face turned pale, "What, but I'm not, I mean, I don't know how to fight" said Gadget nervously, "Don't worry, I just need your help to reprogram something" said Tail.

"Well if you're sure, I'll do whatever I can" said Gadget although he didn't sound any less nervous, before leaving the lab Gadget picked up the finished grappling hook and a laser wispon.

Rail canyon.

Tails and Gadget was inside the Tornado 2 flying towards the blind spot of Rail canyon, Gemerl was flying next to the Tornato 2, he had come along just in case something went wrong on this mission.

Tails had told Gadget everything about this mission during the journey here, while Gadget was still worried about this mission, he felt a little calmer now that he knew what he had to do.

The three neared their destination and Tail's slowed down the Tornado 2, "Ok, the trains should be here in a couple of minutes, remember we only have twenty minutes to do this, otherwise Eggman might send an entire battalion to stop us" said Tails.

Soon six heavily armoured trains came into view, Gadget gulped at the sight of them, the trains was black and red in colour, and they had spikes going along the sides of them.

"Ok, Gadget you take the ones on the left and I'll take the ones on the right, Gemerl you stay here and keep a lookout" said Tails, "Leave it to me" said Gemerl with confidence, "Ok Tails" said Gadget nervousness clear in his voice.

Tails flew over to the leftmost train and let Gadget jump out of the plane, Gadget landed safely on the train much to his own surprise, Tails then flew over to the right train and set the Tornado 2 to autopilot, he then jumped out of the plane and landed on the train.

Gadget opened a hatch on the top of the train and crawled inside, Gadget landed inside the train and saw that it was being driven by three old model EGG pawns, one of the EGG pawns noticed Gadget and alerted the others.

The old EGG pawns all ran at Gadget with the intent to kill, Gadget pulled out his wispon and opened fire, many of Gadget's shots missed, but luckily for him this model of EGG pawn had no built in weapons so they had no way to fight back.

After many panicked shots and many misses Gadget finally managed to take down the three EGG pawns, Gadget breathed a sigh of relief, he was glad that he brought a wispon with him.

Gadget walked up to the controls and started to reroute the train, before he had joined the Resistance Gadget would probably never be able to do this, but thanks to his time with Tails his skills had improved drastically.

Eggman's security was more advanced then Gadget would had liked but after a couple of minutes he was able to break through the firewall and reprogram the train.

Gadget checked his watch and saw that dealing with this first train had taken his eight minutes, knowing that he only had twelve minutes left Gadget jumped back to the hatch that he had used to enter and exited the train.

Now back on top of the train Gadget looked to his right and saw that Tails was already on his third train.

Gadget fired his grappling hook at the next train and pulled himself over too it, however Gadget overshot his jump a little and almost fell off the side of the train only managing to catch himself with one hand.

Gadget saw his life flash before his eyes as he hung onto the side of the train, luckily Gemerl saw that Gadget was in trouble and flew down to lift him back onto the train, "Watch your step in the future" advised Gemerl as he flew back into the air to keep a look out.

Gadget entered the train through a hatch and found another three old EGG pawns driving the train, this time Gadget's aim with his wispon was much more accurate and he managed to destroy these EGG pawns much easier than the last ones.

Gadget ran up to the controls and started to hack the train, soon he had successfully recruited the train to go to the deserted station, Gadget then climbed back out of the train through the roof hatch.

As soon as Gadget exited the train Gemerl flew to his side, "Tails is already inside the last train, I'll give you a lift back to the Tornado" said Gemerl, Gadget nodded and grabbed onto Gemerl's hand.

Gemerl flew Gadget up to the Tornado 2 and placed him into the passenger seat, Gadget checked his watch, they had only five minutes left to complete the mission, but he was sure that Tails could reprogram the train in that time.

Tails was inside the last train, he had already destroyed the three old EGG pawns that was driving, Tails was about to start reprograming the train when he suddenly got an idea, Tails smiled as he ran away from the controls and towards the train's cargo.

Outside Gadget and Gemerl was starting to get worried Tails had been inside the last train far longer than he should have been, Gadget checked his watch, "Gemerl we only have ninety seconds left" he said, "Wait here" said Gemerl seemingly tired of waiting.

Gemerl flew down to the last train and landed on the roof, however before he could enter the train Tails climbed out, Gemerl quickly grabbed Tails and flew him to the Tornado 2 and placed him into the pilots seat.

Tails quickly flew the Tornado 2 away from the trains with Gemerl following closely behind, "What took you so long" asked Gadget, "Oh nothing, I just thought I'd send Eggman a little surprise" said Tails.

Soon five of the trains turned away from their intended route and arrived at a deserted station where several members of the Resistance was waiting, thanks to this the Resistance collected many supplies and weapons that would be helpful in their future battles.

The last train continued on it's intended route and arrived at Eggman's station as intended, however as soon as one of Eggman's robots attempted to open the train to collect the cargo the train exploded destroying the entire station.

Resistance HQ.

Back at HQ Tails informed Knuckles about the successful mission, "I can't believe it, you really set that thing to blow" said knuckles as Tails told him what he did to the last train.

"Sure I did, with that station gone Eggman's whole operation will be put back by at least a couple of weeks" said Tails sounding rather proud of himself, Knuckles smiled "I wish I could see Eggman's face when he finds out what happened" he said imagining the Doctor's reaction.