SNT Vs. Sonichu 3: Fractured Fantasy

Chapter 9: The Anomaly

"Hey Gizmo!" Subaru who was hammering something into a machine looked back at the red wolf and asked for something from him. "Can you pass me that wrench?"

"Oh, sure thing!" Rookie responded. He quickly followed directions and then climbed the ladder to the top of the machine with another hammer and started waking at another part of the ship.

It seemed that they were making good progress on what looked like a submarine. The ship was as large as a whole room and seemed that you could fit ten people inside easily. It was hanging from the ceiling over a large pool of water below. It was like a chamber built to transfer devices like this from inside the workshop to the ocean around the island.

Subaru grabbed a welding mask and put it over her face to protect herself from the radiation that was about to blind the fox. Then she took the welder and started to fill in the cracks to make sure that it would not leak any water. Once she was done, she then sighed and looked toward Rookie, "Man, I am glad you are here Gizmo. I didn't know you liked to work on machines as I did."

"Well, to be honest, my brother taught me, but I think you have taught me more overnight than what my brother has taught me in a lifetime," he replied as he laughed.

"You have been more helpful than Cas has ever been while she lived here," she decided to be honest on the situation.

In the meantime, Cas who was standing nearby writing on a whiteboard when she heard her roommate say that about her. She quickly put down her feather writing utensils and stormed over to the fox looking a little annoyed. "You rang?"

"Oh hey Cas, what's up?" her friend asked.

"Subaru, why are you coming after me like that?" she asked. "I help you when you need it and now you're treating me like I'm nothing?"

"I'm not saying that you're useless. It's just you follow your own set of logic more than you should." Subaru responded.

"Let me guess!" Cas replied, "Because Magic is not the answer to life's problems?"

Subaru didn't say anything and just kept looking at the magician. Cas continued, "Man, where have I heard that before? You know what... that's ok... Once I prove that Magic is better then I would show you that spending all of this time collecting materials to build this waterproof ball will not be as worth it as creating magical writings just to make sure you survive underwater."

"I'm pretty sure it's not going to work," Subaru responded.

"Oh yeah?" Cas thought Subaru was baiting her to try. "Let me prove it to you then. Gizmo can I borrow you for a second?"

Rookie stopped hammering and got up on his feet to see the two of them looking up at him. "I'll be right down." He then grabbed the side of the ladder and slid down jumping on the concrete next to Subaru and looked at Cas who in the meantime walked back to her side of the workshop and picked up a chemical and brought it back to the both of them. "What do you need me for?"

"Drink this!" Cas then put his hand behind his back and shoved a vile into his mouth.

"Hey! *glug glug glug*" Rookie couldn't speak as he was suddenly drinking this mysterious formula.

"Cas? You didn't ask his permission for him to be experimented on!" Subaru tried to stop her.

"Wait... you have to ask for permission?" Cas asked then shrugged it off. "Well, it's too late for that."

"What the heck did you just give me?" Rookie asked.

"Oh, you'll see." That response didn't comfort Rookie at all.