Kessie's Short Stories

[Kingdom Hearts] Chirithy, Please Smother Me

Originally published 8/5/2022

Sabrina was not a mechanic. Quite frankly, she mostly cared less when it came to whatever experiment the gremlins decided to partake in. But this project needed a supervisor. It was too dangerous not to. No one had ever tried to place a power spark into the Gummi Ships before. Somehow Gremlin Sparks thought he was qualified enough to go through with the theory. He set up a workspace at Tomorrow City where he could have access to all the tools he needed- as it was where the Gremlins conducted most of their inventing experiments due to the area's more technologically advanced structure.

Chip and Dale should have come to Wasteland, though. It would have made things a LOT easier.

"Sabrina, hand me my wrench." Sparks requested.

"A wrench?!" Chip immediately squeaked through the Gummiphone. "No, no, no! You're going to break it with a wrench!"

"Yeah! You needa hammer instead!" Dale chimed in.

Gremlin Sparks gave a scoff so pretentious that Sabrina had to roll her eyes.

"A gremlin's wrench is many tools in one- not just a measly day-to-day wrench like you two would have." Sparks boasted to the chipmunks. "Trust the process, my friends. We gremlins know our stuff when it comes to fixing things."

Both chipmunks gave a prudent huff at the idea.

"Yeah," Chip argued, "And we know Gummi Ships."

"We practically invented them!" Dale agreed.

Sabrina pinched the bridge of her nose. Next time, she'll try to convince someone else to watch over a bunch of gearheads. She'd rather suffocate under a pile of bunny kids than experience a wrench-measuring contest in the making.

"I'd rather help Roxas put together a garage kit skateboard than this." she hissed under her breath at some point. To the others proper, she finally questioned, "Are you sure this is even going to work?"

"Of course!" Sparks immediately told her, almost in time with Chip saying, "Of course not!" and Dale shouting, "No way!"

Sabrina groaned. She was getting a headache now. Were all men this difficult, or just these three? Oswald had his moments, she knew that for certain. But Oswald also knew when to relent. He'd fester in it, sure, but he wouldn't keep arguing.

"Sabrina, hand me the torch, would you?" Sparks then requested. "Turn it on for me while you're at it."

"Right." she idly agreed before reaching for the only flashlight available. She switched it on, only for the light to immediately flicker slightly.

"Looks like the battery's running out." she told the gremlin as she passed the flashlight to him.

"The batteries run out so quickly on this thing..." he agreed. "But it's the only one I've got. If only I had a better light to use..."

It didn't take long for the peanut gallery to chime in.

"You'd have better light if you were anywhere but in Tomorrow City!"

"Yeah! It's always night there! Sabrina, you should have told him better."

"I did." she grimaced.

"There's a reason why I chose Tomorrow City," Sparks informed them, "And it's not because of the lighting."

"It's because you're a moron!" Dale cheerfully declared, netting a gleeful laugh out of Chip. As Sparks suddenly came out from under the Gummi Ship, Sabrina took that as her cue to leave them to their own devices. It's not like she needed her Gummiphone anytime soon. It might not survive with the way those three were acting.