Calming Tea Time

The smell of brewed tea and the clink of cups on plates emanated from the kitchen. Mya preferred coffee in basically all things, but sometimes you just needed a good cup of tea. Both were still full from the breakfast so only a carton of crackers were served with the tea. Gadget carefully took her cup in both hands when Mya gave it to her. She was getting used to her new body so she didn’t want to drop it by mistake.

“Mmmm, really good…. Maybe too sweet though.” Gadget said as the tea warmed her body in a different way from how her... experience did earlier. She tried to push that thought from her mind for now.

“Yeah well Honey tea is an acquired taste.” Mya said after a sip, "Took awhile for me to get used to it but my Granny was fond of it. So it grew on me." the ebony woman said with a soft smile. Hopefully Gran wasn't beside herself just yet with worry. Mya vanishing for a few days due to a job or bad phone wasn't unheard of but..., she really wanted to make sure her closest family wasn't worried sick.

“I prefer Peppermint myself. Helps soothe body more I find.” the mouse woman took another long sip though and sighed with satisfaction from the taste.

“Look at little miss over here. Listen, I use honey cause it helps the throat more after yelling.” Mya came back with.

“Hehe now that I can agree with. Honey tea is great after shouting at Dale that my new invention isn’t a toy.” Gadget said with a giggle.

“Oh so we finally agree on something?” Mya asked leaning back.

The two paused and gave out a weak laugh at the whole thing. Both knew they had acted out of line for their own reasons in their own way. One out of ego and the other out of envy. It just really came down to who acted first.

“I’m sorry.”

The fact the other said it at the same time was surprising.

“I’m sorry Gadget. I’ve just been kinda mean and rude to you most the day." Mya started off, "Even if I wasn’t like trying to be outright mean to you, I just kinda thought ‘who really cares she a mouse’ so what did it matter if you got hurt? That wasn’t right of me to just shove you around for the workshop. Or even before that.”

“No I’m sorry. I wasn’t thinking and was mad myself. I only knew you for a little while and just tossed my experiences with others like you onto you. I just figured you'd be just another jerk that threw their weight around, never listening and just 'Oh I'm always right cause I say I'm right' and.. that just really annoys me. It wasn't right for me to think you were like them. Like other mechanics I mean.” Gadget explained.

Mya was going to push her on ‘others like you’ but stopped for two reasons. One, she was trying to make up, not find another thing to fight about. And Two, Gadget probably didn’t really mean anything by it. Cartoons back the. Really didn’t make a big fuss about race, nor did they really acknowledge it short of an episode or two, maybe a special. So to Gadget, it really didn’t matter the color of Mya’s skin she was more concerned with ‘human’ and ‘occupation’. But she was aware enough to make that clear.

“Well…, I think I know the kind of half assed mechanic you’ve seen. Big guys with more pot belly than sense, breaks three things during repair and charges for five more. ” Mya said as Gadget took a moment to sip.

"Yeah. The kind of jerkish brute that gives the rest of us mechanics and scrapyard engineers a bad name. Always felt nice to bust a few of them." Gadget said, a smile coming back to her lips.

“Bust? What you’re a cop?” Mya asked, raising an eyebrow. She knew that the show she was from made them be Heroes but she forgot just HOW they did it. And it was better to make sure she was working with the... core version? Or at least a character that was close to the one she was picturing. Disney didn't reboot their old shows much but it wouldn't do to think this Gadget was a 1 to 1 copy of the one on the show.

“No not really…, I am or maybe was a Rescue Ranger." Gadget explained, toying at the cup that was before her, "My friends and I helped out with odd problems that couldn’t really be solved by traditional police. Mainly due to size and being animals but other times due to weirdness or deemed too 'plain' by authorities. See there's no reason to really call in cars to look into someone going around stealing ACs in the middle of winter. Or like a mass vanishing of water balloons.”

“But turned out to be an actual problem anyway I would guess huh.” The human woman finished.

“Yeah. The stories I could tell. But had to bust a few of those lazy mechanics and some inflated egg heads when maybe a guard dog went missing or a family of rats got **** out of their place by some sort of weird device. More than traps and spray that is.” Gadget explained, with a sparkle in her eye, "I mean I wasn't FOND of the new ways of mouse removal at times but it was interesting to take them apart afterward. But yeah, I've had to deal with the... deadbeat grumpy mechcanic a few times. Not face to face usually."

“I’d run them out of my shop, if I had one and they worked there.” Mya offered and then realized how that would sounded. “The mechanics and egg heads I mean not the animals.” She corrected.

“Only room for one Ego huh?” Gadget toyed at her cup.

“….yeah okay. I did throw my weight around like one of those gits.” She admitted, scratching the back of her head.

“We’re both wound up from the stress. I’m more used to this all, or at least this level but…., today has been an experience.” Gadget leaned back in her chair, her new sized chest jiggling a bit.

“Yeah… stress….,” Mya muttered, sipping her cup to hide the dumb look on her face.

Gadget had told her about the raygun as tea was brewing. A device to give the properties of one subject to another. If that was the case, then Gadget basically had the measurements of herself. Mya was a bit of a looker before the change and had checked herself in the mirror but…., daaaaaaaaaaaamn Mouse girl had it going on. Good mix of muscle and plush…., was she really going to consider this stupid thing? It HAD been a while since she got any….

No…, at least Gadget deserved more than a quick night and a fast breakfast. Besides she needed help figuring out how to get out of this mess, not digging deeper. Also while being a furry was weird, given that Gadget was using herself as a base frame…, would that be like self-masturbation?

“You okay? You’re rather quiet.” Gadget asked, leaning forward a bit.

“Yeah yeah just… distracted a bit.” Mya said, “Soooooooo that raygun thing… you talked about… still in the workshop?” hoping to change the topic.

“Oh yeah I had to let go of it when I had…. Other things to focus on.” Gadget said, using her own cup to hide her own face.

“So that’s your gift. Think it suits you. Far more inventive and intuitive than me. Bet you can find a lot of uses for that.” Mya stated.

“Yea well, you mentioned the shop was yours from the paper work you found. Glad for you. A simple and straightforward for an honest and blunt woman.” Sip went Gadget with her cup before clinking it back down, “And I mean blunt as a compliment. Reminds me of Monty. Sometimes you just do need to say how things are.”

“Thanks, I think” Mya said back. Most people tended to hate that part, called it hard or hot headed. Then again, she had been all day. Though, there was a possible solution to it all.

“Gadge, just wanna, Ah fffffffudge it” Mya corrected her for the mouse’s benefit, “We can do this song and dance about who’s sorrier and feel bad while making small talk. Won’t solve anything.”

Mya made her way over to the fridge and grabbed a few things; meats, veggies, sauce, cheeses. She then dumped them onto a counter, grabbed a knife and the bread. Gadget puzzled over what was going on, until Mya threw what she had made into two lunch box coolers and grabbed two thermos, tossing one of each at Gadget who easily caught them.

“My dad always told me; the best way to get to know someone is see how they use their hands.’ So with that in mind,” Mya hefted her own food containers up, “We can either sit here in this loop, or see how well we bonce off each other in the shop. Whatta say?”

Gadget had a confused look on her face. A strange smile crossed her face as she broke into a giggle and then into a hearty laugh. Part of Mya found Gadget’s full on laugh to be endearing another part annoyed she laugh. But better to wait on the reaction. Gadget wiped a tear from her eye; as she slowed back down to a snicker.

“Hahaha, ah ha, ahhh. When the guys came to the junkyard to find only me, my dads words were in my mind. It was due to their whole hearted honest attempt to help me fix things that won me over. Even if we didn’t, I would have left with them that day.” The mouse explained.

Gadget stood up, walked over and held out a hand after juggling the containers into her other hand. Mya took the hand and gave it a good shake.

“Those were the words of my father I had in my head that day. Or close enough. It’s a date” Gadget said with a smile on her face.

“Well, maybe not a date date.” Mya muttered before speaking louder; “Let’s just see how this goes then.”

After cleaning up in the kitchen, the two found themselves back in the work shop. And back at a problem. One that made them go back in for a bit like this.

“You go no you go no you”

The Problem was of who would lead and was something needed to be solved. It made sense to work on the same thing in order to build teamwork and really see how they were like, but someone had to be in charge. Mya suggest Gadget lead, as she was more experimental and creative, letting the two work on basically anything and make them think on their feet. Gadget countered Mya should lead, as she seemed to have better experience in working as a lead or in a garage setting like this, and would be more prudent about things.

“Not getting anywhere.” Mya dug around her pants pocket. If Cupid's Wish really transferred everything…, ah. Mya pulled a coin out and flip it into the air with her thumb. “Call it.”

“Heads” Gadget said as the coin came down and Mya grabbed it. With a ‘slap’ Mya flipped her hand and coin once onto the back of he other hand and was about to show the result when Gadget continued. “Heads you lead, tails I do.”

“You called Heads for me? Awfully nice of you” Mya said as she looked at the mouse, “Well I have the coin ready I can’t really back down out now.”