“Doc! I need you give something! Anything! My friends are in danger!” I yelled at my alien friend over the com link.

     “You know I can’t do that! It’s against Galactic Law! Letting you have that communicator was pushing things as it was!” the doc replied.

     “My friends have been captured by some very hostile members of another race! Even I barely escaped! Don’t you think your oh-so precious laws have already been smashed and thrown out the window by now!?” I told him. I heard him sigh on the other end before answering.

     “Fine. I’ll send you one thing and one thing only. I’ll leave it up to you to decide what you need for your rescue mission.” The alien scientist told me.

     “Only one thing?” I asked, concern tainting my voice.

     “Yes. Anything more would be too much. As I said, just giving you the comlink was already bending them but this is an emergency.” He explained “I suggest you choose carefully before deciding. There will be no changing it once I have sent it to you.”

     “I see.” I said before pausing to think.

     I took his words seriously and thought carefully about what I would need. My mind went wild with the possibilities but they generally into three or four categories. The first was some kind of shield or armor. I could use it to defend myself and possibly my friends, once I got to them. However, it might not be enough to get me pass whatever defenses the aliens that were holding them captive had. The same went for any kind of weapon that I could bring with me and would only be useful so long as I didn’t get killed. There was also a good chance that my friends were already hurt and would need medical attention but anything that could help them wouldn’t really be any help for getting me to them. At least, I didn’t think so. I was resourceful and creative but I doubted I was good enough to MacGyver myself pass a bunch of aliens and their tech on wits alone. A robot would have been useful as well but they would still be limited to what they had been made for.