"Yeah, I came prepared." He reached into a pouch on his belt. "This stuff is so much easier in a future where nothing needs to be plugged in." Everything took up less space, everything was more portable no matter where he needed to fix something.

The future: a pretty awesome place, when nobody was in danger of dying.

He handed her the soldering iron and a piece of metal. "Flip it on right here, it heats up. You want to melt the solder without actually touching the iron to it - just hold it close. Use it to connect the wires and just don't let it touch anything else or it might screw up the circuit. It cools off pretty fast, so it should be okay a few seconds after you take the iron away."