Hey guys! Wrote a new story for Inspector Gadget. Had the seeds of the idea pop into my head and decided to expand it out into a full action-packed adventure. Hope you like it. ^^

Disclaimer: I don't own Inspector Gadget.


"This is a perfect plan..."

Dr Claw was sitting in his chair, his face - unseen by many - fixed onto the monitor before him with intense anticipation.

The screen flickered on to show Penny Gadget in a small empty room. The small girl was stuck in a chair with her wrists bound behind her back. Claw was pleased to see she was still there from when his MAD Agents had taken her captive earlier that evening.

"Splendid! The bait is in place!" Claw said. "I'd better make sure those agents of mine took care of the one who usually protects her."

The screen panned around the room Penny was trapped in - to reveal exactly what Claw hoped to see. By the side of his arm, Mad Cat snickered over what the monitor showed. The vicious feline was pleased to see Brain was also tied up in the same room. The girl's loyal canine friend was laying on his back with his paws bound together, which he couldn't bite through due to the cloth wound around his mouth.

"Excellent! That meddlesome mutt cannot interfere!" Claw was pleased to see everything was in place for the sinister plan he had set up. "There's only one person now who will be able to try to save the girl..."

Claw pressed a button, causing the picture on the monitor to change. The image flickered to display the very person he was referring to.

"And here's the man himself - Inspector Gadget!"

The screen was able to clearly show the worried look on Gadget's face. The cyborg police officer was frantically racing around in search of Penny.

"Where could she be?" he asked, fretting over his beloved niece's safety. "The ransom note I found at home said I'd find Penny right here - at this awful oily place on the water!"

It turned out that Gadget was searching for Penny at an oil rig. He had wasted no time in travelling by boat towards the structure that stood out in the sea, overlooking Metro City. He was searching hurriedly up and down the levels and platforms in search of his niece.

Gadget was far too determined to find Penny to notice the airship hovering above the oilrig, the moonlight illuminating the single word in three yellow letters on its sides.

MAD

"What Gadget doesn't realise..." Claw said, raising a remote control in his large hand. "...is that he had walked straight into my trap!"

Claw pressed a button on the controller. The picture on the monitor flickered back to the room Penny and Brain were trapped in. The girl and her dog averted their frightened gazes to see what had been left in the room had been activated.

The image panned around before zooming in, allowing Claw to get a clear picture of what was in the room with his captives.

It was a small silver ball, an LED screen installed on it to show the numbers that were counting down.

"The bomb is activated!" Claw announced. "In less than a minute, this whole rig will be blown to pieces. It will smoulder all of Metro City in burning oil - and will do away with Inspector Gadget!"

A thunderous sinister laugh escaped from Claw. It was joined by a sly snicker from MAD Cat. Both of them were sadistically amused by how the evil doctor was going to ignite the entire city up in flames, causing terror among its innocent citizens - as well as do away with his enemy once at for all.

At that moment, the sound of a door being flung open escaped from the monitor. Claw made the picture room out from the bomb so he could see the whole room again - which allowed him to see that Gadget had arrived, standing in the doorway.

"Ah, there you are, Gadget!" Claw held his hands in front of him with his fingertips together as he await his plan to unfold. "Right on time - to meet your doom!"

"Penny! Brain!" Gadget cried, shocked at the sight of his niece and dog bound and gagged while trapped in an oil rig. "What's happened to you two?!"

Penny couldn't answer. The piece of cloth tied around her mouth prevented her from speaking. She couldn't alert her uncle of the bomb that was sitting in the room, ticking away to its explosion.

Ignoring what was in the room, preparing to blow him up along with Metro City, Gadget ran over to Penny, untying the cloth from around her mouth.

"Don't worry about me, Uncle Gadget!" Penny cried. "Stop the bomb?"

"Bomb?" Gadget repeated.

Brain nodded his head frantically. The dog was unable to make a sound from the gag he had around his own mouth.

Finally catching on, Gadget peered around the room - before his eyes widened upon falling onto the round silver device that was sitting below the room's single window. It was still counting down, less than a minute away from destroying Metro City - along with the robotic inspector, his niece and their dog.

"Wowsers!" Gadget cried. "This sure would make a big bonfire on this here oil rig!"

"Forget about me, Uncle Gadget!" Penny urged. "Just stop the bomb and save the city!"

"Not even a bomb is gonna distract me from protecting my precious niece!" Gadget turned back to Penny with a determined look. "Go Go Gadget Scissors!"

The top of Gadget's hat opened up to allow a robotic arm to spring out. It was clutching a pair of scissors. It swung around to the back of the chair Penny was in, cutting through the ropes that bound her wrists together behind her back.

"Thanks, Uncle Gadget!" Penny quickly stood up from the chair and instantly ran over to Brain to free him. "Now go defuse that bomb!"

"Yes, Penny!"

Gadget saluted to the blonde as his robotic arm returned inside his hat. He swung around and raced over to where the bomb sat below the window. The inspector picked it up in his hands, trying to regain his cool when he saw the numbers ticking away. He knew he had to stop them from reaching zero - or Doctor Claw would succeed with his plan of terrorism on the city.

"Go Go Gadget Screwdriver!"

Out from underneath one of his coat buttons came a screwdriver, spinning around in its readiness to take devices to pieces. Gadget held up the bomb for it to open up - before releasing this gadget of his was prodding away at something else.

"Hey! Don't dismantle me!" he cried. "You're supposed to be taking the bomb apart, not me!"

The screwdriver turned away from Gadget and began twisting away at the bolts that were keeping the bomb in one piece. It quickly unscrewed the front, allowing the cyborg to access the courts and wires underneath. The LED screen bleep away above the electronics. Seconds remained until detonation.

"Now then, all I have to do is cut one of the wires and the bomb will shut down!" Gadget said. "Easy! Go Go Gadget pliers!"

A pair of pliers came out of Gadget's coat on another robotic arm. The snapped open and shut in preparing to do some cutting. They came down sharply on their first target - which was not one of the wires, but Gadget's nose.

"OUCH!" Gadget cried in pain. "Don't do that to me, it hurts! Cut the wires, not my nose!"

The pliers changed their targets and extended towards the bomb's circuits. They began to snip away through the wires, trying to defuse the bomb. They cut through the yellow wire, the blue wire and the red wire - but the bomb just kept counting down until it would destroy itself, the inspector, the oil rig and the city.

"Hmm! This is most strange!" Gadget scratched his head. "It always takes just a cut of the wire when a bomb is being defused on TV."

"You meddling moron!" Dr Claw sneered, watching all that was going on through his monitor aboard the airship. "This is not like the bomb situations you see on TV show! Where do you think you are, Gadget? An action-packed cartoon where you are the star?"

Unaware of his enemy taunting him high over the oil rig, Gadget continued to cut the wires with his pliers - but it was no good. The bomb continued to count down to when it would explode. It was clear there was nothing he could do to deactivate it.

"Hmm..." Gadget pondered. "If I can't shut down the bomb, then I'll have to take a different approach to foil Dr Claw's plan..."

"Uncle Gadget..."

Hearing his young niece address him, Gadget turned towards her. He could see she had managed to untie Brain. Both the girl and the dog were staring towards him, their faces filled with worry in case he couldn't stop the bomb.

"Penny, Brain, run out of this room and take cover!"

"But, Uncle Gadget-"

"That's an order! Go now!"

Penny and Brain glanced at each other before racing off out of the room. They stopped once they had passed the doorway, however, to hide themselves behind it. They kept themselves out of view from the officer, staying close in case he needed their help.

Once he was sure, he was all alone in the room, Gadget held up the bomb in his hands. He only had a little time to get rid of it in order to save the city. He took a deep breath and put his plan into action - by throwing the ball-shaped explosive upwards.

"Huh?" Penny exclaimed, watching from behind the door with great puzzlement over what her guardian was up to with the bomb. "What is Uncle Gadget doing?"

"What?!" Dr Claw cried, equally as baffled upon seeing on his monitor what his enemy was playing at with the machine that was to destroy him. "What is that idiot inspector doing?"

Gadget watched as the bomb flew upwards upon being thrown by him. It barely touched the ceiling before it started to come down - which was when the mechanized hero made his move.

"Go Go Gadget Baseball Bat!"

Right on cue, a baseball bat on an automated arm came out of Gadget's hat. It drew back before swinging speedily through the air - before striking the bomb hard, causing it to fly away from Gadget as it smashed through the window, soaring away from the oil rig.

"What the?! Claw cried, seeing all that was going on through the monitor before him. "What's going on?"

The doctor was dismayed to see that Gadget had knocked the bomb away like a baseball being knocked out of the park. It hurled through the air at an intense speed, leaving the oil rig far below - and heading straight towards the MAD airship.

"OH NO!" Claw cried, realising in horror what was about to happen. "NOOOOOO!"

MAD Cat screamed with terror and quickly leapt up from his resting spot. The feline jumped quickly out through a window - leaving his sinister owner all alone as the bomb it the airship...

...right when it reached zero.

"Oh..." Claw groaned meekly.

There was a huge explosion as an enormous fireball errupted in the air. It lit up the night's atmosphere in a golden colour that reflected in the sea below. The MAD airship had been completely destroyed by the bomb - with Dr Claw being caught in the blast.

Down on the oil rig, which had been saved from being turned into a fiery weapon to terrorize the city, Gadget put up a robotic hand to try to protect his face. He could feel the intense head of the explosion from where he was. Penny and Brain ran to his side. They both stared out through the broken window to gape in shock at the huge burst of flames - that had engulfed the airship which Doctor Claw had been aboard.

"Wowsers!" Gadget exclaimed. "I'd say I've hit a home run!"


HERE LIES DR CLAW

THE MOST DANGEROUS VILLAIN
EVER KNOWN
TO METRO CITY

FINALLY DEFEATED & DESTROYED
BY INSPECTOR GADGET

"Well, whadda ya know?" Gadget said as the read the words written on the gravestone before him. "Dr Claw is no more!"

"Yes, and it would've been the whole city if you hadn't stopped him." Penny turned away from the tomb to smile up at her Uncle. "Can't say anyone will ever miss him."

"You're right, Penny. I'm surprised anyone would have bothered to give that menace a funeral. Who would take the time to recover his incinerated body to bury him?"

"That rat!" Brain mumbled in his rough voice, believing only MAD Cat - who had survived the explosion - would have given his evil owner a send-off.

At that moment, a police car pulled into the cemetery. Gadget turned to see who was stepping out of the driver's seat. Never had he seen his employer look so pleased with him.

"Good work, Gadget!" Chief Quimby was beaming from ear to ear. "You finally defeated Dr Claw."

"Well, it was only a matter of time, Chief." Gadget tapped his chest proudly. "I always knew I'd get him one day."

"Yes - and I should've known that's how you'd get him!" Quimby paused, thinking about how Gadget had blown Claw up with his own bomb. It wasn't to different to how he blew the chief up by clueless handing self-destructing messages containing his assignments. "You sure have a way with explosives, Gadget."

"Why, thank you, Chief!" Gadget beamed proudly, failing to realise that what Quimby had said about him wasn't really a compliment."

"But seriously, I'm very proud of you. Trying to destroy an oil rig to terrorise Metro City has to have been Claw's most dangerous goal yet. It's lucky for everyone you went out there to turn his scheme against him and defeat him once and for all. This whole city owes you a debt, Gadget."

"No need to thank me, Chief." Gadget smiled humbly with a shake of his head and a wave of his hand. "I'm oil ways on duty!"

Quimby rolled his eyes while Brain slapped a paw to his fury forehead as Penny let off a soft giggle. The pun which Gadget had turned one of his catchphrases into had received a mixed reception.

"Well, I'll be heading back to the station." Quimby returned to his car, opening the door to the driver's seat before looking over his shoulder, giving a salute to his robotic inspector. "Good wok, Gadget."

"Thanks, Chief."

Gadget saluted back until Quimby had climbed into the car and closed the door behind him. Then he lowered his hand as he watched the police vehicle drive out of the cemetery, leaving him all alone with his niece and their dog.

"Well, Uncle Gadget..." Penny turned to gave adoringly up at her guardian. "I guess that's the last we'll see of Dr Claw."

"That's right, Penny." Gadget nodded with a wink. "He won't be causing any more trouble at all."

"What's gonna be next for you? Now that you've defeated your enemy, are you going to retire?"

"Goodness, no way, Penny!" Gadget shook his head. "Retirement is not an option for for someone with a job like mine! There will always be something for me to inspect - with the use of my gadgets!"

Penny and Brain glanced at one another. They exchanged smiles. The two of them knew that whatever cases Gadget went on to solve next, they would not be far behind, helping him through them without him knowing as usual.

"Come on, Penny, Brain." Gadget smiled warmly at the girl and the dog he was proud to call his family. "Let's Go Go Gadget Home!"

All three shared a hearty laugh as they joined hands. With Penny on his one side and Brain at the other, Gadget began to walk away. He left the gravestone of Dr Claw behind as he led them out of the cemetery, heading to where they had left the Gadget Mobile so they could return home.

It was once they were out of sight and earshot that eerie things began to happen.

The ground in front of Dr Claw's gravestone began to rumble, quietly at first, but getting increasingly louder. It grew more and more intense by the second...

...before a familiar-looking large hand burst sudden out of the ground. It was clenched into a tight fist as the one who it belonged to shook it with anger and hatred. His arm was all that came out of spot that he had been buried in - but his voice could be clearly heard from under the ground as he roared those immortal words of his.

"NEXT TIME, GADGET! NEXT TIME!"


Well, thanks for reading! Hope this gave you some enjoyment! Cheerio! :)