Chapter 1.- Glitches.


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It has been a year since John Brown had had an accident that nearly ended his life. It has been a year since Victor Scolex had suffered an accident that costed him his right arm. It has been a year since John Brown's body was reconstructed using the most advanced high-tech project and became the super cyborg cop known as Inspector Gadget. It has been a year since Victor Scolex had replaced his lost right arm with a robotic prosthesis and took the pseudonym of Doctor Claw. It has been a year since Doctor Claw tried to use his army of evil androids to take over the world. It has been a year since Inspector Gadget was put into service to protect the people of Riverton. It has been a year since Claw and Gadget had fought against each other to decide the fate of the world.
And it has been a year since Gadget had defeated Claw and had incarcerated him.
Since that event, the crime in Riverton had been on the downlow, because all the criminals were too afraid of Inspector Gadget to even dare to show their faces.
However, as the old saying says "There's always calm, before the storm rages on," and as such, things are about to change, which will mean that our dear cyborg cop will have to face the biggest threat that he has ever seen from his most dreadful rival, who is planning to take revenge not only against Gadget, but also against the Bradford siblings. Just to add insult to injury, an old rival of Nathan Bradford is on her way to Riverton, claiming that she has something that will make the Gadget Project completely obsolete. And if all that wasn't bad enough, Penny feels that her uncle is way too overprotective with her, which is leading her to take extreme measures to show her Uncle Gadget that she's not a defenseless little girl anymore.
The question here should be, will our dear Inspector Gadget be able to save Riverton, protect his loved ones and show everyone that he's still the best at what he does? Or will the infamous Doctor Claw be finally able to get rid of Gadget and take over the world this time?


It was nighttime in the city of Riverton, the recently proclaimed safest city of the world, and right now we see that the famous Inspector Gadget was hiding behind the advertisement of the limits of Riverton.
Suddenly, Gadget's face showed from the right side of the advertisement. Then it went back behind it, and after a second it popped out from the left side. Again it went back behind the advertisement, and then a laser cut a perfect fitting hole for Gadget's hole in the middle, then Gadget passed his head through the hole and scanned his surroundings.
- Wowsers, it's quiet! - Gadget said while he narrowed his eyes.
Gadget's head went back behind the advertisement and then it popped out from the top of it.
- Too quiet! - Gadget said with narrowed eyes.
Gadget retracted his head and then he glanced at Brain, who was sitting in the passenger's seat.
- And when it's this quiet, you know what that means, Brain? - Gadget asked.
Brain looked at Gadget and tilted his head to one side in confusion. Then Gadget looked at the front with decision.
- It means that evil's afoot! - Gadget said.
And then, a loud snoring interrupted Gadget's moment of inspiration. Gadget changed his decided look for a not amused glare, then he glanced at the console of his car and saw the Gadget-Mobile's avatar sleeping. A vein bulged on Gadget's forehead and his left eye twitched in anger.
- We're on the stakeout, Gadget-Mobile! - Gadget yelled.
The Gadget-Mobile's face startled, then he glared at Gadget and said:
- No, you're on the stakeout, I'm on the sleeping! So keep it down, aye?
- The least you could do is stay alert!
- Alert? Alert for what?! - Gadget-Mobile replied. - Face it, Inspector G, since we locked up Claw, all the bad guys in Riverton have been too afraid of even stepping into the light and the bad guys outside are being handled by S.H.I.E.L.D., the Avengers, the Justice League and so on.
- *Sigh* Gadget-Mobile, if there's something I've learned in all my years of crime-fighting, which by the way are longer than yours, is that it's always the most quiet... Right before the criminals strike!
- Pfft, please, G! You've been a cop for just a year now, and your time fighting crime is longer than mine for just a couple months!
- Whatever. - Gadget said with a huff.
Gadget-Mobile was telling the truth, but Gadget wouldn't accept it.
He just couldn't believe that only Doctor Claw had the guts to defy him. All the peace was getting under Gadget's skin, and it was driving him crazy, he craved, no, he needed action, even more so than oxygen itself.
- Darn it! - Gadget said while he hit the Gadget-Mobile's wheel.
- Hey! Hit something else or you'll get a one-way flight to New York! - Gadget-Mobile warned his owner.
- Sorry, it's just that I'm starting to think that you're right, Gadget-Mobile.
- See? Told you, I think that only Doctor Claw has enough guts to face you. The rest of the criminals in Riverton are a bunch of sissies.
- I'm also starting to think that I miss Claw.
- Now, calm down Inspector G, at least you wiped out the crime in Riverton. Think of it this way, with you here, the President has declared Riverton as the safest city on earth, a feat that not even the Avengers nor the Justice League have achieved. Hell, they're even moving the Federal Reserve to Riverton because of you.
- Speaking of crime, did you turn off the police radio again?
- It was driving me crazy! Edwards and Williams were using it to chat again!
- Gadget-Mobile, how many times have I told you not to turn off the police radio?
- Sorry, G, I'll turn it on immediately.
Some static was heard, and then a woman's voice said:
- Attention all units, there has been a bank robbery at the First Bank of Riverton, the suspects are escaping on a white van with no ID through the 3rd Avenue and are armed. All units respond.
Gadget smiled and rapidly grabbed the radio.
- This is Inspector Gadget, I'm on my way to intercept them! - Gadget said decidedly.
- Negative, Gadget, this is Officer Trenton, I'm en route to chase them, you are way too far to reach them in time. - Replied a man's voice over the radio.
- Don't worry, I'll get them in time. - Gadget said on the radio with a smirk.
Gadget let go of the radio and ignited the car's engine.
- What did you say about there weren't any criminals that dared to show their faces in Riverton since we locked up Claw? - Gadget asked to his car.
- You just got lucky! - Gadget-Mobile said with a contemptuous huff.
Gadget chuckled and said:
- Go go Gadget-Turbine!
A jet turbine erupted from the Gadget-Mobile's trunk and assembled itself, then it turned on and the car sped off like a bullet towards the 3rd Avenue.


(Meanwhile)


Officer Dean Trenton was angry.
He had told Gadget to stay out of the way and the cyborg had just ignored him.
However, he was right behind the escaping van, and there were no signs of Gadget.
Maybe this was his moment, the moment of show everyone that he was just as good of a cop as Gadget, and maybe even better because he was a normal human.
- There they are! I'm not gonna let Gadget take the credit this time! - Trenton said. - Driver of the white van with no ID, this is Officer Dean Trenton, stop the vehicle immediately or I'll be forced to...
Trenton could never finish his speech because the passengers of the van started shooting at him with some machine guns. Luckily, Trenton was the third best driver of all Riverton (being the Gadget-Mobile and Inspector Gadget the first and second respectively), so he managed to evade all the shots.
Once the bullet rain stopped, Trenton smirked decidedly and accelerated, then when he was toe-to-toe with the van, right before the robbers could shoot again, Trenton bumped on the escaping vehicle, making the criminals drop their guns.
But before Trenton could bump the car again, the driver of the van had decided to return him the favor by bumping on his patrol. And thus, a bumping battle between both vehicles started, and though Trenton was outmatched in weight and horsepower, he compensated those lacks with speed and agility.
After bumping on each other's vehicle for a few minutes, the driver of the van made a sharp turn on a street, losing Trenton easily.
The police officer stomped his foot on the brake, stopping his car right before it smashed against a wall, then he hit the wheel and tried to turn on the engine of his patrol as fast as he could.
- C'mon! Ignite already! - Trenton yelled desperately.
And just when the motor had decided to function, Trenton heard a very well known siren, he glanced at the rearview and saw a black car with silver trimmings pass like a lighting, following with a scary precision the escaping criminals. Trenton roared and hit the wheel again with all his strength, ironically turning off the motor.
- Not him! Everyone but him! - Trenton roared in despair.
Meanwhile on the black car with silver trimmings, Gadget unbuckled his seatbelt and moved to the front of the Gadget-Mobile, then he said:
- Slow down, Gadget-Mobile! I got it from here!
The car slowed down from 400 miles per hour to a much less drastic 100 miles per hour, letting Gadget see the white van he was looking for clearly. He smirked with decision and yelled:
- Go go Gadget-Extendo-Legs!
And though he wanted the Extendo-Legs, two coils erupted from his shoes and launched him with twice the force he wanted.
While his owner was flying towards a building, Gadget-Mobile couldn't help but chuckle a bit and say:
- There goes those glitches again.
Gadget cried in despair, and then he smashed against the wall of a building, then he fell to the ground with a hard thud. The glitchy inspector stood up and dusted himself, then he glanced at the van while it passed in front of him, taking a turn on the street in which Gadget was.
- Damn it! Go go Gadget-Rollerblades!
And again, Gadget's gadgets malfunctioned and the Extendo-Legs activated.
- Oh, for crying out loud! Whatever! - Gadget said while he started running towards the van.
- Hey, G, need a hand? - Gadget-Mobile asked.
- Track the van and prevent its escape from the city at all costs!
- Ok, you got it, Inspector G!
The black car turned on an alleyway and turned off the siren, then Gadget started running faster to catch up with the criminals.
Few minutes later, Gadget finally caught up with the van, then he jumped with all his increased cyborg strength and fell on the roof of the vehicle, Gadget smirked and said:
- Go go Gadget-Electromagnets! Go go Gadget-Sawblade!
However, a hose appeared from his sleeve and shot a blue substance on the roof, which made it even more slippery than it was already, and instead of the electromagnets in his fingerprints, the Gadget-Phone was activated.
- What in the name of...?! - Gadget cursed.
And then, the van's driver stomped his foot on the brake, which propelled Gadget to the pavement in front of the vehicle.
Gadget fell face-first with a loud thud to the ground again, then he stood up and tried to get the toothpaste out of his coat.
- You're gonna get my laundry bill once I send you guys to the slammer! - Gadget said. - And trust me, it's not cheap to get stains off KVA nanofiber!
- Run him over! - One of the criminals hissed.
Gadget merely chuckled and said:
- Oh, please, do you guys think that I can't stop you even if you are inside your van?
The driver didn't reply as he ignited the motor and sped off to run Gadget over. The inspector laughed and made a fake gun with his left hand, then he said:
- Go go Gadget-Laser!
Unfortunately for our dearest cyborg, his Gadget-Laser malfunctioned too and a rather impressive cannon formed on Gadget's left arm.
- What the fu...?! - Gadget managed to say before the cannon shot.
A greenish round was fired from Gadget's arm towards the white van. The criminals thought that they were done for, but the shot merely scrapped the front left wheel, however it was enough to dent and damage greatly the front of the van, which stopped two feet in front of Gadget. The inspector smiled at his newest accomplished capture, and after he cuffed the six villains, he heard that a patrol had stopped beside the disabled van. Then he saw a fuming man walking towards him. Once he saw him clearly, he noticed that the an was no other than Dean Trenton, the officer that had tried to hold him back after he woke up from the surgery that turned him into Inspector Gadget, and nowadays his self-proclaimed rival.
Trenton glared daggers at the cyborg, then he tried to push him back, but he couldn't even move Gadget a tad bit.
- I told you not to mess in this, Gadget! - Trenton hissed.
- Excuse me but since when does an officer has a higher rank than an inspector to give him orders? - Gadget replied.
- Don't try to play dumb with me, Gadget! You know very well why Chief Quimby assigned you to the Radar Gun Unit! You're supposed to stay away from action until your problem gets solved!
- Trenton, I think I did everything just fine.
- If you can call something like that just fine.
Trenton gestured Gadget to see behind the van he had damaged and he gulped when he saw that his Gadget-Cannon had blew up three cars and damaged two entire stores. Then he met Trenton's furious glare and said:
- At least I caught the criminals, which wouldn't have happened if I hadn't jumped into action.
- I could've caught them but you had to stick your nose where you're not called!
- Yeah, right, we both know that I'm twice the cop you'll ever be, Trenton, I know you're just jealous of me.
- Jealous?! Why would I be jealous of someone who lost what makes a man a man?
- If you dare to mention that again, I swear I will not restrain myself, got it?
- Trenton! Gadget! - An authoritative voice yelled.
Both cops turned and saluted at their boss, who was smoking a cheap Cuban cigar as always.
- I told you two a million times to stop acting like children! You're supposed to be fully-grown men! - Quimby said before he gave a big puff to his cigar.
- Trenton was just expressing his jealousy of my crime-fighting abilities, sir. - Gadget said.
- What?! In your dreams, tin-man! - Trenton replied.
- Silence! - Quimby barked. - Gadget, you're one of my top officers, but in the name of everything that's good, stay away from real crimes until Bradford and your wife fix your glitches! Trenton, take the criminals to the prison, both of you are dismissed and did a good job.
Quimby returned to his own car, then he left the scene while the Town Hall workers, the insurance company workers and the firemen arrived to the place where Gadget and Trenton were arguing.
Then a black car with silver trimmings pulled off in front of Gadget, the cyborg just sighed heavily and walked to his car, he opened the door and got inside, then he put his head on the wheel.
- Hard day, G? - Gadget-Mobile asked.
- You can't even imagine how much, Gadget-Mobile. - Gadget let out.
- Everything will start looking better for you, G, just trust me.
- I don't know about it, Gadget-Mobile, I feel that everything will just fall apart, and maybe I won't be able to stop it this time.
The black car merely turned on its engine and drove off, leaving Trenton alone with his thoughts.
The officer took off his hat and wiped the sweat in his forehead, then he glanced at the sky.
- Please, I just need one chance to show everyone that Gadget is not as good as everyone thinks he is, if you could just give me one chance. - Trenton said to the sky.
Trenton put on his hat again, then he got inside his patrol and drove to his home.
Unknowingly to both officers, and the whole citizens of Riverton, an evil mastermind was planning his most diabolical scheme, and this time there would be no stupid cyborgs that could stop him. In Riverton prison, the man formerly known as Victor Scolex was chuckling evilly while he read an old newspaper that announced the engagement of Doctor Brenda Bradford and Inspector Gadget, his most hated opponent.
- Soon, Gadget, very soon I'll get my revenge. - Claw said with a hoarse voice. - I'll get you this time, Gadget, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


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