The next morning, Penny, William, Marina and Brain took a long bus ride to their original neighborhood to investigate.
"Here we are gang" said Penny "Our original neighborhood."
"It's been so long since we've last set foot in here" said Marina "I feel like its almost been a week."
"It has been a week" William said.
"Boy, time sure flies when you're getting fostered" said Marina.
"Come on," said Penny "Let's get inside."
Penny used her spare key to get inside. They went inside of the place and saw that it was covered in police tape.
"Wowsers" said Penny "This place is covered in police tape"
Gee that was a bit redundant don't you think?
"Yeah" said Penny "It kinda was. So anyways, let's go searching for the security tape."
They went into a secret compartment in the house and saw the security camera footage. After a few small adjustments, they finally got some full footage. They got to see what happened after Gadget put the gold into the basement.
The footage revealed that Inspector Gadget wasn't the inspector after all! He was really someone brilliantly disguised as him!
"Presto Chango!" Penny and Marina exclaimed.
"Who's that?" William asked.
"One of Dr. Claw's agents" Penny explained "He is a master of disguise and masquerades as people. He must've posed as Uncle Gadget in order to frame him and put him in jail."
"This tape is the evidence we need." William took the tape out of the security monitors "Come on! We've gotta get this to the police."
"After lunch" said Marina "Ms. Grace said she's making tasty ribs!"
"Oh boy" said William "I'm so starving. Coming Penny?"
"Sure" Penny said "After lunch, we're going to turn this tape into the police."
The kids arrived back home and started having lunch with their foster family.
"So we're gonna go back as soon as we finish eating?" Penny asked.
"Sure" Marina nodded.
"Kids!" Grace called out to the kids "I'm making donuts!"
"Oh boy!" Penny smiled "Donuts!"
"Or we could stay for desert" William shrugged.
"You'll love mommy's donuts!" said Arthur "They're the greatest."
"Hey guys!" Marina called out "Look at this!"
Penny, William and Arthur raced to the living room and they found something was on the news.
"This is DNN" said the announcer on the TV "DiC News Network!"
"Breaking news!" said the newsman "We just word that former cyborg detective; John Brown has escaped from the state penitentiary. No doubt he's on the lam right now. This guy is a dangerous criminal, so keep you inside at all times. Thank you!"
"Uncle Gadget, escaped?" Penny asked.
"I'm shocked" William said "I thought Mr. G was a law abiding citizen."
"Of course he is," Penny said "And that's why we are taking the tape to the police now…after the donuts."
"HOORAY!" William, Marina and Arthur cheered.
"Hey!" said Penny "Where's Brain?"
"He was here an hour ago" Arthur said.
Meanwhile Jackie had found out Presto's evil plot and was sneaking around to find some evidence they could use to clear Gadget's name.
"There's nothing here Brain" Jackie whispered "We can't give up yet, we have to find some evidence to clear Gadget's name."
Just then, Jackie and Brain were grabbed by a MAD Agent and thrown into a cell with Gadget, who was still shut down.
"You ain't going anywhere, missy!" said the MAD Agent "Dr. Claw wouldn't be very pleased to see meddling kids and a dog snooping around."
As soon as the MAD Agent left, Jackie started to work on reactivating Gadget. Next to her, was a girl who looked very familiar to Marina, as for Penny and William, they went to the Judge to show him the tape.
"I see this" said the judge "Looks like Gadget is innocent after all."
"That means Uncle Gadget isn't on the lam anymore!" said Penny "Let's go tell Marina!"
Just as Penny and William ran out of the courthouse, someone called on Penny's watch.
"Hello?" she answered the watch.
"Penny? It's Jackie!" said the caller.
"Jackie?" Penny asked "What's going on?"
"I'm in Presto Chango's hideout" Jackie explained "I was trying to find a way to reactivate your uncle when Brain and I got captured."
"Crumbs! That's terrible" said Penny.
"And that's not all!" Jackie added "Look over here!"
Jackie turned the watch to a dirty blonde haired girl with blue eyes that looked exactly like Marina.
Author's Note:
Gadget is innocent and now he can join Penny's new family! However, who is this person that Jackie is imprisoned with? And will Gadget get rebooted in time? Stay tuned folks! Thank you Ellis97! He sure played a large role in helping get onto this site. Check out his Inspector Gadget stories as well! Plus his Rocky, Bullwinkle and Mr. Peabody stories, his Garfield stories and his Scooby-Doo stories as well.