The next day Gadget made a special trip to the aliens on the moon. He at first was met with weapons pointed at him, but then the aliens holding the weapons recognized him.

"Lieutenant Gadget!" One of the aliens said. "Forgive us but with humans visiting the moon now and then we've been kinda protective of ourselves."

"It's perfectly fine, I understand." Gadget smiled. "And it's Colonel Gadget now, I was just promoted yesterday."

"Congratulations, you deserve it." Another alien smiled. "Now what can we do for you?"

"My assistants the Gadgetinis informed me of your ability to make me smarter, and I was wondering if you could do it permanently." Gadget said. "I want to be more useful to others and stop being a, as Nozzaire put it, 'bumbling idiot'."

"Of course, please follow us."

The aliens escorted Gadget into their main ship, where they still kept their major devices and machines even though they had already built dwellings on the moon.

"Now making it permanent will require surgery." An alien scientist said to Gadget, who was lying down on one of the operating beds. "Since you are part machine I would like to check on whether or not you can still feel physical pain before beginning."

"Kind of, not as much as I did before I got my gadgets but I still would prefer a sedative before you begin." Gadget said.

"Of course."

The alien scientist administered a face mask that released sleeping gas onto Gadget's face. After Gadget fell asleep the alien scientist carefully started to operate. After implanting the IQ device into Gadget's brain he resealed Gadget's skull and removed the face mask. He then transported Gadget to a pleasant looking room where Gadget could recover. After a couple aliens helped him move Gadget onto the bed inside the room they left. It took a few hours but Gadget woke up, feeling smarter.

"Those aliens are geniuses." Gadget smiled. "I feel smarter without feeling different. Now I can be a bigger help to WOMP than before, putting Penny in less danger."

Gadget left after thanking the aliens for their help.

Gadget was now smarter, and was such a bigger help to WOMP that Penny and William didn't have to do much. They still spied on enemies in one location while Gadget was investigating in another location, but that was it. They didn't mind though, since they now had more time for normal life stuff like hanging out with friends.

But, Gadget realized something thanks to his restored IQ: Brain. After remembering past missions he used to have back when he and Penny still had Brain he felt horrible. He now realized that the people who he thought were MAD agents were really Brain in disguise. So, one day he talked to Penny about it.

"Actually Uncle Gadget, I lied when I told you about Brain's death." Penny said. "He had been traumatized by helping you during those missions so we agreed that he should go into retirement and tell you that he died."

"So that one dog who was with the Gadgetinis...that was him?" Gadget was surprised.

"Yes, I had to talk him into helping us track you down. He agreed only because he cared about me that much."

"Well, I think it's time I paid him a visit..."

They, along with William and the Gadgetinis, flew over to Brain's new home. Penny, the Gadgetinis, and William approached Brain first. Brain was sleeping in a hammock, but woke up when he smelled them and got up to greet Penny.

"Hi Brain, I made you a new collar." Penny smiled, slipping the new translating collar she made for him over his head.

"Good, I missed being able to talk to you." Brain smiled. "I see you brought those Tinis back."

"Tinis?" Didgit frowned. "What do you mean by that?"

"Don't be insulted, it's just...well do you honestly think I'm able to say that g-word and remain sane?"

"Oh, right."

"Say, who's that human? He smells nice." Brian asked.

"This is my boyfriend, William." Penny smiled.

"But you can call me Billy, all my friends call me that." William smiled.

"Hi Billy, I smell that Penny made a good choice." Brain shook his hand.

"Thanks."

"Brain, we have something to tell you." Penny said.

"What is it?" Brain turned to Penny.

"My uncle had his IQ boosted."

Brain stared at her. Penny, William, and the Gadgetinis took turns telling him the story of Penny's kidnapping. Brain was surprised to hear of William's past family, but glad to find that he was nothing like Dr. Claw or Dr. Thaw. Oh, don't worry about Dr. Thaw he was still frozen, in fact he never got re-unfrozen. WOMP decided to lock him and his goons up in a freezer-like vault at headquarters.

"I'm so relieved you are all right. And thank you for helping to save her." Brain said to Penny and William. "So...John is back?"

"Yes, I'm back." Gadget showed himself.

Brain almost automatically freaked out, but he recovered.

"Brain, I am so sorry for driving you so crazy that you retired." Gadget said sincerely. "I had no idea what I was doing at the time, and I certainly never meant to hurt you. You mean so much to me and Penny, especially Penny, that I was wondering if you wanted to come back home? Before I found out that you were still alive I was extremely upset about your 'death' and really missed you."

Brain was touched by this.

"Well, since you're back to being smart and since you and Penny did miss me...okay." Brain smiled. "Truthfully, even though I did enjoy my quiet time it didn't take me long to feel really lonely."

The others cheered, and formed a group hug around Brain. Gadget and Brain then did a separate hug of their own and the family, now including Brain as well as William, went home.