A Test Run

Inspector George Anthony Gadget was a man barely alive, in fact he was technically dead.

The scientists stared at the floating brain in the jar filled with a bubbling fluid, kept hyper-oxygenated to stave off brain death.

"Are you sure this will work?" one of the watching brass asked.

"Nothing is certain, General," the scientist responded, "but to move forward with the project we need data and to get data we need to experiment."

"And the best way to do that is by making things appear as aboveboard as possible," the scientist's twin replied adjusting her glasses.

"All the previous attempts to find answers failed, because they felt that the need for secrecy was more important than the need to advance the project."

"What we plan on doing is to make secrecy obsolete. We will tell the truth, but in such a way that everyone will assume it was a lie or a joke."

"While at the same time dismiss the entire project as interesting by not all that important."

"How?" one of the suits asked intently.

"Simple. Here we have the living brain of one George-Anthony Gadget. You may not recognize the name, but you probably use a half-dozen of his inventions each day to make your lives easier."

Her twin took over, "He invented thousands of things in his lifetime, most of which either were unnecessary or too niche market to sell well. He was quite brilliant..."

"But a bit of a kook. He claimed things that were ridiculous like that he got the idea for his ghost repelling car paint from an Atlantean tablet he found at a yard sale."

"It was later discovered that the paint did indeed repel non-corporeal entities, but since most 'ghosts' reside indoors its rather a moot point."

"He developed the paint at the request of one Egon Spengler. Yes, that Spengler, who proved that the supernatural was in fact real and that the right application of technology can contain it."

"I understand the government is currently trying to contain that information and discredit him."

The twins looked toward the audience and watched as a couple of the suits shifted nervously.

"At any rate we can simply tell him his new body is a construct of Roswell Greys we are experimenting on and used to save his life. We can even tell everyone we meet that, but by being connected to Gadget it'll be laughed off as a joke or just another bit of insanity from the man who claimed he shot a nature documentary on a pack of Bigfoot, but that Walmart overexposed the film."

"Perfect secrecy isn't when something isn't known, it's when something isn't believed."

"Of course the added bonus is that we get Gadget's brilliant but screwy intellect to work on the project as well."

"And combat tests done under life threatening conditions by that lunatic separatist group from Cobra... M.A.D.."

"So gentlemen, does it sound viable?"

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The twin redhead scientists stepped out of the operating theater and removed their gloves and masks.

"What happened?" a four star general asked. "You said the operation would take over eight hours and it's barely been eight minutes!"

"For a pair of surgeons it would take eight hours, however we underestimated the artifact."

"Meaning?" a suit asked.

"Meaning as soon as we began the operation the artifact took over and began making connections far quicker than we could."

"The operation is complete and he should be awake in a matter of minutes."

"The holographic emitter that was provided has also proved to be unnecessary."

"How do you mean? We can't very well have a grey wandering around regardless of the story we tell," the general barked.

"Meaning the artifact is modelling itself based on his residual self image."

"Meaning he'll look exactly like he should, if slightly more handsome, without the need for a device we were against using because of all the security concerns it would cause."

Typing by: Stephenopolos

AN: An alternate take on Inspector Gadget and a guest appearance by the Test twins.