Inspector Gadget: Modern Days

Chapter 1: Gadget gets kicked out of Penny's basement

Penny slammed the front door behind her. She was soaked head to toe in pig's blood after another day fighting some activists protesting another case of police brutality. She absolutely hated living in the city. And especially hated working as chief of police of Metro City. Being a child prodigy and sidekick of her uncle slingshot her career in law enforcement, but man did it suck! How was she supposed to keep sending all of her cops friends on paid leave if they keep shooting unarmed civilian? Not all of them can be a Dr. Claw henchmen. After all, he did get caught after being found on the Epstein flight list and finally got the death penalty.

She kicked off her stained red shoes and plopped her wet feet against the linoleum of the kitchen floor over to the refrigerator, opened it and reached for a beer, only for a hand to snatch it out from right in front of her. She looked annoyed as she saw the long stretched out arm that was snaking its way along the floor and leading to the basement.

She hissed in frustration. Uncle Gadget had retired from the force after he was caught fucking a watermelon in the middle of a 7/11 parking lot. It was really hard for penny to see all the videos on vine of her uncle completely violate a fruit like that. And althogh there was a huge publicity stunt trying to spin it as a positive thing from his agent and PR team. They tried to say that it was a stunt to get people eating more healthy. It didn't work out well, especially when everyone saw how drunk, and passionately he was loving on that poor fruit.

As penny stomped down the steps to the basement where her shitty uncle lived, she kicked away multiple empty cans and bottles of a multitude of different drinks, some human and some mechanical, like motor oil and lubricant. She saw gadget sitting on the couch watching old reruns of his famous cartoon. "I remember that one" he said to no one in particular, the scene playing out on the screen of the old tube TV. "So many casualties after they stopped recording. They never show the dead bodies after the attacks" gadget says as he cracks open another beer. "its was like a 9/11 level event was happening every fucking day" he burps out as he takes a huge gulp of the beer, not seeing his niece standing in the corner of the room staring at him in a way that could drill through concrete.

"you lazy fucker! you useless piece of fucking shit!" she started quietly and then rose into an angry screech. gadget was spooked by this and dropped the bottle of beer on the floor with a loud crash. "you drink my beer, you eat my food, you don't pay any rent, and all you do now is lament about your golden days before you became a has-been! why do you even stay around at this point? don't you have a shit ton of money saved up? go move out and get your own shitty apartment to crash!"

gadget, being very drunk, takes a moment to process everything penny just said. he then pulls out one of a comically large megaphone from his many gadgets and says "oh little piggy is mad that she can't get a wife to beat like all her other cop friends? oink oink bitch!" penny covered her ears and hissed at the loud assault on her ears.

"you know, after your parents were killed, I fucking took you in as my own" gadget slurred, bing absolutely plastered. "you were like my own daughter, and I did everything I could to make you who you are today". gadget sat up in his seat. "the least you can do is cover me while I'm down on my luck!" penny scowled at him. she would be happy to cover him, but weeks turned to months and then years. she was sick of the noise of him crying and the annoyance.

she loved her uncle so much. he was like a father to her. but now he has degraded into an alcoholic slob, and she was not going to be degraded in her own home. "uncle gadget" penny started with a long sigh. "I love you so much, but you have so many obvious problems that I shouldn't have to even pointy them out to you. I have worked for the last five years trying to make a better life for not just me and the city, but you. and clearly at this point I think I see that I can only choose one of those things to fix, and also only one has the capacity to be changed in a way that is worthwhile".

gadget looked at her in awe. was this it? was he going to get told to pack his bags? where would he go? Almost all the royalties had dried up from all the movies and book sales. he'd be lucky if he could afford a discount whore and a pack of menthol cigarettes. "penny, please, I'm sorry. I can change! please trust me on this! things have just been so hard ever since I lost my relevancy, and crime hasn't been very super recently. the only business that I've been getting is from the coast guard, wrangling smugglers trying to get immigrants in from Canada! and they barely pay for the gas to get home!"

"calm down uncle gadget" penny said as she walked around the coach gadget was laying on and then taking a seat. "you have to move out, gadget. either voluntarily or else ill have to evict you. but I've been dipping into the police lawsuit fund a little, and I've scraped up enough money to set you up in an apartment of your own. I even got you a roommate to split the rent! they were pretty excited to hear that they were going to get to live with you. I mean, you might be a D list celebrity and superhero, but at least you're still one people want to meet!".

penny put a hand on gadgets shoulder and gave him a kind look. "I understand that this is hard, but I'm my own person, and I can't personally keep taking responsibility for you and your shitty self. I don't want you in my life anymore if you can't improve. I am giving you every tool and resource for you to do that. you have 30 days after today to decide if you want to take my offer or leave on your own."

gadget was totally shocked. how could she do this to him? gadget knew that he had gotten bad, but how could he allow himself to get to the point that penny would push him away like this? how could he every become even close to who he used to be when he was the man she really knew. the hero that helped sculpt her to who she was today. even if she was a pig, he still loved her. gadget said the only thing that he could with so many things swimming around his mechanical mind. "I understand. I need time to think". gadget walked up the steps, making sure not to lay his eyes on penny. he already knew she had that disappointed look on her face he all knew too well at this point. but this time he truly knew how sad it had made her.

penny followed gadget up the steps. she knew that he was taking this hard, but it truly upset her most that he only understood now that he was being shitty. why all of a sudden now? all because she was finally putting her foot down? her anger came back in a flash, but she stifled it for the moment. "where are you going" she spoke to her uncle as he walked out the door. gadget used a large set of cartoonish helicopter propellers that protruded from his head to start flying away, but before all speech could be drowned out by the noise of the dramatic exit, he turned to penny and said "I need some time to process, ill be back later" and took off into the sky of the city.

Penny should have tried to get him to come bad, he was really not sober enough to go out on his own, let alone fly. but she was done being his own personal guardian. he can make his own mistakes. anyways it's not like he can get hurt from crashing, he's a superhero, either way she would sort out the oncoming disaster in the morning.