****It's not quite Sunday in the Eastern Time Zone yet, so I hope you all don't mind if I post early...especially since it's Sunday for most of the planet, anyway!**** Saturday was the first anniversary of Muhammad Ali's death. In light of this, this week's prompt is: Greatest So show us your greatest ideas for the greatest prompt so far!

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Oh boy! I liked how you explained the stealth tech, GGG! Works for me!

LOL, that's great. Not incompetence but perhaps lack of foresight.

Yes, the team in R&D are all very clever, very imaginative and very enthusiastic. Also, it being a time of war and all, they have a sizeable budget. Employing a bunch of hyperactive genius geeks with a sizeable budget, however, has one major drawback: they tend to spring in to action based on the perceived/potential coolness of an idea without always thinking it all the way through. Which is where Jason usually comes in. Except when he gets called away for a mission. That's generally when things go wrong. Also, based on experience, Chief Anderson has imposed a blanket prohibition on any member of the R&D department bringing comic books to work, just in case they get any more ideas.

Originally posted by GrumpyGhostOwl Also, based on experience, Chief Anderson has imposed a blanket prohibition on any member of the R&D department bringing comic books to work, just in case they get any more ideas.

*snigger*Yeah, as if the geeks have no memory of what they've read in comic books!

After finding too many photocopied comic panels on their idea board?

If they were allowed to have comic books at work it would only encourage them to build: (a) Spider Man's web shooter thingies; (b) a fully functioning Batmobile; and/or they might try to irradiate someone (possibly Jason) with gamma rays just to see if they can make him turn into a giant green rage-monster. (That kind of thing never ends well.) Or they'll waste everybody's time trying to build a boxing-glove arrow. I mean, come on, how would that even work? This would lead to Galaxy Security having to spend valuable time and resources dealing with the cease and desist letters from DC and Marvel, resources which could be better spent combating the threat of alien invaders from beyond space.

Originally posted by GrumpyGhostOwl and/or they might try to irradiate someone (possibly Jason) with gamma rays just to see if they can make him turn into a giant green rage-monster. (That kind of thing never ends well.)

OMG, what do they have against poor Jason?! He seems to get the brunt of their goof-ups and experiments.....

Redbird: Jason was probably rude to them at some point.

Originally posted by Redbird

Originally posted by GrumpyGhostOwl and/or they might try to irradiate someone (possibly Jason) with gamma rays just to see if they can make him turn into a giant green rage-monster. (That kind of thing never ends well.)

OMG, what do they have against poor Jason?! He seems to get the brunt of their goof-ups and experiments.....

In my 'verse, Jason's cover job is as a test driver/weapons specialist with Galaxy Security R&D. It explains his odd hours, frequent travel, occasional minor injuries and frequent absences from racing. Naturally, any proposal to turn anyone into a giant green rage-monster would result in another personal visit from Chief Anderson and another lecture on why we don't use ideas from comic books or gaming at work. (He cuts them some slack on the James Bond ideas though, because he likes the cars. As does Jason.)

Have they tried to make Chitty Chitty Bang Bang yet - a car that can become a boat and a plane? I imagine there would be some interesting test drives of that one - I can see a very wet Jason emerging from the water after the car fails to turn into a boat correctly and springs a few leaks.

Originally posted by GrumpyGhostOwl

Originally posted by Redbird

Originally posted by GrumpyGhostOwl and/or they might try to irradiate someone (possibly Jason) with gamma rays just to see if they can make him turn into a giant green rage-monster. (That kind of thing never ends well.)

OMG, what do they have against poor Jason?! He seems to get the brunt of their goof-ups and experiments.....

In my 'verse, Jason's cover job is as a test driver/weapons specialist with Galaxy Security R&D. It explains his odd hours, frequent travel, occasional minor injuries and frequent absences from racing. Naturally, any proposal to turn anyone into a giant green rage-monster would result in another personal visit from Chief Anderson and another lecture on why we don't use ideas from comic books or gaming at work. (He cuts them some slack on the James Bond ideas though, because he likes the cars. As does Jason.)

OK, understood. But the guy needs a raise, plus hazard pay!