It was a normal day in Danville. Or at least as normal as a place like Danville could be. Oddly enough the strange events that occurred in Danville seemed to revolve around the same group of people. Phineas and Ferb were in their back garden sorting through blueprints. Their parents were out for the day and Candace, their older sister, watched intently from her bedroom ready at any moment to bust her brothers… once she knew what to bust them for. At the foot of a tree in the garden sat their pet, Perry the platypus. As a platypus he doesn't do much, or at least that's what they thought. They couldn't have been more wrong though. While the boys worked on outrageously bizarre contraptions and rides, Perry would sneak off to his Secret Agent job and battle his nemesis Dr. Doofenshmirtz. It seemed now was one of those times. A small communicator hidden on Perry's wrist buzzed. Perry looked round the garden once, to check Phineas and Ferb weren't looking, then dropped down a tube inside the tree trunk, taking a split second to slip on his trademark fedora. ("Hey, where's Perry?") He landed on a small chair in front of a large screen. Same old routine. Major Monogram showed up in the middle of the screen.
"Ah there you are Agent P. It appears Dr Doofenshmirtz is up to his old tricks again. He's been purchasing a lot of weird stuff on the internet. You know what to do."
Perry saluted the screen and quickly ran to the HQ's garage where his various modes of transport were stored. Rather wanting to see the 'Minotaur's Labyrinth' that Phineas and Ferb were constructing today, Perry chose his fastest vehicle, the platypus shaped hoverjet. As he flew off towards Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated he thought he saw a giant drill and ball of yarn turn up at the front of the house. ("Aren't you a little young to be reconstructing mythical structures?" "Why yes, yes we are.") Perry landed on top of DEI in a battle stance. The giant balcony area had been completely cleared for Doofenshmirtz's latest -inator. Everything but the Shrink-inator which was still plugged in in the corner. Dr Heinz Doofenshmirtz turned round when he heard his nemesis land behind him.
"Ah Perry the Platypus, your visit is so appreciated. And by appreciated I mean completely unappreciated!"
Perry jumped when a machine clamped a giant cube around him where his head poked out the top. He looked down at the trap with a frown. It seemed to be made up of multicoloured squares. Doofenshmirtz laughed somewhat evilly at Perry.
"It's a trap made out of a giant rubix cube!… you know cos they're so hard to solve…"
Perry gave him an unimpressed look. Seriously? Rubix cubes? He'd been caught in some weird traps but this one, by far, took the biscuit. Doofenshmirtz shrugged at Perry's unenthusiastic face.
"I'd like to see you make a better trap! Anyway, back to my new evil plan, this…"
He pointed dramatically at the big machine next to him.
"…Is the Earthquake-inator!"
It was a large metal, round machine divided by a ring round it's middle that held the on/off lever. It seemed the top half could spin round, most likely what would cause the earthquakes. Perry glowered at his enemy. Usually his insane schemes involved ruining someone's day or making everyone look the tiniest bit inferior to himself. His plans rarely meant to harm a population (like a real evil genius's might). But an Earthquake-inator sounded like it could hurt someone, even if that was not his intent. Doof ignored Perry's stare and instead continued with his rambling back-story.
"You see Perry the Platypus, it all started when my family went on a long trip for one of my brother, Roger's, international kickball tournaments. You remember him, right? It was held right next to the Grand Canyon! But my mother didn't want me sightseeing, said it was a waste of time. We were in the top stand, I mean I could have just turned around and looked at it! But noooo, she wouldn't let me! So we left without even the smallest glimpse at something so incredible. I mean I could go and see it now, but then there's all the travelling and then all the tourists when I get there. So I'm just going to make one right here! Doesn't that sound good Perry the Platypus?"
Perry gave his trademark chatter (grrrrr), looking both furious and shocked at the same time. Only someone like Doofenshmirtz could be so stupid as to try and recreate the Grand Canyon without realising it might destroy the Tristate area. Doof turned back to his machine.
"Who cares what you think, I'm doing it anyway!"
He was sent reeling forwards when a webbed foot connected with the back of his head. His face smacked into the ground painfully. He recovered and spun round to see Perry stood waiting to attack again and the remains of his trap open on the floor. Each side was one full colour.
"You solved my rubix cube trap, Perry the Platypus?"
Perry grinned and lunged at the evil inventor again. Doofenshmirtz leapt to his feet and sprinted round the Earthquake-inator. He grabbed at the Lever and began to pull it down. It got caught half way and stuck out when Doof was punched in the face by Perry. Both landed on the floor in a scuffle for a moment when the machine began to shake. Doofenshmirtz threw Perry off him long enough to roll over to the machine, reach up and press a small button under the lever.
"Too late Perry the Platypus! Too late!"Perry threw himself at the machine, frantically pressing at buttons, none of them seeming to do anything. Doofenshmirtz stepped away from the machine and laughed evilly.
"I win this time Perry the Platypus!"
Perry panicked. The top of the machine began to spin. He could feel the building start to shake. By the look on Doof's face he'd realised too late that this had been a very dangerous thing to do. Perry jumped towards Doofenshmirtz, hoping he could convince him to turn off the machine before it destroyed anything. Doof saw Perry coming towards him and stepped back, expecting another punch in the face. It came as a great shock to them both when neither thing happened. Heinz held his hands up to his face, while Perry jumped at him. The machine spun the lever round at great speed and it hit the side of Perry's head. Doofenshmirtz gasped in shock as he saw an unconscious Perry go flying over the edge of the building. Acting on impulse he hurled himself after his nemesis and barely caught his furry paw before Perry could be sent plummeting to his death. The building shook mercilessly under his feet as he tried to pull Perry back over the balcony edge. The machine carried on spinning, bouncing with the earth quaking, closer and closer to where Doofenshmirtz held tightly to Perry's paw. Heinz saw this and tugged quicker. He didn't realise a small semi-aquatic mammal could be so heavy. Perry opened his eyes and saw a sheer drop below him. He scrabbled, terrified, at his enemies hand until somehow Doof pulled him up and threw them both a few meters away, where they landed on their backs. The Earthquake-inator juddered violently, right where they'd been not a second earlier, before crashing right over the edge of the building and smashing into the pavement below. With the machine destroyed the earthquake stopped. Both Perry and Doofenshmirtz ran to peer over the balcony at the metal carnage below. Doof looked embarrassed.
"You know in hindsight I probably should have built that on the ground…"Perry shuddered as he thought about how that mess a great deal of floors below could have been him. Doofenshmirtz seemed to have had the same thought. He suddenly went very pale and looked at Perry in an almost ashamed way.
"Maybe we should pick this up tomorrow Perry the Platypus, call it a day?"
Perry nodded, not taking his eyes off the smashed pavement. He gulped and headed back to his jet, too shaken to do much else. He let autopilot take him home. When he got home and adopted his 'dumb pet' guise he heard Candace shouting frantically at her mother."Mom! Look, Phineas and Ferb build a Labyrinth in the backyard!"
Which was quickly followed by a
"Candace there's nothing here. Oh hi boys, you look dirty. Get cleaned up and I'll make snacks."
Perry snuck back into the house as the boys were discussing how next time they build something underground they should get Earthquake insurance.
"Oh there you are, Perry."
Perry chattered and smiled to himself. Only in a town as 'normal' as Danville could the bizarre be so routine.