Isabella's Quantum Boogaloo
Isabella had her own adventures in time in the Quantum Boogaloo episode. This is the untold story. Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in Phineas and Ferb.
Isabella was on a time-travel journey with Phineas and Ferb, going twenty years into the future for a tool that would fuse wood and metal at the molecular level. She was no stranger to time travel. Once before she had supervised the building of a replacement time machine to rescue the brothers and their sister Candice from the late Cretaceous period. The Fireside Girls manual had been a great help, of course. It had information about absolutely everything.
It was that same time machine that they were using to visit the future, with an additional fix by Ferb to provide self-contained power, just in case the power sources of the future weren't compatible with the ones they used in the present.
Now she sat in the time machine in the Science Museum of the future, minding it for Phineas. "He trusts me," she said with a happy sigh, just as she accidentally leaned on the machine's lever. With a spiraling swirl the machine disappeared back in time.
A Viking in a ceremonial horned helmet planted a flag in the ground. "I claim this land in the name of Leif Erickson!" he said with a Swedish accent.
The other Vikings cheered.
At that moment Isabella and the time machine appeared right in front of him. He gave a startled jump, and the horned helmet fell from his head and into Isabella's lap.
All the Vikings ran, until Leif called to his men, "Hold! By Odin, we are no cowards! How can we let a small elf in a magic sleigh frighten us? Charge!"
The other Vikings cheered again, and charged with leveled spears.
Isabella fumbled with the time machine controls. "I've got to get out of here!"
Suddenly a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer flew down. Inside were two elves named Blay'n and Clewn't.
"Stop bad-mouthing elves and magic sleighs, or we'll put you on the naughty list!' Blay'n shouted.
The Vikings ran away as fast as they could, and Isabella managed to pull the lever, again without clearly setting where she was going.
The barren plain looked about the same as before, except for a herd of mastodons grazing nearby. As Isabella watched them, a Cro-Magnon man slipped out from behind a rock and approached her curiously.
"Oooh-gaah?" he said to her.
"Me... Isabella," she said, pointing to herself.
"Me... Conk," he said. He seemed to be very clever at picking up words like "me."
Isabella wanted to make friends, and she happened to have a cheese sandwich along. (She always carried them to feed her dog Pinky.)
She mimed eating and offered the sandwich to Conk. "Conk hungry? Sandwich."
"Sandwich," he said. He wolfed the sandwich down and looked to her for more.
She showed empty hands sadly. "No more sandwiches. No more food."
Conk pointed at a nearby mammoth. "Conk hungry. Isabella hungry? Food!"
Conk picked up his club and sneaked up on the mammoth. Just as he tried to hit it with the club, the enormous beast brought one of its tusks down on his head, clobbering him. He staggered away. The mammoth continued to graze.
Isabella had an idea. She picked up a turtle that was wandering by and showed Conk how to wear it on his head as a helmet, just as Phineas had described himself and his siblings doing when riding a scooter in the time of the dinosaurs.
Conk put the turtle on his own head and tested it by whacking himself on the top of the head several times with his club. Satisfied, he attacked the mammoth again.
This time the tip of the animal's tusk broke off when it hit the hard surface of the turtle's shell. The mammoth ran from Conk, trumpeting in fear. Conk ran after it.
"Goodbye, Conk," Isabella called after him. "Watch out for glaciers."
She tried to operate the machine to return to the far future, but the lever was stuck and wouldn't go that far. She looked at the mechanism and discovered that the broken tusk had fallen into the machine and jammed it. She pulled it out, but the damage was still a problem.
"Now I have to get this fixed," she said to herself. "But where can I go to find help to repair a time machine?"
She remembered the 19th century inventor Xavier Onassis. His laboratory had been on the exact spot where the Science Museum stood. In fact, it was because of his leaving his unfinished machine to science that the museum was established there. The damaged machine could travel that far, at least. Isabella set the machine and pulled the lever again.
