"Please" I begged him, "pretty please"
I looked at him with the biggest puppy eyes I ever manage to make.
He sighted "Very well…"
I smiled widely and it felt like my heart was going to make a jump. My dad finally allowed me to meet my uncle!
Neither my dad, grandma or grandfather ever talked about him. Always when I asked about him, dad always sighted, and my grandma, she just started to talk about my father instead and how proud she was over him, while grandfather just snorted and didn't say a word.
It all started early this summer, when I was listening at the radio. They talked something about that all the lawn gnomes had been stolen, and then suddenly launched out from a volcano on a backyard beach.
My dad had sighted and said "It's probably Heinz…"
"Who is that?" I had asked.
"My older brother."
"Do you have a older brother?" I said surprised.
"Yes, yes I have", and then he started to tell me about him and all the things he said seemed to unreal, and no one had ever mention him before and grandma didn't have any photos of him.
That was a month ago, and since then, all I wanted to do was to meet this crazy uncle of mine, and now, finally, I say in the limo with my dad on our way to his incorporated.
The whole trip my face was like glued in to the window and it felt like the car moved slow as a snail.
"Are we there yet?" I asked.
"No, we are not", dad answeared.
I waited some seconds.
"Now then?"
"No."
"How about now?"
"No, and can you please sit still" he said annoyed.
I turned around and saw him in the eyes. He wasn't pleased at all, so I did as he wanted me to do and stayed quiet the whole trip.
Then, finally, the car stopped and I jumped out from the limo fast as I could.
Dad nodded at the building in front of me. I opened my mouth and was amazed. It was a giant purple building that looked like a giant "f".
Dad was already at the main entrance and rang on the doorbell to my uncles apartment.
I ran to him, and just as I stopped a strut and horrible voice anweared; "yes, who is it?" The voice seemed annoyed. "It's nine in the morning, I'm not done with my evil scheme yet."
"It's me Heinz", dad answered. "Roger, your brother."
My uncle Heinz answered even more annoyed; "What do you want, Roger?"
"I just came by with my daughter, she really wish to see you and she…" Heinz interrupted dad.
"Wait, wait, you have a daughter?" He sounded surprised. "Since when?"
"Since 13 years ago."
"But I've never seen her or heard about her, not even at the family reunions, where have you been hiding her?"
"She has been living with her mother, and now that her mum have traveled to Italy over the summer, she lives with me."
"Wait… so you had a divorce?"
"Yes, but that was a long time ago."
"Roger had a divorce, Roger had a divorce" Heinz sang.
Dad sighted.
"I'll be back for her this afternoon. I now leave her in your hands."
"No, wait, I want to hear everything about it, who, when and why." His voice sounded spiteful.
He didn't get any answer, because dad was already in the car and I watched it drove away.
"Roger, are you there?" He waited some seconds. "Oh, curse it." He sighted. "Wait, I'll buzz you in."
He really spoke to me and soon I was going to meet him.
The door made a buzzing sound and I opened it.
I searched for H. Doofensmirtz in the register and took the elevator to his floor and knocked on the door.
It felt like the door never would open, like the world slowed down, just to mess with me. I don't know how long time I just stood there and waited, wasn't sure if it only was a few seconds or a few minutes.
But then, suddenly, the door opened and I finally stood before my uncle Heinz Doofensmirtzh.
I took a deep breath.
His head looked like a giant "D" and had a long pointy nose. It looked almost like my dads, but my uncles were much longer. He was taller than me and was really thin and soaked. He wore a white lab coat. His hair had the same color as mine and the same big blue eyes, which I just stared in to, without saying anything.
"So, you are Rogers doughter, huh?", he asked.
I nodded.
"Come in", he said, and I gladly did as he told me to. "I'm expecting someone, so I am kind of busy."
"Who?", I asked.
"My nemesis…"
As he said that, I shined. He really had a nemesis? My dad said that Heinz was crazy and had a platypus to nemesis, platypuses don't do much, and how could a lazy animal as a platypus be a nemesis? Heinz continued his sentence; "… Perry the platypus."
Platypus? So he really was crazy after all…
Or, was it just a cover name? This Perry was after all an agent…
Heinz house was all in purple and blue, and first, it seemed like a ordinary apartment, but suddenly we stood in something that looked like a laboratory with a lot of strange inventions with strange name and all of the names ended with "-inator". Wonder what all of these things did. Was it dangerous weapons or just toys? I really couldn't tell.
"Have you built all of those stuff! I asked amazed.
"Yes, yes I have", he said proud, "Bur Perry the Platypus always finds a away to ruin my plans…"
"When you say 'platypus' do you mean a real platypus?"
"Well of course I do" Heinz said a little annoyed.
So he was crazy after all? Was this the reason why no one ever spoke about him? Even though that he was crazy I still felt that I wanted to know more about him.
"What do all of those inventions do?" I asked.
"Well, it depends on what I need and it is not 'inventions' it is 'inators'."
He dragged out an inator to the balcony.
"This one" he said "Is called the Unlanguage-inator!" He sounded proud. "With this I don't need to worry about to knowing all of the language in the world."
It looked like a giant toy gun.
"Oh really?" I said. "Why do you need that?"
"I'll explain when my nemesis arrives. I don't want to explain twice."
"Oh, I see."
I really started to wonder who this Perry really was.
Heinz found some tools and started to fix his 'unlanguage-inator'.
"Why don't you tell something about my younger brother? Something embarrassing that I can use against him." He sounded like he was up to no good.
I thought for a while. "He doesn't do embarrassing stuff really."
"Huh", he sounded surprised, "really? Nothing at all? What about his divorce?"
"Mum just didn't like his position for being the town mayor and didn't want to hear any gossip about them. No hard feelings." I shrugged.
"Well that's a bit anticlimactic", he said disappointing. "You see, when I was a small boy back in Gimperstumph, whater I did, my mother and father always liked Roger better and everything went so easy for him."
"Oh, I didn't know. Dad never talks about his childhood. I'm really sorry for you." He didn't seem to have heard me, because suddenly he screamed;
"BEHOLD MY UNLANGUGAE-INATOR!"
It still looked like a giant toy gun.
"Is it done?" I asked. "Will it work? Can you show me how it works? Can we use it now, before Perry arrives?"
"Well, first of all; we wait until Perry the Platypus arrives."
"Why? Won't he stop you?"
"Haven't you got a nemesis?"
"No?"
"Well, then you wouldn't understand." He sighted. "Let's just wait."
I went to the edge of the balcony and looked down at the city below. His apartment was really aloft.
And then, suddenly, I really don't know where it came from, something flew in front of me and up in the sky and then landed behind me.
I turned around.
Behind me stood turquoise platypus who stood on the legs and had a a brown fedora.
"Ah, Perry the platypus" my uncle said.
So this was Perry the platypus? A platypus agent. Was this a dream? I pinched myself. Aouch. It was real. Was I about going crazy? I tried to blink hard, but the platypus was still there.
The platypus didn't say anything.
"Perry the platypus, you remembers Roger, my brother, right?"
The platypus nodded. He understood human-language?
"This is his daughter." He pointed at me.
The platypus turned around and lifted his hat as a greeting.
Confused I waved back.
Heinz held in some sort of device with a big red button in it. He pressed it, and suddenly Perry the platypus was trapped in a giant jar. I really had no idea where it came from, and just directly after two wordbooks landed on the top.
The platypus banked angrily on the glass.
"I know, you are probably wondering what I am going to do today", Heinz said. "Well, I will tell you, since you didn't ask. You see Perry the platypus, when I was…"
"Can he breathe in there?" I interrupted him.
He sighted. "Hang on" he said and walked away and came back with a drill and made five holes in the car. "Where was I…" he said to himself, "oh, that's right; You see Perry the Platypus, when I was at the supermarket this morning to buy my breakfast, I was a family that spoke to each other in a dialect I couldn't understand. I don't know why, but they came to me and tried to talk to me, and I really didn't understood what they said! So that's was when it hit me; if I removed all of the language, then I am the only one who is going to talk and the only person that people can listen to! And then, they'll have to select me as their leader! So, BEHOLD MY UNLANGUAGE INATOR!" He made an evil laugh. "And I will start at the Tri-State Area!" He aimed the inator at the city.
I don't know how it happened, but suddenly Perry jumped at Heinz, just as he was going to fire of his inator and punched him in the face. Heinz tripped back and his back pushed the inator so it was aiming at the sky instead, and a beam shot of. Perry punched Heinz again, and this time Heinz tripped on the self-destruction button and the inator exploded. Perry the Platypus jumped of the balcony and sailed down with his parachute.
The beam bounced on a giant cloud with a castle on it and bounced back at Heinz just as he was saying. "Curse you Perry the plat…" The beam took his words but he still stood and stared at the platypus direction and waved his fist in the air.
I think that he tried to sight when he turned around and when he spoke, no words came out from his mouth.
What did just happen?
