Buckle up brothers and sisters, this is my very first ever Phineas & Ferb fic! And it's gonna be a weird one! You probably shouldn't expect any songs, sorry! I'm not really the best person to come up with those things! By the way, if any of you out there consider this plagerism of Cloudy With A chance of Meatballs 2, you are surely mistaken!
ONWARD!
It was another normal afternoon in Danville, Virginia, and of course by that I mean the local boys, Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher, were planning to create something big and awesome that bent the very laws of mental comprehension. It was their thing. And of course, their sister, Candace, would feebly attempt to bust them, only to fail.
The aforementioned boys were in their garage, experimenting with various chemicals using their high-tech chemistry set that their dad got them last week.
"Alright, Ferb," Phineas said when he finished mixing two bubbling liquids. "I think it's finally ready!" The silent, green-haired boy gave his step-brother a thumbs up. At that moment, a visitor entered the garage. It was none other than Isabella Garcia-Shapiro, the boys' neighbor and friend, especially towards Phineas, in her mind at least.
"Hey guys! Whatcha' doin?" She said in her normal demeanor.
"Hey Isabella!" Phineas greeted her as he looked up. "Ferb and I were just putting the finishing touches on our latest invention." Not a minute later, Phineas & Ferb's other friends, Buford and Baljeet, appeared on the scene.
"What's up, Dinner Bell?" Buford said in his gruff voice.
"Hey Buford, Baljeet. You're just in time to witness our next project!" Phineas said.
"What is it?" Baljeet asked.
"Well, you know how people in other countries are facing starvation due to overpopulation, global warming, and not enough suitable farmland?" Phineas began. Assorted "yeses" came from everyone else in the area, except Ferb.
"Well, Ferb and I have managed to create a solution to that problem!" Phineas held up a flask containing a dark amber-tan liquid that bared some resemblance to vegetable oil.
"What is it?" Baljeet asked.
"It's a special syrum that acts like a kind of super-fertilizer, and it will make crops grow at an almost supernaturally accelerated rate, therebye massively multiplying the World's food supply and ending starvation in all parts of the world!" Phineas explained.
"It kinda looks like vegatble oil." Isabella pointed out.
"That would make sense, since vegetable oil is one of the main ingrediants." Said Ferb. Baljeet then spoke up.
"Wait, how would vegetable oil help vegetables grow faster?" He asked.
"Well, it's vegetable oil mixed with various other fertilizing chemicals into one complex concoction, so it's a combination of each chemical effect." Phineas explained again.
"Oh." The others said in unison.
"We were just about to test it out on this carrot seed." Phineas said, holding the small seed. "Care to watch?" Everyone answered yes, of course. Phineas planted the seed in a pot and poured a single drop of the super-grow formula into the dirt. At first, nothing happened. Phineas then realized,
"Hey, has anyone seen Perry?"
"Hey, Look! Something's happening!" Buford exclaimed as the pot began to quiver. The seed had absorbed the drop, rooted, and was now growing fast.
"It's working!" Phineas exclaimed in excitment. Everyone watched in awe as the pot and soil quivered faster and faster. All of a sudden, the movement stopped, and a large, bright orange, ripe, full-grown carrot poked up through the soil.
"YES! It worked!" Phineas said excitedly, followed by everyone else. "Finally, world hunger will come to an end!" Suddenly, however, the carrot began to quiver slightly, something Isabella pointed out.
"Um, Phineas? I think something's happening!" She said. Phineas turned to see that the carrot was growing two odd-looking stumps near its top, one on each side.
"Well that's weird." Said Phineas. Everyone watched in silence as the lumps quickly sprouted into long, skinny projections that had 3 toe-like digits on each one.
"Since when do carrots look like that?" Buford said out of curiosity.
"They don't!" Baljeet said, frightened. The two sprouty-things then stiffened and bent halfway down, a bit like a bird's legs. No-one spoke, and watched in wide-eyed shock as the branch-like projections moved on their own and placed the digited ends on the soil surface, and the carrot seemed to be trying to push itself out of the pot! After several moments that felt like hours to the kids, the branches gave a final push and the whole carrot was pulled out of the soil. Two black dots appeared a few centimeters in front of the branches, which now functioned as legs, holding the carrot up on its side. The dots opened and closed twiced, as if blinking. The carrot stared at the children, and suddenly opened its long, narrow "mouth" and squeaked. Phineas, Ferb, and the others, shocked beyond belief, screamed loudly, prompting the carrot-creature to screech as well.
"Holy crap! What is that thing!?" Buford yelled.
"I am horrified!" Baljeet girly-screamed.
"Everyone calm down!" Ferb yelled, effectivly quieting the others in the room, including the carrot-creature.
"Ferb's right." Phineas said. "We all have to calm down and not panic." Thankfully, no-one panicked.
"Alright, good. Now, let's just stay calm and find out what this thing is." Phineas said, reffering to the carrot-creature.
Everyone was staring at the stange living carrot, and it was staring back with its shining black eyes.
"Well, I think we can agree that it's still a carrot," Ferb said. "Though a bit more, alive."
"How is this even possible?" Baljeet asked.
"It has to be some kind of effect of the syrum!" Phineas realized out loud. "The formula was supposed to make crops grow faster, and it worked, but apparently, the formula went a step further, and actually created a moving, living vegetable creature!"
"Oh my!" Everyone in the room gasped.
The carrot-creature observed the children staring at him, eyes wide with wonder. He had only come to life a few seconds ago, and so far not a thing made sense. What were these strange, pale, upright creatures looking at him? Could they have had some kind of connection to his origin? Several moments passed, and then Isabella spoke up.
"I think it's kinda cute!" She said. The carrot-creature seemed to like being called "cute", and smiled at the girl as he carefully stepped closer to the kids. The carrot-creature focused its gaze on Phineas and Ferb, and grinned. Phineas was very surprised.
"Incredible!" He said. "This living carrot seems to display a primitive form of intelligence!" Everyone was impressed with the orange creature, which squeaked happily, enjoying the attention.
But suddenly, the moment was rudely interrupted when Phineas and Ferb's sister, Candace, barged in through the door connecting the garage to the rest of the house; she had heard their screams.
"Alright, what are two doing this time?" She probed. Immediately upon her entrance, the carrot-creature squeaked in fright and tucked its legs into its body and shut its eyes, taking the appearance of a normal carrot. For a moment, the boys did not answer, which lead Candace to ask again.
"I said, what are you doing?!"
"Um..well, Ferb and I were just...uh.." Phineas stammered. Candace was not impressed, to say the least. However, at that moment she noticed the "carrot" sitting around the boys' sciency-things.
"What's that?" She asked, pointing to the vegetable.
"What's what?" Phineas re-questioned.
"That!" Candace sternly answered, pointing to the carrot again, which Phineas and Ferb were feebly trying to hide behind themselves. "Is that some kind of carrot?"
"Well, yes..kind of." Phineas responded sheepishly. A disapproving look plastered itself on Candace's face.
"Seriously? A dumb carrot? This just plain pathetic for the two of you." She said as she stepped over to the pot. "I mean, really?" Candace picked the carrot up(which I should say, terrified it), despite what Phineas said.
"Wait, Candace! It's not an ordinary carrot!" Unfortunatly, his sister did not listen.
"Yeah, sure. I'll bet it's some nuclear-powered generator carrot!" The redhead said sarcastically. "Or some kind of robotic spy carrot!"
"Candace you have to listen to me!" Phineas tried to explain, but was shrugged off by the young woman.
"No, Phineas." She rudely said. "In fact, I am going to take a bite out of this carrot right now to show you how ridiculous you can be." Phineas and friends watched in horror as Candace was about to bite the carrot, and as it approached her mouth, the carrot opened its eyes again, and, once it saw where its nose was going, it let out an animalistic screech of terror!
"NRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"
...Prompting Candace to look and scream as well.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
That's it for the first chapter! Next time: Perry is given his mission, and we find that ol' Doofenshmirtz is up to something...irregular...
Until next time!