Chapter 1: Robot Riot
"Ferb! We're going to try and stop the portal!"
Ferb stuck up his thumb at his brother, as he watched him and Perry, their pet platypus, zip up to the roof of the Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated building, holding on to the grappler. He waited until he was sure that they made a safe landing, and then rejoined his friends in the fight against the normbots.
Phineas motioned to Perry which direction to go. But the moment they turned around, Perry's second dimension counterpart, Perry the Platyborg, landed in front of them, grabbing them and hurling them across the roof, causing Phineas to drop his only weapon.
Perry handed over his grappler to Phineas, while pointing at the Other Dimensionator.
Phineas nodded and ran off, while Platyborg charged for Perry.
When he stood close enough, Phineas took the shot and fired the grapple. Unfortunately, Second-Dimension Doofenshmirtz heard him...
"What? Oh!"
Doofenshmirtz threw a razor disc at the cord, and Phineas fell on the couch where Perry had peed on before. Doofenshmirtz charged for him.
"I've had just about enough of you, you..." he growled, just as Phineas threw the dirty cushion at him, which hit him in the face.
"What's on this!?" Doofenshmirtz moaned, disgusted by the pee on the cushion as he threw it at Phineas, who dodged it.
Perry was still fighting his other dimension counterpart. He tried to punch Platyborg, causing him to hurt his hand, and Platyborg to respond with a punch with a metal hand which was twice as powerful, sending Perry off into a closet.
Luckily, there were items which could help Perry to cope more of Platyborg's attacks.
With his football helmet and pads, he crashed into Platyborg, who fell back and slammed against a wall.
Platyborg got back on his feet, and punched Perry, but the same happened to him as what happened to Perry.
Back in the streets, no one seemed to notice the fight which was going on at the roof.
Candace thought she could save the world by busting her brothers.
"I was wrong, Stacy, about everything. I'm not a grown-up. I can't control mysterious forces. I can't even get my mom to see what my brothers are doing!" she said, but suddenly smiled.
"Stacy, that's it! I can't get my mom to see what my brothers are doing!" Candace jumped out of her treehouse-robot, and ran off.
"Candace, where are you going?" Stacy shouted at her.
"I'm going bust my brothers to my mum! And I'm going to fail!" the redhead teenager shouted back.
Doofenshmirtz from the first dimension had lost his keys, and was still having trouble trying to get into his appartment via his neighbor, Mrs. Thompson.
"No, it's Heinz Doofenshmirtz. You borrowed sugar from me this morning!" he said, slightly annoyed.
"I don't have any sugar. I had to borrow some from my neighbor this morning," Mrs. Thompson replied through the intercom.
"Yeah, that's me. That's..." Doofenshmirtz replied, but got interrupted by Mrs. Thompson.
"Oh, he's a nice man, but I hear he's divorced."
"Oh, THAT she remembers," Doofenshmirtz grunted.
Ferb charged at a Normbot. Isabella ran toward him, manning a baseball launcher.
"Ferb, we'll handle things down here! Go help Phineas!" she shouted, while shooting another Normbot.
She didn't have to tell him twice. Armed with two plungers, he climbed on top of the Platypult he and Phineas had built earlier that day, launched himself to one of the walls of Doofenshmirtz evil Incorporated and started to climb up.
On the roof, Phineas was throwing dishes from Doofenshmirtz' buffet table at Doofenshmirtz to keep him at distance.
When Doofenshmirtz tried to hit Phineas with a lamp, he accidentally hit his Normbot control panel instead of the redhead ten-year-old, causing the Normbots to hang still in the air, threatening to explode.
Doofenshmirtz moved his attention away from Phineas to fix the control panel, giving Phineas time to hide.
"Oh come on, you stupid thing, work!" Doofenshmirtz shouted, while bashing the control panel.
Phineas gasped as he got an idea. "Oh, so that dish must be what's controlling the robots! Maybe I don't need to close the portal if I can just take out that..." he mumbled, and suddenly, his eye fell on his baseball launcher.
"Oh yeah!"
But before he could get to it, Doofenshmirtz had already laid his hands on it.
"Oh no you don't!" Doofenshmirtz snatched the baseball launcher off the ground and glared at Phineas.
"Ha ha! Now the baseball is on the other foot! Or however that... that saying goes. I'm not really sure..." he mumbled, but noticed that Phineas was backing away.
"Hey, hey! Where are you going?" he said, and aimed for Phineas, who ended up walking with his back against a wall.
No running away now...
"You know, all that's going to happen from you guys coming up here is that I'm going to have a brand new Platyborg!" Doofenshmirtz said, with an evil grin on his face.
"And maybe even a Boyborg too, huh?" he continued. Phineas swallowed. This wasn't really going as he had planned.
"Try saying that five times fast: boyborg, boyborg, boyborg, boyborg, boyborg..." Doofenshmirtz said, but then sighed. "Eh, I guess its not that hard to say, never mind."
Meanwhile, Platyborg punched at Perry, who dodged the attack. Another attack from Perry caused him to get a turkey stuck on the spike on his tail. Perry snickered as Platyborg tried to get the turkey off, but failed to do so, because his arms were too short to reach for it.
Platyborg noticed Perry was amused by the sight of the turkey stuck on the mammal's tail, and punched Perry in the face. He fell to the ground, and the two platypuses grappled. Platyborg tried to hit Perry, but Perry tickled him.
Always when Phineas and Ferb tickled him on the cheek, Perry's tail would snap forward. And so did Platyborg's. The turkey fell over his head.
Perry saw his chance and kicked him, sending him back into a fuse box, which the spike on his tail pierced, electrocuting him.
Suddenly, Perry noticed Doofenshmirtz aiming at Phineas.
"You know something kid, you've been a thorn in my side all day long..."
Perry looked around for something to save Phineas and noticed a bat on the ground.
He whistled; Phineas looked at him.
"But that's about to change..." Doofenshmirtz said, while placing his finger on the trigger.
Perry wanted to throw the bat at Phineas, but suddenly Platyborg attacked him from behind, before finally falling apart, causing the baseball bat to miss it's target.
"Right now..."
Doofenshmirtz fired the baseball. Phineas made a vain attempt to grab the bat, which was way out of his reach...
The ball hit Phineas on his temple, causing him to pass out. Perry gasped, while trying to get up from underneath the heavy metal body that fell on him.
Doofenshmirtz laughed in victory, while picking Phineas up at the collar of his shirt.
"It's weird that Perry's a secret agent, huh?" Isabella asked Buford.
"Yeah, but it was obvious in retrospect," Buford replied. "But what's taking them so long?"
"I don't know," Isabella said. "I hope everything is alright..."
"Mom, if you care one iota about me, your family, and your city, you'll come outside with me right now!" Candace shouted at her mother, starting to get almost desperate.
"Well, I guess I could use some more popcorn," Linda shrugged.
"Come on, come on, come on!" Candace shouted, and pulled on her mother's arm.
But what she saw outside wasn't what she expected.
The Normbots were still flying around, destroying everything they saw.
"W-what?" Candace mumbled, and Linda screamed.
"Candace! Is- is- is this Phineas and Ferb's work!?"
"N-no, mom," Candace replied, just as shocked as her mother. "They were supposed to stop this. But something tells me they didn't succeed."
Ferb looked up at the sky with worried eyes.
The portal wasn't closed yet. The Normbots were still active.
What was wrong up there?
He climbed up the last few meters as fast as he could and jumped on the roof of the building.
He saw the havoc which both fights had created, and Doofenshmirtz, carrying something over his shoulder... or someone.
Was it-?
Perry was still trapped underneath the metal body of Platyborg. To prevent Doofenshmirtz from capturing him too, he had pretended that he was dead – even though that meant he would betray Phineas in some sort of way.
Ferb ran toward Doofenshmirtz, who was commanding the Normbots to bring the portal down, so he could step through.
But before he could reach him, other Normbots blocked his way, and hurled him back, so he smacked against the wall close to Perry.
By the time he could get up, Doofenshmirtz and Phineas were gone.
Ferb approached Perry, and helped him to get away from his awkward position.
As soon as Ferb had Perry released from underneath the unconscious metal platypus body, he started to chatter.
But it was a way different kind of chatter than Ferb had him ever heard doing before.
It sounded worried, panicked.
Ferb suddenly remembered the invention he had stuffed inside his pocket. It was a portable edition of the Animal Translator Phineas had designed, which could be used as a bluetooth headset, with human language output. It even had settings to change the language, if desired.
Ferb took the translator out of his pocket, and attached it to Perry's ear. The platypus knew what the tiny microphone was supposed to do, and started to chatter right away.
"Ferb," the translator translated.
"I need your help once again. Phineas is in serious trouble."
Ferb stared at him, waiting for more.
"I'm not sure what Second-Dimension Doofenshmirtz wants with him, but I'm pretty sure it's something that benefits him and his army. We've got to find Phineas and stop him before it's too late."
Fear struck Ferb in the heart. What was he supposed to do? Go back to the Second dimension with Perry to make a rescue attempt, without letting his friends know?
What about Candace? Or his parents? They'd get really worried about them if Phineas, he and Perry didn't return.
It was most likely that Candace was already on her way to bust them, so this time their parents would definitely see what was going on.
For the first time in his life, Ferb Fletcher didn't know the answer to a problem.
Perry sighed and looked at the ten-and-a-half year old.
"Don't worry, Ferb," he said. "I know two boys – and a teenage girl - who can help us. We're not alone on this."
Ferb looked at the platypus, showing a face which looked like a half-grimace, half-smile, like he wasn't sure if he was supposed to laugh or cry to that answer. He followed Perry while walking toward the portal.
"Oh, and Ferb, I have one final tip; please talk," Perry said, before stepping through the portal.
"It might benefit you if you'd speak your mind. Especially if we get in trouble."
