"Look at THAT," Candace proclaimed, shoving her mother out into the yard and gesturing proudly with a hand.
Linda Flynn squinted her eyes. A shocked expression crossed her face.
"Uh huh, uh huh," Candace said quickly, her hopes rising, that this was the fateful day...
"Did Phineas and Ferb do that?" Linda squeaked, her mouth dropping open.
"You see it?!"
"No, honey, I don't see anything," Linda said calmly, turning around to go back in the house. "But it made for an exciting introduction to the story, don't you think?"
Candace stood in bewildered, awkward silence.
"Meep."
Her brothers, Phineas and Ferb glanced idly around the yard.
"How intriguing," Phineas stated. "The world's largest waffle seems to have vanished. It was here just a moment ago."
A semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal scurried to Phineas's side. His teeth chattered together in the typical noise made by a platypus.
"Oh, there you are, Perry," he added, picking up his pet. He lifted Perry up higher and examined him from every angle. "Maybe Perry ate it," he hypothesized.
Ferb blinked. "If he did, we'd have to start calling him Perry the Fatapus."
"Wh..wh..wh..where is it?" Candace stammered, running from one side of their backyard to the other in a panic. "It was here! It was just...just...just here!"
High above in the sky, unseen by any member of the Flynn-Fletcher family, an enormous waffle dangled from a fishhook, hanging from the bottom of a hovercraft.
"What the – a waffle?" Dr. Doofenshimrtz asked incredulously. "NOOO!" he cried, as the weight began to drag his machine rapidly towards earth. "CURSE YOU, PERRY THE PLATYPUS!"
"What a shame," Phineas said, shaking his head as he went inside for a snack. "I was looking forward to eating that tonight. Well, it's not that big of a deal, right, bro?"
Ferb hesitated for a moment. Should he tell his stepbrother? That feeling he had, whenever their creation for the day vanished. It was a feeling that was indescribable, but the closest he could come to was... well, magical. But he eventually raised his hand in a thumbs-up.
Little did they know it was the beginning of the greatest adventure of all...