Perry, the Big Teal Platypus
Part 1
"How did you like The Danville Summer Fair, kids?" Lawrence asked in the car as they left the fair.
"It was fun, Dad!" Phineas responded. He looked at his stepbrother and friends. "Right, guys?"
"Definitely!" The kids, except Buford agreed.
"I didn't like it." Buford stated.
"Oh, come on!" Baljeet spoke. "You're just saying that because you were too short for that one ride."
"You all were too short too."
"Yeah, but we didn't complain about it. Maybe next year."
"There won't be a next year because I'm never going back to that fair again."
"Oh, you're just saying that."
"No, I mean it. I won't!"
"Again, you're just saying that." Buford eyed Baljeet.
"Don't push me, Jeet! I'm too depressed to bully you."
"Awwwww!" Phineas looked up at his sister up front, who was texting to Stacy.
"So, how did you like the fair, sis?" He asked.
"Great." Candace told him. "I'm texting Stacy about it now, since I can't when I practice driving with Dad."
"So Phineas," Isabella said to him as they hopped out of the car when they were home. "I'm guessing that's since it's nighttime, it's too late to do your big project."
"That's correct." Phineas responded. "We'll do it tomorrow."
"What will you do?"
"I don't know yet. We'll have it figured out tomorrow."
"Well, whatever you decide on doing, I bet it'll be fun!"
"You bet!" Buford then thought of something. He looked at the boys.
"Jeet said you guys invented a growth elixir for his watermelon at that Midsummer's Festival." Phineas nodded.
"That's right."
"Well, can you make one for me?"
"This is about the ride, isn't it?" Baljeet said. "Gah, Buford, give it a rest!"
"Baljeet's right." Phineas told him. "Haven't you learned anything when Ferb made himself taller to impress Vanessa around Valentine's Day?"
"You know I don't like learning things, Dinner Bell."
"Well, no. Short, tall, it doesn't matter. You should be happy with the way that you are. I'm sorry that you were too short for that ride. Maybe next year, you'll be tall enough to…."
"I don't want to wait until next year! I want to be big now!"
"Well, I'm sorry but unless you go into a growth spurt before the fair's over next week, I'm afraid you have no luck."
"Aw, come on!"
"Nope!" Buford got on his hands and knees.
"Please, I'll do anything!"
"No you won't," Baljeet spoke. "You're just saying that so he'll do it."
"Quiet, Jeet!" Buford hissed at him through clenched teeth. He smiled at Phineas. "So, what do you say? Will you do it?" Phineas shook his head.
"No, sorry." Buford groaned loudly.
"Gah, I thought you help your friends with their problems."
"I do. I just don't want to help just so a friend could get into a ride."
"But you made Baljeet's watermelon grow with it. That's like cheating." Their friends' parents began calling them home, including Buford.
"Time to go home, Buford." Baljeet told the bully. "We'll see Phineas tomorrow." Buford eyed Phineas. He pointed a mean finger at him.
"This is not over, Dinner Bell!" He warned. "I will get tall enough for that ride; you'll see!" And with that, he left with Baljeet. Phineas went inside his house with his brother.
"I'm going to go to the bathroom." Buford told his mom and dad at a restaurant that night. They had just ordered their food.
"Hurry back!" His mom said. "Don't get lost."
"Mom! I won't get lost." He then went to the restrooms.
He opened the bathroom door when his mouth went agape. For what he saw was a room that was like a science lab/shop. Potions were on store racks on both sides and on a science table in the middle of the room. A Neon sign was in a corner. It read: 'The Science Lab/Shop'. "This isn't the bathroom. Where am I?"
"You my friend are in my science lab/shop." A voice spoke. Buford then saw the owner of the voice. A skinny man in a white lab coat approached him. Buford looked at him.
"Who are you?"
"I am Dr. Rick Szalinski."
"Okay, well, the door that led me here said this was a bathroom, not a science lab/shop. So, do you know where the bathroom is?"
"You will get what you came for after you buy something from my shop/lab."
"Buy something? Ugh, I only came here for the bathroom; I don't need anything."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, now may I use the bathroom?"
"Only after you buy something." Buford threw up his arms.
"Ugh; I can't believe this! I wasn't going to, but I have no choice; I'm going to go to the women's." He was about to leave when Rick spoke up.
"Don't you want to be big so you can go on that ride?" Buford stopped dead in his tracks. He looked at Rick.
"Wait, how did you know I wanted to grow big?"
"Uh, it was a guess?"
"Wow, you're right! Do you know what ride?"
"The Octoscream, at The Danville Summer Fair."
"Wow, you're good. It's almost like you're psychic. Are you?"
"No."
"Wait, you weren't spying on me when I said I wanted to be big, did you?" The scientist laughed.
"What? Me, spying on a kid such as yourself? No!"
"Well, okay! So, I can't leave until I buy something?" The scientist nodded.
"Right-o!"
"Hmmmm," Buford thought of this. The scientist went and grabbed what appears to be a water bottle. He went back to Buford.
"Would it be this grow…?" He began. Buford held up a hand.
"Wait, don't talk. I'm thinking." The scientist tried again.
"Would it be this growth elixir you want?" Buford looked at him.
"Well, why didn't you just ask? Where is it?"
"Right here. In my hand." Buford looked at the water bottle, then back at the scientist. "No, you don't. That's a water bottle."
"I see where you are confused."
"Confused?! Look man, it's a water bottle; it's a stinkn' water bottle!" The man shook his head.
"No, it looks like a water bottle, but it's not. True, it's mostly water inside, but when you drink one drop, you grow fifty feet tall in a single minute. You may have to drink all of it to drink the right one."
"So, can I have it?" The scientist gave to Buford.
"Sure, that's why you came, right?"
"Uh, right! I originally came for the bathroom, but this is good too." He thought of something. "Wait, how much is it?"
"How much do you have?" Buford pulled out a ten-dollar bill from his pocket and showed it to him.
"I only have this ten-dollar bill on me."
"That'll work." Buford gave the dollar to the scientist and the scientist gave him the bottle. Buford hugged it close to his chest. "Now, you better get back to your parents. They might be wondering where you are. And remember, the elixir only works once and you have to drink the right drop."
"Right. Bye-Bye, crazy scientist!" He opened the door and left the shop. He then realized something. He opened the door again. "Wait, how did you…" He then looked around. The man, the lab, everything was gone. He was back in the men's bathroom. "Hmm, weird! Oh well, at least I can go to the bathroom now."
The science lab/shop was nothing but an illusion, caused by an invention invented by Dr. Rick Szalinski, a new recruit in L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. The dome-like machine folded up and fell into the doctor's hand. Rodney approached him from the shadows.
"So, he started. "How did it go? Did you sell the growth elixir to that kid?"
"Yeah." Rick told him. "I did."
"So, how much money did you get?" Rick showed him the ten-dollar bill that Buford had given him.
"He only had a ten-dollar bill." Rick gave it to Rodney. Rodney smelled it and sighed heavenly.
"Aw, the smell of money…priceless! Pretty soon, lots of people will have our inventions that don't work, and we'll have their money!" And with that, he and Rick did their evil laughs.
"Phineas!" Buford called him on the phone at five minutes to one in the morning. "You'll never guess what I bought!"
"Can't it wait until later?" Phineas asked with a yawn. "It's almost one in the morning.
"Sorry, I was going to call you earlier but I forgot and calling you now before I forget."
"Look, call me tomorrow and…."
"But I might forget."
"Very well, shoot."
"Okay, remember I said I wanted to be big?"
"Yeah."
"Well, I went to the bathroom, that really was a science lab/shop. I brought this growth elixir from this guy, so now I can be big without having to wait. Isn't that great?" Phineas yawned again.
"Yeah, that's great Buford."
"I'll drink it in front of your guys so I can rub it in your faces."
"Okay, bye!" With that, Phineas hung up and hopped back onto his bed.
"Who was it?" Ferb asked.
"Buford." Phineas answered. "He brought a growth elixir from a guy and said that he'll rub it in our faces when he comes over." He then thought of something. "Say Ferb, why is the phone in our room?" Ferb shrugged and the boys went back to sleep.
"Here's my new elixir." Buford said when he entered the Flynn-Fletcher's kitchen. He then realized that Phineas and Ferb weren't there. "Hello? Dinner Bell? Dinner Bell's brother?"
"They're outside, Buford." Linda told him, coming in the kitchen. Buford was about to go into the backyard, when Linda spoke to him again. "Oh, Buford? Can you tell Phineas to feed Perry?"
"Sure, whatever."
"Thanks." Buford then went into the backyard.
"Guys!" He told them when he saw them. Baljeet and Isabella were there too. He went over to the two stepbrothers. "You thought I had to wait to grow big, but here in my hand I have a elixir that'll…" He then noticed that they weren't paying attention to him. "Hey; why aren't you guys paying attention to me?" He noticed they were looking at something. "What are you looking at?" He saw that his friends were all looking at lots of flying maple seeds twirling down to the ground as if they were helicopters.
"Uh, guys?" Buford started. "Why are you staring at these lame helicopter seeds?"
"They're fun to look at." Phineas told him. "The way the wind makes them fall off the trees like miniature helicopters."
"They're actually maple seeds." Ferb stated.
"So, are you just going to watch them?" Buford asked.
"We're going to race them by dropping them from the tree branches." Phineas replied. Buford just looked at him.
"That's it? That's all you're going to do?" Phineas shrugged.
"We don't know what else to do. It was either this or direct a penguin choir and we didn't find any penguins, so this is it."
"You got to be kidding me!"
"No, no we're not."
"BORING!" He faked a yawn. He held up the elixir. "What I have here is much more interesting then helicopter seeds. This may look like a water bottle, but…." Phineas' eyes widened.
"Oh my gosh!" He cried. "Perry! I'm supposed to feed him and check if he needs more water in his water bowl." He headed towards the house. "Thanks for the reminder, Buford!" Buford sighed.
"Sure thing, Dinner Bell." He went into the house with the other kids.
Phineas opened Perry's platypus food and poured some in his food bowl. He then saw that his water bowl was empty. He picked up the bowl and took it to the sink. He was about to turn it on when Candace spoke up.
"The sink's busted." Phineas looked at his sister, who opened the fridge to pour herself a cup of cranberry juice. He was confused.
"Why is the sink busted?" Candace shrugged.
"I don't know. Mom said she tried washing a dish in the sink, but when she tried using the water, only a drop fell. A plumber's coming in an hour to try to fix it."
"Is there a water bottle so I can pour some water in his water bowl?"
"I didn't see any in the fridge." She then left the kitchen with her cranberry juice. Phineas looked at his friends.
"Well, I guess I'll have to use the sink in the bathroom."
"Uh, Phineas?" Isabella said to him, pointing behind him. Phineas turned around and saw the platypus was pawing at his water bowl. He looked at his owner. Where's my water?
"Sorry, boy." Phineas told his pet. "The sink's busted and there's no water bottles in the fridge, so I'm going to get water from another sink." He was about to go when he saw the elixir in Buford's hand. "Buford! You didn't tell me you had a water bottle. May I use it to pour some water for Perry?"
"Well actually, you see, this isn't a…"
Suddenly, there was a loud sound. Buford jumped, dropping the bottle to the floor.
"What was that?" The bully wanted to know. He looked down and gasped. The liquid had burst out of the bottle and Perry ran and began to lap it up. "My elixir!" He went and his hands and knees and started licking the wet floor as if he were an untamed animal.
"Sorry! Sorry!" Linda apologized. "I was only trying to wash a plate in the sink. I completely forgot it was busted." She noticed Buford licking madly at the floor. Buford saw Linda.
"Oh, hi Mrs. Flynn-Fletcher!" He greeted, and then went back to licking the floor. Linda was about to ask what he was doing, when the doorbell rang.
"Linda, honey!" Lawrence called. "Are you going to get that?"
"Sure thing!" Linda called back and went out of the kitchen.
"Yeah, dude." Phineas started. "What are you doing?"
"You're acting like an animal." Baljeet added.
"I'm trying to find the right drop of water to drink." Buford answered. Phineas arched an eyebrow.
"The right drop of water?" He wanted to know. "What are you talking about?"
"Well," Lick, lick. "That water…"lick, lick…. "wasn't really water…" lick…lick… it was really…"lick, lick, "a growth elixir", lick, lick. "Gah!" He looked at Phineas. "Why did your pet have to go and do that?"
"Because he was thirsty." Isabella answered. "And you shouldn't blame a platypus for being thirsty."
"Well, he might've just ruined everything."
"Might've ruined what? Buford, what the heck are you talking about?"
"Yeah!" Baljeet agreed. "And could you also stand up and look at us face to face so you can get it out more clearly?"
"Fine!" Buford said, standing up. He looked at his friends.
Perry strolled into the backyard. He was about to go into his lair in the secret panel in the side of the house that was just for him in secret agent mode, when he felt something painful in his sides. 'What's happening to me'?
Suddenly the pain stopped. Perry looked at the house, and couldn't believe his eyes. The house seemed to have shrunk. The platypus was confused. What had happened to the house? In fact, he looked all around, everything seemed to have shrunk! The trees, the lawn, the clouds, the birds, the maple seeds, the fence, everything! He looked back at the side of the house. How can he fit in there?
He then heard a girlish scream. He tuned around and saw a little Candace.
"PHINEAS!" Candace screamed. "GET OUT HERE, NOW!" The platypus saw his boys and their friends come out. They all used to be bigger then him, but now, they all looked like ants.
"What it is, Candace?" Phineas asked his sister. Candace pointed at Perry.
"Why don't you tell me?" Phineas and his friends turned to Perry. All of their eyes widened and jaws dropped.
"Whoa, Perry! You grew 50 feet tall!" Perry's eyes widened.