"Ah! Perry the Platypus! How nice of you to come by.", Doofenshmirtz said as he saw his nemesis crash through the window. "Why don't you just, 'HANG AROUND' for a while?"
A trap was sprung and before the platypus could react, shackles grabbed his webbed feet and hung him upside down from the ceiling. Perry tried to wrestle his way out of the trap but all of a sudden the foggy mental state of instincts settled over his mind. Try as the platypus might, all of a sudden the only thing Agent P could think of doing was to fall limp and wait. So that's what he did with a glassy, dazed look expression on his face. Heinz chuckled to himself as he saw his trap work.
"There's no greater weakness to an animal than their instincts.", he said, more so to himself than to the "dead" platypus. "So Perry the Platypus, you're probably wondering what I've been up to today. Well why not we just start with the reason of why I would come up with such a brilliantly simple trap! BEHOLD! The turn-everything-evilinator! I know I already used it before and Rodney already used it before, but earlier today I used it again on MYSELF!"
While Perry was involuntarily playing dead, he heard what was going on and could feel the shock of the idea make his heart beat faster.
"After my revelation of exactly how much more evil I could be, I decided that the Tri-State Area, for starters, was WAY too small for me to work with.", the man continued. "Secondly, my traps were too easy for an anthropomorphic animal. So I did some research and as it turns out, all animals have an instinct called "tonic immobility", even humans experience this when traumatized enough. This is easily demonstrated with chicken farmers who would hold a chicken upside down when they begin to kill them and the chicken just plays dead. But my evil scheme today isn't just hanging you upside down and making you play dead. After I get the traps sat for all the other agents that will come after you don't come back tonight, I'm going to build satellites, align them to an exact point all over the world so that when I fire my turn-everything-evilinator, the beam will hit one, hit all the others, and eventually hit EVERYONE IN THE WHOLE WORLD! And I know the thought. If everyone's evil, what have I accomplished? Well in case you forgot, this inator also makes whatever it zaps, become MY evil slave! And since I'm both master AND slave when I use that function, it wouldn't really have much affect on me."
At that moment, Vanessa and Charlene pulled up to the front of the DEI, Vanessa obviously in a bitter mood about her visit.
"Mom, I just don't see why I have to spend the WHOLE week with Dad.", Vanessa groaned.
"I already told you. You need a place to stay while we get the house sprayed for bugs.", Charlene explained. "I'm going to be staying with a friend of mine while that's going on."
"Yeah but why can't I just come with you?", she whined.
"Because, it's what your dad and I agreed on. Sorry, Hon. But it just has to be this way."
Vanessa huffed out of the car grabbing her backpack all the while.
"Whatever. It's not like anyone cares what I think.", she scoffed to herself.
She went into the building she knew all too well, went to her bedroom, tossed the pack aside and sat down to her laptop to talk to her friends a bit. Vanessa came into the lab a little later, getting ready to head out with her friends when she saw Perry and stopped, a little creeped out by the odd stare.
"Hey...Dad?", she said, slowing down when she came into the room. "Um... I'm gonna.. head out. You aren't up to anything evil, right?"
"Oh, don't worry Vanessa. It's just the same-old, same-old. You know how it is.", he smiled mischievously, knowing she would fall for the lie.
His daughter was hesitant at first, hearing something...odd in her father's tone. It wasn't that dorky, silly, normal sound he had. It was actually...sly.. Almost cold sounding. But she shrugged it off, not knowing what had happened, and walked out of the room. The moment the door closed behind her, there was a large amount of clanging and banging. She quickly came back in to find a lot of animal agents trapped just like Perry was except for the insects who were trapped in jars. Perry struggled to regain control of himself but Heinz walked by then, forcefully shaking the chains on the platypus' feet and reducing him to the same entrancement he was caught in before. She stared around the room a bit before quickly deciding to take her leave.
The hours in the days passed and as Phineas and Ferb's invention had disappeared and they were brought in for dinner, Phineas looked about the yard.
"Hey.. Where IS Perry?", he asked his brother. "He should be coming in now."
Ferb simply shrugged and they sat down to eat. But all through Dinner, Perry didn't come back home. When the boys were sitting on the couch watching a family movie, Perry hadn't come back. All the way up to bedtime and Phineas and Ferb grew more and more worried about their pet platypus.
"Well this is weird Ferb..", Phineas said as he looked out his bedroom window while the two got dressed for bed. "Perry's never been out this late.."
Ferb gave a shrug in reply.
"What if he was hurt? Or stolen?", Phineas began to ponder, surprising Ferb some. "Sorry if that's a scary thought, Ferb, but I'm really starting to get worried. I'm not all happy rainbows, you know."
Ferb gave a nod, a reassuring hand on Phineas' shoulder and after a moment's longer discussion, the two went to bed. Phineas was soon asleep, but Ferb stared at the dark ceiling for a while before actually being able to fall asleep himself. He was also worried, though not quite a visibly as Phineas, about Perry. It was earlier that Summer, but Ferb still remembered very clearly of one special day that was ringing clear in his mind.
'"You know.. I wonder where he sneaks off to everyday."', Phineas said as he leaned against the tree, accidentally pushing in a hidden button.
A secret door suddenly opened up in the bark of the tree, revealing it was hollowed out. When the boys explored, they were dumped into a large room with platypus-themed equipment. Ferb was assumed to be the one responsible for such a structure but while no one allowed him to say, Ferb wasn't anywhere NEAR the project. While he wasn't entirely sure if Phineas caught onto the idea or not, Ferb knew that if THEIR backyard had a secret tunnel to a PLATYPUS-themed hideout, where a man appeared on a screen saying "AGENT P", it only meant one thing. Perry was a secret agent fighting this "Dr. Doofenshmirtz" fellow. He hadn't breathed word of it since he gave up trying to explain it that day, but everyday confirmed in his mind more and more that Perry was a part of this. His disappearances during the day. How he would randomly show up with scratches or bruises. Ferb wasn't sure if it was possible, but he worried if something had happened to Agent P. If something had caused Perry to be still held up in his job in one of the worse situations than overdue paper work. Only the morning would help him confirm this. And with these thoughts still flowing through his mind, the young boy turned over in his blankets, and tried his best to get some sleep.
Man, it was hard to come up with this. Hope you like it Dizzypirate! ^_^