AN: Hey, I remembered my password! Happy 2015! To celebrate the New Year, here's the first chapter of my new crossover fic. A new chapter will be posted every Friday or Saturday, depending on when I have time. I will tell you in the Author's Notes if there is a change in plans. Right, Chapter One!
Chapter One
A Curious Incident
"A tutor?" Rose asked, dubious. "Seriously?"
The Doctor put on his trench coat and grinned at his companion. "Well, you're the one who keeps complaining that I don't have money to buy you chips."
"You can make chips by pushing a couple of buttons!" Rose laughed, referencing the TARDIS's way of producing food.
"Yeah, well, there may-or-may-not be something interesting going on in this area." the Doctor conceded, piquing Rose's interest.
"What sort of something?"
"Couple of lasers fired into space. Nothing too important." the Time Lord shrugged. "Besides, there are these two boys living here who need a 'highly advanced and extremely patient tutor.'"
"So where are we, then?" Rose asked, leaning against the TARDIS console.
"Danville, USA, somewhere in the 2010s." the Doctor told her. "You just explore the TARDIS a bit. I'll be back before you know it."
"Explore the TARDIS?" Rose smirked. "Do you want me to get lost? You showing off your box to someone else?"
"Absolutely not. I'm not taking anyone that young on as a companion." He seemed to have some sort of unpleasant memory up front, and Rose decided not to ask about it.
"Right. Have fun!" Rose said, heading off into a random door. She called back, "And bring me back something nice!"
The Doctor walked into the living room, where the two boys were waiting. "Hello, I'm the Doctor!" he called. "Are you Phineas and Ferb?"
"Yep." Phineas nodded, fiddling with something in his hands. "I'm Phineas, and this is Ferb."
"Your mom said she'll bring snacks while we're working on History." the Doctor reported, before sitting down in one of the chairs. "If you don't mind my asking, why do you need a tutor, anyway? Your sister's going to normal school, right? Why aren't you?"
"We kept getting in trouble." Phineas explained. "And I really can't see why. The last straw was when we built a giant robot during recess so we could explain to the other kids the scientific method. I don't think Mom believed the Principal, though."
"Really, a giant robot?" the Doctor was interested. "Out of what?"
"Textbooks and a swingset."
"Wow. Well, we should probably get started with History. What do you know about Perseus and Medusa?"
"One time our sister turned into Medusa for an afternoon." Phineas suggested.
The Doctor paused. "Alright."
"We also raced chariots downtown."
"Interesting. What are you doing?"
Phineas, in response, lifted up a miniature truck. He then placed it on the table and it starting driving in circles.
The Doctor, surprised, pulled out his sonic screwdriver and started scanning the car. "Wow." he said, checking out the readings. "That's impressive."
Ferb, who had been doing relatively nothing this whole time, looked at the screwdriver curiously.
"What is that?" Phineas asked, amazed.
"Nothing." the Doctor shrugged, putting it in his jacket pocket. "Why don't we get started?"
"It looks awesome." Phineas continued, thinking of the Sonic and not paying attention. "What does it do?"
"Nothing." the Doctor persisted, a little annoyed with himself for having blown his cover so early. "In Ancient Greece-"
"But it makes such a cool whirring sound." Phineas added, and Ferb nodded to back him up. "And you used it to scan my car. Does it read technology to see what it's made of? Is it human? Is it from the future? Are you from the future?"
"I'm from the past and the future." the Doctor said vaguely. "I'm from Nevertime- I mean Neverland- I mean..."
Thankfully, Mrs. Flynn-Fletcher walked in with a bowl of potato chips. The toy car convenientally slid off the table and under the sofa, leaving no evidence of its presence.
Ferb took a quick glance at the bowl, and said, "That's not what he meant by chips."
"Oh, right." Linda nodded, setting the bowl down. "The accent should have cued me off. Be right back."
"Hello, friend!" the Doctor grinned at Ferb as the latter's mother went back into the kitchen, referencing his accent. "How long've you been here?"
"It looks so pretty." Phineas muttered, still distracted. "I bet we could replicate it if..."
"Maybe later, American." the new tutor quickly changed the subject. "Ancient Greece."
"See you tomorrow, boys!" the Doctor called from the doorway. "Just... don't be surprised if I'm a week or so late. Happens from time to time." With that the door slammed shut.
Phineas turned to his brother. "I dunno, Ferb. Something seems off about him."
"Was it the last sentence, the sonic thing or the fact he talked about Ancient Greece as if he was there?" Ferb asked.
"Actually, it was when he mentioned he lived in a 1950's Phone Box, but yeah, those are pretty valid points."
Ferb shrugged.
"We should probably follow him. Just to be sure he's not an alien or something. If he is, I'm sure Meap would like to know."
Ferb nodded in agreement.
"Come on!" Phineas jumped off the couch. "We can probably catch up to him if we go now." he then called into the kitchen, "Mom! We're going outside!"
"Don't bother your sister!" Linda called back unconcernedly. Candace had returned from school only a few minutes before.
As Phineas and Ferb raced out the door after their tutor, Candace watched from her bedroom window. "What are they up to?" she asked out loud.
"And I've just lost you." her best friend, Stacy, said from over the phone. "Candace, we're supposed to be doing our homework together. Remember? Teamwork?"
"Hold that thought, Stace." Candace told her. "Be back in a flash."
"No. No you won't." Stacy sighed from the other end of the phone as Candace hung up and raced out the door.
The Doctor fumbled in his pocket for the TARDIS keys. He noticed that none of the odd passersby cared about the man trying to enter the old-timey police box. People around Danville must be used to this kind of stuff. That's when he remembered. "Oh!" he scolded himself. "Left Rose's chips at the Flynn-Fletchers'."
As he ran off to grab his gift for Rose, Phineas and Ferb crawled out from behind a building. "Huh. That's a pretty small house." Phineas noted. "You think we can open it?"
They walked up to the box and tried the door, but it was locked. "You don't happen to have one of those Sonic-Things, do you?"
In response, Ferb pulled one out of his jacket. "As always, you are prepared." Phineas complimented.
Ferb used the device on the door. All they got in response was an angry humming from the box. "Oh, gosh, Ferb." Phineas's eyes widened. "I think it's alive."
Ferb put the sonic away. (It was just a prototype anyway, and he hadn't expected it to work.)
"Um, excuse me sir, or ma'am," Phineas looked innocently up at the blue box. "But we're Phineas and Ferb, and, um, we kind of need to get in... so, you know, if you could...um..."
The door opened a crack.
"Sweet! Thanks!" Phineas grinned and ran in, closely followed by Ferb, who closed the door behind them.
"Hmm." Phineas glanced briefly around the inside, which was much bigger than its exterior and a lot more space-y. "It's like our homebase from when we built that milkshake bar. And our SHED. And..." His voice trailed off when he saw the console. "Aw, cool!" He and his brother ran over. "I wonder what these buttons do." he whispered.
He paused, glanced at Ferb, glanced at the console, back at Ferb, then back at the console again. Slowly, he reached out his hand and pushed a button.
The ship began to shake. Both boys grabbed hold of the console to steady themselves. Unfortunately, however, Ferb grabbed a lever and the momentum from the shake forced him to pull it down.
A blonde girl ran in from a corridor, took in the situation in a matter of seconds, then screamed, "No, stop!"
It was too late. The ship rocked even harder, sending all three of them flying into the railing.
The TARDIS was taking off.