The Hurricane

A Phineas and Ferb fan fiction by KLCI

*Phineas & Ferb property of Dan Povenmire, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh and the Walt Disney Company

Chapter 1

The sun glistened off the rooftops of the sleek office buildings as people happily moved about on the streets and sidewalks below. Some may have just been taking a simple break from their jobs to get outside and enjoy the fantastic weather. Others, particularly the children were either playing in one of the several parks that dotted the city or were on their way to the beach. Yes, it was certainly turning out to be one of the best summers Danville had seen in many years. For one teenager, however, this was no time to lie around in the sun, she was on a mission.

Candace Flynn peddled her bike furiously down the streets of downtown Danville, even passing by surprised drivers in their slow moving cars. "Must…get…to mom…must…bust…Phineas….Ferb." She panted, after all she had rode her bike all the way from the Flynn/Fletcher house hold on the northeast side of the city to the downtown area. Normally, she would have simply called her mother, Linda, to inform her of the monumental activities her younger brothers were up to, but mom's cooking classes had been moved to a new high rise building, which from within, one could not get a cellular signal for the life of themselves.

Then Candace spotted it, her mother's red Buick station wagon parked in a metered space beside the large concrete building. She hopped off her bike, stopped for a few seconds to catch her breath and then ran into the building, racing through the lobby and into an elevator that happened to just conveniently be going up.

Meanwhile, on the 7th floor, Linda Flynn was just putting her finishing touches on her rather appetizing looking chicken piccata, when Candace burst through the door. Everyone in the classroom looked up at the sudden intrusion, Linda put her hand to her forehead and said "Oh, no."

The anxious girl ran over to her mother, "Mom! Mom, you won't believe what Phineas and Ferb have done to the back yard!"

"Um, Candace honey, couldn't this wait until after my class?" Linda asked her daughter, everyone in the room now looking at the two.

"Wait? No! Phineas and Ferb built this huge dirt race track in the back yard, and, and, there's motorcycles, and this giant Jeep thing and…."

"Hold on. Didn't you say they did this a few weeks ago?" Linda interrupted. Referring to the time the boys had built a monster truck stadium in the back yard and even helped Candace learn to parallel park in the process.

Candace sighed, "No, that was a monster truck rally! It's got motorcycles this time! Flying motorcycles!"

"Candace, just relax okay. I just finished my dish, why don't we both just go home so I can see this huge racetrack and these crazy flying motorcycles."

The teenager looked pleased but still anxious than ever. "Ya, but we have to go right now! We need to get home quick before it mysteriously disappears!" She urged. With that, Candace forcibly started pulling her mother by her arm out of the classroom. Just before the two disappeared through the doorway, Linda waved goodbye to the rest of the class with a very embarrassed look on her face. The teacher shook his head in disbelief.

"Wow, she wasn't kidding when she said her daughter was high strung huh?" The entire class nodded in unison.

Meanwhile, back at the Flynn/Fletcher home on Maple Drive, Phineas, Ferb and the neighborhood kids were having a good ole' fashioned mud bath. Well, not ole' fashioned in the sense that the miniature dirt bikes Phineas and Ferb had built had the ability to fly, but it was still certainly a huge mud bath. After getting the idea from some sports magazine that had come in the mail that morning, Phineas proposed that he and Ferb build their own motocross track. Of course, Ferb had whipped up both a blueprint for a huge dirt track and a schematic for a few flying mini bikes in a matter of minuets and after a surprisingly brief construction period, the kids were all enjoying the brothers' crazy invention for the day.

Piloting the flagship bike was Phineas, with Ferb sitting in an attached side car controlling the mini rocket boosters that helped the bike fly. Just as they were pulling off a trick where they were jumping the bike over a cliff-like gap way to large for a normal dirt bike to jump across (hence, the bike's flying ability), a red light near the handlebars started flashing, indicating they were nearly out of fuel. Both brothers took note of it immediately.

"Uh oh, better make a pit stop." Phineas said. Ferb nodded in agreement. They steered the bike into a maintenance pit, where their good friend Isabella was waiting with her Fireside troop. As soon as the bike stopped, Isabella and her team were ready.

"Okay girls, let's do this." Isabella said. As the girls all started changing the tires and adding fuel to the bike, Isabella was up at the front, using a squeegee to clean all the dirt off the small windshield. "So, Phineas…" she said dreamily, "…having a good time?"

Phineas nodded, "As always." He said with a smile. Seconds later, the girls were finished, the bike was gassed up and ready to go. "Man Isabella, you girls make one heck of a great pit crew!"

Isabella giggled gleefully, any compliment coming from Phineas was a treat to her, "Thanks Phineas, we try our best." With that, the bike blasted out of the pit area.

Meanwhile, a familiar looking purple blimp was flying over the city, heading towards Phineas and Ferb's neighborhood. That's right folks, it's the Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc. blimp. Inside the blimp, the supposedly evil doctor Heinz Doofenshmirtz piloted the blimp, while his nemesis, Perry the platypus struggled to find a way out of the lobster trap-like device Doof had trapped him in earlier.

"Now, Perry the platypus, behold the awesome power of my spitballinator! Finally, I can get back at that irritating Dmitri Lundgich, he was always throwing spit balls at me as a child in school! Sometimes I swear I can still feel them sticking to the back of my head! But soon we will be flying directly over his brand new home and I will cover the entire thing with the biggest spit ball in the world! It will take him months to clean it all off his house! Ahahahaha!" Doofenshmirtz laughed maniacally. Perry simply shook his head, Doof was known to hold a grudge for a long time, but this was crazy.

"Ah well. Better get this over with." Perry thought to himself. Lifting his fedora off his head slightly, he pulled out a tiny pair of wire clippers. They sure weren't as effective as his usual laser devices, but they did the trick. Dr Doofenshmirtz was too busy giggling like a 3 year old about covering his childhood bully's house in spit and paper anyway. After he quickly made a hole in the lobster trap and stepped out, he leaped up and landed a swift kick right to the back of the whacky doctor's head.

Doofenshmirtz looked back at Perry, stunned to see he had escaped, "Perry the platypus? But how did you escape?" Perry pointed to the wire cutters in his hand. Doof slapped his forehead, "You know, I really should have seen this coming. I mean, a lobster trap? Really? Man, I must be getting a little rusty!"

As Doofenshmirtz rambled on about how he should have used a more technically advanced trap, he casually turned around and noticed Perry was not listening to him, he was messing up all the wires leading from the spitballinator's control panel to the giant dome shaped launcher below the blimp, which held the giant spitball. Doof gasped and ran over to try and stop Perry, but the platypus quickly jumped up and spun around, smacking Doof in the face with his tail. Unfortunately for Perry, this sent Doof flying over to the machine's giant launching lever. Seeing this, the little platypus threw his pair of wire cutters towards Doof to stop him from pulling the lever, unfortunately they hit the lever and knocked it into "Launch" position. Doofenshmirtz started laughing as Perry though sarcastically, "Oh, this is just great."

Meanwhile, Phineas, Ferb and all the other kids where taking a break from the track, sitting on the back patio of the house enjoying some cool drinks. At the same time Linda and Candace where just arriving home. Suddenly the kids noticed a large dark spot had appeared over the back yard as if something was blocking the sun. All the kids looked up to see a giant white ball heading right for the back yard.

"What is that?" Isabella asked.

"Is it a meteor?" asked one of the other kids.

"I believe it's a large ball of various paper materials bound together with human saliva." Ferb said calmly. All the other kids gave him a blank look, "It's a giant spitball." He responded.

Before all the kids could react, the spitball crashed down on top of the motocross track and all the flying dirt bikes. It immediately bounced back up into the sky, taking the dirt track and all the bikes with it. After all, spitballs certainly are sticky and since this one was about the size of a large house, it wasn't too hard for the entire track to stick to it seeing as it landed directly on it. The kids stared in disbelief at the sudden whacky turn of events.

Up a couple hundred feet above the house, Perry sighed in relief as he looked out the window. Upon seeing the spitball was headed for his beloved family's house he cringed hoping Phineas, Ferb, Candace or any of their friends would be in the back yard at that moment and thankfully, they weren't. Doofensmirtz on the other hand wasn't so happy.

"Aw man! I spent all night on that stupid thing! It took me four hours to find enough newspaper to make it and another four of constantly spitting on it! I mean I can't even feel my tongue anymore…." Doof stopped mid-sentence as he had turned around and noticed Perry had parachuted out the door as the giant spit ball was flying right back towards the blimp.

Perry looked up and watched the big ball smash into the blimp, sending it and Doof flying off. "Curse you Perry the platypus!" Doof yelled as the blimp crashed down into a giant garbage dump.

The fence door to the back yard burst open and Candace gestured her hand towards the now non existing dirt track, of course her eyes were still closed as she was satisfied for some reason that it had not disappeared this time.

"See mom? Flying motorcycles!" she said.

Linda looked in back to see Phineas, Ferb and all their friends sitting on the patio enjoying cold drinks in the shade. "Hi boys." She said pleasantly.

Candace opened her eyes and looked to see that everything was gone, again. At first her jaw dropped as usual and she prepared to scream in frustration. However she just decided to quit while she was ahead.

"Ya, fine okay. Candace is insane, there's nothing there, blah blah blah. I'll be in my room banging my head against the wall." The frustrated teen said as she walked into the house.

Phineas winced, "I hope she doesn't mean that literally."

"You and me both Phineas." Linda responded. "So it looks like you kids are having fun, so I'm just gonna go inside and finish packing. Your father and I have a very early flight tomorrow morning." With that Linda walked into the house.

"Where are your parents going again?" Isabella asked.

"Some antique convention in Finland. They've been waiting all year for it." Phineas responded.

"Scandinavian countries have rather desirable antiques apparently." Ferb added.

"Ya, so they're really excited about it. Good thing that hurricane away from us and out to sea, otherwise they would have had to cancel their trip." Phineas said, referring to Hurricane Boyd, a category 3 hurricane that was originally predicted to hit the tri-state area. Thankfully, the very day before, the forecast had changed and predicted that the hurricane would now head out to sea and away from the area, allowing Linda and her husband Lawrence to leave on their trip as planned.

The boys and Isabella soon heard a familiar chattering sound and looked down to see Perry had returned, looking as much like his normal household pet form as ever.

"Oh, there you are Perry." Phineas said, bending down to give his pet platypus an affectionate pet on the head, "You missed all the fun!"

Little did anyone know that Hurricane Boyd would be making another unexpected turn in the days to come.

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Author's Note: This is my first P&F fanfic, so hopefully I did okay with this first chapter. It's a bit long and it follows the show's basic episode formula, but the chapters to come will certainly deviate from that, so stay tuned!