Chapter 1: Beginnings
Phineas and Ferb, now 15, were working on their next invention. This invention was a device that would allow them to teleport anywhere within a 100 mile radius. They were rewiring the tracking mechanism when Isabella came into the yard.
"Whatcha doing?" Isabella said Phineas smiled at this.
"Rewiring the tracking mechanism to a teleportation device." Phineas replied.
"Wait a minute, didn't you already do teleportation?" Isabella asked.
"Yeah but we've expanded the range of the original device and it doesn't have to be touching what it teleports." Phineas explained.
"How did you fix the targeting error?"
"A bit of mechanics combined with some satellite technology."
"When did you launch a satellite?"
Phineas paused at this; he forgot that he didn't tell Isabella when they launched their 5th satellite. Come to think of it, I'm not sure she knows about any of the satellites. Phineas thought to himself.
"Well you see Isabella we actually have five satellites in orbit." Phineas explained.
"When did you have time to launch those?" She countered.
"During the school year." He replied.
Before anyone could say anything else, something strange happened, Buford walked into the yard and he was carrying something, some kind of small brown book. And what was really weird was that he was reading the book he was carrying. He realized where he was, jumped as if he were scared, and he dropped the book and ran.
"Was that Buford reading a book?" Isabella asked.
"That is a peculiar sight." Ferb said.
"He was acting strange wasn't he?" Phineas pointed out.
Ferb started for the book.
"Um Ferb I don't think that's a good idea." Isabella said.
"But we still need to know what it says." Phineas pointed out.
"Alright but we should at least take precautions." Isabella said.
Within five minutes the three teens had designed a robotic arm and camera system to grab the book without them directly touching it, and allow them to see its contents. And just to be safe they were remotely controlling it from the safety of the living room. They activated the arm, and it opened the book. Through the cameras they read the contents of the book, it talked about a strange set of nanobots that took control of human beings and made them smarter, until it took over all the human population, at which point it would destroy the world. The symptoms described looked exactly like what Buford had done, being smart and reading a book. Reacting differently to situations.
"Buford is infected!" Phineas realized.
"And he may not even know." Isabella said, "Because it says here it doesn't actually take control until it's infected a large number of people."
"There's no telling how much of the population could already be infected!" Phineas realized.
"We have to come up with a way to stop this." Isabella said.
Just then a news bulletin came on.
"This is Randy Renglid warning people to stay indoors and not to interact with other people, we have been getting reports of strange activity and small tiny robots passing between the two and taking control of people. If you value your safety stay inside and away from any windows, air vents, or doors. Ah no stay back you monsters!" The camera was destroyed and the signal lost. The trio remained silent for a moment before they boarded up the windows, locked all the doors, sealed the air vents, and set up an air system so they wouldn't suffocate.
"What do we do now?" Isabella asked.
"We work on a way to incapacitate the nanobots, and we find a way to purge the city of them." Phineas said.
Over the next few hours they were working on a way to hack into the nanobots systems. Little did they know there were others in the city who had survived.