Author's Note: Well, this first Phineas and Ferb fanfiction I've ever written. I'm just taking a little break from White Collar. I'll continue it if there's enough positive feedback. This is a Phineas and Ferb: Reinventing High School fanfic. The idea belongs to KicsterAsh-totally not mine. Also, Doverstar writes her own (loosely based on KicsterAsh's idea as well). Those are the ones that I follow like crazy, love Doverstar- and she knows it. Damien Diablo is her character. He's not appearing but I briefly mentioned him- gotta give credit where credit is due! So, yeah. I hope you enjoy it!
Isabella Garcia Shapiro, now at age fifteen, was tidying up her room on a Saturday morning. Her mother had instructed to quickly clean it up, because her second cousin and her daughter were coming to Danville for a visit this week. The high school had its Winter Break for ten days, so when Vivian received a call from her second cousin asking if they could stay, she gladly complied.
"How old's the daughter?" Isabella had asked, she didn't feel like babysitting a little kid, Phineas and Ferb were going to be busy inventing something incredible today, and she wanted to be free to help out the boy who was so oblivious to her crush.
"She is your age, Isa. You can bring her to your little friends' house."
Isabella rolled her eyes, "Mom, They're fifteen and sixteen. They're not very little anymore."
"Si, si. You are right. Make sure you include her, though."
"What's her name?" By now, Isabella was used to not knowing family members. She had a large family and they were very wide spread. Most of them were still in Mexico, but with such a large family, it was hard to keep up on everyone.
"I think she said it was Arabella, now go and clean up your room for her!" Vivian shooed her away.
Arabella, Isabella thought, it's weird how are names are so alike. I wonder if she looks like me too. She finished cleaning and plopped down on her pink bed. She flipped her raven hair across her shoulder and thought about a regular topic in her mind: Phineas. It had been six years since they first built a roller coaster in their backyard, and he still hadn't noticed her like she hoped she would. They were best friends that was for sure, but what did she have to do to get the triangle headed boy to notice her? Every single time she said her catchphrase, "Whatcha doin?" it was for him. Her heart melted every time he responded with, "Oh, hi Isabella!" Why couldn't he see that? There were plenty of guys that liked her, and she had turned down several. After all, she was a cheerleader at school. The most recent one was a boy from the outskirts of Danville, where she and her mom were going to live, but Phineas convinced Vivian to come back to Danville. Compared to Phineas, Damien Diablo was extremely normal, but at least he showed his affections for her. Isabella shook her head, no one could be better than Phineas. She just had to be more patient.
"I've been patient for six years!" Isabella groaned, throwing a pillow across the room in frustration. Her thoughts were interrupted by the door bell ringing. Ding Dong!
"Isa!" Her mother called in her Spanish accent.
"Coming!" she yelled back, stooping down to retrieve the thrown pink pillow. Isabella rushed down the stairs to see her relative. What were they officially? Third cousins? Second cousin twice removed? Isabella decided to introduce Arabella as her cousin to avoid confusion.
Vivian was opening the door right when Isabella hit the last step.
"Vivian!" A female Latino voice said in excitement. The door blocked her from Isabella's view.
"Rosa! You have not changed a bit! Come inside! You must be Arabella, I only saw you once when you were a baby at the family reunion!" Her mom rattled on, "Isabella, come and meet your.. you can call her Aunt Rosa, can't she?"
Aunt Rosa nodded, she looked exactly like Vivian. Isabella looked around, trying to find her cousin.
"Oh, Arabella! Come out from behind the door. Do not act shy, because you aren't!" Aunt Rosa said it almost as rapidly as Vivian would have.
Arabella Shapiro stepped out from behind the door and smiled a half grin, "What's happenin'?" She said it very similar to the way Isabella said her catch phrase, saying it very song-like, starting out low and rising in pitch.
Isabella just stared at the girl. They were definitely related. Arabella had the same shaped head, huge eyes, and they were the exact same height. They even dressed similar. Isabella was wearing her usual white pants and pink sweater with a belt around the waist. Arabella had on a pair of dark pants with a blue sweater. She wore a choker as a necklace instead of a belt. There were some differences that confirmed they were not twins or sisters. Instead of raven black, straight hair, Arabella had long, blonde curly hair, along with dark brown eyes. She had lighter skin, which made Isabella wonder, how is she on the Shapiro side of the family?
Arabella broke the silence that Isabella didn't realize acquired because of her staring, "You must be Isabella then," she said sweetly.
"Yep, that's me!" She recovered, "Want to go to my room?"
"Sure!"
The two 'bellas made their way up the stairs, talking eagerly and sincerely trying to get to know each other.
Meanwhile in Downtown Danville, a secret agent was infiltrating a tall, purple building. This wasn't just any secret agent, he was a platypus. Most humans think they don't do much, but this one did quite a lot. Agent P, as he is known when carrying out his agent duties, had thwarted scheme after scheme belonging to the evil scientist, Dr. Doofenshmirtz. It had been over five years since he had become his arch nemesis. Heiz was trying to take over Danville again, and it was Agent P's responsibility to stop him. The platypus looked at his watch. By this time his owner, Phineas Flynn would wonder out loud where he was. Perry, as he was known in the Flynn-Fletcher household, began scaling the building faster.
Pop Pop Pop, the suction cups released from the building and was put higher up for Agent P to climb. After a few minutes, he reached the top and climbed through the window.
SNAP! Perry was trapped in a cage made out of thousands of tightly woven together Valentines Day Cards.
"Perry the Platypus, how kind of you to drop by. See, usually I greet you and then trap you. I wanted to change it up, but anyways... Where was I? Oh yeah, BEHOLD!" Doofenshmirtz yelled dramatically, "The Fall- in- Love- Inator!"
Perry just blinked.
"Oh, come on. Perry the Platypus! This is a seriously evil device. Shouldn't I get a lecture on why you shouldn't interfere with the natural course of love?"
"Grrrrk," Perry responded.
"Close enough. You see, Perry the Platypus, Charlene keeps pestering me for the almony! Times are tough, I don't have it when she asks for it. So, I decided to build an Inator that would make Charlene fall back in love with me, that way she knows I don't have the money right away! All I have to do is zap her and the first person she sees, she'll fall in love with! There's a lag time on it, that way I have time to get over there, so I guess it isn't the first person she sees after she gets zapped. it's when the lag time on the zap wears off, then it's the first person she sees!"
As Doofenshmirtz was explaining all of this, Perry had been slowly cutting away the Valentines Day Cards with miniature scissors.
"I have it all set up, it's pointed at Charlene's house. All I have to do is push this button. OW!"
Perry had struck then. He aimed and executed a good kick to the face of the evil scientist.
The platypus landed on the ground, ready to fight, when he bumped the Inator to the left. Little did he know, he had pointed it at his own house! Doofenshmirtz came back with a clumsy attempt to punch Perry, which the platypus skillfully dodged. Heinz's fist just nicked the button of the machine, sending a green ray out of the building.
Fifteen year old Phineas Flynn was throwing a snowball at his green haired step brother when the ray hit him.
"Hey, Phineas! Whatcha doin?" Isabella peeked her head around the gate to their backyard before entering with Arabella.
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