Phineas And Ferb

The Great Garcia-Shapiro Chase

Prologue

A/N: With the announcement that Phineas and Ferb is coming to an end, it left me in a pretty tough spot. I'm not going to lie to you, I pretty much lost it when I heard the news. On one hand I'm happy that the show is going out on top because it absolutely has earned that right. On the other hand, on a personal note, it'd have been a lot easier for me to accept the show's fate if it had actually started to suck during its 4th season. But it didn't. Regardless, it'll go down as a timeless classic and one of the greatest cartoons that's ever had the privilege of being on television. And I'll always be grateful for it.

With that out of the way, the announcement also inspired me to do something I had only previous joked at doing: updating or completely rewriting some of my old fanfictions. And one of the biggest ones I want to re-do or fix up is my infamous "New Adventures" series. That includes the prequel story "Dude Where's My Girlfriend" which I'm renaming. It may or may not also include some of the side stories I've written for this series such as my "The Talk" series or "Worldwide." In fact, I may just decided to combine them all into this new series as one story. I don't know, I haven't given it that much thought yet. But I've definitely been inspired and I'm not going to take this announcement lying down.

I realize full well the odds are highly unlikely, but there is a link in my profile page to a petition I started asking Disney to revive the series. If you want to sign it, you're more than welcome to. If you don't want to sign it, that's fine too. But be polite about it and don't insult me or the people who have signed it for wanting it to come back, please.

With regard to this particular series, my objective is to make it a lot less mean-spirited. I started it at a time where I was still a massive fan of Family Guy and I derived a lot of my techniques from that show. I now realize that was a mistake because frankly I hate some of the old chapters that I wrote. I mean, guys, I made Glenn Quagmire her FATHER. How the hell does that make sense? It's gross, and there's no place for it here.

Now let me be clear: I'm not going to be removing any of the chapters. Well, except maybe the 1st 3 because those are the ones I hate the most. But other than those three, I'm simply going to be rewriting all the other ones to make them more cohesive and more true to the show itself. That may include altering some of the plots to make them work better or rearranging the dialogue or whatever. So, without further ado, here we go.

Summary: It's the start of a brand new summer for Phineas and Ferb, and to celebrate, they throw a huge bash with all of their friends. But when Isabella, who is in Mexico for a family reunion, is unable to make it back in time, Phineas decides to take the party right to her, only to find she is missing, resulting in a chase all over to find his best friend - and maybe discover something he never new before.

Meanwhile, Doofenshmirtz's spot in L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. is put in jeopardy when Rodney brings in a new member, and he is inspired to think of the most heinous and diabolical evil plan of his life, even if it means putting his nemesis and loved ones in legitimate danger.

Disclaimer: Phineas and Ferb does not belong to me. It belongs to Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh. Congratulations on an amazing run guys and hopefully we see the show someday again!

The room was quiet. The chandelier above swung back and forth as a weak light flickered on and off. On the ground, Doofenshmirtz and Isabella lay on the ground, tied up and completely exhausted. Isabella began opening her eyes. Her blurred vision stared directly into the flickering light. Her hair disheveled and her body bruised, she struggled to sit up Doofenshmirtz opened his eyes shortly after.

"W-W-Where are we?" Her shallow and hoarse voice squeaked out. She looked around the room. Beyond even the weak light, all that was visible in the room was a giant space of nothing. No shelfs, no doors, no windows. Just one door at the top of a long stairwell and a barely lit light on the ceiling. "I-I don't recognize any of this." Isabella coughed.

"Oh, my head. It feels like the annual "Loser-Bludgeon" after a game of Poke The Goozim With a Stick." Doofenshmirtz said as he sat up. "Boy, this room feels pretty lifeless, don't you think?"

"At least there are no, like, skeletons or anything that you normally see in one of those horror-film-like scenes."

"I suppose I should count my blessings. Back in Gimmelshtump, my parents made me watch these scary movies every night before I went to bed. I would usually wet myself and then get a spanking from my parents for wetting myself."

Isabella grimmaced at Doofenshmirtz. "That's, uh...that's disturbing."

"I had a very unpleasant childhood."

Their conversation together was interrupted by the sounds of the door creaking open slowly. A shadowy figure - clouded by the light from the next room - stood there holding what appeared to be an umbrella and wearing a trench coat. He took one step down the stairwell, then another. Then another step, each step creaking louder than the last. When the shadowy figured stepped out of the ray of light, his figure became enlightened.

He was a tall, slender man wearing a trench coat and a fedora. And not the OWCA-issued fedoras either. Like a really old, really worn fedora. A middle-aged man, implied by the wrinkles on his face, he scowled harshly towards Doofenshmirtz and less so at Isabella. "Hello, Heinz." He spoke with a snarly, sinister, vindictive voice (Imagine Christopher Lloyd).

"I knew you were nothing but trouble, Lloyd." Doofenshmirtz snarled. "I should have stopped you when I had the chance."

"Shoulda, woulda, coulda. Don't make me laugh. It's not like you can stop me now, anyways."

Isabella looked back and forth at Doofenshmirtz and at Lloyd. "I'm sorry, does someone want to tell me what the heck is going on?"

Lloyd laughed. "Oh, my dear…"

Isabella waited for him to continued. When he didn't, he assumed he was waiting to find out her name. "…Isabella."

"What? Oh, sorry. I wasn't asking for your name because I don't care." He knelled down to her eye level and stared right at her. "I know how this works: I tell you my plan, I leave you here, then you find a way to escape my trap and stop my plan. Well, I know exactly how to rectify that flaw. I'm not going to tell you anything."

"Great, so how does that stop us from escaping?"

"Little lady, I am a master at knot-tying. If you two dunce buckets somehow manage to escape my knots, I'll eat my hat."

"Eww, gross!" Doofenshmirtz exclaimed. "Why would you want to eat your own hat? It looks disgusting. I-It looks like roadkill."

"Silence! How dare you mock my uniform! I mean, look at you! You're wearing a labcoat. People must think you're a…a…a dentist-"

"Pharmacist, I know, can we please just-wait wait wait." Doofenshmirtz glared annoyingly at Lloyd. "Did you say dentist? You think this lab coat makes me look like a dentist?"

"You think it makes you look like a pharmacist?"

"Well, no! No, I-I just mean that every…I mean I don't think I look like a pharmacist. I'm just saying everyone else I run into thinks that. I-I don't really understand it. I'm trying to look like an evil genius more than anything."

A brief pause. "Right. Whatever; I'm done pandering to you two. I'll be back for you when my evil scheme is finished! In the meantime, don't even think about trying to escape." He laughed once and turned around, heading back up the stairs slowly and shutting the doors behind him, dimming the light back to just the weak flickering one attached to the swinging chandelier. Isabella and Doofenshmirtz were left to their own accords, desperate to escape their trap. A long, seemingly endless moment of silence surrounded them both.

"OK but seriously, what's with the worn our fedora?" Doofenshmirtz asked; in an attempt to break the ire, he instead drew Isabella's ire and a highly un-approving glare from her.

End of Prologue

Like I said at the beginning. This is a BLATANT re-write of "Dude Where's My Girlfriend" and the series that comes after this particular fan fiction will be a blatant rewrite of "The New Adventures of Phineas and Ferb." Now for the most part, with that big story, I do plan on rewriting most of my chapters, though I'm unsure if I need to or even want to rewrite all of them. Now when I say I'm "rewriting them" that does not necessarily mean that I'm simply fixing us some old mistakes, nor does it mean that I'm going to completely revamp the plots for each and every one of them.

In all honesty, I'm probably going to take this by a chapter-by-chapter basis. It's a huge project, and it's one I've wanted to do for a long time. Now some of you may be asking "why don't you just continue the series you're already doing?" Well, the obvious answer would be that I just want to start over and hit the "reset" button, but that's not the complete answer. To be honest, I'm not entirely proud of the work that I've done in that series. At least as a whole. There are plenty of chapters that I'm proud of, plenty of chapters I absolutely hate with a passion, and some that I just feel I could've done better with.

Plus, with the series ending soon I've gained inspiration and I want to use this as my coping mechanism to deal with it ending. I still plan on continuing with my "Baby Adventures of Phineas" fanfic - that one I'm actually most proud of - I'm not sure about the Phineas and Ferb/Family Guy crossover fic, I might restart (again) my Phineas and Ferb/Powerpuff Girls crossover fic (hell, I may even decide to incorporate it into THIS series for all I know) and there's also a bunch of other ideas I've been throwing around but haven't had the inspiration to get started on them. So we'll see.

For now, I want to focus specifically on the rewrite for "Dude Where's My Girlfriend" and my "New Adventures" series.

Oh, and before I go, to answer your question: no, I am not taking down either of those fics - or any of my side series that are associated with them such as the "Talk" series or the fanfic "Worldwide"… at least not for the foreseeable future. I still need them for inspiration and just having them will help my try to stay organized.

So there you have it. If you have any questions, feel free to send me a message.