the introduction does most of the explaining on how "things came to be" but i feel i should warn you: there are more implications than there are explanations, as time goes on.
this isn't a romance fic. this is dark. people will get hurt, mentally and physically. nothing explicit, of course. but still; it's not pretty.
if characters seem too OOC, please do let me know. except vanessa. just...trust me on this.
And Winter Betrayed Us
phineas and ferb are separated, almost reunited, and the tri-state area faces its greatest challenge yet. in which summer can't be found and a group of friends try to find it anyways.
It is the third day of summer when Vanessa Doofenshmirtz takes over the Tri-State area. Ferb is fourteen and straight out of middle school.
His family—they are watching Modern Family when she appears on-screen. Throughout the whole of the speech, Ferb absently wonders if he's dreaming. But in all reality, he already knows that he is not.
Danville suddenly comes alive. Families try to escape—some manage, but only very few. His family isn't one of them. He is selfishly relieved when he learns Isabella, Buford, and Baljeet's families couldn't manage to leave, either. But he's more thankful that Candace is far away from here, off finishing her second semester at Yale. Jeremy, too; at least they will have each other.
Ferb banishes the dark thought as soon as it comes: he can't afford to think like that.
They think the military comes. It's been three days since her speech and takeover, and they hear gunshots far away and helicopters and planes overhead; but whatever the military is doing, it's not working. Ferb has no idea what sort of weapons Vanessa has, but he is pretty sure she has hostages to ward off the attackers.
Mum and Father won't turn on the telly to find out. During the day, the television stays shut off, but he knows Mum and Father watch it when they think he and Phineas are asleep.
Phineas and Ferb don't sleep much anymore. They go to bed at ten, staying up to midnight or so, just talking about anything except the Takeover they soon call it—what everyone soon calls it. When they hear the telly turn on, they'll sneak down to learn what has happened during the day. They'll stay up for an hour, huddled together on the carpeted stairs. When the telly clicks off, they scurry back upstairs into their room, clambering into one of the beds: they don't sleep alone anymore.
They hardly ever see their friends, but the parents are worried and that's understandable. None of them hold any sort of anger towards their parents.
They do, however, hold anger to Vanessa Doofenshmirtz. Except Ferb. He…he doesn't know what he feels. He once loved her—and maybe still does—but she's hurting everyone and holding hostages and killing people. It's not…he can't—
He needs to see her, needs to know why she's doing all of…this because the girl he knew would never—
—Would she?
Ferb doesn't know. He does not want to know.
On the eight day of summer, Ferb notices that he hasn't seen Perry in days. That same day—well, later that night—Vanessa announces the capture of a dangerous enemy: Perry the Platypus.