Keeping My Enemy Close

Part 1

"So, what did you think of that log flume ride we went on yesterday?" Phineas asked his stepbrother. The two were sitting under the tree trying to think of today's activity. I lay on the grass before them.

Ferb looked at his stepbrother and gave him the thumbs up.

"Yeah!" Phineas agreed. "It was pretty awesome, wasn't it?" Seconds later, he sat up.

"Hey, Ferb!" He jumped to his feet. "I know what we are going to do today!" Isabella came by then, followed by Buford and Baljeet.

"Whatcha' doin'?" She asked.

"You know the theme park we went to yesterday?"

"Excitement Kingdom? Yeah, that was fun! What about it?"

"You remember the log flume?"

"Extreme Wetness? Oh yes, I loved that ride! With all the animatronic sea animals and lots of waterfalls!" Buford laughed, remembering something.

"I loved how that crocodile squirted Baljeet!" He said and laughed. "I didn't get wet by it!" Baljeet looked at him.

"Only because I tried to not get wet but you used my body as a human shield!"

"Yeah, it was classic."

"Well, we're going to make our own log flume ride. I just thought of it before you guys showed up."

"Cool! I do need my 'how a water ride is built patch'. I was going to ask yesterday, but I was having so much fun that I completely forgot. This'll be perfect!"

"Let's ask Perry if he likes our idea! Hey Perr… Where's Perry?"

I made my way to the side of the house. I looked around. My owners and their friends were already getting ready for their log flume, by looking over their blueprints. I stood on my hind legs and went into my persona.

I opened the camouflaged little door on the wall and pressed the button. A tube flipped up and I went down it.

"Boy, wasn't Excitement Kingdom fun Carl?" My boss asked when I went in.

"It sure was!" Said Carl, off screen. My boss then chuckled.

"I loved your picture after the ride! You covered your eyes with your hands like 'I want to get off, I wanna get off!'" He screamed while covering his eyes with his hands, pretending to be scared.

"Don't forget your picture when we were on The Crazy Thing?" Monogram looked annoyed.

"We just had pizza before we went on!"

My boss then looked at me and was about to say something when he was interrupted by Carl's laugh.

"You looked so hilarious!" He appeared on screen and looked like he was about to gag.

"Carl, be a man! Agent P's here. Mop off Agent D's mess." The intern went off screen, looking disappointed.

"Yes sir." Monogram looked back at me.

"Now then, about your mission, Dr. Doofenshmirtz has bought glue bottles in every store around the Tri-State Area. We don't know why he needs that much glue for; maybe he started an Arts and Crafts project? Anyway, we need you to go there and see what he's up to."

I saluted and dashed off in my hover car.

I opened the door and stepped in a puddle of glue. I looked down and tried to free myself, but to no avail. It was too sticky!

I looked up when I felt like someone was standing before me. It was Dr. Doofenshmirtz.

"Aw, Perry the Platypus," he greeted me. "Welcome, and by 'welcome' I mean, 'welcome to your trap. I was going to say 'looks like you got yourself in a sticky situation', but I think I already used that, so I'll just get to my backstory."

"Back in Gimmelshtump, Boris, you remember Boris, right? The bully who used to kick sand in my face? Well anyway, during story time, he would glue my arm to my desk. As I struggled to get free the other children laughed at me and Boris was like 'hey everybody, Heinz has glued himself to his desk again.' The worst part is that after the teacher freed me, story time would be over and we had to continue the story the next day. He did this constantly until I was banned from story time. He did it years after too."

"But not anymore, thanks to my Super-Duper-Ultra-Mega- Super- Glue-inator!" He took off the tarp on the machine in the corner of the room and revealed a giant laser like machine. Attached to it were tanks filled with glue.

"With this baby, everybody in the Tri-State Area will be glued to the spot that they're standing or sitting on so nobody can stop me from taking over the entire Tri-State Area!" He went to the machine and went to press the button.

The door to the apartment opened and in walked Vanessa.

"Vanessa?" My nemesis questioned. "What are you doing here?"

"It's my weekend to be with you." She answered.

"Already? Wow, time flies when you're being evil."

"Tomorrow's Lacey's birthday and I want to go to the mall and buy her tickets to go see Collapsing Dawn and get her a birthday card. You told Mom that you'll take me, so, are you going to take me?"

"I guess evil can wait. I got to ask Perry the Platypus first." He looked at me as I still struggled to get free. I looked up at him. "Perry the Platypus? Can we put this on hold until say tomorrow? I got to take Vanessa to do the mall so that she can buy her friend those tickets and that card." I freed myself and lunged at him. "So what do you say Perry the…ahhhhhh!" He screamed as I tackled him to the ground.

"Uh, Dad?" Vanessa asked, pointing at the machine while we were fighting. "What does this contraption do? Oh, I'm telling Mom!" She took out her cellphone. Doofenshmirtz quickly stood up. I jumped to body slam him.

"No, no don't touch that…that's my Super-Duper-Ultra-Mega-Super-Glue…" Too late, she sat on the button, activating it. She quickly stood back up.

"Oops!" The machine fired and hit Doof and me.

When my body made contact with his back, I didn't go any further. My eyes widened. I tried to get free but it was no use, I was stuck!

"inator." Doofenshmirtz finished. He noticed me on his back and narrowed his eyes. "Get off of me Perry the Platypus! Get off!" He tried to shake me off; it didn't work. He put his hands on me and tried to pull me off, again, it didn't work.

"Vanessa, can you pull him off?" Vanessa walked towards me, grabbed me and pulled with all her strength. Alas, it didn't work. She even got a crow bar and tried to pry me off (If you guessed it didn't work, you are absolutely right.) She stood back, exhausted. She tossed the crow bar aside.

"It this like super glue or something?" My nemesis did a goofy smile.

"Technically yes, it came from my Super-Duper-Ultra-Maga-Super Glueinator. So, it's pretty powerful stuff."

"Well, he's stuck." My nemesis's eyes widened.

"What? Are you sure?"

"Yes I'm sure. Look we did all that we could and nothing's worked."

"But my nemesis can't be stuck to me. That would be embarrassing! Imagine my next meeting with L.O.V.E. M.U.F.F.I.N.. Rodney will never let me live it down. He will take a picture and post it all over the web!"

"Well unless a miracle happens, I'm afraid you're be stuck with a platypus on your back for a while.

My eyes widened again. Me stuck to my nemesis? I can't go home being glued on an evil scientist's back! How embarrassing! Can this day possibly get any more worse?

"Dad!" Vanessa said. "We got to go get the tickets and the birthday card."

"Honey," He started to tell her. "I can't, I got a platypus stuck to me. This is kind of important."

"But you promised Mom!"

"Can't we go tomorrow?"

"No, we can't! I got to be at Lacey's at nine."

"Can't you go?"

"Yeah, if I have a license." Doofenshmirtz sighed.

"Fine. But we got to disguise Perry the Platypus. People will see me and will wonder 'why is that platypus on that man's back? Doesn't he know that there's a platypus on his back?'" Vanessa thought about this and snapped her fingers.

"I got it!" She said. "Perry can be a baby." Doofensmirtz looked at her.

"A baby?"

"Yeah! We can go to Babies R We and buy him clothes and a baby carrier! The clothes are all small so Perry can fit right into them!"

"You're right! He can fit in them! My nemesis can fit in baby clothes!" He laughed. "He can fit in baby clothes!" I rolled my eyes.

Doofenshmirtz and I stayed in the car in front of Babies Are We waiting for Vanessa to buy the baby carrier and clothes. She got back into the car with my green shirt, blue jeans and tennis shoes and a baby carrier. As soon as she buckled up, we were on our way to the mall.

When we parked and before we went in, Doofenshmirtz and Vanessa helped me in my outfit and managed to squeeze me into the baby carrier.

"Awwwwww!" Doofenshmirtz cooed. "Perry the Platypus, you are so cute! I will name you after my future son, if I have any more but probably won't, Heinz Junior. I was going to call Vanessa that if she was a boy but Charlene disapproved. So now you're Heinz Junior, my son!" I rolled my eyes again.

"Come on dad!" Vanessa said. She was already out of the car, holding the door open for us. "I'm not getting any younger here, let's go!"

"Alright, alright; I'm coming, sheesh" He looked at me. "At least you are patent Heinz Jr." He got out, closed the door and Doofenshmirtz locked it. He put the car remote in his pocket. We followed Vanessa into the mall.

Remember I asked if this day could possibly get any more worse? It did. Much worse!