Prologue: The Meteor.
It was a simple night in the town of Danville. Everyone was getting ready for bed and it seemed relatively normal… at least for a few hours. The real story begins at a small yellow/orange home on the suburbs of the bigger city, known as the Flynn-Fletcher residence…
Two young boys had just entered their bedroom, already tired and ready to sleep. One of the boys had a triangle shaped head, with orange hair on top and some freckles, as well as orange-white striped pajama shirt and pants. This was Phineas. The second boy had an F shaped head, with the green hair making the top half of the F. The boy was wearing purple-white striped pajama shirt and pants. This was Ferb.
"Well Ferb, another successful day!" Phineas happily said. "That toothpick tent was a nice touch." Everyday on the boys seemingly endless summer vacation, they would build some sort of crazy contraption that would last about the entire day before mysteriously disappearing. Today they had built a microscopic camp site that continued to evolve into a bigger microscopic civilization.
Ferb simply held the thumbs up before climbing into bed and drifting to sleep. Phineas climbed into his bed and did the same. As usual, it was a quiet summer night, until…
At about 9:00 PM, a crackling noise was heard. It got louder and louder, and the boys woke up. They looked out the window to see something in the sky. Their eyes widened when they saw a meteor falling from the sky. They quickly raced into the hallway and down their steps, and out the door.
As soon as they exited their house, they saw many other families had been outside, watching the meteor fall. It continued to plummet toward Earth, much to the excitement of many.
"It's coming Ferb! It's coming!" Phineas was overjoyed, seeing they could do so many things with a sample of the space rock. Ferb smiled too, and looked at everyone else's smiling faces, until everyone's faces changed to horror. Ferb was confused until he looked back at the meteor. He quickly calculated where the meteor would land in his head, then grew a face of horror. The meteor was coming closer to Earth, and there was barely any time left.
"Phineas! Look out!" Ferb shouted, one of those rare moments when he actually spoke. Phineas turned to see Ferb running toward him.
"Ferb? What's wrong?" Phineas asked. But it was too late. The meteor smashed into the front lawn of the Flynn-Fletcher home, causing a massive explosion. The house caught on fire, making everyone evacuate. Everyone had a look of horror and sadness on their faces.
The meteor had crashed right on top of Phineas, crushing the poor boy. The fiery rock left a large hole in the lawn and partially on the street.
"Ferb!" Ferb turned to see his family running toward him.
"Ferb!" Their mother Linda said. "Where's Phineas?"
Ferb looked down at the ground with a look of sadness, tears filling his eyes.
"He's… gone…" Ferb said. Everyone gathered around the meteor, showing respect for the loss of a wonderful child…
16 Months Later…
It had been a year and four months since the meteor had crashed into the front lawn and killed Phineas. Life for the Flynn-Fletchers had been quiet, very quiet. Ferb never tried building anything alone, his older sister Candace never tried to bust him, and their mother and father, Linda and Lawrence, were just as depressed.
The meteorite had been excavated from the front lawn of the home and put into Danville's museum. The home had been rebuilt due to its damaged structure from the meteorite creating unbalanced structural integrity. Everything was normal, until one certain day.
Ferb sat on his bed, meditating, something he did not do often. He took a deep breath and spoke to himself.
"His death was no accident." Ferb kept calm. "This was meant to happen. I need to find out why. That meteor crashed into the earth for a reason, it was a sign of things to come. But what?
"Every day I regret not being able to do something, but if I don't move on, then I could very well end up dead. I need to find something… someone, to help me figure this out."
Ferb thought for a moment. His friends were gone as well. Not dead, but just… gone. Isabella, gone, Baljeet, gone, Buford, gone. Almost everyone he knew… gone.
Ferb put his hands to his temple, his brain aching with thought. He opened his eyes as if he just realized something.
"I never knew that I knew this…" Ferb's mind was racing. He felt feverish, and incredibly tired. He was sweating and his head ached. Then it all just went away.
"I… I know this…" Ferb went downstairs to the basement. On one of the dusty shelves was a book, a red book that was torn apart.
"Didn't Mr. Florence give this to my father?" Mr. Florence, or Pappy, was a childhood friend of Lawrence. Ferb blew the dust off of the book. The title read "Only For Ferb by Pappy Florence."
"I knew I had this… but I don't know how I knew…" Ferb opened the book. On the inside front cover was a note.
Ferb,
If you are reading this, flip to page 122.
Ferb did as the note said, and on page 122, he found this paragraph.
LifeUp
A simple ability learned from ones inner mindset. This ability is realized almost immediately after the user is granted access to the use of PSI. This ability allows the user to heal oneself or heal others, showering the selected being in a green light and removing many wounds. Four stages of this power exist.
At the bottom of the page was another written note, but this one was in darker writing.
Ferb, you will soon realize this power. If you are reading this, then yes, Phineas is dead, and your friends are gone. Finding them will be difficult, but you will find them soon enough. I wish you luck.
If you want to learn more on PSI, keep this book with you. You will need to embark on a quest, and your first stop is Downtown Danville. Go to the library and ask the attendant for the book on Foreign Butterflies, then flip to page 178 of that book.
Good luck. -Pappy Florence
Ferb closed the book and stared at the front cover, folding the corner of page 122 before he did. Then his head ached again. His body felt incredibly hot and he was sweating like crazy. Then, like before, it all went away.
"I… I know LifeUp…" Ferb said to himself. Although he knew how to use this technique, so many questions raced through his now seemingly cooled off mind. What is this PSI? What kind of quest is this? Where were his friends anyway? But his biggest questions of all: Where was Pappy? And how did he know all of this?!
Ferb set these questions aside for now and went upstairs. He needed to gather at least a few supplies, as he had a feeling that this would be a very long adventure.
-(End Of Chapter)-
The start to my latest crossover! No beginning author's note for now, but I hope you enjoyed this start! I'll be running this third story alongside my other two, so as I always say…
Stay Tuned!
~087-B
