Welcome back to the Agents series! Last time, Penelope was definitely not in the past or anywhere close to where she needed to be. The Enigma and Doofenshmirtz switched bodies and the Chronological Distortion started. Maxwell had his innocence magically taken away and everyone else was being evacuated by ALPHA and O.W.C.A. Just a little recap ;) Now, it is time for the disclaimer: I do not own Phineas & Ferb. All rights to all products go to their proper owners. With that said, please enjoy Book 5 of the Agents Series.

Prologue

"Eep," said Penelope nervously. One of the Norm-bots shot a laser at her and she took it as her cue to leave. She revved up her bike and sped away. The chase was on as they went down many of the same streets she had took before exiting the portal. Everything was the same, but there were stark differences as well.

Another laser shot at Penelope that threw her from her bike. She fell, hard, on her back and felt her head start to hurt. She fought to stay awake as she became aware of the fact she was being surrounded. She was getting a concussion for sure, but she didn't have long to think on it before one of the Norm-bots had her in its clawed hand. It was not a pleasant situation.

What did I do? Thought Penelope. The grip around her body tightened slightly and she began panicking. "Ack," was all she could get out since the hand, as much as it was crushing her ribcage, was also squeezing her throat. It was getting harder to breathe. "Help…" it was barely a whisper. Her panicking was not helping. Her concussion was not helping. It would not be long before she would fade away, whether to unconsciousness or death. All she could think was that she was alone.

Suddenly, a whooshing sound came from the sky and a cla-clang sounded from behind the Norm-bot strangling Penelope. She noticed a Norm-bot collapse to the ground. She was vaguely aware of voices as the Norm-bots fell around her. Finally, the Norm-bot holding her had its head severed by a long silver staff. It fell, as did Penelope, but unlike the bot, Penelope was caught before she hit the ground.

Penelope felt herself be gently lowered to the ground and she saw people flooding around her. She could not distinguish anything, really, since it was hard enough trying to stay awake. Before she could think further on this, she was picked up again and felt herself fly a short distance away.

She, and the one holding her, as well as some others were in an elevator, she vaguely realized. They were going down and Penelope wondered if they might be going to Perry's lair. Perry's lair… the only humans who know about that... Her eyes shot open in realization and she jerked free from the one holding her.

Her concussion was still making it hard to stay awake and her vision was still blurry, but… she could have sworn she saw Phineas, Ferb, Isabella, Buford, Candace, and… Perry?! Everyone looked so different and there were some of them who should not have known Perry's lair existed and yet… that was where they were going, wasn't it?

When they finally arrived on the right floor, she realized it wasn't Perry's lair, but someone else's. She didn't recognize this lair beyond the fact that it was an O.W.C.A. lair and that it was pink. Consciousness was slipping away from Penelope's grasp as she felt herself become more stressed. The last thing she saw before passing out was Baljeet and a few of the Fireside girls in black instead of their usual, cheery orange.

"Whoa, I guess she was hurt more than we thought," said Phineas, picking up Penelope.

"Where did she come from?" asked Baljeet.

"We saved her from the Norm-bots," replied Phineas. "If it hadn't been for Perry, we might not have known she was out there."

Perry signed with his hands: "I can always feel it in my circuits when the Norm-bots are close. They were doing a normal patrol route until something disturbed them. I was close enough to them that I saw what they saw. There was a flash of light and she came from out of nowhere on a bike. I decided to get you guys to help. It was a good thing I did too. It didn't look like she stood a chance."

"Came from out of nowhere?" Baljeet pondered this. "Perhaps she is from another dimension, just like our counterparts from two years ago."

"Do you think she's from the same dimension?" asked Isabella.

"We will not know until we can ask her. In the meanwhile, what about the bike she came here on?" asked Baljeet.

Perry signed, "It was destroyed in all the chaos."

"It is likely that we have inadvertently destroyed her way home then. We do not have the means to send her back right now either. The Other-Dimension-inator has most likely been destroyed and we cannot risk trying to make another while Dr. Doofenshmirtz is in power," said Baljeet.

"It doesn't make any sense. Doofenshmirtz has barely showed any signs of returning to evil up until a week ago. Something has changed and it's definitely not because of Charlene," said Candace.

"It's a good thing we took out some of that programming from Perry and Pinky, then. Otherwise, they would have been back under Doofenshmirtz's command just like the other animals," said Phineas.

"Where is Pinky, anyway?" asked Isabella.

"Patrol on the other side of town," replied Perry.

"Am I the only one still amazed that Perry can use sign language?" asked Buford.

"Well, he was already a secret agent turned evil cyborg to what he is now. It's not much of a stretch," replied Ferb.

They stopped talking for a moment because Penelope was moaning in her sleep and slowly waking up. "I guess we'll be learning about her sooner than we thought," said Candace.

Penelope opened her eyes and squinted at the overhead light. She held her head and looked around the room. She felt like screaming. "This- this was not a dream. I- oh, no, what happened?!" asked Penelope. She still had on her translator and she looked very panicked and afraid. Her gaze turned to Perry and he thought he saw something in her eyes: recognition, undeniably, followed by sorrow.

"Perry?" she asked.

"I'm sorry, have we met?" asked Perry.

Penelope shook her head. She got down to his level and looked deep into his eyes. "Not during any of the memory lapses did you show any signs of knowing ASL, but that can't be a guarantee that you aren't currently having another one. Then again, everything's all wrong. I don't understand it. Either I've gone too far or I've been tricked," she said. She looked at Perry, from head to toe, before returning back to his eyes- or eye, rather. She put out a hand and touched his bare cheek. Perry shivered under the touch.

"This is definitely not a dream. I- heh- I have vivid dreams, but nothing near this vivid," said Penelope. Her other hand went to touch the other side of his face. It graced the metal and the red, bionic eye. "I- I need to understand, Perry. What happened?"

"Baljeet was just saying how you might be from another dimension," said Perry. Penelope's face paled as realization hit her. "Are you?"

"I-" Her eyes filled with tears. "Perry once told me about this trip to another dimension. I had guessed before that it might explain where I am now, but… what I don't understand is where I went wrong. My bike should have taken me to another time, not another dimension." Her eyes looked thoughtful before she asked, "Where is it now? I might be able to figure out what went wrong."

"It got destroyed in the fight."

She was about to ask if there was anything left, but she decided against it. Something had to be going on for them to be underground like this. "Doofenshmirtz is back in power, isn't he?"

"Yeah."

"So, it'll be a little difficult to get home, then." Tears fell from her eyes and she blinked them away. She ran her fingers through her hair, but the hair in her eyes was being persistent in falling back to its original position. After a few seconds of getting annoyed, her tears finally came down her face at that sobbing rate they had been wanting to. She collapsed to her knees and sobbed into her hands.

Perry knelt down and picked up her chin in one of his hands. He offered her a handkerchief, which she accepted. She dried her tears and said, "Now's not the time to cry. I have to get back to the other dimension."

"Look, we'd love to send you home, but you're not exactly a priority right now. We have bigger fish to fry," said Candace. Perry glared at her before looking back to Penelope.

"Don't worry. I'm going to do everything I can to get you home," said Perry.

"Thanks, Perry, but I feel like I should at least help out here. Perry from the other dimension told me that Doofenshmirtz had been defeated before and everything should have been peaceful here. If he were here, he would not go back until the problem here was solved," said Penelope.

"That sounds great! We could always use the extra help," said Phineas. Ferb gave a thumbs-up at this.

"But, what about getting home? Isn't there a reason you need to go back?" asked Perry.

"My family is stuck in a different time period with no semblance of who they once were. I wanted to take the bike to the future so that I could avoid the effects of the curse, but something must have gone wrong in my calculations or something. I should be there, but…" She put a hand to her heart. "I would know if they were in danger. I know that nothing about what's going on back there is right, but I also can't help the fact that getting there now would be a lot harder than if I stayed, helped, got Doofenshmirtz back out of power, and then tried to get home. Perry told me of the resources that Doofenshmirtz had here and the danger. It only makes sense."

"Well, then, welcome to the resistance," said Perry. "You must already know our names, but we don't know yours. What is it?"

"Penelope Rose Flynn, at your service," Penelope replied with a slight curtsy.

"Cool! Did we adopt you in the other dimension?" asked Phineas.

"Actually, I married Perry," replied Penelope. Perry blushed at this and looked away quickly. Penelope giggled. She then proceeded to tell them the story of how she and Perry met, got married, and everything up until the point she exited the portal into the second dimension.

"And… you're sure you'd rather stay and help us than go back?" asked Perry.

"It's what Perry would have wanted… and it's what I want. I want to help you guys. Helping you will help me to help them," said Penelope.

"Well, then, perhaps we can give you some information along with our current plans. Maybe you can even give us some insight into how to stop Doofenshmirtz," said Baljeet.

"That sounds good," said Penelope. As they all walked over to the monitor, however, Penelope couldn't help but think: If they are here and Perry doesn't know who I am, then where is this dimension's me? More importantly, where's this dimension's Enigma?

The plot thickens. I copied some of the wording from the last chapter of the last story into the first few paragraphs of this story. It just seemed to flow well. I think next chapter would be a good time to address what is going on in the first dimension though. For now, what did you guys think of the addition of the second dimension into the plot? I thought it'd be a cool idea and I'm glad I added it. Suddenly, my little universe gets bigger ;) Anyway, until next chapter, please keep reading and reviewing, thanks :)