The Hurricane

A Phineas and Ferb fan fiction by KLCI

*Phineas & Ferb property of Dan Povenmire, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh and the Walt Disney Company

Author's Note: First of all, thanks for all the reviews and subscriptions! Just to let everyone know, much of this chapter is what I call a "character personality exploration" chapter. I tend to ramble a little about my interpretations of the characters in these so just a fair warning in case I drone on too much.

Chapter 2

The digital clock on the microwave read 8:13 AM. Phineas, Ferb and Candace sat at the kitchen table, the boys eating cereal and Candace texting away on her cell phone. Linda was sifting through her purse, making sure she had her passport and airline tickets ready, while Lawrence, her husband and Ferb's biological father was outside loading their suitcases into the back of the station wagon.

Soon, Lawrence finished loading up the car and walked in the sliding glass door, closing it behind him. "Ready when you are dear." he said.

"Okay, kids…" Linda said pointing to a sheet of paper stuck to the refrigerator with a colorful magnet from the family's visit to Disney World that past spring, "…this is the hotel we're staying at in Helsinki and this is the phone number right down here." All three kids, now paying full attention to Linda nodded.

"Candace, you are in charge, but for the love of everything holy, keep calm." she said, emphasizing that last part. "Remember what you promised your father and I before we agreed to let you watch over the house and the boys."

The girl sighed, "I know, I know. I won't spend all my time calling you and freaking out about whatever it is Phineas and Ferb are doing." It took Candace all of her will power to promise to such a thing in the first place, but she was determined this time to show her parents that she was responsible and not insane.

"Oh and boys…" Lawrence began, leaning in between the boys to whisper, "…be easy on your sister, she's had a rough summer." Unlike Linda, he knew of one or two of the boys crazy projects and knew they drove Candace crazy.

"Will do dad." Phineas said, Ferb nodded in agreement.

"Okay, our flight leaves in an hour and a half. We have to fly to New York first and switch planes, I'll call you when we land there." Linda said. She and Lawrence then gave all their children a good long hug goodbye and left for the airport.

The trio remained silent for a few minutes after their parents left, it felt weird being left home alone for the first time.

"So Ferb, what do you want to do today?" Phineas asked his brother. As usual Ferb shrugged, he preferred to leave the ideas to Phineas, his job was making them happen, something he was perfectly content with.

"Ohhh no. No way! There is no way that I'm letting you guys build some crazy thing when I can't get mom and dad back here to bust you for a week! Just forget about it!" Candace exclaimed.

"Actually, Candace, I was just thinking maybe we could just head down to the beach and hang out. We won't be able to go for a few days after this hurricane passes anyway." Phineas said.

Candace thought this over a minute. Sure, a beach trip may seem innocent enough, but knowing her brothers, they were probably going to build something huge once they got there. She opened her mouth to argue, but her phone ringing interrupted her.

"Hello?" She answered. "Oh, hey Stacy. Ya, they just left like 10 minutes ago. Wait, what? Jeremy is going to be where? The beach?" Candace closed her eyes for a second and fantasized about her beloved crush. "Of course I'll be down there! See ya!" She snapped her cell phone shut.

Candace looked over to her brothers, who were just sitting there waiting for her to say something. She sighed, "Okay, look, Stacy just told me that Jeremy is working at the Slushy Burger at the boardwalk today. We can go to the beach if you swear to not build anything crazy and you stay out of me and Jeremy's way. Got it?" She said sternly.

"Sure, we don't want to bother you." Phineas said. "If it really makes you feel better, we won't build anything at all. Save for maybe a normal sand castle."

"You promise?" Candace asked hopefully.

"I promise." Phineas said.

"Absolutely." Ferb agreed.

Then the boys did something that caught Candace a little off guard, they both walked over and gave her a quick hug before running upstairs to get ready.

Candace smiled, "Oh sure make me look like the bad guy. What else is new." She said sarcastically.

Soon, after catching a ride down to Danville Beach from Isabella's mother, Phineas, Ferb and Isabella headed towards the beach for some fun in the sun and Candace made her way to the nearby Slushy Burger stand on the boardwalk, her friend Stacy was already waiting for her there. The boys and Isabella had agreed to not wander any further down the beach then where Candace could see them from the burger stand. After all, Linda and Lawrence did leave her in charge of her brothers' safety and Isabella's mother certainly agreed things would be safer that way.

"This looks like a good spot." Isabella said. The boys agreed and the kids started to set up for a nice beach day. "It isn't quite as good as that beach you guys built in the back yard though." Isabella reminisced.

"Ya, that was a good time. I'm sure we'll have a great day here too." Phineas said before suddenly looking around curiously. "Hey did anyone see where Perry went?"

Just on the other side of a sand dune, Perry looked around quickly, seeing nobody around, he jumped up and placed his fedora on his head. He jumped into a seemingly innocent looking plastic sand bucket and descended down a series of tubes into his secret lair, where he landed in his usual chair in front of a giant TV. screen.

Major Monogram, Perry's commanding officer appeared on the screen, "Good morning Agent P. We noticed that your host family's parents are overseas and we received your request to divert most of your time and attention to them while the parents are away."

Perry nodded.

"Well, I'll do the best I can, but you know Doofensmirtz, he never stops his shenanigans, so for now you're going to have to head over there and see what he's up to. He's been caught on security camera at several grocery stores around the tri-state area stealing shopping carts and he just ordered several hundred pounds of gun powder, so we know he's up to something. Go get him Agent P!" Monogram finished.

Perry saluted Monogram and jumped into his hover car. He flew out through one of the many escape tubes leading out of his lair.

Meanwhile, Candace took a seat at a table at Slushy Burger's new boardwalk location, where Stacy was already waiting for her. "Hey, how's the babysitting coming?" The Asian girl asked.

"Nothing big so far, but you know Phineas and Ferb. I'm still not keeping them out of my sight." Candace said.

"Oh ya?" Stacy asked sarcastically. "Even with Jeremy around?" She pointed to the blond haired boy flipping burgers through the open pick up window of the burger stand.

Candace swooned, Jeremy certainly was a special guy. While many girls her age tended to go for the bad boys, Candace had chosen well. He was polite, supportive and had a good heart. She couldn't help feeling somewhat insignificant to him though, this was an unfortunate side affect to the fact that Candace was a rather insecure person. The fact that she was an anxious person to begin with plus the fact that she dealt with super stressful situations involving her brothers' inventions on a nearly daily basis didn't help. Although some may have attributed her often irate attitude towards her brothers as just plain mean, it was really because she cared about Phineas and Ferb deeply. After all, if it wasn't for the fact that the boys were so smart, not to mention lucky, they could have easily injured themselves severely several times. Candace swore that she would have to take one or even both of them to the emergency room one day and that thought was enough to almost make her sick. The fact that many people viewed her as a little crazy and ill tempered certainly wore down on the poor girl's self esteem. But Jeremy, like her friends Stacy and Jenny saw through this and knew she was actually a good person.

When Jeremy spotted her, he smiled and walked over, "Hey Candace! What's up?" He asked.

Candace blushed intensely, "Oh uh, hey Jeremy! I was just, uh, passing by and ah, stuff."

Jeremy just kept on smiling, usually it was the guy stumbling over their words when talking to girls. "Cool, I'm getting off in 10 minutes, wanna hang out?"

The girl eagerly agreed.

Meanwhile, Phineas, Ferb and Isabella were now having fun playing around in the water, riding the waves and splashing around. The boys loved to build and create of course, but a nice day of just plain being a kid was awesome too.

Isabella especially cherished days like today. Even at just 9 years old, it was obvious to pretty much everyone that knew her that she was head over heals in love with Phineas, that is everyone other than Phineas himself. This was frustrating to Isabella, yet she knew not to pour the affection on too heavy. She knew that Phineas simply hadn't got to the point in his life where he even thought about such things as romance, but then again that was one of the things she liked about him so much, his youthful and innocent personality.

"Here comes another one!" Phineas exclaimed, pointing to an approaching wave. The kids all faced away from it, preparing to ride it a little bit. They didn't anticipate the fact this wave had a bit of extra power and it gave them much more of a ride then they anticipated. Isabella's head popped out of the water first, followed by Phineas. But when Ferb's head popped out of the water, both Phineas and Isabella stared for a second and started laughing. Ferb gave both of them a confused look and shrugged.

"Ferb you have like eight pieces of seaweed on your head!" Phineas told him, still laughing.

Ferb reached up and felt the top of his head, sure enough there was seaweed all over it. He quickly brushed it off, he was a little embarrassed but it was no big deal. He cracked a smile and declared, "Well at least seaweed is supposed make one's skin silky smooth."

This of course, just made Phineas and Isabella laugh harder.

For both Phineas and Ferb, this summer just kept getting better and better. They had been able to build and create more things then ever before. It seemed every year that went by brought the boys closer. Before Lawrence and Linda married and the Flynn and Fletcher families became unified, both boys had been a little different.

As a young boy in England, Ferb was a true loner. Because of he was a generally shy boy and talked very little, none of the other kids around him really attempted to associate with him. This was of course, their loss, because Ferb was a genius to the highest extent. While most people heard him talk very little, only his closest family members had heard him talk extensively about many things with which he was knowledgeable, and his expertise rivaled that of most Harvard students. Of course, his father was always there for him, yet there was still a big piece missing from his life, so to speak. That was until he moved to Danville and met his new family. Unlike the other kids, Phineas was more than happy to be around Ferb and share his life with him, and since he was an outgoing kid, this also helped Ferb make lots more new friends in his new home.

Phineas on the other hand, was always an outgoing kid. He was even one of those 2 year olds that said "Hi!" to pretty much everyone, even random people in the grocery store. But a messy divorce between Linda and his birth father had left him sad and confused, the fact that he was far too young to comprehend such things certainly didn't help. But then Ferb came and having a new brother and best friend filled his life with happiness again.

There was no doubt about it, those two were inseparable. Not only where they brothers, they were best friends for life.

Candace was with both her best friend and the boy of her dreams, Phineas, Ferb and Isabella were playing happily in the water and Perry was off to foil Doofenshmirtz once again, everything was right with the world. But that was about to change.

It was Phineas, Ferb and Isabella who noticed first, all the lifeguards along the entire length of Danville Beach were blowing their whistles wildly and motioning for all swimmers to come in. They also noticed several Danville Police cruisers driving up and down the boardwalk area with their light bars flashing. Of course, the kids immediately followed all the other swimmers in to shore.

Meanwhile, up on the boardwalk, Candace, Stacy and Jeremy were all chatting like normal teens do and having a good time. This was until a police officer approached the burger stand.

"Is something wrong officer?" Jeremy asked.

"Well, no one is doing anything wrong, but I'm gonna have to ask you kids to evacuate the beach." the officer said.

The teens looked at the officer perplexed, "Really? What's going on?" Stacy asked.

"Hurricane Boyd." the officer responded, "It's made a sudden unexpected turn and it's heading right for us. It's gathering strength too."

The teens all gasped.

As he was flying towards Doofenshmirtz's building in downtown Danville, Perry too sensed something was not right. Maybe he could sense a storm because he was a semi-aquatic mammal, but he sure had a gut feeling something wasn't right. He would have to wrap this one up with Doof as quick as he could so he could get home to make sure his family was safe.