Chapter 2: Survivors?

It had been 2 days since the nanobots invasion began, and Phineas, Ferb, and Isabella had begun to lose hope that anyone aside from them was alive. But there was still a small sliver of hope. They had begun to use the teleportation device that had been developed a couple of days before to get supplies from the stores without the nanobots noticing. This time it was Phineas and Isabella going out while Ferb continued to hack into the nanobots. They teleported to a small store that was well hidden, and unfindable unless you knew it existed. They teleported in like they had planned and began to get supplies. Before they knew what was happening someone was pointing a gun at them.

"Stand up slowly, and turn around." An unidentified voice said.

The two teens stood up and turned around to see the last person they expected. As soon as the attacker identified them, he put the gun down. The mysterious person was clothed in black, wearing a black cloak that concealed his clothing and a mask that concealed everything but his eyes.

"Phineas, Isabella? So you two survived." The mysterious person said.

"And who are you exactly?" Isabella asked.

"Well I would think that you'd have figured this out by now." The mysterious person said.

"Luke." Phineas said.

"You got me." Luke said, pulling back his hood revealing his dark brown hair.

"How exactly did you survive the past few days?" Isabella asked.

"Well I actually was able to use my knowledge of the streets to stay away from everyone who could possibly be infected and hide out in places I know about, that only I know about." Luke replied.

"Well would you like to come back to our base with us?" Phineas asked.

"Where's that?"

"Our house."

"Sure just let me grab something." Luke ran over to the counter, grabbed a duffle bag, grabbed a strange device out of it, and he scanned them.

"What was that for?" Isabella asked.

"Making sure you weren't infected, I was scanning your basic genetic structure to make sure it hadn't been altered." Luke replied.

"Smart, almost too smart. Can I borrow that device for a sec?" Isabella asked.

"Sure." Luke replied, handing the device to her.

She scanned him.

"He's clean." Isabella said, "Had to be sure."

The three of them teleported back to the house. They were greeted by Ferb, who Luke scanned. Then Luke began to tinker with some of the old pieces of technology lying around the house. The next hour or so Luke was working on whatever he was trying to do until finally he finished and rejoined the others who were discussing possible ways to get rid of the nanobots.

"We can't seem to hack them, what if we tried overloading their circuitry." Phineas said.

"How exactly would we do that?" Isabella asked.

"Isolated electric charge maybe?" Phineas said.

"Wouldn't that kill the person?" Luke pointed out, joining the conversation.

"Hmm good point." Phineas said, "What's that?"

"This? It's a modified version of my scanner that scans the area and tells us if there are any survivors." Luke explained.

"It's unlikely there are any survivors." Isabella pointed out.

"True but it's still a possibility." Luke countered.

"Does it work?" Phineas asked.

"I think so." Luke said.

The four teens crowded around the laptop like device and Luke activated it.

"Hmm, this can't be right. It says there are 4 life signs of non nanobots controlled people in a building in the city." Luke said.

"What building?" Phineas asked.

"A building that is shaped like Ferb's head." Luke replied, "It's in the downtown area and its purple."

"How could four people have possibly survived?" Isabella asked.

"No clue, but we should see if we can get to them." Phineas said, determined to find a way.

"But how will we get through the city?" Luke asked.

"We can use some isolated EMP blasters to temporarily shut down the drones, but it won't work forever." Phineas said.

"Hmm, I wonder who could possibly be in that building." Luke said.

And with that the four began working on isolated EMP blasters and grenades.