Soli Deo gloria

DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own Phineas and Ferb. And the Sam's Club and Smallmart reference belongs to Walmart.

Candace laughed maniacally as she jumped on her bike and raced down the drive. She had a bloodthirsty look on her face as she quickly and skillfully weaved through traffic as she rode to the Super Food Stuff Mart. Little did she know, however that racing from the opposite direction toward the supermarket was Irving on his bike, giggling fan-boyishly as he clutched his piggy bank. They both arrived at the store and threw their bikes to the sidewalk. They both entered from opposite sides of the store and they raced to the cereal aisle.

"They're busted now!" Candace yelled happily as she leaped over the cash registers. Irving swiftly pushed out a cart and leaped into it, carefully steering it. The both entered the aisle from different ends and their eyes connected. Candace squinted her eyes as Irving did likewise. Irving jumped out of his cart and carefully guided it beside him as the two carefully walked sideways in a circle as some Western music played in the background.

"Hello, Candace," Irving said slowly as he adjusted his glasses.

"Irving," Candace replied. Her fingers clenched into a loose fist as she wiggled them and squinted even more. "Say," she stopped suddenly and looked around, "where's that music coming from?"

"I don't know," Irving said as he looked around. They both gazed about the aisle, looking around for the source of the music when at the same time both of their eyes fell upon It. A grocery stocker was humming unexpectantly as he stocked the shelf with F.U.N.

The two looked at each and at the same time they bolted. Candace ran forward as Irving giggled eagerly as he raced ahead with his cart. The two children looking so evil, it scared the wits out of the employee, causing him to scream and run. Unfortunately for him, he ran into Candace, causing the two to wrestle in an effort to get out of each other's reach. Irving laughed evilly as he ran and lifting his feet onto the bottom of the cart, called over his shoulder, "See ya, sucker!"

He reached the stock of cereal and as fast as he could, threw the F.U.N. boxes into his cart, guffawing maniacally as he did so. When the last box was in his cart, he disappeared down the aisle, calling behind him, "Bye, Candace!"

Candace waved her fist in the air and yelled, "Curse you, Irving!" She picked herself up and in her haste knocked over several other boxes of cereal. She chased Irving as Linda came around the aisle quietly and called, "Clean up, aisle 5."


"So that'll be a fudgie peach bar and two scoops of sardine," the vendor recited Doofenshmirtz and Perry's orders. He pinched his nose in order not to inhale the stench of the sardine ice cream which Perry took and licked happily.

"So that'll be, what, $8.69? Eek, the cost of ice cream these days," muttered Heinz as he reached into his wallet and pulled out a ten.

"Oh my, I'll need more change; be back in a minute," the ice cream man said as he turned and walked toward his sedan.

"Would he hurry up, my ice cream is melting!" Dr. Doofenshmirtz complained. He looked around before he quickly threw a rope around Perry. He instantly took the handle of the ice cream cart and raced off with a reluctant Perry into the bushes.

Perry, who had finished his ice cream, growled irritably at Doof's antics. Dr. Doofenshmirtz merely smiled and said, "Perry, I have an idea. I dress up as that street vendor guy and sell ice cream to Vanessa and Johnny. Then I'll be able to watch my baby girl!" Perry sighed and gave Doof an indignant look.

Doof grabbed Perry's rope and put him on top of the cart. "Heck, I don't need your consent," and he disappeared for a minute and re-emerged as a ice cream salesman.

"And for you." Doof revealed a felt ice cream cone costume and popped it onto Perry, who was none-too-pleased.

"Okay, let's go," Doofenshmirtz said cheerfully as he guided the cart to the open area where there was sidewalks and picnic benches. To Doofenshmirtz and Perry's surprise, they were overwhelmed by a monstrous amount of children who all wanted ice cream.

"I want vanilla!"

"I want peachie keen!"

"Chocolate for me!"

"I want sardine!"

"Wait, wait, here's some strawberry for you, some mint for you," Doofenshmirtz said in a panicky tone as he gave out ice cream and collected cash as he quickly as he could. "Help me, Perry the Platypus!"

Perry sighed and wiggled out of the ice cream cone suit. He undid his ropes and started collecting the money and put it into the change box.


As soon as Irving had paid for the cereal, he raced out of the store with his arms loaded with grocery bags. He carefully balanced on his bike as he rode back to his home. He didn't bother to set up the kickstand on his bike as he opened the front door and slammed it behind him.

His brother Albert was doing geometry problems (because he was bored) at the kitchen table and their mom was doing dishes as Irving ran across the room with the grocery bags.

"Irving, no slamming doors and no running!" his mother scolded. Irving didn't even hear her as he dumped the boxes into his room. He sat on his floor as he ripped off the tops of the boxes. He opened the plastic bags and rummaged through them. One after another he tossed aside, dumping the little flakes all over his floor. When the last box was opened and no pass popped up, he sighed and ran out to his bike to go to the nearest market.


"Mom, Mom!" Candace had lost Irving among the amount of shoppers and had managed to catch sight of her mom. Linda had taken a frozen package of food out of the freezer when Candace found her, panting like a dog.

"Mom, Mom, the *pant* boys, have made their own *pant* brand of cereal! We *pant* need to get to the nearest market that still has some!" Candace breathed as she wiped her sweating brow.

"They don't have any here?" Linda teased as the duo started to walked through the aisle.

"They did, but that nerd Irving bought them all! We need to go to a different store!" Candace explained. When her mom continued walking, Candace planted herself in front of the cart, plastering her feet to the floor causing the cart to come to an abrupt stop.

"Ugh, Candace!" Linda scolded. "Move!"

"Mom, please!" Candace begged. "You can't shop here!"

"Why not?" Linda stated, unamused.

"Because, um," and before Candace could answer, the lights in the store went out. Some people yelled as Candace smiled to herself. The manager used a megaphone to call out, "The electricity has gone out. It should be about forty-five minutes until we can get the registers working."

Linda sighed and said, "All right, Candace."

(Music montage for 'In The Mall')

Candace trembled excitedly as her mom drove her to Smallmart. Once they parked, Candace grabbed her mom's hand and practically dragged her into the store. Irving had reached there first and had skated away on a shopping cart.

"In the store," Candace sang as they reached the cereal aisle. When she noticed the barren shelves, she sighed and pulled away a protesting Linda.

"Up and down the long, long aisles," Irving joined in from across the store. He paid for his purchases and raced out of the store, giggling once more.

"In the store," Candace continued as she and her mom went from store to store in the plaza, searching for one that had the cereal. Linda wanted to stay at the store to resume her shopping but each time the store was either closed, getting waxed or it had actually been a pet store that Candace had run into. They entered another store only to have Candace walk out with Linda protesting, "But they have canned pineapples from the tropical isle!"

Irving kept dumping all the boxes he could find into his room, causing his room to start to look like a pantry. He pulled out a map of the Tri-State area and examined it. "In the store," he smiled as Candace imputed the directions to the last store that they hadn't been in into her cellphone and giggled as she shoved the screen into her mom's face.

"In the store!" she squealed. "We're not stopping now because we still have just one more store!"

(Music montage ends)


"Hey, where's Irving?" Phineas wondered as the factory bustled about. Ferb shrugged.

"Yeah, he'll come back soon. He likes us, he doesn't do much else," Phineas said.


"We're here, yay!" Candace yelled excitedly as Linda parked their mini-van in a parking lot. "Pam's Club!"

"Hopefully the last stop, it's four-thirty!" groaned Linda as she stopped the engine and took her keys out.

Candace burst out of the car and ran ahead. "Come on, Mom!"

"I'm getting a cart, Candace!" Linda called back.

Candace ughed and raced ahead. Linda eventually joined her and they went inside. A couple of minutes before, however, Irving had shown up with his mother and Albert, ready to do that day's shopping.

"Mom, come on!" urged Irving as his relations slowly joined him at the entrance.

"We're coming, Irving," his mother told him.

"Mom, Mom! Cereal, cereal!" Candace yelled as she raced through the store. Linda stopped by the fruit and picked up some bananas.

"Mom, Mom! Cereal, cereal!" Irving shouted as he jumped up and down.

"You just go on ahead, Irving, we'll catch up," Irving's mom said. Irving smiled at her gratefully and disappeared.

"What's with him and cereal today?" Irving's mother asked Albert.

"I haven't the slightest clue," he answered.


"And that's—the last—one!" Dr. Doofenshmirtz said proudly as he handed out an ice cream cone to a little girl. Perry leaned against the little glass window on the cart and wiped his hot and sweaty forehead. Doofenshmirtz breathed a sigh of relief and leaned against the cart. "We did it, Perry the Platypus!"

Both their eyes turned to the young Goth couple sitting on the park bench. Doofenshmirtz's eyes grew wide as he realized that the two were holding hands.

"Oh no they did not!" he said loudly as he straightened up. He hurriedly pushed the cart in their direction, causing Perry to fall against the window, off balance. Doofenshmirtz swerved the cart to go behind some bushes that were planted behind them.

"Act cool, Perry the Platypus, act cool," Doofenshmirtz mumbled, almost to himself, as he casually strolled out from behind the bushes and into their sight.

"Ice cream, get your ice cream here!" Doof said loudly as he glanced over in Vanessa's direction. Vanessa turned to the cart and instantly turned away in panic. She knew that voice.

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