Authors Note: Sorry for the longness of the wait. This chapter kind of hurt my brain to write and I have little to no idea of what Phineas is saying. Sorry xD

Beyond These Walls: Chapter 2

Perry tried to talk his owner out of his crazy idea but once Phineas set his mind to something there was just no reasoning with him. The platypus got comfortable and settled himself in the red head's bed. Ferb was fast asleep in his bed snuggling with a sledgehammer and Phineas frantically making blueprints and typing on his computer under the dim lamp on his desk. Tomorrow was going to be interesting.

"I have gathered you all here today to take the fourth wall to the absolute extreme, to go where no televised show or movie has ever gone before! Any questions?" Phineas asked the group, he was standing in front of a chalk board in the backyard.

The group included Perry, Candace, Ferb, Isabella, Doofenshmirtz, Baljeet and Buford. Everyone raised their hands.

"Uh, Yes Dr. D?" Phineas pointed to the scientist.

Doof put his hand down when he was picked on "Why am I here again?"

"I invited you because if I'm not mistaken, yesterday your scheme involved the fourth wall."

"Yeah but I pretty much gave up on that whole 'rebuilding the fourth wall' idea" The scientist put up quotation marks with his fingers for emphasis.

Ferb's eyes widened and he growled. Isabella and Buford had to hold him back from jumping the doctor.

"Let me explain." The red head pointed to the chalk board with a pointer to the different mathematical diagrams "Breaking the fifth wall is generally not a good thing, as it is quite difficult to repair. Large quantities of boot laces are required. In ancient times, breaking the fifth wall referred to the act of hordes of warriors breaking the walls of one's castle so they could steal the king's treasure. First they would have to break the first wall, then the second, and so forth until the fifth and final wall. Wizards were sometimes employed to keep the warriors at bay by confiscating their shoelaces. In recent times, scientists have been conducting research in attempts to discover more walls. Some say that the next one could be the ceiling, if there is one available, but there isn't yet any wide consensus on this matter. Yet another possibility for 'Breaking The Fifth Wall' might refer to an actor in a glass studio who falls out of a window and squishes on the pavement below. Therefore the Fifth Wall' would be a person's head. Additionally, while not immediately related to film, 'Breaking the Fifth Wall' refers to string theory as it applies to film plots, especially Independent films, where, should the cognitive abilities of the writer allow; expansive plots are tied together in inscrutable fashions to obscure plot-holes. While the plot holes are not actually removed, they are hidden in five-dimension Calibi-Yau spaces, which are themselves hidden in complex knots of reality. These knots only exist in 'film space', a newly discovered 12th dimension. 'Breaking the Fifth Wall' refers to mathematically proving a film is stupid by plotting the area of the obscuring Calibi-Yau space, allowing one to find the hole. Film students learn this technique at their fancy hoity-toity film schools by dissecting the seminal documentary Ghosts of Mars, which contains no less than five separate Calibi-Yau spaces as well as a triply-nested flashback sequence."

Candace raised an eyebrow "What does any of that stuff have to do with breaking a wall? If you want to break a wall so bad then just smash one in with a sledgehammer, preferably Ferb's. Someone should really take that thing away from him."

"That's just it Candace, none of that has anything to do with breaking the fifth wall! That's when I learned that Uncyclopedia is made by a bunch of sarcastic unfunny idiots stuck in a minimum wage job, so then I tried Wikipedia and I got a much better definition. The term 'fifth wall' has been used as an extension of the fourth wall concept to refer to the 'invisible wall between critics or readers and theatre practitioners.' This conception led to a series of workshops at the Globe Theatre in 2004 designed to help break the fifth wall. The term has also been used to refer to 'that semi-porous membrane that stands between individual audience members during a shared experience.' In media, the television set has been described metaphorically as a fifth wall because of how it allows a person to see beyond the traditional four walls of a room."

"So what exactly do you expect to make out of this information?" Doofenshmirtz asked "I'm an evil genius and I can't think of a single evil scheme for any of that."

"But Dr. D we aren't going to use this information for a petty evil scheme."

"Oh, well okay…wait did you just call me petty?!" The scientist narrowed his eyes and put his hands on his hips "Alright Mr. Smarter than thou, just what do you suppose we do with this information?"

"That's the part I got stuck at." Phineas rubbed the back of his neck "I was hoping you guys would think of something. Any ideas?"

"I got nothin'." Buford shrugged.

"I do not approve of this whole 'breaking the fourth wall' business." Baljeet glared "It is rather ridiculous if you ask me."

"Well no one's asking you Nerdo." Buford gave the nerd a wedgie.

"I don't know Phineas." Candace put a hand on her brother's shoulder "Maybe we shouldn't be interfering with the laws of philosophy, what if something happens?"

"Aw, let the kid have his fun." Doof waved off her words of wisdom "Whatever you're making count me in. I got nothing else better to do today anyways."

Perry chattered and crossed his arms angrily.

"Well except fight you Perry the Platypus…which I love doing!" The scientist chuckled nervously and turned to Phineas and muttered quietly "Let's hurry up and start building before that tiny platypus pummels me" Then made his voice louder "I'll go get the tools!" Doof ran in the house, followed by an angry mammal.

Authors Note: So what do YOU think they should make with this information? Seriously, tell me. That information gave me a headache.