heres chapter 3 everyone! The kids now have a little time to themselves with the carrot-creature, and things soon go awry.
Absolutely no time later, Phineas, Ferb, and their friends were still in the garage, observing the carrot-creature braught to life by the boys' super-growth formula. At the moment, the creation was standing on the table in front of them, staring back. Several minutes passed, and finally, someone said something. It was Isabella.
"Um..Phineas?" She said. "Don't you think we should do something with that carrot-creature?"
"Hmm.." Phineas pondered. "I suppose so. Maybe if we analyze its molecular structure, we could find out just how the formula braught it to life."
"Sounds like a good idea." Ferb agreed. In little to no time at all, the stepbrothers built a machine that would perform a scan of the carrot's DNA, equipped with a brain-scanning helmet and a carrot-shaped holder, obviously.
"OK, it's finished." Phineas said with pride. "Now, let's just get the carrot-" He wasn't able to finish however, since, to the children's surprise, the carrot-creature trotted over and plopped itself on the holder willingly. Needless to say, Phineas was speechless.
"OK then. Ferb, power it up!" He said after a few seconds. Ferb flicked a switch and the machine turned on. The carrot-creature sat placidly as the helmet lowered onto its "head"(the thing was pretty much all head, but you get the gist). For the next few seconds, the machine proceeded to scan the DNA and molecular makeup of the vegetable. The machine then emitted a ding, meaning the scan was complete.
"It's finished!" Phineas said enthusiastically as the machine printed out a peice of paper with the results on it. He took the paper and read over it, a shocked expression forming on his face.
"What's it say, Phineas?" Isabella asked.
"Well, it's kind of hard to put into words." The triangle-headed boy answered. "Which is why I'm going to give you a visual aid!" Phineas pressed a button on the machine, and a screen came out and showed an image of the carrot-creature from the inside.
"You see, the carrot-creature displays most of the normal molecular build of a regular carrot, but it appears that the syrum improved upon all of that." Phineas explained. He then pointed to the X-ray, which revealed that the carrot-creature actually had a brain and internal organs!
"According to the scan, the carrot-creature has grown a brain-like mass of cells here." He pointed to a pink, rounded triangle-shaped mass that resembled a sort of brain, located in the thick end of the carrot. Phineas continued,
"And it has developed a heart, stomach, and other vital organs here!" The others gasped as Phineas pointed to several small but real internal organs within the carrot, clustered in front of its brain and eyes, with the mouth leading right into the stomach. All the kids were astounded, including Phineas himself.
"I've also concluded that the carrot-creature has developed a nervous system as well." He finished.
"So what you're saying is that carrot is now an animal?" Buford implied.
"Technically yes," Phineas responded. "But it's still biologically a vegetable, a plant." Everyone seemed to get it. Once they were done, the carrot-creature hopped off of the machine and stood obediently on the table. The kids still didn't know exactly what to make of it.
"It's getting kinda late." Phineas stated, observing the time on his watch, which was late. "You guys should probably head home."
"But what're you gonna do about the carrot-creature?" Isabella asked. Phineas wondered for a moment, and decided to go with the first thing he could think of.
"Well, we should probably keep it here for further observation." Ferb then carefully picked up the veggie and placed it in a glass cage. Surprisingly, the carrot-creature did not struggle, and obediently sat down in the tank.
"Well anyway, see you tommorow, Isabella!" Phineas said.
"Bye Phineas!" She chirped back. However, as Isabella left for her house, she sighed. As it was widely known, Isabella had always had a crush on Phineas Flynn, ever since the two were young...er. Everyday, Isabella would try to somehow gain Phineas' affections by showing up and helping with their projects. She really enjoyed the brothers' awesome creations, but she had always hoped that someday, Phineas would show his feelings for her, but so far, it hadn't happened. Isabella sighed again and walked away across the street.
As she left, the carrot-creature watched her go.
"Hrrmmm?" It said.
Many hours later, everyone on the block was alseep, except for one: the carrot-creature. The thing was still wide awake in its tank, looking around. It quickly spotted the flower pot nearby. Hastily, the vegimal scrambled out of the open top of the cage and leaped into the pot. The carrot-creature sniffed the fresh dirt, and then sat down and relaxed. With a squeak of slight discomfort, the carrot-creature deposited 3 small seeds from its rectum. It then stood up and used its feet to excavate 3 small holes in the dirt, one for each seed. When it was done, the carrot-creature delicatly picked up 1 seed in its narrow mouth, dropped it into one of the holes, and burried it. It proceeded to do the same with the other two. When all the seeds were burried, the carrot-creature calmly sat itself on the dirt, covering the seeds, and slept the night away.
Bright the next morning, Phineas and Ferb's respective alarm clocks struck 7:30 and rang at exactly the same time. The boys quickly awoke, got dressed, ate breakfast, and went out into the garage to check on the carrot-creature, though they were concerned that Perry hadn't come back yesterday.
However, when they entered the garage, they were in for a surprise. The brother jaws nearly dropped to the floor(at least Phineas' did) when they that the carrot-creature had reproduced. Right before their eyes, smaller, slighty different-looking carrot-creatures were pulling themselves out of the flower pot, 3 to be exact. The 3 young ones squeaked cutely and gathered around their "mother", the original carrot-creature. Their parent licked them with its orange tounge.
As you can imagine, Phineas was pretty shocked. He quickly pulled out his cellphone and called Isabella, who had just woken up.
"What's going on, Phineas?" The tired girl said from the other end.
"Isabella?" Phineas said. "I think you should come over here."
Less than a half hour later, Isabella was standing in Phineas and Ferb's garage, along with Baljeet, Buford, and Irving(she had called them earlier, except for Irving). They were all staring at the new carrot-creature family.
"Y'know Phineas, I can respect a decent dose of weirdness when it comes to your projects, but this seriously tips the scale for me." Buford said matter-of-factly.
"It sure does, Buford." Baljeet concured. Phineas was still amazed that this was even possible.
"Alright. So apparently, the carrot-creature can reproduce on its own, without the need for a partner." He observed. At that moment, Buford had an idea.
"Hey everyone! I've got an idea!" He said. "If that freaky-deaky formula of yours braught a carrot to life, Phineas, then maybe we should try it on other vegetables!"
"Hm, well I guess that couldn't hurt." Phineas said. "After all, it might help us perfect the formula."
"Yeah yeah yeah." Buford said uninterestedly. "Let's just super-charge some seeds! I have some cucumber seeds!"
"I've got some parsnip seeds!" Isabella chirped.
"I braught zucchini seeds!" Baljeet said. Phineas cringed a little; he hated the taste of zucchini.
"And I have eggplant and tomato seeds!" Irving said excitedly.
"Um, Irving?" Phineas said. "You do know that tomatos are fruit, not vegetables. Right?"
"Only if you say so, Phineas!" The fan-geek said weirdly.
"Ok then," Phineas said akwardly after a moment. "Do you have any seeds, Ferb?" Ferb responded by reaching into his pocket and taking out a lone pumpkin seed.
"Great! And I happen to be carrying some broccoli seeds." Phineas said.
"Wait a second." Baljeet said. "Is it not a little weird that we all happen to be carrying vegetable seeds with us?" Everyone wondered for a moment, until Buford said,
"Nah." With that, the children each planted their seeds in seperate pots and waited while Ferb added the elixer. In seconds, the pots quivered, and sprouts soon formed into ripe plants. 2 cucumbers, 2 eggplant, 3 zucchini, 1 parsnip, 4 tomatoes, 1 broccoli, and Ferb's pumpkin, which grew so big that it tipped over the pot. As the kids watched, the veggies all grew legs and dropped off their stems(with the exceptions of the parsnip and broccoli, which pulled themselves out of the ground like the carrot did). Once the veggies were free, they opened their eyes and made individual noises.
The cucumbers stood on two skinny, root-like legs and had similar arms and mouths on their raised front ends. The eggplants stood similar to the cucumbers, but in a more upright posture, and small beady eyes with large mouths on their fronts, below the eyes. The parsnip was similar to the carrot, but was bigger, white, had thicker legs with 2 toes, short leaves, and 2 stubby arms below its eyes. The zucchinis were taller and leaner than the eggplants, had no arms, and smaller mouths on narrow heads, facing front. The tomatos had skinny legs just behind & below their eyes, wide mouths, and short arms right below their mouths. The broccoli walked on four legs, and its top was now a big, bushy tail, with the face on the bottom end. Lastly, the lone pumpkin. The veggie-creature was huge, bigger than half Buford's size! It walked on 4 green, thick, vine-like legs, and its small eyes were just behind its huge mouth. The beast let out a mighty roar as it stood up.
For a minute, the kids stared at their new veggie creations, and they stared back.
"Now that's pretty awesome." Phineas said approvingly. The carrot-creature and its children hopped down to the floor and greeted the new veg-creatures with happy chattering, and soon they were all getting to know each other, and their creators, very well.
"You know, I think we should let the veggies outside." Phineas said. "It'd be mean to keep them locked up in here."
"Good idea, Phineas." Isabella said. With that, Ferb pressed a button and the garage door opened up, casting a glare of sunlight into the room. The veggie-creatures were mesmerized, for they had never seen sunlight before. They desperately wanted to run out into the backyard and frolic in the warm glow and fresh air, but they were hesitant. The pumpkin-creature then turned to Phineas and Ferb and grunted almost submissively. After a moment of confusion, Phineas realized that the veggie-creatures were asking permission to go outside. Phineas allowed them to, of course.
"Go on. It's alright." He said to the vegetable. The pumpkin-creature grinned and roared to the others, and they all stampeded out onto the grass and ran around everywhere, thrilled to have all this freedom.
Seeing the veggie-creatures run and play in the yard made Phineas feel good, but it also reminded him of Perry, who as of this moment, was still missing.
"Hey, Ferb?" He said to his stepbrother. "I think we should go look for Perry." Ferb agreed with him, and so did everyone else. Moments later, the kids all set out to look for the platypus, positive that the veggie-creatures would stay out of trouble.
Unknown to them, however, one of the eggplants wandered out of the yard and into the open garage, where it found the formula...
What'll happen now? Find out next!
