I do not own Phineas and Ferb or Cars.
"Hey Jeremy!" Candace says as she opens the door for her boyfriend.
"Hey Candace," the blond-hair boy says as he enters the Flynn-Fletcher house. "I brought my guitar. I thought you might want to hear a new song I was working on for my band."
"Ooh, that sounds great! Why don't you set up in the living room and I'll get you something to drink. What do you want?"
"Water's fine," he calls over his shoulder as he walks to the living room.
Candace, two glasses in her hands, soon finds Jeremy staring out the back door into the backyard with a confused look on his face. "Did your brothers take their invention somewhere else today?"
"What do you mean? They haven't even started yet!" she says, joining him at the back door. "They're not even in the back yard…"
"So did they go somewhere else then?"
"No… Isabella's on vacation, Baljeet's visiting colleges, why I don't know… And Buford never shows up without Baljeet and I think Phineas said something about him going on some sort of bully retreat… The only kid that leaves them to visit would be Irving."
"Iriving?"
"Yeah, he's kinda new to the group… Never really comes around that much. And you know… it's not like them to just wander off. C'mon we're going to his house."
"…Why?"
Candace sighs. "We made an agreement that since mom and dad are gone, they're supposed to tell me if they are going anywhere. It was sort of a 'I-need-to-know-where-you-are-so-I-can-bust-you' type thing but…"
"They're not ones to break their word," Jeremy says, nodding his head in understanding. The step-brothers were never known to lie or break a promise.
A short walk later, the teenage couple is standing at the front door of the McBrayer household. Candace rings the doorbell.
"Hello? Omigosh it's Candace Flynn! And Jeremy Johnson?" the small red-headed boy who answers the door says. "Wait right here! I'll be right back!" The door closes and Candace and Jeremy can hear the sound of sneaker-clad feet running down a hallway and then quickly returning. The door opens again and this time they are greeted by the flash of a digital camera. "Heee! I finally got a picture of you two!" he grins.
Candace and Jeremy share a "wow this boy is obsessed" look.
"Anyways, what can I do for you Candace Flynn and Jeremy Johnson?"
"Are my brothers here? They aren't in my backyard, so I thought they might be here…"
"Nope. Haven't seen them all day! In fact, according to my motion sensors your back yard has been pretty quiet since approximately 10 am this morning," Irving says.
Candace backs away slowly, wondering if her family is going to need a restraining order against this boy.
"Are you sure?" Jeremy asks.
"Yep. Why? Are you looking for them? To… bust them?"
"Not exactly," Candace says as she backs up again, worried that this boy seems to know so much about her family's daily life. She turns to leave and calls over her shoulder. "Thanks for your help… I think."
"No problem!" Irving yells and then closes the door.
"Come on Jeremy. We've got to get back to my house," Candace says, grabbing his hand and starting to run.
"Do you think they'll be there?"
She stops and looks at him, her face betraying her worry. "I don't know. But we can look for clues. There's got to be some reason why they aren't there…"
"Don't worry Phineas. If anyone can find your step-brother-"
"Brother," Phineas says, arms wrapped around himself…still in denial about the disappearance of his best friend.
"Right, brother. If anyone can find your brother, it'll be these two." Lightning gives a slight chuckle, hoping to lighten the mood as they watch Siddeley come in for a landing in the outskirts of town. "'Course Mater here played a pretty big role in uncovering the whole World Grand Prix scandal," he says hitting the tow truck lightly with one of his front tires.
"Aw, shoot! They would'a figured t'out without ma help. Holley's right smart like that. And Finn? Holly shoot! He's got more moves an' fancy gadgets an' whos-a-ma-wats-its than I got dents! And I gots me lots ah dents!"
Phineas allows himself a slight smile as the jet touches down. "I hope so…"
Siddeley is able to stop himself in a relatively short distance. He lowers his ramp and a shooting blur of violet comes roaring down it, traveling the distance between the jet and the two cars and human quite quickly.
"Mater what is it? What's wrong? We came as quickly as we could when we got your message. What… Who is this…um…?"
"I'm Phineas and this is…. oh…" the triangle headed boy starts to say, not noticing how much of a habit he has of introducing both himself and his quiet brother.
"It's sort of a long story," Lightning explains to the purple spy car as an Aston Martin drives up behind her.
"About what?" he asks.
"Me," Phineas says.
The silvery-blue car drives forward a bit to get a look at who said that. Normally, Finn had the aura of complete calm, even when faced with pear-shaped situations and the unknown. But the vast… difference of the, for a lack of a better word, creature before him makes his eyes go wide and he gives a slight gasp. The greatest display of confusion and surprise anyone had seen from the old spy car. Ever. (Not including, of course, the Lemons on the oil rig on the night of one of his greatest friends' demise…)
"Finn, this is Phineas. Phineas, Finn," Mater says, introducing the two.
"Pleased to meet you," Finn says, regaining his composure. "Are you the reason why Sir Mater called us here?"
"Yeah… You see, my brother…" Phineas stops and bites his lip, the capture of his brother just two hours before still too fresh in his mind to continue.
"Phineas and his brother Ferb got here about three or four hours ago," Lightning explains. " How… they weren't sure. But when we were talking at Flo's, there was this helicopter that came from out of nowhere and grabbed Ferb and carried him off."
"Somebody captured him," Phineas says plainly.
"We was thinkin' that you two could help find 'im."
"Well we can certainly try," Holley says, smiling at Phineas. "We will do all that we can to find your brother. Right Finn?"
"Of course. Oh, wait a minute. HQ's on the horn. Be right back," the Aston Martin says as he drives off a little ways from the group.
"Sorry about that. We got word that Professor Z and a few other lemons have escaped from jail. That's part of the reason why we came so fast. I thought that they might have… gotten to Mater," Holley says and gives her boyfriend a quick peck on the cheek.
"Lemons?" Phineas asks.
"Cars whose designs cause them problems like breaking down a lot. They've got a pretty big chip on their fenders from years of being made fun of," Holley explains.
"Couldn't they just get someone to fix them? It couldn't be that hard."
Holley shakes her cab. "No, it would require operations that are beyond anyone's skill set. The procedures that would need to be done… no one can do."
"'Sides, most of them lemons have custom-made parts tha' are rarer than a snowflake in da middle ah summer," Mater offers.
"What did they say Finn?" Holley says, seeing the elder spy car rejoin the group.
"Axelrod is still in prison. The Lemons haven't sprung the chap yet. Can't say that I'm terribly surprised about it."
"So let me see if I got this straight…" Phineas says, a pensive look on his face. "The Lemons are a group of disgruntled cars that break down a lot and are made fun of for it."
"Along with some of their exterior appearances that just…don't work," Holley adds.
"Ok. And no one in this world, universe, whatever, can fix them because the 'operations' , as you call them, are too complex and delicate for them to do?"
"Correct," Finn says.
"Ferb, my brother, is excellent with tools and building stuff. We even turned our mom's Station Wagon into a race car this summer. Heck, we built a true all-terrain car even!"
"You turned a Station Wagon. Into a… race car?" Lightning asks incredulously.
"Let the boy finish," Finn says, seeing where Phineas is going with this.
"I think I know who has Ferb…"
A/N- Though I think you guys already knew who has Ferb ;) I'd like to thank Sunny Lighter and Rehtribution for the reviews! I hope some more of you readers will leave me a review! I know at least 38 people have read it, so reviews from any of you would be most welcome!
Thanks for reading!
PS- Owen Wilson (the guy who voices Lightning McQueen) named his kid FORD. I just thought I'd share that with you. It gave me much amusement XD