SUMMARY: Phineas felt that everyone seemed a little down, so he tried to rectify the situation. He manages to do so, but not without unforeseen repercussions. With the gang now 'cursed' with superpowers and altered DNA, Phineas tries, even now, to correct the situation while also trying to protect Danville from a new, and dangerous, evil…
PAIRINGS: Phineas/Isabella, Ferb/Vanessa, possible references to Candace/Jeremy
RATING: T
DISCLAIMER: IF I OWNED 'Phineas and Ferb', THIS, OR SOMETHING LIKE IT, WOULD HAVE BEEN AN EPISODE.
A/N: Had some spare time, was bored, so you guys two chapters in one day. This will not become a regular occurrence. I have sporadic updates for a reason. And that would be life. But I didn't have anything else to do, so here ya go!
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"What just happened?" Isabella asked, getting up since she had been knocked off her feet by the unexpected force of her sonic scream (she really didn't know what else to call it). "Phineas, how did you do that? …Phineas?" She cautiously approached the still figure. "Phineas, are you alright?"
"…m'fine," Phineas mumbled, although he didn't sound fine. "Is everyone else ok?"
"If you ignore the fact that we all seem to have super powers, yeah, we're good," Perry said, pausing when he realized that the translator had fallen off, but he was still able to speak. And he sounded a little different, too. With the translator, he had just sounded like the average American; now, there was the faintest (and he did mean faintest) hint of an Australian accent to his voice. "Are you sure you're ok, Phin?"
"I said I'm fine," the redhead practically snapped. Phineas then sighed, somehow sounded both exhausted and wide-awake at the same time. "Look, I just… I don't know. None of this… I don't know…"
Ferb instantly recognized what was wrong with Phineas, as he had seen Phineas fall into a state like this once before. Although Phineas was normally a seemingly endless ball of energy and excitement, it didn't mean that there weren't times that even Phineas got wound too tight. Ferb was able to recognize this as Phineas 'crashing'. The day's events were all making themselves known to Phineas, and his brain was frantically trying to organize (and explain) everything, obviously with little success.
Luckily, Perry knew Phineas just as well as Ferb did. "Come on. Phineas needs some time to get his thoughts sorted out."
"But…" Isabella protested, because she could tell that her boyfriend was in mental and probably emotional turmoil.
"Ferb can handle him, Bella," Perry said, gently pulling the girl away from the brothers. "Phin just needs some space so that he can get his thoughts under control. You know how his mind is. Would tear itself to pieces if Phineas didn't use all that inventing as an outlet for that creativity."
Isabella still looked uncertain that she was doing the right thing, but allowed Perry to lead her across the room. "So… You're Perry the Person now, huh?"
"At the moment, yes," Perry said. "I think I can shape-shift."
"That would explain how a platypus suddenly turned into a human without one of their machines," Vanessa said, leaning against the wall, sending the occasional glare at the bright lights, because somehow they seemed brighter now.
Perry, noticing his, dimmed them down until Vanessa seemed more comfortable, which luckily wasn't down too much.
"Phosphorus, pickle juice, pancake batter, natural rubber in liquid form, orange paint-the preschooler variety, bread flour, corn starch, pizza sauce…" Phineas muttered loud enough for everyone to hear. "Vegetable oil, dish soap, about three ounces of motor oil…"
"Ok, either that's one weird dinner recipe, or the ingredients to that goo Dinner Bell made yesterday," Buford said. "I'm gonna go with the goo."
"Buford, would you eat the end result if that was a dinner recipe?" Isabella asked, crossing her arms as she stared at him in questioning. His slight frown was all the answer she needed. "Didn't think so… He put pizza sauce, motor oil, and pickle juiceinthat stuff? Eww…"
"Does Phineas ever do anything conventionally?" Dr. D asked, looking at Perry, since the (no longer)platypus had known the boys longer than he had.
"No, he does not," Baljeet said. "You worked with him for a month. Should you not be able to deduce this for yourself?"
"Hey, I was focusing more on his inventing abilities that what it was he was building the stuff out of," Dr. D protested. "I mean, he was twelve! Twelve year olds aren't supposed to be capable of building a working spaceship."
"Ten year olds shouldn't be capable of building rollercoaster, but we did that, too. And it wasn't my first spaceship. Wasn't even my second one," Phineas said rather quickly (causing Dr. D to shake his head and mumble something about kids these days) before he began to babble on about varying voltages of lightning strikes, Ferb just adding in the occasional insight or reminding Phineas of something he had overlooked.
This, Isabella had seen before. At the moment, Phineas was in a sort of brainstorming mode, and his babbling was helping him work out his ideas so that they were more manageable, while Ferb was helping Phineas make sure he didn't overlook anything.
"So what was that blue glow about, brain-boy?" Buford asked.
"I believe that somehow, I was holding the beam up with my thoughts," Baljeet said, although he sounded rather unsure of himself. "Of course, I do not know for certain. I have never heard of this type of thing happening before, and I do not know everything."
"Telekinesis," Phineas said, getting back to his feet, seemingly finished with the verbal brainstorming. Everyone knew that at least part of his mind was still trying to come up with a scientific explanation for all of this, though. "The ability to manipulate and control objects with the mind."
"How…?" Vanessa asked.
"It can be rather tedious when you're confined to your bed because you've got the flu," Phineas said. "I got bored, grabbed my laptop, and just started a random search on super powers because it was the first thing I thought of. But I'm getting off topic. Now, Buford, you were across the room in a matter of seconds, which would seem to indicate super speed, but…"
"But what?" Buford asked.
"I want you to try to pick one of those beams," Phineas said, pointing over to the beams he had (accidentally) caused to fall. When Buford raised an eyebrow, the tinkerer just sighed, running his hands through his hair (and ignoring the worry-filled looks he got from Ferb and Perry when he did so). "Look, no offense, but you don't seem like the type to have super speed, Buford. However, based on your personality, I can see you having an enhanced physical state. If I'm right, it should mean that you could pick up the beam without it seeming to weigh much at all."
"Well, you had better hope you're right then, Dinner Bell," Buford said as he walked over to the beam. He grabbed it, and even he could help but show how surprised he was when he felt the metal bend in his tight grip. Motivated by this, he hefted the nine-foot piece of steel over his head, noting that it seemed lighter than Baljeet. "Huh. Lucky guess."
"Logical deduction," Phineas argued. "I noticed everyone's powers, and, if you think about, they fit. Ferb's a total tech-geek, Baljeet's the one who uses his head the most, Vanessa, you like the dark, so you seem to be able to manipulate shadows…"
"He does have a point there," Perry quietly muttered to himself.
"Isa, you're the most musical of us, so you got sonic manipulation, Buford acts like the muscle when we need it, which explains why he has enhanced physical abilities, and Dr. D, you're the one who likes explosions the most out of us all, so you got some kind of energy or concussion emission. Perry probably got shape-shifting abilities because, well… Ok, so I can't explain why Perry would get shape-shifting abilities, but everything else actually makes pretty good sense, at least, it does to me."
"I wanted to be human," Perry said. "Don't take this the wrong way, but it was bit…uncomfortable…for me to always be hanging out with the rest of you as a platypus. I always had to be so careful, so that nobody else found out about my secret identity."
Phineas looked hurt. "You could have said something, Perry. We could have made you a holographic projector or something so that you wouldn't have had to hide so much."
"I didn't want you to feel obligated," Perry said, making a mental note to sit down and talk to Phineas about it later. "Besides, for the moment, everything's all good. But why do you think you got the powers you did, Phineas?"
Phineas just shrugged, but Buford was quick to answer. "Because he's Dinner Bell. Have you ever met someone with so much energy, even when not hyped up on sugar?"
Everyone, even Phineas, laughed at that, and their attempts to reign in their reactions weren't helped by the dark blush that colored Phineas' face.
"Come on. We should all go see what we can do in the arena," the still blushing redhead said, hurrying away.
The arena was basically an an extreme exercise room that everyone had contributed to. With the standard Phineas-and-Ferb-transdimensional-engineering, there was a fancy robotic obstacle course, a normal obstacle course, the fanciest gymnastics course any of them had ever seen, a track that enclosed the college-sized sports field, a go-kart course, and several other odds and ends that helped keep them all in good physical shape.
Ferb held out one hand, his thoughts focused on starting up the robots. As soon as the glow enveloped them, they whirred to life, and Ferb decided to try and see if he could fully control their movements. Mentally tugging on the robot that had seven arms which rotated, making you dodge them in order not to get hit by them, he commanded it to start spinning, and it did. As Ferb played around, changing the speed at which it rotated, he also 'told' the miniature Tilt-O-Whirl (Phineas had been mildly bored that day) to start up.
Baljeet, meanwhile, headed over to the weight room part of the arena. Walking right past his station, he stopped in between Ferb's and Buford's station, because they were the two strongest, at least in terms of how much they could bench press. As such, the heaviest weight tree was the one that they shared. Baljeet mentally reached out to the weights, but when he didn't feel the same buzz as he had earlier, he remembered that he had had his hands over his head. Going purely on impulse, Baljeet raised one hand, as if picked something up, and a blue glow surrounded the weight tree as he lifted it off the ground without even touching it.
Buford had chosen to see what he could do with the normal, non-robotic, obstacle course, and he was currently working through it at a far faster pace than any human should have been able to. As he passed the labyrinth (a maze with doors that needed to be opened, gaps that had to be jumped, and other perils; further proof not to let Phineas get a hold of building tools when he was bored), Buford paused, before smiling and turning into that instead. When he got to the first door, he just grasped the bottom, which had two handles in case of emergency, and lifted it open.
Vanessa, on the other hand, had chosen to head over to the gymnastics course, and was using the shadows as aides as she maneuvered through it. She also discovered that not only could she move through the shadows, but she could turn the shadows tangible when the brunette accidentally knocked over a jar of chalk and caused a shadow to rise out of the floor and catch it.
Both Isabella and Dr. D had gone over to the 'shooting range' and were taking turns tossing up the clay discs for the other to destroy with their respective attacks. Isabella had tried firing the sonic pulses from her hands, but had been forced to admit that it seemed that only the 'sonic scream' was capable of working at the time being.
Perry had tried some more shape-shifting, and so far, he had managed to turn himself into a duck, a cat, a moose, and back into a platypus. Content that he seemed to be able to morph into any animal he wanted to, he morphed back to human before noticing that Phineas was nowhere to be seen.
Knowing that Phineas could be quite self-blaming when he wanted to be, Perry headed off to try to find his friend (it seemed too weird thinking of Phineas as his owner now that he could become human).
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E/N: Hoped that cleared up some confusion on the gang's (excluding Phineas) powers. As for the tinkerer, well… Let's just say that I have plans for him… MWUA HA HA!
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