The Hurricane
A Phineas and Ferb fan fiction by KLCI
*Phineas & Ferb property of Dan Povenmire, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh and the Walt Disney Company
A/N: Once again, thank you everyone for all the great reviews and subscriptions! Sorry this one took so long, I wanted to take my time writing this chapter since I wrote the last one far too fast and it came out crappy.
Chapter 3
Perry landed his hover car on the glass roof of Doofenshmirtz's building and jumped out. He took what looked like an ordinary pen out from under his fedora and pointed it towards a pad lock which was securing a hinged glass panel closed. Perry pushed the button on the end of pen, which activated a red laser. After the laser had melted the pad lock away, the window dropped open and Perry jumped through the opening.
Doofenshmirtz was working on what looked like an electric guitar amplifier when Perry landed behind him. He turned around to greet him.
"Ah, Perry the Platypus. I've been expecting you. I have you right where I want you." He said.
Perry looked around quickly for some crazy trap to drop on him out of nowhere. Then he noticed he seemed to be sinking into the floor. He looked down to see that his feet were now buried in what looked to be wet cement. Even though he immediately tried to move his feet, it was too late, the cement had already dried.
"Quick-drying cement Perry the Platypus! Pretty good huh? At least it's an improvement over my lobster trap thing that I used yesterday."
Perry rolled his eyes.
"Well, anyway, let me show you my latest invention." Doof said as walked over to a seemingly innocent looking shopping cart, the exception was the big red button on the handle and the electric guitar amplifier welded on to the front end.
"It's my Shopping Cartinator!" He exclaimed. Perry gave him a confused look.
"You see Perry the Platypus, every time I go to the grocery store there is always people getting in my way. I mean, all I want to do is make my way down the aisle and grab what I need, but there is always some nincompoop who leaves their stupid shopping cart in the middle of the aisle. Then they spend like 10 minutes trying to decide what kind of ketchup they want or something. So then I have to turn around and go down the next aisle, but then there's 5 more people doing the same thing in the next aisle! It drives me crazy!"
Of course, Perry already knew he was crazy.
"But not anymore! You see, all I have to do is push this button here and this amplifier releases a super powerful, low-frequency rumbling tone that will not only knock all those pesky shoppers off their feet and out of my way, it will send all the items falling off the shelves so I don't have to reach up and grab them. I'll be in and out of the store in record time!" Doofenshmirtz bragged.
"You've got to be kidding me." Perry thought to himself.
Meanwhile, Phineas, Ferb, Isabella and Candace were riding back to their neighborhood on a city bus.
"I can't believe a hurricane is about to slam into us and it happens to be the one time mom and dad are overseas!" Candace said. "Besides, wasn't Mom supposed to call me when they switched planes in New York?" Of course, this is when she noticed she had forgot to switch her cell phone off of silent mode and it was indicating she had a voicemail.
She quickly called her voicemail and discovered that Linda had indeed called. "Candace, it's mom. We're in New York and we're about to board our flight to Helsinki. I don't know why you're not answering your phone but I'll talk to you when we land. I love you honey, bye."
Candace's eye twitched, her parents had no idea the hurricane was on it's way and she had no way to contact them on an airliner crossing the Northern Atlantic Ocean. Since the flight was nearly eight hours long, she would have to wait until at least 11:00 that night to let her parents know what was happening, not to mention ask them what to do about it.
"Um Candace, are you okay?" Phineas asked innocently.
"Am I okay? Phineas, a super huge hurricane is about to destroy everything around us and on top of that, Mom and Dad are halfway to Europe! Of course I'm not okay!" Candace declared.
"Whoa! Take it easy Candace! Ferb and I have the whole situation under control." Phineas replied. He turned to his brother.
"Ferb, do we have any blueprints for something that will protect the house?"
Ferb gave everyone a thumbs up, indicating he had just thing.
"See? No problem." Phineas stated.
Candace looked somewhat relieved, for once in her life she was happy her brothers where about to build something.
Upon arriving home, the boys immediately got to work. Phineas got on the phone and ordered all the materials needed while Ferb began setting up for the construction of their giant shell-like structure that would surround the house and protect it from the dangerous winds and debris. Isabella had rushed home and Candace was just pacing around the living room nervously.
Soon, several flatbed trucks loaded with hundreds of metallic plates arrived. Ferb began unloading them with a rented crane as Phineas signed a clipboard handed to him by one of the truck drivers.
"Hey aren't you boys a little young to be operating heavy machinery?" Asked the driver.
"Why yes, yes we are." Phineas answered with a smile.
"Well, it's good to see some kids with good work ethic." the burley driver responded as he turned to leave. With that, Phineas made his way over to help his brother.
Meanwhile, a van reading Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc. on the side pulled into the parking lot of a busy shopping center near downtown Danville, inside was a supposedly evil doctor and his platypus nemesis. Doof shifted the van into park and turned around to talk to his captured nemesis, who was still standing in a block of hardened cement, which Doof had placed in the passenger seat. Even though Perry certainly was strong for a creature his size, the block was still heavy enough that he really couldn't move.
"Okay, so I figure with this hurricane coming I'm going to need a ton of stuff. You know, batteries, flashlights, jugs of water, non perishable food and stuff like that. What a perfect day to test out my shopping cartinator eh?" Doofenshmirtz gushed.
Perry simply gave Doof an irritated look and chattered angrily.
"Tisk, tisk. Still a party pooper as usual Perry the Platypus. Oh well, it's not like your going anywhere anyway!" Doof said as he knocked on the hard metallic weight attached to the bottom of the cement block. He then got out of the van, walked to the back, took out his shopping cartinator and headed towards a the store, "Wholesale Mart".
It wouldn't be long before Doof would unleash his crazy shopping cart on the store and cause all kinds of havoc, so Perry had to think fast. He could just barely reach the door handle, but since he couldn't move his feet, it wouldn't do him much good. So he opened the glove compartment, which again, he could just barely reach. Among the various junk Doof kept inside, Perry found a hammer. Oh, how fortunate he was to be blessed with such a forgetful adversary. After a few powerful blows, Perry had cracked the cement enough to free his right foot and then his left. Within minutes he was out of the van and on his way into the store.
Back on Maple Drive, Isabella ran into the back yard of the Flynn-Fletcher home and came face to face with Phineas.
"Phineas! My mom isn't home! She went to a see her friend just over the state boarder. I called her and the State Police won't allow her back into the area because of the hurricane! So she said to evacuate, we need to go to East Danville High School and…"
"Don't worry Isabella, that won't be necessary." Phineas interrupted her with a smile.
Isabella looked at him as if he was completely insane.
"Who needs to evacuate when you have this?" Phineas pointed to a massive metallic dome that had completely covered their house.
Isabella looked up in awe at the massive structure.
"Yup, this baby is made of pure titanium alloy. It's five feet thick and anchored to the ground with concrete. You would need wind speeds that have never even been recorded on earth to move this thing." Phineas beamed.
"That or the world's most powerful magnet." Ferb added.
A hatch door on the side of the dome opened and Candace popped her head out.
"Are you guys coming in here or what? The hurricane is supposed to make landfall in 45 minutes!"
"Be right in Candace!" Phineas said.
"Isabella, you should just come in here and ride out the storm with us." He told her.
"You don't have to tell me twice!" She declared. Then she ran across the street to grab her suitcase, which she had already packed full of clothes and her most important personal belongings.
In the meantime, Perry was busy running around Wholesale Mart looking for Doofenshmirtz. This was proving to be a very irritating process due to the fact that there were hundreds of people running around the store in a panic, trying to grab whatever they could to sustain or brace themselves for the rapidly approaching hurricane. Being so small, Perry had to not only worry about finding Doof, but avoiding being stepped on as well.
Suddenly, Perry found him. Doof was just getting ready to go down the snacks aisle. Of course, this aisle was mobbed with people just like the rest of the store. Doof looked up towards the very top shelf.
"Ah my favorite cheese puffs, I'm going to need a ton of those to ride this storm out. What a perfect opportunity to try out my shopping cartinator!" Doof said happily. Just as he was about to press the giant red button, Perry leapt into the air kicked Doof right in the face, sending him flying into a display case.
"Perry the Platypus? How did you escape?" Doof asked, a shocked expression on his face.
Perry smirked a showed him the hammer.
Doof smacked himself in the forehead, "Okay, how the heck did I forget about that?"
"Oh well, no matter" he moved towards the cart to push the button, only to have Perry jump up on his head and wrap his arms around his eyes so he couldn't see. Doof stumbled around with his arms flailing wildly, he was crashing into people left and right and just adding to the chaos in the store.
Meanwhile, the boys, Candace and Isabella sat in the living room watching the continuing news coverage of Hurricane Boyd. It was just off the coast of the Tri-State Area.