Chapter 4:Trapped in the past.
The character Marie Flynn (C) belongs to Angelus19 and sam-ely-ember of Deviantart. I do not own her in any way
The character Thomas Fletcher belongs to Melty94. I do not own him in any way.
This story is not offical in anyway for the Phineas and Ferb series.
"Well, Dad? How's the damage?" Thomas asks.
Back in the hidden lab, Ferb has been examining the recently destroyed portable time machine. He's doing this very slowly and carefully to make sure he doesn't ruin anything. After looking at the device, he turns back around to face Marie and Thomas.
"Important wiring and the frame itself isn't too damaged. But you two may be stuck here for a few days." Ferb explains
"WHAT! BUT I WANT TO SEE MY DADDY COME HOME!" Marie Shrieks.
"Isn't that why we came here in the first place?" Thomas asks.
"Oh, be quiet."
"I can start fixing the device tommorow, but you may have to find a place to stay at until then." Ferb explains.
"Pff. Can't we just get another time machine?" Marie asks.
A second time machine! With a smile, Ferb now knows what to do next.
At the Danville Museum...
"So that giant ugly chair here at the museum is actually a time machine? Cool." Marie says.
"Marie, why must you always repeat whatever my dad says in the form of a question?" Thomas asks.
"Because the readers don't know anything that we say when we're...oops, I just broke the forth wall!" Marie says in embarressment. "And I criticized my mom when she did that."
"WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT...oh, forget it." Thomas says with anger.
After some walking in the museum, the three children reaches the spot where the time machine Phineas and Ferb used before is suppose to be. However, when they arrived at the spot, it's nowhere to be seen. Obviously, this is bad.
As the security gaurd walks past the three, Thomas goes up to him.
"Excuse me sir, but have you seen the time machine exhibit that's suppose to be here?"
"Oh, sorry kid. That thing was tranferred over to another museum in another town. Can't remember where though." The gaurd explains. "Anyway, not sure when we're getting it back."
This was terrible news. With the museum's time machine gone, Thomas and Marie have no other choice but to wait for the portable time machine to be fixed.
"Well, at least we dealt with a major plot hole." Ferb says.
With no other reason to be at the museum, the three returns to the Flynn-Fletcher house. Phineas is still in the backyard preparing for the greatest day of summer yet. The end-of-summer dance.
"Oh, there you are, guys!" Phineas says. "Ferb, I just realized that besides me planning out Saturday, we have done NOTHING today! Notice that we haven't seen Candace at all today? We're gonna have to make up for it tomorrow"
Due to obvious reasons, there's no way for Ferb to do the usual 'build-something-fantastic' tomorrow since he needs to get started on repairing the time machine. But he can't tell his brother that. He has no idea on what he should say.
"Ferb promised that he would help me out with a personal problem of mine." Thomas says, breaking the silience. "Whatever it is you guys will be doing tomorrow, it'll have to wait."
Ferb smiles and gives Thomas, his future son, a thumbs up.
"Oh. Well, a promise is a promise." Phineas says, holding no ill will. "Well then me and Marie can hang out tomorrow. I loved the idea of finding the lost city of the moleman you suggested last time. And because we missed todays big idea, we can finally build those nanobots after!"
"Oh wow, that all sounds exciting! I'm in!" Marie says.
"Marie, shouldn't you be helping me and Ferb with-" Thomas starts saying, but hen gets interrupted.
"If I keep daddy distracted, he won't suspect what you guys are actually doing." Marie whispers to Thomas.
"Wow. For once you actually have a good idea."
"Alright then. I'll see you tomorrow, Phineas." Marie says. "Ferb, want to walk me and Tommy home?"
Ferb raises an eye brow when asking him to take her home, considering that she's 20 years away from home. Asuming she has an idea, he nods.
"Great. See ya, Phineas." Marie says as she leaves, with Ferb and Thomas following her.
"Later guys." Phineas says to his friends as they leave. "Hey, where's Perry?"
Out on a lake, sitting on his boat, and a fishing rod in his hand, Perry the Platypus continues to enjoy his vacation.
"Aaahhh." Perry says.
Suddenly, Perry gets a bite. He stands up and quickly reels in the catch. But before he could land it, he loses his grip and lets go of the pole. And to add insult to injury, the bass that he was trying to catch surfaces up to the air and smacks Perry on the ehad with the stolen fishing pole.
"Bwhahahahaha!" Says the fish before diving back down into the lake.
"KRRRRRRRRR!"
Now angry and wanting revenge, Perry takes out an O.W.C.A approved lazer gun hidden in his tackle box, and jumps down into the water to 'catch' the fish.
"Well Tommy. This is gonna be our home for the next few days." Marie says.
A tree. The home she is refering too...is a large tree in the park.
"I always expected us to live in a nicer place then...I mean, what the heck do you mean we're living here? I mean...IT'S A TREE!"
"Your right. It is a tree." Marie says. "But it's about to become a treehouse!"
Marie steps several feet ahead, then pulls out what appears to be a brown crystal ball.
"If that's a bomb, I'm running away right now." Thomas says.
Ferb, agreeing with Thomas, steps directly behind Thomas for safety.
Just as Ferb and Thomas feared, Marie takes the ball and throws it up into the tree. And...
BOOM!
As the smoke from the explosion clears, the top of the tree now has a gigantic treehouse. The treehouse is comparable to the one Ferb had built with his brother before.
"The portable treehouse-inator! Courtesy of Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorperated!"
"Doofenshirtz Evil Incorperated!" Sing the chorus.
"Did you take that from my crazy Grandpa's lab?" Thomas asks.
"He's not crazy! Your grandpa Heiny has the coolest gadgets."
Ferb snorts at what Marie says. "Hehe...'Heiny'..." Ferb says.
"Well, it's getting late, and I want to check out the treehouse great-uncle Heiny made. See ya tommorow uncle Ferb! Come one Thomas." Marie says. Then she climbs up the tree to get into her new temperary home.
"There's no way I'm going in a house that my grandfather made." Thomas says firmly.
"I have a real bomb in my pocket!" Marie shouts.
"Coming."
So Thomas, having no other choice, climbs up the tree to the treehouse. Ferb, on the otherhand, leaves to go back to his own home.
After a long and exhausting day of doing almost nothing, Phineas and his brother Ferb are ready to head to bed. Both are lying down in their beds and each have alot in their minds. Phineas was thinking about Saturday, which will be the best and last day of summer. Ferb, on the otherhand, is thinking about getting Marie and Thomas, his niece and son from the future, back to their own time.
"You know, Isabella said the weirdest thing today." Phineas says. "She was asking me if I had a date for the dance this Saturday."
Ferb remembers what Marie told him earlier. The upcoming end-of-summer dance is supposably the day Phineas starts showing that he likes Isabella as much as she likes him. Although that's not really something that Ferb should know. The last thing he wants to do is to let Phineas know anything like that, for there's no telling how it could affect Marie's existence.
"You know Ferb. Maybe it won't be such a bad idea if I did get a date for the dance. I mean...a fun party, great music, and there's the fireworks finale we'll be doing at the end. The only way the best day of summer could get any better is if we found ourselves a summer love as well! Don't you agree, Ferb?"
Ferb is very happy knowing that his brother is thinking about this. Perhaps Phineas won't be so oblivious to Isabella's constant flirting and hints. But Ferb still can't take any risks.
"Got any ideas on who you want to take?" Ferb asks.
"Actually, there's only one person that comes to mind. She's very cute, very friendly, and someone I know I can count on." Phineas says "I'll ask her out tomorrow. I hope she says yes."
Ferb closes his eyes and gives himself an even bigger grin. "I'll be right back. I need to do something real quick." Ferb then gets out of bed and leaves the room.
Then, Perry the Platypus, dragging behind him a giant fish skeleton, jumps up on Phineas' bed.
"Oh, there you are, Perry."
"Krrrrrrr..." Perry growls with a smug look while looking at the fish bones.
Downstairs in the living room, while looking at a phone number on a piece of paper, Ferb makes a phone call.
"Marie? You should probably know that Phineas plans to ask Isabella out to the dance tomorrow."
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH-"
SMACK!
The super excited, extremely high pitched, loud, girly scream Marie gave off forces Ferb to hang up the phone before the soundwave ripped his skin off of his face. Also, Ferb feels great pity for Thomas, his future son, since he's at the same place where Marie is screaming at the moment.
