Chapter 4
In the morning, Vanessa got out of bed, prepared, told her dad where she was going, and went to the Flynn/Fletcher's.
Vanessa was about to go to Ferb when all of a sudden she saw Perry alone in the corner. Perry was sad, looking down without eating his food from his bowl. Curious, Vanessa went to comfort the platypus, and see what was going on.
"Hay Perry the Platypus!" She greeted. Perry moaned. Vanessa looked puzzled. "What's wrong?"
The platypus looked at the teenager, grabbed a note from under him, and offered it to her. The Goth girl grabbed it and read it. She looked at Perry again.
"You got fired huh?" Vanessa asked the mammal. Perry nodded sadly. "But why? What did you do?" Perry showed her another note. She grabbed it and read it.
"So because my dad isn't evil anymore you're temporary fired until you get relocated?" The platypus nodded.
"And relocating means you have to be separated from your family forever?" Perry nodded a third time.
"Gosh, so if my dad didn't change you'll still be with your loving family? That must be a nightmare for you." Again Perry nodded, this time a tear rolled from his cheek, onto his bill, and fell into his food bowl. He sniffed sadly. Vanessa felt sorry for him.
"Perry," She told him, stroking the mammal's fur. "I'm terribly sorry. This is all my fault. If I had not made my dad nice, this mess would've never happened; I feel so ashamed." The girl stopped petting Perry, and stood up.
"But we are going to fix this!" She explained. Perry looked at her. "You and me Perry! We are going to talk to your owner Ferb who gave me that ray gun, he'll tell us how to reverse it, dad will turn evil again, you'll get your job back, and everything will turn back to normal again! What you think?" Perry groaned again and looked away. The girl picked him.
"Come on Perry." She encouraged the animal. "It'll work, it has too! You just have to be more accepting that's all." With that, she carried the platypus to the backyard.
"Hi Ferb." Vanessa greeted as he and Phineas were going inside. Ferb stayed behind and looked at her. He froze stock still. He then noticed she was carrying their pet in her arms.
"Why are you carrying Perry?" he asked.
"Oh...uh," Vanessa looked down at the mammal. Perry did the same to her. Vanessa looked back at Ferb.
"Perry just wanted to be held." She and Perry smiled as if with guilt. Ferb hesitated a moment.
"Okay." He finally said, shrugging.
"So Ferb," Vanessa continued. "You remember that you made me a special ray gun that made my dad nicer?" The British kid nodded.
"Well I need to know if there's any reverse to that. My dad is driving me nuts. I can't take it anymore." Ferb just stared at Vanessa. "Ferb?" She waved her free hand in front of him. "Helllllo?! Earth to Ferb, come in Ferb!" Ferb snapped back to reality.
"First off." He said. "Let me say that…I told you so."
"Yes, yes you told me so. Now can we reverse what I've done?" Ferb motioned them to stay and went into the house.
Vanessa looked at Perry, the two of them had no idea what was happening. Ferb then came back with a laptop, opened it, and showed them the screen.
"Okay, let's see.." She and Perry squinted at the words. "So the Dansville library has a book on famous Danville inventions?" Ferb nodded. Vanessa smiled.
"Sounds cool, so all I have to do is go to the library, check the book, and find the right invention I need?" Ferb again nodded. Vanessa closed it and hugged the boy."
"Thanks Ferb." She complimented. "You're the best." Then they heard Candace's yell from inside.
"Ferb!" She boomed! "Return me my laptop, NOW!" With that, Ferb took the laptop from Vanessa and ran inside.
"Thanks again Ferb!" Vanessa called after him. Ferb took one last glance and winked at her then…
"FERB!" The boy rushed inside. Perry leaped down from Vanessa's arms.
"So looks like we have to go the library Perry." The platypus nodded.
The teen and platypus stood outside the library entrance.
"Ready?" She asked. Instead of nodding, for what seemed like the hundredth time, he just started going towards the doors. Vanessa followed him. They then noticed a sign "No Pets Allowed." The girl and mammal looked at each other and smiled.
Vanessa has dressed the platypus in what was available outside. A hula skirt made out of grass, a leaf tied bow, and a pink shirt from a nearby family who were about to try it on their infant girl. Vanessa stood back to admire her work.
"Perfect!" She cried. "You'll pose as my little cousin, Bridgette!" Perry looked at himself, he didn't look too thrilled.
"Aw come on Perry." Vanessa said. "Quit being a boy and go with it; you look cute!" Perry sighed, held Vanessa's hand, and the two went inside.
Inside everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at the newcomers. They were all wondering the same thing, why was there a little girl with a beaver tail in here? Vanessa slapped her face as the two went in the Non- Fiction area.
Shoot, forgot the beaver tail! She said to herself. Oh well, roll with it like everything's normal and find the book! She and Perry went into an aisle.
"Okay." She told the disguised platypus. "You look in that end, and I'll look in this end." Perry nodded, and he and the girl began their search.
"Man your owners sure build allot." Vanessa observed, paging through a book in the last aisle. "A roller coaster, a circus, an outside aqurallm, chariots, a pinball/bowling ball game, and loads more. Ferb is brilliant for someone his age." She smiled as she flipped another page. She then jumped up.
"Oh my gosh!" She shouted. "Perry, I've found it, I've found…" A nearby librarian came by to shush them. She was an elderly woman with thick red glasses.
"Shhh, quiet!" She snapped. Vanessa stopped and showed Perry what she was looking at. The librarian came back.
"Are you sure that's a little girl?" She asked. They looked at her. "Because that beaver tail tells me it's either a beaver or a platypus disguised to look like a little girl." She pushed her thick red glasses back up. "That or I need new glasses." Vanessa laughed nervously.
"Platypus?" She pretended. "There's no pets allowed in here."
"Then I need to see my eye doctor again." She left them. They looked at the book again.
There was a picture of a pretty red shiny orb. Vanessa read the words out loud silently to Perry.
"The Reverse Orb," She read. "Has extraordinary powers to redo any event that happened in the past. However it only works once and only once. It is found in The Cave of Risks in downtown Dansville. Thousands had tried to get it and use its power before, and all has failed. So if you don't want to fall to your death, don't go to this cave. The orb has been untouched for over a thousand years and remains to this very day." She closed the book.
"It does sound dangerous," She told Perry. "But what choice do we have? I mean, I want my dad back and you want your job back, so we have to get it or at least try. I say go!" She put the book back on the shelf. She looked at Perry who showed that he meant business.
"Perfect!" She said. "We'll go in the morning.
The next day, Vanessa and the semi-aquatic mammal were standing outside the cave enterence. They had looked up the cave's location on Vanessa's laptop at home, and Perry has drawn a picture of where they were going in his notebook to show Major Monogram and Carl. Both Monogram and Carl convinced Perry to stay, saying that it was too risky for an O.W.C.A agent and a 16 year old to be doing this, but Perry was determined!
"Well if you are determined," Monogram had said. "I guess there's no stopping you." He broke out crying.
"Just be careful Agent P!" Perry saluted and was off. The other agents and the two humans wished Agent P luck.
"Well here we go." Vanessa told the platypus. She gulped, and then the two went inside.
The next chapter is where all the action starts!