Chapter 4

Stacy's cell phone rang. She picked it up and answered, "Hello? Phineas? Is that you? Candace? Loss of phones!? Sleepwalking!? Crazed!? Confused? I'll be right over!"

Candace sat beneath the tree in the back yard. Isabella held up a piece of paper with a giant black figure on it.

"What do you see here?" she asked.

Candace answered, "A phone."

"And this?"

"A cell phone."

"What about this?"

"A banana phone."

"And this?"

"Two tin cans with a string tied at the bottom of each connecting the two."

Isabella looked back at Ferb with a worried expression.

Meanwhile…

Perry was inside one of the agency's doghouses that was located through a secret passageway beneath a real doghouse that belonged to Agent B (Basset Hound). It was called, "The Lab" which was where all the agents' gadgets were created and tested. He had sent a letter by bird to Dr. Doofenshmirtz who had just arrived at the doghouse.

(To evil jingle) Doofenshmirtz inside a doghouse…

Dr. D walked in and looked around.

"Perry the Platypus? I got your letter. You want me to come down here to see something? And what's with all this, 'vacation' stuff? Perry?" Doofenshmirtz wandered around some more.

Just then, a giant metal birdcage fell down on him. Doofenshmirtz gasped when he noticed the platypus standing at a counter top in front of him.

"Perry the Platypus!? What's with the cage? Are you making something!?" Dr. D gasped again, "Don't tell me you're making some sort of evil invention that you want me to foil!"

Perry turned around and handed Doofenshmirtz some blueprints.

"What's this? Let's see…" Dr. D examined the paper closely. "You're making an anti-evil invention!? This has to be some sort of joke! You want to get rid of all evil from the world!? But why!? Have you gone mad!?"

Perry pulled down a white screen and turned the lights off. He then turned on a projector showing a slideshow of pictures. The slides were all of Perry, showing him rescuing some polar bears from melting ice, mountain biking through a snowstorm backwards, saving a lost parakeet in Egypt, stealing back a platinum seal from some robbers, crashing an intergalactic slumber party, cart wheeling up an escalator, bungee jumping off of the Statue of Liberty in France, escaping from two great white sharks, making friends with Bigfoot, and saving the President of the United States from a pack of violin-playing monkeys.

Once the slideshow ended, Dr. D said, "I had no idea you were doing all of that. And that was all on top of defeating me and my evil schemes too?"

Perry nodded.

"Gee… I knew you were a busy guy, but I had no idea it was this bad. And all of these pictures were adventures you went on in order to defeat evil?"

Perry nodded again.

"Wow. Hey, wait a minute, how did you get pictures of all that anyhow?"

Perry shook his head and waved his hand as if saying, "Not important." The platypus turned on his heel and went back to his work. The lights turned back on and he began screwing on some bolts to his device.

"Well, there's a switch," Dr. Doofenshmirtz said to no one, still trying to let this all sink in.

For once, it was up to Dr. Doofenshmirtz to stop Perry from using his invention to do something on the world.

In the mean time, Stacy had just arrived at the Flynn-Fletcher house.

"Oh thank goodness, Stacy, you're here! Where's your cell phone!?" Candace screamed.

"I didn't bring it," Stacy said.

"You what!?"

"Phineas told me we had to break you of your phone obsession so I couldn't bring my cell phone."

Candace looked like she was about to pull her hair out. Phineas butted in on the conversation and said, "Besides, if Mom catches you playing with a phone, even if it's not ours, you're going to be so busted."

Busted!*

Candace's pupils shrank at that last word. Everyone else looked around wondering where that two-note tune came from.

Just then, Jeremy Johnson walked into the yard.

"Hey, Candace. I've been trying to text you all day. And when you haven't been answering, I came over to make sure everything was okay. It's not normal for you not to respond right away so it had me worried," Jeremy explained.

Candace was now getting mixed emotions. She tried to smile at how much Jeremy had cared.

Phineas explained the whole story to Jeremy.

"Oh gosh! Well, I'd be happy to help," Jeremy said.

Candace perked up a little, but she still felt extremely tired.

*From Candace and Vanessa's song, "Busted". This was done when Vanessa said busted in the episode, "Hail Doofania".