A/N - Hello everyone! I had originally written a note to post as a chapter to reach out to those who had followed this story to let you all know that I'm back. Long story short, school got the better of me, I had to get myself into college (which I did), and i forgot my login. I'm on break now so I wanted to come back, many apologies for leaving you all with a cliffhanger. I know it's been years, but I'm hoping some of you remember me & the story. Like I said, I wrote a note only to see that the site frowns upon notes as chapters so I avoided that and wrote a chapter for you all.

I hope some of the original readers stumble upon this (hopefully those of you who had this alerts for this story come back) as well as new comers (who are always welcome!). I have a final chapter planned out for this story, maybe 2 if I stretch things. But anyway, I'd like to say sorry for the wait, I'm back to finish this and bring out new content throughout the summer. I'd love to hear from you guys again, so leave a review letting me know what you think or PM me if anything else. It has been a few years but I hope my writing has improved and I especially hope you enjoy. So thank you, see you all later!


What. Just. Happened.

A second ago Phineas had been right in front of her. In the blink of an eye, he had been engulfed by an enormous pile of snow. The only thing Isabella was sure of was that Phineas was at the very bottom of the pile.

I have to start digging.


"Aw yeah Ferb, you've got yourself quite the trigger finger there."

Django was pleasantly surprised at how Ferb managed to single handedly neutralize Bufford when they confronted the duo. They were both aware of how aggressive Bufford would be against any opposition; Ferb decided to take him out first. Django caught Bufford's attention for a moment and it was all Ferb needed to place 5 accurate shots into Bufford's midriff and eliminate him from contention. Baljeet, startled the confrontation, had dropped his snowball launcher to the ground allowing Django and Ferb to place 5 carefully aimed shots at him. They felt a little bad about eliminating the duo so swiftly but it was a competition after all.

Ferb just nodded at his partner's remark as they made their way back to their base, Bufford & Baljeet's base flag in hand.

"Seriously man! That was impressive! We've managed to bag ourselves 15 in a matter of moments"

So long that our own flag is still at base, surely we would be the winners. Ferb indeed favored their chances of victory; however it all relied on whether or not Phineas and Isabella had managed to steal their flag. If it wasn't where it had started, they would lose the 10 pointbonus.

We have 15 points at the moment. Assuming Phineas and Isabella have taken our flag they have 5 points. Either we turn around and try and steal their flag for an automatic win… Or we wait and see if we can cross paths and get into a little shootout. Ferb favored the latter and found himself smirking at the thought of a little duel with his brother.

"We're almost there," Ferb said. Where are you hiding Phineas?


Isabella was frantically digging away at the large pile of snow below her with tears in her eyes.

The Fireside Girls Handbook says there's a 90% survival rate if an avalanche victim is recovered within the first 15 minutes of burial. This isn't necessarily an avalanche but the handbook had nothing on having a snow fort falling on top of someone. She shook her head, C'mon Isabella, you can do this. For Phineas.


Statistically speaking, I have about an hour to survive. Although, those statistics are referring to avalanches and I don't consider this to be an avalanche. Oh well, plenty of time for Isabella. He smiled lightly. She'll know what to do.

Phineas had managed to place his hands in front of his mouth and create himself an air pocket. Thanks to his rather prominent nose, he had sufficient room to inhale and exhale as he pleased. It was all a matter of waiting now. He hadn't anticipated the sun to reemerge all of a sudden, had he known there was a possibility of getting buried in snow he would've given everyone self-regulating jackets that maintain body temperature or something. To be fair, he hadn't taken account the possibility that whoever made this Swinter may not have been up to the task of maintaining it.

Oh well, it was fun! Minus the whole fort collapsing on top of me part. I wonder how far Isabella is from finding me.


She had to be getting near; she had been digging for a while now. She could only dig so fast with her hands however. That was when it hit her.

The launcher!

Isabella stumbled towards her snowball launcher, which she had dropped at the sight of Phineas being buried by snow, and removed the snow holding container.

It's not exactly a shovel, but it's 10 times better than my hands I suppose.

All of a sudden she was hit in the back and heard chunks of snow fall to the ground. She turned around, confused to see no one at all. The game, she thought to herself. Her search for Phineas mattered more than winning this game of his though, so she continued to dig as there was no time to lose.


The last remaining duo was crouched, hiding on the corner of a building.

"What is she doing? Is she some sort of decoy?" a hiding Django pondered. Ferb couldn't understand what Isabella was up to either. She was just on a mound of snow, digging apparently.

"Hey wait a minute! That's where our base was! They have some nerve to destroy our base!" he whispered to Ferb.

Indeed, but where could Phineas be? Ferb found the whole display rather odd

"Do you think it could be an ambush?" Django asked. Ferb shrugged.

"And Phineas could be creeping up right behind us to eliminate us?" Django continued.

The two look at each other, wide eyed, and turned around slowly as if submitting to an unexpected defeat. However, there wasn't a red haired boy with a snowball launcher behind them preparing to blast the two.

Well that wasn't the case, Ferb thought to himself. "Something is wrong," Ferb declared.

Django wasn't buying Isabella's ploy however, and decided to fire one more shot at her just to be sure.

Seeing this, Ferb pushed Django's launcher ever so slightly and he wound up sending a shot whizzing past Isabella's left shoulder. Django appeared dejected, "Fine, let's go see what's up."

The two made their way towards Isabella.


She was getting close, she could feel it.

"Isabella, if you're planning anything malicious here don't do it." Django called out when they were a few feet away.

Isabella ignored him and kept digging.

"Do you think she heard me?"

Ferb nodded and, when he reached the digging girl, knelt next to her.

"He's stuck underneath Ferb," Isabella wept, "he's been trapped under for about 10 minutes already"

Ferb motioned to Django and the three began digging away. With the added help, a hand was found. Isabella snatched at it and gave it a tight squeeze. The squeeze she received back was all she needed to quell the fears she had been harboring the last 10 minutes. With help from Django, Ferb was able to locate Phineas' head.

"Hey there Ferb, Django. Thanks for getting to me." Phineas looked well aside from a slightly bluish face and the obvious shivering from the cold.
"Isabella was the one who worked to get to you," Django told him.

"Oh I know," Phineas smiled lightly and once again gave the hand he was holding a squeeze.

Isabella went speechless momentarily and sighed affectionately, and the trio dug out their friend and made their way out of their snow contracted area and hurried to get him to some warmth.


So, once again everyone, my apologies for leaving Phineas buried under snow for about 3 years. I reread my story prior to uploading a new chapter and I found a few grammatical errors that the younger me missed. See, I originally wrote my chapters on an iPod touch and the auto correct was a little nuisance now and then. But I've moved up in the world! Now I have a laptop of my own with Microsoft Word so hopefully I won't be embarrassing myself with any errors in the future.

Anyway, hope you enjoy! This is NOT how the story ends, I do have an idea for an ending so hopefully in the upcoming days I can get that out for you all. Do review and let me know what you think, have a great day!