Chapter 7

Ferb: What are you doing here?

Candace: I stowed away when you guys took off.

Ferb: Thanks for saving me back there.

Candace: Yeah.

Ferb tried to stand up, but his whole body was still a mess.

Candace: Stay still. I've been looking all over the ship for med-packs for you. Your RIG is still red.

Ferb looked behind him to see his back flashing red.

Ferb: How do you know about the RIGs?

Candace: This suit told me about the RIGs, tools, and equipment.

Ferb: I take it you already fought these things?

Candace: Yep. My original plan was to get back to Earth in one of the escape pods, but then these things showed up, and I had to find everyone. I have a new mission now.

Ferb: What's that?

Candace: Remember the alien artifact you brought on board? I'm going to destroy that.

Ferb: You're right. How could I be so stupid? I have to contact Phineas.

Candace: Can't. While you were out, those things cut power to communications.

Ferb: Dang it.

Candace: Here's another med-pack.

She pulled out a small capsule with a green light, and plugged it into a port in Ferb's back, raising his RIG to yellow.

Candace: Alright. Should be safe for you to move now.

Ferb slowly stood up and clicked his helmet on.

Ferb: Let's find that artifact.

Meanwhile, Perry and Pinky were still looking through the ship.

Perry: Where do you think they are?

Pinky: Who knows?

A monster jumped through the vents in front of them. It was a smaller, baby creature with the stomach and intestines exposed. It had three tentacles coming out of its back, and those tentacles had stingers on the end of them.

Perry: Who brings babies on this dangerous expedition?!

The creature ran forward, firing the stingers from its tentacles. Pinky and Perry ducked and dodged the stingers, and attacked the small creature. Perry swung a roundhouse and Pinky did a hook towards it. It blocked one attack with one tentacle and the other with the other tentacle. It wrapped the two of them in its tentacles and threw them into the wall. It spun its tentacles in a helicopter attack, and the two agents ducked the attack. It pinned both of them to the ground with its hands and prepared to attack them with its stingers. Somebody in a suit came over and kicked it off of them.

Phineas: Perry?

Isabella: Pinky?

Perry: Crud.

The creature jumped on Phineas and started stabbing the back of his neck with its tentacles. He pushed it off and threw it into the wall and started shooting its tentacles off, eventually killing it.

Phineas: So, is there anything you wanted to tell me in the 8 years we've had you as pets?

Isabella: Or is this standing and fighting thing something new?

Perry called Major Monogram on his watch.

Monogram: Agent P. What happened?

Perry showed Phineas and Isabella to Monogram.

Monogram: I see. Hello, Phineas and Isabella.

Phineas: Who are you?

Monogram: I'm Major Monogram. Head of the OWCA, the Organization Without a Cool Acronym. Both of your pets are secret agents for this organization, and were sent to rescue you because of your distress signal.

Phineas: Glad somebody received that.

Monogram: We're glad we could help. Agent P, your mission still stands. Monogram out.

The transmission ended.

Isabella: Come on you two. You should understand me, being secret agents and all.

Phineas: We need to get communications online, and find where everyone else is.

Buford: Well, we're right behind you.

They looked behind them and saw Buford and Baljeet.

Phineas: Where did you guys come from?

Buford: We just followed our locators, and you happened to be in the path.

Baljeet: Now that we found you...

They held their plasma cutters at the group.

Phineas: Woah woah. What's going on here?

Baljeet: Don't act so innocent. You brought us on this horror show. You knew about those things all along, and brought us to become cattle in a slaughter.

Isabella: Phineas, is that true?

Phineas: No. Of course not. This is all an absolute mystery to me. If I had known I wouldn't have brought you guys.

Buford: Just stop with that innocent talk. That artifact we brought on board? It showed us the way. It enlightened us to what had to be done. It said, "Make us whole". You knew what it was this entire time, and sent us up here without warning. Now because of you, your brother is dead.

Phineas: What?

Baljeet: We saw him. His RIG was gone and his body was in pieces, because of you.

Phineas: That's not true.

Buford: Yes it is. Now what are you going to do?

Ferb: Explain this. If I'm dead, how am I here?

They looked around and saw Ferb and Candace aiming their Plasma Cutters at Buford and Baljeet.

Candace: Don't even try anything. Put the Cutter down now.

Buford and Baljeet complied and dropped their tools.

Phineas: Ferb! You're alive!

Ferb: What happened with those two?

Phineas: The artifact made them hallucinate and think I knew about those things all along. Candace?

Candace: Hey. Wait, why are Perry and that Chihuahua standing and wearing fedoras?

Phineas: They're secret agents. No time for that. That artifact must be destroyed.

They walked through the halls, and to a maze of cargo crates.

Baljeet: You can't destroy it.

Buford: We're gonna be trapped like rats in a maze.

Ferb: You two had better not try anything.

Baljeet: We don't have to do anything. The necromorphs will get you first.

Phineas: Necromoprhs?

Buford: It's what we decided to call those monsters.

Candace: We got cutters, they got blades. There can only be one.

Buford: They want our flesh, our bones, our blood. They want our bodies. We will give them to him.

They quickly ran out, with Candace trying to fire at them.

Phineas: Candace, stop! That's what they want you to do.

Candace: Right. Sorry.

Ferb: We'll find them later.

They heard a strange chirping, and saw a necromorph peer its head around one of the crates. It was a weird bird-like head, with three-fingered hands.

Ferb: Over there.

They walked over to the crate the creature was at. They peered the corner, and found the creature had disappeared. Another slid behind them and began charging into the group with its armored headfirst, letting out a long scream. It knocked Candace over, and retreated again. It peered the corner, drawing the group towards it, and a third one charged them from the side, knocking over Ferb.

Phineas: They're everywhere.

Another peered its head around the corner. Ferb approached it slowly, and one of them rushed him from the side. He looked over, and cut off its leg, crippling it. He stomped it with his boot, killing it. Phineas followed another one, and attacked one that tried charging him from the other side. Candace did the same thing, and killed the last one.

Candace: Let's find that artifact before we get killed.