CHAPTER 6- I can't figure it out. I can't figure out how people didn't guess this one. For Pete's sake, she swims to shore.

However, this episode didn't have a whole lot that I could work with, so I kind of switched it up a bit to make this one work to my advantage. And now you're all really confused. Eh, I'll just leave you with this:

I don't own Voyage to the Bottom of Buford or Phineas and Ferb. (Just go with it)


She paused for a moment. "Want some pie?"


GENERAL POV


Candace stared at herself in the mirror, trying out different faces to go with her new sunglasses. Stacy suddenly gasped. "Hey Candace look, is that a submarine?"

Candace turned around, squinting through the sunglasses and attempting to see what Stacy was talking about. Stacy gasped again. "And aren't those your brothers?"

Candace scowled and pulled off the sunglasses, now able to see very clearly. "They're not getting away with this. I know what I'm getting," she said, putting the sunglasses away and disappearing behind the shelf for a moment. "I'm gonna get this disposable camera, and then I'll finally have proof, and then I can bust them!"

She cackled and ran off. Some guy sitting behind the counter yelled after her, "Hey, you gotta pay for that!"

Candace sighed and slumped back, ignoring Stacy's smirk. "Right after I pay for this."

She paid for the camera quickly and darted to the submarine, Stacy following her. Candace paused just next to the dock, staring down at the ocean water lapping nearby.

"Candace, you want me to come?" Stacy asked.

Candace turned and looked at her friend. She desperately wanted to tell Stacy, but she didn't even want to think about her reaction. "What? No, that's fine. Thanks, though."

Stacy gave a hesitant smile and walked away slowly. Candace sighed, wanting to call her back, but she saw that everyone had climbed into the submarine already.

She cackled happily and snuck into the submarine quickly, hiding out towards the back and occasionally snapping pictures.

Later, Candace was checking to see how many pictures she had left when she heard Isabella scream. Candace almost dropped the camera, but she darted out from the side in time to see Buford go charging up the ladder. The rest of the room was empty.

Candace quickly climbed up the ladder, jumping back and hiding, not only so that her brothers wouldn't see her, but so that the giant octopus wouldn't either.

She snapped a picture of Buford punching the octopus, and then ducked as everyone climbed into the submarine again.

"That was amazing!" she cried in a soft whisper. "I can't believe I got all that on film!"

She held her breath, and counted to fifteen, then climbed up to the top, to see that the hatch was shut.

Her eyes widened.

"What?" she cried.

The submarine started sinking and the water started lapping at Candace's heels. Her knees started trembling.

"I've got to save the camera!"

She slipped into the water, her feet leaving the top of the submarine and then leaving her all together. She kicked her tail towards shore, holding the camera high above her head.

"Save the camera, save the camera, save the camera," she chanted as she paddled carefully towards shore.

As her brothers climbed from the submarine, she shrank back a little, hiding herself as best she could.

As soon as all the kids had left the area, she reached for the sand, only to do a double take when she spotted Stacy sitting in the sand, drawing something with a stick. "Wonderful," Candace muttered.

She swam further from Stacy, but her tail slapped the surface momentarily, making the girl look up.

Stacy smiled and stood, dusting her hands off. She walked towards the water's edge and stopped.

"Hey, Candace, did you bust your brothers yet?" she asked, placing her hands on her hips.

Candace bit her lip and shook her head. "No, not yet."

Stacy stayed silent for a moment, then frowned. "Well, you can't until you get out of the water, you know."

Candace nodded. "I know. I'm waiting for you to leave," she said, biting her lip when she realized how rude that sounded.

Stacy crinkled her eyebrows together. "What? Candace, we've gone swimming together since we were, like, 5. Why the sudden embarrassment?"

Candace shook her head. "I…I can't tell you."

Stacy scowled and crossed her arms. "Since when do we keep secrets from each other, Candace Gertrude Flynn?"

Candace gulped and tapped her fingers nervously against her tail. "Since never. But please, Stacy, just this once?"

Stacy scowled even more. "Fine. But don't bother talking to me until you feel comfortable telling me everything. I hate being left in the dark, Candace."

Stacy turned and stormed away and Candace almost cried. She gulped and pulled herself discreetly onto shore, hugging her torso and shivering until she turned back to normal.

Candace sighed and stood, leaning against the post that was holding up the dock. Her lower lip quivered and she stared at the camera in her hand.

Had busting her brothers really just been worth that?

She glanced off into the distance for a moment, and then back at the camera. "I'll bust them, and then I'll go tell Stacy," she whispered.

She stood up straight and promptly tripped in the sand. She sighed and plucked the camera out of the ground. "Save the camera, save the camera, save the camera," she muttered as she topped the hill.

Candace spotted a bike rental place and smiled slightly.

"Save the camera," she said, grabbing a bike and wheeling it away.

"Hey, you gotta pay for that!" I guy yelled after her.

Candace rolled her eyes and backed up. "Right after I pay for this."

She peddled frantically to her house, giggling madly and peeling to a stop outside the garage, momentarily forgetting about Stacy. "I can't wait to show this to mom!" she cried, holding the camera up in triumph.

"Finally I got those boys," she muttered, glancing up just in time to get hit in the face with a ton of water.

The film sprung from the camera and Candace scowled, flopping to the ground a few moments later.

She sat up, resting her elbow on her tail and staring at the camera. "Wonderful," she said.

A moment later, she stood back up, just as Phineas and Ferb rounded the corner.

Candace pushed open the door, still holding the camera in disbelief. Her mother looked up from the vacuum cleaner, turning it off. "Candace, honey, your hair's wet. Are you ok?"

Candace pointed to the camera, stammering slightly. "Phineas and Ferb…submarine…dolphins…giant octopus."

Linda rolled her eyes. "Candace, I don't have time for these games. Dry yourself off before you come in."

Phineas and Ferb stepped inside, passing Candace and smiling. "Hey, sis," Phineas said, "have a good swim?"

Candace growled at him, and then slapped her forehead. Stacy!

Candace slammed the front door shut and sprinted down the block and around the corner, pausing to catch her breath on Stacy's doorstep. She reached a hand up and pressed the doorbell. Stacy answered almost immediately.

"Candace?" she said in confusion.

Candace straightened up. "Look, Stacy, about earlier-"

Stacy held up a hand. "Hey, it's cool. I thought about it, and I realized that you don't need to tell me everything. I have some secrets from you, after all."

Candace raised an eyebrow. "Really? What do you- I mean, thanks, Stacy. If you really want me to tell you-"

Stacy shook her head. "No. You tell me when you're ready, whatever it is. Friends, Candace?"

Candace nodded and smiled. "Duh, of course. The best."

The girls quickly hugged and Stacy excused herself, saying that she had to help her mother with dinner. Candace walked back home slowly, her eyebrows flying up just a little as she turned the corner and spotted Perry landing in the front yard, his parachute descending lightly behind him.

Candace almost called out to him to talk, but he went inside too quickly. The girl smiled and stepped into her yard.

Maybe another day.


Aw, I needed to have some Candace and Stacy friendship in there. But seriously, how did no one catch this one? I still have fudge left, if anyone wants to guess the next chapter (BTW, for two hints: I'm going in order of the episodes, and the last two lines are kind of a clue).

Seriously. Just think about it.

What's sad is that I'm ahead by like, four chapters (meaning I have the next four chapters typed); I just have no time to put them up. Hopefully this won't take forever because I have Christmas story ideas that I want to do! Can't believe it's November. (Yet in my part of PA, it's 70 outside)

Thanks guys, and R and R!