The next school day, Bethany escorted Phineas, Ferb, Isabella and Lisa back to the College, only to find a barbed wire fence surrounding it, and construction workers tearing it down.
"Oh for the love of- WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?" Bethany asked, incensed.
"Ord'r fr'm Mr. Burns, this was. H'me to his s'cond Nucle'r P'wer Plant," the nearest construction worker replied. "Now, if y'll 'xcuse us…" he continued, shooing them away.
"What do we do now?" Isabella asked.
"I… I don't know. I never thought Mr. Burns would steal my land…" Bethany sighed. Maggie crawled her way out of Lisa's back, and pointed to a picture of a power plant.
"Maggie? What is it?" Lisa asked. Maggie pointed more urgently to it, and then to Bethany's car.
"…Oh no we don't. Maggie, do you know how insanely dangerous that is?" Lisa asked. Maggie nodded.
"What on Earth are we going to do after that, anyway?" she continued. Maggie shrugged.
"Whatever it is, it beats standing around listening to half an argument. What is she suggesting?" Phineas asked.
"We go to the Nuclear Power Plant and stop Burns from there," Lisa stated.
"…Worth a shot. How adamant could Mr Burns possibly be?" Bethany said.
"No, no, a million times no!" Mr Burns roared.
"You do realise what you are doing is illegal, right?" Lisa asked right back. Burns pressed a button on his console, and his bookcase opened to reveal a blue-haired lawyer.
"This is the best lawyer in Springfield. You consider bringing this to court, and he will out-lawyer you to the point of you having to pay me royalties. Capiche?" Burns explained. Lisa stood still for a full few seconds.
"Lisa, are you all right?" Phineas asked.
"MR BURNS!" she roared, and charged over the desk. Mr Burns managed to disentangle himself from his chair at that moment, and ran from the room.
"Hold it, right there, little girl. You can be charged for assault for that," the lawyer stated.
"I don't care. It's about time someone put an end to Mr Burns' harmful life choices."
"Now how do we get up there?" Phineas asked. He was the only one to follow Lisa following Burns around the plant. Now, Mr Burns stood in front of a toxic vat, on a raised catwalk. Lisa had no idea how to give chase, and was contemplating giving up the chase.
"Yes… your nuclear power is too important to give up!" Mr Burns cackled. Lisa snarled, before clearing her mind. She remembered what she had read. Seemingly a stupid idea, and one that went against everything she believed in, but an idea nonetheless.
"Go forth and bloom!" she said, reaching a state of inner peace, and meditating. A giant piece of catwalk that had long since fallen from its intended position flew into the air. It glided over to Phineas and Lisa, and dropped gently down, snapping into place as a ramp.
"Wow… what just happened, Lisa?" Phineas asked.
"I harnessed my Buddha Hand Powers to build us a bridge," Lisa replied.
"Buddha Hand Powers? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds?"
"Yes. I read about it in a book, and scoffed at it. But I didn't have any better ideas, and meditation would have been good for me…" Lisa shrugged, and climbed up to face Mr Burns.
"You… I had no idea you'd be so tenacious. So I suppose it might be high time I plucked up the strength to defeat you in person!" Mr Burns triumphantly said.
"Wasn't this argument about property rights?" Lisa quietly snarked, as Mr Burns dived into the nuclear waste. When he came out, he was glowing an eerie green.
"Ahaha! My power has been multiplied by a factor of an odd brazillian!" he cackled.
"Oh dear," Lisa sighed, before jumping over Burn's opening attack.
"Hrrgh… hrrgh… and… in position!" Doofenshmirtz called up to Bart.
"Perfect. And now… I shall unleash the ultimate weapon. The East Coast will be ours!"
Lisa grabbed Mr Burn's forearm, and threw him from atop the catwalk. He flew rather easily, and Lisa jumped down after him. Burns aimed a powerful roundhouse blow her way, which was easily blocked.
"No… How?" Mr Burns asked.
"You're not all that strong, you know?" Lisa responded, before unleashing a three blow combo. Phineas appeared behind Mr Burns to catch him.
"Now… have you reconsidered? Are you going to quit destroying Lieflijk's College?" Lisa asked. At that moment, a bright light of an indescribable hue lit up the plant. It vanished as suddenly as it had arrived, and Mr Burns' expression had changed.
"Wait… I'm destroying a school? I am so sorry! What can I do to help out?" Burns cheerily said.
"…Uh… you could call of your project, remove your workers, and maybe provide the funding to fix what has been damaged?" Lisa snarked.
A week later, after Mr Burns had done exactly this, Bethany had seated her four main students around a table, intent on discussing what had occurred.
"I told you we could persuade him!" Bethany said.
"No… Mr Burns would not have changed his mind that easily… you're thinking of Grampa," Lisa said.
"Yeah, but the important thing is that it worked out," Phineas stated. At that moment, someone began knocking on the door. Ferb went to open it, and let in a middle-aged man with a purple jacket.
"Good afternoon, my name is Hank Scorpio. I am here looking for a Lisa Simpson," he said.
"Scorpio? Weren't you Dad's old boss?" Lisa asked.
"Lisa! Can you help me? Of course you can! I'll be blunt: your brother has gone off the deep end. You're the only one who can stop him. Well, there is a more reliable person. But she's in jail. Which leaves you."
Because a story-long gap in between updates isn't bad enough, I've gotta leave cliffhangers, as well.
And with that, I have a general idea of how this story is going to end, but a vaguer one of how it is going to get there. Coincidentally, I foresee about two chapters left, maybe more if I get more ideas. Convenient, I suppose?
I have established the teams I needed for Revenge is Best Served Ice-Cold. That should be out sometime in the near future. Especially considering that this story is one of my (personally) most anticipated to date.
If anybody wants me, I'll be in my room, writing.
