(Author's Note)

I think I have at least 9 patches by now. Still need one more that can satisfy the story. Oh yeah! Which character do you want to be in this story? Ferb will appear again in the near end.

Chapter 7 "Break From Hostage Patch"

Phineas POV

We took a seat at one of the benches and we decided to kill time by looking at the photos ARChie has taken. I couldn't help but chuckle as I saw some of my favorites. There was a good shot of us dancing the Harlem Shake along with all the citizens in the park. Isabella gave me the camera as she wanted to go to the restroom. I continued scrolling down the photos on the screen. There were epic moments of Isabella's wrestling match. I remembered that we didn't turn ARChie on during our Break the World Record Patch but the trophy Candace took home and the photo shoot of us at the awarding ceremony was enough proof for that patch. In fact I had the photo scanned and sent into ARChie.

I came across some photos where we were hugging. I try to remember how it felt hugging her. All I could say that it was… warm, and tender, and very comforting, and…

"I'm back!" said Isabella

"Woah! Hey!"

"Watcha looking at?"

"Just some photos."

"May I see?"

"Sure! It's yours after all."

She sat beside me and we looked together as she scrolled back some photos. Some she just giggled at, some she smiled tenderly, and… her face is turning red again. I put my left hand on my forehead and I tapped Isabella's shoulder with my right.

"May I?" I said as I raised my right hand.

"Umm… Okay?"

I touched her forehead and she seemed fine.

"You don't have a fever do you?"

"Uhh…. No? What's going on?"

I decided to touch both of her cheeks and they were warmer than mine. I kept touching mine and hers back and forth to check if I'm right. She then touched hers to prevent me from touching it again.

"Hehe! Okay! That's enough."

"You sure you're okay Isabella?"

"Yes! I'm really sure. Summer is just hot that's all."

"We're at an air conditioned mall."

Then her cheeks got redder.

"Well… I did wrestle."

"Oh. That's right."

She opened her manual again. "Hmm… I'm not sure how to do this."

She brought the manual to my face again and she pointed at the patch.

Patch # 496

Break From Hostage Patch

Instruction: When under hostage by someone, you should independently break free from it by the use of all self defense skills learned. You would've completed all self defense patches by now.

Goal: Show to everyone that you can become independent. Don't play as the damsel in distress.

"Hmm… I could make that computer controlled escape tower again. This time I'm gonna hardwire it to be constantly polite."

She closes the book away from me and she points at my chest.

"Promise me you will never ever build that again."

"Okay okay. I won't" I held my arms up like it was a stick up.

"Pinky swear?" she held her pinky.

"Pinky swear!" I intertwined it with mine.

"Good! What else can we do to do this?"

As we thought about it for a few minutes, we heard someone crying nearby. We turned our heads around to see a lady sitting on a bench with her hands on her face. We went to her and I tapped her shoulder.

"*sniff* Don't look at me!"

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Oh you'd laugh at me if I told you!"

"Don't worry. We'll understand. We promise!"

She finally stops sobbing and uncovers her mouth but she's still covering her face.

"Well… I was doing some experiments on some of my make up products I was going to invent. It was going to make me the most beautiful person in the world. *sniff* but now…"

She took off her face and we saw all of the makeup had run down her face because of her crying.

"Uhh… isn't it because you were crying?" asked Isabella.

"Look closer."

We looked closer and I couldn't see anything much until…

"Oh my gosh! Wrinkles!"

She then nodded "Apparently my products cause my face to dehydrate and get wrinkles. I can't believe I was so humiliated at my presentation in front of "flawless girl" company. *sigh* I was never beautiful from the start anyway."

"Aww… Here let me help you! Phineas! I think we're gonna have a little girl talk for a while."

"Okay. Can I borrow the camera?"

"Sure!"

She opened her satchel and gave me ARChie and I went back to the bench we sat on earlier.

Isabella POV

"So what's your name?" I asked as I rummaged my satchel for my makeup kit.

"Esmeralda Poofenplotz my darling. But you can call me Professor Poofenplotz."

"Well Ms. Poofenplotz let's start off with a little make up."

"Oh don't bother putting the founda-ooof."

"Trust me. When I'm done with you you're going to be beautiful."

I was wiping off the old make-up first then I put the foundations. I tried my best to get rid of the wrinkles first and I put some pink make up to match the outfit she's wearing. She finally calmed down and let me do the rest of the work.

"Just the finishing touches… and done! Now look at yourself."

I pulled out my mirror but she decided to rummage her purse and found a big yellow hand mirror.

"Oh my gosh! It's even better than my work!"

"Hehe! You can thank me later!"

"I was wondering if I could got some beauty tips from you my darling, if we could just talk quickly and privately. Not in here! I want our ideas secret."

"Okay! I'm just gonna tell Phineas where I'm going."

"But I thought we were having our little girl talk."

"Oh! Yes we are! But my best friend might be worried about me."

"Just one quick talk! Please!"

"Ummm…"

I took a glance at Phineas. He's still mesmerized by the photos in that camera. Hehe! He's so cute!

"Okay! Just a quick one okay?" I asked.

"Excellent my darling. This way."

We stood up and she led me outside the mall. She rummaged her purse again and she found a fancy perfume sprayer.

"Tell me. Does this perfume smell good?"

Wait why is she pointing it at me? She sprayed it at me and it smells…

Phineas POV

Ahh memories! So far this day was going great! Let's see, we've got 5 patches down! No wait! It's 4. I almost forgot that I have to kiss her. How am I gonna do that?

I checked on Isabella at the bench she was with the lady but they were gone. I looked to my right and they were heading outside. I quickly followed them but I was stopped by Irving holding a video camera.

"Hey it's our favorite inventor, Phineas Flynn!"

"Uhh… Hey Irving! Sorry but I've got to…"

"So! I've been following you around and you've been hanging out with Isabella all day. Tell me. Do you like her?"

"Well I can't answer that right now. I…"

"How long have you known her?"

"Irving I…"

"Is she your one true love?"

"IRVING!" I yelled.

Unfortunately this shocked him enough to drop his camera.

"My… my camera…." He was about to cry.

"Oooohh! I'm really sorry Irving but I have to go."

That's a first time for me. I never hurt anyone EVER. It's just that the strangest thing just happened earlier. Why would she leave without me? I ran out of the mall as fast as I could so that I could still catch up with her. I pulled out my phone to call her but she wouldn't answer. I looked around the car park and I saw a vehicle that has a head that looks exactly like the woman we met earlier. There she is right now… WITH ISABELLA UNCONSCIOUS ON SHOTGUN?

"WAIT!"I yelled.

The vehicle transformed into a chopper and before I could even reach the car door, the chopper started and blew a strong gust of wind that's slowing me down. It flew up in the air and disappeared out of sight.

Why would she kidnap Isabella? Where is she taking her? Those 2 questions kept on running on my mind as I walked back and forth rambling about what to do. Just as I was about to try to find the chopper, a dog barked from below me, a familiar bark.

I looked down and saw pinky at my right foot.

"PINKY! Thank goodness you're here!"

I was so happy that I hugged him. He struggled to get off me by growling and shaking me away.

"Oh! Sorry! Say! Can you track down Isabella for me?"

He affirmatively barked and he quickly ran across the street and I followed. Hmm… I guess he already picked up her scent a while ago. I just hope that she's alright.

Isabella POV

Everything was so blurry. All I could remember was that I was sprayed with perfume and Phineas was yelling "WAIT!". By the time I gave full consciousness I was… HANDCUFFED TO A METAL RECTANGULAR PLATE? You know in the movies how mad scientists hostage their subjects to their experiments? That is how I was handcuffed. I struggled to break free but it wouldn't budge. I looked around and saw a pink living room with lots of windows and…

"Ah! So you're finally awake." Ms. Poofenplotz said in her calm voice.

"What! YOU! What are you doing?!"

"Oh I'm just getting ready for my knowledge sucking machine."

She points up and there's a wired helmet just above me. I looked at her again and she's wearing the same one.

"You see I was very impressed on how you conducted my make up earlier so I wanted to get some beauty tips from you. The problem is it takes too much time for me to listen to some tips and I might even forget it if there were a lot. Most of all I might forget the important parts. So I built this machine while you were unconscious to be 100% sure that I would get everything I need to know."

This is one crazy woman.

"Don't worry, I tested it on the mailman over there and all he shared with me is some boring things like delivering all the mail he needs to deliver."

She points to the mailman right next to me. He's handcuffed as much as I am.

"Meh! Let's begin shall we?"

She flicks some switches on the control panel in front of her. Oh Phineas! Where are you? Oh! Speaking of which.

Phineas POV

We found a tall building and a spherical room with lots of glass windows from the top. Pinky went inside the building and went straight to the elevator. Hmm… No front desk. I guess she's the only one living here. I pressed the up button and the elevator arrived after a few moments.

About seconds later we arrived at the top floor, the only floor in the building, and we walked towards the front door. I wanted to knock but Pinky stopped me by barking. Then I thought: Wait! If she's the kidnapper, that means she wouldn't want anyone rescuing her would she. I decided to twist the door knob and surprisingly it didn't resist. I pushed it a little and took a peek inside the room.

I looked around. There's the kidnapper, who's busy flipping switches. She has a helmet on her head. I looked at the middle of the room and saw Isabella handcuffed in a way you see in those mad scientist movies. I smiled and gave her a small wave and she smiled back. Okay there's a small plant just beside me. If I could hide in it and walk towards Isabella to free her without getting noticed, we'll be out of here in no time.

"Now this might… hurt a little. Just wait for it to charge."

Oh no! She's on an experiment! I have to act quickly. I was about to take a step but Pinky did a soft bark and got in my way. He ran behind the plant but his hind foot got snatched by rope.

"Ah! About time!" said the kidnapper.

I hid behind the plant and shut the door before she could notice me. The kidnapper looked at Pinky in a confused way.

"Wait! You're not him. You're just a Chihuahua."

Pinky barked.

"Pinky!" yelled Isabella. "Let go of him!"

"Pinky?"

"Yeah! He's my pet dog!"

There was a long pause. "Is every Chihuahua named Pinky?"

"Well in a perfect world yes! Now LET GO OF HIM!"

"Arghh! Fine! I hate dogs!"

Woah! Day ja vu. She managed to get a hold of Pinky but he bit her wrist.

"OW!" she pulled out a water sprayer and sprayed water on Pinky. "Bad doggie! Bad doggie!"

She kept on spraying until he released her.

"Stop! Don't do that to him! He hates that!"

"Well next time you should teach your dog some manners!"

She loosened the rope from his foot and put him safely down. She opened the front door.

"Out!" She pointed her finger out the door. "Out!"

While she wasn't looking I made my way quietly to Isabella.

"Phineas!"

"I'm gonna get you out of here!"

I searched for a button on the plate but there was none.

"Phineas! You have to stop that helmet from reaching me!"

I looked up and saw the helmet descending.

"If only there was a button to deactivate those cuffs!"

"Get out you bad do- Hey! Who are you?"

I looked at her and unfortunately she has discovered me. Pinky then attacked her by pouncing at her head and biting everywhere.

"Aaaahhh! Bad doggie! Bad doggie!"

While she was distracted I made my way to the control panel and saw a bunch of other switches that I didn't understand.

"Hurry Phineas!"

The helmet is already halfway from her. I studied the machine and I flipped the switch on what I thought looked like a stop button. I looked at the helmet and it stopped. I wiped my forehead in relief but the helmet moved again, this time even faster.

"PHINEAS!"

"Uhh… I'm trying!"

"Just pull the plug!"

I looked under the machine and saw a long cord leading to the socket right by the door. I ran for it and pulled the plug. I heard the sound of the machine dying. I wiped my forehead in relief again but I was grabbed by the collar of my shirt.

"Now I've had just enough about you!" said the kidnapper. She was holding a perfume bottle on her left hand and she pointed it at me.

I saw Pinky with his leg tied to the rope again but he was… SWINGING? He swung towards me and he got a grip on the left wrist of the kidnapper and bit it.

"OWW!" The bite caused her to spray perfume on herself and she finally lost her grip on me and she fell backwards. Pinky swung back to his original position.

I landed on my feet and I went to Pinky and released him from the rope.

"Good boy!" I said.

He licks me continuously.

"Phineas? How do you get me out of here?"

"Umm… I don't know. I'll find a switch."

"Wait! This is perfect! Don't move!"

She bit the strap of the satchel she was still wearing, which is hanging on her left arm. It finally reached her and bit the cover open, causing a bunch of materials to fall, including ARChie. As it slid down the plate, it didn't break.

"It's break proof!" I said.

She nodded. I noticed that she was not biting a white bottle. She brought it to her right shoulder and made it stand there.

"Can you turn ARChie to video mode for me?" she asked.

"Sure!"

I turned on ARChie and shouted "Action!" He began propelling and sending a beeping red light at Isabella.

"Ready?" I asked

"Ready!"

She began opening the lid with her mouth by biting it open. It's a kind of bottle which you flick open. She spit in disgust "Iw!" and she brought the bottle to her right arm. She bit harder and some lotion came out to her hand. She pulled and wiggled and she squeezed out her right hand, unfortunately causing her to let go of the bottle. She caught it with her right hand before it could fall and applied lotion to her other hand and legs. She got out by sliding down to her feet.

"Tah dah!"

"Wow!"

"Cut! Great work Phineas! Ooof!"

Isabella POV

Okay! HE's HUGGING ME AGAIN!

"Aww. I'm sorry if I worried you Phineas." I hugged back.

"Why didn't you tell me where you were going?"

"She said she wanted a "quick talk". So I followed her."

"*sigh.* Well at least you're ok."

"Thanks. Hey! How'd you get here?"

Before he could explain, Ms. Poofenplotz was moaning back to consciousness.

"No time! Let's get out of here!" he said.

We ran for the door and I grabbed Pinky along the way and whistled for ARChie. As ARChie came down my satchel, I was out of the front door when Phineas stopped at the doorway and he was picking up a perfume bottle. He sprayed it on Ms. Poofenplotz, which made me giggle, and we went to the elevator.

-End of Chapter 7-