Chapter 8 – Looking Back

So, now Phineas and Ferb are gonna show Izzy some blueprints and pics of their past inventions. Keep the reviews coming!

DISCLAIMER: Phineas and Ferb STILL don't belong to me


"Okay, me and Ferb-"

"I thought YOU were Ferb?"

"No, Ferb has green hair. I'm Phineas."

"Ohhhh, okay. Gotcha."

"Anyways, me and Ferb have built inventions every day this summer."

I was in the middle of trying to explain our inventions to Izzy; Ferb was inside collecting our blueprints, and Baljeet and Buford were cleaning up the backyard with the Fireside Girls. The mess doesn't look as bad as it was; about half the yard was cleaned up.

"Why?" she asked, interrupting my thoughts.

"What? Oh, because we get bored, and inventing gives us something to do."

"Okay."

"See, we create something for the day, we use it, then it disappears."

"Wait, what? How does it disappear???"

I thought about that for a moment. "Well, we aren't sure. But that doesn't matter."

Ferb came out of the house then, carrying our work book and some loose blueprints.

"Here comes Ferb. We'll show you some of the things we've built so far," I told her.

Ferb sat down next to us, and we opened the book.

"This is when we built a rollercoaster across Danville," I said, pointing to a picture. "It was our first project of the summer."

She looked down at the picture. "It looks like it was a lot of fun! But it doesn't look familiar, sorry."

"That's alright," I replied. "There's a bunch of other ones. Like the time we built a giant gorge here in the backyard." I pointed to another picture, this one of The Holy Mackerel, me, Ferb, and Grandpa Reg.

"How'd you do that???" she asked, astonished.

"With a bunch of cranes and bulldozers," I replied. "Nothing, huh?"

She shook her head.

We repeated this process; showing her a picture or blueprint, getting my hopes up that she'd remember something, then her saying it wasn't familiar.

"This is when we created our clothing line," I tried, pointing to our Summer All the Time collection. This picture was of Izzy and me cutting out fabric.

She seemed before to be losing interest – since she couldn't remember anything –; but when she looked at this one, she stared strangely at it.

Pointing, she asked, "That's me, right?"

"Yeah," I answered, trying to see where she was going with this.

"What am I holding right there? A shirt design or something?"

I looked down at where she was pointing, and saw what she was referring to: a red string of scrap fabric cut in hearts and triangles.

Definitely not a question I was expecting. "Hmm…I'm not really sure…"

I felt someone jabbing me in the back. I thought maybe it was Buford, getting on my nerves again, but it was actually Ferb. Trying to get my attention, I think.

"Not now, Ferb. We're trying to figure out what Izzy was holding," I replied, swiping his hand away. I wasn't in the mood to be interrupted.

Then, I felt myself being pulled upward and towards the garage. I couldn't get up on my feet, so I just let him drag me. We ended up in the garage. It seems to be turning into our office or something.

Turing around, I said, "Dude, what's your problem? Couldn't you see we were busy???"

He just stared at me, and I instantly felt ashamed for snapping at him.

"Look, I'm just worried about Izzy. She's barely remembering anything, and what she does remember is so insignificant to her life, and I just…I just…" I said, not really sure how to finish. "I just want the old Izzy back." There, that seemed about right.

"Well, maybe we're looking at this the wrong way. Maybe we need to try something different. Her life was more than just helping us with the inventions," Ferb replied.

I'd never really thought of that. We didn't do much besides build, so I never realized that there's more to life than that.

"Well…what did you have in mind?"

He whipped out a giant photo album, the one Buford brought over. "If we show her pictures of things other than our inventions," he said, "maybe we can spark a few more memories."

"Ferb, that's brilliant! Wow, you're really on the ball today, aren't you?"

He just shrugged. But he knew I was right.

"Alright, let's get moving. It's already 4 o'clock."

And with that, we ran back into the yard.


Phineas and Ferb are gonna try a new tactic. If you didn't get the references above about some of the inventions, go here:

. - the rollarcoaster

. - the pic from Summer All the Time they were stumped over

Chapter 9 up next!