Authors Note: Some Ferbnessa and some Irving mixed with Doof and Phin in the 2nd Dimension. No better way to start off your night and/or morning!

~Natty


"Uh guys?" Isabella asked once Phineas and Doofenshmirtz disappeared into the portal. "Has anyone seen Irving?"

Candace, Jeremy, Buford, Baljeet and Ferb all blinked, looking around at each other to see that the little fan-boy was nowhere to be found. No one believed that he was completely forgotten until now. It was half faulted on the author's part.

"When was the last time we saw him?" Baljeet asked.

Candace shrugged "Was he there when the second castle exploded?"

"He was….wasn't he?" Isabella looked uncertain.

Jeremy just shrugged and Buford could care less about what happened to Irving. Ferb suddenly remembered something and ran off while everyone else was occupied, donning his fedora as the female singers started to sing his name.

'Fer-!'

"Oh, be quiet already!" Ferb snapped at them and continued running.


2nd Dimension.

Irving giggled to himself, slipping a camera string around his neck and aiming the camera around at everything. He'd never been to the 2nd dimension before and he was glad he was able to sneak through the portal while everyone was having a moment. He'd never met the 2nd Doofenshmirtz or his cyborg before they died, but from what he heard, the cyborg was pretty cool! From what he's heard from the 1st Doof from his dimension, the man was kind of…well, a jerk to him.

The fan boy thought about all the different things he'd be able to take pictures of, Phineas and Ferb's counterparts, other peoples counterparts, even some people that he didn't know, their counterparts as well! He squee'd out loud when he thought of the possibilities of meeting his own counterpart. They could both love Phineas and Ferb together! Double the Irving!

But of course, if he had a counterpart, that also meant that his brother Albert, also had a counterpart. Yuck! Double of his older brother! Irving looked up, hearing the sound of turbo boosters, almost like rockets, shoot across the sky.

"Woah!" He exclaimed, and held his camera upwards to take a picture of the unidentified flying object directly above his head. It wasn't a spaceship, he was sure of that. It was way too small! He was happy his camera had a zoom in feature because the image was getting bigger, but wait….he wasn't clicking any buttons… "Ah!" Irving screamed, ducking as the thing flew over his head, missing him by just centimeters. Man, that was close! Something rolled between his parted feet and stopped in front of him. Irving picked it up, eyeing it curiously. "Spray paint?"

Something landed behind him and he turned around, face to face with an orange beak and a glaring brown eye. The fan-boy was knocked off his feet

...


Phineas opened his eyes hesitantly, looking around as the fog cleared from around them. The scientist was still holding his hand, not once letting go after they had stepped through the portal. Things cleared up as the mist dispersed, it wasn't wet mist either…

The boy started coughing, trying to get fresh air in his lungs but that only sucked more smog into them. The air was heavily polluted and he just could not stop gasping.

"Phineas? Are you alright?"

"Y-yeah Dr. D, I'm o-" Phineas stopped, the smog now fully gone as he stared out in front of him. The entire town in ruins.

It was a ghost town. Nothing, no people, no animals, not a sound in the gray, smoke infested city. There were no bright colors or fine décor or conventional architecture. Everything was dull and crumbled. The clouds of black and gray blocked out the sun, some clouds coming from a huge exhaust pipe and many smaller ones like it. The purple, red, green and pink colors that the 2nd Dimension Tri-State Area once was, was now covered in soot and ash. Nothing was the same, and they never would be. There weren't any decorations or statues from the new ruler of any kind. No creativity or even an attempt to make the town look even remotely like his image. The only clarification or signs that there was a new ruler was a name, spray painted in capital letters, dark, proud and bold on the second tallest building in town.

'RODDENSTEIN.'

The writing was kind of sloppy though, almost like it was done by an eight year old...

The first tallest building in town, now that he had finally found it, brought back crushing memories. The memories were good ones, of course, but it crushed him to think back to them now.

The 2nd Dimension Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated building stood tall, towering over all other buildings, none even close to matching its height. Although, now that is was much shorter than it once was. The entirety of the extension was gone, lying in ruins on the ground far below the original part. The remains of what once was the 2nd half of the building was in a pile or scattered, no one had bothered to clean it up. When they had gotten the phone call from the Other Dimension Candace, she had been quick in explaining what she thought had happened to her Dr. D and Platyborg. She said that it was quite possible that they had been caught during the collapse, trapped and crushed by the falling beams and shattering glass and other falling objects. They could have just fell with the rest of the building. She added that they didn't feel anything, their death was most likely painless. Heck, she said, Platyborg could have freaked out when the ground started shaking, maybe the dictator knocked him out himself just to calm the thing down so he could think of a way out. Phineas laughed a bit at that. His other sister told him not to worry, they were all going to be fine and as long as they didn't interfere, then they'd be fine too.

Truth is, Phineas wasn't fine. He stayed awake for days, stress and guilt filling him to the brim. He kept having dreams, thinking 'what if?'. They were scheduled to visit the 2nd Dimension a week before the takeover of it. What if they had gone through with their plans and gone over for a visit? Would things still have gone down the same way? What if the other dimension Candace was wrong? What if they were still alive, pleading and silently hoping for someone to help them? None would have come.

The boy felt something in his stomach, and it wasn't just the nausea from all the haze he was breathing in. He felt something run out of his nose and when he brought his hand back from wiping it, he realized that his nose had started bleeding. He looked down, the dirt and rocks beneath his feet crunched under him as he fidgeted his sneakers. Phineas caught sight of something, pulling his hand away and running as fast as he could towards the 2D DEI building. He didn't stop, no matter how many times Dr. D called after him.

...


1st Dimension.

Ferb's feet skidded across the floor as he made a hasty stop. "I'm terribly so-"

"Hey, its fine." Vanessa told him, sitting on a crate and waving it off. "I'm the one who's keeping you from your brother and your friends, and my dad and everything. I should be in my classes right now, not ditching at all. My dad has high hopes for me." She admitted. "But I suck at school completely! I can barely keep up! I keep telling him that there's probably something wrong with me, that I must have a mental blockage or something, but he doesn't listen! He says I really do have potential, and that I just need to focus on finding the one thing I'm good at. But that's just it! Everything fails me! I don't even know what I'm going to major in yet! Did you know that some kids in my class already know what they're going to be, and how many years they'd have to study for it? Your sister already knows what she's going to name her kids! I mean, what kind of evil scientist's daughter can't even-" She stopped mid-rant, blinking at the green haired boy just before he blinked at her.

The Brit blinked again before speaking "You sound just like your father."

Vanessa looked confused.

"Not in a bad way of course." Ferb reassured her. "You can ramble just like him perfectly, I just haven't noticed until now." He looked at how she started to think, opening his mouth again. He hadn't meant to offend her in any way and he wanted to make sure she knew that "It's a very useful trait actually. You could use it to teach, or perhaps it'd be best for giving lectures…"

"That's actually…thanks Ferb. I guess I could look into that…"

"If it's any consolation, I'm glad you skipped classes today." He told her, taking her hand in his, hopping up beside her on the wooden box.

"Really, why?"

"Yes." He patted her hand "Because I got to spend time with you..."