Chapter nine! YESH! XD
Three chapters in one month! Two in one week! I'm on a role! XD
Anyways, I hope you all enjoy...and I hope that I don't do an all nighter like last time. *sweats a little*
I OWN NOTHING BUT APPLEJACK, AND DR. SCHNITZEL!
P/F/P/F
Chapter 9: A New Life, A Future Disaster
Phineas had obviously made the biggest mistake of his life. His new role in what used to be his hometown was to serve Doofenshmirtz as an extra mechanic for when Schnitzel couldn't preform her duties. Not that the woman couldn't complain, as it was true that she was easily stressed. Perhaps now she didn't have to deal with Doofenshmirtz's constant interruptions 24-7.
It had been weeks since the deal had been made. Phineas usually repaired Norm-Bots, while Schnitzel repaired the Cyborgs. Schnitzel was actually the one to decide this, saying the the process of repairing a Cyborg was too complicated for a, and I quote, "stupid kid". Afterwards, she had to find a way to explain the black eye that she so suddenly got to anyone who asked. She eventually got her revenge after sabotaging one of the Norm-Bots that Phineas had fixed, which ended with the Norm-Bot nearly destroying everything it saw, and landed Phineas and Schnitzel in a giant a freezer for a few hours, about three tops.
The freezer wasn't like a refrigerator at all, instead was a room constructed out of metal. There were several ACs that were constantly on, the lights were dim and usually went out, and it was completely empty. Not to mention that it was prone to leaking from the ceiling, which was covered in icicles. The point of the room was that if someone who worked for Doofenshmirtz, say a slave, ever disobeyed his orders, or did anything stupid, he'd find other ways of punishing them other than a death sentence. The freezer, which everyone called the "Ice Box", was one of those ways.
And it was merely one of the least horrible ways of punishment. The others were far worse! For example, another punishment was feeding the Goozim without a ways of protection. Usually Schnitzel would feed him with a corpse of a dead prisoner, but the Goozim wasn't tame. Trying to control that kind of beast would be like throwing your life away. So anyone who knew this very well would simply get to the platform, drop the food for the Goozim on the floor, then get out of there as fast as they could. No one else knew this like Schnitzel or Doofenshmirtz did, though, and many (who were most likely brain-dead) actually mocked the giant square of fur, not thinking that the Norm-Bots there would actually let it out of it's cage to eat. They lost so many slaves that way...
Phineas wasn't the only human to work under Doofenshmirtz. Besides himself and Schnitzel, there was several others, but he never actually got to know them. No one made contact with anyone unless they were-albiet, bitterly-working together on a job or were fighting. Clearly they had no sense of team-work, as Phineas just knew that if they got over their differences, they could easily overpower Doofenshmirtz together. But, after brushing it off, he completely forgot about the idea.
Like the other slaves, Phineas was completely oblivious about Doofenshmirtz's odd change in attitude. Of course, you'd have to know Doofenshmirtz really well in order to tell. He was a really great actor, especially when it came to lying. But none of those who actually managed to see through the mental mask could never figure out why the change had occurred.
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Phineas wiped the sweat from his forehead as he worked on another Norm-Bot. Not fixing one, making one. With the Robot Factory still out of shape, the Norm-Bots that couldn't be fixed had to be replaced another way. Doofenshmirtz had actually recently come up with the idea, and forced Phineas to go through with it. The boy was assigned to build around 1,000 robots by the end of the day.
It had been three hours now...
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It was a good thing he could build things quickly. The job would have been done a lot faster if Ferb was there with him. Phineas admitted that he'd rather have his older brother be safe rather than being with him to suffer what what he was suffering, but there was still part of him that wished the opposite. It was pretty much envy, mixed with missing Ferb with all his heart.
Every single day, Phineas had hoped to see his pet platypus (having partially, if not finally, excepted the fact that he was indeed a secret agent) show up at any moment to help him get out of the horrible place. Then, he began wondering if Perry was still alive, but quickly thought otherwise. After all, he was clearly capable of handling himself, even though he was knocked out by one of the Norm-Bots...it came from behind! If things happened differently, they both would be home free, Phineas bet. So, there was no blame for the platypus, that was for certain.
But where could Perry be now?
And Candace...it had only been weeks ago since he found out her secret. She was a Resistance member. And the only reason why she was gone...he didn't know why. All he knew was that the group had disappeared, vanished, for several months now.
Maybe they were in hiding? But, Phineas had looked almost everywhere for his father...wouldn't he have come across them by now?
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Five hours...this was going to be a long day...
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Meanwhile, another prisoner, one that no one working at DEI had seen before, was dragged through the hallways by two Norm-Bots. It was just a middle-aged man, who's hair was greying a tad bit, wearing what everyone else was wearing: Dooferalls his own size. The glasses he once wore were crushed, and left in the middle of the street when he was captured. He had done nothing wrong, and had been trying to get to work, when he was suddenly taken to the strange purple building.
The man wasn't taken to a cell, nor the office, or even the interrogation room. He was taken to a room that was white, like an asylum cell, only there was a giant screen on on of the walls. The man was sitting on a chair that was facing the large screen that was, at the moment, completely black. On the corners of the ceiling were cameras, all pointed to him.
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It was a pitch black room, being lit up by several boxs on the walls. Doofenshmirtz and Schnitzel both were staring at one of them, one grinning an evil grin, the other staring in pure confusion.
"What exactly are we doing," Schnitzel asked, looking to the screen that showed the man sitting on the chair as well as two Norm-Bots hovering behind him.
The screen was attached to several other screens that showed several rooms in the building, and was also attached to a large machine with several buttons that kept flickering randomly. A part of the machine, a lever, had only been recently added to the machine. Doofenshmirtz smirked. "Just watch," he said, placing his hand on the lever, and pulling it.
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The screen went from black to a swirl of inverted colors in a matter of seconds. The man stared, his eyes shrinking in shock. Minutes passed before the man leaped out of the chair and began running around in circle, making sounds like engines, and crashed into the walls several times. He even began pounding his fists at the Norm-Bot, breaking his hands, but laughed as if nothing had inflicted him.
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Schnitzel stared, jaw-dropped. The screen showed a man, jumping out of his chair, rolling on the floor, and making an absolute fool of himself. "What did you do to him?"
"He's fine," Doofenshmirtz said, "For the most part, anyway. I made the screen specifically to scramble the human mind. In other words, he's completely insane."
"Will he get better?," Schnitzel asked.
"I don't know," Doofenshmirtz said, "And I don't care, either. If this doesn't bring The Resistance out of hiding, nothing will."
"You're not actually expecting them to come out of hiding because you drove one person crazy, are you
Doofenshmirtz paused and turned to the woman, who's heart nearly stopped at his stare. It wasn't a glare, nor an evil smirk...it was simply a stare, that was devoid of any emotion. She had never seen this reaction before. And, stranger still, this was probably worse than the other glares and nasty looks he gave.
"I'm not," Doofenshmirtz said, "But what about the rest of Danville..."
Schnitzel eyed the man, trying to process...wait a minute...
"...Or the rest of the Tri-State Area..."
Schnitzel's eyes shrunk...he wasn't seriously...
"...Or even the rest of the country...?"
...Oh my gosh...
"You're going to drive them all insane," Schnitzel asked.
"Well, perhaps not the entire country," Doofenshmirtz turned away, "Yet. But the Tri-State Area? Definately."
"But...that would involve making more of those screens," Schnitzel looked back to the man, who was proceeding to chew on the walls...or at least try to, "How...how did you get the time to make these?"
Schnitzel saw Doofenshmirtz every single day, and she never saw any implications of the project even being made. To think she would have found out just a detail, but...
"If you must know," Doofenshmirtz said, in an annoyed tone, "I had to stay up long nights just to keep it just between me, myself, and I. I know how much of a chatterbox you can be to some slaves and prisoners. If word got out of my plans..."
"Right," Schnitzel sighed, "It would have reached The Resistance...but, why resort to this?"
"Trust me, I actually thought about killing several of the residents," Doofenshmirtz said, "But then I would lose several capible slaves. No. This is much more practical. Best of all, no matter how insane or stupid they act, they'll only listen to me."
Okay, so, he was planning not only to attract The Resistance, but found an easier way to control others as well. That evil, clever man...
"But how can you be so sure that they'll come out in the open while the Tri-State is in an uproar," Schnitzel asked.
"Oh, they'll come, alright," Doofenshmirtz said, "An uproar might be the key to revealing them...once the Robot Factory is fixed, we'll be able to manufacture millions of screens (that I still haven't figured out a name for) that will spread throughout the areas and-" the man smirked, in a dull, uncaring matter, at the screen "-well, you know the rest."
For the rest of the time, Schnitzel was completely silent.
She didn't know whether the plan would work or not, or even if Doofenshmirtz was really serious about the whole thing or was just acting weird. Maybe it was both? She didn't know. What Schnitzel did know, was that the Tri-State Area had it in for the worst.
A/N:
Well, what do you think? It's a fail, huh?
The whole "going insane" bit is a reference to MLP: FiM's character Discord, my favorite villain, who will be shown in the episode "Keep Calm, and Flutter On" where he may change! XD
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