Chapter 10

~Camera Hero~

"Where the heck is he?" growled Candace from the bushes of some unspecified plant. She wasn't alone though because Jeremy was there too, kneeling beside her and munching on a bag of popcorn from a nearby carnival vendor.

"Why do you care so much Candace?" the boy said between mouthfuls of popcorn, "I'm pretty sure the two of them are just hanging out."

"Ugh, Jeremy," the girl groaned as she removed her favorite pair of binoculars from her eyes, "It can't be. I bet that that isn't really Isabella, and that it's actually Ferb inside of a robot that looks like her!"

"That sounds kind of far-fetched." Her boyfriend said after swallowing the puffed kernels in his mouth.

"Or maybe, Isabella went with Pinky through that transporter thingy that actually switched minds and they're looking for Pinky's regular body!"

Jeremy just gave her that "are you kidding me" look when she began jumping in excitement, which she promptly ignored.

He sighed, "Candace, I don't see what the big deal is anyway. Even if Phineas did switch bodies with the dog-"

"Isabella was the one that switched!" the redhead corrected.

"...Right. Even if that's what's going on, I think we should just leave them alone."

Her heart sank a little bit at the idea, and she frowned, "But why? This could be the perfect chance to bust them!"

"Well," said Jeremy, "I was kind of hoping we could go on the Ferris wheel together."

The girl's face turned as red as her hair, and a strange chuckle escaped her throat. "Uh, I mean, that's sound great, really great, I mean, uh...yeah." But that irresistible urge to return to her hiding spot and put on her spy gear was poking at her teenage fantasies.

Jeremy cocked his head "Candace? Are you okay? You look a little sick."

"Uh, yeah, totally," she stammered, "I just-"

She was quickly silenced by the shock of an unidentified object hit her smack dab in the cheek, causing her to bite her lip

"What the heck!" Candace shouted in irritation, picking up the thing that had just assaulted her face. "Who the heck threw this!"

"I'm not sure, but it looked like it came from somewhere up there." Jeremy said.

Candace gasped, and clutched it in her hand tightly while pumping it into the air "I BET IT WAS PHINEAS!"

As his girlfriend began to prance all too happily around their hiding place, Jeremy took a turn looking at the object. After turning it over in his hands a few times, examining it closely, his eyes widened.

"Hey Candace? I think you should take a look at this."

"Not now, Jeremy, I think I found Phineas on the-"

"I'm serious. You NEED to see this."

~~~~~~~Agent P!~~~~~~~

(Doo Bee Doo Bee Doo Bah! Dooooo Bee Doo Bee Doo Bah!)

(Perry!)

~~~~~~~Agent P!~~~~~~~

"Well, that wasn't what I'd expected at all." The obnoxious Doctor said to a bored looking platypus, while he stared out the window at where a beam of green light had just zoomed across the sky, courtesy of his Talent–Away-Inator. "I swore I changed the setting so that it would be purple."

When his eyes rolled again, Perry began to worry that if the doctor kept this ludicrous behavior up, they would come right out their sockets.

Not that that was the issue that should've been at the front of Perry's mind. His luck seemed to have run out at this moment. The bars of the cage kept him stuck in the doctor's clutches, and far away from the machine he so desperately wanted to disable. He growled to himself.

Doof seemed to have taken this action as a snarky comment, because he turned around and started to shout at him. "Jeez, Perry the Platypus, why can't you ever just listen to my woes without butting in? You always have something to say, making me feel stupid all the time! So...You know what?" a sinister grin spreading across his features.

This can't be good.

"Since you seem to be so good at making fun of me...I should just make you bad at it!"

Perry's jaw dropped; he'd been right. But this was even worse than he'd predicted; to lose his best skill? Still, he knew that said skill wasn't what the doctor had mentioned, but his secret agent abilities. Of course, that was worse, on many different levels. To lose those at a time like this? Even if he was freed from the cage, he wouldn't even be able to do anything about it! Which meant the bumbling doctor would wreak havoc on the rest of the town. Maybe even the world.

While Perry shuddered at the impending doom of the situation, Doofenshmirtz swung the laser towards the platypus, aiming it straight at him. "Let's see how you like not being able to make annoying comments! Well...not that you could talk in the first place. I mean, you're a platypus after all-"

Perry shook the bars of the cage violently, as if they'd comply with the force. The sudden clatter caught Doofenshmirtz off guard, and he fell onto the button that would cause Perry's demise.

The green beam blinded the agent, and he was thrown brutally against the back of the cage, and onto the cold tiles of the floor. Though it took some effort, he lifted himself from the ground. His eyes were bleary, and he tried to see again.

I...don't feel any different...Is that what's supposed to happen...? Perry fretted, giving his body a thorough check for any harm. His checkup was interrupted when he heard a loud yelp.

"What!" Doof suddenly shouted, and Perry looked in his direction, to find that the cage door had miraculously opened, allowing the agent perfect freedom.

And when he reacted, there was no hesitation, no blockade in his mind. He was able to leap out of his prison with ease, much to his relief.

"I don't get it, why did it open?" he panicked, looking over his –Inator, "Oh, I get-!"

Doofenshmirtz was quickly decked in the jaw by his nemesis' fist.

~~~~~~~Candace And Jeremy~~~~~~~

Meanwhile…Back at The Festival

~~~~~~~Candace And Jeremy~~~~~~~

"Whoa...what an awesome camera!" Candace said, "Finders keepers, I guess-"

Jeremy shook his head. Candace had missed the point "Look; look at the pictures on the camera. Who are they?"

She gave him a curious glance, before returning her gaze to the camera. Being the tech-savvy person she was, Candace only had to fiddle with a few buttons to view the pictures that had been taken. What she saw surprised her.

"It's Phineas and Isabella!"

"Yeah. Isn't that a little weird? Some random camera with picture of your brother and his girlfriend..."

Candace rubbed her chin for a moment, sifting through the rest of the camera's contents. Most of them contained similar images: Phineas and Isabella walking down a street together, sitting and eating on a bench together, playing carnival games together, and...

A loud squeal sounded from Candace's mouth, making Jeremy jump.

"Oh my go-JEREMY! LOOK!" she screamed, shoving the camera into her boyfriend's face.

Jeremy removed the device from his face to get a decent look at the photo. After examining it, a warm smile crossed his lips. "I knew leaving them alone was a good idea."

"Oh please," Candace said with a grin, "I called this from the day they met!"

~~~~~~~Guess who?~~~~~~~

...Ferris Wheel...

~~~~~~~Who Do You Think?~~~~~~~

To her surprise, he smelled really nice. Of course, that was what she noticed at first when she had leaned into his space. While most people would've found the smell of freshly cut grass and machinery kind of strange, Isabella found it familiar and comforting. That very smell was what sealed the deal for her.

So she closed her eyes and finally did what she'd always wanted to: convey her feelings to him in a matter of seconds, with the innocent pressure of her lips on his. It was soft, and much warmer than she'd anticipated, lasting over a number of seconds. Long enough for her to wonder if the reciprocation of the kiss itself was real, or just her imagination.

Though she didn't want it to end, and was partially worried about how he would react, Isabella slowly pulled away, keeping her eyes shut.

And that's when the panic settled in.

...I can't believe I just did that.

"Um...Isabella?" Phineas said.

Even though she was reluctant to see his face, her eyes opened ever so slightly.

It was dark out, but the light of the Ferris wheel illuminated his countenance, and the unmistakable blush was on his cheeks.

But his expression was utterly blank.

"...What was that?" he asked bluntly.

Isabella then began to struggle to come up with an excuse. "I, uh...well, y'know...the mustard...?"

"Mustard?"

"Yeah, there was some on your face...?" she said, her own blush flaming on her cheeks.

Isabella's thoughts were flying through her head at breakneck pace.

I blew it, didn't I? He'd never buy that excuse. Oh yeah. I totally screwed up. Things will never be the same, will they? And now that I finally did something like that, he's going to avoid me forever now…

Her eyes began to water when thoughts delved into an even more devastating situation.

Or worse, he'll just pretend it never happened. Ignore how I feel. As if my feelings were something he could just brush off as if they never mattered…

She tried to avert her eyes from his intense gaze, but he wouldn't let that happen, and kept their eyes connected. He examined her face for what seemed like forever, tension like an electric current surging between the two of them.

Until someone finally broke the silence.

"Well that kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it?" said Phineas.

Her brow furrowed in confusion "Phineas, what are you talking about?"

"Now it's on your face."

"…The mustard?"

His blue eyes lit up, when she caught on. "Mind if I help you out with that? I mean, it'd be so rude of me if I didn't, wouldn't it?"

The girl sighed. "Phineas, I did kiss you on purpose, and if you don't like me back, then just tell me, 'cause tt'll hurt less if you be honest and joke around-"

But it was her turn to be promptly caught off guard with a pair of lips on hers, left there for a few moments before Phineas pulled back with a bright smile.

"That's fine! I'm not good at lying anyway."

~~~~~~~What's This?~~~~~~~

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~~~~~~~Wild Mass Guessing~~~~~~~

"Oh no, look what you made me do!"

"I can't help it. My fists want to punch you, and you never argue with the fists."

"Couldn't you have controlled them for at least a second or two? I was trying to take an important picture!" the boy moaned, "I bet we are missing something important!"

"Nah."

"But-!"

"Buford, Baljeet! You two can argue later, we've got more important things to worry about, like finding Ferb's camera. We can't just give up on this mission!" Gretchen, the temporary leader at the moment, shouted at the quarrelling bully and nerd. Their bickering often made it hard for the poor Fireside girl to focus on what Ferb had instructed her to do today.

"So should we call Ferb? He said he was going to meet us here with Vanessa." Baljeet said as he rubbed his aching arm.

"Yeah, that would probably be a good idea." Adyson agreed. She whipped out her cell phone, and began texting something to the mastermind behind their plan.

"Hey," Baljeet began to ask, "Buford, you should-OW! DID THAT EVEN HAVE A PURPOSE?"

"I told you; No arguments."

AN:

(PLEASE READ. I PROMISE SOMETHING AWESOME AWAITS)

I'll be frank. That chapter took FOREVER to write. I was going to put it up around New Year's with my awesome friend, ChasingTheWind3, at 12:00, but as you all know I suck at deadlines. And if you like Snape from Harry Potter, I will shamelessly state that her story is awesome. Yeah, no shame at all.

And if you didn't know, I had to re-write chapters 1 and 5 after I accidently saved over them while editing. Let me tell you, that was awful. I hadn't saved an alternate in case this happened. I was an idiot, and paid the price.

I would like to offer something to you all. I am actually considering writing a parallel to SNTD, whic feature Ferb, the Fireside Girls, Vanessa, Baljeet and Burford. It explains some crazy things that go on outside of Isabella and Phineas' little date, and a bunch of other little things that affected SNTD's outcome.

You didn't actually think Ferb would stay at home and read, did you? Hahahaha, of course you didn't!

So, I've decided that When SNTD reaches 100 reviews, I will release Ferb's parallel to this story.

And, If this story reaches 150 reviews, I will take a request for a funny/romantic one-shot. I'll put a poll on my page for everyone to vote for the pairing of their choice if/when this happens. And pairings tie, I'll just do both~ :)

Thank you so much, all those who check for updates, and favorite, and review, and alert! I love you all~!

I'M SERIOUS.

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