Playing with Fireside.
Chapter 10: Not According to Plan
I'm much more proud of how well this chapter turned out compared to my last few chapters..
Later on the very next day, shortly after school, Isabella and two of her troop mates, Gretchen and Adyson, have been talked into following Phineas and Ferb by the two boys themselves. They haven't been told why yet, but the girls are following the boys up a large hill.
"Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?" Adyson asks repeatedly.
"Almost. Almost. Almost." Phineas jokingly answers.
After a long walk up the hill, the children finally reach their destination. As the boys are still full of energy, the girls are a little tired from there little trip. However, they perk up after seeing what they see at the top of the hill.
"Ladies, we present to you...your bucket-wheel excavator!"
At the bottom of the hill lies a large quarry, and in the very center is the giant machine. A 300 feet tall, and from the size, must way more then 10,000 tons, and looks as if it's ready to do some digging. The Fireside Girls have no idea just how Phineas and Ferb have done it, but they've done it. The drop tower they built was one thing, but this is here is where Isabella is truely impressed.
"How much allowance do you guys get?" Adyson asks.
"Who cares? Let's see if it works!" Isabella says.
A few minutes later, after getting down to the quarry and figuring out how to get into the giant machine, Phineas begins to show Isabella how to operate the machine while Ferb, Gretchen, and Adyson are on standy by, since the bucket-wheel can only be operated by so many people at once.
"Now true, a normal excavator moves around slower then 90 year old man, but this one can move around surprisingly fast. On top of that, its digging speed makes it more efficiant then tens of thousands of people." Phineas explains.
"Awesome!" Isabella answers as she operates the machine.
Down at the ground, Ferb is smiling at the final results of the creation, Gretchen is happy seeing her troop leader enjoying herself, but Adyson has a more serious look on her face. Gretchen notices this and decides to try and put a smile on her face.
"I think we've earned our open-pit mining patch!" Gretchen says as she hands a patch over to Adyson. Sadly, having no interest in the patch, Adyson tosses it behind and continues watching the excavator. "At least pretend you care about getting patches."
"Please, I can barely pretend to like YOU." Adyson answers.
Standing right next to the girls, Ferb notices how rude Adyson is being and is treating Gretchen much like she was treatin Phineas and himself. The fact that they're supposedly friends now seems unbelievable.
Then, something wierd happens, when Phineas has his head turned, Isabella looks at Adyson and tosses her cellphone to her. Knowing what to do, Adyson walks off as she dials up a number to make a private call. Ferb then looks to Gretchen, hoping that she'll say something, but instead, she begins to look sad about something. Ferb is starting to suspect that something is wrong here.
A little later, right after Phineas and Ferb leaves the quarry and mamke their way home...
"Did you see the look on their faces? They loved it!" Phineas says with joy. While expecting Ferb to be just as happy, he notices that his brother looks rather uneasy. "Ferb, is something wrong? Did you leave your toolbox back at the site?"
Although unsure what to say to Phineas, Ferb realizes something. "Wait, I DID leave my toolbox!"
"Not a problem! We'll just go right back and get it!"
Needing to get back Ferb's toolbox, Phineas and Ferb turn right around and make their way back up the hill to return to the quarry to get it. It also Phineas an excuse to have another look at the happy faces of the Fireside Girls that they've just helped out. Sadly, when the boys return, they see something that neither of them expected to see.
At the bottom of the hill, down in the Quarry, Isabella, Gretchen, and Adyson are seen talking with a few adults, who're shaking hands with the troop leader. Curious as to what's going on, the boys head down to check things out.
"Hey, what did we miss?" Phineas asks as he reaches the bottom of the hill.
"OH! Phineas! Ferb!" Isabella says nervously. "We're...umm..."
"Ok, this should cover it.' The one adult says as he writes a cheque and gives it to Isabella. "Take it away, boys!"
Upon the man's command, the other two adults jump into the excavator's controls, then drives off with it using it's unique moving speed, thanks to Phineas and Ferb's skills. After the quarry becomes void of nothing but the five kids, Phineas speaks up.
"Isabella, why did they take away our bucket-wheel?"
While Isabella stutters while trying to think of something to say, Adyson says..."With the money we got from that deal, we probably don't need to keep it a secret anymore."
After hearing what Adyson just said, Isabella starts to smile again, knowing fully well that her left-hand is 100% right. "You want to know what happened? we just sold your excavator! Just like how we sold Ferb Tower! And both sales, we've made a huge profit, ALL thanks to you two."
"You...sold it?" Phineas asks. "B-b-but we don't build things for profit! We build things for fun! How could just sell the things we made for you?"
"Well, according to our contract, we can." Isabella answers.
"Contract? You mean that thing we signed earlier?"
"Gretchen?" Upon her order, Gretchen regretfully takes out the contract the boys signed and gives it to Isabella. "Our deal was that we make you two live like kings at school, as well as being under our protection, and in exchange, anything you build becomes ours to use as we please. And we've chosen to sell your creations!"
Phineas and Ferb can not believe what they are hearing. This entire time, the Fireside Girls have been using them, not truely caring for the friendship that came with their deal.
"Ferb. find a loophole!" Phineas says.
Taking the contract from Isabella, Ferb begins to scan the writing, hoping that what they were told is not true. As he skims through the contract, Ferb notices something rather odd about the contract.
"This doesn't make sense." Ferb says. "It says here that me and Phineas are free to leave the contract at anytime."
"Why would let us out of it like that?" Phineas asks.
"It's simple, really." Isabella answers. "If you decide to leave our deal, we will NO longer help you build more things, we will NO longer give you protection from us, and your popularity at school? That will go right down toilet! We'll see to it that you two will never have another friend again."
"Oh, my...Gretchen?" Phineas asks, hoping to still have one other friend from the girls.
"Sorry, guys." She answers in a sad tone. "I've...I've got to stand by Isabella. She's my troop leader AND my best friend."
Now, Phineas and Ferb are left with no other option. They made the deal with Isabella and the Fireside Girls to make as many friends as possible before the next summer. However, to let other kids use them and make money off of them is not how they view friendship. Having no other choice, Ferb rips the contract in half, and leaves the quarry with Phineas, effectively ending their friendship with the Fireside Girls.
"SHOOT! I forgot my toolbox again!" Ferb says as he runs back to grab his tools. He then runs back to Phineas so he doesn't keep his brother waiting.
"Oh, man." Gretchen says. "We were brutal with those two."
"Yes. Yes we were." Adyson says. "But we're done with them anyway. We've more then likely gotten the funding we need."
"Agreed, Let's head back to the lodge." Isabella says.
Later, as the three girls return to the Fireside lodge in downtown Danville, Isabella expects good news from her troop after her success with the excavator sale. However, as she marches into the lodge, she notices that the other girls are...dissapointed.
"Alright, girls! Tell me how things are going? Are we getting closer to renaming the school?"
Now things are getting ackward, as no one is willing to say anything. Eventually, Katie of the Fireside Girls becomes brave enough to become the barer of bad news.
"Isabella? We're not going to be able to rename the school."
"WHAT!?" Isabella screams in anger. " How can that be? I told you girls to get me dirt on anyone that can help us!"
"That's the problem." Ginger speaks up. "Practically run the school board now, but from what we've learned, none of them are capable of having the name of a school be changed. Especially because of how are school is named in honour of our city's founder, Jonathan T. Danville."
"What a weird name." Adyson adds.
Although she was willing to accept the fact that she no longer has Phineas and Ferb under her control, Isabella is not willng to accept the fact that she can't rename the school to Fireside Elementary. Hearing the news quickly causes her to get so angry, that her face begins to turn red, prompting the other girls to take a step back. To vent out her rage, she turns and punches the wall with as much force as she can, causing a small crack to appear. Afterwards, she quickly calms down.
"Someone bandage my hand for me, please." She asks, to which Katie and Holly react quickly and fixes her hand.
"So, I'm guessing we'll have to abandon our plan?" Gretchen asks, hoping to hear a yes.
"Not by a long shot, my old friend." Isabella answers. "Girls, it's time for us to take drastic measures. It's time for us to go through our last resort plan."
"Last resort plan?" Gretchen asks nervously.
"Exactly. I was hoping to do rename the school in the same fashion as our normal plans. But since that's not going to happen, we get to have some fun now and do whatever we want. Girls, it's time to take some extreme measures!"
NEW CHAPTER! WEEEEE!
Alright. Sh- is about to get real now. What else can I really say.
No really, what else can I really say? Alot when on here.
Short author's note today. Please leave a comment. Other then that, ciao until next chapter.