Next update! I've started the school year, so I won't be able to update as often now, but I'm hoping to update this story twice tonight ;P

(Meanwhile...)

Pixie and I ran down HQ's halls. "So what if Kiki and Cassie haven't reached O.W.C.A. yet?" she inquired.

I hesitated. "We don't worry about that."

"Then what do we do?" Pixie asked slightly irritably.

"We hope that they're here, and if they're not, we get back to the others."

Pixie seemed just fine with that. "So if we can't find the two agents that hate you we get back to Michael and Emily?"

"Yeah, pretty much."

We reached a door that looked slightly familiar. Pixie tried to open it, then sighed in frustration. "It's locked. Figures."

"But we should be able to open it," I muttered. "Perry (-1) told us the different passwords and keys for all the places O.W.C.A. has access to."

"Do you think someone else could have locked it? Maybe in a different way?"

"Who?"

My question was answered when we heard a beeping. The next thirty seconds seemed to happen in slow motion. I ran a few yards away, grabbing my mate and pulling her behind me. Once we were far enough away, we bent to our knees, and I wrapped my arms around Pixie.

The bomb went off, blowing the locked door off its hinges. I grabbed Pixie again, this time pulling her up against the wall the door had once been on.

Two men, both horribly familiar, stepped out of the room. Rodney-2 and his counterpart. Pixie gasped, and I quickly covered her beak with my paw.

Both Rodneys whirled around. "What was that?" one of them asked.

But neither of them spotted us because we were already in the newly doorless room.

(Pixie's POV)

Perry-2 and I were silent until we were certain the Rodneys had walked off. When we were, we both let out breaths we had been holding.

"Well, look who finally decided to show up," came a snarky male voice. "What took so long, Perry?"

I blinked. Just the one word, "Perry", was filled with a shocking amount of hate.

Those two sentences, and I suddenly realized that nearly the entire room was filled with caged agents and A. . They were all staring at us.

Perry-2 and I looked in the direction the voice had come from, speedily finding its source. In one cage there was a red-furred male platypus glaring at us.

Then there was a more familiar female voice, muttering almost the exact opposite of what the platypus had said. "Great. You know, we were doing just fine without you."

I glanced around, quickly spotting Kiki and Cassie in a cage together. I then raised an eyebrow and crossed my arms. "Yeah, obviously."

Kiki huffed and rolled her eyes. "Talk about grateful," I muttered, walking over to the cage the yellow fox and the black cat were in.

(Perry-2's POV)

As Pixie walked over to Kiki and Cassie, I walked over to the male platypus. "I'm not the Perry you know."

The platypus just scoffed, and I heard an apologetic female voice behind him. "Sorry. My brother can be a bit of a jerk." I strained my neck and spotted a light brown female platypus- that looked to be about the same age as Michael and Teddy, maybe a bit older- a couple cages behind him.

"I'm Piper," she introduced. "That's Luke." I opened my mouth to ask how she knew I wasn't the Perry she was used to, but Piper was already explaining. "Cassie and Kiki have already explained the inter-universal travel situation to us. You must be the Perry from the other universe. And we've already met both Rodneys." Piper seemed to shiver a little at the memory.

"Ah." I slid in between Luke's cage and someone else's to get to Piper's, bending down when I reached it. "Did you see how the Rodneys trapped all of you in these?"

Piper just shook her head.

(Pixie's POV)

I was trying to figure out how on Earth to free Kiki and Cassie when I heard a female voice, and for a minute I honestly thought it was Christine. "Have you seen my parents?"

Curiosity getting the best of me, I turned and saw a purple she-cat who seemed to be about Michael and Christine's age pressed against the bars of one of the many look-alike cages. "Sorry, I don't know who your parents are."

"Harry the hyena and Karen the cat? Do you not know them?"

I just stared. "Um... Here's the thing... I'm from a different universe..."

"I know," the cat sighed. "I was just wondering if you knew them there."

"'Fraid not, sorry."

The she-cat strained her neck. "Knowing my luck, they're probably way over there." She chuckled. "My nearest friend to me is over where Perry (-2) is. And we can't talk without yelling."

The room was quite large. Normally it would have seemed a bit bigger because it was so empty. But with all the cages scattered on the floor, I had to lift my tail up to squeeze between the cages. And I had to squeeze to get practically anywhere.

I bent down the best I could and fiddled with the cat's cage, but it wouldn't open. I growled in frustration. "How in the world do you get this stupid thing open?"

That was just something I angrily muttered to myself, but the she-cat apparently heard me. "I think I saw one of the Rodneys with a remote. Maybe that opens the cages."

"Did you happen to see them set down the remote at any time?"

The cat just shook her head. "Sorry."

"Great," I muttered. I stood back up and waved Perry-2 over. It took a few minutes because he was crouched down, facing away from me. Someone must have gotten his attention.

(Perry-2's POV)

While I was trying to figure out how to open the cage, Piper was calmly lying on her back. "You're awfully calm," I commented. "Two Rodneys are lose in the HQ, you and practically all of O.W.C.A. are trapped in cages, and you're just lying there."

"I sure don't see you freaking out or anything. Besides, if anything, it's only a bit humiliating that two villains managed to trap us in our own headquarters."

I grinned. "I've seen it before, and I bet we'll both see it again someday."

"Not only that," Piper continued, "it's easy to be calm in a prison when your rescuers are in the same room, breaking you out at the very minute."

"Yeah, well, THESE rescuers can't seem to do their job," I muttered good-naturedly. I couldn't figure out how to open the cage and since there had been no shout of excitement on Pixie's side, I could tell she wasn't having much luck either.

Piper chuckled then sat up, noticing something. "Hey- she's trying to get your attention."

"What?" I stood up and turned around. Sure enough, Pixie was waving me over. And by the frustrated look on her face, I could tell she had been trying to get my attention for a while. Whoops.

(Pixie's POV)

Perry-2 finally stood up and noticed me, then began walking over. "Sorry about that."

I sighed. "It's fine."

"Did you figure out how to open the cages?"

"Nope," I sighed again, shaking my head.

My mate blinked. "Okay, then... Why'd you call me over?"

"Because she-" I gestured to the purple she-cat with my head- "-she saw the Rodneys with a remote when she was trapped. That might be what opens the cages." I groaned again. "The Rodneys aren't idiotic enough to leave that sort of remote lying around."

"Okay..." Perry-2 took my paws in his and looked me in the eye. "Let's not worry. We'll look around in here and see if they accidentally left it here before anything else."

I nodded in agreement with my mate. "Alright."

(Michael's POV)

To my surprise and relief, Prof. Rodenstein didn't chase us. Instead, both of them ended up walking out of O.W.C.A. Well, blowing their way out. Which wasn't as relieving.

"So now they're both loose on this universe," Major Monogram sighed. He turned to me. "Why exactly did you bring another Rodney here?!"

I just glared. He was blaming us for this?! "We didn't bring him, SIR," I spat. "We followed, trying to save you!"

He returned the glare. "And I guess in your universe you're allowed to disrespect me?"

But I wasn't there anymore. I had stormed off, angry at him, angry at myself, and angry at both Prof. Rodensteins.

(Teddy's POV)

Lydia, Hazel, and I found Diana reasonably quickly. But I knew we must have missed something big because there was a giant hole in the HQ when we got back, and Michael was sitting outside, glaring angrily off into space. I exchanged a glance with the others before I walked over to Michael as the others went into HQ.

"You okay?" I asked, sitting down next to him.

"When I was Emily's age, I was known for disrespecting authorities." Michael laughed bitterly. "I guess old habits really do die hard."

I blinked. "Okay, what'd I miss?"

Michael didn't answer, but when I went inside, Major Monogram was ranting to everyone how Michael was horrible at respecting his superior.

"Sir," Christine began hesitantly, "technically, you're not Michael's superior. Or mine, or Emily's, or Kiki's, or even Pixie's or Perry (-2)'s."

"Where are those three?" Hazel asked.

"Mom and Dad went to find Cassie and Kiki," Emily offered.

"Shouldn't they be back by now?" Mom inquired curiously.

"Apparently," Dad grinned. I looked where he was and saw Perry-2 and Pixie coming back.

"Did you find them?" Christine asked.

They nodded.

"Well... Where are they?"

Pixie clasped her paws together. "Right now? In a bit of a situation." She began glancing around.

"What situation?" Major Monogram inquired.

Pixie didn't seem to hear him. "Where's Michael?"

I gestured outside. Pixie smiled her thanks and ran out to him. "Agent P (-2)," the Major tried again. "What's the situation?"

"Let's wait for Michael," is how Perry-2 replied.

After a few minutes, Pixie came back in with Michael. He muttered a, "Sorry," to Major Monogram and walked over to the group.

(Emily's POV)

Mom and Dad began explaining what they had seen. "All the agents and A. -" Mom began.

"'A. '?" nearly every Earth-1 person chorused in confusion.

"Agents In Training," Dad explained.

"-Were trapped in cages," Mom finished.

Teddy blinked. "Wait a minute... Did you see Piper, Mayfair, Lennie, or Nick?"

"Um..." Mom looked over at Dad.

"I saw Piper," Dad said. "She's a friend of yours?"

Teddy nodded.

"Who's Mayfair?" Mom asked curiously.

"She's a purple cat... Sort of hard to miss."

"Oh!" Mom blinked. "THAT'S who that cat was!"

Teddy seemed to relax. "What about Lennie and Nick? A chameleon or an egret?"

Mom and Dad slowly shook their heads. "Sorry..." Dad began. "But there were a lot of cages in there."

"Did you happen to see a yellow hyena?"

"Everyone's asking about hyenas," Mom grinned. "Sorry, I didn't see whoever you're talking about. Perry (-2)?"

Dad shook his head. "But he or she's probably in there."

"He," Hazel answered.

Mom and Dad exchanged a mischievous glance at that. "Alright."

"Why didn't you get them out of the cages?" Michael inquired.

"The only way to open the cages is with a remote the Rodneys have."

"They're not here anymore," Priya sighed. "In fact, by now, they could be anywhere."

I looked over at the office while the others were talking- well, the rubble where the office had been. That's when I thought I saw something purple and blinking in a pile of rock. "Um...guys?"

"In a minute," Priya said.

After a little bit, I tried again. "Well, this could be kind of important..."

"Just a moment," Michael replied.

Well, that figured. I was the youngest. But I tried again anyway. "B-but if you could just take a-"

"Sweetheart, just wait a few minutes, okay?" Mom asked me. It was kind, but it still stung a little.

I sighed and decided to take matters into my own hands- well, paws. I walked over to the pile and dug through it until I found the purple thing. It was a remote! It looked slightly cracked but like it would still work. "Guys!" I shouted.

Everyone turned to me. I smirked and held up the remote. "Is this what you're looking for?"

"Y-yeah, I think so," Teddy blinked. Everyone else seemed just as stunned- well, except Dad, he was smiling proudly at me.

After a couple more minutes of silence, Hazel walked up and high-fived me. "Nice going!"

I grinned. "Thanks!" I tossed the remote to Dad. "Catch!"

He caught it easily. "Now, let's go free some agents."

(Pixie's POV)

Great. Now I felt horrible for putting my daughter down like that.

As we walked down the hallway, I saw Emily walk up to Priya. "Thanks," I heard my daughter say. What?

I slowed down to talk with them. "Thanks for what?"

"Mom," Emily began softly, "Priya saved my life."

"What?" I didn't even realize I had spoken aloud this time until Emily explained.

"The explosion that turned Major Monogram's office into rubble? Not only did Priya carry me out of the office, she curled up around me when the bomb went off, so I wasn't hurt at all."

Priya blushed. "I was just doing my job, Emily. Besides, Hazel was your age once."

"You seem to hate me," I said slowly. "You could have let my child die. But you didn't."

I turned to Emily. "And knowing you nearly died does not help me feel comfortable taking you into dangerous situations."

Emily sighed. "Great." She ran up to her father.

Priya and I chuckled. "Thank you," I said sincerely.

"I have a daughter, too. I can't imagine losing Hazel. Besides, I couldn't let an innocent child die."

When we reached the cage room, Hazel and Teddy gasped. It WAS quite a sight to behold- practically all your friends trapped in separate cages in the same room.

Perry-2 pressed the purple button on the remote, and all the cages suddenly fell apart. Almost immediately, a light brown female platypus stood up behind where the cage holding the red male platypus had been. "It's nice to stretch my legs again," she grinned. "Been sitting in that thing almost all day."

"Or lying," my mate added with a grin.

"Piper!" Teddy greeted. "Are you okay?"

"Yep. My pride's a bit broken, but other than that..."

So that's Piper. I crossed my arms and grinned. "I think I'll like her."

"She and I were talking while we were in here earlier," Perry-2 murmured to me. "She did certainly remind me a bit of you."

The purple she-cat I had been talking to- Mayfair, I think- stood up and immediately spotted the large group of people by the door. She ran up to and hugged Teddy. "Glad to see you're okay," he commented slightly awkwardly.

Mayfair seemed to realize what she did and blushed, backing away a little. "Yeah, I'm fine." Something suddenly seemed to strike her thoughts because she began glancing around, obviously looking for someone in the crowd of agents. "Where's Parker?"

"Parker?" I asked curiously.

"The yellow hyena I asked about," Hazel explained. Ah.

"He's my brother," Mayfair said nervously. "I found the Rodneys and was trapped after he was. I don't know if he was injured or something."

"That gives me an idea," came a voice from behind me. I turned with a start. Oh. Honestly, for a bit, I had forgotten about Lydia.

Lydia grabbed a stool and ran to the back of the room; I knew that because she had magic, she didn't need to do any of that, but she probably didn't want to freak anyone out. Lydia placed the stool down, hopped on it, and formed her hands around her mouth in the shape of a megaphone. "Everyone!" she shouted. All the agents and Agents In Training turned to look at her. "You probably don't know me, but I need to know something. Was anybody possibly fatally injured?"

I saw the animals all exchange glances and heard murmurings, but no one shouted, "Yes". I took that as a good sign.

Apparently, so did Lydia. "Great," she grinned, clasping her hands together and walking off the stool again.

"Okay, well, that doesn't help us find Parker," Mayfair said slightly irritably.

"But now we know he's not lying somewhere dying in here," Michael offered.

Mayfair stared at him for a couple seconds. "So you're one of the alternate universe people Cassie was telling us about?"

My son nodded.

"Okay."

"I could help you look for Parker," Hazel offered.

The she-cat's face brightened. "Great! I'll look on the left side of the room, and you can take the right."

She ran off into the crowd again. Hazel turned to Emily. "Wanna help?"

"Well..." Emily turned to me, a begging look in her eyes.

I smiled and nodded. Emily turned back to Hazel with a grin. "Sure!"

The two girls quickly vanished in the crowd.

(Hazel's POV)

It wasn't that hard to find Parker; a yellow hyena is fairly easy to spot. Even when one is lying asleep on the ground. That's how Parker was when Emily and I found him. We exchanged a glance. "Boys."

"Mayfair!" I called across the room. "Found your brother!"

Emily giggled a little. "So you know him?"

I blushed as much as Emily had giggled. "Yeah."

(Pixie's POV)

Eventually- after several reunions- the O.W.C.A. agents began working on the Major's office and the other places the Rodneys had destroyed. Most of them, anyway. Priya and I were talking with the new agents and the A. .

"The Rodneys are gonna attack again," Priya said. "You all need to train more than normal." The Agents In Training took that fairly well, if not a bit grudgingly. But the kids about Michael and Teddy's age didn't really take it well at all.

Luckily, Priya seemed to understand why. "Listen, I know you guys are technically agents, but you're not officially. You still need to train. Sometimes we-" I could tell she was referencing all the other O.W.C.A. agents- "even need to train. Okay?"

Most of them stayed quiet at that, but they did practically storm off. Teddy looked like he was about to argue with his mother but decided against it and followed his friends. Michael stayed behind.

Priya exchanged a glance with me before walking back over to her mate.

"Mom," Michael began, "I'm not just technically an agent, I'm officially an agent. Could I help?"

I hesitated. It was preferable that Michael trained with the others because he could learn to protect himself even better, as well as the fact he'd be closer to Emily than Perry-2 and I.

"I'll give you a choice. Either you can spend all day with a ton of people you hardly know, doing stuff that's not agent related, or you can spend all day training with your friends and sister." Normally, the "sister" part would have thrown any brother off, but Michael was not normal.

He grinned. "You make a good point." My son turned and ran after the others. I smiled and turned to help with the reconstruction.

(Michael's POV)

Days went by, as well as training. After a couple days, Emily challenged Hazel to a volleyball game- which was, yes, considered training in O.W.C.A. The silver platypus had accepted... Poor girl. Almost no one could beat Emily in a "paw-to-ball" game, so to speak.

Teddy and I were sitting on the sidelines, Teddy amazedly staring, me nonchalantly staring. I could tell that he hadn't been expecting my four year old sister to be so good at volleyball.

She was certainly good- the game had now been going for a couple hours, and Emily was still going strong with three points. But Hazel was actually really good, too. She had managed to survive against Emily this long. Without any points, perhaps, but it was still an achievement no one had reached against Emily before.

Teddy must have been getting tired of watching two kids hit a ball back and forth- or maybe he was just tired of watching his little sister lose- because he stood up and called out, "Hey, Emily!"

Emily lost no concentration. "Yeah?"

"Maybe we could play a game of soccer, instead! How's that?"

NOW Emily lost her concentration. She missed the ball- now Hazel finally had a point- and turned to Teddy and I, her eyes wide. "No!" she squeaked out.

"Kickball?"

Emily didn't speak this time, but she shook her head vigorously.

"Okay..." Teddy sounded puzzled as to why she was saying no to two of the most popular games in the world.

I sat him down and explained everything. "I don't know if Dr. Doofenshmirtz has the same weaknesses and strengths in this universe or not... Can he kick a ball?"

Teddy started snickering. "Definitely not. But he is pretty good with his hands."

I smiled and gestured to Emily with my head. "She's the same. You can roll a ball to her twenty times, and she'd miss every time. You could toss her a whiffle ball from across the gym, and she'd catch it with ease."

"That explains why she reacted the way she did."

"Yep," I grinned.

puzzleagent AND I DO NOT OWN PHINEAS AND FERB. I OWN Pixie, Kiki, Michael, Emily, Lydia, and Christine. puzzleagent OWNS Priya, Diana, Hazel, Teddy, Piper, Luke, Mayfair, Lennie, Nick, Parker, and Cassie