As was agreed upon, Timmy and Chloe went to the south part of Dimmsdale, having searched for Crocker's van through a good portion of the town, which ended up fruitless.

They even paid a visit to their alien friend Mark Chang, who now spent his life at the Dimmsdale Junkyard. However, the squid-like Yugopotamian didn't notice any black vans passing by. The visit wasn't entirely for naught, though, as Chloe got another sleek hairstyle from the extraterrestrial barber-in-training, which included a hair-bow.

As they left the junkyard, Timmy noted: "You know, I think finding Phineas and Ferb would've been much easier with magic on our side."

Timmy and Chloe stopped their tracks with widened eyes. "Of course", they both said in unison, "Cosmo and Wanda!"

The bracelets on Timmy's arm poofed themselves into their fairy godparents, Cosmo and Wanda, as well as their baby godbrother Poof.

"You know, I was kinda wondering when you would notice we could now interact with you guys, with the others being somewhere else in town", Cosmo said. "By the way, Chloe, you kinda look like some sort of sassy squid sister now! Well, that's not surprising considering Mark…"

"Yeah, how could we forget, right", Timmy said, ignoring Cosmo's comment on Chloe's hairstyle. "Also, gotta commend how neatly you cleaned Trixie up, as if it was brand new."

"No problem at all", Wanda said. "But that's not why we're here, right now, is it?"

"Nope", Timmy said. "I wish we could locate where Phineas and Ferb are!"

Cosmo, Wanda and Poof lifted up their wands and rattle… but they drooped and made a farting noise.

"Oh, what gives now", Timmy complained.

Wanda poofed up Da Rules and read a section in the book. "Um, it seems that according to Da Rules, we cannot teleport or reveal the location of a person, when we don't know where said person even is", she said.

"That kinda makes sense", Chloe said.

"Except it doesn't", Timmy said. "How are Eliminators with fairy magic able to wish to know where I was with no problem?"

"That's because you're a godchild, Timmy", Wanda explained. "Godchildren that are registered in the Godchild Catalogue are automatically mapped to the Fairy World GPS, which can locate every registered godchild. In the case of the Eliminators, it's simply asking coordinates to that GPS."

Chloe asked: "Wait, what's an Eliminat-"

"Then can't we use that to locate Crocker", Timmy asked, interrupting Chloe. "I mean, he was a godchild, too, right? You were his fairy godparents forty years ago!"

"Unfortunately, no", Wanda responded. "Kids that lost their fairies one way or another will automatically be removed from the Godchild Catalogue. They'll be added on the List of Former Godchildren, which isn't linked to the Fairy World GPS at all."

"Curses", Timmy said. "Is there no way to easily locate any of them?"

"Yeah, with genie magic", Cosmo said. "But you know how well that goes…"

Timmy cringed at the thought of genies. "Yeesh, no thanks", Timmy scoffed.

Chloe pondered. "You know, if genies are the only way to easily locate Phineas and Ferb, I say we should give it a shot", she said.

"You don't know what you're talking about", Timmy exclaimed. "Genies are mean tricksters. They try to twist your wish in a way you get something you didn't mean at all!"

"The literality loophole", Wanda added.

"Yeah, that", Timmy said. "They purposefully take your wishes literally just to get a kick out of you. They're not helpful at all. Believe me, I've had to deal with one several times."

"And besides, you only get three wishes", Cosmo added.

"Plus, once they've fulfilled all of them, they try to pass over their lamp to another magical creature as quickly as possible, so they get sucked in instead", Timmy continued. "Just steer clear from genies, okay?"

Chloe sighed. "Alright", she said. "Maybe you can tell me instead what Eliminators are."

"Oh, that kinda deal", Timmy said. "There's an interesting story attached to them, when I was the Chosen One, or something like that. I suppose I can tell you while we keep searching…"

"Ooh, do tell", Chloe said.

Meanwhile, Buford, Baljeet and Irving are still looking for Phineas and Ferb at the east side of Dimmsdale. They somehow reached the end of town.

Buford, still carrying Irving, walked up to a sign and read: "Now leaving Dimmsdale, Outskirts up ahead."

"We have to go back", Baljeet said. "Candace said we should only investigate the part of town we chose, and those outskirts are outside our part."

"I wasn't planning to really go there, nerd", Buford argued. "But it would make sense if that Crocker guy hid there. Who'd expect a high-tech lab to be hidden in those outskirts?"

Baljeet pinched his bridge. "Buford", he began, "those outskirts over there is literally a flat desert. And what we are looking for is a black van and a cottage. Would those two things not, you know, stick out, in a, flat, desert?"

"Well, you know, not if they're hidden in a rock quarry", Buford responded.

"FLAT. DESERT", Baljeet repeated.

"It's not totally flat, nerd", Buford said. "I can see some caves here and there."

Baljeet peered to the desert, squinting his eyes.

"Well, okay, you are right on that aspect", Baljeet admitted, "but I still doubt Crocker is hiding there."

"What makes ya say that", Buford asked.

"Well, the whole 'secret high-tech lab in a desert' story sounds like a total myth", Baljeet explained. "It is the kind of deal they think is hiding in Area 51."

"Wasn't Area 51 the place with the whole alien research myth", Buford asked.

"That is not the point", Baljeet said. "The point is that we are not going to waver from our area to go on a fruitless search for something as cliché as a myth. For now, we should head back and stick to the east side of this town."

Buford scoffed. "Fine", he said."

As Baljeet headed back to the more bustling side, Buford took a last glance at the outskirts, before following his nerdy frenemy.

"…and that's how I averted the Darkness crisis", Timmy concluded his story. He and Chloe still hadn't found Crocker's van whilst the pink-hatted boy told his story when he confronted the Darkness and his Eliminators a while back.

"Wait, so you and Trixie actually would've been a thing if Jorgen didn't erase her memories", Chloe asked.

"Maybe, she seemed into it at least", Timmy responded. "But her remembering any of it is probably not gonna happen. Forgeticin is a strong substance, and since she, my friends and my parents hung around fairies all day, Jorgen has used a good amount of it to wipe their memories clean."

"And you let Jorgen just do that", Chloe said.

"I didn't want to argue", Timmy said. "Look, the entire day had been so tiresome. I was glad that the danger's been stopped, and I didn't have to find more wands. Besides, it was against Da Rules anyway, for them to know about fai-"

Timmy was suddenly pulled to a bush by Chloe.

"Shh, be quiet", Chloe said. "I see them."

"What are we supposed to look at", Cosmo asked.

Chloe pointed to the other side of the street.

"Mr Birkenbake holding another garage sale", Timmy guessed.

"Ugh, no", Chloe groaned. "Look who's approaching Mr Birkenbake."

Timmy peered through the bushes, carefully looking at the two people that stood in front of his weird hippy teacher.

"Hey, those are Phineas and Ferb's parents", Timmy finally recognized. "Let's say hello-"

"Uh, no way, José", Chloe warned. "Don't you remember what Candace said?"

Timmy thought hard. What did Candace say again?

"You guys are so busted!"

Wait, that wasn't it.

"Parsnips give me rashes."

That wasn't it either.

"I feel insecure around the number seven."

That certainly wasn't it.

"You twerps should do my chores, or I'll tell your parents that you did this mess that I actually made!"

Pretty sure that was something Vicky has said instead.

"Do NOT get seen by my parents."

Oh yeah. That was it.

"Wait, I don't think they had seen us with Phineas and Ferb yet", Timmy realized.

"Just stick to your mission, Turner, and don't take any chances", Chloe ordered. "Just wait till they're gone, OK?"

The two observed the two Flynn-Fletchers and Mr Birkenbake, when Chloe noticed something.

"Hey cool, Mr Birkenbake has a lava lamp for sale", she said.

Timmy seemed to look less enthusiastic about the lava lamp. "Oh, no, Norm's lamp", Timmy said. "How did it get back at Birkenbake?"

"Norm? Who's Norm?" Chloe asked.

"Remember a while ago when Timmy said he confronted a nasty genie several times, sweetie", Wanda responded. "That lava lamp is where said genie comes from."

"And his name's Norm, huh", Chloe realized. She then got a pen and notebook and began scribbling in it.

"Uh… What are you doing", Cosmo asked.

"I'm trying to remember what kinda warnings you gave about genies", Chloe said, "as well as writing up what to watch out for."

Timmy, Cosmo, Wanda and Poof got worried looks.

"Don't tell me...", Timmy said.

"She is…" Wanda said.

"Poof, poof…", Poof said.

"That's right", Chloe spoke. "We are going to use Norm to find out where Phineas and Ferb are!"

"Chloe, you don't know with who you're going up against", Timmy warned panicked. "Genies are nasty tricksters, and Norm may as well be the worst of them. We're all heeding Candace's warning, so it's probably fair to heed mine as well."

"Don't bother and just trust me", Chloe said. "I know what I'm doing. As soon as Mr and Mrs Flynn-Fletcher have left the scene, we're gonna get that lamp. I'm feeling lucky today."

A silence followed.

"If by 'lucky', you mean 'stubborn'", Cosmo said, "then I agree."