It's A Wild Cruise Ride!

Chapter 11:

A/N: FOR THE RECORD: THEY ARE TEN! It is implied. Not actually said. But whatever.

Sorry for not updating this in along time. I've been busy with other fanfic's and homework...

Disclaimer: I don't even need to say it anymore. But I'll do it anyway: I do not own Phineas and Ferb. And if Perry loses his cover, his be transferred to another city, with another host family. And we all know that we don't want that!


Phineas's Point of View:

I woke up to the fog horn making a quacking noise. Now I know what you're thinking. A quacking noise? As in... The sound a duck makes? Yep! That would be a quacking noise. I stood up, got out of bed, not bothering to put the sheets back into a 'made bed' position. I just walked out of my room rubbing my eyes to find Isabella, Lily, and Lucas sitting in the living room talking.

"Alright Lucas," I said. "What did you do to the fog horn?"

"You aren't the first to blame me you know," Lucas said. "Lily woke up to that as well as shouted 'LUCAS! DID YOU MAKE THE FOG HORN GO QUACK!" Lucas was laughing at this point. "And the answer is still no if you are wondering."

"Yeah, then I came out of my room after getting ready, opened the door, found the twins, and the first thing I asked them was if Lucas had made the fog horn go quack," Isabella said bringing me a bowl of cereal. I thanked her. "Answer was still no."

"I see," I said, walking over to the trolley where I promptly picked up a spoon and dipped it into the cereal Isabella had given me. "So, if Lucas hasn't changed it... Then who did?"

"We plan to find out once we're in Marseille," Isabella said. "So, whenever you want to get dressed out of your pj's and into your day clothes, finish your cereal, and we are allowed to go ashore, we'll get started."

I didn't even bother looking down to see that I was still in my pj's. I remember not changing out in favor of a quick fix to who had made the fog horn quack. I finished my cereal quickly and rushed back into my room, got dressed, through my PJ's on a small rack I had assembled the day earlier and raced out of the room.

Isabella was waiting for me at the door with Lily and Lucas already outside, laughing about something. Most likely the quacking noise.

We walked up onto the sky deck, (Thank you Midnight4568) and we saw that we were more than an hour away from when we'd be allowed into the city. We walked over to a bench to sit and wait, talking all the while.

"Hey Phineas," Lucas said. "Wanna play me at chess? I've gotten pretty good at it myself."

"Sure," I said absentmindedly. I was talking with Isabella at the same time. "So, if the quacking noise was in the fog horn, then the person who did it is either on board, or in Marseille."

Lucas set up the board, and choose white for himself. About two dozen people came and saw the small match. It wasn't even a match. I wasn't paying attention to it.

As the rules of chess state, white moves first, so in this case... Lucas moves first.

Lucas: F3

"I don't think that the person who did it was on board though..." Isabella said.

Phineas: E5

"It's a fair bet," I replied.

G4

"Can you two stop chatting for a while so I can beat Phineas?" Lucas asked.

"LUCAS!" Lily said slapping him on the head.

QH4++

"Checkmate," I said. "We're done..." I turned away from the chessboard just as Lucas was scanning the board for a way to not be in checkmate. I had beaten him with the two move checkmate.

"OH COME ON!" Lucas said finally. "I practiced so hard, and this happens. A two move checkmate."

"Oh come on Lucas!" Lily said. "Can't you see Phineas has other things on his mind than chess?"

"Well yeah," Lucas said, still obviously mad. "Fine..."

"So, where do you guys wanna start once we get into the city?" I ask turning around again.

"I don't know," Lily said. "What's in Marseille?"

"Dunno," I admitted. "Oh wait... I just remembered I still have this..." I pulled out the cell phone I made for Candace the day she broke her phone again..."

"What does it do?" Lily asked. She was obviously well aware that whatever I do, it isn't normal.

"Many different things," I said. "One of my favorite was the transporter app. It allows you to go anywhere on the planet. Maybe a demonstration. Isabella?"

"You got it!" Isabella said before running over to the far side of the ship.

"Go to: Isabella," I said.

Isabella Located I transported all the way to Isabella.

"Go to: Lily and Lucas," I said grabbing hold of Isabella's hand.

Lily and Lucas Located We both returned intact.

"Good, it allows us to go together if we're holding hands," I said. "Now, everyone hold hands, we're not waiting to have to go into Marseille."

Together, using the transportation app, the four of us moved into Marseille. Prepared to have another awesome day.


Doof vs. Perry Subplot:

"Ah, Perry the Platypus," Doofenshmirtz said while looking sick and lying in bed. Perry sat down with a bowl of chicken soup. Doofenshmirtz started coughing really badly. "Here, I recorded what I was going to say yesterday, so you can just watch it on TV. It is just as good. You know, sort of like that day I was sick before..."

Ah, Perry the Platypus. I bet you're wondering why I trapped you in a Rubber Duck! WELL TOO BAD! Dr. D hit a button weakly on a remote where Perry was slammed through a rubber duck so he couldn't move.

"Now continue watching Perry the Platypus," Doofenshmirtz said weakly before coughing some more.

Well Perry the Platypus, behold! THE QUACKINATOR! Now, I know what you are wondering Perry the Platypus. What on earth is a Quackinator? Well, I'll tell you... Sheesh. So pushy. Well, let me tell you. The quackinator turns any hear-able noise into a quacking noise. So, what do I plan to do? Well, I plan to hit all of Marseille with it at the same time. That way, nobody will be able to communicate and I'll be able to take control because nobody will be able to understand each other and therefore oppose me! I AM A GENIUS! Speaking of geniuses, they all take vitamins, and I'm out of mine... Which reminds me, I need more vitamins, but I don't really speak French... Oh well. What will one day of no vitamins do to me?

Perry turned around and looked at Doofenshmirtz.

"That one sentence Perry the Platypus," Doofenshmirtz said. "That one sentence and now look at me!"


Phineas POV:

"Man, I wonder what Marseille is going to be like," I said a moment after we appeared under the shade of huge towering skyscrapers.

"Something like Chicago?" Lucas asked sarcastically.

"Very," I replied, looking up at the skyscrapers. "Come on, lets go find that quacking noise."

"Why follow it?" Lucas asked. "I mean, there is all the things to do in Marseille, duck farms to visit and other things, and you want to follow the source of a duck sound?"

"And you just became repetitive," Lily said. "Now come on and stop complaining."

"Fine," Lucas muttered to himself, obviously still mad about the whole losing chess in two moves thing.

"You guys want to see a movie?" I ask as we approached the movie theater.

"What's on?" Isabella asked as she moved up to the list of movies.

The Lion King - 3D
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the Second Dimension
(Wait? They made a movie about us there?)
Shrek VI
Marley & Me Puppy Years
Cars VII

We stopped reading the list after that.

"You know, I'm curious as to who made that Across the Second Dimension movie..." I wonder aloud.

"Oh well, just forget it," Lucas said, earning him a slap on the head by Lily. "Ow! You know, you can cause brain damage to people doing that."

"Nah, only to under developed brains," Lily said as she continued scanning the list on her own.

"Well, I'm pretty sure that you are causing me brain damage," Lucas said rubbing his head. At that, everyone but Lucas laughed; Lucas didn't get the joke. "What?"

"You just said that you had an underdeveloped brain," Lily said. "Now come on, I don't want to just stand here and insult you for the rest of the day, as fun as that would be..."

"Grr," Lucas said. "I'll be sure to get you back for that later today."

"Hey!" Lily protested. "You said it not me."

"She has a point Lucas," Isabella said. "Now come on, I think I saw a duck farm on the edge of the city."

"Who keeps a duck farm on the edge of a city?" Lucas asked reasonably. "I mean, wouldn't ducks be happier in like the countryside near a pond or something?"

"Well, let's find out!" Lily said grabbing her twin's hand and dragging him along, attracting many stares from passing pedestrians.


Perry vs. Doof Subplot:

"Well Perry the *cough* *cough* Platypus," Doofenshmirtz said even weaker than before. "I think that I'm too sick to do evil today..."

Perry just facepalmed himself and went to the nearby kitchen and started pulling out over twenty different cook books.

Within ten minutes, Perry was setting a bowl of chicken noodle soup in front of Dr. D, giving him a spoon and spoon feeding the evil doctor. He had better have a good reason to be sick next time... Or Perry was going to hurt someone, mainly Doofenshmirtz.


Phineas's PoV:

"Hey look," Lily said from up ahead after more than ten minutes of silent walking. "There it is, down there. And there are SO MANY DUCKS!"

Lucas rolled his eyes as she said the last part, but end the end, he had to admit there were lots of ducks...

Take an acre of land, put a farm house, and put a duck house on it. Then on another acre, put more duck houses on it. Then on another acre, more duck houses. And so on and so forth for more than a hundred acres. Then each duck house could house more than eighty ducks. So if there are twenty duck houses on each acre of land... That's more than 160,000 ducks put together. Now, all of these ducks were enclosed behind a wooden fence that was meant to keep out wolves and foxes and keep in the ducks.

"Wow, that is a lot of ducks..." I said looking over the vast expanse of duck lands. "How do a couple of people care for so many ducks?"

"Probably with hired help..." Lily said pointing to the people coming in from the town and begin working with the ducks nearby the gates. "Hey, we should go volunteer for the day!"

"Aw, do we have to?" Lucas complained. *smack* "Ow!"

"Yes, yes we do," Lily said smiling.

"Great," I said smiling. "That settles it."


Phineas's Point of View:

We walked down the hill towards the farm where there was a desk with a man at it.

"Puis-je vous aider?" The man at the desk asked. I motioned for Isabella to take the lead.

"Oui, nous nous demandions si nous pouvions bénévole pour la journée ici?" Isabella offered.

"Bien sûr, vous pouvez, quels sont les noms de ceux qui veulent faire du bénévolat?" he asked.

"Isabelle, Phineas, Lily, et Lucas," Isabella replied. The man wrote down the names and handed her the name tags with each of their names written on it. "Here you go guys," she said handing them the name tags.

"Passez par la porte, et leur dire que vous êtes ici à faire du bénévolat, ils sauront où vous le mieux mis à travailler," The man said pointing towards the gate.

"Merci," Isabella said before motioning them to follow her.


Puis-je vous aider? = Can I help you?

Oui, nous nous demandions si nous pouvions bénévole pour la journée ici? = Yes, we were wondering if we could volunteer here for the day?

Bien sûr, vous pouvez, quels sont les noms de ceux qui veulent faire du bénévolat? = Of course you can, what are the names of those wanting to volunteer?

Passez par la porte, et leur dire que vous êtes ici à faire du bénévolat, ils sauront où vous le mieux mis à travailler. = Go through the gate, and tell them you are here to volunteer, they'll know where to put you best for working.


Perry vs. Doof Subplot:

"Perry the Platypus what are you doing?" Doofenshmirtz asked. He saw Perry trying to disable the Quackinator. "Perry the Platypus, really? You are thwarting the ill? Again?"

Doofenshmirtz would've continued, but he was seized by a rack of coughing spasms.


Phineas' Point of View:

Meanwhile, Phineas, Isabella, and the twins were helping out on the duck farm. Feeding them, sweeping the Duck Houses, checked the Ducklings to make sure that they were healthy, making sure that the fence was secure and not rotting in places so that a fox or wolf wouldn't get in.

"Wow, there sure is a lot of work to be done for a place that only raises ducks," Lucas muttered to himself as he shoveled a large pile of duck...poo... and cracked egg shells of new born baby ducklings into a pile in which it would later be used to make a recyclable energy... Don't ask, it smelled disgusting, but everybody volunteered Lucas for that task... purely because of the smell.

"Oh stop complaining," Lily said as she enjoyed feeding the little ducklings, careful not to touch the duckling, fearing that the duckling would be abandoned by its mother if she touched it. "Be thankful that you found something to do today!"

"Yeah, I'm so glad that I would always have chosen to shovel duck poo rather than lie bored on a couch on a luxury cruise liner," Lucas said, more to himself rather than Lily.

Phineas was over in a distant field building a new incubator building, where a large shipment of incubators were supposed to be coming in would go.

Isabella was in the front gate, repainting the sign for the Duck Farm. 'Ducker's Ducks'. Isabella guessed that the family owning the farm had the last name Ducker. What a horrible last name. Imagine what the children were named: Jose Ducker... Eesh, they needed a new family name.

"Oh be quiet," Lily muttered again. "Don't you remember what mom said to us before we left for New York?"

*flashback*

"Lucas, Lily!" their mom said. "Hurry up or you'll miss your train!"

"Coming mom!" Lily shouted as the twins barreled down the stairs and into the kitchen, both of the twins presenting themselves to their mom.

"Good," their mom said. "Now don't get in trouble either of you... Lily, you need to make some friends on the ship to keep you from getting homesick, Lucas, you should find something to do everyday while on that cruise ship to keep yourself from playing video games that I'm sure that you've found and snuck into your suitcase."

"But I didn't this time!" Lucas protested. "They are still up on top of the fridge where you last tried hiding them from me."

His mother smirked and held out her hands for them.

"Mom!" Lily protested also. "I've been with him the entire time since you put his games away! He hasn't taken them back... This time..."

"Oh I'm sure... Oh well, if you have them, then I can't do anything about it... But if you lose them, I'm not paying for anymore..."

"Yes mom," Lucas said rolling his eyes. "Now we need to leave now if we want to catch the train in time mom!"

Their mom looked at the oven clock and gasped at the time. "Alright, hurry up and get your stuff in the trunk, I'll be there in a second, just need to get my keys and lock the door."

*end flashback*

"You did take your videogames back when I wasn't watching didn't you?" Lily asked unimpressed. Lucas nodded grinning, holding up his iPod and Game Boy Touch 5DG (Don't ask).


Phineas' Point of View:

"Hey guys?" Isabella asked, coming up to them with Phineas, it's getting late, we need to start heading back to the boat, and Lucas, you are definitely taking a shower when we get back. Everyone nodded their agreement grimly, taking an involuntary step backwards in the process.

Phineas pulled out the cell phone. He pushed a few buttons before saying the magic words: "Send Lucas, to Lucas and Lily room bathroom shower, and turn on the water. Lucas disappeared. Seconds later, the phone rang with Lucas' number on the caller ID. "Hey Lucas, how's the shower?"

"OW!" Lucas shouted through the earphone. "You forgot to tell it the temperature! So it was like boiling hot water when I appeared in it... any by the way... I was still wearing my clothes... So now my clothes are soaking wet."

"Now you feel like I did," I respond. "Only warmer... Oh well, Lily can hand you some clean clothes later..."

"Uh... I'm not going anywhere near him until he's had at least a half and hour long shower..." Lily complained.

"I can see it," Isabella said. "Go to Phineas and Isabella's Cruise Room." She grabbed my hand and Lily's just as we disappeared.

Seconds later we appeared in my room that I shared with Isabella... Or was it the other way around? Doesn't matter, we shared it...

"Alright guys, I'd better make sure that Lucas has clothes to put on when he gets out of his shower," Lily said with an evil grin.

"If Lily has an evil grin on her face," Lucas warned, still on the phone. "Then you'd better be standing back at least twenty feet in fifteen minutes sharp!"

Lily's eyes sparkled as she exited the room, giving another farewell.

"Well that was... interesting..." I said a second after turning off the phone. "Those two have an odd relationship..."

"They are twins," Isabella conceded as she went over to the phone.

"Even then," I said. But then I looked down at myself. "Actually, a shower doesn't seem that bad now..." I walked into the bathroom to take a shower while Isabella ordered our dinner.


Perry vs. Doof Subplot:

"Thanks Perry the Platypus for taking care of me today, even though you did thwart me when I couldn't fight," Doofenshmirtz said. "Alright, see you soon in Rome... And thanks for the Chicken Soup."

Perry saluted and ran out the window, catching the wind in his glider, already angling it towards Rome, Italy. Now that was probably the best nemesis fight he would be having while on this crazy trip around the world.


NOOO! I don't think I made it to four thousand words long! WAHH! I'm a failure... Oh well. As always: I WANT YOU TO REVIEW! NO EXCEPTIONS!