Authors Note: It's been a while since I updated this (not really, like maybe a week or so) but it's still too long in my standards! I get bored with my stories but once I force myself to write a chapter, I'm back completely! I lost my train of thought for this but I reread previous chapters and all you guy's reviews to get me back on track for this. Yay IOD!


If you let me, here's what I'll do

I'll take care of you


In One Dimension:

3 Months.

"We have to find as many supplies as we can. I'll look in the old lab upstairs and you look in the kitchen, alright?"

Platyborg snapped the small piece of wood he was playing with in half and looked up at him "How come you get to search the old lab?"

"Because upstairs is very unstable and on the verge of collapsing, which is why we've been staying down here in the middle slash bottom part of the building."

"But the top of the building collapsed."

"Yes, but I'm talking about the old top of the building. Remember? Where we used to-" Doofenshmirtz looked at the cyborg's awaiting expression and shook his head "Never mind. Just go search the kitchen."

Platyborg hummed to himself and searched the kitchen. Just two weeks ago he would sneak down here from his old cell/bedroom to steal a snack from the fridge; two weeks ago the city was rocketed by bombs that were set by Rodney. Two weeks ago, Doofenshmirtz would yell at him for leaving the toilet seat down (which was irrelevant for you to hear but I figured you needed a laugh after reading this far). The scientist hadn't yelled or screamed or muttered a single profanity at him since Rodney took over. It was starting to worry him…and Doof was acting a whole lot different too…

He dropped the can of peas he was holding and made his way up the stairs to the old top of the building; Platyborg hadn't even remembered it ever being considered the top. As he continued up the long way of stairs (the elevator was rendered useless by the explosions) he felt a little jolt go through his head and suddenly…his brain felt lighter. The feeling passed and he shook it off, he was probably damaged from the bombs just like every other electronic thing in the building was. Doofenshmirtz made a generator to power the essentials and what they needed. It had limited power though; they had to have cold food one night just so the scientist could charge him just a little. He used Cutonium as a power source at one point but it wasn't that effective so Doof had to start recharging him on Pizzazium Infinionite. The pizzazium was locked away in a closet under a trap door but they couldn't get to it now. The entire closet had caved in and they couldn't unblock the entrance without making a lot of noise, they couldn't make a lot of noise without drawing robots. Everyday Alt. Doof would take out little by little of the wreckage while trying to make as little noise as possible but it was taking a while. Don't get me wrong, it was coming along but just not as quick as they hoped.

Platyborg- after searching for a while –finally found the "old lab". It didn't look familiar at all; there were large machines and tools. Some tools even looked recently used, it all looked so cool! He continued searching around the lab, his beak curved into a grin and he was unable to hide his astonishment.

Doofenshmirtz picked up another tool and put it in the brown cardboard box he was holding. He was just about to put a wrench in when he heard a crash and the cyborg's frantic screaming.

"DOOF! DOOOOOOF! HELP!"

The box dropped to the floor and the metal instruments inside spilled with multiple clangs on the floor. He took off running towards the sounds of the screaming, not caring how unstable the floor was or how he could possible fall through. Alt. Doof rounded a corner and skidded to a stop, there was a huge gaping hole in the floor and two small hands hung on to the edge for dear life.

"DOOF!" Platyborg called, unaware that he was right there.

Doof shook his head to break out of his shock and looked down at the floor boards leading up to the hole. They were the complete opposite of safe and it looked like if you dropped a penny or dime, the whole thing could collapse right then and there. He gulped and took a small step forward, the wood creaked underneath the new and unsupported weight.

"Doof? Is that you?"

"Yeah…I'm right here."

Platyborg waited and after a moment of nothing, he spoke again. "Uh Doof? Kind of hanging for my life here…Doof…?"

"Hold on, I-I'm coming-" The man took another step forward and jumped back as a piece of the floor collapsed beneath him, nearly taking him with it.

"Uh, you okay?"

"Y-yeah." He started to feel dizzy and things were spinning from his point of view.

Doofenshmirtz wasn't scared of many things, some might even say he was fearless but as much as he wished that was true…it was a lie. He stared off into space as a flashback came back to haunt him and the ripples started.

"Doof? Are you still there?" The cyborg let go of the ripped boards of wood with one hand and snapped his fingers once. "Doof!"

The man snapped out of it and opened his mouth "Uh, what?"

"I was hoping that maybe, perhaps you could pull me up or something…you know?"

"I-I'm sorry Platyborg. I, uh…you know how the 1st dimension me tells your counterpart backstories?"

"Yeah?"

"Well I'm about to tell you one."

"Can't it wait for later? You know…like when I'm safely back on the floor?"

"No…" Alt. Doof looked down and sighed "No it can't."

The visual flashback started and he narrated.

"Back in Gimmelschtump when I was a kid…there was this thing called a Public Wetness Maker which, when I look back on it is kind of a stupid name. Basically it was a pool and my parents expected me to perform a high-dive as a rite of manhood. So I agreed because hey, I'm no schnitzel. Anyways…I climbed up and I did something completely fearless…"

"You jumped?"

"No, I looked down."

"Oh."

"Everyone below was looking up at me…waiting for me to jump…"

"So what did you do?"

"I jumped."

"Let me guess! Your shorts got stuck on the board, right?"

"No. I successfully performed the dive and I did a flip too, completely stuck the landing like a total boss."

"Epic."

"I was being a bit of a show off after that…I went back every day for a month and jumped off a bunch more times after that just to rub it in the other kids' faces. Each dive was successful and not one failed."

"So what happened?"

"One day, this dude with HUGE hands challenged me. He poked me in the chest and everything!"

"That jerk!"

"I know right! Anyways…he challenged me to a high dive off-"

"Cool!"

"-on the top of a waterfall."

"Yeeeesh. What did you do?"

"I accepted his challenge and the next day I was standing at the top of the waterfall ready to jump."

"What happened?"

"I jumped and won."

"That's great!"

"But I didn't come back up…"

"I almost drowned...my shorts got caught on something heavy and it dragged me down. I tried to get away and get free but I couldn't. I looked up at the open water and I could vaguely see the sun. I knew this was going to be the end. The water stung my eye and the water quickly filled up my lungs. I stopped breathing…"

Platyborg stared at the broken wood, at a complete loss for words.

"I woke up in a hospital, well Gimmelschtump's version of a hospital that is. It was basically a room with a bale of hay in it and an old IV stand. Point is…I woke up on a bale of itchy hay, got a rash and almost died."

"Wow…I'm sorry that happened to you Doof."

Doofenshmirtz nodded sadly.

"Uh, Doof? T-the robots! Doof!" The cyborg looked down at the swarm of machines coming straight for him.

The man gulped and ran away from the hole. Platyborg kicked his legs and tried to hoist himself up, to no avail. He gave up and he knew -just like Doof did when he was younger –that this was the end. The cyborg lost his grip and began freefalling from over 55.8 feet. He didn't fall for long before his hands were grabbed by a pair of larger hands clad in black gloves.

"Doof?"

Doofenshmirtz stared directly face to face with him, upside down with a rope of rubber bands attached to his legs. He was visibly relieved and shocked.

"I thought you ran away to go hide in the panic room." The cyborg told him and then scowled. "Why didn't you tell me we had one of those?"

The scientist looked away "I think explanations can wait until after we're safely back on the floor."

"Uh, Doof?" Platyborg was looking off at something to his right.

"Oh man, I think I'm going to throw up…"

"The robots! We have to get out of here!"

Doofenshmirtz looked in the cyborg's line of vision and stared at the oncoming hoard of robots coming their way.

"What do we do?!" Platyborg cried.

"Bounce!"

"What?"

"Bounce!"

The cyborg did as he was told and they both started bouncing up and down, he gained enough momentum and the rubber bands stretched until they were mere inches away from the ground. The man had enough time to mutter a profanity before they sprung back and landed painfully in a heap inside the building against a wall. The rubber bands snapped and Doof rubbed his head in pain, standing up to his full height.

Platyborg got up after him looking dazed but he shook it off and smiled. "You did it Doof! You got over your fear!"

"I did! Didn't I?" Doofenshmirtz smiled and then frowned after he realized something "No…no I didn't." The man fainted with a dull thud.


The former dictator woke up to a can of frozen peas being held against his head. He looked over at the smiling cyborg holding it.

"You're awake! I made dinner!"

Doof looked down at the plate of peanut butter being held out to him. He looked disgusted and placed the paper plate next to him. He most likely wasn't going to eat it later.

"You passed out! I never saw someone faint before!" Platyborg was talking a mile a minute and it was making his head ache even more than it was "Your eye rolled back in your head, did you see that? Probably not because your pupil was facing the wrong way…I dragged you all the way down the stairs!"

Well that explained why the rest of his body hurt. The cyborg kept talking and talking until finally he couldn't take the pain in his head anymore.

"PLATYBORG!"

Platyborg flinched at the outburst.

Doofenshmirtz felt bad for scaring him so he lowered his voice down to a 'friendly' tone "Look Platyborg, that's all really nice and I'm sure you have a lot more to tell me but my head is killing me so-"

"Oh I almost forgot! I got you these!" The cyborg handed him a full bottle of pills and a bottle of water.

"What are these?" He examined the small plastic container with his good eye.

"They're painkillers."

The man opened both tops and took a pill with some water to help swallow it.

"I got them from the pharmacy."

He spit out the water and almost choked on the pill. "W-wait! You left the building?"

Platyborg nodded.

"You know you're not supposed to do that! Do you know what could've happened?!"

"I'm sorry…I just wanted to help take care of you. You take care of me all the time and I never do anything to make it up to you and…" The cyborg bit his lip and stopped.

"I take care of you because it's my job. You never have to pay me back anything, it's a job that I am choosing to do with absolutely no benefit whatsoever…" Doofenshmirtz smirked and ruffled his head plate "Except for having you."

Platyborg smiled and then remembered something, his smile brightened even more "Oh yeah! I almost forgot! The robots broke into the building."

The man almost shot up from his sitting position "They're in here?!"

"No! No! Don't worry Doof, they're gone now!" The cyborg pushed him back.

Doof sighed in relief and started drinking more water.

"I fought them off."

Once again the water spewed from his mouth violently and he stared at his creation, the thing was actually serious. "Oh…oh gosh…Platyborg." Doofenshmirtz put his face in his hands "How long was I out?"

"6 hours." He shrugged his metallic shoulders.

Doofenshmirtz brought his face from out of his hands and he stared at the smiling semi metal mammal, did it know how reckless everything it did was? Platyborg continued to smile at him and he didn't know whether to smack him or pinch his cheeks. He settled for putting a hand on the cyborg's shoulder and explaining, but first…

"How did you freeze this can?"

"I plugged the freezer into the generator and I put all our food in there too."

Great, well there goes any hope of him eating tonight. "You used the generator? Platyborg, I was supposed to charge you! You'll get sick if you run out of power!"

Platyborg sneezed as if proving his point.

"See you're sick already!"

"No, that's just from climbing in and out of the freezer to put stuff in there."

"We can't afford for you to be sick right now, you know that. Why must you make everything more difficult for me?"

"I was just trying to hel-"

"I know. You were just trying to help and that's okay. I know how you can really help me though."

"How?" The cyborg wagged his tail in excitement.

"You can stay out of the way."

His tail drooped down "Oh…"

"No, really! If you stay out of harm's way, it'll make my job a lot easier."

"Really?"

"Absolutely! Let's establish some rules here. Rule number one: Never leave the building, that one is VERY important. No matter what happens to me or anything else, DO NOT leave the premises. Understand?"

Platyborg nodded.

"Good. Rule number two: If something's wrong, you come and find me or if I'm sleeping wake me up. It doesn't matter how tired I look or how much I need the rest, just wake me up. Rule number three explains itself; DON'T listen to Rodney. He doesn't know what he's talking about and only I know what's best for you. Don't give into any of his demands for anything, it isn't worth it. Rule number four: If you hear a robot or small hovering in the building, hide somewhere until its gone and quietly come find me. If you can't come out of your hiding spot without being spotted, don't come out. If you hear more than two robots in the building, don't look for me. Go through the secret passage way to the mine's hidden in the basement. If I'm not there after five minutes, take it to those two boys and that banshee screaming girl's house. Don't come back for me and I promise I'll meet you there and if I don't, you stay there until I get there. I don't care how long you've been waiting for me; it isn't enough and keep waiting. Don't leave the house and if she tells you to, don't listen to her and run to those two boys. They'll never let her take you away from them. If she manages to catch you before you get to the boys, then follow the tunnel a little longer until you get to my purple house down there. Don't leave it if I don't get there, the same rules apply for waiting and call Vanessa to either come stay with you or to come get you; if she can't come then STAY in the house and the waiting rules apply for Vanessa's house too for both of you. Got all that or do I need to go through it again to make sure you understand?"

"No I got it all."

"Run it by me so I know you absolutely understand me."

"NEVER leave the building. If there's something wrong come find you. Don't listen to Rodney. If I hear a robot hide but if I hear more than one, get to the mine carts; leave if you're not there after five minutes and get to those boys' house. If their sister tells me to leave, run past her and straight to the boys. Use force if I have to and don't leave the house once I get there. If she doesn't let me in, go to your other house and call Vanessa once I'm there. Either leave with her or have her stay with me, if not I stay in the house and if I get to her house we both stay in the house. The waiting rule applies at all times."

"Perfect."

"But Doof?"

"What?"

"What if I have to wait forever for you get to me?"

Doofenshmirtz looked down at him sadly "We'll be together again, even after forever is over and if it takes that long." He knew Platyborg had no idea what he meant but what he was saying was one hundred percent true.

The cyborg nodded, not fully understanding. A question came to mind "Doof?"

"Hm?"

"How come you saved me? I thought you were scared of heights."

"I am scared of heights but there's one thing I'm twice as scared of."

"What is it?"

"Losing you."


A/N: You guys don't consider this actually 'shipping a pairing' do you? I mean this isn't Perryshmirtz. It's like Pinky and Terry. If you consider this Perryshmirtz than I am officially making the pairing Tinky, that's right!

I got this review on 'Feelings' and shiz you not it said "If this is perryshmirtz I'm going to be very disappointed"

Okay first of all, I am not here to impress any of you people. Simple as that.

I revamped two characters relationships and made it work. Tell me how I did with Platyborg and Alt. Doof and Pinky and Terry. Please tell me I'm not an insane person shipping crazy friendship pairings, if so I will stop all production right now and go outside in my pool or my trampoline.