"I have to admit Dad," Vanessa said while they were driving back to the DEI, "I am glad that you're going to hold to your promise today and not let your work get in the way of my visit."
Dr. Doofenshmirtz's heart leaped up to his throat and then dropped way down low in him as he remembered Perry still being a human.
"I.. I did?", he asked, his voice cracking up a little more than usual.
"Yeah, remember? We had it notarized.", Vanessa explained. She noticed her father tensing up a bit and sighed, leaning back in her seat. "Dad, you aren't planning ANOTHER stupid evil invention today, RIGHT?"
"Wh-who, me?", He forced a laugh. "Ha! L-Like I would forget our NOTARIZED promise! I swear Vanessa, there's NOTHING evil today. Not a thing!"
"Honest?"
"Vanessa, Perry the Platypus will not make any appearance at ALL." He tried to smile confidently. "I promise."
She smiled some and when they pulled up to their parking space, she went to the trunk to get her stuff while Doofenshmirtz quickly opened his door, tripping over his seat-belt as he tried to get out. He unfastened it and dashed inside the building after calling out, "I'll be right back Vanessa, there's just one small thing, Daddy, wants to take care of right quick."
Meanwhile Perry had been watching TV, trying to find something entertaining and keeping things simple. Suddenly Doofenshimirtz bursted into the room with a frightened and panicked look across his face. Perry suddenly stood up, alarmed at the doctor.
"What-?", he began but before anything else could be said, Doofenshmirtz pushed against Perry's back moving him along. "Wha-? Doofenshmirtz what the heck is going on?"
He was suddenly shoved in a closet and the door was locked. Vanessa soon came up, looking around curiously.
"Dad, was there someone here with you?", she asked.
"Uh.. Nooo...", he said with a nervous chuckle.
"Funny... I thought I heard another voice.", she shrugged. "Well, anyway, I'm going to put my clothes up in my room. Be back later."
He nodded and once she left the room he quickly unlocked the door and opened it to find Perry glaring up at him from where he fell.
"Perry the Platyhuman, you'll be okay here for the week, right?", he asked with a sheepish smile.
"You have GOT to be kidding me.", Perry replied as he pushed aside a fallen over broom and stood up. "Doofenshmirtz, I'm going to ask this one more time and if you lock this door again, I WILL break it down for an answer. WHAT is going ON?"
Doof sighed, feeling completely defeated by both his daughter and nemesis.
"Look Perry, Vanessa's visiting."
"Yeah?"
"And I promised her that I wouldn't be evil."
"Keep going..."
"And that you, Major Monogram, NOTHING about my job would come up. It would JUST be the two of us. A Daddy-Daughter-ONLY weekend. Nothing about you, Monobrow, or Dr. Coconuts."
"Oh.", Perry finally caught on and his eyes widened a bit with understanding of Doof's problem. "So..."
"If she found out you were here, she could never see me again. Perry, she's my only child. I want to make sure she has a loving and supporting father always there for her, you know? Unlike MY dad. I slip up one more time and she could hate me for the rest of her life."
"...Wow... Really?"
"Well yeah. I mean if I made a special promise to YOU and broke it, wouldn't you hate me too?"
"I already hate you."
"Do you understand anything of what I'm saying?", he glared at Perry some and Perry chuckled with a nod.
"Yeah, I get it. Hey, look man, I really understand."
"How could you understand?"
"Well let's just say one slip of me being Agent Perry the Platypus of Owca, and my family... With any luck they'd only forget the day they heard..."
Perry's head hung some and he stared at the floor while Doof's eyes took a turn at becoming wide.
"Oh...kay.. A little deeper than I was expecting but yeah, you get the point.", he said with a shrug.
"But I can't hide in a closet all day. I mean, really, if you promised Vanessa I wouldn't be here, why did you turn me into a human YESTERDAY?"
"Look, I don't plan very well! I forgot and I can't work on the transforminator, NOW. She'll count it as working!"
"Doof, she's gonna have to face facts and hopefully she'll be understanding that it slipped your mind and not hate you.", Perry sighed as he folded his arms on his chest.
After a moment, Doofenshmirtz heaved a sigh, letting his shoulders drop while saying, "Yeah.. But how can I bring it up to her so she wouldn't freak out at me?"
Perry thought it over in his mind for a moment but unfortunately the moment didn't last long as footsteps were heard in the hall and Doofenshmirtz quickly shoved Perry back in the closet. Perry sighed in slight exasperation as he rolled his eyes in the dark. Meanwhile Doofenshmirtz took a few large steps over to a counter so as to appear that he was busy. He leaned against it, hoping to look casual.
"Okay. So what do you wanna do, Dad?", Vannesa asked.
"Uh... Actually why not we uh.. go to the store! We need to pick up a few things for dinner and hey, you can even pick out a snack we can have if you want!"
"That sounds good.", she smiled and they head out.
When they left the room, Perry came tumbling out of the closet and rubbed his sore head from hitting the wall when shoved into it. They returned later on and Perry wasn't too surprised, watching them pull up from one of the many windows. He had already found a place to hide and did so accordingly, awaiting for a chance to talk to his nemesis. When they walked inside, Vanessa said she was gonna hang out in her room till dinner was done and Heinz agreed happily and quickly walked into the living room looking around for Perry.
"Perry? She's gone.", he said hoping she wasn't about to find him.
Perry closed the door behind the doctor from which he was hiding behind and caused Doof to turn around in slight shock.
"Oh! Okay good.", he placed a hand on his chest as he relaxed a bit. "Now what are we gonna do about Vanessa? I can't make dinner for two when there's 3."
"Well now I've got an idea about that.", Perry said with a smile.
A little while later, after dinner was finished and left overs were put away, Doofenshmirtz and Vanessa were sitting at the table in the dining room, Vanessa reading a book and Doofenshmirtz seemingly a little antsy as he continued to check his watch. It wasn't long until there was a knock on the door and Doofenshmirtz instantly popped up.
"I'll get it!", he told Norm who was also heading for the door. "Norm! Beat it!"
"Why must I always be left out?", Norm sighed.
He walked away and Doofenshmirtz opened the door a crack, glaring down at Perry.
"You're 5 minutes late."
"You're in need of tictacs." Perry replied.
Doof swung the door opened, putting on a smile for his act.
"Oh what do you know! Come on in. Vanessa, I want you to meet someone."
Vanessa looked up from her book at the tall man with blue hair. He seemed familiar to her but she wasn't sure how.
"Hello there, ma'am.", Perry said extending his hand which Vanessa took to shake.
"Vanessa, this is Perry the P-", he stopped as Perry and Vanessa looked at Heinz, Vanessa practically hearing "platypus" coming next. "...Person. My room mate!", Doof covered over.
"He-he's visiting here for a little while so I'm sorry he's here during our weekend."
"Perry? That's funny, my dad has a nemesis named Perry.", she said eyeing the man suspiciously.
"Really? Uh.. Small world.", Perry said sitting down.
Doofenshmirtz sat on the other side.
"Must be if your accent's...Australian?"
"Uh, pretty much. I was born and raised some in Australia, I grew up mainly in America."
"Mm.. So.. How do you two know each other?", Vanessa asked. "Dad, you never mentioned another person named Perry."
"Oh! Yeah well we met in high school-"
"College.", Perry said over top of him, glaring across the table. "Don't confuse the two now...ROOMY. It was Freshman-"
"Sophomore year.", Doof corrected who also narrowed his eyes towards his "roommate". "Talk about mixing time, eh?"
"I thought I was a Freshman and you were Sophomore.", Perry said crossing his arms.
"Right. Right, that's how it was.", Doof said, rolling his eyes. 'Geez, anything to get this over good.'
'Anything to make it sound like I didn't know him for forever.', Perry groaned in his mind.
"So... then what do you do?", Vanessa asked.
"I'm uh.. I'm-I'm in between jobs..at the moment." Perry lied. "That's...actually why I'm here with Do- Heinz. Your dad..Who's...told me gret stories about you."
Vanessa stared at him for a moment before shrugging it off.
"Right anyway. So why here?"
"Cause...", Perry looked at Doofenshmirtz for help, but he only shrugged unsure of how to. "I was hoping to...find...some...advice?"
Perry mentally killed himself as Heinz's and Vanessa's eyes widened a bit with the response.
'You just HAD to say "I want advice from the man who fails at everything!", huh Perry?', Perry thought to himself.
"..About what?" Vanessa asked, now completely bewildered.
"About..." Perry thought for a moment, desperately trying to find something.
It was moments later that Perry held his head in his hands bawling his eyes out while Heinz and Vanessa tried to comfort him.
"I- I just don't understand!", Perry said between sobs. "I-I try to be good to Penny! I do! I'm always there for her! I ask her if she wants to do anything on the weekend but, NOOOO. Heaven forbid she's seen with ME anymore!"
"No no, Perry it's okay!", Doof said rubbing his back.
"'If not this week, how about next week?' I ask! 'No, I'm busy.' she says! WHY! OH FOR THE LOVE OF PETE WHY!", Perry continued to bawl.
Vanessa handed him a tissue and Perry proceeded to blow his nose while she offered a bowl of ice-cream.
"C-come on Perry.", she said reassuringly. "It'll help."
Perry only unceremoniously collapsed his head into the bowl, still sobbing over his troublesome relationship.
"You know, the problem isn't you.", Doof said.
"It..it's not?" Perry sniffed not looking up.
"No, of course not. Penny is NOT giving you the kinda love you deserve. You say you're always there for her? Well then it's her fault for not thinking that's at least NICE of you."
"...Norm what did you put into this ice-cream?", Perry finally asked.
"Peanuts!", Norm replied cheerfully.
"Why does Norm love everything to be crunchy?", Vanessa softly asked her father.
"I think it's the squirrel.", he replied, shaking his head.
"It's delicious, thank you..", Perry sobbed.
When Perry seemed calmed down a bit, still slightly sobbing some and eating the ice-cream face-first, Doofenshmirtz tried to console him again.
"So, Perry? If and when you and Penny decide to break up-"
Perry snapped in an instant and began to bawl instantly. He lifted his head sky-ward as ice-cream dripped off his face.
"WHY? WHY OH WHY MUST IT BE?"
He dropped his head into his arms on the table and continued to cry. Vanessa and Norm glared at Heinz for a moment.
"...What?", he asked with a shrug.
"Nice...", they said.
They got up and left the room and Doofenshmirtz sighed leaning his elbow on the table with his head in his hand watching his nemesis cry over the female platypus Heinz himself trained especially to fall in love with him.
"...You know it's not really a big issue.", he said plainly.
Perry lifted his head, taking a couple of tissues to wipe the ice-cream off his face with.
"Oh no, I know.", he said calmly, catching Doof by surprise.
"...That was really good acting!", he said with smile.
"Thanks. You'd be surprised what you learn at the OWCA with their 'uncool acronyms.'" Perry said wipping away his fake tears.
Doofenshmirtz chuckled.
"So how IS Penny?"
"Uh..." Perry raised an eyebrow at Doofenshmirtz, waiting for his memory to catch up. When it didn't he decided to give the answer. "We broke up? Remember? When I refused to stop you instead of stopping our date, she got mad and came over to kick your butt herself?"
"Oh yeah. Sorry, slipped my mind."
"Yeah." Perry sighed a little dreamily. "Man, was she a gorgeous platypus or what?"
"Riiiight.", Doof said rolling his eyes.
"I miss her but you know, there's always other fish to catch."
"I guess that's where your little fellow agents would call you 'James Bond', eh?", Doof joked.
"Actually yeah.", Perry said causing Heinz to raise an eyebrow in slight surprise. "Come on, Heinz, she wasn't the first girl I dated. Just the first one to actually win my heart. But after going through dozens of others, I kinda earned a reputation for not sticking to just one. So I'm not particularly worried about loosing her really. Besides,", he leaned back in his chair as his mind wandered on about her as a smile spread across his face. "I know she still likes me."
"And...how many other enemies did you go through before me?", Doof asked.
"My one and only.", Perry replied with a hand extended to Doofenshmirtz. "There's no one I hate more than you."
"Oh stop with the flattery, Perry the Human.", Doof chuckled.
"No seriously. I didn't have another nemesis before you. Sure I fought one or two once, but not really a nemesis. More like warm-ups. Practices before I was really assigned to you. Like what Peter the-"
He cut off as Doofenshmirtz glanced at him. They both remembered the time and the awkward situation of back then and Perry decided not to go there again with Doof.
"...You get it.", Perry finally said.
"...Right.", Heinz replied.
Perry glared at him as Heinz returned it with a smirk.
"I hate you."
"You too, Perry."