So a large portion of this chapter was written while I was feeling tired and unable to think but there wasn't much else I could do about it. I'm sorry but this chapter is lackluster and … might be bad.

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Disclaimer: I don't own anything or anyone except Erick, Djonga, the monkey, Buforb, Beljeet, Ezabella, and Michi

(Erick's POV)

We were walking back to our platform where our inators were being held. "Um … Erick?" Vanessa said from behind me. I looked back to recognize her question. "What's the story between you and this Michi character?"

I sighed and looked to the ground. "Like I said before, he was one of the other orphans. He was ranked number one on the list of least likely to get adopted and I was ranked number two."

"How high does the ranking go?" Buford asked.

"It only went to ten. I knew a few of them … somewhat."

"Were you friends with any of them?" Vanessa asked.

I shook my head. "My first friend other than my uncle was Katie. Before that, I didn't try to make friends."

Baljeet walked up beside me and decided to ask a question of his own. "How many of the kids on the list were actually adopted?"

By this point we had reached our platform and made our way inside. I walked over to one of the chairs that Buford had got from earlier. "None, not a single one of the kids on the list of least likely to get adopted were ever adopted."

"Wow." Vanessa said as she folded her hands. "So everyone on that list must have been stuck in there for a long time. I can only imagine that it doesn't change much."

I let out another laugh. "You'd be surprised, there other ways out than being adopted."

"You mean you grow up, or run away?" Irving asked.

I sighed and looked to the ground. "There were a lot that ran away but … there weren't many places to go."

Vanessa took a seat and looked at me worriedly. "Why would so many try to escape?"

I looked up to address the group. "The town is called Cavum-vill which is Latin for depression, kinda fit seeing as the entire town used to be a very depressing place."

"Used to be?" Buford asked.

"Yeah, they are tearing down parts of the old town and replacing it with more upbeat and structurally sound buildings."

"And Michi?" Ferb asked for the first time this whole conversation.

"He was a little screw loose at the time, now he's very screw loose. But the thing is … he somehow know about the fact that I was going to be picked up by my uncle for a longer time than I did and hated me ever since. I guess he was envious but … he just had this … strange thing about him."

"Strange how?" Buford and Baljeet asked simultaneously.

I looked around for a minute trying to think of a way to describe it. "He was … lucky."

Vanessa tilted her head a little. "How is that strange?"

"Things almost always happened his way or something always worked to his advantage. At first I thought it was just coincidence but … well I didn't really care at the time. I thought that if he didn't get adopted then his luck wasn't that amazing."

Ferb looked at me with an annoyed look. "So you don't know anything about him?"

"Other than he's crazy I don't know much at all."

Ferb sighed and looked to the side. "I hope Phineas doesn't run into him down in the catacombs."

(Phineas's POV)

(Some time later)

We were walking around in the catacombs rather aimlessly while looking for Izzy and the rest of the fireside girls. As re reached an intersection Django and I looked at each other thinking about which way to go. "Haven't we been here before?" I asked.

"No, this one's unmarked. I've been marking every such intersection that we've been going through."

"So which way do you think we should go?" I asked.

Django looked around before he shook his head. "I think we should go back."

"WHAT!" I snapped. "Izzy is waiting for us and I'm not about to abandon her."

"Were out of time Phineas." Django said crushing my spirits.

As I was about to tell him to go back without me I heard the sound of footsteps coming from one of the corridors. I quickly ran over to the sound with Django close behind me.

"Phineas where are you going?" He shouted.

As I came to a turn, I stopped and pressed myself against the wall so whoever was coming wouldn't see me. When Django reached me I signaled for him to do the same.

After a moment I realized that the sound was of someone running and it was getting closer by the second. "Who do you think it is?" Django asked.

Just then, someone rounded the corner and I quickly made an attempt to grab said person but he was too fast for me. Luckily, Django managed to grab hold, but to my surprise it was not the person I had expected to find in the tunnels.

It was Adyson who probably didn't realize it was us yet because she took Django's arm and threw him over her shoulder causing him to crash into a wall. "Django?" She asked as he fell to the ground.

"Adyson?" He responded.

"What are you doing here?" They both asked simultaneously.

Just then someone else rounded the turn and crashed into my back. Moments later we were both on the ground and my head started pounding. "What just happened?" I said as I looked at the person I ran into.

"YOU!" Adyson screamed as she pushed the person I ran into to the floor in a chicken wing.

I took a closer look at who it was that ran into me and saw that it was Djonga. "Wait a minute." I said as I looked at her. "If Adyson's here then Izzy must also be here, right?"

Adyson looked at me surprised. "You mean Isabella?" I nodded. "I completely forgot that you started nicknaming her."

"Is that important?" I asked.

"Isabella's somewhere in the tunnels but I don't know where." She pressed Djonga against the ground again, "This girl was chasing me making me think that it was the freak that was chasing me. Otherwise I would've just leveled her a while ago." She pulled a pair of handcuffs out of nowhere and handcuffed Djonga. "Now we have to get out of here before Michi finds us."

"So it was Thaddeus that took you." I said as I motioned for Django to hold Djonga.

"Yeah, he has all of us captured and want's to make you, Ferb, and Erick hurt by using someone you love as a hostage." She stuffed her hands onto her pockets and looked away. "Meaning he has taken Katie and plans to use her for something."

I froze. "Wait … only Katie?"

She looked at me curiously. "Yeah, … Erick's in love with her … where you thinking of someone else?"

I looked to Django who was still holding Djonga. "Django, take Djonga back to our section so we can question her later. Adyson and I will meat up with you later." Django looked at us then walked Djonga away. I looked back to Adyson. "Why only Katie?"

"Because Erick's in love with Katie, Michi was able to tell somehow. Ferb is dating some girl that they can't get their hands on and they said that," She looked over to me and gave me the stink eye. "You aren't in love with anyone."

I breathed a sigh of relief, "Well it's good that they don't know who I'm in lo-" I slapped my hands over my mouth at the last moment.

"Phineas?" Adyson asked as she looked me in the eye. "Are you in love with one of the fireside girls?"

I looked from side to side, I wasn't going to be able to keep from slipping forever and due to the events in the last month alone I wasn't doing that good with holding it in. "Look Adyson, if I tell you this then you have to swear on your honor as a fireside girl that you wont tell anyone."

Adyson leered at me for a second then sighed. She held one hand up and the other over her heart. "I swear that I wont tell any of the fireside girls about anything you tell me involving your love life."

"Adyson."

"Best your getting Phineas, I'm willing to bet that you probably told everyone else and I'm definitely not going to tell any of the other team anything about this."

I sighed. "Fine then." I took a deep breath. "I'm in love with ... Izzy." I closed my eyes and waited for her to lecture me or shoot more questions at me but nothing happened. When I opened my eyes all I saw was her with her eyes wide opened like her mind had left.

After a while she finally said something. "How long?"

I sighed. "I've been in love with her since we were 6."

She stared at me with wide eyes. "you've been in love with your best friend for more than half your life? How come no one's ever noticed it before?"

"Because I got used to acting normal around her around that age."

She looked at me for a second in thought then broke into laughter. "Oh yeah, back when you first asked Isabella to be friends, I remember that day."

"You do?" I asked nervously.

"Yeah, you were so shy and so cute, Katie thought that you were in love with her back then but I said that it was just you being a boy." She laughed a little. "I remember that our current conversation at the time was how in … terested in becoming your friend she was." Adyson smiled wide and tried to avoid eye contact.

I looked at her surprised. "Really?"

She placed a hand on my shoulder. "Yeah, you should tell her about your feelings, I'm sure she'll understand one way or another."

"NO! I can't tell her, I treasure what we have to much to put it at risk for anything" I interjected.

She laughed a little then her eyes went wide. "They told me something about you putting a tracker on the girl that you were in love with but they found no tracker on Isabella."

"She would short circuit anything I make with her cuteness alone, I have to specially calibrate anything electronic when she's around so that it doesn't blow up. it's not difficult to track her based on that."

"So you really have it bad for her don't you?" She asked coyly.

"Yeah … but it's been getting harder and harder to hide it."

"How so?"

"The whole 'love ray' incident, remember? I can't stop thinking about her every second of everyday because of that. And the whole molecular fusser thing didn't help ether."

After looking at my face she let out a laugh and smiled. "Well after we save her I'm betting she'll give you a kiss for rescuing her."

My face turned red and I remembered what was happening at the moment. "We need to get back to the competitions."

"What?"

"If Thaddeus has Izzy then he will no doubt try to use her to get what he wants, which is to win this contest and if that's what he want's then that's what he gets."

"What?"

"I don't care about this simple contest about becoming a member of the league of villainous evildoers manically united for frighting investments in naughtiness. All I want is to Get my Izzy back and make sure that the rest of the fireside girls are safe."

Adyson smiled at me and walked ahead of me.

Like I said, I don't have my A-game but I don't have an alternative, I have to finish a story soon … I have to finish all of them soon … sorry if it seems rushed but I will try to make it better.

R&R