Chapter 24: Help

Doofenshmirtz drove past all the lights and stop signs, only managing to not get in a car wreck by a miracle. His heart pound in his chest. He gasped for breath, thinking of Perry's body lying crumpled on the ground, surrounded by pools of crimson blood. He had to hurry. If he didn't make it in time, Perry could be dead by the time he even found help.

Perry can talk. Oh my gosh Perry can talk. And how did he know about Kid? He must have read a file on me or something at his agency. They'd have something like that.

Doof's brain put two and two together as he got to the big white building. He ran out. But why would Kid want to come here if it's a place for agents? Maybe he had some friends here. Did Kid ever know Perry? Maybe I should ask Perry sometime. He swallowed, supposing I get to see him again.

Heinz ran to the door, pulling on both of them. Just as Perry said, they didn't open. He banged on them. What else did he say? Show the collar to the camera. What camera? He spotted one above his hand, showing the collar to it. "Hey! Hey whoever can see this! I need help! You have to help me! Perry's in trouble! Peter the Panda came back, and he wants to kill Perry! Help me please! Perry told me to come here, and to show you this so you'd know he was telling the truth! Please help me he's in big trouble you have to help me! He'll die if we don't hurry!"

Doof expected for someone to come out straight away. Instead he was met only with silence. "Hey! HEY! Please you have to help me! Perry's fighting Peter right now! You have to come and help me! Please!"

~*in the OWCA*~

"Uh, sir?"

"What is it now Karl?"

"We have a security breach in the main entrance."

"Oh it's probably just some cat or dog or something."

"Um, actually no it isn't sir. It's a human."

"A human?" Monogram walked over to Karl. "Where?"

"Right there. It's Doofenshmirtz."

"What? How'd he know to come here?"

The intern looked at the screen, unsure of what to do. "I don't know sir. Maybe we should get rid of that sign."

"No! I like that sign and you know it! We're not taking it down. Turn up the volume." The little image of Doof kept pounding on the door screaming something. Karl reached a hand over to turn up the volume.

"Perry's in trouble! Peter the Panda came back, and he wants to kill Perry! Help me please! Perry told me to come here, and to show you this so you'd know he was telling the truth! Please help me he's in big trouble you have to help me! He'll die if we don't hurry!"

Monogram exchanged a glance with Karl. On the screen Doof continued to scream at them, demanding that they help him. He kept shoving the collar up to the camera.

"Karl what is that?"

"It's Agent P's collar. He gave it to the boys to help him with the second dimension robots remember?"

"He must really be in trouble then. Karl, send all of the agents in stat. If what Doofenshmirtz says is true, then we don't have that much time. Peter will have grown over the past couple of years."

"Right away sir."

Doof kept beating his fists against the glass. Why wasn't anyone helping?

Suddenly one of the doors opened. The evil scientist looked over to the ground as a secret agent cat stepped out. His fur was a dark ginger, his eyes a gleaming gold. He stared at Doofenshmirtz, tipped his hat, and began to speak. "You said that Perry told you to come here?"

Not as shocked as last time, the evil scientist nodded, "Yes he did."

"Then he must be in trouble. May I see that?" the cat held out it's paw for the collar.

Uncertain, Doof handed it over to him. The cat took it, studying it. It flicked open the locket to see something, then closed it before handing it back to Doof. "We better be off then. How did you get here?"

"I brought my car."

"That isn't nearly fast enough. We'll take my cat hovercraft."

"What?"

"Just follow me."

~DEI~

The platypus fought against Peter. Having run out of eggs he had resorted to sharp pieces of almond brittle. He prayed a silent apology for using all of the evil scientist's foods to defend himself, hoping that Doof would forgive him if he got back.

When he got back, Perry corrected himself, throwing another square of the hard candy. When the evil scientist got back. He couldn't allow himself to think otherwise.

Agent P backed up more in to the kitchen. No matter what he tried Peter only got closer. It was a miracle he'd been able to hold him off for this long.

"Just give up Perry," the panda snarled. "You know I'll win anyway."

"Then why don't you come and get me if it's so easy to defeat me?" the platypus returned.

"The only reason you're not dead yet is because you're humoring me with your little attempts to save yourself."

Perry rolled his eyes. "Oh please, every villain uses that. Try thinking of something creative for once."

Peter growled. "No matter, I will still defeat you."

"Tell yourself a lie long enough and you'll see it as the truth."

"Is that so?" Peter snarled. "Then put down the food and fight me!"

"Very well." Peter flung the almond brittle to the side. He reached under the sink to pull out a long pipe, releasing a burst of water. Sorry Doof, your place is gonna flood. "Come and fight me then you stupid panda."

Peter growled, lowering his head. The panda charged towards Perry, who bat him with the pipe. Peter bat at it, snarling at him ferociously. Perry fought him off, but with a swipe of his huge paw, Peter swat the pipe away. Panicking, Perry slid under Peter to go after the pipe, but while his back was turned from the panda, Peter jumped on to Perry. The platypus was squished underneath the panda's huge weight.

"Nice try Perry, but you can't escape me." Perry groaned as thick claws dug in to his back. He tried to squeeze from the panda's huge paw, however the panda kept him down on the ground. "Just give up."

Perry yelped as he felt teeth close in over his back. The platypus lifted in to the air, wincing from the feeling of the huge fangs digging in to his back. Peter shook him violently, tossing him across the room to smack in to the wall. Perry groaned. He stood up shakily to face Peter, but the panda's mind knew what Perry would do. In a single leap the panda jumped on to Perry, again pinning him down to the ground, his huge paw over the platypus's chest.

The platypus looked up weakly at the panda, his vision beginning to blur. His muscles felt as heavy as lead, with his eyelids feeling even heavier.

"Well it's been fun Perry the Platypus, but I'm getting tired of this game." Peter raised the paw from Perry's chest, lifting it up in to the air, ready to strike. Perry didn't even try to leave. He was too tired, so weak. He couldn't move. This was it, he would die here, alone, not even with the boys to comfort him.

The agent lifted his head weakly, staring in to his opposer's dark and gleaming eyes. From somewhere else in the room the platypus heard a shout. "No! Peter the Panda stop!"

Perry closed his eyes, barely clinging on to life.

~to Doof~

Doof's breath caught in his throat as he gazed upon the bloody mess that was Perry the Platypus. He stared in near horror. Next to him, Chester the Cat was frozen on the spot. Letting out a terrible screech he sprinted at the panda, fully armed. Not even hesitating he jumped at Peter, slashing him with his fiery sharp claws. Peter released a roar of fury, turning full on to the cat.

"Go! I'll distract him! Go help Perry!" the cat called to Doof.

Not hesitating to do as he was told, Doof ran past the battling duo to the platypus. He got down on his knees, taking off his coat to press it to the platypus's blood drenched fur. The platypus opened his dark eyes weakly, staring up at Doof. "Am I dead?" he asked, his voice a hoarse whisper.

"Not yet little buddy. Come on you'll be fine, everything will be okay, you've just got to hold on for me okay?"

The platypus didn't seem to be listening to him. "I never thought I'd be killed by a panda seeking revenge."

"You're not going to die!" Doof replied stubbornly, glaring down at his nemesis. "You'll be fine."

"I thought I'd die at an easy old age, but not like this."

Deciding to humor him while Doof tried to figure out a way to stop the bleeding, he goaded him on, to try and take his mind off dying. "Then how did you think you'd die?"

"I thought I would die at your hand, or at least be with my family when I passed on."

Doof looked outside at the noon day sun. Everything went on as normal to people who didn't have anything to do with this. It felt strange to know that no one else held a care in the world out there, not realizing one of the best protectors of this city lay dying in the arms of his greatest foe.

The evil scientist looked down at Perry. "I-I don't know what to do."

"It's too late for me," Perry whispered, his eyes drooping closed.

"But-" Doof began to protest, cutting off when he laid eyes upon his nemesis.

Who was glowing.

"P-Perry the Platypus, you-you're-"

He didn't finish. As if in slow motion, Doof watched as the hand he kept hold on started to grow, the fur shrinking away in to the depths of the skin. The evil scientist looked up at the platypus's face, which was starting to merge and form in to something different.

Something, human.

Where fur coated the skin before now laid smooth and soft clothes. The skin of the man in front of him was a paper-white pale. Doof stared at the smooth teal-blue hair falling to below the man's shoulders where a mark where a collar would be lay imprinted on the fleshy skin. The evil scientist swallowed in a sort of fear. From where Peter and Chester were fighting, he heard the cat gasp, "No way!"

Doof didn't tend to be the brightest evil scientist on the block; believe me he knew it, but there were always those times where Doof became smarter than he usually was, as if his brain needed to make up for the lack of brain energy that Doof used (or didn't use) on a daily basis. This was one of those moments. Heinz's mind sped at the speed of light a million things that started to come in to his brain.

He met Kid nine years ago when the boy was thirteen. Now he would be about twenty two, which seemed to be how old the unconscious man before him was. Wait, no Kid's birthday happened last month, so if he remained to be a live he would be twenty three, which still looked about to be the man's age.

Kid asked for Doof to drive him to the exact same place where the agents worked, coincidence? Not only that but Perry knew about that time.

It seemed way to unreal, like no way this wasn't possible. Doof was just imagining things, right? His mind loved to play tricks on him all the time, there could be no way that what he thought right now was real. No way no way no way no way.

But, it was.

The word lingered on the tip of Doof's tongue. Trying to breathe, he murmured out the word, the name that broke his heart in to a million pieces after thinking the boy he could adopt was dead.

"Kid."

Upon hearing the name, the man opened one eye. He took in a shuddered breath, releasing a sentence with the one breath he took. "Guess the cat's out of the bag."

The man known as Kid ceased to breathe.

Longest chapter of meh life o.o