A/n: here it is the next chapter… I did some of it while I was completely exhausted from musical and All State practice… so I hope it is still good.
Chapter 28: Fear Itself
Skylar smiled as she held her navy blue cell phone to her ear as she pulled up in front of her Mother's store "That's great that you're already there… we're not even a block …so stay there…. Kay bye." Skylar hung up her phone and placed it on her lap.
Jeremy sat confused as could be staring at Skylar "Skylar would you please explain to me, what is going on?"
Skylar sighed as she glanced at the digital clock which read nine o'clock, in forty- five minutes it would be too late to save them. "Well… both of you know a little bit of the situation… but at nine forty-five, they and the rest of us will be turned to frogs. My friends and I are going to stop the crazed doctor who hatched this plan and of course save Phineas and Candace."
"Who?" Isabella and Jeremy asked wide eyed.
"The crazed doctor is Heinz Doofenshmirtz…" Skylar answered.
Ferb moaned softly as he awakened in the dark, he looked around as the lights flashed on to reveal that both Perry and he were trapped in a large cast iron cage. His head and left arm throbbed in pain, as Ferb felt his head and glanced at his arm; both were covered with scratches and blood. He ended up concluding that the cage must have cut him, when it trapped them.
Ferb gritted his teeth in pain as he looked around his surroundings, he gasped at the sight of the large black new and improved Frog-inator five feet away from him and inside the glass cover Phineas and Candace stood suspended in air by clear wires unconscious. "Phineas! Candace!" Ferb yelled out leaning against the cold metal bars.
Then a cold dark laugh came from behind, "They can't hear you…."
"Let them go!' Ferb yelled out at the sight of Doofenshmirtz
Doofenshmirtz chuckled as he walked toward the cage with an evil grin on his face "No… I knew you were going to say that. After all I kidnapped your little frog siblings and broke into your house… so of course you would say it."
As Ferb stared into Doofenshmirtz's eyes, the evil smile crept into the inter-most part of his soul, he couldn't explain it, and that the smile that Doofenshmirtz was giving him caused Ferb to shake nervously like a leaf.
"Scare aren't you?"
"N-no…" Ferb stuttered as he continued to tremble in fear.
Doofenshmirtz chuckled sensing Ferb's fear as he leaned in toward the cage "You should be…because in…." he pulled back his sleeve to glance at his small watch "thirty-eight minutes, the whole Tri-State Area will be frogs…" he pointed to the Frog-inator "And they will die…."
Ferb moaned softly as leaned toward the cage and he grunted loudly as he threw a fierce punch straight into Doofenshmirtz's nose. Doofenshmirtz squealed out on pain as he yelled out holding his nose "Oh-Ow! My nose!"
The iron cringe of blood filled Ferb's nose as he watched Doofenshmirtz run quickly to the bathroom. Ferb rolled his eyes releasing a soft groan, his eyes looked around the small cage only to find a blood covered platypus near his feet. Ferb gasping in shock not knowing if it was his blood or Perry's. He quickly got to his knees following the deep pit in his stomach, with his good arm started to quickly pet Perry's back, to check if he was alright. "Perry? Are you alright? Wake up Perry!"
Perry moaned slowly opening his eyes, his fedora laid crushed underneath his paws. He looked around before quickly sitting up, he sighed picking up his fedora "Yeah… I'm fine…" Perry shook his head as he turned slowly to his owner to see the dried blood caked all over his left arm and head. His eyes widen "Oh my… geez Ferb are you alright?"
Ferb shrugged as best as he could reply "Yeah… it's just a few scratches."
"Just a few scratches!" Perry exclaimed "Ferb, your arm and head are caked with blood!"
"Have you looked at yourself Perry?" Ferb questioned
Perry glanced down at himself staring at the red stain on his chest "That's not from me! But still, I'm more worried about you and Doofenshmirtz!"
Ferb sighed "Perry calm down… I've gotten Doofenshmirtz preoccupied for a minute…" Ferb glanced over to the Frog-inator; the deep pit in his stomach grew as release a small stutter "I'm s-scared…"
Perry got up patting Ferb's good shoulder "Aren't we all…" Perry reassured as he looked around, his brown eyes caught a lever stickling out of the floor with a bright red bulb on top as the handle just a few feet away. "There it is…"
"What?" Ferb question as he watched Perry walk quickly to the edge of the cage near Ferb.
"Our Freedom…" Perry replied as he begun to slip his arms in between the bars
"Perry, what are you doing?" Ferb asked as he watched the Platypus straining to grab the lever.
"Trust me Ferb… I-I know w-what I-I'm doing…" Perry told Ferb as his finger tips barely touched the lever.
"You know you're going to get us killed, Perry!" Ferb hissed
Perry sighed, glaring at Ferb "Ferb… I've done this, hundreds of times… I know what I-I'm doing…." the bathroom door open slowly neither Ferb nor Perry realized that they were being watched "All I have to do Ferb is pull t-this lever and we're-"
"Not so Fast!" Doofenshmirtz interrupted as he slapped Perry's arm sending it back into the cage, he gave them an evil grin with blood soaked tissues stuck up his nose. "You're not going escape this time!"
"Vanessa?" Skylar called out as she watched Vanessa and Lizzy run toward them.
'Hey.' Vanessa replied breathlessly as she stopped in front of the revolving door of the DEI building. Skylar glanced down to Lizzy, her brown hair was put back in a tight bun and she was wearing a black short sleeve shirt and old jeans, Lizzy glanced up to Skylar giving her a small smile. "How much time do we have left?" Vanessa muttered
Skylar quickly pulled out her phone "Thirty-five minutes left…"
Skylar quickly placed her phone back into her pocket as Isabella exclaimed "That's not enough time!"
"I know…" Skylar replied shooting Isabella a glare "that is why we have to hurry and get this done and over with." Skylar placed her right hand on the revolving door. "Well come on…"
Lizzy and Vanessa nodded as they rushed into the revolving door following Skylar, while Jeremy and Isabella stared at the revolving doors, their hearts racing faster than they can count. "I… guess this is what fear itself is…." Jeremy stated as he took in a deep breath.
Isabella couldn't understand what he was stating, she sighed softly before asking "A revolving door?"
Jeremy shook his head as he glanced up at the sky "No…" he sighed "Love…"
"Oh…" Isabella muttered, silently agreeing as Jeremy placed his hands on her shoulders leading her into the building, preparing their hearts to face fear itself.
A/N; well here it is… I have Iowa All State Choir Auditions Saturday, so please dear readers wish me luck and hopefully I get into the choir. But anyways the next chapter is called "30 minutes Left".
