A/N: Myron Greenleaf here with another chapter... I must warn you, I'm writing this authors note before writing the chapter, so if I underplay my warning, oops... This chapter is entirely fighting as requested by Stinkfly3. She plans (I think) to try to finish up the story within the next few chapters. But of course, you can't have love when you are on the verge of death... Well you could, but that's not what we're good at writing...
Now, I know I'm forgetting something... Oh right... My trademark :P ONTO THE CHAPTER!
Candace and her younger brother were back-to-back for the past several minutes. Normbots had encircled them and were closing in on them slowly. The two siblings weren't thinking that they would be making this out alive, but that isn't the way to be thinking right? Right. The two Flynns had other things on their mind. Most of their thoughts were directed at each other's safety. There were dozens of people who had shown up at the party (including newcomer Django Brown), but most didn't know how to fight. Only the few that really could fight were being quickly overrun trying to protect the non-combatants before they were hurt, or worse, killed.
But not all of the combatants were fighting. The only two who weren't fighting ended up being Ferb and Isabella, the latter being forced to remain out of the battle by the former because of the hair crisis that had occurred only a few minutes earlier.
Of course, this angered those who were fighting.
"Ferb!" Phineas shouted from across the room. "Vanessa told me Isabella has had bad hair days before, and she apparently ignores them! Can't you work on her hair another time? You know...when the fighting is over?"
"No," Ferb insisted.
"He considers my hair an 'emergency'!" Isabella called out.
"Great..." Phineas muttered before jumping high in the air and landing on a Normbot and kicked off, launching himself against another while the first went crashing into several more, all exploded.
"Well what could they say?" Vanessa asked, spinning around and pouring water against several more Normbots, short circuiting them. "They're in love with each other."
"I didn't think being THAT in love involved having a guy put the people they're friends with in danger just for the sake of a girl's hair..." Candace muttered before managing to slide under the floating Normbots and grabbed her bamboo staff. "Alright you drum buckets, let's dance!" With that, the three of them covered the front door of the building while non-combatants went outside until further notice.
It took a while, but the non-combatants were finally out of the building. The sight was horrific. Most of The Firestorm Girls were captured by the Normbots.
Ferb and Isabella had joined the battle after Vanessa had teleported them home, where they got out of their formal wear and put on their Resistance uniforms before returning to fight.
The remaining fighters were Phineas, Ferb, Isabella, Vanessa, Candace, and Buford. Well, Buford was captured at one point, but he broke free and continued fighting.
"I'm taking ideas here right about now," Candace said, her bamboo staff in hand.
"Free The Firestorm Girls that have been captured," Isabella said. "It would be the best bet. We were all surprised by the attack and several of them had been captured during the initial stages of the battle and won't be caught again. The rest of them were captured because of the lack of numbers we had."
"We could try to find the source of what's controlling them," Ferb reasoned.
"That would be me," A Normbot gold clad and holding a pike came forward. "Surrender, and you and your friends will not be annihilated."
Phineas was surprised. "I thought I trashed that one," he thought. "It must have rebuilt itself!"
"Thanks for the offer tin bucket," Candace told the Alpha Normbot. "But we'll decline the offer."
"Then you must be destroyed," the Alpha Normbot said before ordering the other Normbots to close in and finish them.
That's when Vanessa got the idea that won the war. She saw the fire alarm sprinkler system. "Phineas!" she said, pointing at the sprinkler alarm system and then the switch on the wall on the far side of the room. "It's our only chance!"
Phineas nodded before running towards Vanessa, who cupped her hands and braced herself. Phineas jumped onto her cupped hands and she launched him as far as she could. It was enough, because Phineas was able to jump from one Normbot to another as he reached the other side.
"What's Phineas doing?" Candace asked. Not knowing that he and Vanessa had a plan, she just figured that he was running off again. "He'd better not be running off again."
"No, he's saving our butts," Isabella replied, trying to hold back the Normbots before they were back against the wall. Unfortunately it was a big room, and no matter how talented Phineas was, the Normbots were closing in even further.
"PHINEAS!" Vanessa begged. "HURRY!"
Phineas jumped from the very last of the Normbots. His index finger was just barely able to hit the switch, but it was enough. The sprinklers were turned on, short circuiting all of the Normbots.
The resulting electricity shut down the Tri-State Area and all of the Normbots short-circuited from the electricity going through them.
"Did the fire alarm system really just save us from destruction?" Candace asked as she raced over to The Firestorm Girls who were being held by Normbots and helped free them from the metallic hands.
"Yes," Vanessa said with a huge grin on her face. "Yes it did."
