Chapter 36

"And how, may I ask, did you jump to that conclusion?" Stacy mocked.

"I'm going to capture the pics of the hotel onto my cell phone and send it to Mom!" Candace laughed.

"Um…haven't you tried that before, like many times?" Stacy sarcastically replied.

"Yeah….what's your point?" Candace inquired.

"The point is that every time you use the cell phone to try and capture the boys, something bad happens to it!" Stacy said. "Remember the time that Phineas and Ferb made a giant backyard-sized 3-D TV in the backyard a few days ago?"

"Mmm…"

(Five days ago)

"Yeah, Mom!" Candace exclaimed on the cell phone to her mom. She flew open the windows of her bedroom, and pointed to Phineas and Ferb, "Phineas and Ferb are trying to build a giant high-definition 3-D TV in our backyard!"

"Ughh…can you try and keep it down, Candace?" Linda whispered, "I'm at the Danville Library right now, doing story time with some kindergarteners! And they are pretty stingy on cell phone use…."

The librarian confiscated Linda's phone and pressed the off button ending the call. She said nothing but pointed to the sign and banged it with her switch, "NO CELL PHONE USE ALLOWED HERE!".

Candace, back at home, growled, "Grrrgh….if I can't call Mom up, I can at least do the live video-thing of them building the TV!"

She tried to focus her phone on her brothers but the phone slipped from her grasp as it landed on the ground.

"Oh no!" she screamed, "My pink phone!"

Then a forklift drove into the backyard, carrying a box containing parts of the huge TV.

"So where do you want me to put this half-ton crate?" the operator asked the boys.

"Mmm….put it right there." Phineas directed, pointing to the spot which, ironically, was where Candace's cell phone landed.

The forklift driver nodded his head and landed his crate on the pink phone. All Candace could do was watch in horror as her pink phone was crushed into a thousand pieces.

"And when Mom came home, the giant 3-D TV was replaced with a boring block of wood for some reason!" Candace complained.

Then it turned in a chuckle, "But not this time! This phone, the ad says, is the strongest one in the world, so I won't have to worry about dropping it!"

She flipped out her phone and started to take picture after picture of the walls, the Perry fountain, and the Phineas and Ferb statues.

"Once I send all these pics in a huge file and send it to Mom, the boys will be in deep trouble this time!" Candace snickered, continuing to take the photos with the video camera feature.

She then grabbed Stacy's hand. "Come on, Stacy, I need to get the boys in at least one photo to show Mom!"

Stacy sighed, and gave in, "Ughh…..fine."

The two of them rushed up to the nearby elevator.

"Now….if only I could find Phineas..."

Candace narrowed his eyes and looked at the elevator buttons. "We'll have to try floor by floor!"

Stacy performed a facepalm in sheer frustration, knowing that there are 99 floors in the building.

(15 minutes earlier)

Back at the Johnson house, the green sedan carrying Rebecca and Suzy pulled in.

Suzy looked at a device that resembles a tracer, "We're early… but Jeremy's on his way from Mr. Slushy Burger as we speak!"

Rebecca gasped with wonder, "How did you manage to track him down?"

The six-year old chuckled evily, "I have my own ways."

(Early in the wee hours of the morning)

Suzy chuckled in the night, crept up, and put a tracking device on the tailpipe of Jeremy's car.

"So what should I do?" Rebecca wondered.

Suzy shifted her eyes at the voice spray of Tina Combs in Rebecca's purse.

"Use that voice thing and imitate as my babysitter! We need to make sure this, and the pranks we have in the car, never gets revealed to my brother or to my parents!" she suggested. "And if Jeremy asks where we've been, say that we were watching Ducky Momo movies for three hours straight!"

Rebecca nodded, got the voice changer and sprayed once in her mouth.

"Is it perfect now?" Rebecca asked in the Tina voice.

Suzy gave a thumbs-up and the two proceeded to get out the vehicle and got the bags of practical jokes out of the trunk.

She put down one of the bags and got the house key from underneath the welcome mat and proceeded to open the door. Rebecca followed in behind with Jeerves the chauffeur, both carrying bags. Lulu came in last and curled up on her doggie bed, beginning to snore.

Suzy then used the house key to lock the door and the three walked into the hallway of the house.

"So where can we hide the things, Miss Johnson?" the loyal chauffeur asked.

"We'll hide them in my room!" Suzy answered as she went inside her bedroom, opened up a hidden panel in the south wall, and then pressed a red button. The sliding door opened, revealing a spacious hidden compartment .

"Let's put them there!" Suzy decided, pointing to the open space, "Jeremy will never know!"

The three then put the bags of practical jokes inside the compartment.

Rebecca then turned to Jeerves and said in the Tina voice, "Now my chauffeur, get inside the sedan and wait for my signal!"

"Yes Miss Co….I mean... Miss Starlet!" Jeerves stuttered for a moment on the identities of his employer before he left the room.

Suzy pressed the red button again, closing the compartment and slid down the handle to the red button.

"So what time do you want me to start pranking Candace?" Rebecca in the Tina voice asked.

"I suggest that we should strike in darkness…maybe say… midnight!" Suzy proposed, "That way, we should be able to pull it off!"

The blonde cheerleader, who still had jet-black hair dye on, giggled and rubbed her hands, "Perfect!"

Suzy then heard a car door slam and gasped, "Oh no, it's Jeremy! Quick, get to the living room, now!"

Rebecca nodded her head and took Suzy to the living room as quick as she could. Suzy curled up on the couch.

"So sleepy…"

She yawned and began to snooze.

Jeremy came in, for he worked a four-hour shift at Mr. Slushy Burger's after football practice. He unlocked, and opened the door to his house, "Hey, Suzy, I'm home! Hope the babysitter took care of you!" He put his Mr. Slushy Burger cap on the counter, tossed aside the keys, and came into the living room where Suzy was fast asleep on the couch.

"Aww…..isn't it cute! She's all tuckered out from playing with her dolls!" Jeremy happily sighed.

His attention turned to the 16-year old girl whom he recognized as the trusted babysitter as he waved his hand, "Hey, Tina! What's up?"

Rebecca, knowing that she had to play the part, replied in the Tina voice, "Oh, um, hi, Jeremy!" She gave a weak wave back.

"How did Suzy do?"

Rebecca thought for a moment and remembered Suzy's words from earlier in the Tina voice, "Oh, we were watching Ducky Momo for three hours straight and Suzy, of course, got all tuckered out, so here she is!"

Suzy cuddled, saying in her sleep, "Lollipop….unicorns…."

Jeremy laughed, "That's my Suzy!"

And then he turned to Tina, "So, are you going to babysit Suzy next Saturday? Because, of course, my parents will be out of town and I've got a date planned for Candace."

"Mmm…yes…yes I will!" Rebecca in the Tina voice replied slyly.

Jeremy then got a buzz from his cell phone.

"Hello?" He connect with the call on the other line.

"Hey, Jeremy, what's up?" It was Phineas' voice on the other end.

"Oh hey, Phineas, what's up?" Jeremy asked.

"We have this super-cool hotel in our backyard, and we are short of a massage specialist!" Phineas replied, "Can you come?"

"Of course I can!" Jeremy smiled.

"Okay, see you then!" Phineas said as the call ended.

Jeremy looked down at his Mr. Slushy Burger uniform. "Hmm…time for me to change into my usual….."

But when he opened up the closet for any clean clothes, he gasped. "Oh man….I forgot…." His hamper was overflowing with his usual khaki shorts, and green vest shirt. The only clothes that were clean were around four polo shirts and four pairs of jeans.

"Well, at least these jeans would fit me…."

A few minutes later, Jeremy tried on one of the pairs of jeans, and put on a blue polo shirt but he gasped.

The jeans showed off about half of his boxers.

"Oh great…. I bet my other three pairs aren't like this…."

(A few minutes later after that)

Jeremy groaned with frustration. All four of the jeans he tried on showed off his white boxer shorts, for they were a size too big on him.

"Oh man….I don't want to humiliate myself in front of Candace…. but I can't show up in just my boxers…"

He looked around the closet for a belt to at least keep his pants up….

"Great….there aren't any!" he pouted, "Who took all of my belts?"

Then he looked at the four jeans on his bed, looking at the first ones he tried on, which were a dark shade of denim.

"Well….it'll have to do…."

Jeremy emerged from his room. His pair of jeans were extremely baggy because the back pockets were slouched on the top of his thighs. He changed into a different polo shirt to cover up his exposed boxers.

"Well, I gotta go for now, Tina!" he said, grabbing the keys, "Mom and Dad are going to be home in 25 minutes. You two okay?"

Rebecca turned around and her mouth went wide open about Jeremy's choice of clothes.

"Oh..uhh…yeah…." she stammered in the Tina voice, "Me and Suzy will..will be just fine!"

"Good, so I'll be back in a couple of hours!" Jeremy said as he locked the door.

(15 minutes later)

Jack and June both came home from helping out at the retirement center. They saw that Suzy was still sleeping on the couch and Tina, still unaware that it was another person, sleeping on the other end.

"Aww…isn't that sweet, both Tina and Suzy tucked away asleep…." Mrs. Johnson smiled.

Rebecca stretched and yawned, replying in the Tina voice, "Oh, hello, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson! Your daughter, Suzy, was very well-behaved today!"

"Aw…shucks," Jack smiled, "We always know that our little Suzy would be a ray of sunshine to everyone she meets!" He took out his wallet and gave the fake Tina $70.

"Thanks,"

She put the money away in her pants pocket.

"Anyways, I'm gonna leave for now, but when any time arises, just call me!" the babysitter replied, opening the door and leaving the house.

Rebecca got into the sedan and Jeerves offered her a bottle of water from the driver's seat.

"Thanks…."

She took a few swigs of the water and her voice returned to normal.

"Ughh, if I would've stayed any longer in that dump, my voice would've cracked in four minutes!" Rebecca sneered in disgust.

Jeerves agreed, "Yes, Miss Starlet, but you performed magnificently in winning Suzy's trust."

"You do make a good point!" Rebecca said with a smirk. She took out a piece of paper detailing the evil plan she and Veruca put out in order to prevent Candace from getting onto the squad and also got out a pen.

"Phase One of the plan is complete in winning Suzy's trust!" the vile dusty-blonde cheerleader clucked and chuckled, looking down her eyes to the next part of the phase.

She gleefully chuckled at the sight of Phase Two of the plan, for she knew that it would be more vile and sinister than the last.