Chapter 36

(1:55pm)

At an abandoned warehouse in downtown Middleton, the Mayor was struggling to get out of his handcuffs. The shadowy figure appeared before him into the light. She was in her mid-40s, had thick black glasses. wore a turtleneck with her favorite CuddleBuddy, the Otterfly in the middle, and matching pants.

"Dr. Amy Hall!" the Mayor growled at the woman. "I should've know it was you who kidnapped me!" He looked at the two genetically-spliced creatured who had captured him: a Rabbitonocerous (a cross between a rabbit and a rhinocerous) and a Loberrier (a cross between a lobster and a terrier.

DNAmy, as she was well known by Kim, began to dance around the Mayor.

"It's been a long time since we last met, Mr. Rick Sash!" Amy smiled, winking her left eye at the mayor.

"Yes...I remember it all too well!" Mayor Sash snarled.

(25 years ago, Middleton Institute of Science and Technology campus)

"Oh, it's such a wonderful night!" Amy smiled, cuddling up to Rick.

"Yeah..." Rick sighed unhappily, "...it is..."

The two of them were walking through the campus of MIST on a warm summer night, eating away a giant cotton candy treat. Rick was taking a summer course on botany. Amy was taking a semester that was packed with advanced genetics two first hooked up at the Quad of the campus and it was love at first sight. Up to this point, for eight months, they had been dating and all had been going well...until he saw her three weeks ago before this night, holding five CuddleBuddies in her arms.

He was more disturbed at the accelerated rate that she was acquiring CuddleBuddies, even on their dates. Rick found out that Amy had been spending more time alphabetizing her collection than on her love for him. For just one night, he wanted Amy to forget about her Cuddlebuddies and focus her entire attention on him. He had set up everything for the date to go perfectly.

Once the couple got done with eating the cotton candy and Rick threw away the cone in the trash. The two of them then walked out of campus and drove off to downtown Middleton to take a walk underneath the lights of the street lamps.

"Aww...aren't we together, Ricky-boo-boo?" Amy cooed.

"For once..." he grinned, "...the night is going perfectly. The stars are shining, the full moon is looking down on us, and, most importantly, there are no..."

But they also walked past a local toy store, which had a sign outside that said, "RARE FLAMINGOAT CUDDLEBUDDY, $140!"

Amy took one look at that sign and that made her weak in the knees.

"Flamingoat!" They...only...made...ten!"

With a maddening scream, she yelled like a spoiled child, "I NEED ONE NOW!" She rushed into the door and, without hesitation, bought the only Flamingoat CuddleBuddy that was available.

Her date, however, disappeared and abandoned her like a discarded gum wrapper.

"Do you like my little ingenious creatures?" Amy grinned, looking at the Mayor in the eyes.

"I think they are horrible abominations!" Mayor Sash screamed, "You threw away a promising career in genetics for...this!"

"Don't you even dare call my cutes abominations, meanie!" Amy growled. "You have forced my hand, Mayor, for I, Dr. Amy Hall, will transform every man, woman, and child in Middleton into my very own living CuddleBuddy collection!"

Mayor Sash gasped at what the mad woman was planning to do to every innocent soul in the very city he grew up in.

(2:15pm)

At the Beauregarde house, Violet and Tricia were scheming their plan of sidetracking Candace from joining the cheer squad. They were sitting in chairs at the dining room table, planning very carefully to steer Candace away from Kim's mission for her.

"So you want her to become a Golden Dancer?" Tricia questioned.

"Yes!" Violet replied while chewing on her fourteenth piece of gum for the day, "We need a way to lure her away from those smelly cheerleaders for good, so we need to lure her with what we have to offer!"

"You mean, the fact that the Dancers are a cost-alternative to the cheerleaders?" Tricia asked.

"Yes!" Violet said with a grin. "But, we're also going to tempt her like we do with some of our other Dancers!"

"How?" Tricia wondered.

Violet took out out a fresh and crisp hundred-dollar bill from her wallet and held it high so that Tricia can see it.

"I think Mr. Franklin will do the talking for us!"

Back at the Flynn-Fletchers, Monique was still trying to figure out what to do with her best friend, now that she was covered in mud and starting to reek of dog leavings.

"Kim, I'd suggest that you get out of those fashions and...eww...take a shower too!"

Kim took Monique's advice, "Fine, but once I change, I'm still going to bust Phineas and Ferb!"

She was still in the mindset of Candace to trying to achieve her goal of busting her brothers.

"I'm so gonna need a long vacation after this..." Monique whined.

Tara agreed, "We all need a vacation after this!" Bonnie and Hope nodded their heads in unison too.

And so, the girls followed Kim, while the redhead sloshing her Mary Janes with the mud leaving tracks behind her.

While the girls were upstairs, waiting on Kim to get clean, Phineas and Ferb were downstairs, wheeling out their tools on a red wagon.

"The eighteen-wheeler with the old bumper cars should be here in a few minutes, Ferb. In the meantime, I think we should test out the new metal that we invented today that can defy gravity!"

Ferb looked at his brother and nodded his head twice.

The two inventive brothers were about to go out onto the backyard when they noticed mud tracks on the carpet.

"Oooh...mud tracks!" Phineas groaned, "Mom's not going to be happy about this..."
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After Kim cleaned herself off and put on another of Candace's usual outfits, she came out of the hall bathroom.

"Kim?! Are you crazy? You look the same as before!" Monique gasped. She knew Kim had a better sense of style than this.

"I know, right?" Kim grinned, "I'm now cleaner...and more ready to bust Phineas and Ferb!" She formed a fist and pumped it in the air and was twitching her eyes again.

"Ugh..." Bonnie groaned, "Not this again..." She turned to Hope.

"Hey, Hope, let's see how the gym is shaping up for tomorrow?"

"Um...why the gym?" Kim asked.

"Because you said so yourself before...this...happened. You were going to help Candace practice over there so that she can get used to the hardwood floors."

"I, err, didn't remember that, Bonnie!" Kim said nervously.

"Okay, the freaky meter just went off the scales!" Hope replied, now more worried.

"Monique and Tara, you stay with Kim." Bonnie suggested, "We'll go and check out the gym to make sure that everything's ready and that there are no termites. Also, can you give me updates on Kim, see if there's any way to change her back to normal?"

"No problem, Bonnie! We'll take it from here!" Monique replied.

Monique and Tara agreed with a single nod of their heads. Bonnie and Hope both went downstairs to the brunette's car to head to the Middleton High Gym.

As Bonnie's car pulled out the driveway, Kim heard the sound of welding torches.

"I know what that means!" she sneered. "It's the sound...of busting!"

Monique sighed, "I hope Ron is having better luck with Candace..."