Okay, so the way I made the last chapter end might have confused a few people and I guess I should clarify that, WARNING: complicated explanation incoming, simplified version comes after.
1. When Phineas went to Isabella to apologize he may have told her that he was out of line when he said what he said but he still doesn't trust her which she knows because he still thinks that they will no longer be friends after she gets together with her crush. In essence, here's what Phineas said, "I'm sorry I yelled, it was wrong of me, you deserve better than that, and I am still right about what's going to happen but I've come to accept that and I just want to be able to end it happily." You guys see what's wrong with that right? As for Isabella's reaction, she has yet to realize that she has to re-earn Phineas's trust which she must do if she wants him to believe that they will still be close after she gets together with her crush (which is him). But until that happens Phineas isn't going to be himself and that wall that he put between Isabella and himself will continue to be there preventing them from actually being the kind of friends that they were before which is what Isabella wants.
And here is the simpler version.
2. When Phineas ended his friendship with Isabella, he erected a wall between Isabella and himself, this wall will prevent them from becoming the kind of friends that they were before. Isabella wants to be friends like they were before but so long as Phineas believes that his friendship with Isabella will end when she gets together with her crush, that wall will never be taken down. Isabella would need to realize that she has to break down that wall herself if she want's it broken down at all seeing as everyone else kinda just said, "Well yeah Phineas, your friendship with Isabella will end when she gets together with her crush."
Glad that's over … and I used up my entire authors note to do it … to the reviews.
your fellow thesbian: Oh, if that made you cry then this surly will.
14AmyChan: Yeah, Isabella still needs to realize a few things.
Sabrina06: I didn't convey it all that well last chapter, sorry about that.
Yarthayaj'knaushtavdhladleklwa: … um … why would they do that?
Irresistiblecookie: I know, I messed that part up and I'm thinking about changing it.
gravity5: Yes and no but I don't think I can explain it any better than I did earlier.
megakaeloo57: Thing is, the shows are already made, they finished the animation a long time ago and some have aired in Poland.
KuriMaster13: Hoping for Phineas to get a clue is like hoping for everyone in the world to put aside their differences and agree to speak in the same American accent and construct every building of the exact same height.
Da Darkest Knight: Well, almost all the fireside girls already told Phineas that Isabella wouldn't be his friend after she got together with her crush so what can they do?
Disclaimer; I don't own anything or anyone except Erick, Arron, Caeca, Connor, Richter. Ricky, and Jesse.
Beta read by Sabrina06
(Phineas's POV)
(Later)
I was sitting in the local ice-cream parlor, only this time there was twenty empty milkshake glasses in front of me. "Can I have another?" I mumbled as my head lay on the table.
"Sorry." Arron responded. "We're out of mix."
I groaned as more tears escaped my eyes. "Why do these things keep happening to me?"
"Sorry Phineas." Arron responded. "I simply don't know."
Just then, I heard the door open and someone walk in and take a seat next to me. "I'll have the usual." A familiar voice said.
I turned my head to the side slightly to see a familiar triangular shaped head with brown curly hair. "Thaddeus?" I asked. "Is that you?"
He looked at me surprised. "Phineas? Man, it's been a long time, I haven't seen you since the fort building competition."
"Yeah." I responded. "You guys had a built in liquorice dispenser that we hadn't thought of."
"Don't be like that Phineas." He said, as Arron gave Thaddeus a bowl of ice-cream. "You completely destroyed Thor and me."
"Yeah." I responded slowly. "I guess in the end we did win." I had the nagging suspicion that there was something happening here that I wasn't aware of: something that was eating at the back of my head that wouldn't show itself.
"Well there was the fact that you had that girl on your tipped the balance in your favor." Thaddeus said.
"Isabella." I said softly.
"Was that her name? Wow, isn't she 'number one' on the 'most attractive girls in the school' list?" He asked.
"Isabella." I repeated. "Thaddeus … Jesse … Isabella is no longer my friend because of Jesse."
Thaddeus looked at me, surprised. "Wow … that's harsh … what happened?"
"Thaddeus." I said again. At that moment something finally broke into my head like a wrecking ball. "Jesse was talking to you." I said as I lifted my head off the table. "You … you were helping her."
"What are you talking about?" He asked. "I don't know anyone named Jesse."
"You." I said as I got up. "You and your brother have the means to make the nanobots that I ingested, you two also have the ability to manufacture this whole scheme."
"Now Phineas, I don't know what you heard Jesse say, or what Caeca told you; but I'm not the Thaddeus that you are thinking of. It must be someone else."
"I never mentioned that Caeca told me anything." I said as I felt anger begin to slowly build within me.
There was a moment of silence before Arron chimed in. "I'm going to go into the back to see if there is any shake mix that I overlooked." He said before leaving us.
Thaddeus looked in Arron's direction before looking back to me, getting up and taking a few steps back. "Now Phineas, this is all simply a misunderstanding."
"It's your fault that I can't be friends with Isabella again." I said as I began to take a few steps towards him.
"You can't blame me for that, your friendship would have ended without our meddling, we just helped you realize the truth sooner rather than later."
"And what truth is that?" I asked as I clenched my fists.
"That Isabella would eventually leave you for someone else." Just as he finished talking, I punched him square in the face which caused him to spin around and fall to the ground.
"You fricking psychopath!" I exclaimed.
"Now that's a bit harsh." Thaddeus responded. "Isabella would have stopped being your friend a way, we actually helped you."
I punched him again, only this time harder. "That may be, but Izzy would be with her crush if you didn't interfere."
Thaddeus got up again and smiled. "But seeing as you two are no longer friends, what do you care?"
I was about to punch him again, but I resisted this time and stopped just short of his face; and realized that he wasn't flinching at all. "You're enjoying this."
"Who enjoys getting punched in the face?" He asked with a laugh.
I resisted the urge to punch him again, realizing it would accomplish nothing. "Why?" I asked. "Why did you do this?"
He smiled some more and laughed. "Thor and I were the best at what we did, building things that made everyone look upon us with awe. We were popular and people respected us and did whatever we said. Then we came to Danville and had to start over from scratch. It should have been easy but you and your brother just had to make things difficult for us."
"Ferb and I never wanted anything like that." I retorted. "We only did what we did because we wanted to have fun, it was never about competition or popularity."
"But you had it anyway." Thaddeus said with a glare. "You and your brother were just so good that when we tried to out build you: we failed, leaving us as nobodies."
"You were still good at building, you had a gift, and you still do."
"But we weren't as good as you and your brother now were we?" He asked. "Seeing as we couldn't out build you, we had to do other things to rule over everyone. We used our ability to assist people, make them owe us, trust us, work for us. We built Connor's bully community. Jesse who was once a total washout, became the most popular girl in school, we made a ghost feel like he was of us, a total nerd was transformed into the most popular internet star in the school, heck we even made a complete outcast feel like a lot of people actually liked him. It took us some time but eventually, we controlled the entire school. All that was left was to take care of was you and your we caught wind of something good, we altered the list of most attractive girls in the school and released that information we found to the sat back and let nature take care of the rest."
"So you were the reason Jesse was rejected by her friends?" I asked.
Thaddeus shook his head. "We didn't mean for that to happen, although we should have seen it coming."
"But you're the reason Jesse no longer has her friends!" I retorted. "When she hears about what you did-"
"I already told her." Thaddeus confessed. "She was angry all right, but I told her not to worry because she'll have the top spot again by the time the next list comes out."
"She still has a rotten personality." I retorted.
"Oh, but you saw for yourself how good she was at the time the next list comes out, she will not only be hot but nice, caring, and have an amazing personality. A complete transformation and Isabella will have completely dropped off the list due to her rotten attitude towards everyone."
"Izzy's nothing like that!" I spat.
"But everyone will think that after how she shot down every guy in the school and how she played Richter like a toy."
"You monster." I hissed. "I won't let you get away with this."
"And how are you going to stop me?" He asked. "I am well aware of how much you love that you are no longer friends with her, you don't have the over the top imagination you used to."
"I'll tell people, I'll tell everyone."
Thaddeus smiled again. "The only ones who will believe you are your friends and by the time Thor and I are done, you will be nothing but outcasts."
I began grasping for ideas, anything I could do to get back at Thaddeus. "I'll … I'll … I'll think of something, just you watch."
"Oh I don't think so." Thaddeus responded. "Without Isabella, you'll be derelict for quite some time; and by then we'll have a firm grip on the school." He said as he circled around me. "Seeing as we've already won, I'll be a good sport and tell you something that just might lift your spirits. It really burned to find out that all we did was pointless." I turned around and looked at him in disbelief. "All we had to do was get you or Ferb upset for an extended period of would have happened when Isabella got together with her crush and ended your friendship, leaving you heartbroken." He clenched his fists and his teeth. "In the end our plan cost us three of our helpers, two of them became self-conscious and the third thought he could make it on his own … that was one pawn, one night, and a were lost for something that we would have gotten without loss if we had just waited for Isabella to get together with her crush: so take solace in that while you cry yourself to sleep tonight."
I looked at Thaddeus in disbelief. I tried to think of something but all I could do was stand there with a blank expression on my face. Eventually Thaddeus left and Arron returned from the back. "Sorry Phineas, we're out of shake mix." Arron said as I continued to stare out into space. Eventually I began walking over to the door only to be stopped by Arron who handed me a container in a bag. "Our apologies for the inconvenience, please accept this complimentary treat as a token of how sorry we are."
I looked at Arron and sighed. "Thanks but … I'm not in the mood for ice-cream."
"Trust me." Arron reassured. "Open this when you get home and you will feel much better."
I reluctantly accepted the bad from Arron and began walking out the door. "I guess it's worth a shot." I said as I looked up to see it had started snowing.
(Django's POV)
(Later)
I was sitting in my hospital bed looking out the window at the snow that was coming down hard. "I hope this doesn't make things difficult." I said to myself.
"You talking about me?" I heard someone ask from the doorway.
As I looked over I was pleasantly surprised to see Buford standing there leaning against the door. "So did you find it?" I asked.
Buford reached into his backpack and pulled out a box with a lock on it. "Right were you said it would be."
"Any luck opening it?" I asked.
Buford laughed and opened it like it was nothing. "Connor needs to rethink locks, this one didn't take me more than a second to force open."
"And the contents?" I asked.
Buford brought it over to reveal a portable hard drive. "Looks like it can hold a terabyte of data on it." I said as Buford handed it to me. "One can only wonder what Connor put on it."
"One can also wonder why he didn't use it before." Buford added.
"Maybe he never got the chance, and maybe it was plan B, seeing as it could contain information that could incriminate him as well."
"Well that's not something that we're worried about, now is it?"
"No." I said as I closed the box. "No we're not."
(Phineas's POV)
I was lying on my bed, looking at the ceiling, contemplating a great many things I would not otherwise contemplate. Ferb had tried earlier to calm me down, but had no luck and decided the best thing would be to let me be for a while. "Looks like this might actually be the end." I said to myself. "Thaddeus won … and now I've lost Isabella for good."
I sighed and looked over to the bag of ice-cream I left on my desk. "I need something to cheer me up right now and I guess nothing else is going to work." I made my way over to my desk and pulled out the container of ice-cream only to realize a few things were off. For starters, it was too light to have any ice-cream in top of that, it was way toowarm; even if it had been sitting out, but the most peculiar thing was that it sounded like there was something inside it. "What the?" I asked as I took it over to my bed. I slowly opened the lid and what I saw made my eyes go wide, it was an audio recorder and from the looks of it, had something saved on it. "Brace yourself Thaddeus." I said to myself. "You haven't won just yet."
Alright, that should be the last one for a while. School's getting more annoying but it's almost over so that's good at least. But I digress, I need to get back to work so I will be seeing you all later.
Hello, my name is Axis23 and I enjoy torturing characters.
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