Alright then, here is the chapter that everyone's been waiting for (someone comes and whispers in ear) I'm sorry, this is not the chapter everyone's been waiting for. And there are going to be more chapters after this, yes, I am going over 50 chapters. I am ashamed. But, I digress, let's get to those reviews.

KuriMaster13: Well yeah, they probably could.

Sabrina06: When you talk about the one are you referring to Perry or Ferb? And when you refer to hothead are you referring to Phineas or Isabella?

14AmyChan: Well … He didn't say enough to get him kicked out of the school but … well … you should just see for yourself.

gravity5: You know what? That's really funny, like Isabella would ever tell Phineas about her feelings.

EpicThoth3: No, I'm not changing the story based on your predictions, I've planned most of this from the start and is it really that obvious?

RedWingChris: Wow … thanks.

Guest: Thank you.

Disclaimer; I don't own anything or anyone except Erick, Arron, Caeca, Connor, Richter. Ricky, and Jesse.

Beta read by Sabrina06


(Phineas's POV)

(That Monday)

I was making my way down the main corridor of Danville Junior High looking around frantically. "Damn, where is he?" I asked myself as I rounded yet another corner. "Why are people who often go unnoticed, and are practically invisible, so hard to find?"

"I think that answers itself Phineas." I heard someone say from behind me.

I quickly turned around to see Caeca standing there with his arms crossed. "Caeca!" I Exclaimed. "Just the guy I was looking for."

"Yeah, I kinda heard you. Now what on earth could you need with me? I thought you were angry at me?"

"Well I forgive you and I need your help, so I'm not angry unless you dosed me with those nanobots again."

"I'm never going to live that down am I?" He asked as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"Not any time soon, so are you going to help me or not?"

He rolled his eyes then nodded. "Sure, not like I have anything better to do."

"Excellent, I need the identity of the guy Thaddeus and Thor have been using to hack the intercom."

"Say what?" He asked. "How did you know that-"

"Thaddeus and Thor were the ones responsible for almost everything that happened to me over the past few months. Well … when I hard pressed Thaddeus when I had my suspicions, he practically bragged about it."

Caeca looked to the side and let out a laugh. "Sounds like something Thaddeus would do."

I pulled the audio recorder out of my backpack and showed it to him. "He should really do something about that before someone uses his own medicine against him."

Caeca's eyes went wide as his mouth dropped open. "Please tell me you have enough to have him expelled from the school for good."

My smile faded and I shook my head. "Sorry, there's info about … something very personal. The only thing that can be played are the really big parts and there's not enough that can cause enough damage; to him of all people."

"Damn." Caeca said as he looked away. "But it's still going to do some serious damage, right?" I nodded and Caeca began to look worried. "Well that's the bad news, Thaddeus and Thor were the ones who did the hacking, I only gave them access."

"I can do the hacking if you're willing to get me access but I still need a voice. Do you know who it was that they got to record those messages and how I can convince him to help me?"

Caeca smiled. "I know who and all you have to do is tell him that you want to make an attack on Thaddeus and Thor and he will probably take you out for ice cream and a movie."

"Well I'll do it for free; can you hook me up?"

"Consider it done, but he's going to be particular about face to face contact; so you are going to have to speak through me."

"I can live with that, I'll give him the access to the intercom and-"

Caeca held up a hand to stop me. "No, I will get you his laptop, you set it up for him, and then I return it to him. He's horrible with computers."

"Fine, but I'd like to get this done today."

"Oh, that won't be a problem." Caeca said with a smile. "There's more than enough time before the first class starts so let's get ready."


(Phineas's POV)

(Later)

Ferb, Erick, Katie, and I were in homeroom as I waited patiently for my plan to go into motion. "So Phineas, I heard that you had a talk with Isabella yesterday." Katie said, after staring at me for five minutes.

"Huh? Um … yeah … I did but … it didn't end well." I answered.

"You don't say." Katie said sarcastically. "Why don't you give me a little more detail?"

I looked away. "Um … well … I tried going over to her house and to talk with her."

Katie began leering at me. "Right … because that's not the exact same thing Isabella said." She slammed her hands on the table and stood up. "I said detail Phineas, now give me some!"

I reeled back a little. "Well … it … didn't really go that well."

"That's what you just said Phineas." Erick said, annoyed that I wasn't sharing this information. "Detail doesn't mean repeating the same thing, damn it!"

"Why are you so interested, Erick?" I asked.

"Because I think that it's impossible for Isabella to refuse an apology from you." Erick said as he crossed his arms.

I sighed and turned to face Erick and Katie. "I told her that I was sorry that I snapped at her and that I wanted to be friends again ... for as long as possible, before I lose her as a friend when she gets together with her crush."

Ferb, Erick, and Katie all stared at me for a moment before face palming. "Phineas, you idiot." Erick exclaimed. "That wasn't an apology, that was you forgiving her."

"How?" I asked as I lifted my hands. "I told her that I was sorry."

"But you told her that you've accepted the fact that the two of you won't be friends anymore, when she gets together with her crush?" Katie asked.

"Yeah, I had to in order to make her believe that I truly wanted to be friends with her again."

"That's not how it works Phineas." Katie said as she shook her head. "You are forgiving her for something that you are accusing her of doing. Something she has not done and something she doesn't think she's going to do, or doesn't think is going to happen in the same way you think it's going to happen."

"Okay then." I retorted. "If you're so smart then how would it happen? I've been trying to find out how I will lose Isabella as a friend the second she gets together with her crush; but I can't think of a single theory."

Katie thought to herself for a moment before putting up a finger, pausing, and then leaning close to Erick. "Could you please tell him for me? I would but I kinda promised not to say anything about it."

I looked at Erick incredulously. "Wait … you knew?"

Erick looked from side to side before answering. "Well … it's been going around our group and … by now I thought you would know about it … and … um …" He looked over at Ferb. "Ferb, you're his brother, it should come from you."

Ferb gave Erick an incredulous look "Well … um …"

Just then, the door swung open to reveal none other than Thaddeus and Thor. "Hello fellow students of Danville Junior High!" Thaddeus shouted as he threw his hands into the air causing everyone to look at him surprised. "You may go back to whatever you were just doing."

Everyone looked away from them as they walked over to us. "Well hello Phineas and friends, how have you all been this fine morning?"

"Come to rub your preemptive victory in my face?" I asked causing Erick, Katie, and Ferb to look at me, surprised.

Thaddeus look at all of them in surprise before smiling. "I see you haven't told them yet, I have no idea why, just because they are out of the loop doesn't mean they aren't affected."

"Did I miss something?" Katie asked.

"Nothing I wanted to explain unnecessarily." I said as I folded my hands.

"Unnecessary?" Thaddeus asked. "I would think it would be very necessary."

"All right Phineas, spill." Erick demanded.

"Well … it would be a waste." I answered.

"How so?" Ferb asked.

At that moment the PA system came on and a very familiar voice came from it. "HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOO STUDENTS OF DANVILLE!"

"Oh no, not this guy again." Katie said as she rested her head on the table and placed her hands on top of it.

"What is going on?" Thaddeus asked Thor, who just shrugged.

"I know that a lot of you hate me, but let me just say that I am overly excited to no longer have a knife at my throat. That I can finally say whatever I want to without fear because there's nothing left that can be done to me."

"We'll see about that." I heard Thaddeus whisper.

"And to celebrate my freedom, I've put together a little thing that I'm sure that you will all appreciate curtsy of an anonymous source."

I smiled as I saw the color drain from Thaddeus and Thor's faces. "I've called in a friend, that you discarded, to tell people for me."

"Now please note, there are some sections cut out to keep the individual's identity a secret."

A click happened then the tape started. "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 wanted. Because 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." There was another click which caused the tape to stop.

"Oh, I bet some of you are surprised, turns out that our favorite psychopath was really working for someone else. But who are the other three that they are talking about? Well, one's me but like I said, I'm free, which brings us to the next part of the tape."

There was another click. "When 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 public. Then sat back and let nature take care of the rest."

Thaddeus looked back at me and grabbed my collar. "Shut this off if you know what's good for you."

I smiled and Ferb grabbed Thaddeus's hand and twisted it until Thaddeus began crying in pain. "Don't you EVER threaten my brother."

Thor moved in to try to get to Ferb but Erick got between them and motioned for Ferb to release Thaddeus. "I don't think he's done and it's against the rules to talk during the morning announcements."

"I bet you all know what this means." The announcer said. "Our most beloved internet informer was also under the influence of these mad men, but who were they? Sadly that was the last of the recordings I could give while keeping that source anonymous but there wasn't anything else of note anyway."

Thaddeus leered at me and was about to lunge; until Thor placed a hand on his shoulder. "Thor's right, we may be injured but we're not out yet. I'll let you have this victory Phineas but the war is far from over."

"I look forward to it Thaddeus." I retorted.

"Wait a minute." Erick said as he looked at Thaddeus. "On the recording … you mentioned a ghost?"

"Yeah, what of it?" Thaddeus asked with a smile.

Erick was about to either attack Thaddeus or ask him something else but the announcer came on first. "Now normally I would call that a fine days' work and be happy with what I had, but apparently, taking the high ground really does pay off seeing as I had a second anonymous source."

"Second?" Both Thaddeus and I said at the same time.

"That's right, a second and this one is data collected by none other than Connor."

Both Thaddeus and Thor looked at the loud speaker and almost fainted. "No … Connor was too stupid, there's no way that he could have had anything."

"Now Connor wasn't the one to give it to me obviously, but he did keep it. It was found and delivered to the police and school board, but not before a few things were recorded like …" There was a long pause. "The contact information of who was giving him orders."

Thaddeus and Thor backed up against the wall as the entire class had their attention fixed on the loud speaker. "BUT! … I'm not here to royally expose you … you two are minors and thus, the law states that I can't say who you are."

"YOU ARE HIJACKING THE INTERCOM AND YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT THE LAW!?" Someone from the next class over yelled.

"I'm not doing this as a threat or for revenge … I'm doing this … for closure … I'm signing off today and you will never hear me again. I just wanted to give my former masters a little message, so here it is; Thaddeus, Thor when you see Connor in juvie ... tell him I said hi … you frickin demons." And with that, the loudspeaker turned off.

We all looked to where Thaddeus and Thor were, only to find that they had disappeared. "Where did they go?" Erick asked as he walked over to where they were. "Damn it, when I get my hands on them for what they did to Kie-"

"Erick." Katie said as she placed a hand on his shoulder. "They're going to get what's coming to them, just let it go."

"How can I do that when they used one of my closest friends against me like that?" Erick demanded, anger apparent in his eyes.

"Kie was my friend too and they used him against me as well." She said as she placed a hand on his shoulder. "They'll get what's coming to them, don't let it get to you."

Erick began to calm down and eventually he let out a sigh. "Thank you Katie."

"Glad that's over." Ferb said as he sat down. "Speaking of which, Phineas, how did you manage to get him back over the PA? How did you even find out who it was?"

"That part was easy." I said as I sat down. "I simply asked Caec- … I simply asked Kie for assistance on exposing Thaddeus and Thor and he was more than happy to point me in the direction of the announcer." I looked around to make sure no one else was paying attention. "On top of that, he even helped me tap into the system so the announcer could go on air."

"And you did this without Ferb?" Katie asked.

"Well …" I began. "I didn't want to get him involved … I didn't want to get any of you involved in case it backfired, and I got in trouble."

Ferb placed a hand on my shoulder and gave me a look that made me smile. "I know you would help anyway Ferb, that's why I couldn't tell you."

Erick and Katie sat back down, we finally had the chance to relax, seeing as this entire ordeal was now over. "Now all that's left to do is convince Isabella to be my friend again so she can get together with her crush and end our friendship."

Katie, Erick, and Ferb all looked at me, concerned, then Katie and Erick looked at Ferb who finally spoke. "Look Phineas … there's … something I-"

"Don't Ferb." I interrupted. "I've had enough today, and I can settle for what I've got."


(Isabella's POV)

(Later that night)

I was sitting on my bed thinking about what had happened earlier today as well as what happened yesterday. "Well, looks like Django kept his word." I said to myself. "Now I have to reward him in some way." I said to myself.

I rolled over. "Phineas exposed Thaddeus to the school and Django exposed Thaddeus to the board, I have what I asked for; but I still feel as bad as ever." I sighed and thought back to yesterday. "Why can't Phineas just believe me when I say that we will still be friends when I get together with my crush? He's my crush so it's not like our friendship would have ended, sure, he would be my boyfriend but we would still be close. Why can't he believe me when I tell him that this phase is only temporary?"

"Why did you refuse to reconnect your friendship just because of that?" I heard someone ask.

I looked up to see the source of the voice and found that it was coming from my mirror of all places. "Who's there?" I asked as I walked over to it.

"You don't recognize me?" The voice asked. As I approached the image cleared up to reveal Jesse as my reflection.

"JESSE!" I snapped.

"Jesse?" The image asked. "I'm you, the new you."

"I'm not Jesse! And I didn't refuse Phineas's friendship just because he wouldn't believe me."

"Oh really?" She asked. "Then enlighten me."

"He doesn't believe our friendship will last, so long as he thinks that; he can't really be my friend again now, can he?"

"You're such a frickin child." I heard a different voice say. The image slowly changed from Jesse to the image of the short brown haired boy that I talked to before my first fight with Phineas. "After what you did you will never be able to get together with Phineas."

"What do you know?!" I snapped.

"Think about it, Phineas came in here begging you for forgiveness; even though he 'knew' that his friendship with you would end when you got together with your crush." He stated.

"Our friendship wasn't going to end!" I shot back.

"But he didn't know that, you HAVE been avoiding him more than you should have. By all intents and purposes, he should think that you aren't going to be close when you get together with your crush."

"You don't understand, things can't go back to normal as long as Phineas thinks that our friendship won't last. He will keep me at a distance because he thinks that our friendship will end." I said as I sat back.

"Then why don't you fix that?" He asked.

"I've tried!" I snapped. "I've tried telling him but he doesn't believe me."

"You don't understand what I'm saying, do you?!" He exclaimed. "You have lost Phineas's trust. What you say to him isn't important, you have to earn his trust again if you want him to believe that you two will still be close. After that, you get together with your crush."

"But Phineas doesn't trust me, how am I supposed to convince him of that? Let alone get together with him." I asked.

He smiled widely. "When you have two problems. You might find the solution to one by putting off another."

I stared at him curiously then thought to myself for a moment. "I know what to do."

"Good." He replied. "Then it's time for you to wake up."

I shot up from my bed panting violently. "What just … a dream?" I asked. "No … it was more than that."


Alright, so there's something I need to tell everyone; I'm not going to be updating for the next two weeks. Yes, you heard me right, I will be working until May 16 (or around there) so … there's your warning. Don't ask me why I haven't updated. Sorry.

Hello, my name is Axis23 and I enjoy torturing characters.

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