Baljeet collapsed into Phineas' bare chest, his head hanging over his shoulder weakly, as Phineas wrapped his arms around him and brought him to the surface. It falls behind Baljeet's comprehension how Phineas and Ferb aren't particularly strong or muscular, yet they were able to pull off things like this as if they were nothing.

As the two boys surfaced, Baljeet let out a lighthearted chuckle at Phineas, who smiled at him. For Baljeet, there seemed to be some sort of magic within the redhead, captivating him, motivating him.

He was surprised how he didn't felt any out of breath, but perhaps that was only because they weren't underwater for very long.

Seconds later, Aussie's head appeared from beneath the waves as well. Baljeet decided to follow the platypus, who didn't seem to have any intention to dive deeper.

Meanwhile, Ferb was at the bottom, thinking of his knowledge of Perry's secret identity and how it might have gone differently if he hadn't discovered the lair in the first place. But he knows that he probably shouldn't attempt to change the past, and besides, he hadn't leaked a word, so they're still fine for now, aren't they?

He closed his eyes and felt, with his heart and soul, how the water beats against his chest and gently stroke his body at the same time, how the ocean lifts him up and push him back down.

"Ferb?" He heard a girl calling his name, sounding a little nervous. It was Isabella, he had known it before he opened his eyes. He decided to take a break from the water for a while, so he sat beside Isabella.

I want to hide the truth and shelter you until the end of the world, thought Ferb, and I know you're always feeling the same, Perry.

Baljeet slid his fingers across Aussie's belly, causing Aussie to let out a soft purr, which was muffled by the waves. In return, the platypus rubbed his tail on the boy's back, which Baljeet found oddly soothing. Baljeet proceeded to pull Aussie into his chest. This made both of them start to slowly sink, but neither really cared.

However, a little moment later, Aussie swam away from Baljeet and went deeper down quickly. Baljeet was confused at first, but decided to follow Aussie anyway.

Baljeet was beginning to feel a bit breathless when Aussie finally decided that they had reached a safe spot. He looks above- there was a gigantic shark swimming by, its mouth full of blood. He could've been attacked or even worse, gotten killed, if it weren't for Aussie.

Baljeet clung onto the platypus, who brought him to the surface. As soon as they surfaced, both was breathing heavily. Baljeet managed to squeeze out a "thank you" in between gasps as Aussie kept both of them above surface. As soon as Baljeet had completely caught his breath again, Aussie headed toward the dolphins.

It was quite a struggle for the platypus, since he was already exhausted from previous events, but thankfully, Aussie made it there. He hopped onto Marsh and spread his limbs out while panting heavily- he had never felt so out of breath before. Not even the diving training in OWCA was that bad.


Ferb opened his eyes and began to swim up. As he did so, he saw Buford directly above him from about a feet away. However, as he got closer, he observed something that was absolutely shocking: Buford had a belt of bite mark, fresh and deep bite mark, around his waist. As a matter of fact, Ferb was so surprised that he accidentally let out a high pitched noise which is a swear word in dolphin language, similar to "f*k" in English. He immediately urged Buford to surface as soon as possible, and once they reached the top, Ferb called out for Dan before taking a single breath.

Without any need for assistance, Buford was sitting on Dan as Ferb took a better inspection of the brand new scar. While it was quite deep, it didn't seem like there was much thrashing. He recognized the scar as a consequence of a precise attack by a shark. Whoever bit him quite possibly just sank their teeth into the skin and the flesh before pulling out vertically.

While Ferb was relieved that Buford wasn't harmed to badly, a question remained: why was Buford attacked in the first place?

As they were resting, Phineas and Isabella showed up holding onto Luke's back fin. Their smiles turned into worried frowns instantly when they spot the scar on Buford. "Buford, what happened?" Phineas said, shocked.

"Well, it's nothing actually; I got distracted by an octopus passing by, so I accidentally bumped into a shark, that's why I got 'bitten'."

"Ugh, that sounds nasty," said Isabella.

"Nah, it was more awkward than painful, we were frozen staring at each other for quite some time, although we were also constantly sinking because of our weight. You should have seen the shark's face then, it was precious, I bet you have never seen a shark literally making a look like that surprised Pikachu meme- well, except his teeth was stuck on my body."

Baljeet and Aussie paddled over to them, "guys, I just saw a shark with bloody teeth earlier- Buford!"

"Yeah perhaps you saw that shark I bumped into." Buford casually said, pointing at the bite mark around his waist. "Since I'm perfectly fine, what y'all wanna do next?" Buford asked before anyone could respond to his previous sentence.

All of a sudden, the dolphin began to swim around frantically, while Ferb's eyes grew wide as well. The dolphins submerged themselves beneath the blue waves, and Baljeet looked down to see the ground well underneath them shaking. Phineas and Isabella exchanged a look of "that doesn't look good" as they followed Ferb.

The deeper they got, the more significant and the more terrifyingly violent the quake seemed. They even witnessed an underwater cave collapse right before them, which absolutely gave Baljeet a huge shock. He stared at the sea floor like a deer in the headlight and froze on the spot. Luckily Phineas took him out of the water when they surfaced so that Baljeet didn't suffocate himself.

On the other hand, Buford was actually marveling at the disaster, his eyes glittering at the "magnificent" destruction, which annoyed both Ferb and Isabella, who had to slap Buford out of it. Not just once, not twice, but three times in a row.

Phineas and Isabella looked at each other worriedly. "An undersea earthquake has never been documented in his area, and even theoretically speaking it's pretty much impossible to have an earthquake as large in magnitude as the one which we just witnessed," began Phineas.

"What could have caused it then? It seems like an extremely abnormal geological behavior. I think there must be some external factor involved. You know, like-" Isabella cut herself off when Phineas got distracted by Ferb, who handed him a shell.

Phineas was at a loss for words when he saw the terribly damaged shell. Although it was barely recognizable already, the redhead filled in the miss pieces-which, again, is basically everything- with his imagination, and then it hit him. "This... This..."

"What is it, Phineas?" Isabella said as Phineas began to shake.

"This... This kind of shell is supposed to be unbreakable! Well, technically not absolutely unbreakable, but no known combination of natural force could do it even the slightest damage! And yet here we have one that's obviously broken right here, which means that Isabella, you're right, there must be someone behind this!"

"Why would anyone want to do that, though?" asked Baljeet.

"Beats me," said Phineas, "I have no idea how anyone would do that for any purpose I could possibly think of."

"Yeah, what type of activity in the world involves bombing the ocean? Unless they did it for the sake of doing it, which makes absolutely no sense at all," said Buford.

"That would be completely nonsensical, I doubt if anyone would ever do that," added Baljeet.

Just then, Ferb noticed that the water temperature had dropped drastically even though the sun was at peak height, that put a frown on the face of Ferb, "they're trying to cause climate change."

"Oh, like that time there were a bunch of people who almost succeeded in taking summer away from us forever?" asked Isabella.

"Same thoughts here,"Phineas raised his hand, the smile on his face gone from sight. Ferb nodded solemnly to their questions.

"Ferb, I know what we're gonna do tomorrow!" Phineas declared.

Buford splashed Baljeet in the face. "What was that for?" said Baljeet, irritated.

"Well it's not like we could be of any help right now."

"You are actually correct. Besides, we do not know for sure that it was not just a random event, maybe it was just a mad lad who executed all this." With that said, Baljeet returned the favor.

Once again, Buford took the aim. Unable to block the continuous attacks, Baljeet suffered some more blows as he desperately try to splash water back at Buford. Sadly, however, his attempts didn't see any success, and he was eventually forced to retreat into the water.

As soon as Baljeet stopped treading, he was finally at peace for a second. Some fish swam past him as he sank, while a few were bold enough to nudge against the boy.

Through the clear water, Buford saw exactly the position of his opponent. He smiled to himself, knowing that Baljeet wouldn't last long underneath, as he planned his next move.

However, to Buford's great surprise, Baljeet swam to the surface so quickly that he leapt into the air. Buford tried to splash him in the face, but Baljeet did a front flip at a well-calculated moment and avoided it, before falling back into the water with his body curled into a ball, creating a huge splash that went straight at the opponent's face.

Baljeet dove head first to get deep enough, and just as Buford had processed what just happened, the exact same thing happened again, leaving Buford with a mouthful of water and a completely dumbfounded look on his face.

Baljeet proceeded to do the same thing three more times with, uncanningly, the same degree of precision, successfully gaining the upper hand. Now you're beating me at my own game, thought Buford, astonished and impressed. This might be the first time I'm genuinely impressed with something he does that is primarily brawns.

As Baljeet did it the sixth time in a row, he propelled himself towards the surface so vigorously that he splashed Buford in the face just by that. He then did a backflip and fell headfirst into, shocking even for himself, a gigantic great white shark's throat.

The shark made a "oops I messed up" face and disappeared into the ocean, which was seen only by Buford.

Wow, right into the esophagus. What are the odds? As Baljeet slid down the giant tube, he also realized he got down there without a single injury, but just before he could even start to think about how crazy that was, he had already reached the end.

Covered in the shark's saliva and mucus tissue, Baljeet fell into a large pool of gastric juice. To his surprise, he found himself only experiencing minor skin irritation, and that the juice stung his eyes a little.

Luckily, there was some space at the top portion of the stomach that allowed Baljeet to breathe. A while later, he decided to swim around in the juice to see if he could find the way out.

Baljeet got straight to the bottom, where he began his search. The partially digested bodies of various creatures, even including a disfigured and severed human corpse, disgusted him quite some; nevertheless, he was able to keep collected and focus on the task at hand.

Meanwhile, his friends were frantically in search of him, or more precisely, the shark that had supposedly swallowed him as according to Buford. Aussie pretended to be just tagging along but was in fact actively looking around for the shark's whereabouts as well.

Just as he was about to surface for air, Baljeet found the exit. He tried to squeeze through at first, but unfortunately it was too small, and he ended up getting his arms stuck in it. He pushed and pulled again and again, trying to get free, but he was getting more and more exhausted from staying too long under.

Just as he was ready to drown, Baljeet finally got free, and with his last remaining strength, he went for the surface. Gasping for air, he desperately try to keep his head above the juice for longer, yet his limbs were too tired to be of any use, and the walls are too slippery to hold onto. As a result, he sank back under only a few moments later.

Baljeet picked up a bone and poked the area near the exit with it as hard as he could. To his surprise, the bone got stuck. Luckily enough, this time it wasn't hard to get the bone out. After a few tries, Baljeet pulled the bone out, although he accidentally hit himself on the left shoulder. He let out a muffled pained shout, but he quickly found out it wasn't too badly hurt; there wasn't a clearly visible wound, and it didn't hurt too much to move his left arm.

He looked at the exit and was delighted to see the exit being significantly expanded, so he promptly swam out from there. Finally he found himself in the blue water again, in the presence of...