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"Now that everyone knows everyone, let's get down to business," Perry said. "We found L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N.'s hideout and now they have one of my boys captive there and I want him back. But for you to fully understand what happened at the hideout, and why I did what I did to my boys, you need to hear the full story. So sit down and listen up. We don't have much time."

After Perry finished telling the other agents the same story he told Isabella, Baljeet, and Buford, he turned his back on them to get his emotions under check while Pinky and Terry answered some questions the other agents had. But when they finally ran out of answers, Perry knew it was time to get on with things. He took one last deep breath in and out before turning back around and facing the agents. After looking at their faces, Calvin's having a very sympathetic look on it, he turned to his other owner, talking in a low voice.

"You ready to explain why we left Phineas behind?" Perry asked, trying to keep his voice calm. Ferb just nodded. "Then go ahead." He turned around to face his fellow agents. "Okay, listen up! Ferb is going to tell you why Phineas wanted to be left behind and then we'll discuss a plan on how to get my boy back." The other agents nodded.

Ferb glanced at Perry before facing the agents. "When the robot grabbed Phineas, of course I wanted to get him back, but as soon as I made eye contact with Phineas, I knew he had other ideas."

"How?" Calvin asked, the other agents wondering as well.

Perry looked at him curiously. "How what?"

"How did he know Phineas was cooking something up? I can tell he didn't verbally say anything," Calvin said.

Perry smiled for the first time in a couple of hours. "You may not get this, but Phineas and Ferb might as well have telepathic powers with each other. They always know what the other is thinking, especially with Ferb because Ferb is a man of few words." Perry glanced back at Ferb for a second, seeing his owner giving him a thumbs up. "Well, usually." Calvin nodded his understanding.

Ferb continued his explanation. "Phineas figured they would bring him to where the other agents were being held, to be held there himself, and could alert us to where they are so we could rescue them. I didn't like the idea, but knew Phineas couldn't be dissuaded, so I agreed."

"How can he alert us?" Baljeet asked. "They would have definitely taken away any way he'd have of contacting us."

Ferb just held out his wrist, pointing to his new purple watch.

"It's a watch," Buford said.

"Does it look threatening at all?" Ferb asked. "Like something they'd take away?"

"Not really," Isabella said. "But I don't get-"

"In Phineas' words," Ferb said, cutting Isabella off. "We tricked the watches out."

"Watches?" Buford asked. "I only see one."

"The one Phineas was wearing," Perry said aloud with realization.

Ferb smiled at his pet. "Exactly. Since we didn't know what would happen tonight, we took two of our old watches, making sure they looked non-threatening, and put everything your collars, minus the translators, in the watches."

"You mean-" Perry said.

"Yes," Ferb said with a smile. "He has a GPS chip in his watch. But, there are two problems."

"What?" Perry asked, although hope was now back in his voice.

"One, he still needs to have his watch with him," Ferb said.

"Like you said, that watch doesn't look menacing. I think Phineas will be able to keep his watch," Pinky said.

"What's the other problem?" Perry asked.

"Only Phineas can activate the chip," Ferb said.

Perry growled a little under his breath. "You mean you can't just override it and turn it on yourself?"

"I can't, Perry," Ferb said, upset as well. "Both mine and Phineas' GPS signals are on different frequencies, only accessible by that person. But I know Phineas will do it. We just need to be patient. We don't even have a plan on how to rescue Phineas yet, and we can't make up a plan unless we know where Phineas is."

Perry sighed, but nodded, knowing that Ferb had a point. He's usually the one who has a plan and about five back-up plans, but having one of the boys out there in the hands of that evil unknown scientist was making him not think clearly. He hadn't even realized that after Phineas was taken, he had been relying on Pinky and Terry to make some of the more major decisions. He turned towards the replication center, seeing that the creations he wanted replicated were done, and started trying to think up a plan on how he could both get the evil scientists (their nemeses) back to normal and save Phineas (as well as the other agents, of course). After another walk through, though, he was also trying to not cry and let out his frustrations on the closest thing he could find, so he just gripped his locket tightly in his paw and continued to pace.

Ferb watched his agitated pet pace through the replication chamber with a pensive look on his face. He sat down with a silent sigh in the chair in front of the computer and traded looking between Perry and the other animal agents. The agents, including Pinky and Terry, looked like they were talking about something, but even they kept looking back at Perry, some with worried expressions. Ferb glanced to his right when he saw Isabella, Baljeet, and Buford walk over to him and sit down on the floor.

"You doing okay, Ferb?" Isabella asked, knowing that even if Ferb looked unaffected, inside he was not doing all that well.

"I will be when we get Phineas back," Ferb said. "You?"

"Same," Isabella said. "It just doesn't feel the same without him." Isabella looked up at her crush's stepbrother before looking back down at her hands. "He'll be okay, right Ferb?" Ferb suddenly smiled after a few silent moments, which startled Isabella, Buford, and Baljeet a little bit.

"Why are you smiling?" Baljeet asked.

"I was just remembering something that happened on our adventure in the other dimension," Ferb said.

"When you were actually there?" Isabella clarified.

"Yes," Ferb said. "You guys saw how bad that other Doofenshmirtz was, correct?"

"He was evil," Baljeet said. "But what does that have to do with Phineas?"

"When he captured us, he wanted us to fix his Other-Dimensionator, like we had before, so he could take over our dimension, but Phineas refused," Ferb said.

"Refused?" Isabella said, a smile pulling at her lips as well.

"Yes. He looked that other evil Doofenshmirtz straight in the eye and refused him several times," Ferb said. "We were also dangling from robots at the time and our lives were being threatened."

Isabella actually managed to chuckle a little. "I can see him doing that."

"What I'm trying to say is, Phineas is steadfast, smart, and, of course, inventive," Ferb said. "Even if they took his watch away, he'd find some other way to get in touch with us. My big fear is that they won't take him to where they're holding the other agents. If they don't, us leaving him there would have been for nothing." Ferb looked at his pet, who was still pacing through the inventions that had been replicated, and shook his head.

Isabella saw the movement and followed his line of sight to Perry. "Will he be all right?"

"He really blames himself for Phineas being captured," Ferb said.

"I can see why he would," Baljeet said, looking at Perry before looking back at Ferb. "He is very protective of you two. I can tell that if Phineas does not turn on his GPS soon, Perry will absolutely lose it."

"You see that too?" Ferb asked.

"He loves you two so much," Isabella said, then looked at her own pet. "Just like my Pinky loves me and Terry loves Baljeet." Isabella chuckled to herself. "I still can't believe my own pet is a secret agent. With Perry, it was obvious, since he always disappeared, but with Pinky and Terry..."

"Well, you guys are always at our house, so it would make sneaking out easier on Pinky and Terry," Ferb said.

"That is true," Baljeet said. "You know, Ferb, I have never heard you talk this much before."

"I've never had to," Ferb said. "I just let Phineas do the talking for the both of us. He always knows what I have to say."

"I guess what Perry said was right," Buford said. "You two are, like, telepathically connected."

"Something like that," Ferb said, looking back at his pet. "Something like that."

"I'm really worried, Pinky," Calvin said, looking back at the upset, pacing figure of Perry.

"You have to understand that this is almost the worst case scenario for Perry," Pinky said. "One of the boys has been taken and he can't do anything but wait."

"What would the worse case scenario be then?" Devon asked.

"Both boys being taken," Terry said. "He feels like he failed."

"I've never seen him show so much emotion," Ferdinand said. "He's usually so together and stoic. The perfect agent."

"If we were dealing with anything other than his boy, he'd be over here thinking up a brilliant plan that probably none of us would have thought of, but I don't think he can think straight," Pinky said, then shook his head. "As a matter of fact, I know he can't think straight. We are not dealing with the Perry we're used to, the secret agent, but rather with Perry, the pet."

"He shouldn't be alone over there," Calvin said, watching Perry pace restlessly through his replication center.

"I agree, but he needs some time to himself," Terry said. "He doesn't want his fellow agents watching him break down."

"He wouldn't cry," Bruce said. "Top agents like him don't ever cry."

"You'd be wrong there," Pinky said.

"He actually cried?" Calvin asked. "You saw tears?"

"Yes," Pinky said. "You all said so yourselves, we all love our families, but Perry loves his about 30 times more, especially the boys."

"I mean, I am a pet, but sometimes I get where the other agents, the ones without families, are coming from when they look at Perry," Bruce said. "While we balance our home and work lives, and the other agents live for their work, Perry puts his family, his boys, way above his work."

"He loves them and is protective of them," Pinky said. "I don't know what else to say, but I've lived across the street from the Flynn-Fletchers since I was adopted and even then, Perry was like that." Pinky then chuckled some.

"What?" Calvin asked. "That was a good laugh. What did you remember?"

"The day Isabella and I went across the street to meet the neighbors," Pinky said. "I remember Isabella putting a leash around my neck and telling me we were going out to meet some new people. Do you all remember the paranoia that you felt about your family when you started your training with the O.W.C.A.?" The others nodded, each recalling their moments of paranoia about their families. "So I was about two months into my training and very paranoid about my family's safety, especially Izzy's, and I was only five months old at the time. I remember that the whole way over I was always looking around, making sure that nothing surprised me, but what I missed was that we suddenly arrived at a house and Isabella's mom was already knocking on the door. Mrs. Flynn-Fletcher answered the door, pleasantries were exchanged and I just sat next to Izzy until a little boy about Isabella's age ran up to his friend. I don't think Ferb and his father were there on that day-"

"Wait, Ferb is Phineas' stepbrother?" Calvin asked. "They're not related?"

"No, they are. Just not biologically," Terry said.

Pinky continued, "I think Ferb and Mr. Fletcher were visiting family back in England, but, anyways, I saw Phineas run up, and even then he always had a smile on his face. Isabella's mom and Phineas' mom stepped inside to talk, but Isabella and Phineas stayed outside. He greeted her and shook Isabella's hand; I wouldn't do it now, but I was feeling protective and these were new people who I knew nothing about, and with the paranoia from the training, I ended up growling at him. It was a bit menacing and a bit warning, but before Izzy could scold me, I heard an even more threatening growl come from somewhere behind Phineas. Suddenly, a ten-month-old, teal, brown-eyed platypus appeared, eyes unfocused, but I knew there was something more to him."

"You had never seen him before?" Devon asked. "Not even during training or anything?"

"Perry had graduated from training months earlier by then," Pinky said. "I remember just staring at him, but I backed up, hiding behind Isabella. Once Perry determined I was no longer a threat to Phineas, he laid down, but kept a watchful eye. I wanted to ask him something, but didn't know how to start. I just kept thinking that he seemed familiar, that there was something about him that was different. Phineas and Isabella were still talking, I could tell Isabella had already fallen for him by then-"

"Fallen for him?" Ferdinand asked.

"Isabella has a huge crush on Phineas, but that's besides the fact. They were still talking, so I crept a little closer towards Perry and took the time to try out the new observation techniques I learned during O.W.C.A. training about a month prior. I tried to see if anything was different about the platypus, just something, but I could find absolutely nothing. After a few minutes of staring him down after trying to observe him was when he finally did it," Pinky said.

"Did what?" Calvin asked.

"He focused his eyes on me, gave me a once over, and nodded. 'How long have you been in training?'

I think I stopped breathing when he asked me that and remember asking training for what.

Perry just rolled his eyes at me at that. 'O.W.C.A.. I can tell by the way you move, the way you observed me, it's straight out of the playbook.'

I told him I had been in training for about two months. He nodded at that. I asked him then if he was part of the organization and he nodded.

'I graduated from training five months ago and have been an agent since then,' Perry said.

I hadn't met an actual agent up close before, so I just introduced myself and he did the same. When he told me who he was, I remember just staring. I had heard of Perry all over the training facility, heard he was this phenomenal agent with incredible instincts and moves, even if he had just gotten out of training.

'I gather by your blank expression that you've heard of me.' I just nodded but something caught my attention about his earlier behavior.

If you are a house pet, you go to a special class to learn how to act around your owners so you don't raise suspicions, right?" At the nods of the other agents, he continued. "Well, I recalled one of the lessons was how to curve down the protective instinct that comes natural to pets and you couldn't clear that class until you learned it. When I remembered Perry's response to me growling at Phineas, I then wondered how he passed the class, graduated, and got on the rise to becoming one of the top agents of the O.W.C.A.. I asked him that and he just snickered, which caused Phineas to look over at the strange sound. If I hadn't been looking, I would have completely missed how quickly Perry could switch his eyes back to being unfocused. Phineas pat him before turning back to Isabella, so Perry refocused his eyes and answered my question.

'All you have to do is make the teachers think they've beaten the protectiveness out of you, so bite back your initial instincts for the period of time the class lasts, pass it, then go back to being protective. Worked for me.' Perry just shrugged at me.

I just stared at him, but nodded. It was actually brilliant and I had thought of it myself, but I'd never thought it'd work. But seeing that Perry had pulled it off gave me hope." Pinky shook his head at the memory.

"I tried that and the teachers caught on to me," Calvin said. "How'd you and Perry pull it off?"

"I guess we had the right motivation," Pinky said with a shrug. "So after talking more with Perry, he learned I was definitely not going to be a threat to his boy, boys when Ferb came back, we became friends, and he helped me a lot when I had troubles with training. But my point is that Perry has always been protective of the boys and even the O.W.C.A. training couldn't get it out of him. They just thought they did. The only thing that will help Perry would be for us to find Phineas safe and sound, so for now, let's just let him be."

Suddenly, a loud beep started up on the computer, causing everybody to rush over there. Ferb, who was still sitting in the chair, brought up the program and saw a map with a blinking dot on it. Both Perry and Ferb sighed in relief while Isabella just hugged Pinky to her chest and Baljeet hugged Terry to his chest; the other agents just smiled at the obvious happiness this brought to Perry and his owner.

"He did it," Perry said with a smile.

"Yes," Ferb said, a smile on his face as well. "Yes, he did."