Beatrice awoke in the basement and was surprised. Not only that she was lying on the floor instead of standing up in her charging bay. But her bedroom looked like it hadn't been cleaned in years... and her twin brother Beurergard was missing.
"Oh... this can't be good." Beatrice then accessed her visor's HUD. She was shocked to see that, not only was Cricket was gone. But the date. "21... it's the twenty-second century!?" She said in surprise and shock. She ran out of the basement, and she was horrified by what she saw before her.
"No..." She looked around her to see the seemingly endless desert around her, and the ruins of Danville. "How... how could this have happened?" She said sorrowfully as she fell to her knees, and began crying softly.
"So... you were here the whole time." Said a voice. "I'll be honest... I should have suspected that you were in what little remains of your home. But we both know the kind of ding-dong I am." Beatrice looked and saw Moza, the alien invader.
Beatrice's temperament quickly turned from confused grief to white-hot rage. "YOU!" She roared in anger, then turning into her wolf form chased after the green alien.
"Wait!" Moza pleaded as he barely kept ahead of the enraged robot werewolf. "I didn't do any of this! I'm at least as much a victim of this genocide as you are!... in that we're both alive to survive it!" Moza ran, Beatrice was nipping at his heels both literally and figuratively.
This chase went on for days. With Beatrice nearly catching Moza multiple times before being shaken off again by some sort of contrivance. Eventually, Moza ran into the Errant Traveler's Tacho'noma, with Beatrice close behind.
"What the heck!?" The Errant Traveler said in surprise as a little green man and a robotic wolf charged into her time machine.
"Calm her down you eccentric of legend! I need to explain why the desolate wasteland outside isn't my fault! Also, I haven't had anything to consume for days other than sand!" Moza shouted as he and Beatrice ran in circles around the Tacho'noma's bridge.
The Errant Traveler just looked confused, and then knocked Beatrice out with her staff. "Okay kid, get me up to speed on what's going on."
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Eventually, Beatrice awoke with the Errant Traveler looking over her. "Sorry to have done that. But this whole thing is too big for you to just go off half-cocked Bea."
Beatrice felt exhausted. "To... to keep the Earth from coming to an end. Right."
"Yes, but here's the thing. See... your brother's girlfriend caused all of that." The Errant Traveler explained.
"Persphone?!... I mean something about her rubbed me the wrong way, but the worst I expected for her to break up with Bo and break his heart!" Beatrice said in surprise.
"From what Moza told me, she was possessed by a Void Fae." The Errant Traveler explained.
"And that is?" Beatrice asked.
"An ancient and powerful alien race that ruled the universe before my people came to power. We thought they had been exterminated... but it seems that they've gone underground in order to hide from us." The Errant Traveler explained.
"And how could this annoying little bean have known about this before you of all people?" Beatrice asked.
"I AM NOT A BEAN!" Moza shouted. "Also, I ran a scan on this Human female at that Valentine's party, and it came up positive on being her being a host for a Void Fae."
"And you just happen to have a scanner setting for an obscure and largely extinct species like that?" Beatrice asked.
"Yep," Moza said.
"The point is, Persephone is possessed by a Void Fae. No idea for how long, it could've been anywhere to shortly after you met, to when she was born. But the point is that Persephone is as much as a victim of this whole affair as anyone." The Errant Traveler said. "So, I'm going to drop you off a week before you were taken offline."
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In the present day. Beatrice, Daniel, Beauregard, and Persephone were on a double date. "Uh... today was just brutal!" Persephone moaned.
"Yeah, that test was just draining," Daniel said.
"I'll agree the topic was a bit... out there," Beatrice said. "But a test never killed anyone... in this country... directly."
"And before a certain girl starts whining about it," Beauregard said, looking at his girlfriend. "Mrs. Kwalski would've known if I helped you, and then we'd BOTH get an earful from her about cheating and the importance of learning."
"Fair enough." Persephone conceded. "And after straining my brain over trying to understand Finnegans Wake... and then realizing the whole point of the test was that it was almost impossible to make sense of the book."
Then the Errant Traveler's Tacho'noma materialized next to their table. "What does she want now?" Beatrice asked as the Errant Traveler exited her Tacho'noma. "Unless you're offering a Mediterrane cruise during the Bronze Age, I for one am not interested."
"A neat idea, but that's not why I'm here. See I was in the future, and I learned that all human life on Earth has been destroyed." The Errant Traveler said.
The mood at the table turned from exhaustion, to grim. "How?" Persephone asked.
"Well, it's funny that you ask, honey." The Errant Traveler said to Persephone. Then without warning, the Beatrice from that future burst out of the Tacho'noma in her wolf form.
"I will do everything in my power to protect my homeworld! And if that means I must break my brother's heart... then so be it." The future Beatrice growled in her combat mode, her eyes glowing red.
"NO!" The Future Moza yelled as he used a plasma leash to keep the future Beatrice. "BAD WEREWOLF ROBOT! VERY BAD!"
"Believe it or not, this isn't the first time I came here and someone tried to kill me," Persephone said, who for whatever reason was not as shocked by this situation as her boyfriend, his sister, and her boyfriend were.
"Then why did you suggest this place!?" Beauregard shouted.
"Hey they make great gyro's here... but I agree we need to run!" Persephone said, they all then ran out of the restaurant.
"Okay, I've had run-ins with future versions of myself!" Beatrice said in surprise. "But this is the first time any of them ever tried to kill anyone! And why you of all people? Your harmless." She said to Persephone.
"Hey, I'm just as confused as you are about this!" Persephone said.
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Eventually, the teens returned to the Flynn household. "You've got to be kidding me," Persephone said in disbelief as the future Beatrice was sitting in the living room in her wolf form.
"That I got here before you? Or that I figured that you'd come here first? No matter, I won't abide my future to be destroyed by a monster!" The future Beatrice growled. "I've taken into account that you wouldn't believe me on my word alone. So I'm going to upload all relevant data into your data networks."
The twin siblings fell to their knees, as they were overwhelmed by the data being inputted by the Future Beatrice. "What are you doing to them?!" Daniel said with concern.
"I am performing a forced data upload. Normally it would take some time for a manual upload, but I will not squander even a moment if it means preventing a future catastrophe upon the universe." The future Beatrice said.
While Daniel was concerned for his girlfriend as she looked to be in pain from the forced data upload. Persephone's face went from a look of terror to one of imperious annoyance. "I see... then I will have to play my hand earlier than I desired." She held out her hand, and out of it came cracking arcane energies.
"I... no... this can't be possible," Beauregard said in disbelief.
"It is true, the data is correct. Persephone is-" The Future Beatrice was blasted by an arcane blast. "IS!... IS A VOID FAE!" She roared as the arcane magic slowly ate her alive.
There was a sinister look on 'Persephones' face. "Aye, that I am, little wolf... sort of. I have inhabited this vessel for years, I have lived alongside Persephone since she was a babe in swaddling clothes. My name is Titania, I am the High Queen of the Void Fae." She said with a distinct Irish accent.
"Wait..." Beauregard said as he got to his feet. "Do you have a husband?"
"Aye, but I haven't seen my Oberon in centuries. So many years outside of my love's embrace... no matter though. I've found what I've needed." Titania gloated.
"YOU. WILL. NOT. DESTROY. HUMANITY." Future Beatrice growled in pain as she slowly disintegrated.
"And if I could restore my people, and avenge ourselves upon the Usurpers. Believe me, I would spare the Earth Folk of their impending doom." Titania said. "As for why this world has even caught my attention... understand only that I saw potential in the race of Men long ago. And I am happy to say that at long last that potential has blossomed."
"What does that even mean?!" The present Beatrice demanded.
"Oh don't play dumb. We all know of your father, and step-uncles skill in the ways of technology and craft. They, among others, have created wondrous miracles that even the vile Spaa-Chronous at their apex would have considered impossible." Titania said. "And now... now I shall take their knowledge, their experiences, everything I can take from them. And share them with my kinsmen, so that we might finally take back our rightful place in the universe!... and I only just realized that I've been monologuing to children in a suburban home." She realized. "And I had a proper speech prepared and everything to..."
"Yes... and you're not going to get away with anything Titania." The present Beatrice said as she changed her arms into a sword and plasma caster respectively.
"Well, squandering an appropriate time to explain my master plan for the first time aside. I'm going now... and I'm not so stupid as to say where or what I'll be doing." Titania then flew off.
"Please... please listen." Future Beatrice pleaded. "I don't know how much time I have left... but you need to know-"
"That my dad is hosting a big meeting next week for PFD Technologies, and that's probably when Titania is readying to strike and... do whatever exactly she's planning to do with him and the other scientists, and engineers, and everyone else that works there!" Present Beatrice said as her future self was disintegrating. "Yeah, dad's been stressing about it for the last three months! Titania won't get away with this!"
"Thank you... please... save the future." The future Beatrice finally disintegrated into ashes.
"You doing okay Bo?" Beatrice asked of her brother.
"I just learned that my girlfriend might not be who I thought she was. And is planning on destroying Humanity... so yeah, I'm okay." Beurergard said sullenly.
"Buddy, I'm sorry that this happened. But it's going to be for nothing if we don't try to stop Titania." Daniel said to the despondent android.
"Don't you get it? Titania used me... I gave her pretty much everything she would need to get inside of PFD Technologies, take whatever she could need. How... how could I have been so stupid?" Beauregard lamented.
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One week later, Phineas, Ferb, and Heinz Doofenshmirtz were standing on a stage. "So, how's everybody doing today?" Phineas said to the assembled people.
"We are doing quite well Mr. Flynn, thank you for asking." Everyone in the crowd said in unison.
"And your certain they were never implanted with those Hive-Mindinator chips?" Heinz whispered to his son-in-law.
"For the last time, no," Ferb grumbled.
"So your probably all wondering what I called this meeting for," Phineas said. "Well, I've got an announcement. You all know my pride and joy, my daughter Beatrice." He said, a hologram of Beatrice then appeared on the stage. "Yeah... little Bea's enchanted the world for over ten years. Both with her advanced state-of-the-art robotic technology, inspiring many of you to become robotics engineers in your own rights. And for her personality, which has inspired my family, and everyone around her with her kindness, her compassion, and the brownies she makes for our annual Christmas parties." He said with pride as the hologram showed a slideshow of Beatrice, including one picture of a butterfly perched on the young gynoid's head.
"So are we finally going to explain more about that one?" Heinz asked of Ferb.
"No, we are not going to go into detail about how that escalated into Beatrice being chased by a horde of enamored woodland creatures, and a Tyrannosaurs." Ferb admonished.
"I still feel like people would take that. I mean Danville does have random outbreaks of mutant Dinosaurs running amok." Heinz pointed out.
"And over the years, the BEA-Droid line has been expanded. First with Beurergard... who went insane and tried to take over the world." Phineas said. "It was ten years before I used the Quantum Android Forge for more than just analyzing Beatrice. When some close friends of mine asked for BEA-Droid teenagers of their own." Phineas went on as holographic images of the other BEA-Droids appeared. "Then my brother, Ferb. Then my sister, Candace. And shortly after Bearergard was freed, he went on to make his own BEA-Droid. After the war, I got to thinking. So many people lost friends and loved ones from the war... it's about time I gave back."
"Remind me again, what is he, 'giving back'? I know I'm being a pest but you know I was glued to my phone through that whole meeting." Heinz said, Ferb just rolled his eyes.
"Ladies and gentlemen! I'm announcing the BEA-Droid Distribution Initiative!" Phineas said proudly as a hologram appeared behind him that read 'B-DDI' "I've had Quantum Android Forges, the devices that are vital to the creation of BEA-Droids. Mass-produced for this project. It's actually quite simple, one Automated QAF will be sent to an area. Almost anyone can send in their DNA for use in the creation of a BEA-Droid."
"WHAT?!" Heinz yelled in surprise. "This... this is a bad idea, might even be the worst he ever came up with- Ferb! Did-"
"Yes, I was paying attention in the meeting when he announced it. And we argued... loudly, for hours, on how this entire thing could backfire on the company and humanity as a whole. But the board ignored the points I proposed, and went along with Phineas's idea." Ferb said.
Unknown to any of them, Titania was in the audience, listening intently to Phineas. "At long last... now to find one of these Automated Quantum Android Forges." She said to herself.
"Who wants to give one a try?" Phineas offered, gesturing to one of the AQAF's.
"Oh, Mr. Flynn... you're digging your own grave," Titania said to herself. "I'd like a go!" She said as she raised her hand. Of course, she was drowned out by the rest of the crowd eagerly begging for their chance to make a bio-synthetic robot. "This is going to take longer than I thought... of course."
However, before anything could happen regarding the AQAF. Draco and the merged form of Terra Aegis burst into the auditorium. "Titania! You shall not threaten mankind!" Terra Aegis bellowed.
Titania looked annoyed. "Should I even be surprised by this?" She muttered to herself, she then conjured for herself a set of purple robes, an ornate headdress, glowing purple wode tattoos all over her body, and a staff. "As I have said before! I will not abide my people to continue existing in limbo, not when a way to restore them is within reach!" She said as she levitated to meet Terra Aegis in the eyes.
"And to not protect Humanity would be in direct violation of the Three Laws. We cannot allow this." Terra Aegis bellowed.
"Well... there goes the record." Phineas said as he checked an app on his phone, and looked at a counter that read, 'Days without a PFD Technologies meeting being invaded by hostile parties'. And reset it.
"We not let you use Grandpapa's machines to kill Humans! Me Draco eat step-mommy!" Draco snarled.
"Only if you wish to kill Persephone in the- wait, have we even met before now?" Titania was caught off guard. "Look, I'm using these AQAF's to make new bodies for me people to inhabit, rend this world in fire, and finally take our revenge on the Spaa-Chronous! And no children, whether they be of flesh or iron will stop me!"
The fight began in earnest, Titania raised up a horde of spectral minions, and clashed with Draco and Terra Aegis. "So... you need any help? Ferb and I can-"
"Affirmative! Provide assistance! Activate robotic security! Don your suits! Do whatever it takes to subdue Titania!" Terra Aegis bellowed.
"Well that we can do at least," Ferb noted, he then pressed a number of buttons on his phone, causing Talos robots to start pouring into the auditorium, followed by him and his step-brother donning their Beak suits.
The fight was intense as Titania shot off magic spells at her robotic assailants, and the ghostly Void Fae assailed Draco and Terra Aegis. But the robots stood firm, despite their attacks only having real effects on Titania herself.
Then Terra Aegis's sword turned into Beauregard. "BEA-Droid Beauregard. Why have you disconnected from the network?" Terra Aegis demanded.
"Because I'm not going to risk Persephone dying!" Beauregard ran towards the felled Titania. He then pulled out a ray-gun-like device with a noticeable screen facing away from the barrel. "Tell me something Titania... was there ever a Persephone? Or was it only ever you?" He demanded.
"Oh believe me... Persephone Amar is every bit as real as you and I are." Titania said, reeling from her wounds. "Up until recently, when we met you. I was merely a voice in the back of Persephone's mind."
"Is she still in there?" Beauregard demanded.
"Oh, she's in here... shrieking and wailing a storm about this whole ordeal. Shouting on and on about how I was her friend and crying- honestly, it's been more than a little difficult to hear with all of her noise." Titania said flippantly.
"Then you just made this a whole lot easier for me," Beauregard said as he fiddled with the touchscreen. "Parameters have been set and ready to execute."
"BEA-Droid Beauregard! Explain this!" Terra Aegis bellowed.
"WAIT! You'll kill us both you fool!" Titania shouted.
"No... you won't." Beauregard then fired his ray gun at Titania. However, instead of Titania disintegrating like everyone expected. Titania split into two beings.
One was the robed form that Titania had modified for battle...
"Persephone... it's going to be alright, I've got you." Beauregard said gently to the other figure. Picking up Persephone in his arms.
"Well... it stops the noise at least," Titania said as she wearily stood up. "Now, taste arcana!" She said as she tried to cast some kind of spell at Beurergard and Persephone... tried being the operative word.
"See, a neat feature of my Seperatortron 2100," Beauregard said with a cocky smile on his face. "I can select what gets separated from a person or object. For example... putting an alien queen into one body, while putting her magical powers into another."
"YOU. DIDN'T!" Titania roared indignantly. "You... you dare to cut me off from my magic?!"
"You do not possess a moral high ground in this situation. You were planing on exterminating Humanity with a robot army." Terra Aegis said, it then disassembled into its component robots.
"And if you've been paying any attention you'd recall that I am very, VERY, protective of my family," Beatrice said with an angry look on her face. "And without your powers, you're as defenseless as any run-of-the-mill Human. In short Titania... you're finished."
Then Beatrice and the other BEA-Droids armed their weapons. "Hold it!" Phineas said as he and Ferb flew over in their Beak suits. "Don't harm Titania!"
"Me Draco couldn't have heard that right," Draco said in disbelief.
"Look, it's like you said. Titania is harmless without her magic, and I'm going to assume that you can't just separate that magic further from Persephone right?" Phineas asked.
"I don't think so... not unless we want to risk dealing with another crisis on such short notice," Beauregard said.
"Then we need to keep them both under observation... maybe figure out something to help Persephone," Ferb noted.
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In a PFD Technologies holding cell, Persphone woke up with a start. "Hey, you. You're finally awake." Beatrice said, sitting at Persphone's bedside. "You've been slipping in and out of consciousness for the last week."
"This is a PFD Tech holding cell..." Persephone said, examining her surroundings. "Why am I in here?"
"You remember how you were separated from Titania?" Beatrice asked. Persephone just nodded. "Well, when Bo split the both of you up. He... basically dumped her magic into you."
Persephone looked at her hands with trepidation. "Does... does that mean I can use magic?"
"Potentially... look if you're wondering why I'm here and not Bo. He's been a bit... on edge after everything. We all are frankly. And he didn't want to uh... 'agitate' was his choice of words." Beatrice said.
"That certainly sounds like Bo," Persephone said. "Where is he?"
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Eventually, Persephone went down into the basement of the Flynn household. "Persephone... I know that I should have been more responsible with my invention. I just wanted to be done with Titania... get you back." Beauregard's eyes were red with tears.
"Bo, have you been crying for the last week?" Persephone asked with concern.
"Yes... I just couldn't predict what your reaction would be-"
"Beurergard Talos Flynn... I don't resent you for giving me magic powers." Persephone said. "I mean... I'm a little freaked out about that. But I'm glad at least that Titania isn't making me hurt my loved ones anymore. And remember, this whole adventure started when a version of Beatrice from the future where Titania got away with destroying Humanity tried to maul me! So anything has to be better than that." She then looked directly into Beurergard's bloodshot eyes. "Look... we'll figure something out Bo."
"WAIT!" Shouted a robot that stumbled into the basement.
"WHAT IS IT YOU GLORIFIED DIFIBULATOR?!" Beauregard roared, his eyes now literally glowing.
"Bo! Don't yell at the poor thing." Persephone admonished. "But seriously, why are you here? In the sense of 'why did you come here?'"
"Well... here are the tests that we ran on you." The robot said, displaying a holographic display.
"Yeah, I don't speak technobabble," Persephone said as she squinted.
"It isn't that hard to understand. Basically... it means that you can use magic, but at present, it's extremely limited." Beauregard said.
"Of course it would. I get magic, but I can't summon dragons or cast magic missiles on the first day." Persephone said.
"Also, if you don't regularly use it, the reserved magic will eventually build up and cause you to... explode with an estimated yield of-" Beauregard then shot directly into the robot's face. "I'm-I'm just going to stop talking now."
"HOW LONG CAN SHE GO, AND HOW MUCH MAGIC MUST SHE USE DAILY IN ORDER TO SURVIVE... ALSO, WHY WASEN'T THIS A PROBLEM WHEN TITANIA WAS PART OF HER?!" Beauregard said at length in his combat mode.
"W-W-Well... at least three months. W-W-We haven't quantified it yet. And we- that is the Analytics Department have figured that Titania herself carried the magic and she had millennia of training and experience to make this moot." The robot stammered. "Please, I was just in charge of monitoring Ms. Amar's vital signs while she was out!"
"So in a nutshell. I have to use magic as often as possible... or otherwise I'm a ticking time bomb that'll destroy everything and everyone I care about?!" Persephone said in a panic.
"Percy please calm down, I can separate the magic from you," Beauregard said as he took out his Seperatortron 2100.
"No... I don't want you to create someone just so that they can explode, or threaten the world or anything else bad like that." Persephone said. "I'll carry the burden of this magic, so just put that away before you hurt someone."
Beauregard looked too exhausted to argue with his girlfriend. "Well... okay, just let me turn this off-" The Seperatorton then fired at the robot, separating it into two robots.
"I just thought you should know that I'm very depressed." Said a robot copy.
"Subject: Amar, Persephone. According to my scans. You have a Vitamin B deficiency." Said a second robot copy.
"Merge them back, MERGE THEM BACK!" Persephone shouted, Beurergard quickly rejoined the robots into a single being. "Okay... that thing has a hair-trigger."
"Agreed, I'll... I'll need to talk to Norman about that," Beauregard said sheepishly. "After I recharge. A week of non-stop crying does not do the ole' power reserve any favors." He said as he went to the QAF to recharge.
Persephone snuck a kiss on the unconscious Beauregard. "Goodnight Bo."
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Titania was in a PDF Technologies holding cell and was being poked and prodded by scientific equipment. "Oberon knows that his queen was threatened. Oberon knows that something has happened to me. Oberon is coming... and his wrath will make what I sought to accomplish seem merciful by comparison- OW!" Another needle drew blood out of her. "WILL YOU BEKNIGHTED MACHINES JUST LET ME MONOLOGUE?!"