Chapter 1 (Just another spectacularly ordinary day)
In a quaint little backyard, with perfectly trimmed green grass, a fence, light brown in color, and a singular large sized tree, two brothers, sit under the shade plotting out a most spectacular day! One of the brothers, Phineas, has a head shaped like a triangle, with red hair at the back. The other, Ferb, has an elongated face with a rather thick nose, and green hair atop his head.
"Ferb, I know what we're going to do today!" Phineas says with great enthusiasm. "We're going to build a giant hula hoop out of nothing but string!"
With boundless energy, Phineas and Ferb get to work acquiring various items needed for this project, balls of string are loaded into trucks by the tons. One of which catches the attention of a cat, which nabs it curiously from the workers without them realizing it. At the house, their sister Candace, watches them from her window, while on the phone with her best friend Stacy. "I don't know what they're doing with all that string Stacy, but I know it's got to be something bustworthy!" she says, messing with her long orange hair.
"Well...why don't I just come over there and see for myself?" Stacy over the phone suggests.
"Great idea! Meet me in the backyard!" Candace says.
The fence gate swings open, a girl leaps into the backyard, sporting a white T-shirt, with pink pleated skirt over it. A pink bow on her long black hair, with pink shoes and long white socks. Her head, oval shaped. She spots Phineas, and is instantly compelled to go to him. As she approaches, she asks "Hey Phineas, Whatcha doin?" he turns to her.
"Hey Isabella! We're trying to make a giant hula hoop made of string! Want to help?" Phineas asks.
"Absolutely...anything for you." She ends with a shy voice.
"Cool!" He responds. "There's only one problem, I can't seem to find the last ball of string."
"Oh, that should be no problem." Isabella says, and with quick action, requests the help of her fellow troops from an organization known as the Fireside Girls. Consisting of Gretchen with a pair of glasses, Adyson, Holly with dark skin and two misshapen teeth, Ginger who is of asian decent, Katie, and Milly. All of which make haste to the backyard. Wearing an orange attire with brown skirts and a sash with a variety of badges.
"Alright Fireside girls let's find ourselves that ball of string!" Isabella commands. They scatter in many directions to search everywhere they can for this missing piece.
"You know, it occurs to me that we have no way to make it sturdy enough to twirl." Phineas says to Ferb. Through the gate, a small indian kid comes in, carried by a caucasian boy who wears brown shorts and a black T-shirt with a skull in the center. "Hey Buford, Baljeet." Phineas says. Buford lets go of Baljeet, who inquires about what they are doing.
"Well see, we don't have a way to make it solid." Phineas says.
"If you'd give me a sec to run the calculations…" Baljeet says, taking a chalkboard, working at a startling fast pace, coming to a terrible conclusion.
"It is mathematically impossible." He says in his thick accent from his home country.
"Well we'll find a way." Phineas assures himself.
"Whatever." Buford chimes in. "I'm just here for the pie at the end."
Stacy, sporting a turquoise shirt with a blue bow on her hair, enters the backyard, looking for Candace, who, upon seeing her, comes to the backyard. "Wow." Stacy says, staring at the hula hoop which encompasses the backyard.
"See what I mean?" Candace says to her. "Just you wait till I get mom to see this."
"Sorry Phineas, but we can't seem to find the ball of string anywhere." Isabella tells him.
He looks at the ground with somber reflection, his enjoyment, his plans, no longer does he see it working out. A shadow forms to the side of him, he spots it upon its completion, turning around to see a giant figure, a man, with a purple face with deep crevasses in his chin. Decked out in gold colored metal, an ornate designed helmet, chestplate, arms, legs and boots. His face completely exposed on the front. He goes down on one knee, extending his closed hand out, opening it, revealing an item, the missing ball of string.
"You were looking for this, yes?" His voice deep, and powerful like the ocean, yet, with a gentle tone with every spoken word.
"Yes, yes I was, why thanks Mister!" Phineas says with massive appreciation fuming from his being. Within a few seconds he completes it.
"Who are you?" Candace says looking up at the man. He bends down again on one knee, "My name is Thanos, I just happened to come across a ball of string, and as I passed by, I saw this magnificent project and figured you could use the help." Thanos says.
"Well I am certainly not apart of this!" Candace exclaims.
"No?" Thanos intrigued, looking on with passion in his eyes.
"No I...say...where are you from?" Candace's train of thought pushed aside to ask a more prominent question.
"I...am from a planet called Titan. Your species calls it a moon." Thanos says.
"You're an alien!?" Phineas chimes in. Thanos nodding. "That's so cool!" Isabella approaches him.
"What's it like there?" She asks.
"It is wonderful there little one." Thanos says with a slight twitch.
"I just wish we had a solution to the solidity issue…" Phineas mumbles to himself. Thanos turns his head in Phineas direction.
"That can be solved." he says.
"Um excuse me, but that is mathematically impossible, I checked it out myself, string simply does not have the solidity to pull it off." Baljeet interrupts.
"Yes, it certainly doesn't, you are correct, but I can alter these rules." Thanos says.
"That doesn't seem very probable…" Baljeet says with an uncertain tone.
"It will obey my command, watch closely." Thanos holds out his left arm, a gauntlet, same color as the rest of his uniform, with 6 distinct gems upon it. "See this one? It holds control of reality. With but a whim I can make your wildest dreams come true, like this…" the yellow gem lights up, seemingly doing nothing.
"It is done." Thanos says. Phineas stretches out his little fingers, touching the rope, same texture, but oddly, more firm to his utmost surprise. "Woah." Phineas says.
"What else can those gems do?" Isabella asks.
"The green one here, is called the soul gem." Thanos explains, pointing to the one in the center of his gauntlet. "This one, red, is power, the blue one, is mind, the purple is space, and this orange one is time." Isabella is amazed by this, leaning in for a closer look.
"Well it is all set to go!" Phineas shouts. Isabella looks over in his direction. "Want to join us?" Phineas asks Thanos.
"I shall." Thanos says, joining the gang as they all get into position, lifting up the hoop. It spins perfectly.
"They are so busted, just wait until mom sees this." Candace pulls out her phone, turning around, Thanos in her way. "What the…"
"You want to bust your brothers?" Thanos asks, down on one knee.
"Well yeah." Candace says.
"Every time you attempt to get your mother to see their invention it fails, or, at the very least, is undone when it occurs." Thanos says.
"Well...yeah, but it hasn't ever occured." Candace objects.
"Not that you remember, but it has happened, reality got undone though, as it happened. Remember that time you were a candidate to be mayor of this fine town for a day?"
"Yeah, but I didn't win." Candace says.
"No, but you did before reality shattered from a mad scientist's invention and caused reality to fracture. Your brothers had built an old town in your backyard, and managed to show your mother." Thanos explains.
"How do you know any of this...and how are you even here? Aren't you spinning in that crazy sized hula hoop?" Candace inquires.
"I can see into everyone's mind, or one persons, if I choose, also, be in more than one place at once. Right now I am just projecting myself into your mind, I really am just on the hula hoop, it is a trivial thing."
"Huh, that is wrong on so many levels." Candace pauses. "So, could you help me bust my brothers?"
"I can indeed...your mother is out shopping right now, would you want me to bring her to the backyard?"
"Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! PLEASE!" Candace says with impalpable anxiousness.
"Very well." By Thanos' will, that instant, her mother appears, her long red hair the same color as Phineas's' with modest clothing and an extended hipline.
"What the…" Candace's mother says, looking at her immediate surroundings.
"Mom, mom mom mom!" Candace yells.
"What?" her mother turns around.
"Just look at what Phineas and Ferb are doing!" Candace says, turning her mother to look at the spinning hula hoop, the people within it cheering loudly. Off in the distance, unknown to them, a beam is suspending in air, stopped in its tracks to its destination.
"Phineas, Ferb come here this instant!" their mother's vocal cords threaten to shatter. Candace smiling. The hula hoop stops spinning, Phineas and Ferb walk up to their mother.
"You two are so BUSTED! Laurence get out here!" Their mother yells, in an attempt to get their father. "You're...GROUNDED, go to your rooms!" She points to the house "And I can't wait to tell every one of your mothers what you've all been up to!"
"And just who are you? Didn't I ever tell you boys not to talk to strangers!" she says turning to Thanos.
"He's not a stranger, he helped us with our invention." Phineas interjects. Thanos looks at Phineas with a sinister smirk.
"Mrs Flynn-Fletcher please don't tell my mom...no one has ever been hurt." Isabella pleads.
"Well it could of happened, you don't know that!" Laurence, the boys' father comes out, shocked, putting on a false stern look.
"There is something more pressing that I must discuss with each of you." Thanos says.
"This doesn't concern you." She says.
"No, but it concerns you, well, not you, or your husband, but everyone else in the yard." Thanos says. Everyone silently staring at him. "Ever since I came here, I had detected blocked memories in almost everyone. I figure I should give you all one last gift, clarity." Thanos says, holding up his left arm, with a single will everyone's minds are cleared, memories come flooding back from a most terrific adventure across dimensions, with pets, and of a kiss. Phineas looks at Isabella, and she at him, but in a more shy.
"So that is where Perry went off to all those times." Ferb chimes in.
"Isabella!" Phineas exclaims with a smile on his face. She freezes, ignoring the obvious signs. "I didn't know you felt that way about me! Come to think of it, I feel the same way about you too!" Phineas says, she unfreezes.
"You...do?" Her cheeks blushing tremendously.
"I never realized it until now, but yeah I do! Is that...okay with you?" He shyly asks.
"That's...AWESOME!" Her heart flutters, they embrace in a most cherished hug.
"I do hope you enjoy it while it lasts." Thanos says.
"What? What's that supposed to mean?" Phineas asks.
"Yeah!" Isabella shouts out in agreement. Thanos gets on one knee again. "I hope you survive little one, and you too, but that is not for me to decide." Thanos says to Isabella and Phineas.
"Hey, he asked you, what is that supposed to mean?" Candace blurts out. Thanos looks at her.
"One of my counterparts said once 'the hardest choices require the strongest will', I used to not agree with that, there were not hard choices. But, seeing all of you, and knowing your stories...it, moved me in a way I did not expect, and I see now, what my counterpart saw." Thanos stands straight up, reaching his left hand to the sky.
"And I have the will or, is it the desire?" Thanos smirks before snapping his fingers with the gauntlet, all the gems lit up as bright as the sun. He vanishes before all of them, they look at each other confused.
"What was that all about?" Phineas inquires. Looking around at everyone. An eerie silence.
"Perhaps it was about this…" Ferb says, looking at his arms, fading to dust before his eyes, he is entirely ashified in an instant.
"Ferb?" Phineas questions, a lack of understanding about what has occured before his eyes.
"Oh no!" Isabella shrieks, looking as all of the fireside girls vanishing into dust before her very eyes, with the exception of Ginger.
"Oh come on!" Buford shouts, a small tear streaming down his face as he starts disappearing, "Baljeet, do me a favor and look after my goldfish…" Buford finishes before fading into dust.
Candace looks at Stacy, and her at Candace, only she doesn't look at Candace for more than a second before ceasing to exist. Candace looks back at Phineas and Isabella, then at her mom, who fades into dust. Laurence gone as well. Ginger, falls to her knees in tears. Isabella shoots a look at Phineas, runs to him, embraces him; one last time. "Please, don't let me go Phineas! Please do something! Please Phineas! Don't let me go, please..." Isabella cries, leaning into him tightly for comfort; before fading into...nothingness.
Phineas drops to the ground, still holding his arms in an embrace, not moving, not speaking, his reflection caught in the screen door to the house. His shirt damp from foreign tears. He lets out a furious yell, striking the ground with his fist as tears stream from his face, Baljeet freaks out, screaming 'no' Candace slowly walks past Ginger, who stares at where her sister used to be, she kneels beside Phineas, putting a hand on his back, she looks back to where Ferb was. Phineas picks his head up, it drops down again, he strikes the ground with screams and tears, his thoughts racing, to his mom and dad, to his brother, and to his love-Isabella. His chaotic thoughts swirl around, eventually fueling a central thought; his revenge on Thanos.