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Sneaking out, he went to the cornucopia. He saw packages for District 1, 2, 6, 9, 10 and 12. He couldn't see any sign of Finn. Marco and his fellow district tribute came and went. Later so did Go-Go. Seeing that the coast was clear, Phineas went to pick up the package for District 6. He also looked at what was in the package for District 1.

"Hey! I do desperately need that!"

A nearby log transformed into the girl from district 10. She overpowered Phineas.

"I don't know what's so important about you, but whatever. I'll kill you, just like we killed your little girlfriend!"

Someone leapt on her and started strangling her with a spear. It was Dipper. The District 10 girl struggled, but Dipper managed to bring her down. Wearing nothing but a loincloth and covered in tattoos, somehow he had not only survived in the arena, but learnt to fight. Gone was the wimpy kid whom Phineas first saw on the tv. The arena had changed him. He aimed his self-made spear, a stone blade tied to a branch, at the girl's throat.

"What did you do to Mabel?"

"Nothing, nothing! It wasn't me! Rad! RAD!"

Yelling, Dipper raised his stick and brought it down.

BOOM.

Wacko poured a bottle of black pond water into a glass.

"Ah, Enid. To be honest, I never watched 'OK KO let's be heroes' regularly. But even so-"

Placing a blindworm into the glass, he held it up to the screen.

"Farewell, Enid."

And drank it. Then he started choking, spitting out a sting.

"I thought blindworms having a sting was only a myth!"

Pulling up his spear, Dipper's attention turned to Phineas with a bestial look in his eye. He advanced towards him. Phineas backed away.

"Wait wait wait wait!"

Once again, Phineas' mind flashed back to the vision he had of Dipper earlier. Not this angry Dipper in front of him. And once again he had that feeling of knowing him yet not knowing him at the same time. But it was different from the other times, as if he was closer to him than the others.

"Dipper wait!"

Dipper stopped. He aimed the stick at Phineas's neck.

"How do you know that name? HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT NAME?"

"M-Mabel talked all about you. About how you taught her how to treat tracker jacker venom!"

Dipper lowered his weapon.

"She called her your girlfriend. What did she mean by that?"

"We were allies. Though only briefly. I tried to save her, but I couldn't! She told me to tell you that she loves you. I'm sorry Dipper. I'm really, really sorry!"

Phineas was in tears. It didn't help that Dipper looked like a gender bended version of his sister. Dipper cried again as he raised his spear. Phineas closed his eyes. He heard the spear impale the ground. He opened them. Dipper went to get the package for District 4. As he walked away, he stood opposite Phineas.

"Just this once, 1. For Mabel."

And then he ran off and jumped back into his sanctuary that was the field.

Phineas got back to the cave.

"Connie! Connie, wake up!"

Connie woke up.

"I got you the medicine for your leg."

"Wh-what?"

Everyone woke up.

"You went there? But-"

"You made Steven promised not to go there. But you never said anything about me or Ferb."

Steven and Connie stared at him.

"You risked your life to help us?"

"We're allies, aren't we? That's what allies do, isn't it? Help each other out? Besides, you saved my brother's life, I'm just returning the favour."

Taking out the syringe, he injected her. The wound healed instantly. Steven was in tears.

"You've saved her. Thank you!"

And he hugged him.

"I hope you didn't come across too much trouble for me."

"Oh, not at all! Course, I was ambushed by the girl from District 10, but Dipper saved me."

"Who?"

"The remaining tribute from District 4."

"I thought his name was Mason."

Phineas understood.

"That's why he was surprised I knew his name! It could have only been a nickname from someone he knew, like his sister!"

"Phineas."

Ferb placed his hand on Phineas' shoulder.

"Can I talk to you for a moment?"

"Sure."

They walked to the furthest corner of the cave away from Connie and Steven.

"Phineas, don't ever do that again."

"I'm sorry Ferb, but I thought this was the only way Connie could be saved without Steven breaking his promise-"

"I'm not mad about that!"

"Then what?"

"Don't ever do anything alone. Not without me."

"Ferb, I'm sorry. I didn't want to risk your life-"

"If I cared about my life so much, I wouldn't have volunteered! Phineas, the reason I volunteered is that I knew that together, we could beat the arena."

Phineas' temper flared.

"Oh, that's funny, because until they announced that two tributes who came from the same district could go home, I hadn't seen you unless you were with the careers! You're angry because I went off on my own? Well how do you think I felt when you didn't join me at the start of the games?"

Ferb looked shocked.

"Phineas, I meant to join back up with you eventually, the only reason I joined the careers was that I thought I could help protect you-"

"Protect me? YOU LEFT ME VULNERABLE! Do you have any idea what I've been through these last few days? How hard it's been? How much easier it could have been if I had my brother at my side? Do you have any idea how I felt when I saw you with them, thinking that you had betrayed me?"

Ferb blinked.

"You're right. I made a mistake. I'm sorry. So how about a deal? From now on, we do everything together."

"Deal."

They shook on it.

"Whoa. Déjà vu," They said together.

For a moment they were silent.

"Hey Ferb. You got stung by one of those Tracker Jackers, right?"

"The what?"

"Those wasps."

"Oh yeah. Don't feel bad, I know you were only trying to protect yourself."

"Oh I don't. I mean, I do, but the reason I'm asking is what did you see? After you got stung, I meant?"

"Different things. First there was that tentacle monster, then the president naked, holding some sort of glowing orb. Mainly it was about the president, in different situations, focused on you."

"Me? Why me?"

Ferb shrugged.

"It's just that I think I had similar visions. But how could we have the same hallucinations?"

Again, Ferb shrugged.

"When Mabel was stung, she told me she saw her worst nightmares. I think she meant the nightmares everyone have, but how come we didn't see the same thing?"

"Probably because we never had nightmares."

"Oh. I guess there's that. Well-"

Phineas brought up the package he got from the feast for District 1.

"I also got this."

Inside was a box of tools.

"We're sure to build more stuff easily-"

Everyone heard screaming. They ran outside. Phineas recognised the scream.

"That sounded like-"

BOOM.

"No."

Phineas' pupils shrank.

"No no no no!"

In the sky appeared the image of Dipper.

Wacko poured himself a glass.

"This pond water right here is straight from Gravity Falls, where you made your home."

He dropped a book worm, which had glasses and everything, into the glass, and held it up.

"Farewell, Dipper Pines."

And drank it.

Everyone in the cave was silent. Phineas still had his back turned to everyone else.

"Phineas?" Steven started to ask, "Are you o-?"

Phineas hit the side of the cave.

"Why?"

He turned to look at the others, in tears.

"Why are we doing this? Why are we here? Why are we being made to fight each other, to hurt each other? Why are we playing along with it, huh? Why can't we decide not to fight? Why can't we just throw our weapons down and say no more, that we're not playing your game?"

Steven and Connie looked at each other.

"Because if we did that, our families will never be seen again."

"Our families? Don't you mean we will never see our families aga-?"

Phineas understood what she meant.

"There has to be a way. A way to win the games without hurting anyone."

Phineas was woken up by stirring. Steven was stirring in his bed.

"No. I told you to stop. I had no choice!"

Everyone was awake.

"Steven!"

"No, Connie. Get away! NO!"

Steven woke up. He broke down in tears.

"I didn't mean to hurt anyone! I'm sorry!"

"Steven, it's okay."

She hugged him.

"None of them would let me help them! I had no choice."

"Shh. I'm here. It was just a nightmare."

"No it wasn't!"

Phineas at once understood his feelings back at the choosing. Steven wasn't upset because he was worried of being hurt. He was in tears because he was worried about hurting others.

As they ran out of supplies, the group came to a decision, having a big breakfast so that they had enough energy for gathering.

"I need to check if any of my snares caught anything," Said Connie.

She noticed the look on Phineas and Ferb's faces. She groaned.

"Not you two, too! Guys, I know none of you want to kill anything, but we can't live on plants alone! We need protein for a balanced diet!"

"Actually there is certain flora that is high in protein," Phineas pointed out, "I remember it in the edible plants section."

"Ok, you all can gather. I'll go off and hunt."

And she went off. And so Phineas, Ferb and Steven went out to gather berries, herbs, roots, nuts, etc, especially looking for any that was high in protein. Phineas and Ferb had also built a couple of tools to improve the gathering and carrying.

"Found anything that means we don't have to kill any adorable animals?" Steven asked the pair.

"Hmm. Nope. Nothing."

"How about these?"

Steven showed them a handful of purple berries. Phineas looked at them. He knew from looking at them they weren't protein high, but he also realised something else.

"No!"

He slapped them out of Steven's hand.

"Phineas, what the heck?"

"Those are yadda yadda berries, Steven, they turn you to stone!"

"Really? Cos I must have eaten like a ton of these and I'm fine."

"-Really?"

"yeah!"

Phineas picked the berry up again. He was sure that this was a yadda yadda berry, yet from what Steven told him it wasn't poisonous.

Wacko contacted Felus.

"Felus. You put Yada Yada berries in my arena?"

"Well, Sir, I thought they were appropriate."

"Correct me if I'm mistaken, buy isn't the petrification effect only temporary?"

"Well, I might have made a few modifications."

"Modifications? What kind?"

"You will find out soon."

"Hey, there's a bush down the stream that might be useful."

Steven took them down to the bush, and picked off a couple of them.

"Hey, er, thanks again for saving Connie," Steven thanked Phineas again.

"You know her, don't you? I mean, before the games."

"Yeah. She's my best friend."

"Huh. Weird."

"Why is me and her being best friends weird?"

"Oh no, not that. It's just…Me and Ferb being brothers. Dipper and Mabel brother and sister. You and Connie best friends. And the two from district 12 seemed to know each other as well. It's just weird how the tributes from each district have a close bond pre games, when the odds of that out of the hundreds of kids available…it's just weird, don't you think?"

BOOM.

"Connie? CONNIE!"

"Steven, I'm sure it's not Connie, there are other tributes it could have been- Steven, wait up!"

Phineas and Ferb tried to run after Steven, but he disappeared from view.

"You know, he is surprisingly fast."

Eventually they caught up with him. Steven was staring at something. The first thought that came to mind was that it was a statue of Go-Go. But then they realised.

"Steven? STEVEN!"

Connie ran up to them.

"I heard the canon go off! I thought-"

"We're ok," Steven told her, "But I can't say the same for the remaining district 12 tribute."

Connie looked at her.

"What happened to her?"

Everyone heard rustling nearby.

"Quick! Someone's coming!"

They hid in the nearby bushes.

"It feels like I'm not supposed to be here. Like I should be dead already."

Phineas froze. He recognised the voice.

"Yeah I know how you feel. I guess we were just lucky."

And he recognised the second belonging to the girl from the same district. They would be a team now.

"Hey, what's that?"

They noticed the petrified body of Go-Go.

"It looks like someone yadda yaddaed the remaining 12."

"Yadda yaddaed?" The girl asked.

"Didn't you go through the edible plants section of the training?"

"I might have skimmed it," The girl rolled her eyes.

"Well basically, the yadda yadda berries turn you to stone."

"Oh. Looks like someone finally outsmarted you, eh?" She said to the petrified form smiling, poking her. Cracks started to spread across the body, before she collapsed into a pile.

"Ah, Go-Go."

Wacko poured himself another glass of the same pond water he poured himself for Hiro, dropping a particularly tough looking worm in it.

"I may not have been fond of your whole 'woman up' thing, but nevertheless you were a strong role model for girls (even if you could be a bit too aggressive and distant), a strength matched only by your intellect. Also I like that out of everyone from Big Hero 6 you were one of those who appeared to be changed the least."

He held up his glass.

"Farewell, Go-Go."

And drank it.

"It looks like they made a few modifications with the berries," Marco remarked.

"Do you think who ever yadda yaddaed her is close?" the girl asked.

A shield appear in Steven's hand.

"Unlikely. It was probably just a trap. They're likely long gone now."

"Well, I'm sure there's no harm in checking these bushes."

The girl just happened to walk towards the bushes where the group was hiding. Steven brough up his shield while Connie drew her sword.

"Come one, Star, let's go," Marco walked away, "I'm bored of this place now."

"Hey, wait up!" the girl, Star, ran after him. When they were out of sight, the group walked out of the bushes.

"That was a close one."

"But I do wonder how did she get yadda yaddaed?"

"I think she must have picked up one of the berries I knocked out of Steven's hand."

"Ok. Why did you have yadda yadda berries in the first place?"

"I've been eating them."

"YOU WHAT? Steven, don't you remember them from the edible plants section of the training?"

"I might have skimmed that section," Steven rolled his eyes.

"SKIMMED?" Connie exclaimed in disbelief, "Steven, this isn't like revising for a test where the worst thing that could happen is to get an F, it tells you what to avoid, YOU COULD HAVE DIED!"

Connie was in tears. Steven looked ashamed.

"What I want to know," Said Ferb, "Is why the yadda yadda berries didn't affect Steven."

"Of course!" Phineas clicked his fingers, "Steven! You have healing spit!"

"Yeah, we've already established that."

"But that's the point! The saliva must have cancelled out the poison!"

Phineas picked up one of the berries. He was thinking about something. Suddenly he had an epiphany.