Candace stormed into the house. Her brothers annoyed her often but this time she was furious. Her heart pounded as the adrenaline rush from the haunted house began to ebb. She inhaled slowly. Don't they ever realize things like that are dangerous, with their stupid axes and weapons. Not to mention they used power tools nearly every day. No, she was the big sister and it was her job to make sure her brothers were safe. She unfolded her phone ready to dial her mom just as A sickening sound came from the back yard. She heard screams. The little creeps… Suddenly the sliding glass door burst open. "Candace!"

The sound of her step brother's voice startled her. Ferb rarely spoke but it was especially odd for him to address someone by name. His tone of voice was also strange. Was that… fear? She turned to him. He had resumed his usual silence but his eyes were saying one thing "help"

She rushed to the doorway dropping her phone. Immediately she noted that the haunted house was gone, leaving nothing in the backyard. Nothing… except the crumpled body of Phineas and Isabella attending to him. She dropped her phone and rushed out to them. "Phineas!"

"Oh good you're here! Stay with him. I am going to get my first aid kit!" Isabella hastily said getting up and running out the gate.

Candace turned to her brother, hands clasped over her mouth. He lay unconscious, although it appeared that issabella had moved him into the recovery position. His mangled hands were scraped and bleeding. His left arm bent in ways that should not be possible. The only comfort she had was the rise and fall of his chest. He was alive. That much was true. "Phineas," she sobbed, "Phineas wake up!" Bruises were beginning to form on his temple. She dropped to her knees at her brother's side. "No, nonononono. Phin you gotta wake up," she said, tears pouring down her cheek.

The door slid open. "The ambulance is on it's way," Ferb stated, gently clutching Candace's pink flip phone.

He kneeled down next to Phineas and began taking his pulse. "What happened!?" Candace cried.

But Ferb only examined the gash on his head. Candace had never seen him so shaken. The gate swung open and Isabella ran in with a first aid kit and more gauze pads the Candace had ever seen. "I… I don't know…" she said, her voice quavering just the slightest bit – like she was trying to hide it – as she opened the first aid kit. "We, we were just in the haunted house and everything started shaking so we ran outside. I thought Phineas was right behind me but when I looked back the haunted house was just rising off the ground, and he was in it. Then it shook again or something and he… he fell." she said spritzing antiseptic on his palms.

"We couldn't catch him. He managed to catch himself partially on his arm but it was so high it didn't make much of a difference."

The wailing of sirens could be heard. The ambulance came and as the paramedics began removing the stretcher a red station wagon came screeching to a halt behind it . Linda barreled out of her car. She gaped. "What happened, what's wrong?"

She followed the paramedics into the backyard. Her eyes fell upon her daughter clutching her little brother's limp body. Her stepson gently holding a hand with a bloodied bandage wrapped around it."What happened to my son" she wailed.

"We responded to a call of someone… falling off a roof," the paramedic answered, almost unsure of what he was saying.

The rest of his team loaded the child onto the stretcher.