This chapter is dedicated to flo, thanks for all your nice comments! Here, find out who RFOS is!
"A long time ago, when the Tri-State Area was first founded, a pair of archaeologists managed to find an ancient carving, covered in the writing of the mystical werebat people. They summoned the werebats by accident, but they didn't have any offerings! In anger, the werebats cursed the entire land, so that all those who resembled those two archaeologists would be unable to show anyone their findings and be believed!"
"That is a very nice story, Phineas," Baljeet said flatly, his arms crossed over his chest. "But I do not see what that has to do with anyone or anything."
"It's simple!" Phineas declared, using a pointer to direct Buford and Baljeet's attention to another image. "I've found the original records by the two, it says that everyone who has blue eyes will be cursed to witness improbable, unlikely things, but every bit of proof will be gone by the time they try to show others! That's why I can't prove Ferb and Isabella like each other to anyone!"
Baljeet and Buford exchanged a pair of confused looks, before they shrugged at each other.
"Therefore, if we break the curse, everyone will be able to see!"
"Alright, I have heard enough, let us be away, Buford," Baljeet said, closing his eyes and raising his arms to make being carried easier.
And then he wasn't carried off.
"Buford? Why are we not leaving?"
"'Cuz I wanna break a curse, obviously," Buford said.
"Buford!" Phineas exclaimed happily.
"Watch it, Pointy, I'm in this for the fun, not the romance."
Baljeet couldn't believe this, actually.
He was, of course, completely stunned when Ferb rolled a strange vehicle with a glass dome onto the lawn.
"This is our werebat-mobile! Ferb helped make it," Phineas said. "We'll be using it to traverse the city in search of clues."
"This will never work!" Baljeet exclaimed, right before Buford threw him into the winged machine.
"Quit complainin'! We're going cursebreaking!" Buford yelled as he and Phineas got in too.
Baljeet recovered just in time for take off, looking out of the glass dome to see Ferb waving goodbye at them from the backyard.
'Well, that ought to distract Phineas for a few hours,' Ferb thought to himself as the flying machine left his sight.
The fact that Buford and Baljeet got dragged along with Phineas on his wild goose chase was an unfortunate but necessary sacrifice.
Ferb then went inside to ask the forum to stop helping Phineas with his mistaken assumptions, and if that didn't work, he was going to delete Phineas' account.
It was a normal day at work for Candace, considering that she had to explain to her boss that filling Danville with animatronic ugly mascots was an absolutely terrible idea. At the very least, it was normal until a giant bat-robot thing crashed through the wall.
Dr. D screamed. Candace, however, knew that this had Phineas and Ferb written all over it.
Except it wasn't Phineas and Ferb and their friends, it was Phineas, Buford, and Baljeet.
Groaning, Candace banged on the glass dome, impatiently glaring at them.
"Hi Candace!" Phineas exclaimed.
"What's going on?"
"We are…. Curse-breaking?" Baljeet offered uncertainly.
"The only thing you guys have broken is the wall," Candace retorted.
"Eh, it adds a certain pizazz to the room," Buford said.
"Sorry, but I needed to talk to your boss as soon as possible!" Phineas said.
"But why," Candace asked.
"The ancient werebats left an inscription reading 'the day an apocathery becomes king of the land, our hatred shall subside.'"
Candace stared at Phineas flatly for a good five seconds, before turning to Buford and Baljeet for an actual sensible answer. Buford just shrugged at her.
"We… need to make a pharmacist the ruler of the Tri-State Area?" Baljeet reiterated plainly, except the words were so nonsensical that he wasn't sure if he translated that right either.
"Bingo!" Phineas exclaimed.
"That seems oddly specific," Buford said.
"Hey, I'm not going to question the werebats, and neither should you," Phineas replied with a smile. "Now, where's your boss, Candace?"
Candace looked around, before spotting Dr. D cowering and shaking behind Norm.
"Over there," she said, and Phineas jumped out of the flying bat machine excitedly.
"Hello there, giant pharmacist robot! Would you like to become ruler of the Tri-State Area?"
"Would I?" Norm replied.
"What, no, behind him!" Candace yelled. "The one in a lab coat!"
"Oh."
That was, of course, when Perry got an alert that suspicious activity was going on at Doofenshmirtz's. And once more, he tried to get Monty to replace him.
"Sorry, I'm a bit busy here!" Monty replied, the sound of explosions and violence and screaming audible even though the communicator.
"Monty! Help!" Vanessa screamed.
"I'm coming!" Monty yelled back, before turning to his communicator. "Don't worry, Agent P! You're O.W.C.A.'s best agent! I'm sure you'll figure something out!"
The communicator cut out, so Perry sighed and just went off.
"Hurry!" Vanessa screamed as she and Monty ran together.
"Be careful!" Monty said, cradling the precious cargo to his chest, before they got to their destination: the couch.
Monty, using all his crime-fighting skills, managed to sit down without spilling any of the popcorn.
"Just a few seconds to spare!" Vanessa exclaimed in relief as the advertisement for a violent gory action flick ended, letting the cheesy, dorky romance film they were watching resume.
"It's amazing your dad gave us a day off so we could watch the romcom marathon," Vanessa said, snuggling closer to her boyfriend as she grabbed some more popcorn.
"Please, he wanted to watch it himself," Monty retorted.
(On his couch at his own home, Major Monogram sobbed into a tissue at the romance movie.)
So, Perry had to get over to Doofenshmirtz Good Incorporated quickly, as everyone else was busy.
Of course he had a plan for what to do.
Five minutes later, a knock rang out on the door.
Candace went to open it, looking around for whoever knocked on the door. Just as she was about to dismiss it as a joke, Perry cleared his throat.
Candace looked down to see Perry standing on his hind feet, wearing his hat, some glasses with a moustache, and holding a notepad and pen.
"Um," Candace said. "Aren't you…"
Perry began to sweat, wondering if she recognized him.
"Here for Dr. D's evaluation?" Candace finished.
Perry let out a sigh of relief, before nodding.
"Well, come right in," Candace said, before remembering what was happening in the lab.
"And here is our plan for helping you take over the Tri-State Area!" Phineas exclaimed, Norm holding up his whiteboard for him.
Baljeet groaned as Buford raided the fridge.
Doof, on the other hand, was going, "listen to me! I DON'T WANT TO TAKE OVER THE TRI-STATE AREA!"
"I understand that you have a lot of doubts and fears, but I promise, you'll be great!"
"R...really?"
Candace looked from the group, then at Perry, just as Perry started stomping over.
"Oh no," Candace said softly.
The following interaction went as follows:
Perry handed Doof a frowny face note for evil scientist-y actions.
Doof protested, as he wasn't even being evil or doing science. To be honest, the teenagers just broke into his house and gave him an evil plan.
Buford asked if they could leave the evil scientist's place then, as Baljeet complained about all the time they wasted.
Phineas paused, before asking, "wait, you're not a pharmacist?"
"What, no! Why does everyone always assume that?!" Doof demanded.
"Perhaps it's the lab coat straight from Retro Pharmacist?" Norm said.
"Shut up, Norm."
"Be nice to your son!" Candace exclaimed, as Perry added angry eyebrows to the frowny face.
"Sorry sir, this has been a very big misunderstanding!" Phineas said, guiding his friends back into the bat machine thing. "We'll go find a real pharmacist now! Goodbye!"
He got in too, before flying the entire machine out. Then he remembered the giant hole in the wall, came back, hovering in place as the werebat machine sprouted giant robot arms and a bucket of glue to fix the wall like setting puzzle pieces together. The moment that was done, they left again.
"What just happened," Doof asked.
"You just met my brother," Candace said, before Perry slapped the ticket into Doof's hand.
"OH COME ON!" Doof screamed. "That wasn't even my fault!"
Perry just went and flew his jetpack off of Doof's balcony.
"CURSE YOU, RANDOM O.W.C.A. EMPLOYEE!" Doof screamed.
"...he dropped his moustache," Candace said awkwardly.
"Might I have it?" Norm asked.
"You know what, sure," Candace said, handing the glasses and moustache combo to Norm. "Have fun."
"Hooray!"
"Okay, so we have managed to convince the president to do an impromptu ruler-of-the-Tri-State-Area-for-a-day thing and got Klimpaloon, who knows the ancient art of medicinal potion-brewing, to be the mayor, so we have until the end of the day to accomplish everything!" Phineas declared.
"And how are we going to do that?" Baljeet asked.
"We find Isabella and Ferb and get them together to confess! Buford, your GPS!"
"What? I don't have GPS trackers on them!" Buford exclaimed.
Baljeet and Phineas stared at him.
Sheepishly, Buford pulled out a GPS tracker.
"Hm," Buford said. "Ferb's in his room, and, uh, I dunno what's going on with Isabella."
"What," Baljeet said, before grabbing Buford's GPS tracker. Phineas and Buford crowded around to see him work the tracker, only for Baljeet to say, "either Buford's tracker is broken, or Isabella is nowhere in Danville at the moment?"
"Okay, okay, we just need to make a super powerful locator," Phineas said frantically. "We need to get working. Fast. Before Klimpaloon stops being the ruler of the Tri-State Area!"
"I never thought I would hear that sentence in my life," Buford said.
"Agreed," Baljeet added.
Of course, the GPS tracker was functional, it just wasn't meant to function in locating people in different times.
See, Isabella was super excited about her upcoming date with Ferb. She was confident it would go well, after all, it seemed like the two of them were super interested in each other!
And then Isabella remembered that she was confident Phineas would love her back and they would date and surely they would get married and have so many beautiful children and-
When Isabella recovered from the trauma of all her embarrassing memories coming back at once, the anxiety set in. What if she was just assuming Ferb liked her? What if he really didn't and all the signs she got were like, because he got taken over by alien lifeforms?! Why had she been so sure that she would marry Phineas in the first place!?
It was then that she remembered a voice calling her Aunt Isabella. In fact, she very specifically recalled her going 'that means I'll marry Phineas!' and Candace went 'or Ferb' and Ferb winked.
Then Isabella got a very crazy idea.
'But you promised adult Candace that you wouldn't go into the future!' a voice in Isabella's head cried out.
'But technically that promise never happened. You're the only one who remembers it,' another voice answered.
Isabella wavered back and forth, before she found herself running all the way to the museum. And breaking into the history exhibit. And jumping into the time machine.
It was really a really impulsive and dumb plan, because Isabella didn't really have a plan. Like, she figured she would just run to future Candace's house and ask her kids what happened or something, but that was the only vague detail she had.
She failed at step one.
"Oh no. I am so busted," Isabella said, looking up at the figure before her in horror.
"Yes, yes you are," Future Candace declared, before Isabella was shoved into a burlap sack.
"Hm," Stacy said, looking at the forums in confusion.
'Stop trying to help flyfletchboy1, he's very wrong' posted by RFOS
'IF MY FRIEND IS IN THE FUTURE AND WE MAKE A TIME MACHINE TO GET HER BACK WILL WE MAKE A TIME PARADOX BY RETURNING BEFORE SHE LEFT TO SAVE ON TIME BEFORE KLIMPALOON STOPS BEING RULER OF THE TRI-STATE AREA' posted by flyfletchboy1
"Ooooooh, it stands for 'Ride from outer space'!" Stacy realized. "It's Ferb!"