TIME FOR PERRY'S FIRST MISSION!
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Perry had been assigned to Doctor Heinz Doofenshmirtz, an evil scientist who lived in the penthouse of a massive building that he owned.
Major Monogram had told him that his daily routine would be fairly simple: enter lair, get mission, go to building, thwart plan, come home. It did sound very simple to Perry, but the platypus couldn't help feeling a little down that this was going to be his routine every day of every week of every month of every year. He wondered if there would ever be variation.
His first mission seemed simple enough: Major Monogram had told Perry that Doofenshmirtz was simply building a shrink-inator, and that Perry needed to go and destroy it.
As Perry jet-packed towards the Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated building, he felt excited. His first mission! With his new nemesis! Not even Peter the Panda had been assigned a nemesis yet. A fact that Perry would be sure to throw in his rival's face.
He burst in through the window, letting the jetpack fly away. An older man dressed in a lab coat was tinkering with a large and menacing-looking laser. That must be the shrink-inator.
"And…done!"
The man, who had a Germanic accent (was that Drusselstein?), turned round and spotted Perry, giving a rather high-pitched squeak of fright.
"Man, don't sneak up on a guy like that!" The guy quickly pressed a button on the wall, making a cage fall down on Perry, who initially panicked, before forcing himself to stay calm.
"Now who the heck are you?"
Perry took his spy badge out of his hat and showed it to Doofenshmirtz, who peered at it. ""Spy"…? Ah, you're my new nemesis, Perry the Platypus. I really should have guessed that by the fact that you're a…you know…a platypus. Anyway, I guess I should introduce myself."
He paused and thought for a moment. "I prepared a musical number for this moment but… we've only just met so I guess I'll save the Broadway-style musical numbers for another day. So anyway, I'm Doctor Heinz Doofenshmirtz, evil scientist."
Perry gave a chatter.
"Whoa, that was good!" Doofenshmirtz laughed. "What was that?"
Perry chattered again.
"Huh, I guess that's the noise platypuses make?" Doofenshmirtz shrugged. "Anyhoo, this is my invention: the shrink-inator!" Dramatic music played and Doofenshmirtz made a dramatic gesture. A slightly awkward pause followed this. "I would explain what it does, but I think that's rather obvious. So basically, what I'm going to do is aim this puppy at City Hall and shrink it. Then I'm going to move it to this piece of land that I own on the edge of Danville and re-grow it, and since City Hall will be on my land, that will automatically make me the mayor of Danville! Then I can write my own laws, like one declaring me the ruler of the ENTIRE TRI-STATE AREA!"
He spread his arms to the sky and laughed maniacally.
Perry was wondering if this was a joke. After all, the plan was not terribly evil. Of course, it would be bad if he succeeded, but it wasn't as if he was planning to hurt or kill people. Also, where on earth did this guy get his information from? Moving the location of City Hall did not automatically make the person who owned the land the mayor.
Perry looked in his hat and found his emergency tools. He took out the little saw and cut his way out of the cage. Doofenshmirtz was pondering the spelling of some random word and hadn't noticed. Perry wondered for a moment if he should really attack Doofenshmirtz with a lot of force. After all, he looked like he wouldn't be able to fight back very well.
However, Doofenshmirtz turned and spotted him before he could decide. "P-Perry the Platypus! How did you escape?"
Perry held up the little saw.
"You have your own tools?" Doofenshmirtz slapped his forehead. "Should've seen that coming. You are a secret agent platypus after all."
He grabbed a wrench from the base of his machine and swung it with considerable force at Perry, who backflipped to dodge it. He grabbed a screwdriver from the side, and the two had an intense tool fight.
"Wow, you're good at this," commented Doofenshmirtz, parrying yet another blow from Perry.
Since the wrench was rather stronger than the screwdriver, Doofenshmirtz eventually managed to hit the latter out of Perry's hand. It flew away and hit the wall.
"Ha HA!" Doofenshmirtz pointed the wrench like a sword at Perry, who pushed off with his feet, kicked the evil scientist in the chin, and flipped over, landing back on his feet.
Doofenshmirtz dropped the wrench and fell over backwards. Perry leapt, pushed off from Doofenshmirtz's chest, and jumped onto the machine. He searched for a way to disarm it.
"No! Don't push the self-destruct button!" Doofenshmirtz yelled.
Perry blinked. Sure enough, Doofenshmirtz had installed a self-destruct button on the device. He pressed it, and the device began shaking. Perry quickly leapt off it and ran to the window. He glanced back and wondered briefly if he should save Doofenshmirtz from the explosion. Then he quickly activated his hang-glider and flew away from the building.
Just after the explosion sounded, he heard Doofenshmirtz's voice yell, "CURSE YOU, PERRY THE PLATYPUS!"
I have a feeling I'm going to be hearing that a lot over my career, Perry grinned to himself.
And he did.
What he couldn't have predicted, however, was how much he would grow to care for Heinz Doofenshmirtz, to the point where losing him made Perry very depressed.
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I know that in It's About Time, Doof says he first met his nemesis when Perry was hiding behind the mailbox, but I thought this would be more fitting. Sorry if you wanted to see that, but I am acknowledging that I didn't write it exactly how it was said it happened in the show.
Also, that last line is a foreshadow for the next chapter I:} anyone guess what the next chapter will be?
