Somebody pointed out that this is a lot like some other stories out there… Trust me. No matter how similar this is to anyone else's story, I'm not stealing anything. Besides, I'm pretty sure I'm writing a story that is quite like a few others out there… Don't worry. I'll prove my originality soon… Mwuahahaha!
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In the house next to Phineas' and Ferb's, an auburn haired girl lay awake, thinking. Her family had moved to Danville two months before, and had found the Tri-State area crazy. Robots had tried to take over; she had finally got her uncle to insert the tiny hearing aids she had created in her ears in place of the ones she used to wear, and Aussie kept trying to get her to introduce herself to the neighbors.
That caused Jordi a faint smile. Aussie sure wasn't the average pet; for one thing, she was a Tammar wallaby. For two, the translator Jordi had made allowed for the Australian creature to communicate with her. One piece was in the filling Aussie had needed when she chipped her tooth; the other was the earring on her right ear. That had been an interesting conversation, trying to convince her parents to let her give Aussie an earring. Luckily, she had claimed that it was another tracking device, 'just in case the other stopped working'.
A frown replaced the smile when she remembered why she had created the translator. Unlike her neighbors, Jordi created things with definite purpose, not merely for fun. And the translator had been created after she found out that her best (and only) friend and pet was a secret agent. Aussie had quit the O.W.C.A. after Jordi found out, but Major Monogram didn't know that was the reason. Aussie had claimed that she felt bad for leaving her girl alone, especially since Jordi was an only child without friends due to her self-imposed social isolation. Monogram had bought the story, but Aussie was careful to keep up the animal facade whenever adults were around.
Jordi had gotten her a cowboy hat when she learned that Aussie had to turn in her fedora, and later said that since Aussie was Australian, a cowboy hat was a better representative of her attitude than a fedora anyway. Besides, Jordi owned a cowboy hat of her own, so now they matched.
Aquamarine eyes had just started to close when a police siren pulled the girl to full alertness. Something she hadn't told her uncle was that the hearing aids allowed her to hear as well as Aussie did.
The wallaby hopped up next to her girl, black eyes searching for an immediate threat to Jordi; a result of her agent training.
Jordi rested one hand on Aussie back, her fair skin a stark contrast against Aussie sandy brown fur. "That's probably the first siren I've heard since we moved to Danville."
"It's headed this way," Aussie commented, using ears to pinpoint the sound; something that Jordi couldn't do due the fact that she couldn't swivel her ears like a wallaby's. "Wonder why."
Jordi was suddenly struck with cold fear, and leapt off her bed and over to her computer, much to Aussie's confusion. "Now what are you up to?"
Jordi didn't reply as she entered the password for her account, and then the password for her surveillance system. Pulling up the footage from the past twelve hours, she scanned through it, looking for something unusual.
And found a disturbing occurrence, recorded just as she awoke, unable to sleep. A four legged machine had stood in the uninhabited yard of the house on the other side of Phineas' and Ferb's for a few minutes, before leaving through what seemed to be a portal.
Aussie, having hopped over to the corner of Jordi's bed to see what she was doing, had a sudden sense of foreboding. "You don't think that machine…"
Jordi answered Aussie's unfinished question by zooming in on what was in the arm of the robot when it turned away; an all too familiar red haired boy the two had never met, but knew a far deal about thanks to the cameras, Phineas.
Aussie paled under her fur, and Jordi's face was suddenly deathly white, something uncommon as her cheeks normally constantly had a rosy glow to them. The eleven year old girl gasped, her right hand going to cover her mouth in shock. She felt sick, especially since this had happened while she was awake.
Someone had kidnapped Phineas Flynn.
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Isabella didn't live the most normal life, but she never expected to wake up at 2:08am by a police car pulling up outside the Flynn-Fletcher house. But whether or not it was expected, that didn't stop her from leaping out of bed. Barely pausing to put her shoes on, she would have raced across the street if her mother hadn't stopped her.
Spinning around, Isabella glared at her mother. "Something's happened, and Phineas and Ferb are my friends, so I'm going to find out what!" she shouted, furious that the universe had the nerve to mess with her crush… and/or his brother, of course…
"Ferb…" Vivian said quietly. "I just got off the phone with Mrs. Flynn-Fletcher, and…"
"And what?" Isabella demanded, blue eyes flashing fire.
"Phineas… It seems that someone…" Vivian trailed off, unsure of how to tell her daughter. "Isa, somebody took him."
"He's been kidnapped?" Isabella shrieked, her voice rising an octave in shock and fury.
Vivian nodded, knowing that Isabella would take this harder than she herself would. "Lo siento, meil." [I'm sorry, honey]
Isabella felt cold, as if all the heat had suddenly been drawn from the room, even though it was a warm August night. Someone in Danville had kidnapped Phineas; the person who wanted just to make people happy and have fun.
Now Isabella really was furious at the universe.
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Ferb had drifted off into an uneasy sleep around three-thirty, and now he awoke due to the fact that Perry had slipped out of his arms at some point. Looking at the clock, he saw that it was 7:00am; the same time he and Phineas would always get up every morning.
Candace, who had just woken up herself, looked over to see her brother looking tired, sad, and definitely lacking that gleam in his eyes that had always been there.
"Ferb, I called Mrs. Garcia-Shapiro last night, so Isabella will probably show up sometime soon," Linda said, trying her best to sound calm. "Candace, keep a close eye on your brother. Your father is already out informing people about Phineas, and I'm going to go do the same. If you two want, you can go outside or what you want, but you have to stay together. And don't talk to anyone you don't know." With that, Linda left, hoping that her baby would be returned safely to her soon.
Ferb, without pausing for something to eat, went out in the backyard, his mind whirring as he tried to think of a way to find his brother. Candace followed, making a silent vow to lay off busting her brothers once Phineas was back, and she would help Ferb with whatever he needed to make to find Phineas. "Ferb, I'm going to get word out, ok?"
Ferb nodded. Candace stepped just inside the sliding door, but she kept glancing over at Ferb to make sure he didn't leave.
The green-haired boy looked around the yard for any clues when two peculiar holes caught his attention. There was no dirt thrown up that showed they were dug by anything, and when he looked into the yard next door, there were two more holes. They were evenly spread out, and the walls were smooth and perfectly round, as if something of immense weight had pressed the holes into the ground.
Which is what happened, Ferb knew with sudden realization. And since these is where the holes were, the machine had to have had arms of some kind, which is why the police hadn't been able to find any clues in their room. The kidnapper had just reached in through the open window and taken Phineas, and Ferb had slept on like it was nothing.
He saw a pink blur out of the corner of his eye, and turned to catch Isabella before she knocked the both of them to the ground. There were tear tracks all down her cheeks, and Ferb had a feeling she had gotten about as much sleep as he had.
"Why?" she asked, fresh tears spilling out of her eyes. "Why would anyone take Phineas? Why, Ferb, why?"
Ferb shook his head slowly, showing that he didn't understand either. But he did show her the holes in the yard, which confused her.
"No animal dug these," she said after crouching next to the holes for a bit, examining them. "It's like something really heavy pressed down here, compacting the earth. There about… Three inches deep, so what's a weight range for this thing?"
"At least 1,000 pounds," Ferb said. "Probably more. None of our inventions have ever crushed the soil down like that, so I'm not really sure."
Isabella nodded, getting up and brushing off her dress.
"The police thought it was dug by your platypus."
Both Ferb and Isabella whirled around to see a freckled, auburn haired girl with aquamarine eyes looking over the far fence.
"Obviously, they don't know anything about what a platypus hole looks like," Isabella said. "And who are you?"
Isabella's sharp tone caused the girl to frown, and Ferb could tell she was going to jump down from the fence. "Wait."
She complied, but didn't answer Isabella's question.
"Mom said the police left about four," Ferb stated.
The girl merely blinked at him, as if to say "yeah, so?"
"Why were you outside at that time?"
"Couldn't sleep," She replied calmly. "And I needed to take Aussie out."
"Who's Aussie?" Isabella asked, managing to not snap this time. "And you didn't answer… Who are you? Because, no offense, but I didn't know any kids lived here…"
"Name's Jordi," she said softly. "And I'm kinda on the anti-social side… Aussie's my pet wallaby. And she'll be glad to find out I'm finally talking to you… She's a bit… Pushy."
"You're making it sound like Aussie talks to you," Isabella said, sounding rather suspicious.
Jordi paled for a second, but then recovered just as fast. "No," she said. "I just had to get good at reading emotions because of… Stuff."
Isabella's eyebrows shot up, but she didn't press the issue.
With a sudden yelp, Jordi's hands tightened to the fence as Ferb and Isabella could hear her trying to get her foot back on the thin little board that she had to standing on rather precariously.
Ferb, noticing that her arms were shaking with the effort, climbed the fence himself to grab her wrists to keep her from falling. He had once lost his footing while on the fence, and the resulting scrape hadn't been the best souvenir.
Jordi's already rosy cheeks darkened to beet red, and she leapt off the fence, pulling her wrists free. "Maybe I should just come over to your yard…"
Ferb nodded, dropping off the fence himself, feeling slightly dazed. There was just something about those eyes…
Jordi came around the end of the fence, and Ferb could see that she was slightly shorter than Phineas, but seemed slightly more compact in build. Jordi was wearing jean shorts that came down to her knees, dark red hi-tops, and a dark green t-shirt with gold stars scattered all over it. She hesitated at the sidewalk edge, a look on her face that backed up her previous statement that she was slightly anti-social.
Looking at her, Ferb found himself wondering if Jordi might have an inferiority complex.
Isabella, however, didn't think Jordi was all that much, but had to bite back a cry of surprise when a small kangaroo-like creature hopped out from behind the fence. The creature barely paused at her owner before she leapt into the Flynn-Fletcher's backyard.
That drew Jordi out of her hesitation. "Aussie, no!" she exclaimed, chasing after the wallaby.
Aussie ignored Jordi, and rather came to stop just in front of Ferb. There she stood; looking up at the builder with what would be a look of curiosity on a human.
Jordi didn't seem to notice how close Aussie had gotten to Ferb until after she had picked up her pet. Upon finding herself practically face to face with half of the infamous duo, it was all she could do to keep for stepping back instinctively.
Ferb noticed this but knew better than to comment on it.
Isabella, recovering from her shock, saw how cute the creature was. And at any other time, she would have squealed since Aussie was adorable. But not now. Not while Phineas was missing.
Jordi seemed held in a staring contest with Ferb, and she felt the confident attitude she had possessed while traveling with her parents return. She pulled herself to full height, and Ferb could see a sudden fire ignite in her eyes. "I got an image of the robot that took Phineas," She said, her once timid voice strong. "I'm going to go grab my laptop. Maybe you'll recognize it."
Setting Aussie down, Jordi did something that she had almost forgotten how to do; vaulted the fence.
Isabella noticed the strange dazed look on Ferb's face, and she almost wanted to laugh at the irony. It just had to be the day Phineas got kidnapped that his green-haired stepbrother fell in love again, this time for someone his own age.
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Chapter 3 will be featuring Perry, and will probably be out later today. Please keep the reviews coming! A lack of them won't stop me from updating, but they will give me more reason to update…