Now for the Perry chapter…
INSPIRATION FOR THIS STORY GOES TO TheCuriousWriter's In the Dark.
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Slipping out of Ferb's arms at 5am wasn't something Perry really wanted to do, but he had to find Phineas. As long as his red haired owner was unaccounted for, he would do whatever it took to get him back.
Sneaking out the barely open back door, Perry used his secret entrance hidden in the tree to get to his lair. Seeing as he had come down before being called, he was slightly surprised to see the screen on with Monogram waiting there. Perry did have a faint sense of satisfaction when the Major seemed surprised to see him. "Ah, Agent P… I was just about to have Carl try to contact you again."
Again? Perry wondered, letting out a confused chatter.
"The person who kidnapped Phineas somehow disabled all the cameras stationed around the Flynn-Fletcher house, so we can't identify who the kidnapper was," Monogram explained sheepishly. "They also messed up most of our communication center."
"Sir!"
"What is it, Carl?" Monogram asked.
"I haven't gotten the cameras around the Flynn-Fletcher house working yet, but I did manage to get a camera on the fence working, and I think you'll want to see this…" Carl said, pulling up the video for both the Major and Perry to see.
"Is that… Agent A?" Monogram asked, because the camera was showing an auburn haired girl talking in shushed tones to a wallaby in a cowboy hat.
Perry chattered again. Who's Agent A?
Monogram, noticing the confusion on Perry's face, explained. "Agent A and her family moved to Danville at the start of summer. She was supposed to be the agent who fought Doofenshmirtz, but she resigned, claiming that she felt bad about leaving her girl alone. Her owner, Jordi, is the niece of a well-known wildlife biologist and her aunt;s husband, a retired surgeon. For most of Jordi's life, they had been researching for a book on endangered animals. They came to Danville after an… Accident. Jordi was left hearing impaired and distrusting of strangers. Agent A, or Aussie the Wallaby, quit to stay with her girl. But now I'm starting Aussie quit because Jordi found out she was an agent and didn't want to be relocated…"
"Can you really blame her for not waiting to leave, sir?" Carl asked. "I've done research on Jordi, and she's just as smart as Perry's owners. She's created a hover-car, an arm cannon, and her own website dedicated to inventing, and that's just what I was able to uncover in a few hours. She's probably made more inventions, but keeps them hidden."
"Why did you do research on Jordi without my permission, Carl?" Monogram asked, slightly irritated.
"She fought the Normbots, sir," Carl said in an undertone. "I didn't find out until a few days ago, however. She was talking to Aussie in her backyard late one night. And sir… Jordi made a translator for Aussie."
"What?" Monogram asked. "Why wasn't I informed of this?"
"I wanted to sir, but you were always busy with something," Carl said. He suddenly glanced at the monitor. "Sir!"
Perry chattered. He had heard Aussie's hushed voice with its Australian accent make a guess on who the kidnapper was.
"I'm telling ya, mate, I'm pretty sure that's the same guy that unleashed all those robots. The Doof from the other dimension."
Perry chattered angrily. Doof-2 was locked up in his own dimension! How dare he escape and kidnap Phineas!
"Agent P, check with this dimension's Doofenshmirtz and make sure he hasn't made another Otherdimensinator," Monogram ordered.
Perry wanted to tell the Major that the other Doofenshmirtz had the plans for an Otherdimensinator, but it would be better to be safe than sorry.
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Heinz Doofenshmirtz had once been awoken by Perry wanting to borrow Norm for something, but seeing as Perry looked slightly furious, he doubted that was the case here. Pulling out his retainer, he glared at the platypus. "What do you want? I haven't made an inator yet today, so you're going to have to wait until later to foil me."
Perry chattered, giving Doofenshmirtz the impression that the platypus wanted something from him. "Look, you smashed my Raininator yesterday, so what do you want?"
Perry pulled out his notepad and pencil. Did you build an -inator that allows for dimensional travel?
"What kind of question is that?" Doofenshmirtz asked irritably.
Answer the question.
"Fine! No, I did not build an -inator that allows for cross-dimensional travel," Doof said coldly. "But what's it to you?"
Perry didn't bother answering, and rather left. He knew now what had happened, and what he had to do about it… Even if it meant breaking the biggest rule of the agency.
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Perry snuck out to the tree in the backyard of the Flynn-Fletcher house, but went back to his mindless pet persona when he saw Jordi and Aussie in the backyard. Jordi was showing Ferb something on a handheld computer, most likely of her own invention, and Aussie was sniffing around, probably trying to pick up further clues on Phineas' kidnapping.
Chattering, Perry walked over to Ferb, ignoring the clicking sound Aussie made upon seeing him.
So that's Agent P, Aussie thought. I have to admit, he's good at playing a mindless pet persona.
"Oh, is this Perry?" Jordi asked, squatting down to get a better look at him. She reached and gently scratched behind his bill, causing his tail to jerk up involuntarily. "He's kinda cute… I saw some platypuses in Australian while my aunt did some research, but I didn't get to pet any of them." She said, using both hands to scratch around Perry's ear so Ferb wouldn't see her place a tiny, teal colored communicator in his ear.
Perry felt the small piece, which would not be notice unless one touched it, slip in his ear, and knew that Jordi knew of his secret agent status.
Standing up, Jordi gently nudged Perry towards Aussie. The communicator would, hopefully, not be needed, but it was better to be safe than sorry. Aussie could explain about the ray and disc, and hopefully she and Perry could distract everyone long enough for her to use it.
"So you're Agent P, eh, mate?" Aussie asked, but to the humans, barring Jordi, whose hearing aids also acted as translators, it was just a clicking sound.
"Jordi knew you were an agent before you quit," Perry said, unaware that Jordi could understand him.
Aussie's ears twisted back at that. "What was I supposed to do? I wasn't about to let the O.W.C.A. relocate me. I owe my life to Jordi! I wasn't about to get separated with her!"
"I understand," Perry said. "It just makes me feel a little jealous, I guess… Monogram won't let my family know. When they found out a month ago-"
"They had to get their memories wiped in order to keep you," Aussie said, cutting him off.
Perry let out a senseless chatter in shock. "H-how do you know that?"
"Jordi and I snuck in to their headquarters. We saw the Major have them blasted with that horrible invention of Doofenshmirtz's," Aussie said, little hands clenching into fists. "I had to keep Jordi from swinging in there on that grappling hook she made and destroying the machine. It wasn't until later that she snapped, telling me that she had planned on making the Major realize how stupid it is to relocate an agent just because the host family finds out. It's not like relocation is going to make them forget their pet was a secret agent…"
Perry felt as if he had just been slapped across the face. Why had nobody at O.W.C.A. thought of that? But then again, it was only a select number of agents that had owners, so we would anyone think of something that only affected a minority of the agents. "Your girl is amazing, you know that right? If only I had some way to restore everyone's memories…"
"Jordi does," Aussie said quietly, moving closer to Perry. "She modified her arm cannon, real fast may I add, when I wouldn't let her smash the Amnesia-inator, and manage to create some kind of memory ray thing. She's got everyone's memories of that day stored on a little disk for her cannon. She burned out her last filter so Monogram wouldn't know someone else had shot the group with a memory ray, but I didn't find out about any of this until later. She wants your permission to restore their memories."
"Then tell her she has it!" Perry shouted, watching Jordi stiffen for a second, turn to him, and inconspicuously wink at him. "Wait a minute? How can she understand me?"
"Those micro hearing aids she has are also translators," Aussie explained with pride for her girl. "She's not as creative as your boys, mate, but when she does make something, she doesn't do it halfway."
"Obviously," Perry said, his respect for Jordi growing. A sudden thought occurred to him, and Perry turned back to Aussie. "How exactly does she plan on shooting everyone with this memory ray of hers? It's not like Ferb will just stand still when an arm cannon's aimed at him."
"You and me play distraction," Aussie said. "Something I doubt you know about that communicator is that it's also a translator. So just get your hat so Jordi can turn on the translator, we draw all attention to us, and Jordi shoots 'em in the back with the ray. It won't hurt 'em mate, just restore their memories." She added, catching Perry's expression.
"Then here goes everything," Perry said, getting a grip on his fedora. He could see Aussie pull out a cowboy hat as well, and knew that two hat wearing pet mock-arguing in English was definitely going to buy Jordi enough time to hit the group with the memory ray.
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Ferb was slowly losing hope as everyone seemed unsure of who could have possibly kidnapped Phineas, when Perry suddenly distracted him. Mostly because his pet platypus was standing solely on his hind feet, a fedora on his head, while he seemed to be quite unhappy with Aussie, who was sporting a cowboy hat herself.
He heard gasps behind him, signaling that everyone else was also captivated by the arguing, hat-wearing pets, and also giving a certain eleven the signal to turn on the translators.
"-well, maybe I don't want your help, you fuzz ball!" Perry fake-shouted, startled slightly by his voice, since it had a faint Australian accent of its own. Not as heavy an accent as Aussie had, but noticeable nonetheless.
"Excuse me for just trying to help a mate in trouble," Aussie said, proving that she had superb acting skills. "Dingo."
Although the insult was lost on the humans (minus one), Perry understood. Dingoes were a major predator of wallabies. Pretending to be ticked by getting called that, he narrowed his eyes. "What did you just call me?"
"A dingo," Aussie said without fear, watching Jordi tinkering with the arm cannon out of the corner of her eye. "Because that's what you are. You won't let me help you find that 'oh-so-precious' boy of yours, which obviously proves that you're just using the family as a cover, nothing more."
"And you're not?" Perry asked, making his chatter-growl to seem more angry.
"I quit, if you forgot," Aussie said, nose turned up in a haughty manner. "Not that I could except a pea brain like you to remember important stuff like that… Bet you don't even know your owners' birthdays."
Perry chatter-growled again, seeing that Jordi was ready to fire. "And your girl?"
"Knows far more than people credit me for," Jordi said as she fired.
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Because I'm feeling evil (and tired). I'm going to stop there. Besides, I like cliff-hangers.
I do need to take a poll, though. How many people want me to put in a chapter that has Phineas' POV (not literally, but you get to point) in it? I have a feeling that would be the majority, but I figured I should include my readers opinions in writing this.