I FINALLY FINISHED THIS CHAPTER! GO ME! (Seriously, this took FOREVER!)
Just a warning… Things are going to get faster paced, now… As in, the action really kicks up this chapter. And sorry it's a little less prompt than previous chapters… Between school and everything, I haven't got as much time to write.
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Perry flew his hovercar with Ferb and Isabella sitting alongside him and landed it quietly on the balcony, putting a finger to his beak to make sure they knew to be quiet. He peered around the corner to see Dr. D muttering to himself and pacing, working over plans and occasionally scratching his head.
A ring of the doorbell and as Dr. D went to answer it; which would reveal Jordi on her Air-Board who was to then race in, causing the distraction needed, Perry lead the two youths in and had them hide behind pieces of one of Dr. D's old inators. Ferb had Jordi's arm cannon which was already set to the memory ray, and as soon as he had a clear shot, he was to nail Dr. D with it.
"Who is…? Ah!" Dr. D was forced to duck as Jordi raced in and proceeded to fly about in his loft. "What the…? Hey, kid, get out of here! That's trespassing!"
"Since when do you care about the rules?" Jordi asked. "Or is the other weirdo that tries to take over the Tri-State Area on a daily basis…? No, it's you."
"Look, that really isn't safe," Dr. D said, trying another tactic. "No knee or elbow pads… You're not even wearing a helmet!"
"That's because I'm not going to fall off. I mean, really, I made the thing, I think I know how to handle it and stay on it at the same time. Sheesh, do you pay no attention to the world around you?"
"What…?" Right on cue, Aussie knocked the closed but unlocked door against the wall, positioning herself and waving about her little fists in the manner of kangaroos and wallabies that are about to kickbox one another. "What the…? Who are you?"
"Aussie the Wallaby." Perry had to admit she was good. She didn't miss a beat or so much as blink.
Doofenshmirtz, on the other hand, did. "But… You can talk!"
"So can you."
"But you're a wallaby!"
"And you're a human. Funny how these things work, eh?"
"…why am I arguing with a wallaby?"
"Because she said that your inators aren't any good," Aussie quipped.
"Stay in line," Perry told the slightly younger ex-agent, finishing with a warning chatter.
"Perry the Platypus! What the…? Wait, this is a dream, isn't it?" Dr. D asked, nodding his head as if it all made sense.
Ferb, having noticed that Doofenshmirtz was sufficiently distracted, decided that was as good a time as any to fire the memory ray at the eccentric man.
It took a minute for Dr. D to react, but when he did, it was kind of amusing. "Perry the Platypus! Why are you…? Wait a minute, that strange girl and the whatchamacallit are still here! So this wasn't a dream!"
"THAT'S the guy you and Phineas helped?" Isabella asked, shocked. "But he's… He's…"
"Look, Doofy, we know you remember your crazy alternate self, and also Phineas," Aussie said. "Unfortunately, said alternate self has Phineas, and we need your help to rescue him."
"And what's makes you think I'm going to help you?" Dr. D asked.
"Because Phineas designed and was piloting the rocket plane that caught your daughter Vanessa when she fell off the Tokyo Tower," Isabella said.
"Phineas fixed the Otherdimensinator," Ferb inputted.
"Because I WILL arrest you on the spot if you don't, and then ask for a reassignment," Perry threatened, although he never would go through it.
Luckily, Doof feel for the ruse. "Fine, fine, I'll help you find the kid… Wait, isn't Phineas the kid that's on the news because they think he was kidnapped?"
That earned him several deadpan looks, and he mentally recoiled. "Kids these days," he muttered under his breath.
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"So the plan is to… What exactly?" Dr. D asked.
"Build a new Otherdimensinator," Jordi said, looking at the blueprints in front of her. "But this time, can we just leave out the self destruct button from the start? After all, when has that ever come in helpful?"
Doofenshmirtz just gave Jordi a quick withering glare, but helped Ferb begin the construction of the inator. "How is it you know what you're doing, anyway?"
Ferb shrugged and pondered that, having not considered it before, but Jordi was able to go into greater detail. "When I was little kid, I took apart the computer we had and put it back together. This should be a cakewalk. Besides, you saw the airboard."
"Buford, you have to hook that wire up here, not there," Baljeet said, taking the wire from the bully. "Hooking it up thee could have shut the entire system down."
"Hey, last thing we need discourse in the ranks, Candace said, steeping in before things got out of control.
"Um, guys?" Isabella asked, looking up from where she putting pieces together. "You might want to see this…"
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The alternate dimension Doofenshmirtz smirked, looking away from the home dimension of his new general to said General. "Well, what do you think? Is today a good day to start the invasion?"
Phineas said nothing, mostly because the exosuit override kept him from doing so. "That's what I thought. Normbots; advance! Lead the way, General." The last part was said with a definite smirk, and Phineas had to careful not to use the suit's lasers on Doof-2. It really wouldn't do to get caught before he hacked into the network that controlled the Normbots. Luckily, however, after he had started the process, it would work itself until completion, and the suit was 'outside his control', so Phineas was free to remember exactly why it was that only he could remember…
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Phineas stood with the rest of his friends in front of the Amnesiainator, a guilty feeling already bubbling because he hadn't removed his helmet, and chances were the ray won't work otherwise. Of course, if he didn't remember, who was supposed to make an invention to the reverse this? And Ferb had lost his helmet fighting the Normbots, so he couldn't rely on his brother.
Of course, that did mean that he couldn't very well ask Ferb for help making the invention without having to explain why. Most of their inventions were a consensual thing, and when they weren't, it was often because somebody had asked them to make something. Still, Phineas couldn't picture anyway to get his brother to help with an invention for remembering stuff that you had forgotten without having to explain, and that would reveal that he had remembered.
"So, none of us well remember any of today?" Phineas heard Isabella ask, and was dragged out his thoughts by the question.
"That's right," Monogram said.
"Good," Isabella said, and the next Phineas knew she had kissed him.
"Isabella!" he exclaimed happily right before she told Carl to activate the ray.
"Wait wait wait!" Phineas shouted, but not for his own benefit. It was because well he might remember this day, Isabella wouldn't. And wasn't a girl always supposed to remember her first kiss?
Unfortunately, it was too late.
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"Oohoo, what do we have here?" Phineas heard Doof-2 say, and was pulled out his reminiscing because of it. Reacting quickly in case it was his friends, Phineas powered up the laser, but relaxed when he saw that Doof-2 was just looking out over the city. "People being happy and going about their ways… Don't they care that a child was kidnapped, General?" Phineas knew that the question was supposed to get him worked up so he would fight the exosuit, but he had been warned it was supposed to electrocute him if he did so, and his plan wasn't ready to advance yet, so he carefully remained impassive, not that it was hard to do. "Normbots, go teach those people a lesson. And General, why don't you lead them?"
Phineas swallowed before taking off. The exosuit could control itself at the moment, but he had made it so that the weapons wouldn't be linked to Doof-2's control. Now though, he half-wished he hadn't, because that meant to avoid blowing his cover, he was going to have to play the part perfectly.
And to play the part perfectly, he was going to have to attack these people.
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"He's attacking already?" Jordi asked, glaring at the Normbots in the distance. "I don't like this…"
"Join the club," Isabella said, practically growling. "But you'll have to stand in line to give the alternate Dr. D what for…"
Aussie smiled faintly, but even she, who was normally a fuzzy ball of optimism, could tell that now was the time to be serious. Because if Doofenshmirtz via second dimension was attacking, then he had probably finished whatever he had been planning for Phineas.
And that was a really, really bad thing.
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Yes, I know, it's a little shorter. So sue me. But, hey, at least it's up! Yes, I'm one of those people that can find the positive side to everything…
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