@RoxieDivine: glad that you liked the first chapter
@Phinabellaguy123: Thank you…I hope this one meets the standards.
@guest: you encouraged me to put away my works and write this one soon. So cheers!
Chapter 2
Ferb looked outside the window. There in the backyard, Phineas stood talking to Isabella. Both of them were flirting for sure, Isabella's giggles could be heard above. They had come home from the mall and Ferb decided it was time to put his plan into action. He opened his drawer which held all their blueprints. Shuffling through the different sheets he took out one that he felt the most suited. In an instant, he took out his phone and texted
ActionmanFerb: Hey, Baljeet. Need to knock some sense into Phin and Isa. Get over here?
Baljeet12: I'll be right there. I'll notice the girls too.
ActionmanFerb: That'll be great. The drama has been going on for too long now.
Baljeet12: XD XD
Soon enough, Phineas and Isabella were interrupted by the Fireside girls coming into their backyard.
"Hi Chief, hi Phineas…" said Gretchen. Phineas looked a bit disappointed that they were interrupted. But he greeted the girls.
"Where's Ferb?" asked Holly.
Ferb raised his hands as he came down to the yard. Holly giggled. Ferb was, as ever the man of action. And action they were all about to have.
Ginger and Baljeet walked over to Ferb while Phineas kept a conversation going with Isabella and the other girls. Buford was visiting Brigitte in France and Irvin was nowhere to be seen. Good. Phineas thought. His unhealthy obsession was making him ask questions like do you happen to like a certain beautiful raven haired girl and what nots.
"Ferb, I've got this wonderful idea…"started Baljeet.
"Ferb!!! I know what we're gonna do today!" exclaimed Phineas. Ferb blinked. Ginger and Baljeet blinked. They were setting up plans for the day, and Phineas already knew what they were gonna do?? That wouldn't work. They should somehow make him not do whatever he was planning.
"See..Katie here was telling me that she needs her Find-a-treasure patch and what's great if not to create a treasure hunt??? You know we can all have some fun with it." Phineas looked happy with the plan. Isabella smiled.
"That'd be great. Holly here needs that patch too" she said.
Suddenly Ferb showed thumbs up to him. Baljeet looked at him "what do you mean?"
Ferb smiled. Ginger got the clue. They were redirecting their Plan. Baljeet still looked confused so Ginger nudged him on his ribs and asked him to follow her. This was going to work. She knew it.
All of a sudden the backyard was filled with sounds of tools and machines. There were drilling, cutting and some building. Holly was helping out Ferb. While she did not like the fact that he talked only a little, she appreciated his skills. Ferb was truly amazing in his own way.
Candace came out of her room and looked in horror at the giant stuff that were being built in their backyard.
"Not again!" she muttered and dialled her mom's number.
"Hello Candace, what's up?" Lynda enquired.
"Mom, mom, mom!!! Phineas and Ferb are building a…" but she was cut off by Lynda.
"Candace!!! I thought you stopped being immature!?"
"Mom…no its really!!" she trailed off then added "never mind…I'm gonna stop them myself" and she cut the phone call.
"Have fun!" Mrs Flynn Fletcher said to the phone which was cut off a few seconds ago. She resumed her position in the spa.
"Candace again?" asked Mrs Garcia-Shapiro from the other table in a similar position with cool cucumbers over her eyes.
"Yeah…says the boys are building stuff again!" Lynda chuckled, causing her cucumber slice to fall off.
"Boys!" said Mrs Garcia-Shapiro, then added "I wonder when they'll stop being so ridiculous…Isabella and.."
"Phineas! Yeah I know…" continued Lynda. Both the women sighed.
In about two hours, everything was set. Isabella looked up to see a huge door. Everybody looked wide eyed at it.
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Agent P turned so that he was facing the sun. With the sunscreen on his body and the sunglasses on…it was refreshing. He could get used to this. He liked Doofenshmirtz on vacations. No evil plans, no old story scenarios, no Inators…. Just as he found it wonderful, his watch beeped. Perry made an irritated sound and pressed the button. Major Monogram looked at him.
"I am sorry about this agent P,but Doofenshmirtz is up to something"
Perry gave out an expression that said isn't he on vacation?. Monogram sighed.
"Yes, but there has been suspicious activity going on for the past few hours…you better check it out" he coughed.
Perry pressed the button again and relaxed.
At the headquarters, Major Monogram looked worried.
"Carl, do you think he will let this go and not check on Doofenshmirtz?" Major Monogram looked really worried.
"Its agent P sir, he is the best" said Carl.
At the beach side, Perry was already packing his things and setting out for the Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc. building.
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"Ladies and Gentlemen,boys and girls….I present you…" Phineas exclaimed. His sounded boomed over, that most of the tristate area heard him. "the biggest, craziest treasure hunt….EVE……R!!!!!" Then after a pause added "Hey, where's Perry?"
Katie, Milly, Holly and Gretchen played a background music as others clapped. A few other kids had also joined them, sitting on the chairs arranged for the viewers.
In front were many TV screens which would show live of the participants going forward with the game. Candace stood a few paces away,hidden by the wall,clicking pictures on her phone. She felt ridiculous doing this. After all she thought it was all over when her brothers grew up and became teenagers, with all those home works and chemistry projects that were piled up on their desks…not that she thought Phineas and Ferb lagged in their school works. She knew they excelled at it. She remembered the day her brothers built anti gravity sneakers for their school project on Gravitational force and its Effects. Thinking about it alone gave her a head ache. And apparently, Candace thought, growing up was not an option for Phineas and Ferb.
She clicked away more pictures, standing on her tiptoes and stumbling onto sawdust that were yet to be cleaned from the backyard.
Phineas opened the giant door to reveal another five doors. Ferb sat outside, in control of the gadgets , along with Gretchen who seemed more than happy to sit by his side, in control of the TV screens. Ferb wasn't oblivious. Not like Phineas. He knew Gretchen had a crush on him. But for now, Phineas and Isabella were the emergency case. Other things could wait. He looked at her on his left, with a concentrating face and beautiful eyes. Her brows furrowed as she checked for some wire and plug to enhance the sound system. Okay,maybe he was wrong. Gretchen was distracting. A lot. Her short auburn hair,glasses that she kept wiping every two minutes…and her…
Damn!
"Stupid hormones!" Ferb cursed under his breath. He hated being a teenager. Childhood days of summer were much less complicated. Ferb shook his head.
When the sound system was ready, Gretchen called out "Ready!?"
Phineas stood in front of door 1, Isabella in front of door 2, Katie beside door 3, Holly near door 4 and Baljeet in front of door 5. Adyson stood with a whistle whereas Ginger and Milly were somewhere inside this doors holding some kind of clues.
Ferb showed thumbs up again. Adyson blew the whistle and in went the five people. The giant door closed and the TV screens showed them all running though a narrow tunnel.
Camera 1 had Phineas on. He ran forward,ducking and jumping over obstacles and reached a pool of water in the middle of which was a cardboard sheet on top of a huge floating rubber duck.
Camera 2 showed Isabella at a similar position but she was already calculating her moves to jump over the water to the other side while snatching the piece of paper. Getting drenched, felt like a bad option. Nobody knew what was coming next. Ferb had the master plan.
Katie on camera 3, had already jumped and grabbed the paper, but she slipped and fell into the water which was a little cold. Gretchen laughed at Katie as she saw her expression through the TV screen. Ferb just smiled. That was an infectious laugh.
Holly had carefully taken the paper and read out 'Go right and chill out or just left and miss out …' whereas Baljeet was sticking his hand into the pool and creating ripples such that the rubber duck moved to one of the ends. Jumping, according to him was a bad idea. Finally he took the paper too.
Isabella was already moving to her left side where a passage way showed another door. Her right side passage way stood forgotten. Phineas took a moment with the clue.
"So…if I go left…does that mean it's the right path? Or…right? right and chill out? Man,what did he mean by right? Right direction or right path?" Phineas was talking to himself.
He looked at the pool behind him then at the clue, then again at the pool.
"Ferb you are a genius!!" he exclaimed and he eventually chose the left path.
Holly read the clue once just like Katie and they both ran to their right. As they opened the door, a chilling air blew from all directions. Holly stopped. Katie on the other hand was unable to move. She had fallen in the water.
"Damn it! It meant miss out this blizzard and chill out IN this blizzard!!" she muttered. Holly somehow managed to unfreeze her body muscles and tried to walk. Apparently the air stopped blowing for every thirty seconds alternatively.
Baljeet was again through the left path,which held no obstacles and was near the next clue. It was a giant Sudoku. He smiled. This was his kind of thing.
Phineas started solving the Sudoku and was almost halfway to the end when Katie finally managed to move from her place. The cold was too much. Isabella was moving forward again.
"Chief is so good at this!" said Gretchen. Ferb nodded. He was trying really hard to concentrate on the game and not on the girl beside him.
After three more clues…Isabella reached Ginger, who was dressed like a wizard.
"Answer me with the right answer and you may get your next clue."
Just then Phineas reached them. He looked at Isabella.
"I hope you did well till now?" he said. Isabella smirked.
"Ofcourse…I am troop leader, Fireside girls…"she started.
"46321" they both added together and Ginger laughed,despite trying to look so serious. As she handed them two sheets with the question and asked them to write down, both nodded. Katie and Baljeet reached as they were writing.
"Wow…you are all here!" said Baljeet.
As Katie took her sheet of paper, a door behind Ginger flashed the name Isabella on it and Isabella ran inside it.
"Looks like Isabella gave the right answer." Said Ginger. Soon Phineas saw his name on the door. Holly ran up to them when Baljeet was writing down his answer. Their writing sheets were connected to computers which showed their names on the door when the answer they wrote was right.
"What took you so long?" asked Katie as she began running to the door which was now showing her name.
Holly was panting. "The snow man chased me…" she said, which made Ginger giggle.
"Gee Ferb, Holly really is having a wonderful time…" said Gretchen, sarcasm icing her tone. Ferb smiled again. Holly being chased down by the snow man was indeed a funny sight.
Candace was capturing a video of the TV screen, an evil grin on her face.
B.U.S.T.E.D. You are busted…
Candace hummed the tune of a song that she once sang around. A lot.
By the time they were about to reach the end, Baljeet had a bad leg ache from being chased by a giant baby head. It didn't harm him, but he had to run away. He wondered how Ferb managed the space for all these. He was a genius. Holly was already sick of the snow man but other than that she did pretty well. Katie on the other hand, had bad luck since she fell into the pool. She was frozen head to toe as she passed through doors and doors of cold, snow and dry leaves. She hated that the leaves stuck on to her clothes, despite her trying to shove it all off. Isabella's hair got stuck in between a weird branch of a tree that looked straight out of a horror movie. It took her a while from getting out of its grasp. Phineas on the other hand, lost his way twice after he misinterpreted a clue and walked straight into a maze.
As Phineas, Isabella, Katie, Holly and Baljeet opened their last door…it was pitch back darkness inside. They had passed though traps and slides and much more. And here in the end was darkness.
"Horror house?" whispered Holly.
"Hello?" asked Baljeet.
Silence surrounded them. They were in separate rooms, all in darkness and each room had a door at its other end which opened to a common room in which held the treasure.
"What is that!??" asked Gretchen. She had her hand on Ferb's shoulder as she leaned in to look well into the screen. This part of the Hunt was entirely his plan. Nobody had a clue. Even Candace was hooked.
Then suddenly the darkness began to dissipate. Different things began taking shape in front of them. Each one of them saw different things.
All of a sudden, Isabella's eyes widened.
Katie let out a cry.
Holly fell back.
Baljeet began sweating.
Phineas stood frozen, of the sight in front of him.
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Well…that's it for now….what do you think??? Liked it? Leave a review! Any guesses to what was in that room??Stay tuned.