Chapter 5

Ferb's POV

I was up at about 5:30A.M the following morning. To my surprise, Phineas was not up yet. Then again, I suppose he is not normally up until 6:00A.M. I looked around for our pets but, to my surprise, I saw no sign of Perry or Lily. I wonder where they were.

As if an answer, Perry came into the room with a chatter. Though he almost looked… upset. Angry? Sad? I could not tell. Besides, Perry was a platypus, and platypuses do not do much, let alone think things. Perry hoped onto my bed and curled up to sleep. I looked around once more Lily before pushing myself under the covers once more with a sigh. I was still tired; I did not want to wake up yet. But I did not fall into the depths of sleep. I just lay there, relaxing, until Phineas woke up.

Phineas' POV

I woke up at about 6:00A.M. I had no idea if Ferb was up or not so I threw a spare pillow at him. Ferb looked up and glared at me playfully.

"Wake oh sleepy one." I call to him.

"For your information I have been up for a little awhile. You were the 'oh sleepy one.'" Ferb informed me.

"Oh shut up." I said rolling my eyes. "Hey, where's Lily. I thought we would not have to deal with this. Normally Perry is the one to disappear. Have you seen her this morning Ferb?" I asked my brother.

Ferb shook his head side to side in response. "What about you Perry?" I asked down at our other pet.

For once Perry said nothing, not even a chattered. That made me even more confused. It most likely means nothing. I decide to myself.

"She will show up. Perry always does. So Lily will." I told Ferb getting out of bed. "Let's get some breakfast."

We went down stairs to get some cereal. Shortly after we got up. Our parents, Linda and Lawrence emerged followed lastly by Candace, moaning. Ferb and I's sister hated mornings. She sometimes questioned us about how we greet mornings so brightly. I did not really know myself but hey to me, morning was a new day, a new day for projects, a new day to have fun.

Dad got the newspaper and at once began to work on the crossword. Though what he would call 'doing the crossword,' is really just him asking for help from mom on every question. Candace just rolled her eyes and stalked away before being called back by mom.

"Candace, your father and I are going to run errands so you are in charge." Our mom told Candace.

Candace let out a smirk to me and Ferb. I merely shrugged.

"Let's get ready and go outside." I suggested. Without another word we went upstairs, got dressed, brushed our teeth and headed outside.

"Still no sign of Lily." I remarked, once outside.

"I am up here genius." I heard a growl from above. A grey shape leaped down from the tree and eyed us. She looked awful. "What wrong?" She asked us.

"What happened to you? Did you sleep out here last night?" I asked.

"Yes." She responded simply.

"Why would you sleep outside?" I said, raising an eye brow at her.

Lily paused for a minute before muttering. "Animal things, things humans would not understand,"

"I wonder what it would be like to be an animal." I paused, and idea formed in my mind. "That's it! I know what we are going to do today! Ferb, got the blue prints?"

Ferb gave me the thumbs up and handed me the blue prints. "As always you know exactly what I want Ferb. Lily can you go and get hair, fur, or feather samples from all animals you can find."

"You want me to help you guys? Are you sure that is alright?" Lily asked.

"Why would you not? You live here and you can do what we asked you to do. I mean if you do not want to help that is fine…" I informed.

"I will go; I never said I will not." Lily said bighting up slightly before walking away.

"Great, let's get started." I told Ferb

"Hi Phineas." I heard someone call behind me. I turn around and I see Isabella coming through the gate to our backyard. I smile, instantly 100 times better to see Isabella's smile.

"Whatcha doing?" Isabella asked me. Her catch phrase.

"We are greeting a machine that allows you to turn into different kinds of living organisms." I explained.

"So you could turn into plants or animals?" Isabella summarized, explaining in simpler words.

"Correct, wanna help?"

"Sure." She replied happily. Then her happy mood vanished and her cheerful expression faded. "Where is Lily?"

"She went out to find animal DNA for us." I replied

"Oh, okay." Isabella said nodding. I did not miss the look of happiness that flashed in her eyes.

"Alright team! Let's go!" I call and all three of us go to work on the machine.

Lily's POV

I was not sure why I was happy to do this. In fact, the loyalty and love I felt towards my new owners kind of shocked me. Let's not get ahead of ourselves I thought. I was loyal because they helped me. Right?

But I could not shake off what I was really thinking. I sighed silently. Trying to get my mind off topic. I focused on Phineas' and Ferb's new invention idea. What were they? Ten? There is no way they could build a machine that could turn them into animals. Or could they? They did allow me to speak. I thought. I pushed it away. I needed to focus only on my mission.

My first stop was at Isabella's house. My nose leads me here and it made sense. I had smelled the scent of dog on Isabella when I first meet her, most likely meaning she owned a dog. Knowing my luck, the dog would be huge ready to tear me shreds. But I could run! I would run across water before letting Isabella's rip me into shreds! I leaped over her fence and into the backyard. Hopefully, I could see the dog from here, and if my luck held out. I should be able to get the hair pretty easily.

The luck was on my side because I spotted the dog at once. Even more to my luck, he or she was pretty small. Currently, the dog was asleep. I took a deep breath, my muscles tensed ready to run if needed. After all, dogs and cats were meant as enemies

"Hi!" I called down.

The dog raised his head and stared up at me. He growled at first then seemed to realize who I was.

"Oh hi. Are you a pet? You must be new to the neighborhood. My name is Pinky. What is yours? Where do you live? Who are your owners? Do you know Isabella? Isabella is my owner" Pinky replied, shaking. Was he cold? I decided not to comment on the shaking, for now.

Reviewing in my mind what he said. I padded toward the shaky dog. "My name is Lily. I live with Phineas and Ferb, across the street. Yes I know Isabella..." I began.

"Oh you are Phineas' new pet?" Pinky asked. "Isabella mentioned you yesterday to me. She did not like you." The dog narrowed his eyes. I tensed my muscles once more, ready to bolt out of the backyard.

"I did not ask her to hate me." I muttered. "I think she dislikes me because I distract Phineas from her. If I did not, I think she could care less about me."

"My owner is crazy for your red-head owner! She falls head over paws for him!" Pinky exclaimed.

"But my owner is so oblivious to this thing eh?" I replied laughing. Ignoring that I said 'my owner.' "This may seem like a weird question but may have some of your fur?" I asked.

"Phineas and Ferb project?"

"How did you guess?"

"They do things every day. Isabella spends every moment she can with them. So she ends up talking to herself and me about the day's event after she goes home. Of course she cannot understand what I say." Pinky eyed my collar. "Nice collar. What does it do?"

"It allows me to speak human." I replied

"Phineas and Ferb?"

"Another 100 points!" I call out loud, waving my tail in amusement. "Now how about that fur?"

"No problem friend." Pinky said scratching some fur off.

Friend. That made me smile. I gather up the fur in one of the animal DNA bags I have and store it in my collar once again.

"Where does it go?" Pinky asked me.

I shrugged. "I do not know. All I know is that it is better than carrying the samples. Well I got some work to do. See you around Pinky!" I call as a run away.

"Bye Lily!" Pinky called back. "WAIT!"

I look back, I was on the fence. "What is it?"

"Listen if Perry ever gives you a hard time. He's just... having a rough time. He has his reason, whether they make sense to you or not." Then Pinky curled up again and slept.

I blinked in shock. How could Pinky know anything about the way Perry treated her? Perry had no reason to be so rude. Forcing her to leave her first happy life...

I sighed; maybe I should leave while I had the chance. No, I can't. I know what will happen then. I then leaped down off the fence and ran off to find more samples.

Isabella's POV

It took us awhile to finish the machine. But when we finished, I gazed proudly at it. I was actually able to lend a hand in this project. It was also a very simple machine. Nothing more than a ray gun.

"The DNA sample that Lily will bring us goes in here. Once they register, you flip through what organisms are available. Once you pick what you want. You set for how long you want to be that organism. Then we push the green button to zap you." I stood beside Phineas and Ferb, as Phineas explained to our friends and Irving what they were doing. Just before that, they explained who Lily was and what happened yesterday. But that was a short explanation. Fine with me, I thought. If it were up to me, Lily would move far away and never see Phineas or Ferb again.

Phineas' POV

Just as we finished explaining, Lily came back. She looked slightly uneasy being around so many people but made not one comment. After all, it was only Ferb, Isabella, Buford, Baljeet, Irving and I.

"Here Phineas and Ferb. Your samples." Lily said, taking out the samples

I peered inside the bags. There was a fish sample, some dog samples, some cat samples, a tree sample, a flower sample, a bird sample, a lizard sample, a rabbit sample, a horse sample, and a beaver sample. And there were some human samples.

"No platypus sample?" I asked, slightly surprised. Knowing Perry should be around.

"Could not find him." Lily muttered before padding away into the tree and leaping into the tree on the first branch. She looked down at us, with slight interest but her eyes were glazed with tiredness. She reached up into the tree and pulled out an apple. She started to munch on the fruit. He gaze full of happiness to be eating the fruit.

"I like apples!" She growled defensively. Still chewing.

I blinked then decided to leave it.

"So what does everyone want to turn into?" I asked.

"I want to turn into a beautiful white horse." Isabella said. A twinkle in her eye.

"I want to be a tree. A tree would give me time to think and mediate." Baljeet said.

"I want to become a Beaver. That way I could talk to my beaver!" Irving exclaimed.

"You have a Beaver?" Buford said.

"It was the closest thing to a platypus." Irving explained.

I sighed; there was that weird Irving obsession thing.

"I think I will turn into... a cat. I have always been curious about what it is like." I decided.

Isabella snorted angrily and turned away. Confused, I ignored it and turned to Ferb.

"What about you Ferb?"

"I will be a bird. I have always wanted to fly." Ferb murmured in his British accent.

"Buford?"

"A fish dinnerbell. I want to talk with Biff." Buford said, stroking his glass bowl.

Within 5 minutes everyone had made their changes. Each one of the kids was looking over themselves. I had to admit, it felt different being an animal. Once we had all changed. We went our separate ways; expect Baljeet because he was a tree. Isabella just ran off to who knows where. Biff and Buford went inside the fish castle in the fish bowl Buford has recently.

Lily took Ferb and me on a quick tour of being on the street and being a pet. I surprised to find out how each thing was the exact opposite of what humans would do. I could not describe what I had experienced. It was just too weird.

After an hour of being animals, we went back to normal our human form that is. After that, everyone meet up at Ferb and I's house.

"That was awesome. We should try that again." Baljeet exclaimed.

"I like to do something new each day." I replied.

A/N: I know that was long and kind of pointless but this will be needed later on in the story. Trust me!

Sorry it took me forever to update. I have been working on other stories that I want to post when I can and also. I have been getting on maybe 15 minutes a day. It takes me 5 hours to write a chapter if I am not writing it all at once. But hey! I have one other chapter up!

School is so busy. I have five projects people. -_-