Part 2
Everyone gasped. The kids and Perry looked at them.
"Now darling," Lawrence told her. "You're mad, that's all. You don't know what you're saying. You don't want a divorce."
"Yes I am and I mean it. Lawrence, our marriage is going down the drain and you're the reason why."
"But come on, we can work this out. I can do better, just think of the children."
"It's too late for that now. You ruined something that can't be fixed. I'm sorry, but this is what is has to be. Now, I'm going to call the divorce councilor." She went to the phone.
"Mom's not serious, is she dad?" A concerned Phineas asked him. "You're not getting a divorce, are you? I'm sure you can prevent this if you just talk to her." Lawrence sighed and looked at his son.
"I'm sorry, Phineas." He told his son. "I tried, but I guess I really messed up and let your mum down." He looked at Ferb. "You should get packing, Ferb. Once it's official, we're moving back to London." The kids gasped.
"But, what about your work here?" Phineas wanted to know. "At the antique business."
"I can find work over there." The brothers both looked at each other, both wanting to stay together.
When Perry got out of his pet door, he saw Candace on the front stoop. She was crying. The platypus strolled over to her to see what was the matter.
"Oh, Perry!" She sniffed. "I just can't believe it. Jeremy, he… he…" She couldn't control it anymore. She broke out crying. "He broke up with me!" Perry felt shocked and sad for her. Usually, he didn't care for this particular oranged-haired teenager, but at this exact moment, he felt like she needed him. He crawled into the sad teen's lap. Candace was so busy crying that she didn't care that he was there. She then noticed him and petted him.
"Thanks Perry." She told him. "I really need comforting right now." Her cell phone then rang. She grabbed it from her pocket and answered it.
"H-Hello?" She answered, trying to control her tears. She listened and became worried. "Whoa, slow down Stac! He did what?!" She listened some more. "Oh, I'm so sorry. That hurts; why did he dump you?" She listened and then her face fell. "Jeremy dumped me." Perry hopped out of Candace's lap and strolled towards the backyard. "I don't know why. We fought about like a million stupid things, and then out of the blue, he dumped me, and you know what else? His cousin is also planning to divorce with his new wife." She listened some more. "I know I can't believe it either; they were planning a great honeymoon but all they did during it was fight, When they came back, it was official, they told Jeremy and his family that the marriage will soon be no more." She listened. "I know; it's like everybody I know is splitting, you and Coltrane, me and Jeremy, his cousin, my mom and dad, my aunt and uncle and recently my little brother and his crush. It's really weird."
Perry was about to go into the tree hideout when he heard frantic barks.
"PERRY, PERRY!" Perry turned around to see Pinky.
"Oh hey, Pinky." Perry greeted him. "Can't talk now; I'm about to do my mission." Perry was about to go when Pinky spoke up again.
"It's Isabella." Perry looked at him.
"What about Isabella?"
"She's crying." Perry was shocked and confused.
"What? Why? What happened?"
"I came into her room to see if she wanted to play Fetch with me with my tennis ball, but I found her sprawled out on her bed, bawling her eyes out. Something must've happened between her and Phineas because she told me that he snapped at her, telling her that he doesn't want to see her ever again."
"What? That doesn't sound like him at all. He cares for Isabella. He wouldn't do that to her."
"But he did. Oh Perry, I'm worried about her. I can't stand to see my owner upset."
"I see what you mean." Pinky was confused now.
"What do you mean? Did something happen with your family?"
"Well, Candace's boyfriend just dumped her and Linda and Lawrence are getting a divorce." Pinky gasped.
"Gosh Perry, that's terrible! Are your owners okay?" Perry shook his head.
"I'm afraid not. Ferb is moving back to London with his father."
"Poor Phineas; this isn't going to affect your job, is it?" Perry gulped. He hasn't even thought of that possibility.
"I sure hope not."
"My mistress's father and mother are also filing a divorce. They've been fighting on the computer nonstop. Vivian said that 'long distance relationships don't work out anyway.'"
"Gee Pinky, I'm sorry to hear that."
"What do you think is going on Perry? Everybody on the street seems to dislike his or her spouses. Do you think something's up?"
"Well, this does sound fishy with everyone breaking up all of a sudden." He thought about this. He then remembered what Doof said to him two weeks before.
"Whoever gets zapped with it will become a jerk to their spouse and fight constantly with them. When they fight too much, they'll want a divorce immediately." He then looked determined.
"I think I know what's happing." He said, although not sure how. Didn't he destroy Doof's Divorce-inator?
"What?" The Chihuahua wanted to know. Perry looked at him
"Don't worry, Pinky. I'll make your owner happy again. I have to do this before it's too late."
"Do what before it's too late?" But Perry already activated his hideout and slid down the tube. The tree closed back up. "Perry?"
When Perry turned on his monitor, his boss was crying.
"Sir?" Carl piped up off screen. "Sir? Agent's P's here; sir!" Carl then came onscreen. "Sir, sir!" When he couldn't get him to stop his tears, he turned to Perry.
"Sorry, Agent P. He's been like this since him and his wife separated." Perry's eyes widened.
"You're lucky, Carl!" Monogram sobbed. "You're single, so you don't know the pain I'm in and you probably will never experience it because I can never imagine you in a relationship!"
"Uh, thank you, sir?" He then caught his crying boss. "Whoa, boss, I got you!"
"It's Doofensmhirtz; he's behind this. I just know this. My son is sad because he and his girlfriend also broke up. Go and stop him Agent P, please! I-I love my wife." Perry saluted. Oh, I will, Major Monogram; I will! With that, he dashed off, leaving a crying Monogram and a comforting Carl behind, also sad, thinking of what Monogram just said, and wondering if he'll ever get in a relationship with the woman of his dreams.
As Perry passed a nearby smoothie shop, he saw a crying Vanessa sitting at an outside table. Her hair and even her shirt had bits of smoothie on it. He felt bad for her; she must be crying over Monty who spilled his smoothie on her. He passed by more sad citizens. He felt sad as he saw each and every one. He then drove on with a new look of determination on his face.
He landed on the veranda. His nemesis was there, watching the streets through his binoculars. Once the platypus locked his hover car, he chattered madly at him to get his attention. Dr. D looked at him through his binoculars. He lowered them.
"Did you notice, Perry the Platypus?" He asked. "Couples are shouting at one another from left to right! Pretty soon every couple will split up, and when they do, they'll be single like me and suffer also just like me. Isn't that great, Perry the Platypus?" Perry shook his head. "Of course you don't think it's great, Perry the Platypus; you're the good guy and I'm the bad guy, that's why I think it's great!" He laughed evilly. "Unless it affects someone who I care deeply for, I don't care!" He laughed and laughed.
Perry sighed. He then got an idea and went into the doctor's apartment. The doctor watched and followed him in, confused. He scratched his head.
"What you're doing, Perry the Platypus?" Perry looked around and then spotted what he was looking for, a picture frame of Vanessa was on the fireplace mantle. He went closer to it with Dr. D following. "Are you trying to tell me something, Perry the Platypus?" Perry stopped and pointed to the picture frame. Dr. D looked at it. He smiled. "Yeah, I keep a picture frame of my daughter so I can look at something while I invent my inators." He looked at the semi-aquatic mammal in puzzlement. "What about her?" Perry then pointed to a machine in the corner, it was an exact replica of the Divorce-inator. Dr. D looked at where he pointed to. He looked at his nemesis again.
"Yep! That's the original Divorce-inator." He went to it. "I knew you would destroy my inator, so I made a decoy after I made this and you destroyed the decoy." Aha, so that's why so many couples are getting divorces. Dr. D looked at his watch.
"Half an hour late. I wonder what's taking Vanessa so long." He looked at Perry. "I hope Charlene remembers I'm suppose to have her today." The doorbell rang then. "Ah; that must be her!" He walked to the door. "Sorry Perry the Platypus, I got to let my daughter in."
"Greetings Vanessa!" Dr. D greeted his daughter when he opened the door. "Are you ready to have a fun-evil father/daughter time?"
"Hey Dad." His daughter said, voice low. Dr. D then noticed her sad face and that she'd been crying, smoothie was still in her hair and on her shirt but not quite as much as before.
"Vanessa, what's wrong?"
"It's nothing, Dad." The Goth teen let herself in and plopped on the couch, looking melancholy. Dr. D went to her side.
"No, no; it's something all right. I know my daughter."
"Dad, leave me alone please. Just fight your nemesis; I don't want to talk about it."
"You know I can't do that when you're in the dumps. Please, tell me, maybe I can invent an inator to fix it." Vanessa sighed.
"I don't think you can fix this, Dad."
"Well, yeah. That's because you're not telling me. Tell me and maybe I'll make it so!" Vanessa sighed again.
"Monty broke up with me." She said softly.
"What?"
"Monty broke up with me!" She repeated, louder. Dr. D gasped.
"That jerk! Why did he break up with you?
"I don't know. He and I started fighting all of a sudden. That's why I'm late, to get the smoothie he dumped on me out of my shirt and hair. I don't get it; why would he do that to me?"
"Well it's simple, it's because I…" He was interrupted with his daughter's crying. "Vanessa?"
"I'm sorry Dad; it's just that I thought he was different than Johnny, that he was the one. Now he broke my heart and I don't know why!" He watched his daughter cry and cry. Dr. D looked at Perry, feeling bad.
"Oh Perry the Platypus," He told him. "What have I done?" He then looked determined and rushed to get a box full of supplies.
"Quick, Perry the Platypus!" He told the monotreme, giving him a wrench. "You got to help me destroy this this thing and make a machine to reverse this!" Instead of taking the wrench, the platypus madly put his hands on his hips. What? You don't like what you did when you got rid of love in all of Danville?
"I can't believe I'm doing this," Dr. D said. He pushed the self-destruct button on his inator, destroying it to pieces. Perry was shocked at what his nemesis has just done. "But no matter how evil I am, my daughter's feelings come first. Can you help me build the No-divorce-inator?" Perry gave him a look.
"What? I know, dumb name, maybe I should've called it the Split-Up-inator instead since it doesn't just split a marriage, but oh well! Hey, are you going to help me or not?" Perry still gave him a look. "Fine! Can you please help me?" Perry nodded and grabbed the wrench from his nemesis' hand. He and the doctor then got to work.
A couple hours later, they were done.
"Behold, Perry the Platypus!" He said. "The Divorce-No-more-inator! Hey, I like that name better, don't you?" Perry pointed to the crying Vanessa. Focus! Dr. D looked at her, and then was determined. "Right, this is for my daughter!" With that, he sat in the chair, pointed the laser at Vanessa and zapped her.
"Did it work?" He wanted to know. Perry shrugged. Sighing, Vanessa got up.
"Well, I'm going for a walk, Dad." She told him, walking to the door. She was about to open it when there was a knock. "You got a visitor, Dad." She opened it and was surprised to see Monty on the other side. He was hiding something behind his back.
"Monty?" She questioned. She then remembered that she was mad with him. "What do you want?"
"I came to apologize." Monty said. "I don't know what came over me, but I'm sorry." He offered Vanessa the flowers he had behind him. Vanessa gasped, grabbing them.
"Monty, I…I don't know what to say." Monty grabbed her hands in his.
"Say you want to be my girlfriend again. I want to be together again, Vanessa, it's strange, one minute I was mad at you, but the next thing I know, I had feelings for you and wanted us to reunite. So, what do you say? You want to be my girlfriend again?" Vanessa looked mad.
"Oh, you think you can crawl back to me like that?" Monty looked sad.
"Yes, yes I did." Vanessa then smiled.
"I think that's sweet. Of course, I'll come back." Monty sighed, sadly.
"I was afraid you…" He then realized what she said. "Wait, what?" Vanessa then kissed him. Monty kissed her back, all of his muscles now relaxed.
"Something about that boy just doesn't feel right." Dr. D told Perry. "But oh well; I'm sure it's nothing! As long as my baby girl's happy, that's good enough for me." Vanessa and Monty then withdrew from each other.
"Want to go out on a date tomorrow?" Monty asked.
"Sure." The Goth teen replied.
"Great! I'll call you!"
"I'll be waiting!" And with that, Monty left. Dr. D looked at Perry and smiled. "It worked." He then reached for the self-destruct button. "And now that problem is resolved…" He was about to press it when Perry slapped his hand away. The doctor yelped, nursing his hand.
"Ow! What was that for, Perry the Platypus?" He then realized why Perry had slapped him. "Oh, I see! You want all of Danville that got affected reunite with their love ones, not just Vanessa and that other guy!" Perry nodded. "Well as an evil scientist, I disagree!" He was about to press the button again when Perry jumped up and bit him on the finger.
"OW!" Dr. D withdrew it. "Perry the Platypus, what is with you? It's like I affected your family with my inator!" He reached for the button again. "Now, I'm going to destroy this baby, whether you like it or not. In 3, 2, 1!" He pressed it.
To his surprise, it didn't explode. He looked at it. Instead of being on the 'self-destruct' button, it was on a button labeled 'Turn everyone affected by the Divorce-inator back to normal.' Dr. D was confused.
"Huh? How did that button get there? I don't remember installing it." He then looked at Perry, who gave him a sly grin. Dr. D narrowed his eyes at him. "You! You sneaky platypus! Come here you!" The platypus ran around in circles as the doctor chased him, the machine still firing. When Dr. D was near the machine, he pressed the right button. It exploded into a million pieces.
"Ha!" Dr. D laughed. "I hope it didn't get to everybody." Perry stomped him on his foot. The doctor yelled, jumping up and down, clutching his hurt foot. Before the doctor could do something once recovered, the platypus took off in his hover car. Dr. D shook his hand and shouted his catchphrase.
"CURSE YOU PERRY THE PLATYPUS!"
When he was nearing his house, Perry's watch beeped. He answered it and his boss appeared on the screen. He was crying again, but not from sadness. These were tears of joy.
"You did it, Agent P!" Monogram cheered. "My wife and I are no longer filing a divorce. You really saved my marriage Agent P, and for that I am most grateful." Perry smiled. Anytime!
When Perry stepped into the backyard, he was scooped up into Phineas' arms. Isabella and Pinky were by his side.
"Guess what, pal!" Phineas said. "Mom and Dad apologized. They may not be getting a divorce after all and Ferb and Dad are not moving back to London, isn't that great bud!" Perry smiled. It sure is, Phineas, it sure is.
When Phineas put Perry down, he and Isabella were off. Pinky trotted closer to Perry.
"Thank you, Perry!" The dog said to the platypus. "My owner is so happy that she started playing Fetch with me again." Perry smiled at the Chihuahua.
"You're welcome, Pinky. I'm glad that your owner is with mine again."
Two weeks later, everything went back to normal. Every couple that got divorced because of the Divorse-inator was back together again. Everybody he knew were back together with the one they love and Perry couldn't be happier. Well, almost…
"No, Jeremy," Candace said into the phone to Jeremy. She was on her bed. Perry on the edge of it. "You hang up…no, you hang up…you hang up…you hang up!" Perry leapt off her bed and went out of her room, having enough of this.
Although he would never quite understand Candace, Perry was glad that she and Jeremy were back together…and hoped it'll always be that way and for all happy married couples.