Phineas and Ferb's Dinosaur Adventure – Chapter 2: How to Build a Time Portal For Dummies
A/N: As the chapter title suggests, Phineas, Ferb and the others are going to start construction on their time portal, but I'm going to pull some other characters from the show into my story. I also decided to try a little something new with this chapter: I'm going to include a song. Well, not the song itself, but a link to the song on YouTube. The song was deleted from the episode "Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension", so I figured why not add it to this story? Hope you all enjoy this chapter!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Phineas and Ferb.
Candace Flynn, Stacy Hirano, Jenny Brown and Vanessa Doofenshmirtz laughed at Candace's previous statement as they walked along the sidewalk leading to the Flynn-Fletcher house. They'd just come back from the mall with bag-loads of things, mostly clothes.
"You sure you've got all that Stacy?" Candace asked.
"Uh yeah, I'm fine," Stacy quickly replied. Her bags looked as if they were going to burst at any second. "I just need to hurry and place this stuff in another bag at your house."
Candace shrugged and continued on her rant, "Anyways, did you see all the people that got in line the minute we checked out."
"You're telling me," Vanessa said. "I'm glad we already got our shopping done. Lines just don't work out for me."
Candace was about to reply when the sound of heavy-hammering stopped her head in her tracks. "Wait a minute . . ." she began. "I think I know what's going on in the backyard."
"Wait, what's going on?" Vanessa asked.
Not really hearing her, Candace stormed into the backyard with her shopping bags.
Vanessa turned to Jenny. "What's up with her?"
"Oh, her brother's are probably building something again."
"Building something?" As she hadn't spent that much time at Candace's place, Vanessa wasn't familiar with the day's usual cycle of activities.
"Pretty much everyday Phineas and Ferb build some giant contraption or invent something."
"And Candace is focused on trying to bust them," Stacy added. "She's been lose, but she's never busted them."
"It always somehow disappears before she's able to get Mom to see it."
Vanessa and Jenny continued toward the house, unknowingly leaving Stacy behind. "So," Vanessa said, "what kind of stuff do Phineas and Ferb typically build?"
Jenny said, "It depends on the day. Just the other day, they build a–"
Jenny and Vanessa failed to hear Stacy's plastic bags suddenly burst. Stacy looked beneath her at the clothes and other objects she just bought fall to the ground. She sighed.
"Nice," Stacy groaned.
"Alright, girls," Isabella said. "Turn to page 543 in your Fireside booklets and look at the section entitled How to Build a Time Portal."
"We should add building a time portal to the title sequence," Baljeet suggested.
"Meh," Buford started, "I'd rather give a monkey a shower."
The Fireside girls began quickly flipping their booklets to the appropriate section. Phineas went over to Isabella and looked inside the manual. "Yep, as I suspected. We have all the pieces necessary to construct a time portal."
"This is going to be so cool!" Irving exclaimed. "Can I manage the time portal control panel?"
"Sure, Irving. We'll let you see a dinosaur before we turn it off though."
At the moment, the backyard was littered with all sorts of differently shaped mechanical pieces and tools. However, near a section of the fence, Ferb, Baljeet and Buford were putting some pieces they had laid out on the ground together into a large oval-shaped platform with two six-foot tall mechanical poles sticking out from the top set about 15 feet apart.
"I think this wire is supposed to go this way," Baljeet said.
"No, didn't you see the manual, twerp?" said Buford. "It's the other way around."
"PHINEAS! FERB!" Candace exclaimed as she came entered the backyard and sat her bags near the gate. "Just what do you think you're doing?"
"Oh hi, Candace," Phineas said, oblivious to the fact that she wanted to bust them. "We're building a time portal."
"A time portal?"
"Yeah, we are going back in time to do the first ever behavioral studies on all things within the order dinosauria," Baljeet said.
A brief silence.
"Uh . . . come again?" Candace asked.
"He means we're going to conduct studies on dinosaurs," Phineas translated.
"They're even going to make a photo journal!" Irving said. "I can't wait to add this to my Phineas and Ferb fanbook. They're actually going to let me manage the control panel!" Irving squealed with excitement.
Candace rolled her eyes at Irving's behavior.
Vanessa raised her eyebrows when she and Jenny reached the backyard. "Wow, this is a major operation, Phineas."
"Yes, yes it is."
Vanessa turned to Candace. "They do this everyday?"
"O-o-h yes," Candace said. "Everyday. And most days they build stuff larger than what they're building now. Most of what they do is beyond imaginable scale. It's either big or really, really weird. Like the time they built a roller coaster, or the time they built a rocket-ship, or that portal to Mars or . . . it's a long list. I just never understand how it always vanishes before Mom shows up! There's only one way to explain it . . .
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"Wow, sounds about as weird as my family."
Candace sighed. "Does every sister have to deal with this? No. Do I have to deal with this? Of course. You'd think I'd have better things to do and more important things to worry about. Every single day it's one thing after another. But do Mom and Dad see it? No. Do the boys get in trouble? No. And another thing–"
"You're just stressed," Jenny said, trying to calm her friend down. "Just take a moment and try to relax and–"
"I can't relax, Jenny. I just can't. I just get so frustrated. I get so close to busting Phineas and Ferb but Mom never sees it."
Vanessa smiled. "Tell me about it, sister."
"I didn't know you had brothers."
"No, not brothers. My Dad. He's always doing–"
A loud explosion sound was heard near a large fuse box. Ferb opened the box and saw that one of the main cables had burst. He showed it to Phineas.
Phineas scratched his chin (not that he has much of a chin to speak of). "Hmm, I thought those cables might be too strong for our requirements. We'll have to order some more."
"Already on it!" Isabella said from nearby, going into the Flynn-Fletcher house to make the call.
"OK, Ferb," Phineas announced. "I need another screwdriver, please." Ferb walked over to the toolbox to retrieve a screwdriver. Phineas turned to Perry, who was lying down doing his usual activity . . . pretty much nothing. "This is going to be so cool, Perry."
"Grrr," Perry responded.
"Time portal and they're ordering cables! Oh . . . you guys are so-o-o busted!" Candace said. She went into the house and disappeared.
"Whoa, she's pretty serious about busting her brothers," Vanessa noticed.
"Yes, yes she is," Jenny answered.
"I think this piece goes diagonal to this one, right?" Baljeet asked.
"But then the top of this button is on the inside," Buford said. "How are we going to push it."
"Let me do it," Phineas said.
Vanessa walked over to Phineas. "So, have you guys actually time-traveled before?"
"Oh yeah, we have. We've hug out with dinosaurs before. But you know how it is with a first attempt at everything, and we didn't bring too much recording equipment to record pictures or data or anything. This time we're prepared." Just then, a large truck drove into the driveway of the house. "Wow, that was fast."
Phineas went over to greet the driver. The driver got out and retrieved his clipboard while his assistant unloaded the boxes. "Hello, young'in," he said. "I'm looking for a . . . Phineas Flynn."
"That's me."
"OK, sign here please." He handed the clipboard to Phineas so he could sign his name on the papers. "What are you kids using the cables for?"
"Oh, we're building a time portal."
"Aren't you a bit young to be building a professional time portal?"
"Yes, yes I am." He handed the clipboard back to the driver.
"Well, have fun."
"Thanks we will."
The driver waved, got back in the truck with his assistant and drove off. They left behind a large cardboard box. Phineas took the box to the backyard. "Alright, here we go," he said. "These cables are much more capable of transferring the energy we need to power up the machine."
Candace quickly punched in the numbers on her phone. "MOM! MOM! MOM! Where are you?"
"I'm at Vivian's house," Linda answered on the other end. "I'm in the middle of a card game."
"Well you've got to come over now and see what the boys are doing!"
Linda sighed. "What is it this time, Candace?"
"They're building a time portal to go back in time!"
"Didn't you use that one already, Candace?"
"No, no. This time it's a time portal! And they're building it! Before, they just fixed up that time machine in the museum. Now they're making a time portal in the backyard! You've got to come over and bust them!"
"Sorry dear, I'm a little busy right now. I'll come over when we're finished. Bye now."
Candace hung up. She growled. Half the time she doesn't see what Phineas and Ferb are doing is when she won't come and see what they're up to immediately, she thought. Rats.
"All set, Ferb?" Phineas asked. Ferb closed the power box and gave a thumbs up.
"Ferb doesn't talk much, does he?" Vanessa whispered to Phineas.
"Nah, he's an action guy."
"How's the time portal construction coming along, Baljeet?"
"It is finished, Phineas," Baljeet answered.
"Great, now all we've got to do is charge the circuit breakers and . . ." he glanced around the backyard. "Hey, where's Perry?"
Perry the platypus wandered around the corner, away from the backyard. He looked around to see if anyone was looking before getting up on two legs and putting his fedora on his head.
"Oh, hey, Perry."
Perry turned around to see Stacy. She'd just finished picking up everything she dropped, stuffed it all into the only bag that didn't burst open (which was already stuffed). And the only reason why this bag wasn't bursting was because she was holding it with both arms and under the bottom of it. As you might recall, Stacy is one of the few people to know about Perry being a secret agent. Stacy sat her stuff on the ground.
"So . . . you're going to do your secret agent thing and uh, fight that evil pharma–I mean, evil scientist guy, right?" Stacy asked.
"Grrr," Perry chattered and grinned.
"You never cease to amaze me, Perry. Who could have guessed that you'd be a secret agent. Well . . . you do your thing."
Perry chattered again and held out his fist. Stacy balled her fingers into a fist the two of them did a quick fist-bump before Perry gave Stacy a thumbs up; then Stacy waved and hurried to the backyard. After she was gone, Perry quickly hurried to the nearest fire hydrant and punched some small buttons on the side. A secret doorway opened up. Perry stepped in and the doorway closed as Perry submerged down the tunnel to his secret lair.
Perry ejected from the tube and landed in his red chair. Looking down from the monitor in front of him was Major Monogram.
"Oh, good morning, Agent P," Monogram said. "Our sources indicate that Dr. Doofenshmirtz is up to his old mischief. Agent W – that's Agent Worm – has spotted Doofenshmirtz at the local library purchasing books on a variety of topics, including theoretical physics, quantum mechanics, wormholes, the space-time continuum and . . . chaos theory?" He turned to Carl, who happened to be off-screen. "Carl, does that even exist ?"
"Yes, sir," Carl answered. "Chaos theory is a field of mathematics with applications in several disciplines, including meteorology, sociology, physics, engineering, economics, biology and philosophy. It's the study of how non-linear equations develop and change overtime due to small fluctuations in the initial conditions."
"Um . . . OK . . ." he turned back to Agent P. "Anywho, we've also observed Doofenshmirtz making a load of strange purchases, including large mechanical reactors. We have no idea what the topics he's been researching have to do with what he's purchased, but we do know that this only spells one thing: evil. We need you to go over there, see what he's up to and stop him before he does something evil, Agent P."
Agent P saluted Major Monogram and after attaching his jet pack to his back, he flew out of the room through an exit tunnel.
A/N: No time traveling yet; that will probably happen in the next chapter. Anyway, are you guys liking the story so far? The more exciting bits will come along a little later . . . probably in chapter 3. I can't wait till we get to the dinosaurs! I decided it would be neat to see Jenny in the story as well. Jenny hasn't really appeared in very many episodes as of late, and of the few times she has a significant appearance in the show, she doesn't normally have anything much to do with Phineas and Ferb's inventions. I decided to add Vanessa to the story because she and Candace are apparently friends in the show, but you hardly see them together. So I figured they must have time to build their friendship somewhere in between episodes. For all we know, they could be classmates in school after summer is over. What do you guys think Dr. Doofenshmirtz is up to? What it is might surprise you. Anywho, until I publish chapter 3, be sure to favorite, follow and review on this story and I'll see you all soon! R&r!