Phineas and Ferb's Dinosaur Adventure – Chapter 8: An Allosaurus Rescue
A/N: I'm a little bummed that this is the last chapter, because this has been a really fun story to write. In this chapter, expect lots of dinosaur action and a lot of the usual occurrences for the end of a Phineas and Ferb episode. Please enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Phineas and Ferb.
"OK, here's our options," Irving said. "1) we try to build another time portal. 2) we go to the museum and use the time machine–"
"You said they were temporarily closing that section of the museum," said Django.
Irving slapped his head. "Yes, I did say that didn't I? OK, 2) . . . we can continue trying to see what's wrong with the time portal we have–"
"Why would we even need to build a new one, anyway?"
"In case we can't fix this one. If only Phineas and Ferb were on this side of the time portal. Baljeet might be able to help as well. 3) we could use the parts from this time portal to create a new one, or at least some sort of time-traveling technique to rescue them. Or . . . I'm out of ideas."
At the sound of the gate opening to the backyard, Irving and Django saw Jeremy Johnson, Candace's boyfriend enter the backyard. "Hey, Django, and Irving," he said, "have you see Candace?" Before the boys could answer, Jeremy continued, "speaking of which, where's Phineas and Ferb? They're normally doing something this time of day."
"Yeah, see that's the thing," Irving began. He went on to explain how they had constructed the time portal and that he had been in charge of the control panel. He talked about how Phineas, Ferb, Baljeet, Candace and the others went back in time and that the time portal was not working. "It's all my fault!"
"Whoa, chill there, buddy," Jeremy said. "I'm sure we can fix this thing. Just give me the manual."
Irving handed it over and Jeremy began flipping the pages.
The Allosaurus slammed its foot into a puddle, making a giant splash! It was thundering after Phineas, Ferb and the others, chasing them through the fern prairie. Ever since the Apatosaurus attack failed, this dinosaur had decided to go for smaller but easier targets.
"Phineas!" Isabella cried. "It's catching up!"
"Yeah, but there's not much we can do about it now," Phineas said.
"Why can't we ever stop running from something for once?" Candace complained. "I can't count all the times we–"
"The time portal's up ahead I hope!" Buford said.
"Yeah," Phineas said. "It will open when we get within six feet of it."
Behind them, the Allosaurus picked up speed. It roared loudly, striking fear into the humans it pursued.
Jeremy shook his head. "I'm no technical expert, but I don't see anything wrong. Did you guys check to make sure the cord is plugged in? Cause that's often the case."
"That was the first thing we checked," Django said. "Follow the cord yourself."
Jeremy trailed the cord with his eyes. He smiled and shook his head. "Aha! I found the problem."
"You did?" Django and Irving asked together.
Jeremy walked over to an outlet at the opposite side of the backyard where a cord was lying on the ground, unplugged. "See there's two cords that need to be plugged in."
"Oh. Well, let's plug it in!" proclaimed Irving.
Jeremy plugged the time portal in, Irving pressed the power button and the machine whirred to life. Spiraling stripes of green and purple appeared in the center of the time portal! It was finally working!
Phineas Flynn leaped through the time portal. "Great! We're back!"
"Phineas!" Irving cried. "Phew!"
After Phineas had returned, Ferb, Vanessa, Baljeet, Buford, Stacy, Jenny and the other Fireside Girls poured out of the time portal in a rush.
"What's going on?" Django asked. "You guys look exhausted!"
Phineas said, "Oh hi, Django! It's a long story. There was a pack of Allosaurus we were watching as they attacked a herd of Apatosaurus, and then one of them took interest in us and . . . well, the rest is pretty obvious." Then he turned to Jeremy. "Hey, Jeremy. Didn't see you there."
"Where's Candace?" Jeremy asked. "She was with you right?"
"Well yeah she . . ." Phineas looked back at the time portal. "Oh dear."
"Ahh!" Candace screamed. The Allosaurus was closing in fast. She'd dodged an attack further back, causing her to become separated from the rest of the group. She raced through the forest, not wanting to have anything to do with the predator. Allosaurus roared again. "Stayin' alive! Stayin' alive! Stayin' alive!" She screamed.
Suddenly she came to a large fallen redwood tree. The only way past was to climb over it, something she didn't have time to do. She turned to face the large dinosaur. Her legs and teeth chattering, shaking she glared into the eyes of the animal coming toward her. As it approached, it slowed its run to a swift walk. The Allosaurus never took its eyes off of Candace.
"This is where it ends, Candace!" she sobbed. "You lived a good life! You never got the Ducky Momo water bottle you wanted, but you lived a good life! It's over!"
"No it's not, Candace!"
Candace looked to her left to see Jeremy swinging in on a green vine toward her. The Allosaurus looked in his direction and roared, snapping his jaws at him. He missed and Jeremy swooped up Candace on his downward swing.
"Jeremy!" Candace screamed.
"Hope I didn't interrupt anything," he said.
Phineas, Ferb, Vanessa, Baljeet and Buford watched from nearby.
"He got her!" Vanessa said.
"Where on earth did Jeremy get that vine?" Baljeet asked. "No trees in the entire forest have vines!"
"Not to mention the vine's hanging from somewhere above the tree line," Buford added.
"They do that in movies a lot," Phineas said. "We should get back through the time portal as Jeremy and Candace swing back in this direction."
The Allosaurus roared angrily at having missed his prey. As the vine began to swing back downward, the dinosaur growled and lunged once again for the vine's occupants.
"Look out!" Jeremy cried.
Allosaurus lunged forward and snapped his jaws shut as Jeremy adjusted how his weight was distributed on the vine so that it would miss. Then the dinosaur growled again and started chasing eagerly after its food.
Candace and Jeremy released the vine and fell back through the time portal where everyone else was.
The Fireside Girls cheered.
Django turned to Phineas, "So what did you say the dinosaur that chased you was?"
"An Allosaurus fragilis," Phineas answered.
"And what does that look like?"
Suddenly Django's question was answered as the Allosaurus burst through the time portal! Everyone screamed in terror; Isabella clung onto Phineas tightly. The dinosaurs roared and snapped his jaws, but unfortunately for him, his midsection was too large to fit the rest of his body through. Desperately, the carnivore tried his hardest to make himself fit.
"He's stuck!" Stacy cried. Irving gasped and quickly began taking pictures.
At that moment, Candace heard the familiar sound of Linda's voice in the house saying, "The tables cleaned, Vivian, why don't you take a seat?" Candace gasped.
"The dinosaur's stuck, Phineas, right?" Candace asked.
"By the look of it, we're going to have to find a way to get it back through."
"And it can't get out, right?"
"Well, that's kind of what stuck implies."
Candace squealed and ran into the house.
Vanessa frowned. "Where's she going?"
"To get her mom," Stacy and Jenny answered together.
"Homemade bread is always going to be mejor," Vivian Garcia-Shapiro said.
"I couldn't agree with you more, Vivian," said Linda. "Store-bought just doesn't have the same–"
"MOM! MOM! MOM!" Candace screamed as she burst through the door. "You've got to come to the backyard to see what the boy's have done!"
Linda sighed. "What's going on Candace?"
"The boys built a time portal, went back to the time of dinosaurs and there's a living breathing dinosaur stuck in the time portal right now! You've got to come see it!"
Linda sighed again. "Alright, Candace, I'm coming."
Phineas watched as the Allosaurus struggled to try and fit through the time portal in vain. "We've got to get it back in."
"Can we just turn off the machine?" Isabella asked.
"Well, we don't want half an Allosaurus in the present, do we? We just need–"
All of a sudden the time portal burst open as the Allosaurus burst its way completely into the 21st century! Every gasped as the dinosaur stood to its full height and emitted an earth-shattering roar . . . and that's when a green-and-purple-striped vortex suddenly formed where the entrance to the time portal once stood. The Allosaurus groaned in surprise as the vortex sucked him and the time portal itself into it and it all disappeared from sight, sending the dinosaur back to its home time. All evidence was erased that it was ever there.
"Wow," Irving breathed.
"Yep, that's Allosaurus fragilis for you," Phineas said, "the Lion of the Jurassic. Scary, but an awesome thrill!"
"And that's why it's a good thing Allosaurus is extinct now," Ferb said.
"Yes, yes it is."
"See, Mom? Tell me you don't see a ten-foot tall carnivorous dinosaur stuck in a time portal!" Candace exclaimed as she brought Linda and Vivian outside.
"OK," Linda said, "I don't see it."
Candace looked dumbfounded. "B-b-but, it was right here! It was a giant machine and the dinosaur was stuck!"
"Hi kids," Linda said. "Why don't you all come in for some snacks?"
"Great, snacks!" Phineas exclaimed.
Candace sighed. Once again, she failed to bust her brothers.
As Baljeet, who was talking to Irving, passed by Candace he said, "Just wait till you see all the pictures and video footage we got. It is amazing!"
Candace grinned and looked at her camera. The gallery was still loaded with pictures of dinosaurs from today's adventure. She grinned.
Meanwhile, back in the Jurassic, Perry the platypus was slowly being surrounded by the pack of mind-controlled Ornitholestes. Doofenshmirtz was laughing evilly off to the side. As the dinosaurs closed in Perry backed into a small tree. He grinned, having formed a plan.
The Ornitholestes attacked Perry; Perry broke a long branch off the tree behind him and knocked a dinosaur square in the head. With agility he swung the branch around wildly, knocking the dinosaurs away from him. As a dinosaur came in from the side, Perry leaped up and smacked it with his tail. Perry continued rapidly fighting off the Ornitholestes using his branch and tail. As another came from behind, he gave it a hearty kick, sending it sprawling to the floor.
"You know," Doofenshmirtz said, "I probably should have made the Ornitholestes make armor for themselves. That would have been a smart–" POW!
Perry slammed Doofenshmirtz to the floor with his fist.
"OK, that does it Perry the platypus!"
An Ornitholestes leaped at Perry from behind, but the little mammal grabbed the creature's leg and swung it at Doofenshmirtz, knocking him back to the floor and causing him to drop the Time-Alterator-inator. Perry went for it. He poised to hit a certain big red button.
"No! Perry the platypus! Don't press the–"
Perry pressed the button and the inator exploded.
". . . self-destruct button."
Bright light flashed as the beginning of Doofenshmirtz' empire disappeared and was replaced by the trees that were cut down to create it. The Ornitholestes' eye color turned back to their usual shade. The dinosaurs got up off the ground and shook themselves off.
"Well, I suppose this couldn't get any worse," Doofenshmirtz said.
All the Ornitholestes suddenly looked in Doofenshmirtz' direction and glared, snarling. They began to slowly approach him.
"Now wait a minute guys," Doofenshmirtz said, "I'm your leader, remember? You're supposed to build my . . ." The dinosaurs snarled. "Oh, what's the use? RUN!" Doofenshmirtz took off, and the Ornitholestes followed him. They disappeared into the forest. "CURSE YOU, PERRY THE PLATYPUS!"
Perry walked into Doofenshmirtz' time machine and began booting it up.
The Flynn-Fletchers, the Fireside Girls, Stacy, Jenny, Vanessa, Buford, Baljeet, Irving, Django, Jeremy and Vivian sat around the Flynn-Fletcher's TV in the living room, eating their snacks. Ferb had put all the pictures and video footage onto a disc – upon Candace's suggestion – and they all looked at the pictures and footage on the television. At the moment, the screen showed a picture of the Ceratosaurus as it faced off with the Stegosaurus.
"As you can see here," Phineas said, "Stegosaurus is able to change the color of its plates to frighten off potential predators, like this Ceratosaurus."
"So, this is from your Jurassic adventure today, is it?" Linda asked.
"Yeah, isn't it cool?"
"See, Mom?" Candace asked. "Photographic evidence. Phineas and Ferb are so busted!"
"Yes, they're quite skillful at computer-generated imagery," Lawrence said. "Aren't they dear?"
"Oh definitely," Linda agreed.
Candace slapped her forehead and sighed.
Vanessa asked her, "And you do this everyday?"
"Yeah."
After Candace sat back down, disappointed, Jeremy said, "You know Candace, the reason why I came over today was to ask if you wanted to go to the movies with me tonight."
Candace lightened up. "Really?"
"Sure. You interested?"
"You betcha!"
"Grrr!" Perry the platypus gurgled as he waddled into the room, taking a seat next to Phineas and Ferb.
"Oh, there you are, Perry," Phineas said. "You missed out on our Jurassic dinosaur adventure."
The Ornitholestes chased after Doofenshmirtz as he ran through the red wood forest. "Man, give me a rest guys!" he exclaimed. Finally, he found a small tree suitable for climbing and scrambled up it. The dinosaurs gathered below, snapping their jaws angrily.
"Ha, ha! You can't get me now, can you!"
Suddenly one of the Ornitholestes sniffed the area a couple of times. He squawked; he and the rest of his pack ran off. Doofenshmirtz frowned.
"Hm, I wonder where they went off to."
That's when several little dinosaurs – they had large heads and jaws filled with sharp, little teeth and walked on two legs – started scampering beneath the tree. Doofenshmirtz laughed.
"Those Ornitholestes were scared of those guys? That's a–"
A gust of air came from behind him. Doofenshmirtz looked back to see a full-grown female Allosaurus standing behind him, only a few feet away. The dinosaur let out a loud roar and Doofenshmirtz screamed in terror.
A/N: Just to be clear, Doofenshmirtz is not about to get eaten! Doofenshmirtz somehow gets back to the 21st century in time for the next episode of Phineas and Ferb. He will get back to Danville the same way he did in the episode "It's a Mud, Mud, Mud, Mud World" in which he gets sent into another dimension. How he gets back is not revealed. Anyway, how did you all like the story? What was your favorite scene/part? Favorite dinosaur(s)? Please let me know, I'd love to hear what you guys have to say. I'm kind of disappointed that the story is complete, because it was fun writing, but hey, this also means I'll be able to finally continue the other story I've been working on: "Jurassic World". I hope everyone enjoyed this story! I hope to write another Phineas and Ferb story in the future. Please be sure to favorite and review on this story, check out other stories I've written, and follow me if you want to know when I'm publishing the next chapter to my next story. Oh, and also don't forget to check out "Take 2 with Phineas and Ferb – Jurassic World: Return to Isla Nublar". Most of all, don't forget to Carpe Diem, which is Latin for "seize the day".