Ten years later…
It was one of those days that just started normal and then turned into something strange. First off it was Monty and Vanessa Monogram's wedding anniversary, not that anyone had told their dads they were married yet. Perry still didn't know how to tell their dads, it was sort of awkward since he knew them both personally and professionally. Major Francis Monogram was Monty's father, and Perry's boss. He was the head of the O.W.C.A. and was starting to grow older. His once black hair that Perry remembered from his own youth was now white. He was in some ways a fool, but he always put his agents first when he could.
Vanessa's father was another matter entirely, as he was Perry's nemesis and best frenemy. Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz was a poor man from Grimblestump in Droozlestien who had the worst amount of luck that anyone had ever gotten. He was raised by Ocelots and over shadowed by his younger brother, he was forced to work as a lawn gnome by his own biological father, and also forced to wear hand-me-up girl dresses throughout his life growing up. Things had gotten a little better upon being shipped to America by his parents trick and he got married. Unfortunately he ended up getting a divorce, even though his daughter has finally started to grow fond of him. He had a windblown brown hair look and a long nose, as well as he always slouched over giving the impression of a hunched back. His favorite outfit was to wear a white lab coat that often got him confused as a pharmacist. His little brother being the mayor of Danville only ticked him off even more by being a goody two shoes who didn't really care about anyone. That was the only thing that stopped Heinz from being a true evil villain in Perry's eyes, was that he cared about people, even those he hated. He would never wish for their death, just for them to listen and obey, maybe to get a little hurt. Even his traps for Perry were often done with care so that they just restrained him rather than hurt or kill him.
The second thing to make the day off, was that it was summer and his boys were off at their new job supposedly. They said they were going to be trained for it today at least. Perry missed waking up to being poked by their alarm clock and then chattering to wake them up. He was now ten years old, he realized as he crawled downstairs to his food dish. He also remembered that the robot riot incident happened over five years ago. His boys never stopped inventing, but he had wished that he could've let them keep him and their memories. Perry had been revealed as a secret agent when the boys had crashed into Doofenshmirtz home. It was one of the more embarrassing things to happen during his career as an agent, because his owners and nemesis did not only discover him, but he had been discovered while protecting his boys from his other dimensional self, which had been the real blow.
He shook off the feeling of horror as he snuck into his lair. He may have been getting old, but he still knew how to outdo most of the younger agents who, if they saw him, just thought he was an old fossil. He smirked as he remembered the age-inator thing, or whatever it had been called, that had been made to make cheese old by Doofenshmirtz. The scientists were still working on reversing it.
Just as he was sliding down the tube to his lair, he saw a bright flash of light and was shocked. It wasn't time for his yearly photo yet, so what was that? He didn't have time to think as he landed in his chair with a soft thud. 'That's strange, it was harder yesterday…'
He looked on the screen and saw Major Monogram looking at him curiously and with pride all at once. "How do you feel, Agent P? We're trying out a new reverse aging ray. It's supposed to cut back the years, making our agents live longer and get more time with their families as well as save the day. It can only go back five years though for now, but that seemed to be enough for Agent P and Agent D." Perry grabbed the handheld mirror that was on his desk and looked at himself. He shrugged. He looked just about the same in his opinion, maybe less wrinkles around the eyes, but still. "Oh well, I'm sure it worked. Anyway, Dr. Doofenshmirtz is up to something I'm sure, he hasn't been out of his house all day since the mail came yesterday, and his daughter just went inside an hour ago. Speaking of mail, I just got a letter from my son Monty. He's been hiding for a year you know, he says he's coming over to talk to me around lunch time about why. He also said something about you can send me my package now whatever that means…"
Agent P smirked and passed a package with the Major's name on it through a small chute next to his computer. He then saluted and ran off before the major opened the package. Monty was gonna be in for it big time, but Agent P didn't want to see the fireworks this close. 'Wedding photos and a film for him, now to deliver the same to Doofenshmirtz… heh. I'm probably going to be deader than that dumb driving test Heinz took.'
Perry made it over to Doofenshmirtz place within ten minutes on his hover bike and opened the door with the key Heinz had made for him. He was surprised to find Heinz was sitting down in his chair with Vanessa sitting across from him. Perry had never seen Heinz so happy that he was crying, or at least he hadn't seen it in years. Perry walked up to them and tipped his hat to Vanessa, like the little gentleman he was. "Hello Heinz, Vanessa." He chattered.
"Hey, Perry." She smiled. Perry noticed she was pregnant and mimed out a congratulations to her. "Thanks. We think it's going to be a boy." Perry gave a thumbs up and smiled widely.
He then looked to Heinz who looked so happy you'd think he'd just won the "Most Evil" award. Perry handed Vanessa the package for Heinz that had a copy of the wedding stuff for him and then turned his attention back to Heinz. "I'm going to be a grandpa…" that was all he could say. He had taken his daughter's marriage to a good guy far better than anyone had expected, probably because he knew that a good guy would treat his daughter good. Perry smirked. Heinz as a grandfather might turn his evil down for a few years. "Oooh, I'll go and make a baby-shower-inator how does that sound?" He was excited now. That was the thing with him now a-days, Perry was more sent to check up on Heinz' inventions being dangerous to people than evil lately, and he was okay with it. As Perry grew older, Major Monogram had let him keep working against Heinz, even though his -inators pretty much blew themselves up. "First I'm gonna need to figure out what the heck a baby shower is though, I mean, is it giving the baby a shower or is it a shower of babies raining down? That would hurt, you know…" This caused Vanessa to giggle at her father's usual cluelessness on these things. "Oh wait, I got it, first I'll make a brag-inator, you know to use on Roger, to say I've got something he doesn't and brag about it to Mr. Perfect down at City Hall, what do you think?" He looked at the two.
Perry shook his head while smiling and handed Heinz a piece of paper and a pencil. "Oh so I should just write it out?" Perry nodded. "Good idea, then he can go and look at it every day, oh, I've got some indestructible paper in my desk, just hold on!" He ran towards his study to his desk.
"It's muffin time, would you care for a muffin Vanessa? Perry the Platypus?" Norm was the robotic human that Heinz had made when he finally figured out that the platypus' natural enemy was man, not that that had helped him much. He was one of the few things that Perry had never hit the self-destruct switch on, mainly because he thought it made Heinz seem to have a son that he had to watch out for, and so would be a little less destructive. It didn't turn out like that though, but Norm had an effect on Heinz nonetheless, though more towards the less lonely side. Vanessa had accepted the muffin from Norm. Norm liked to think of himself as Vanessa's half-brother and Doofenshmirtz son, even though Vanessa was the only one to accept him really other than Perry. Norm had developed his own personality and mind, which was one of the things that Perry liked about him. The fact that Heinz kept Norm around just made Perry think more positively about it. Perry shook his head and mimed out that he wasn't hungry. Norm was getting better at understanding what the little platypus was trying to say. Perry chattered happily when Heinz came back with his now finished note.
"Hey, Perry the Platypus, could you do me a favor? Ya' see on your way out could you drop this into the mail box for me? I've got some calls to make, one is definitely going to your boss by the way, that's gonna be funny. I can't wait to hear what he has to say on this, heheh. I mean, our kids both married each other, and now their gonna have a baby! Can you believe it?" Perry nodded and smiled happily as he walked off. It was a weird day, no doubt about it, but he didn't mind it so far.
As Perry left Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc. he looked at the time on his watch when he put in the mail for Heinz. It was only noon. He sent his hoverboard home by remote and decided to walk dumb the rest of the way home. He took off his fedora and enjoyed the nice walk in the sun on his way down the busy city streets. By the time he got home it was two o'clock and he went into the backyard with his dopey look on. He chattered once to signify he was home, but to his surprise, neither one of his boys were.
'Must be that new job they were talking about. They seemed pretty excited about it. I think Phineas mentioned being able to work with inventions and animals… maybe as veterinarian scientists to build those weird machines to help them… I hope they make them more animal friendly. Some of those hurt.' He went inside the house and waited by his food bowl. He chattered once and the boys' mom, Linda, noticed.
"Oh, there you are Perry." She opened him a can of Platypus food and poured it into his bowl. "The boys called earlier to say they got the job and told me to tell you. You probably don't understand what I'm saying though, huh boy?"
Perry stopped and chattered once. "I understand, but you don't understand me... Thank you for the food." His chatter sounded like a normal one to her though. Perry figured out a long time ago that he only needed to make a mindless chatter if his boys tried to make an animal translator. He loved that they thought of all of these things and had scanned it with his hat camera so that Major Monogram might be smart and use it to understand his agents, but to no avail. He didn't mind though. He didn't need to know everything.
After Perry was done, he went to his lair once more to check on how things were for Monty and Major Monogram. He had hoped that the two wouldn't hate each other now for the sake of Vanessa and the baby. He was surprised to find that both humans had decided that his lair was the best place for the argument and that Carl was sitting in his chair eating popcorn. Apparently though Monty had just won the fight as his father sighed in defeat and they shook hands. Perry wiped his forehead. It seemed like the thing to do when showing he was relieved, at least, that was what humans on the TV did.
This was when the major noticed him. "Oh, Agent P, we were just… never mind, what are you doing back here so soon?" Perry mimed out that Doofenshmirtz had just been talking to Vanessa today and that there was no scheme. "Oh… well um…" Then his eyes brightened as he remembered something, "Oh yes, that's right I wanted to tell you personally about some new employees. Ya' see they're working part time with us and I thought it be nice if you would help train them and let them see your lair, just so that they can get a feel on what a lair needs and such. You can write down a list of recommendations for your lair's upgrade at the same time, it is that time of year again." Monogram looked so happy, Perry thought he would burst.
Perry then looked over to Carl and asked a question in the hand language that he and Carl only shared when he didn't want the major to know. Monty had also picked up on it, but he was getting better at understanding Perry on normal cases, so he refrained from using it very often. "I thought you were the only one in that would get as an Unpaid, Paid Intern."
"I am, or was. I've finally done enough that I'm a secretary to Major Monogram. The group of newbies are under me, and we're all getting paid too. Isn't that great?"
"Any idea on who they are? I don't like humans messing with my stuff."
"Will you two stop that! That's very rude to talk in a language only you both know when you know we can't understand you." Major Monogram snapped. He had tried to learn the language, but only Monty and Carl had seemed to master it, not that Francis knew that his son could communicate like that. Monty smirked.
Perry blushed in embarrassment while Carl cleared his throat. "Sorry sir, Agent P was just asking me who was coming in and how many. I was about to tell him that the total of newly recruited humans is five, but I wasn't going to say who it was."
"Very well… Agent P, you're to report to H.Q. tomorrow morning instead due to us wanting you to help train the new recruits. Besides, as I understand it, Monty will be talking to Doofenshmirtz tomorrow, so he can keep him from blowing up the Tri-State area. We'll get you groomed by the new groomer too, you need another bath anyway." Perry chattered angrily at this. Phineas and Ferb washed him nearly every day in the bathtub. He didn't need some newbie to go sticking bows in his fur. "Trust me Agent P, it's to prep you for your new shielding gel. She'll be applying that, with, of course, Robbie's help." Robbie was the groomer and stylist for the O.W.C.A. and he was very nice. He was probably the only one, other than Phineas and Ferb, who could get Perry cleaned and knew just what shampoo to use so that his fur didn't turn him into a fluff ball after being toweled down. The shielding gel was something applied to every operative. It was like a shampoo itself, or rather a conditioner or hairspray. It was made to help animal agents from getting burnt by lasers if they got careless or just couldn't dodge. Sure they'd still feel the burn, but it wouldn't be so bad.
Grudgingly Perry nodded at this. He knew it was time for his shielding gel to be renewed and if it helped out a new human to get used to working with strange animals, then so be it. It didn't mean Perry had to like it.
Okay, so I know, some of you are thinking it should be Ferb and Vanessa, and so was I until I saw her dating Monty, so I figure I'll flip it every once in a while, one story with her and Monty, one with her and Ferb depending on how my feelings are in this. Frankly, I just wanted Perry to deal with a lot of weird events. Hope ya like :D