I ignored the sick feeling in my stomach as I walked up to the building I'd escaped from twice today now. I thought for sure the normbots would snatch me, but they just let me pass. Soon as I passed the normbots, Platyborg was waiting for me. He reminded me of our Perry, but he was more machine than platypus now. I feel bad other dimension me doesn't know what happened to him. He nodded, and he escorted me to where other dimension Doofenshmirtz was. He sat in his chair, smirking at me as I approached. He knew I'd come. I knew he'd know, but I couldn't just let Marissa suffer for something she can't control. I realize that's basically what happened with Perry. Perhaps he wasn't allowed to tell us. That's not his fault, and I blamed him for it. When this is over, I'm definitely going to make it up to him.

However, first I had to save my sister. By now, Ferb and the others are probably home worried about me right now. I was so lost in thought that I suddenly felt Platyborg shove me out of my thoughts. I continued to approach until I was at an appropriate distance from him, and then I stopped.

"I knew you'd come, kid," he said.

"I had no choice. You have my sister, and I'm not going to let her suffer for my sake," I answered, "Now where is she?"

Doofenshmirtz smirked at me, and he looked over at a normbot. I followed his gaze to see a normbot holding Marissa, gagged but not harmed in any way. Dr. D stood next to the normbot, but he wasn't smiling or anything. If anything, he looked regretful. Marissa struggled to free herself from the normbot's grasp, but it squeezed her tighter, and I could hear her muffled scream. It was then she saw me. Her eyes widened, and she screamed out to me, but with the gag, I couldn't understand a word she said. I could tell she was panicking though, probably because I came back when she sacrificed herself so I would be safe. She seems not to get that I can't just abandon her like that. She's been abandoned by enough people, and I'm not going to be one of them.

"So what is it you want from me?" I asked turning back to him, "Your message clearly was spoken to me and not Perry."

"Yeah, at first I was going to turn him into a platyborg in general, but he turned out to be great bait for you," he chuckled maliciously, "and then your sister was stupid enough to sacrifice herself so I could use her as bait. Oh that was rich."

"Don't call my sister stupid! She had her reasons," I defended.

"Mhm, yeah whatever. Anyway, yes, my message was for you. See that machine over there?" he asked pointing over at what seemed to be the other dimension-inator, "The dumpkoff over there seems to have forgotten what you did to make his machine work, and so I need you to fix it. If you fix it, I will spare your lives and allow you to cross the portal with me since you're probably itching to go home, aren't you?"

I nodded, and I looked over at Marissa, "So, if I fix your machine, you'll basically let my sister and me go?"

"Well, we'll obviously be meeting again since I'm going to take over your Tri-State Area, and you'll be my slaves, but it won't be much different than here. You'll probably have to stay inside, so the only time you'll see me is on the Doofenchannel which will be the only channel."

"What about summer?"

"Oh that's gonna be long gone when I take over."

"You can't outlaw summer. It's a season of the year. It's going to come, outlawed or not," I responded with a big of a smug, annoyed expression.

"Look, just fix the machine, and I won't hurt your precious sister. Nuff said."

"No killing?"

"Nope."

"No turning her into a cyborg?"

"Nope."

"No keeping her as a prisoner?"

"Just fix it!"

"I want your word that we walk through and go home…" I said.

"You have my word," he said, and I looked at the machine, up at Marissa then down at the ground. I sighed, knowing there wasn't much choice here.

"...Fine."