Chapter 3

"Hey guys what's up?" Baljeet said being carried wedgie style into the Flynn-Fletcher backyard.

"Hey we agreed I'd talk first." Buford yelled at Baljeet

"I'm being carried in so you can back off." Buford let Baljeet down. Baljeet had begun to stop putting up with him and Buford respected it. Every bully wanted to have an extremely weak nerd that they made tough enough for tough gum. Not that Baljeet was there yet.

"So Dinner Bell, what do I get to do today." Phineas sat on the lawn with a piece of paper that he crumpled up and added to the many crumpled pieces already littering the ground around him. He seemed to have taken no notice of Baljeet or Buford but responded anyway.

"Isabella's gone missing." Baljeet and Buford, both with identical shocked expressions, looked to Ferb who nodded solemnly. He and Phineas had spent another hour and a half this morning going around town, stopping anyone Isabella has ever talked to, to ask if they have seen her. Nobody had. "God Dammit!" Phineas threw his new paper to the ground and buried his face between his legs with his hands over his head.

"Don't worry Phineas you always come up with something." Phineas looked up at Baljeet. Phineas clearly looked about to crack and Baljeet realized his helping words should have been on Isabella herself as opposed to Phineas's inventing.

"Does it look like I am anywhere near coming up with something! Isabella's out there and I'm stuck here and I can't come up with a freaking plan for the life of her!" Baljeet took an instinctive, defensive, step backwards. Phineas's voice grew softer. "Ferb, do you have any ideas on what to do?" Ferb had been thinking on it but he too could come up with nothing. But he wasn't one to say nothing when there was something that needed to be said. And Phineas needed something to be said.

"Perhaps if we look through our old ideas we'll find something. Besides its easier to break the laws of nature the second time around." The four went up to the boys room to look through and see what they had made. A roller-coaster, a racecar, a blimp, flying baseball with controller. Phineas saw this and thought on this invention. He couldn't think of how it would even help but it seemed like there was something about it. He thought back to day he made it. They accidentally shot down Meap with it and then lost him. Ferb tricked out the ship and Phineas conveyed Ferb's GPS into a cute tracker. The cute tracker! Where was it? Phineas then remembered it exploded when he reset its settings next to Isabella. He blushed at the memory. He had forgotten she was that cute. He needed a new one. He pulled out his cell phone and looked at it. GPS.

"I think Dinner Bell got something." Buford said when he saw Phineas sit down and frantically begin to take apart his cell phone.

"What is it?" Baljeet asked and Phineas threw a picture of the cute tracker over to them. Ferb held it out for them and their eyes all turned to Phineas.

After 5 minutes Phineas finished the tracker. He did it crudely; leaving his phone looking like it was run over, but effectively. The screen loaded and several dots appeared on the virtual globe. One was a Bangeroo convention, one was the maternity ward at a hospital, one was in orbit around the earth, but the strongest one was traveling 500 miles per hour over the Atlantic Ocean.

"How are you twerps doing?" Her voice still had an annoyed tone to it but the sympathetic tone was much more evident. It was a combination of emotions only someone like Candace could pull off. Phineas's face instantly became nervous, he wasn't sure if he should lie to his sister. But he really hadn't before so he decided the truth was best.

"We're gonna go track down Isabella." Candace didn't looked shocked.

"Maybe you should let the local authorities handle it Phineas." Candace said even more sympathetically. Phineas tossed her the tracker while he continued to throw clothes and inventing material into a backpack. "She's over the ocean? Phineas you can't go. Mom's a wreck already." Phineas looked at her. Things rarely went wrong in Danville so the police didn't have much experience. One of their biggest cases was looking for their mom's earring. And they never found it. Whenever something did go wrong it was always fixed like there was a whole agency with some uncool acronym of special agents fixing whatever went wrong.

"You know the police can't do much. And mom never even believes you about our stuff. How will we explain to the police how we know where she is. Oh yeah I took apart my phone and made a cuteness tracker so she's over across the Atlantic. That'll go up like a lead balloon. And not like the lead balloon we built last week." Candace opened her mouth to object but she noticed Ferb's hand on her shoulder pulling her down to his level. He brought his mouth close to his step-sister's ear.

"Come on Candace, for true love." He gave a quick point to Phineas who looked on the edge of breaking down and crying. More-so then Candace had ever seen. Even more then when he couldn't think up a solution when they were trapped on a deserted island. One look at him and Candace knew that she couldn't live with herself if she kept him from her. She sighed audibly. Being caught between a rock and a hard place is never fun.

"Okay but I'm gonna come to make sure nothing happens to you. Mom may not know it but I am responsible regarding your actions. But you owe me now. How are we getting to her?" Phineas stopped packing and his eyes widened. He slapped his hand to his forehead and dragged it down his face. He missed when getting to Isabella meant a walk across the street.

"I guess we'll need a plane. Ferb, how quickly can we rebuild the Sun-beater 3000?" Ferb produced a calculator from nowhere and hit a couple of buttons before holding up four fingers. "Four hours? Isn't there a faster way?" Candace groaned and the room full of kids looked at her. She pulled out a phone and quickly dialed a number

"Hey Jeremy."
"Nothing much but listen Isabella's gone missing."
"Of course they are."
"No I'm not busting them," She looked at her brothers "this time."
"I called to ask if you could call in a favor for me."
"The president of Danville Airlines"
"We need a jet to get us across the Atlantic.
"I'll check." She turned to her brothers again

"Do you guys have your pilots licenses?"

"Yea you can get them pretty young actually." Phineas replied trying to decipher the half of the conversation between his sister and her boyfriend

"Just the plane." Candace continued into her phone
"We need it to be fast and we need it ASAP."
"You, are the best boyfriend a girl could ask for. I owe you one. Love ya. Bye" She closed her phone and turned back to Phineas and Ferb

"And you guys owe me twice now. I got us a plane."

Candace instructed Baljeet and Buford to go home. She could deal with punishment by her mom but she wasn't going to deal with their mothers. Her, Phineas, and Ferb walked down the stairs to see their mom talking with the crying Mrs. Garcia-Shapiro

"Mom, I think I'll take Phineas and Ferb out to get their minds off, you know, and let you guys have some time to yourselves."

"That's very responsible of you Candace." Candace walked out to the car thinking how her mom would recall that statement when she found out they were taking a plane over the Atlantic.