"Hey, since we're done and all, is your ride here yet?", Heinz asked.

Phineas paused for a moment, having to recall himself on the fact that Candace WAS supposed to be picking him up. He looked about the park finding no trace of his sister nor any of her friends.

"Uh... My ride's not here but.. Well my sister's at a party and my parents and brother had to go take care of our grandfather.", Phineas shrugged. "Why?"

"Well I was thinking, if it was alright, if you would like to come over to my place. I've had a lot of fun building things with you, I thought we could keep it up back at my lab before you had to go home."

"Well...", Phineas trailed off, thinking of Candace and exactly how long she'd be wanting to hang out with Jeremy, what with how long she already drools over him in any given day. "...Yeah I guess so. I mean Candace can just call me."

"In your words, 'awesome'.", Heinz joked.

The two laughed and walked into the parking lot where Norm stood patiently by.

"Hello, Sir!", Norm greeted cheerfully as Heinz got closer.

"Hey.", Heinz waved casually.

"This is your robot?", Phineas exclaimed, running up to get a closer look in excitement.

"My robot man, but yeah.", he shrugged.

"I'm Norm!", Norm introduced himself.

"That's so cool! He's huge! Hey wait a minute!", Phineas paused, his face turning into confusion as he looked closer. "I've.. I've heard that voice before. From Norm the Minotaur."

"A minotaur?", Heinz repeated. "There's no such thing."

"Yeah but.. But Ferb and I were racing through downtown and this giant half man, half bull, began to chase us and he said his name was Norm. It was only about a month ago.", Phineas explained, turning to the mad doctor in confusion.

"A month? That's when I first made him!", Heinz exclaimed. "So that's where he wound up. I was wondering how he got into the museum."

"How serendipitous!", Phineas smiled, looking back up at him.

"Welp Norm, time to head home.", Heinz said with a shrug.

"Did you win?", Norm asked as he transformed into a tow-truck.

"Yes. Yes we did.", Heinz smiled as he climbed into the driver's seat.

"Wow! Norm, you're pretty cool for a robotic minotaur-like man!", Phineas commented as he climbed in.

"Yay!", Norm's lights lit up for a moment with delight.

Phineas chuckled as Heinz only rolled his eyes and the two drove off.

Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorperateeed!

Phineas chuckled, hearing the jingle from the empinator as Heinz wore it when they pulled into the building's garage and asked, "That's your jingle?"

"Yeah, I really have to write the rest of it sometime.", he shrugged.

"I thought it was pretty good by itself.", Phineas smiled.

"Heh, thanks."

When they walked into the building and took a small elevator ride, Heinz stopped Phineas from walking out for a moment and held a finger to his lips to indicate that they had to be quiet. He carefully looked down the halls and gestured for Phineas to follow as they snuck down the hallway. Phineas was curious for the sudden caution. Was his wife mad at him or something?

"Okay, it's right here.", Doof whispered as he pulled out his keys to unlock the doors.

He suddenly flinched as they heard a woman clear her throat and looked behind himself to find Vanessa standing not too far away, leaned on the opposite wall with a deep glare on her face aimed at Doofenshmirtz.

"Dad?", she asked.

"Oh, hi Vanessa!", Heinz chuckled, quickly turning around, hiding Phineas.

"Vanessa?", Phineas asked, coming around.

"Phineas?", she asked, equally surprised.

"Hey! Long time no see!", Phineas smiled, shaking hands with her.

"Yeah tell me about it. Looks like you made off nicely after Paris.", Vanessa chuckled.

"Wait, what?", Heinz asked, looking at the two of them.

"Dad, remember when your giant water balloon hit me and knocked me off the Tokyo Tower?", she asked.

"Yeah?"

"The airplane that rescued me belonged to Phineas.", she smiled down at the young inventor.

"Sorry, I guess I should have told you if I knew that THIS Vanessa was your daughter.", Phineas chuckled.

"Vanessa, I thought you said a handsome, suave, and smart guy named Ferb saved you.", Heinz said, folding his arms across his chest. "What, were you lying?

"Handsome, suave, and smart?", Phineas repeated. "Well Ferb is pretty savvy with his tools but.. Vanessa, I didn't know you thought Ferb was handsome."

Vanessa couldn't hide her blush and her embarrassment though she attempted by crossing her own arms across her chest and glaring at her dad and complaining, "Dad, I thought you promised me you weren't going to go into the lab this weekend!"

"Oh Vanessa, come on! I met Phineas down at that inventing competition and we just hit it off so great, I thought it'd be okay if we did a little more.", Heinz said, scratching the back of his head guiltily. "Please?"

"Dad, you promised me!", Vanessa held down her side of the argument.

"But it's only for the day. Phineas lives all the way in the suburbs! It's just this once! I promise, no inators!"

"You PROMISE?", Vanessa asked skeptically as she raised an eyebrow in question.

Heinz held up his right hand with his left over his heart while saying,

"I PROMISE. NO inators."

Vanessa thought it over a bit, her face unfaltering. She glanced down at Phineas but mainly kept her attention on her father.

"...Alright. But if I find ANYTHING exploding, I'm totally going to get Mom!", she warned before storming off.

Heinz sighed a bit with relief as he leaned against the door for support.

"Good! She actually bought it.", he said quietly. "I'm telling you, you're some sorta good-luck charm. Y'know that?"

He quickly unlocked the door and the two walked into the main laboratory Heinz worked in. Phineas looked around at the large room. It was even bigger than his backyard, minus the endless sky, and everywhere was beakers, blueprints, models, and various machines and computers all about the room.

"WOW!", Phineas gaped breathlessly. "This place is HUGE!"

His voice echoed through the room and Heinz chuckled, finding it amusing for such a smartypants to still act like a little kid.

"Well I've seen bigger but yeah it's good. Sorry for the mess. I don't normally have visitors here.", he added with a shrug.

"No it's cool. It's a lot better than my room.", Phineas joked, looking about the place excitedly.

"Ha ha! Well at least I have that.", he shook his head with a smile.