As the time wore on, Perry couldn't take it any longer. As both Phineas and Doof had left the room for different reasons, the secret agent snuck out of his hiding place. At first he was gonna head at it straight on. But before leaping over the crate, he decided to be a bit more cautious as the fear of Phineas catching him settled on his mind and he eased himself around the side of his hiding spot instead. If he could just come over to the table and find a way to quietly throw them off plan, maybe there's a way this whole thing could turn around. Maybe there's a way Phineas could go home BEFORE they finished. Maybe-
CLANG!
Perry was ready to blow a freaking gasket as he stepped on another button and sprung another trap. Doof was really on the ball for the traps today. He banged his head on the side of the cage in frustration, chattering angrily to himself of his stupid mistake. Nothing was going right. His owner was evil. His nemesis was beyond insane. And now he was trapped in a metal cage with no off-hand chances of easy escaping. And just to make matters worse, Phineas entered the room from the kitchen. The afternoon sun had casted a shadow onto that side of the room and as Phineas walked out with his cup of coffee in hand, smiling down at the monotreme, it all screamed of pure evil and Perry was actually slightly shaking in fright.
"Ah.. Perry the Platypus..", Phineas began with a smirk as he walked over and saw what had made the clanging noise. "I've heard much about you..."
Perry shut his eyes tight, helplessly hoping it really was just a dream and he'd wake up soon when suddenly, Phineas said something that made the secret agent want to pass out from disbelief and shock.
"It's nice to finally meet you!", he held out a hand through the cage with a happier grin.
Perry couldn't be more relieved in understanding the young boy had no clue Perry was one and the same and wanted more than anything to be able to just reach out and have a friendly hand-shake with his owner in the side he's kept secret for oh so long. That, of course, was when Dr. D. came back into the room. The doctor gasped, seeing his nemesis and quickly snatched Phineas back.
"Whoa! Watch out there Phineas! That's Perry the Platypus!", he warned as he pulled the young boy back.
"Uh.. Dr. D.? I was just gonna shake hands with him.", Phineas shrugged.
"Uh-uh. Shake HIS hand and that platypus will flip you over onto your back and have you bleeding within five seconds!", Heinz shook his head quickly, obviously frightened by Perry's past fights with him.
"Oh... O-okay..", Phineas' shoulder's slumped a bit as he looked back at Perry.
The secret agent couldn't help feel something of a stab at his heart, hearing Dr. Doofenshmirtz say that. Yes it was true. Had Doof been the one to try to shake hands, Perry could easily flip him over. But it was his owner he was trying to shake hands with and bitter reality reawoke him to the fact that he was supposed to be a cold and ruthless secret agent like that. Not a warm-hearted, friendly, and caring pet platypus the boy knew. Dr. Doofenshmirtz began to nudge him back away from the cage as Phineas only stared back, sympathetically for the trapped platypus. As the two continued to work, Phineas couldn't help but be slightly distracted as the monotreme watched intently. Once in a while, when he was close enough, the young boy would crouch down for a moment and give a good scratching to Perry. Perry couldn't help but enjoy the attention as he was so very used to and was grateful Phineas cared at least that much. Phineas smiled, seeing the secret agent chatter quietly with a smile. It reminded him of his own platypus back home and made him begin to wonder if Perry the Platypus was really even half as horrible as Dr. D. said he was.
"Hey.. Where's that component I was working on earlier?", Heinz asked, looking about his table.
He turned around to check with Phineas when he saw what was going on and rolled his eyes.
"Ugh! Phineas! Could you please stop playing fraternizing with the enemy?", he complained as Phineas stood up.
"Sorry Heinz. It's just.. I dunno. Maybe it's because I own a pet platypus, but I hate seeing the little guy locked up in a cage like that.", Phineas shrugged.
"Well trust me, I don't exactly like trapping animals myself but it's not my fault the government's using them as deadly weapons. In order to look out for my well being and the protection of my inventions, I HAVE to trap him. ESPECIALLY since you're hear. If Perry the Platypus was a puma, would you still wanna be friends with him?", he asked.
"Mmm... I.. I guess not.", Phineas shrugged again. "Sorry. I'll try to stop."
"Thanks. Now as I was gonna say, do you know where that component I was working on earlier went to? I can't find it."
"Oh yeah, I have it here. I was adjusting the voltage, if you catch my drift.", Phineas said, tossing the part back.
"What?", Heinz said in shock as he caught it. "But that'll-"
"Ha ha ha! I know.", Phineas laughed. "It'll make his brain explode but isn't that the point?"
Doof chuckled as he tossed the component for a moment before shaking his head and turning back to the machine.
"You evil little scamp.", he joked.
"Thank you.", Phineas nodded.
They continued to work and as they did, Vanessa typed away at her laptop in her bedroom. She had her ears plugged so none of the previous conversations had caught any of her attention but one thing did. The clock at the bottom of the screen. The day was moving on and Phineas was still hanging around. Feeling a bit concerned, she quickly finished up her email and paused her music before picking up her cellphone. Back at the Flynn-Fletcher's residence, Candace sighed, feeling like she was ready to give up hope.
"...What if we're too late?", she asked her friends when suddenly the phone rang across the room.
Candace leapt like a freak, stumbled over and grabbed onto the corner of the end table to pull herself up as she quickly snatched up the phone with her other hand and spoke into it frantically.
"Yes? Hello?", she asked quickly.
"Uh.. Hey Candace? This is Vanessa.", Vanessa began, feeling a little worried by the quick reaction.
Candace sighed, feeling like there wasn't much to this phone call. Why would Vanessa, a goth chick, know anything about her brother.
"Oh.. Yeah hey Vanessa.", Candace said, her hopes fading away as she shook her head to her friends who were waiting hopefully and sighed with disappointment. "Sup?"
"Well.. You do know what time it is, right?", she asked.
"Time? It's uh...", Candace looked over at the kitchen clock. "It's about 4:30, why?"
"Well it's just that I noticed it was getting a little late and Phineas is still over here and-"
"Phineas? You know where Phineas is?", Candace exclaimed, getting caught on his name alone.
"Wh-? Yeah I know where he is. He's over here! You mean you have no clue?", Vanessa asked, feeling rather shocked.
"NO! I left him at the park and when I got back he was gone! I thought some creepy pervert stole him! I didn't get a phone call or anything!", Candace explained, getting ready to freak out even more.
Vanessa only face-palmed herself with a sigh, "Daaad..."
"Where's Phineas?", Candace asked again.
"Okay whoa whoa! Calm down Candace.", Vanessa said, knowing what to do now. "I'm gonna drive over, pick you up, and bring you to Phineas, okay? Cause, no offense, but I don't think I wanna trust you with directions to my house with the way you're sounding right now."
"Yeah yeah. I get it. I'm sounding like a fruit loop. Is Phineas okay? Is he safe?", Candace asked worriedly.
"He's, FINE. Calm. Down.", Vanessa said slowly. "Just give me your address and I'll be right over."
After retelling the address, Vanessa grabbed her purse and headed out of the building, making a mental note to seriously bust her father for all this later. In terms of her father, he and Phineas were still working away...mostly. As Dr. D. took his turn and bobbed his head to his "Goody-Two-Shoes Brother" song on the empinator, Phineas, again, couldn't help but get distracted by the platypus. Perry was clinging to Phineas' care as much as he possibly could. He couldn't help though, to fall over onto his back as Phineas continued to pet him nicely. Unfortunately as Phineas reached out further to pet him some more, the cage's hole was far to small for him to shove his elbow through and Phineas wasn't gonna risk his arm getting caught in a cage. Perry stared for a moment and then wriggled his body closer to the edge of the cage and Phineas pulled his arm back and reached through a lower slot and continued the fun time. But work called him back and he pulled his arm back and got back to work. He glanced back down at the platypus once in a while though as Perry only watched and couldn't help but smile. For a secret agent, he sure did like a belly rub.
'In fact...', Phineas thought for a moment.
He looked behind him and found that Dr. D. had walked out of the room. He looked around the room to make sure there wasn't anyone else and crouched down next to the cage, wondering if maybe he should let the platypus out. Just for a moment.
'Just a little bit...', Phineas began to think as he reached out to open the cage as Doof came back into the room with a towel to wipe off some oil from his face.
"Phineas? What are you doing?", Heinz said, glaring down at the platypus.
Phineas quickly backed up, a little surprised at the sudden voice.
"Oh! Uh.. I'm..."
"Is Perry the Platypus distracting you THAT much?", the doctor asked, feeling rather annoyed as he turned his full attention to Phineas.
"Well...", Phineas began, rubbing his arm guiltily.
Doof sighed and walked over. He grabbed the cage and pulled it over to the table he was working at.
"Here, I'll take the distraction away.", he said promptly. "Maybe that'll help you."
"Uh.. Yeah. Thanks.", Phineas gave a weak nod and returned to work.
Doof nodded in return and then turned on Perry. The secret agent only scowled back up at him in return as the doctor got down closer to make sure Perry only heard what he had to say next.
"As for you. I suggest YOU keep your little secret agent tricks to yourself or I'll turn this inator on YOU first!", he hissed. "I'm NOT gonna let you take away this one kid that actually wants to help me."
Perry only rolled his eyes. Like his nemesis could really hurt him much. If anything, Perry would be more concerned about Phineas rather than Doof but that was his opinion. However, with the weird day he's been having, Doofenshmirtz could actually be onto something. This Perry simply decided to shrug off as the duo got back to work. Back with Vanessa, she had picked up Candace and the two were on their way back to the DEI. After the 1,000 thank yous by Candace, they rode in silence while Candace was staring out her window. Finally the silence was broke by Candace.
"...So... So you're 16 and you already have your license?", Candace asked curiously.
"'License'?", Vanessa asked, turning to her.
Candace's grew wide as she eased down into her seat a bit and looked back out the window feeling slightly frightened. The awkward silence fell on them once more and Vanessa, feeling a little awkward amongst the quietness, decided to turn on the radio.
Doofenshmirtz Evil Cassette Tapes!
"Uh, sorry. My dad's stuff.", Vanessa said sheepishly as she flipped it over to the radio before rolling her eyes. "I always tell him to keep it on the radio when I visit but..."
My nema nema,
Ooh my nema nema nema,
My nema nema,
Ooh my nema nema,
Now I hate him,
And he hates me.
What a wonderful animosity.
As Candace listened, she felt a little pained by how it reminded her of her brother and how mad he might be at her for losing him like this. How much he must hate her for this whole predicament. She looked down at the radio, almost ready to cry before turning to Vanessa.
"Uh.. Can I..?", Candace began before Vanessa cut in front.
"Yes! please do so!", she rolled her eyes again, annoyed and embarrassed. "I'm gonna kill my dad, I swear..."
Candace flipped around on the radio stations. Some were nice. Some she knew would be good to help lift her spirits but she searched some more before finally settling on one. One that actually made her feel okay to cry about today.
Summer!
It's ponds and pools and garden hoses and trying to beat the heat.
Summer,
It's bicycles and roller skates and even just bare feet.
It's also...
Surfing tidal waves, creating nanobots, or locating Frankenstein's brain!
Finding a dodo bird! Painting a continent! Or driving our sister insane!
As Candace heard that last verse, she leaned against the window, looking up at the sky as she felt the realistic stab of the song and allowed a tear to streak down her cheek. But as the song went on to describe Summer some more, she suddenly noticed something. Something she hadn't ever noticed before.
"...Hey! Isn't that Phineas' voice?", she asked.
Back at the DEI, Phineas and Heinz were finally finished. The large inator stood proud as they stepped back to admire their work. Doof was almost bouncing with anticipation at the idea of it actually working. Of this whole crazy scheme finally closing off one of the many sources of his many a sad back story.
"I'm getting tingly!", Heinz said almost in a fangirlish manner.
"Welp! Let's roll it out!", Phineas smiled as he tossed his oil-stained rag cloth behind him.
After pushing the inator out onto the balcony, as well as Perry's cage for a front row seat, Dr. Doofenshmirtz quickly ran back in to grab a pair of binoculars and came back out with his wide smile still on. He sat them up to his eyes and looked down at a corner of the street straight across from his building.
"Ooh! this is gonna be good!", Heinz was snickering. "Cue Roger coming around the corner on his Sunday afternoon walk, now."
At the moment the words left his mouth, Roger came around the corner as predicted and Phineas pulled the lever to warm things up. Meanwhile, down below, Roger paused for a moment in his walk as he took a moment to look at his thoughts. Down the street he saw a couple of young boys. One had the other in a headlock and was noogying him. He cocked his head a bit as he watched the boys laugh and joke with each other.
'...See if I did that with Heinz, wouldn't he get mad?', he asked himself.
Phineas, with a wide and malicious smile on his face, handed Heinz the start button with a slight bow.
"Care to do the honors?", Phineas asked.
"With pleasure!", Heinz said with a smile as he grabbed the button and looked down at Perry. "Now watch in absolute horror, Perry the Platypus, as the end of my annoying brother, finally comes!"
Perry looked down from his cage in fear, Phineas looked over the balcony with a calm smile and Dr. Doofenshmirtz was grinning madly as he brought the binoculars back up.
"Annnnd... NOW!", he said finally, pressing the button with a maniacal laughter.
The beam flew out as expected and flew across the street, zapping Roger square in the head.
"AH HA HA HA! YES! HE'S-", Heinz began to say before he saw something else. "He's..not exploding. Why isn't he exploding? He's- He's coming up to my- Hey wait! Where is he-? Wh-why-?"
Perry was just as shocked as he tried to look further down to see that, indeed, Roger Doofenshmirtz had crossed the street and was walking into the Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorperated building. Phineas was the only one in the room that was smiling. As Heinz whirled around and ran for the door to meet up with his brother and inquire what was going on, Phineas only watched him for a moment before casually walking behind him, his grin never faltering on his face for even a twitch. As Heinz ran down the stairs, Roger ran up and the two met halfway on them, surprised to see the other there.
"Roger?", Heinz asked, catching his brother's attention.
"Oh! Heinz!", Roger smiled a bit as he looked up.
There was a moment of silence as the two caught their breaths from the run before Heinz finally asked, "What on earth are you doing HERE? You NEVER visit."
"W-well actually I uh.. I wanted to come over to talk to you about something.", Roger was beginning as he scratched the back of his head in slight guilt.
"...You wanted to talk to me?", Heinz asked, finding it hard to believe.
As the two talked, Phineas watched from a floor above. He leaned against the railing and gave a slight nod as he listened.
"Yeah.. It's..", Roger began. "I've... Kinda been a jerk to you in the past, haven't I?"
"'KINDA'?", Heinz keyed in on flatly, with a raised eyebrow as he leaned against the railing.
Roger laughed a bit, feeling the verbal stab and practically felt himself swallowing the harsh words, "Ow! Wow... NO sympathy, whatsoever."
"Fresh out.", Heinz retorted, obviously still mad as he tried to figure out how on earth he was standing and talking to his brother.
"Ouch... I.. I deserve that. I'll be honest.", Roger shrugged. "I.. Well I got to thinking in my office earlier about how mean I was to you in our childhood. All the bullies and the sarcasm and the teases..."
"Stealing my girls, blaming me for family troubles, destroying anything I was working on, insulting me about the physical relations between me and my daughter right in front of me and Charlene.", Heinz continued with a roll of his eyes.
"I did that?", Roger asked, finding himself surprised as his brother gave a firm nod. "Wow... I'm.. I'm very sorry. Really I am."
Heinz blinked for a moment. Was this true? Was his younger brother, the same man he was just complaining about hating to the ends of the earth in front of Phineas, actually APOLOGIZING to him? To really seal the deal, Roger even held up a hand for a friendly shake as he offered a weak smile.
"Forgive?", he asked with a look of hope.
Heinz stared at the hand for a moment. It was real. It all was really happening. His own brother was sorry for what had happened to him in the past and now here he was, hoping to be forgiven. Should he stick up his nose and say, "forget it pal"? Should he hurtle insults at him and tell the man to never come to his home ever again? As Phineas leaned a little further over the railing, wondering what the man was going to do, Heinz finally relaxed a bit and then sighed and shook his head with a smile.
"...Let's both be honest. We were both jerks.", he finally said. "I've been holding it all as a grudge for all these years."
"Yeah, but I was the cause of that grudge.", Roger pressed on.
"And I forgive you for that.", Heinz finally said with a nod as he shook hands.
Roger seemed to relax a bit and his smile widened some. After they let go, they stood in some bit of an awkward silence before Roger finally thought of what to say next.
"If you uh.. If you're free, we can do lunch.", he offered. "I'll pay."
"Uh.. Actually I uh..", Heinz began to say, looking up the stairs and spotting Phineas who was smiling back down, before turning back to his brother. "I'm a little busy. I've got a visitor over."
"Oh..", Roger's shoulder's slumped with slight discouragement. "Well.. I see your point. But you know if you ever wanna. We could.. We could try to hang out a bit more. Maybe be bit better of brothers?"
Heinz smiled a bit and gave a slight nod, "Yeah.. Yeah that'd be...nice. ...Tomorrow?"
"I'm open."
"Perfect."
With that the two went their ways. As Roger began to go back down stairs, Heinz smiled up at Phineas in absolute amazement with wide eyes that were lit up with excitement.
"'Can you believe that?'", he mouthed silently to Phineas.
When Heinz reached up he finally decided to confront Phineas with the question, "Okay. What did you do to the inator?"
"A niceinator's a handy thing to have, now isn't it?", Phineas replied, revealing his own master plan.
Heinz's eyes, if at all possible, grew wider in shock as he stared down at the young boy.
All Phineas did was lick his finger and draw a chalk-mark in the air while saying, "Chalk one up for me."
After a moment of just staring at Phineas, realizing how Phineas had planned it all. With saying he agreed. With helping him build the inator. With encouraging Heinz with his evil scheme and everything. He suddenly glared down at the young boy and pointed with a hasty finger.
"Hey wait a minute! You lied to me! You didn't wanna help me kill Roger, you wanted to help me get a better relationship."
"NO. I said, I wanna help you with the invention. I said that you were right. Roger does, in some sense or another, deserved to die but I didn't say he HAD to. I also said that I worked on the voltage to make his brain explode and it did. With the understanding of exactly how mean he's been and how he should try to make it better with you. I had promised you the best day ever and the best day isn't always the way we think of it. Sometimes, the absolute best days of all, are the days we often have NO plans for.", Phineas explained himself. "I used carefully chosen words that were on a fine line to convince you I was on your side as you had tried on me to convince me you were still on my side. That's really the only harm I did."
As Doofenshmirtz listened, his expression softened a bit and he gave a smile at the end. He chuckled and shook his head.
"Man, you're a lot smarter than I thought.", he said making Phineas laugh at this and agree. "So uh.. Hey, you think we could use this on a couple of other people who's bugged me in the past?"
"Uh.. Actually. No.", Phineas said.
"No? What do you mean no?", Heinz said, confused by the thought.
"Well by now, the invention's probably already disappeared.", Phineas shrugged.
"What?"
"Every day when I build something with my friends and brother, it always has a tendency of disappearing if we don't destroy it or give it away ourselves. According to Candace at least. I don't know what happens to it all, but in one way or another, it's gone. Just as plain and simple as that.", Phineas explained. "For all I know, the invention's long gone now that we're done using it for it's first purpose."
Upon hearing this, Heinz quickly rushed to the room to see if it was still there with Phineas following shortly behind. When they came into the room, the younger was right and the machine was gone. Doof could barely make a sentence out of it.
"Wh-? But it couldn't-! There's no one for me to-! I mean it can't just-! Hey! Where's..?", he stammered as he looked down at the empty cage that once held the platypus.
Phineas wasn't really paying attention to Doofenshmirtz's surprise as he noticed something on the ground. A black mark indicating a recent explosion was on the floor. Right where the invention stood. He walked over and looked down at what had really caught him. A small red button with the words, "Self Destruct" above and below it. He turned to the doc and held it up with a slight glare. The doctor saw the button and was instantly embarrassed and gave a weak chuckle as he tried to find a way out of it.
"Oh! Well.. Uh.. I uh...", he began as he searched for a plausible lie. "D-don't get mad here Phineas."
"Oh no. I'm BEYOND PISSED OFF!", Phineas snarled. "I've told you a thousand times NOT to put a self-destruct button on our inventions! 9 or 10 of them got destroyed that way!"
"But I-! I-I-! It's a habit!", Doof finally admitted as if giving out a secret obsession of his. "I have a self-destruction problem!"
"Oh I'LL show you a destruct problem!", Phineas threatened as he threw the useless button at him.
That's when Heinz noticed something as he caught the button and looked at it.
"Hey.. Wait a minute. This isn't the button for the inator.", he examined. "This is a completely different self-destruct button."
"Well then what happened to the inator?", Phineas asked as he folded his arms across his chest.
"Beats me. I'm guessing Perry the Platypus somehow escaped and pressed the button on the inator and this one just happened to be laying nearby. Funny coincidence though because I've, quite honestly, forgot what this one even does!", he shrugged as he sat it down on the table. "So, if you'll excuse me... Ahem. CURSE YOU PERRY THE PLATYPUS!"
As he yelled, he walked over to the balcony, angrily shaking his fist in the air even though the platypus was no where to be found. Phineas only rolled his eyes with a slight smile when another noise was heard.
"Dad! I'm back!", Vanessa called from the ground floor. "I need to talk to you and Phineas."
"Coming!", Doof called out, walking out of the room.
After he left, Phineas picked up the button and looked at it curiously, wondering what it did. He fingered the shiny red button and accidentally pressed it. Immediately a large explosion took place some many miles from behind Phineas though it was loud enough to catch his attention. Phineas froze in slight fear. He looked behind him to in fact see the large mushroom cloud of smoke and dust in the distance, caused by his button-pushing and quickly tossed the remote behind him, hitting a pigeon in the head with it, and causing that bird to fall out of the sky, before running out of the room.
"Dr. D.! Wait up for me!", he said, racing out.
He finally caught up and before he could say much, he was suddenly caught in a tight embrace by his bigger sister, whom he really wasn't expecting to see.
"Oh my gosh! Phineas are you okay? You hurt? Are you hungry?", Candace asked, backing up and looking over him carefully and frantically. "I was so worried! What on earth have you been doing and.. Do I smell oil on you?"
"Whoa! Candace slow down! I have no idea what you're saying!", Phineas said, backing up some himself as he tried to catch up in his mind.
"Phineas!", Candace finally said, catching his attention as she tried to keep it slow. "Are you okay?"
"Yes...", Phineas began before adding on, "...Are you?"
Candace only smiled and hugged her little brother close as a couple of tears escaped her eyes, "Yes.. Yes I am."
"Okay..", Phineas nodded, feeling a little awkward by the hug. "...Are you crying?"
"I'm sorry Phineas. I, I came back to the park and didn't see you there. I was so scared! I thought you were kidnapped!", Candace explained, backing up a bit to smile down at him.
"What? If I wasn't there, why didn't you just call me?", Phineas asked.
"Phineas.. You have a new cell phone and hadn't bothered giving me your new number.", Candace rolled her eyes. "If there WAS to be contact between us, you'd have to call ME."
"Oh! Oops! Sorry, I guess I forgot.", Phineas gave a sheepish smile.
"Well let's go ahead and get you home then.", Candace said, standing up. "Mom's gonna be back soon."
"Wait a minute! What about the stuff Dr. D. and I have been building?", Phineas asked, causing Candace to freeze in her tracks.
"...You were building inventions?", she asked, looking down at him. "...this whole time?"
"Yeah! We built kinetic suits and chalk-spit and the world's best coffee and a mental mirror.", Phineas began to list.
"What? Ooh! When Mom finds out what you've been up to, you're gonna be so..", Candace paused for a moment, staring down at Phineas who was curiously and so innocently looking back up.
After all that's happened today. After all the worry and strife and mayhem. And she STILL was gonna try to bust him? She was still gonna try to bust him for just being himself? Candace finally resided to giving a sigh and face-palming herself before pointing to the door Phineas came out of.
"Just go get your jank and let's go home.", she simply said.
Phineas simply shrugged, none the wiser of what had happened and went with Doof to pick out what he'd keep and what he'd leave. After some talking and rearranging of things, the agreement was that Phineas kept the kinetic suits that were his size, a piece of the mental mirror that they had cut off, and obviously he could keep the chalk-spit. That was infused into his own spit until it ran out of his system, so he couldn't have much choice. Heinz kept his size of the kinetic suits, the other half of the mental mirror, the recolor ray and Phineas thought it more useful for him to have the recipe for the coffee but one thing seemed to be left.
"No. YOU should keep it. It's YOUR design.", Dr. Doofenshmirtz argued, pushing the empinator towards Phineas.
"But it has YOUR music. And it was YOUR invention that YOU won with at the competition.", Phineas urged. "It's as much of mine as it's yours."
"But it's your design and you did most of the work. I won the contest and I got Roger's apology. You've already done enough for me.", Heinz said with a smile.
"But-", Phineas began before getting cut off.
"Phineas, I know what you're gonna do today! You're GONNA take it home with you!", Heinz pressed in a teasing manner.
Phineas couldn't help but laugh and picked up the empinator and placed in a box saying, "Alright alright. I can't argue with that."
"No. No you can't.", Doof chuckled, making Phineas laugh even more.
Doof kept the trophy and Phineas kept the machine and soon Candace, Phineas, and Vanessa were climbing into Vanessa's car one last time. That's when Candace noticed something on Phineas' hand.
"Hey. What's that?", she asked, pointing down at it.
Phineas looked down at his hand and pulled it up. Something red was written on there but he doesn't write on his hand. This is what the message said;
"Dear Phineas,
Thanks for the best day ever.
~Heinz Doofenshmirtz"
Phineas smiled and couldn't help but chuckle as he looked back up at the balcony Doofenshmirtz was leaning over. The man looked down at the kid on the street with a smile as he waved goodbye and held up the recolor ray with a wave before zapping Phineas' hand back to normal. Phineas looked back at his hand, finding it normal and climbed into the car and went home. Doofenshmirtz watched them go and then turned around to face his empty lab with a small sigh. He thought about the events of the day and the things that took place and for once, felt like today, he's actually won something. Not just the competition but something a little larger.
"...It was nice to see Candace again.", he muttered to himself.
Suddenly there was a familiar chattering noise and Perry came out of a hiding spot, looking up at him curiously.
"Oh, there you are Perry the Platypus.", Doof noted. "Did you blow up the niceinator?"
Perry gave a nod, 'It's in my job description after all.'
"Well, I guess I can't blame you.", Heinz shrugged. "Were you hiding here the whole time Phineas was hanging out?"
Perry gave another nod and was soon followed by the question, "Then I guess you're curious of that back story with me and Linda, huh?"
Perry gave another nod and settled in for the story. Back in the suburbs of Danville, Linda was pulling onto the road her house was on when she heard a faint sense of music. It wasn't the car radio but even with the windows up, she could hear it for blocks.
"Is... Is that coming from our house?", Linda asked her husband who simply shrugged. "Oh! If Candace gave another party, she's SO busted!"
After pulling up into their driveway, where the music was much louder, Linda grabbed her luggage and opened the front door to find Phineas and Candace happily singing and dancing with each other in the living room to the music player in Phineas' hand.
"Gitchie gitchie goo" means that I love you!
"Gitchie gitchie goo" means... that I love you,
Baby! Baby! Baby!
(Baby baby baby baby)
"Gitchie gitchie goo" means that I love you!
They laughed and Candace turned to greet their parents.
"Oh hey Mom! Sorry, was the music too loud?", she asked as Phineas turned the empinator off.
"Uh... Where you and Phineas just dancing to music while we were gone?", she asked.
"Well I did make an appearance at Jeremy's party.", Candace shrugged.
"And I had the greatest time at the inventor's competition. Me and my partner won, even!", Phineas explained with a happy smile as they sat on the couch.
Linda raised a curious eyebrow since they all knew she had been gone for hours and that much didn't really cover the time, "...and..?"
"Well we did play a game of hide and seek.", Candace said, catching Phineas in a playful headlock. "The little scamp's a real good hider too!"
"Me? YOU didn't look hard enough!", Phineas laughed as he tried to escape her harsh noogying.
'I am SO pissed off at you for "hiding"...', Candace thought to herself.
After looking around the room for any traces of a wild party and finding everything to be in order, the parents headed up the stairs while Candace, Phineas, and Ferb watched. As soon as they were out of sight and out of hearing range, the two blood siblings laid back on the catch, finally letting out a relieved sigh as they relaxed.
"WHEW man that was a close one..", Phineas sighed.
"Yeah. 'bout the closest I've ever gotten.", Candace agreed.
Ferb, however, wasn't affected by their close-call but instead simply folded his arms across his chest with a raised eyebrow and a smile with a chuckle, "What did I miss?"
Phineas and Candace looked at each other for a moment before laughing a bit and Phineas rolled his eyes and walked over to Ferb, placing a hand on his shoulder.
"Ferb, you would NOT believe the day we've had.", Phineas simply said.
"Hey, what's this 'WE' business? I'M the one who cried throughout most of it!", Candace teased.
"Yeah but YOU didn't have to deal with a maniac.", Phineas pointed out, also in a teasing manner.
"Trust me Phineas. I deal with one EVERYDAY.", Candace retorted, pointing down at him.
"Ouch!", Phineas chuckled.
Meanwhile, back at the DEI, both Perry and Vanessa were thoroughly mortified looking as Heinz finally concluded his discussion.
"So uh...yeeeaaahh...", Heinz finally said, both blushing and tapping his fingers nervously as he was equally mortified.
An awkward silence pursued as Doof couldn't help but mention. Fortunately it was soon broken by an even more awkward moment.
"Who wants snacks?", Norm offered cheerfully, coming out of the kitchen.
DA ENDZ! 8D