Author's Note: Hello! I've got a visitor from Finland, apparently! Päivää! And to all my other visitors...mabuhay! Selamat siang! Siema! ¡Hola! Labas! Bonjour! Ciao! Guten Abend! Assalam alaykum! Aaaand selamat malam! I think that represents everybody who's visited thus far.

I know I said I'd be using 3 fics, but this one was going to be far too long because I got a request to include all pairings from a story...in chapter 6 I'll be working solely on the two I'm currently abandoning (that means more feature time on both! :D) and then in chapter 7 I'll return to "Phineas and Isabella." Hope you guys enjoy this one.

Anyway...remember that in Chapter 4 we were at Elodie's house because of the backup generator. Today the power is still out, so school is still out. Phineas and Ferb decide to build a generator instead of going to Elodie's house again, so everyone heads over to Phineas and Ferb's house. Linda, meanwhile, goes to help with the damage done to the Googolplex Mall.

Doofenshmirtz is STILL not doing anything evil, and Candace's story was hacked. We'll learn more about that in this chapter, don't worry! ;)

The language that Elodie speaks with her mother is Siyan, by the way. In Chapter 4, her mother just tells her that her friends are up in her room and that breakfast is almost ready.

Time for the story!

Phineas woke up the next day and the power was still out.

"All right, Ferb, that's it! I know what we're going to do today!" he declared. Ferb blinked and nodded. The two spent the better part of forty-five minutes building a backup generator. Linda woke up with the lights on in the kitchen and praised the boys on their project and asked if they learned it in school.

After making breakfast, she received a call from Mrs Garcia-Shapiro, asking if she could go to the Googolplex Mall and help with some of the damage that the storm did. "Sorry, boys, but I have to go out," she told Phineas and Ferb. She left fifteen minutes later with Mrs Garcia-Shapiro, who dropped Isabella off.

"Wow, you got your power working!" Isabella said. "Cool. Should we invite Baljeet and Buford over, too?"

"Sure," Phineas said. "And Elodie, if you want."

"All right," Isabella said. Five minutes later, Baljeet and Buford showed up on the doorstep, and not even a full minute later Elodie came into view.

"Why is she walking so slowly? And why does she look so...wide?" Phineas asked. It soon became apparent why; she had an extra human attached around her waist. Upon closer inspection, it was Irving, grabbing onto her and forcing her to drag him to the Flynn-Fletcher house.

"Umm...do either of you know him?" Elodie asked, looking confused. "He tried to tackle me as I was leaving my house..."

"Why are you friends with Phineas and Ferb?" Irving wailed. "I've lived here for years and you've only lived here for weeks -"

"Whoa...I've only known them a couple days," Elodie said. "I know them through Isa, okay? Now, please let go of me..."

"Irving! Irving!" Phineas said, alarmed. "You're our friend! Please get off!"

Irving sniffed with apparent happiness. "Really?" he asked. Phineas nodded and Irving began to skip around happily. "I must mark this down on my calendar~! I am Phineas' friend!"

"Er...okay..." Phineas said as Irving raced home. "Did you guys notice he wasn't even wearing a jacket?"

"Yeah," Elodie said. "The guy was really, really wet - and pretty heavy. I had to drag him a couple blocks." Buford laughed.

"Okay...well...what do you guys wanna do?" Phineas asked. Isabella shrugged but Baljeet seemed to have an idea. "May I study at your table? We are missing Organic Chemistry today, and I am afraid we are getting terribly behind!" Phineas nodded.

"Who's we, nerd?" Buford asked. "I wanna read more of that fanfiction-y stuff."

"I was talking about Elodie!" Baljeet said. "She is also in Organic Chemistry, and Mrs Cohen will not be pleased if we are not caught up by the time we go back to school." Elodie mumbled a bit under her breath, then moved to the dining table. Baljeet followed and got a very thick textbook out of his bag.

"Too bad they can't read with us," Phineas said. He went into the kitchen to make hot cocoa. Fixing six cups at once wasn't very hard - they just used their invention from last Christmas. Baljeet and Elodie thanked Phineas for the drinks, Elodie rather glumly and Baljeet with the happy voice that usually came with his studying.

"So, Elodie, what is the lowest energy conformer of butane?" Baljeet asked, testing Elodie on her knowledge. Mrs Cohen was a tough teacher and was already giving them an exam in two days.

"Anti," Elodie replied, sounding bored at having to do Organic Chem instead of hanging out with Phineas and Ferb.

"And molecules that have internal mirror planes are always...?"

"Achiral." Elodie turned to Phineas, Ferb, Isabella, and Buford. "You guys can go upstairs. This is gonna take awhile." The four nodded and headed upstairs to Phineas and Ferb's room.

There, the four sat on Phineas' large S.S. Phineas bed around the laptop. "What should we read first?" Phineas asked.

"We should read stories about all of us in turn," Isabella said. "You know, in pairs. I figured out how to filter the site for just character choices that you want. Here...let's do Isabella and Phineas first, then Isabella and Ferb, then Phineas and Buford, et cetera."

"All right," Phineas said. Isabella put in 'Isabella' and 'Phineas' in the character drop-down menu and clicked 'Go.' A ton of stories popped up - according to the search engine, 555. Phineas scrolled through for a while until finding one titled How it Should Have Been.

"Let's do this one," he said, clicking on it. He was slightly surprised to see that the chapter opened with Isabella kissing him, but not really - a lot of the stories with him and Isabella in it started out this way. He read on while Isabella blushed bright red next to him. Ferb had a slight smile on his face, while Buford just looked like he wanted to roll his eyes.

"A dimension where Perry can talk?" Phineas said, looking to his brother with a grin. "Now, that would be a good dimension! Speaking of which...hey, where's Perry?"

Everyone gave a simultaneous shrug and continued reading. "Chosen One? Like Harry Potter?" Isabella said. "You don't have a scar on your forehead..."

"Very funny, Isabella, now let's keep reading," Buford said. He never thought he'd read - well, in front of his friends; Voltaire in the privacy of his own home was quite a different matter - but he was kind of enjoying this fanfiction thingy.

"Wow! We're secret agents, Ferb! How cool would that be?" Phineas said. "Kind of like that time we were in the secret lair you built and we had to go to a pharmacist's lair."

"But I -"

"Oh, look!" Phineas said, interrupting his stepbrother. "Baljeet gets a girlfriend!"

"Well, that was unexpected," Ferb said. Suddenly, his shoulder was 'accidentally' shoved as Buford 'shifted' to get in a 'more comfortable' position.

"And look, you too, Buford," Phineas said. "It's Adyson."

"Adyson?" Buford said. "Who?"

Isabella rolled her eyes. "Buford, are you that bad at remembering names? She's Fireside Girl Number 6."

"Not ringing a bell."

"Never mind. Let's just go on with the chapter," Isabella said, sighing. "Oh...that's the end...anyone up for the next chapter?"

"Sure," Phineas said.

~meanwhile, at the downstairs table~

"No, Elodie, it would be 3 to 2 to 1, not 3 to 1 to 2!" Baljeet was arguing with Elodie at the dinner table.

"Actually, Baljeet, it'd be 3 to 1 to 2 in this case! 2 is more acidic than 3 OR 1! Notice that it has both CF3 and OH, while the others either have NH2 or CH3!"

Just as Baljeet was about to reply, Linda walked into the room to find Baljeet and a girl she didn't know arguing over textbooks at the dinner table. The room fell quiet for a moment.

"Well...hello," Linda said.

"Hi there," Elodie said, and Baljeet also voiced a meek hello. "We're...uh...I'm a friend of Isabella...and Phineas...and Ferb...and..errr..."

"Say no more," Linda said. "I'm Mrs Flynn-Fletcher."

"Elodie Hayes. I live a couple blocks down."

"Nice to meet you." Linda grabbed a tool from the silverware drawer and exited the house again so that Baljeet and Elodie could resume their argument about the order of acidity.

~back in Phineas and Ferb's room~

The next chapter of the story was called Skateboard Scamper, which was a little odd because only Phineas and Ferb knew how to skateboard.

"I don't think Gretchen can skateboard," Isabella said. "When we were still working on our Skateboard-Through-the-Mall-to-Save-a-Polecat badge, she couldn't. Maybe she learned."

"I still think it's cool that Perry's a secret agent in this," Phineas said. "Wouldn't that be awesome in real life, Ferb? Though, why are we playing at a skate park when we could be fighting crime?" Ferb shrugged.

"Personally, I don't think Baljeet would go for this Ginger girl," Buford said. "She ain't nerdy enough."

"She isn't really a nerd," Isabella admitted.

"Platypi do, in fact, have ears." This was from Ferb.

"Well, all right, how about the next chapter?" Phineas said, but before he could even click on the next chapter the door opened. Baljeet and Elodie walked in.

"We've decided that it would be better that we join you for reading fanfiction," Elodie said. Baljeet nodded and the two sat down on the bed.

"Okay then." Phineas clicked on Chapter 3. It started with...him sitting with Isabella under a tree.

"Where's Ferb?" Phineas asked, clearly very confused. It didn't quite seem right that Ferb wasn't sitting under the tree with him.

"What does she mean, suddenly?" Isabella asked of her alternate counterpart. There was nothing wrong with her dress and bow.

"I don't faint, do I?" Phineas asked his friends. They all gave some muttered form of confusion, all except Elodie, who obviously hadn't known him for long enough to know. "Besides, I don't like how the girls are separated from the boys. It's restricting. I'd like to be with all my friends at once."

"I think I prefer Alternative Ferbella," Elodie commented. Isabella looked at her with a rather "What has gotten into her?" look, but Elodie just shrugged.

"Hey, Elodie, how come you're not in any of these stories?" Phineas asked. "Since they're about Danville, maybe you should be in there too." Elodie laughed.

"Nah, I haven't really done anything cool with you guys, remember? I'm too new, anyway."

"I guess so," Phineas admitted. "That was a good story. Hey, is anyone up for peppermint bark?"

"And almond brittle?" Buford added hopefully. Phineas nodded, and everyone headed downstairs to eat the holiday treats (admittedly a little early, but who cares?).

...

"Okay, I guess that ballroom dancing isn't that evil," Doofenshmirtz admitted, "but it's at least KIND of evil, right?" When Perry didn't answer (does he ever?) Norm answered for him.

"No, sir. No, it's not."

...

"Ugh, he still hasn't PMed me back!" Candace said, annoyed. It had been a full day since Stacy had PMed the hacker, and still her inbox showed up as empty. Once there had been a message, but their enthusiasm was wasted; it was just somebody saying "thank you" for the favorite.

"Look! An email!" Stacy said, pointing to the screen. Candace clicked on it.

Hello, Candace and Stacy.

I will never tell you my name! Mwahaha! Umm, by the way, I hacked your account. In case you couldn't tell. That's me. Anyway...if you ever want your precious Early Evening fanfiction back, you'll have to return a lot of things to me! Mwahaha! Except they weren't mine in the first place, so I guess it's more like GIVING them to me...Anyway!

By 5:00 tomorrow, report to the old abandoned Old Abandoned Amusement Park with: a lock of Phineas' hair, Ferb's latest math test, and a box of cookies.

Sincerely, YOUR HACK0R!

P.S. Make them chocolate.