-45 1/4 HOURS REMAIN-
Secrets were out and the kids were sitting, waiting to see if they could think of anything more to say. Isabella laid under the tree, curled up to Phineas as he hugged her tightly for the two had promised to spend the rest of the time that remained with Phineas, as close as possible. Then, an idea came to Isabella.
"...Guys?", she began as she looked up at the rest of the gang somewhat gravely. "...I think we should tell him."
There was an immediate reaction by all boys, other than Phineas, of complete shock and mortification.
"What?", Baljeet exclaimed though he kept his voice soft. "Isabella, I thought we agreed never to speak of that!"
"But Baljeet, he should know. Actually he has something of a RIGHT to know what happened.", Isabella said.
"A right to know what?", Phineas asked, guarded by confusion.
"Yeah but why should we just NOW tell him?", Buford was saying. "He's gonna die anyway!"
"Well that's the whole point! That's why you exposed your secrets to us all in the first place!", Isabella retorted.
Candace came out at that moment with Perry, curious of what the yelling was about.
"What's going on?", she asked.
Ferb instantly scooped up the pet as Baljeet tattled about Isabella's plan.
"She's going to tell!", he whined.
Candace's eyes became large with fear while Perry only looked around curiously. Tell? Tell what?
"Uh.. Wh-wh-what about..?", Candace began to ask.
"Yeah that's what I was gonna say!", Buford chimed in, returning his glare at Isabella. "Why should WE have to suffer consequences for HIS near-death sake?"
"Because he's Perry's owner!", Isabella was determined in her mind.
"Will someone just tell me what's going on?", Phineas asked, feeling absolutely lost.
Ferb came over at that moment, keeping a good grip on Perry, and placed a hand on his brother's shoulder with a stern and serious look on his face.
"Phineas...", he began. "..our pet's a secret agent."
Phineas stared in shock for a moment before simply sighing and taking the hand off while he rolled his eyes.
"Okay... I see what's going on here.", he began with a sarcastic smile. "Picking on the dead-kid. Real nice guys."
"Uh, no. Phineas?", Isabella said, turning him to face her.
She had just as serious of a face and as Phineas looked around the group everyone was either worried or matched Isabella and Ferb. Perry, not able to comprehend how they found out about his double life, knew that he had to get to Monogram about this IMMEDIATELY and began to squirm and try hard to wriggle out of his owner's arms. Phineas couldn't help but notice as well as Ferb who only held him up and looked at Phineas expectantly.
"Why else would he be acting like this?", Ferb asked, as Phineas only stared, trying to comprehend the small sentence.
"...Perry?", he began to ask before noticing the scratches Ferb was getting as the platypus desperately tried to get out of grasp. "P-Perry. Perry! Perry stop that!"
Perry didn't want to listen but he knew that there wasn't anything he could do. It was over and he'd have to live up to the truth. Perry only sighed and hung his head in shame.
"...It's true?"
Ferb lowered Perry and the platypus simply stood on its hind legs. After a moment, he brought out his fedora and placed it on his head, looking glumly up at Phineas. Instantly, all the memories of Phineas' trip into the other dimension came clear into his mind.
"He's a secret agent!", AltDoof explained.
"You're a secret agent? And you've been living with us this whole time?", Phineas yelled at his pet.
"Wait, so in this dimension, Perry's a secret agent?", Candace asked.
"No in this dimension he's a cyborg.", Phineas explained.
"So where is he an agent?"
"That would be in OUR dimension. But we're not in our dimension now."
"No he fights ME. He doesn't really know this guy.", Heinz explained.
"You fight a pharmacist? Why would you even do that?"
"Actually I'm an evil scientist. A lot of people are confused by the lab coat."
"Didn't he give you a pamphlet?", Monogram asked.
"So you've discovered your pet's a secret agent- I don't wanna read your pamphlet!", Phineas complained.
"So our choice is either we forget the best day ever. Forget the biggest adventure we ever had. And forget meeting Agent P. Or remember today, but we'll never see Perry again?", Phineas double-checked.
"Was that evil guy right? Were we just a cover story to you?"
"I guess you trusted us after all."
"I love you pal.", he hugged the platypus as he spoke.
"Phineas?", Isabella asked as he stared at the platypus in present time.
Phineas ignored his girlfriend as he came closer to adress Perry more personally.
"...You do trust us.. right?", he asked.
Perry gave a quick nod.
"...And you guys.. remembered?", Phineas asked, looking at everyone else.
They all gave a nod and Isabella began to explain, "You see Phineas, you know those hulls for you skulls? Well when we were going to have our memories erased, everyone that had one, was wearing one... except you. The fireside girls don't remember. Dr. Doofenshmirtz doesn't. Jeremy nor Stacey remember a thing that happened."
"Outside of us and Owca, the only people that know is Love Handel.", Buford noted.
"Love Handel was there?", Phineas gaped.
"Well they were musical accompaniment for the robot fight.", Isabella explained.
"Oh.. Oh yeah.. And they..weren't with us in Owca.", Phineas recollected.
"We all got together secretly and promised not to ever talk about it openly unless it was an emergency.", Candace said, taking a turn at explaining.
"Wh-wh-whoa whoa, wait a minute. You all knew. You still remembered one of the best days of my entire life, and you didn't even bother to tell ME afterwards!", Phineas said, now feeling overall confused.
"Well we did not want OUR memories erased for good!", Baljeet said, holding up his hands in defense.
"That's true. Monogram could be monitoring us at this very moment!", said Isabella.
Meanwhile in the Organization Without a Cool Acronym, Monogram and Karl were on a couch, surrounded by all the other agents while they watched the very scene take place.
"Aw! No! We couldn't erase their memories for this!", Monogram was saying with a tear in his eye. "I mean the poor boy's going to die for crying out loud!"
Karl quickly complied to bawling hysterically along with a couple of agents who also shed tears.
"Oh why did you have to put it like THAT?", Carl sobbed hopelessly.
Back on the surface, after some length of silence, Phineas expressed a wish to be able to understand what the distressed-looking platypus was thinking. Ferb suddenly had an idea and pulled out the sphere Phineas used yesterday and reached in. After some difficulty of searching about, he finally pulled out a small bottle of pills. He gave a triumphant laugh as he looked over it.
"Our translating pills!", Phineas smiled. "So everyone could understand each other better!"
He offered one to Perry and after examining it for a moment, the platypus swallowed it, being warned that it'll only last till his stomach digests it.
"So.. How's it working?", Isabella asked as everyone waited for the platypus to say something.
"...Pretty good if you understand me.", Perry said, slightly hesitant.
Phineas' eyes became wide with excitement and he jumped up to his feet saying, "Awesome! This is so cool!"
Perry chuckled a bit, surprised he was saying something they understood, feeling relieved, and then finding it silly how he was soon pounced on by a variety of questions from "how do you feel" to "why don't you clean your litter box" to "did you ever kill anyone".
On the last one, Perry replied, almost shocked that Baljeet would even ask such a thing so enthusiastically, "No! No I didn't! Ha ha ha! Why would you even-?"
"Hey! I have a question! Why do you always come over to MY room in the middle of the night?", Candace piped up, earning the shock and eagerness from every human there as well as the unmistakable embarrassment of the platypus.
A furious blush crawled across the platypus' face as he reluctantly answered, "cause...you...smell nice? Sorry I don't wanna sound like I'm trying to hit on you or anything but.."
Everyone burst out laughing at Perry and only made the blue of his face disappear underneath the bright red.
"Well you try sleeping underneath Phineas and Ferb's armpits!", he complained, hating the humiliation.
"I'm sorry Perry but that's just too funny!", Isabella giggled.
"Yeah, so much for being a super-tough agent, huh?", Buford joked.
"That's it, you losers can hang out by yourselves.", Perry said, starting to march off. "I'm gone."
"Oh come on Perry!", Candace teased, pulling him over as he walked past her. "I thought you liked the way I smelled!"
"Augh! Candace, you're crushing me! I like your perfume but I don't like you!", Perry growled.
Everyone laughed and enjoyed their fun. Even Candace enjoyed herself and as the time went on and other secrets were told, Phineas smiled up at the sky and was only sad that the night had to come so fast. It was agreed that they'd camp out in the backyard that night.