I do not own Phineas and Ferb, and sorry for keeping you waiting. Thanks to everyone who reviewed, though to be honest I thought I would have more would be rooting for the racers. Also, Key2DestNE, keep your fingers crossed to see if team Doof/Perry make it across the finish line. No promises. And just to remind everyone:

Phineas/Ferb-Chariot

Buford/Baljeet-ATV

Doof/Perry-Norm

Candace/Vanessa-Monster Truck

Isabella/Irving-Hippie Van

Carl/Major Monogram-Ice Scream Machine

Melanie/Roger- Limo

Lawrence/Grandpa Fletcher- Holy Mackerel

Ch. 4: A Photo Finish

The teams drove out of the park, with the Ice Scream Machine in last, the ATV in 7th, the Hippie Van in 6th, the limo in 5th, Norm in 4th, the Chariot in 3rd, the Monster Truck in 2nd, and the Holy Mackerel in 1st.

"Heads up!" announced Phineas. "Dangerous short cut up ahead!"

Everyone saw ahead a active construction site up ahead that did provide a shortcut. However, obstacles such as wrecking balls and wet cement presented a hazard to the racers.

"HAH! Easy." said Buford.

The ATV, limo, and Monster Truck took the Short cut while the others took the long way.

Buford drove the ATV up the girders and around all the hazards while Baljeet started to get carsick while Candace dorve the Monster Truck through the wet cement like it was a puddle. Roger was driving straight towards the wrecking balls.

"Sir, are you sure this was a safe?" Melanie asked.

"Of course. Watch." said Roger. He stuck his head out the window and slowed down and waved. "Hello boys. Keep up the good work."

"Hey is that the mayor?" said one of the construction workers.

"I think it is. Hey! Shut off the wrecking balls before you kill the mayor!" said the foreman.

Roger kept waving like he was on a parade float as the wrecking balls stopped and the wet cement Candace drove through splashed in front of him and harderned.

"See? Nothing to worry about." told Roger.

The limo, Atv, and monster truck left the construction yard unscathed and rejoined the race. The Monster Truck managed to cut the Holy Mackerel and get the lead as the limo drove past the chariot into third and the chariot in fourth, and the ATV cut in front of Norm, getting fifth place.

"Yes. We're in the lead and Mom should be at Bobbi's right now." said Candace as she saw Bobbi's Hair Salon up ahead.

Unfortunately for Candace, her Mom was getting a dry cycle and missed the cars drive by. The drivers had passed Paul Bunyan's-

Paul Bunyan's! Where food is good, but not too good, eh?

-and headed for the museum. Isabella was trying to find a way to win when she noticed Irving was taking pictures with his camera. SHe had an idea and asked "Irving?"

"Yeah?" he asked.

"Could you do me a favor and turn the flash on your camera?"

Irving shrugged and turned the flash on. The flash managed to blind some of the drivers and let Isabella drive past them. The Ice Scream Machine used this opportunity to also get ahead.

"AHHH! MY EYES! MY EVIL EYES!" cried Dr. Doofenshmirtz.

While blinded, Dr. Doofenshmirt ended up driving into the Little Duffer's Golf Course, and driving through Phineas and Ferb's Miniature Golf Course. From the outside Dr. Doofenshmirtz could be heard.

"Wow, what a cool golf course." said Dr. Doofenshmirtz.

"Get off the course!" yelled the manager.

"Just play through."

"FORE!"

"Ow! OW! OW! OW! Don't play through, don't play through! Man how tall is this golf-" Dr. Doofenshmirtz was cut off when he drove out of the windmill on the top of the mini-golf course and plummeting to the ground.

"AHHHHHHH" screamed Dr. Doofenshmirt as he grabbed Perry for dear life. "We're doomed. You know it's weird, I thought if I was going to die, it would be by one of my own inators." Perry nodded in agreement.

"Switching to Aerial mode." Norm said. Instantly, Norm's arms stuck out and turned into wings as he turned into an airplane.

"Wow, I really need to read your manual." said Dr. Doofenshmirtz.

"Yes. Yes you should." said Norm.

Luckily for Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Norm managed to fly over most of the players and was heading for the lead.

"Eat my diesel fuel, Roger!" taunted Dr. Doofenshmirtz.

"Hang on a se, I thought flying cars were against the rules." said Lawrence.

"They are." said Grandpa Fletcher. "Excuse me, but do you know that what you're doing is aginst the rules?"

"Who cares? I can do whatever I want. I'm invinci-" Dr. Doofenshmirtz was cut off as a bowling ball was launched and destroyed one of the wings.

"Uh-oh." said Norm. "Looks like we're on a wing and a prayer."

Then the bowling ball from before came back down and crashed the other wing, and landed back in the catapult on the Chariot. Norm turned back into a car just as he cut off the Holy Mackerel.

"Nice shooting Ferb. Sorry Dr. D" said Phineas. "We can't let you cheat. If you want to win, you gotta do it fair and square."

"Oh he did not just do that. Nobody stops Heinz Doofenshmirtz from cheating. Time to to finally put a use to that failed ice-cream inator." said Dr. Doofenshmirtz. He pressed a button and the inator that he thought was a laser-inator. "You know what they say Perry the Platypus: Revenge is a dish best served cold. Ha ha ha ha ha."

Perry saw what happened to Dr. Doofenshmirtz when he used it last time, and althought it was funny he knew that it would fire a huge glob of ice cream. If it his owners, they could crash and get seriously hurt. He wasn't about to let that happen. When Dr. DOofenshmirtz aimed at the Chariot, Perry kicked Dr. Doofenshmirtz into the cannon part of the inator.

"Hey what was that about?" Dr. Doofenshmirtz asked. Suddenly, the inator started to shake. "Uh-oh!"

The ice cream-inator fired, with Dr. Doofenshmirtz with it.

"AHHHHHHHH!" he screamed as he was fired straight into the air. He was fired so high up, Perry couldn't even see him.

"Switching to autopilot." said Norm. Perry stopped worrying about Dr. Doofenshmirtz and looked out the window to see they were back in the suburbs.

All the other racers saw Dr. Doofenshmirtz being launched and got distracted. Major Monogram used the oportunity to drive past the others.

"Attention everyone, finish line up ahead." Phineas announced.

Everyone focused on the race again and were going as fast as they could.

"You're going down, dinner bell!" saud Buford.

"No, you are!" Vanessa and Candace said.

The bystanders at the finish line were standing in anticipation. People were cheering on different racers. Heinz's parents were even on the edge of their seats rooting for Roger, while Stacy and Jeremy chhered on Candace, Johnny was doing nothing and just said "Whatever". Even some of the animal agents and L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. were watching from a live feed, cheering, or in the agent's case barking, meowing, ribbiting, etc.

. All the drivers were neck and neck.

"Son in case we don't win, I just want to say that you did a great job with the Holy Mackerel and-" started Grandpa Fletcher.

"Sorry Dad, but we haven't lost yet. So let's save the heartfelt moment for afterwords." said Lawrence.

"...That's my boy."

Everyone was trying to get the lead but noone could keep the lead for long. was at the announcer's booth describing the situation.

"It looks like a close race, folks. It's hard to tell who's ahead of the others It looks the chariot is ahead, no wait the Holy Mackerel, no the Ice Scream Machine, no the ATV. No wait, the- what on earth!" Ginger said.

"Incoming projectile!" said Norm.

Everyone heard this and looked up and gasped at what hurtling towards them.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" screamed Dr. Doofenshmirtz as he came falling down in an ice cream heading straight for the drivers.

"Everyone hit the breaks!" Major Monogram ordered.

SCRRREEEEEEEECH!

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The racers slammed on the breaks, but not before everyone crossed the finish line and Dr. Doofenshmirtz landed on Norm while buried in ice cream.

"Oh my gosh. That was amazing." announced Ginger. "I don't believe!"

"It's-" said Heinz's mother.

"It's-" said Heinz's father.

"It's-" said Jeremy.

"It's-" Stacy said.

"BARK!" said Agent D.

"-A TIE!" everyone said.

As the dust settled, everyone could see that the cars were exactly parallel and had stopped at the same spot, so it was impossible to tell who won. Everyone but Melanie, Carl, and Major Monogram got out of their cars and expressing their opinion.

"WHAT? Are you kidding me?" Buford yelled.

"What a rip-off." said Candace.

"So what does that mean about the mayor for a day and the inator and the other prizes?" Baljeet asked.

"Well I guess no one gets anything." said Phineas.

"Works for us." said Major Monogram. He and Carl drove off, satisfied that Dr. Doofenshmirtz wouldn't be mayor.

"I'd better comfort mother and father." said Roger.

"Yeah, Iguess we don't need the cars anymore." said Phineas. Ferb hit a button and the ATV, Hippie Van, and Chariot drove off.

"What! Where'd they go?" Candace asked.

"Back in storage." Phineas said.

"Well, I guess I don't need this." said Vanessa as she threw away the remote control for the Monster Truck. When it hit the ground, the button was activated and the Monster Truck turned back into a regular car.

Just then, Linda walked home listening to music.

"HAH! You guys are so busted now. MOM! MOM! MOM!" said Candace.

"Yes Candace?" Linda asked.

"Did you see it? Please tell me you saw it." Candace asked.

"Saw what?"

"The huge race we had."

"Oh sure Candace, I see the big race." Linda said sarcastically.

"You didn;t see anything did you?"

"Not a thing. I'm heading inside, tell the boys there's pie if they want some."

While Candace sulked, Lawrence and Grandpa Fletcher were finally having that heartfelt moment.

"Well son, we may not have won, but you proved that you know your way around a motorcycle." said Grandpa Fletcher said.

"Really? You think so?" Lawrence asked.

"Yes. I bet you made one heck of a Flying Fishmonger."

"Thanks Dad. I've wanted to hear that for years."

Ferb walked up to Phineas carrying a disk and whispered something to Phineas. "What?" Phineas asked. "Oh right. Everybody! We might have a winner after all!"

"WHAT?" everyone asked.

"Yeah. It turns out Ferb took the Traffic Camera data disk and found out we can play it to see who won."

"Then play it." Buford ordered.

Ferb used his laptop and inserted the disk. Everyone gathered around and watched the video. Ferb played the video in slow-motion for everyone and saw that someone did win.

"No way!" Isabella said.

"I don't believe it." Vanessa said.

"Unbelievable." Lawrence said.

Perry was in pet mode ad even he was shocked. On the video, it turns out that something crossed the finish line. When the video played in slow-mo, it showed Dr. Doofenshmirtz landing on the hood of Norm and when his pointy nose was the first thing to cross the finish line.

"Dr. Doofenshmirtz?" everyone said.

Dr. Doofenshmirtz managed to free himself from the ice cream groaning. "Oh I think I have an ice cream headache." He joined the others who were in shock and saw the video. "Is my nose really that pointy?"

"Dr. D, you won!" Phineas told him.

"I won?" Dr. Doofenshmirtz realized. "I WON! I am going to rule the Tri-State Area. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!"

As Dr. Doofenshmirtz jumped up and down, the self-destruct remote control for his Destruct-inator fell out. Perry looked to see if anyone was paying attention to him and then he pressed his foot and activated the self-destruct while smiling slyly.

"Congratulations. I hope you and Perry have a good time ruling together." said Phineas.

"AH HA HA HA- Wait what? Together? What do you mean together?"

"Well when you were hiding from that Boris guy, we realized that there might be a problem with a two-person team winning and only one team mate being mayor, so we decided that the team that won would share the mayor for a day title. So Perry's your co-mayor."

"What? Aw man. Well at least I still beat Roger." said Dr. Doofenshmirtz.

"You mean tied." said Heinz's father as he approached his son.

"No won, I won."

"That's not what Roger said. He told us that you tied and that out of pity he let you be mayor for a day." said Heinz's father.

"What are you talking about? Just look at the video." said Heinz.

"Yeah, in fact let's show Mom the video as well." said Candace.

"We would, but the disk is missing." said Ferb, as he showed that the laptop was missing the disk.

"WHAT?" everyone said

"Where is it?" Candace, Vanessa, and Dr. Doofenshmirtz said.

"Jinx. You two owe me a soda." said Dr. Doofenshmirtz.

"Hey, where's Uncle Roger?" Vanessa said.

At that time, Roger was in his limo and holding the disk with the race on it. That is until he dropped it on the floor and stepped on it.

"There. That takes care of that." said Roger.

"Sir did you do that just so your parents wouldn't know you lost to Heinz?" Melanie asked.

"Of course not. It's just this footage makes me look reckless and uncivilized, and I can't let my image be ruined."

"Even though you did it after you watched the footage and told your parents. And are you sure it was good idea to let your brother be mayor for a day?"

"He has a platypus has his co-mayor. He can't even pass a law without it's consent. I doubt he'll get anything done."

The Next Day at City Hall...

"Oh come on Perry the Platypus, just let me pass a law against mimes." begged Heinz. Perry shook his head in disagreement.

"Well at least I'm thinking of new laws." said Dr. Doofenshmirtz. Perry then handed him a list of laws.

"WHAT? What makes me you think I'll pass these?"

Perry made an X over his head, reminding Dr. Doofenshmirtz of his promise. "Fine." said Dr. Doofenshmirtz. "Can I at least have a free Almond Brittle Day?"

The End

Surprised? I hope so. Stay tuned for the epilogue.