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Ch. 4: Presidential Scandal

After 3 minutes, Buford came out of the bathroom to find Candace, Baljeet, and Isabella impatiently waiting for him.

"What took you so long?" asked Baljeet.

"Sorry, there was a nerd in there I couldn't resist." Buford explained.

"Come on come on, let's go!" Candace rushed.

The four dashed to the art room where Phineas and Ferb's expulsion was being aired to the school. As they ran past the classrooms, the four could hear the monitors being turned on and the "Death March" tune being played.

"Oh no! It's starting!" Baljeet exclaimed.

As the four ran to stop Thaddeus, the class president himself sat in the teacher's chair in the art room smiling smugly. Thor and Linda standing to the side and Phineas and Ferb standing in front of Thaddeus, with their faces cast down. A camera was filming them for all the students and faculty to see in every classroom. In one classroom, Irving was wearing all black and crying like a widower at a funeral.

"Oh how the mighty have fallen." Thaddeus taunted. "I'm sure this will be a day to remember."

"You know I can't help but feel like you're enjoying this a little." Phineas noticed.

"Believe me, I don't like this as much as you do," Thaddeus assured.

"Then what's with the posters of us?" Phineas asked, referring to the posters on the wall depicting them being kicked out of school, behind bars, falling through a trap door, and one of just a flower.

"Thor likes to paint. Just look at all the paint buckets." he said referring to the pile of paint cans stacked about 7 ft. tall. "But before we get this show on the road, any last words?" Thaddeus asked

"Just that it's going to stink knowing that we won't be here to learn with our friends." Phineas said.

"What about you, Ferb?"

"-"

"Well look at the time, we gotta spped this up. Anyway, as class president, it is with great pride- er I mean sadness that I hereby expel-" started Thaddeus.

"STOP!" yelled Candace, Isabella, Buford, and Baljeet as they burst into the room exhausted and out of breath.

"Do you mind? We're in the middle of something." Thaddeus said.

"That's why we're here. You can't expel Phineas and Ferb because you two aren't class president. You rigged the election!" accused Isabella.

Everyone watching this and Linda gasped in surprise. Thaddeus and Thor kept cool and didn't even respond. "Hah!" Thaddeus laughed "Listen cutie, I know you're in denial because you don't want to admit you like me, but that doesn't mean you can make up ludicrous lies."

"But it isn't. We read the votes and they were all for you, but I know that my vote along with Buford and Baljeet's vote were for Phineas. Recount the votes for yourself." Isabella said.

"You mean these votes?" he asked, showing them a box full of shredded paper. "Ooops, must have mistaken them for recycling." he said slyly. "So it looks like you have no reason to accuse me or my brother. As I was saying-"

"Hold on, uh maybe you rigged it another way aside from the votes." Isabella suggested.

Candace leaned down and whispered, "What are you talking about?"

"I'm just stalling for time. If we can keep him occupied until the bell rings, maybe he'll move the expulsion to Monday and we'll get more time to find proof." Isabella explained.

"HEY! No whispering! Normally I'd dismiss the thought, but since I like you, I'll let you talk. Now how could I have rigged this election?" Thaddeus asked.

"Uhhhhh, well perhaps you used a special concoction that you put in the cafeteria food that would convince everyone to vote for you." Baljeet said.

"Or maybe you're not really Thaddeus, and just a robot imposter." accused Buford. He ran up to Thaddeus and began pulling on his face. "Take off the mask, imposter!"

"It's not a mask and I'm not a robot, you idiot!" Thaddeus roared. He managed to shove Buford off and straighten his glasses. "And there's no way I could have accessed the cafeteria anyway."

"Well what if you uhhh went to the future, found out who voted for Phineas, went back in to the past, convinced the people who voted for Phineas to vote for you-" Candace said.

"-and replaced the principal with a robot imposter." accused Buford, as he tackled Linda and pulled on LInda's face. "TAKE OFF THE MASK, PRINCIPAL IMPOSTER!"

"It's not a mask an get off before I give you detention." threatened Linda. Buford backed off as Linda got off the ground.

"Besides, how could I make a time machine in less than a day?" Thaddeus asked

Phineas was abvout to respond when Candace whispered, "Phineas, how much time do we have?"

Phineas looked and saw the clock read 3:05. "Five minutes," he replied.

"Great, how are we supposed to come up with a story to stall him with a five minute story in three seconds?" Baljeet whispered.

"Okay, so you didn't use time travel or weird potions, but I know how you did it." Buford said. "And it all started back in prehistoric times, when the first cavemen built a robot imposter to trick dinosaurs."

Everyone in the room groaned along with everyone in the school as Buford began his story.

While Buford began his unusually long tale, Dr. Doofenshmirtz was slumped on the couch in the Teacher's lounge waloowing in his failure. Perry tried to comfort him and didn't have to worry about the other teachers seeing him because they were watching Phineas and Ferb's expulsion.

"I can't believe we searched the entire school and didn't find my missing inator." Dr. Doofenshmirtz sighed. "I guess we'll never find it. Which is bad, because it was a really good one. I had my hopes on using it this week and even ranting about it to you."

Even though they were enemies, Perry couldn't help but pity the mad scientist. He acted like a little boy who lost his favorite toy. He sighed and grabbed an empty donut box from the counter. He shook the crumbs out, got on all fours, and placed it on himself.

"Perry the Platypus what are you doing? You look silly like you're in a trap and-" he stopped when he saw what his nemesis was doing. "Oh you want me to act out my rant to you? Thank you so much, that is so nice. Just-just give me a second to focus."

"And after watching kabuki dramas, the wind-up toy inventors thought of using robots to replace people." rambled Buford.

Dr. Doofenshmirtz was now pumped and ready while Perry impatiently waited for him to start.

"Ahem, so Perry the Platypus, thought you could sneak up on me? Well nice try, but this will be the last time we do this. Hopefully." he acted.

Perry rolled his eyes, knowing that his nemesis loved doing this.

"So, what's my evil scheme? Well since you asked, I've noticed that every evil leader seems to be able to persuade his subjects easily. Whether it's because they're tough, sneaky, or have some muscle, they are persuasive. It is this: The Persuade-inator!" he announced, pretending to hold a ray gun.

Perry actually was interested by this and decided to pay attention. "With just one shot, I will make anyone believe me, although it messes with their memory a little. Like if I cut in line, I can tell people they cut in line, blast 'em, and they'll believe me. Or if I saw a flat screen, I could steal it and persuade everyone into thinking I already bought it. But the best part, is I could walk into City Hall, blast my brother, and make him think that I should be mayor and take over the Tri-State Area."

Perry was now a little worried. This inator actually sounded dangerous and threatening.

"Could you imagine it? I would become leader, no, president of the Tri-State Area. I'd be all fancy, flying first class. Yep I'd be a first class president. My missing Persuade-inator could be used to make anyone a first class president," said Dr. Doofenshmirtz.

That's when Perry realized something Dr. Doofenshmirtz mentoned. It reminded him of what he heard over the week.

Flashback

"I had it built on Monday, but I accidentally lost it somewhere in the school." admitted Dr. Doofenshmirtz

"Voted? Hah! I just asked for it and they gave it to me." Thaddeus said.

"Anyway, is it true that when we were at home, some new kids asked you if they could be class president and you let them?" Phineas asked

"You know, I'm not sure. I don't remember anyone asking me about that," Linda said.

"I only met the kid once when he came into my classroom on Monday to ask where the bathroom was." Dr. Doofenshmirtz said.

"I guess I'd experiment with the inator, see if I can use it to my advantage, and probably hide it somewhere only I would know about, but nobody would expect." Thaddeus said.

That's when Perry finally realized it. He had an idea where the Persuade-inator was at. He shoved the box off him and started to drag Dr. Doofenshmirtx by is lab coat.

"What the- Hey, hey slow down. Are we practicing you fighting me?" Dr. Doofenshmirtz asked.

"-And that's when the Malaysian Robot Imposters Factory was opened in 1967. Which brings us to two years ago, where you two were assigned by your history teacher to look up failed Malaysian businesses for extra credit." Buford continued.

Brrrrrrrrrrrring!

The bell rang that indicated school was over.

"Yes, you guys have to move the expulsion to Monday now." Candace said.

"-But what you didn't count on was that your elderly Grandma visited Malaysia in 1974, so you spent several hours looking up failed businbesses-" Buford continued.

"Nice try," Thaddeus said. "But if anyone tries to leave school, they get 10 weeks of detention."

Everyone who heard this got back into their seats and groaned.

"-the librarian invested in pork beans, so-" Buford continued.

"SHUT UP!" shouted Thaddeus, "There are so many errors and inconsistencies in that story I don't know where to begin. But you had better give up, it's pointless. Your friends are done for."

"Yeah guys, I hate to admit it but he's right." Phineas agreed. "There's nothing more we can do."

From the hallway, Perry watched as his owner gave up while he head onto Dr. Doofenshmirtz's labcoat. He knew he had to do something. After analyzing the room, specifically Linda and all the posters. Especially won of them looked like itwas being blown against from inside the wall.

"Perry the Platypus, can you let go now?" Dr. Doofenshmirtz asked.

Perry did so and saw a janitor who was waxing the floor. He grabbed the buffer and waxed underneath Dr. Doofenshmirtz, who quickly started to slip.

"Whoa whoa whoa whoa!" he said as he tried to stand still.

"So, without any interruptions-" Thaddeus started.

Perry grabbed Dr. Doofenshmirtz's lab coat, which helped him a bit.

"Oh thanks Perry the Platypus, I would have been slipping all over the place." Dr. Doofenshmirtz said.

"-I decree that Phineas and Ferb-"

Perry quickly opened the door and took another look at the posters.

"-are officially ex-"

WHACK!

Perry delivered a kick to Dr. Doofenshmirtz's back, causing him to slide uncontrollably into the room.

"Whoooooooooaaaaaa!" yelled Dr. Doofenshmirtz.

"Watch it!" warned Thaddeus, as Dr. Doofenshmirtz slid straight to the wall.

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrriiiipppp!

Everyone gasped when they saw Dr. Doofenshmirtz's head go through the poster attached to a 5 foot wall. Perry hoped his plan worked as he ran to get his student disquise.

"Oooh, that's gotta hurt." said Phineas.

"Actually, it's quite roomy in here, except for the kid in here." said Dr. Doofenshmirtz.

"Kid?" Linda asked.

Dr. Doofenshmirtz managed to remove his head but his head was still stuck in the poster.

*Gasp*

Everyone was shocked to see that Dr. Doofenshmirtz was fine because behind the poster was a huge hiding space where Thor was holding something.

"Thor?" everyone in the room except Ferb, Linda, and Dr. Doofenshmirtz.

"Aha, then this must be a robot imposter!" shouted Buford as he started to pull on Thor's face, the one nex.

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIPPPP!

Buford nearly fainted when he actually pulled Thor's face off, revealing a circuit board. "AHH! He really is a robot!"

When Thor got out of his hiding space, Dr. Doofenshmirtz saw what was in his hand.

"THE PERSUADE-INATOR!" he yelled, before realizing everyone heard him. "I mean, a device that look like a Persuade-inator."

"Cut the feed, CUT THE FEED!" ordered Thaddeus.

The camera was turned off and none of the classes were able to see what was happening.

"What's going on? Why do you have my Persuade-inator?" Dr. Doofenshmirtz asked.

"A Persuade-inator?" Phineas asked.

"It's supposed to let you persuade people into doing anything. Like take over the Tri-State Area."

"Or rig an election?" Candace suggested. When Dr. Doofenshmirtz nodded in agreement, every turned to Thaddeus. While everyone was confronting Thaddeus, Candace hit the "record" button on the camera.

"Fine you want to know what happened? When Thor and I got here, we had to use the bathroom, so went into this weirdo's class and asked. He went to clean up an explosion and when we saw his Persuade-inator or whatever, we took it. After that we tried to establish ourselves as "The Best", but apparently you guys already took it. So we used that inator to get your Mom to make us President and VP, but we didn't know she'd listen to you. So when you started this election, we decided to rig it by switching the votes, use the inator to get your Mom to make it look like we were in control, and expel you."

Everyone was in shock at Thaddeus' confession.

"So I admit it. I rigged the election and tricked all the stupid kids in this school and your gullible Mom." Thaddeus admitted.

"All by yourself?" Phineas asked.

"No way, I had Thor's help."

Candace stopped recording and hit the "live" button, allowing everyone in the school to see what was happening.

"But why would you want to expel us?" Phineas asked.

"Why? WHY?" Thaddeus yelled. "Do you remember the last time we met? Exactly?" Thaddeus asked.

"Yeah, we built the forts, you guys froze in shock, and left." Phineas stated.

"And your sister accused us of "breaking your brains" apparently." Ferb added.

"Well she wasn't far off. We were so shocked at losing to a bunch of amateurs, our faces froze like that for half the summer. We had to see professional doctors to unfreeze us, and by then summer was nearly over and we weren't considered "The Best" anymore. So that's why I did all this: transfer my brother and I to this school, steal a dangerous invention, rig an election: Because you took away my summer, Phineas Flynn!" shouted Thaddeus angrily.

"What? But I didn't mean to do it. I would never do somethin like that." Phineas said, pitying Thaddeus.

"It's true, Phineas doesn't hate anyone. Out of curiosity, what about me?" Ferb asked.

"I don't hate you as much. Thor on the other hand despises you." Thaddeus explained. Thor showed them a picture of Ferb and he tore it in half furiously.

"And since Plan A didn't work, time for Plan B." Thaddeus said. Thor threw the Persuade-inator and Thaddeus caught it. "You will all obey me because I am the greatest." Thaddeus said into the inator.

Thaddeus started firing laser blasts at everyone and hit Phineas, Ferb, Candace, Linda, Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Isabella, Buford, and Baljeet were hit and became his mindless slaves. Everyone watching couldn't believe that Thaddeus had become power mad.

"HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAA! I still can't believe that this thing was originally set to "Platypus". Soon I will rule this school and everyone will forget the names "Phineas and Ferb" FOREVER!" he shouted. "Nothing can stop me."

"Grgrgrgrgrgrgrgr." chattered Pierre. Pierre came out of his hiding place behind some eisels and the camera.

"Ah, you must be that foreign exchange kid I heard about. I take it you heard that?" Thaddeus asked.

Pierre nodded with a serious face, as everyone in the school watching was glued to the monitors. Even Major Monogram and Carl were watching from a secret surveilance.

"Oh no, if Agent P fights him, then he'll expose himself." Carl said with worry in his voice.

"Don't do it Agent P." said Major Monogram.

"Well it looks like we're going to have to fix that. THOR! Get him!" Thaddeus ordered.

Agent P's Theme Song begins to play as he gets in a fighting stance.

He's a French foreign exchange

Student who lived in France.

Thor grabbed a box of markers and began tossing them like knives. Pierre leaped aside as the markers stuck into the wall. He grabbed the markers that fell on the ground and stuck them together to form a make-shift staff. He began twirling it to deflect the markers.

He may be partially deaf

But he's always ready for da-a-a-a-nger.

When Thor ran out of markers, he ran over to the sculptor's area and began throwing clay. Pierre dodged the globs of clay and ducked behind a sculptor's spinning station.

He prefers to be a pacifist

But when he needs to, he'll use his fists.

And when it comes to platypi, he's a great imitatooooooor

"Grgrgrgrgrgrgrgr."

Pierre used some clay and began to sculpt a huge bowl. When he finished he used it deflect the oncoming clay. It circled the bowl before being flung back at Thor.

He's Pieeeeeerre

Pierre Equitulpus

Piiieeerrrre

Pierre Equitulpuuuuuuuus

By the time the clay stoped being thrown, Thor was buried in hardened clay. Thaddeus sneered angrily at Pierre and aimed the Persuade-inator at him.

Me may not speak English

But sure is able to read it.

Pierre ducked behind Dr. Doofenshmirtz as Thaddeus tried to hit him. He jumped from person to person to dodge the blasts.

You gotta admit he's a pretty cool guy-y-y-y-y

He's an amazing from the start

And won every girl's

ANd you won't believe how much he sounds like platypiiiiii

"Grgrgrgrgrggr"

He's Pierre

Pierre Equitulpuuuus

Pierre

Pierre Equitulpuuuuus

"Everyone, move away from Pierre." Thaddeus ordered. They all moved away and left him out in the open.

"You should grab Pierre." Thaddeus said into the Persuade-inator. He shot Buford and the bully managed to grab Pierre.

"Now, you are going to surrender." said Thaddeus as he blasted Pierre.

Everyone gasped in shock as they watched Thaddeus zap Pierre as they sat on the edge of their seats. Pierre head fell as he went limp.

"You can put him down now." Thaddeus said. Buford obeyed and put Pierre down. "Game over, Frenchy," mocked Thaddeus. "HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA-"

"Grgrgrgrgrgr." chattered Pierre.

"What the-" exclaimed Thaddeus in disbelief as Pierre got up, unaffected by the Persuade-inator. "Bu-bu-bu-but that's impossible. I fixed that stupid thing. It should be able to affect all humans."

Pierre smiled slyly as he glared at Thaddeus, who was backing away. As Pierre walked towards him, Thaddeus kept firing shots but they didn't affect him.

He prefers to be a pacifist

But when he needs to, he'll use his fists.

"Stay away!" warned Thaddeus. He stopped when he saw the pile of paint buckets and picked one up from the bottom, ready to throw.

And when it comes to platypi, he's a great imitatooooooor.

"Grgrgrgrgrgr." Pierre chattered.

Suddenly, the paint bucket pile began to shake without the bucket of paint Thaddeus grabbed. By the time Thaddeus realized it, the entire thing came crumbling down and burying him in empty buckets of paint.

He's Pierre

Pierre Equitulpuuuus

Pierre

Pie-errre Eeeeeeeeee.

Pierre saw Thaddeus' arm stick out from the pile still clutching the Persuade-inator. He grabbed it and hit the "Off" button. Instantly, everyone hit by the ray returned to normal.

"Huh? What just happened?" Dr. Doofenshmirtz.

"I think Pierre just saved us." Phineas said, as he smiled at his disquised pet.

"Cool. Now if you could just hand me that and-"

Pierre easily found the self-destruct button and pressed it. He grabbed a pucket of paint and threw it under before it exploded.

BOOOM!

A small boom was heard as some smoke came from the bucket.

"NOOOOO!" cried Dr. Doofenshmirtz. "Curse you Pierre Equitulpus!"

Linda was the last one to come out of her daze. "Huh? What's going on?" she asked.

"I'll tell you what's going on," said Thaddeus as he rose from the bucket of paint piled, covered in paint stains, "your sons tried to physically harm me and I want them expelled!"

"And what gives you the right to do that?" she asked.

"Are you kidding?", he asked. "I'm class president. I am the unquestioned leader of this school! I-"

"So I admit it. I rigged the election and tricked all the stupid kids in this school and your gullible Mom." Thaddeus admitted.

"All by yourself?" Phineas asked.

"No way, I had Thor's help."

Thaddeus froze when he saw Candace play the video on the monitor near the door. That message played in every room in the school for all the faculty and students to see. Candace hit the stop button and smiled slyly Linda turned to the "class president" and said "Rigged an election? Gullible?" she asked angrily.

"Did I say gullible? I meant uhh glamorous?" said Thaddeus, as his clay covered brother joined him with a hunk of clay still stuck to his chest. "We can explain."

"Well, I think you'll have plenty of time to come up with an excuse in detention. About 8 weeks should do it." she said.

"That's about as long as summer." stated Thor with a Scottish accent.

"I thought I told you to never talk. You know I hate your accent." Thaddeus said.

"Well I'm sure Mr. Doofenshmirtz will make sure you learn something. Mr. Doofenshmirtz?" Linda asked.

"Gladly. I have something that will teach them a lesson." he said sinisterly.

"Alright then. Come on boys." said Linda.

As Dr. Doofenshmirtz dragged the boys out, Thaddeus shouted "This isn't over. You haven't seen the last of Thaddeus Thorndle, Phineas Flynn."

"Or Thor Theedle" shouted Thor.

"SHUT UP!"

"Quiet you. Now I hope you like backstories, because you're going to be hearing a lot of them." said Dr. Doofenshmirtz.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" screamed Thaddeus.

"YES! I finally busted someone to Mom. It wasn't you two, but it's a start." Candace said.

"Well I guess that wraps everything up." Phineas said.

"After we get everyone to vote again." said Ferb.

Next Wednesday...

"Alright everyone, it's time to see who won." Irving said on the monitors.

Everyone was in class and awaiting the results. Isabella leaned towards Phineas and said, "Good luck Phineas."

"Thanks Isabella." he said.

"Luck shmuck, of course he's gonna win. Who else could win?" Buford said.

"And the new class president is..."

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"... Pierre Equitulpus! The first write-in to win a class presidency at this school. I guess showing Thaddeus and Thor whose boss made an impression on everyone." Irving said.

"Congratulations, President Pierre." said Phineas to Pierre as his mouth hung open in awe. "How do you feel?"

Pierre responded by face palming himself.

The End

Phew, this chapter took longer to write than I thought. I hope you liked reading this as much as I did writing it, and stay tuned for the end credits. Sorry if there are spelling errors, I'm rushing to get this posted by tonight.