"SO, SIR", Norm asked. "WHY DO YOU NEED TO BE BY MY SIDE AGAIN?"

"So I can make sure you don't screw up the formula, of course", Heinz said. "With Perry the Platypus being trapped by my much more competent slave, you don't have much to worry."

Norm responded: "BUT SIR, YOU PROGRAMMED THE FORMULA RECIPE IN MY HEAD. I KNOW IT BY HEART NOW"

"Yes, I know, but you always tend to make mistakes despite that", Heinz retorted. "I just want to make sure everything goes 100% right for once!"

"Man, what a weirdo", Trixie said in reference to the pharmacist that just went into the closet.

"Yeah, he looks just as lame as those unpopulars too", Veronica agreed. "Anyway, it's ten minutes before we can humiliate those other lame-os. Do you now know whaddya wanna do before that?"

Trixie thought for a bit. "We could check out new perfumes."

Veronica has already been to the perfume department, but agreed regardless: "Great! That's just behind us."

As they entered the perfume department, Trixie immediately headed right. Which was a good thing in Veronica's case because she noticed something right in front of her that Trixie should absolutely not know about.

It was Perry, held tightly by a brown-haired customer, seemingly in trance.

As Phineas, Ferb and the gang were painting their invention in vibrant red and yellow colors, a mustached man in light blue approached them.

"Delivery service, looking for a certain Phineas Flynn", the man announced.

"Yep, that's me", Phineas said in excitement and went to the man.

"Did you order this water tank and wanted us to deliver it to Dimmsdale Mall", the man asked as he revealed a large wooden crate on a trolley beside him.

"Yes", Phineas replied. "Yes I did."

"Good", the delivery man confirmed. He then gave Phineas a clipboard: "Now, would you sign this, please?"

Phineas placed his signature on the paper and gave the clipboard back.

"Alright, have fun", the man responded. He shoved the large crate off the trolley and left the mall.

"Huh", Phineas said. "The guy didn't even ask if I were a little young to order a water tank. Oh well."

Timmy, Chloe and AJ approached Phineas with crowbars, as they helped the triangle-headed boy to open the crate.

"I'd like to have the honors to mount the water tank on our systems", AJ requested. He also did a lot of inventing in his free time and was fascinated by Phineas and Ferb's inventing.

"Sure, go ahead", Phineas said. "Don't forget to add the food coloring, too!" AJ was already dragging the tank towards the slide-like contraption. Ferb followed AJ with the cart of food coloring.

"You two keep an eye on things, right", Phineas asked Timmy and Chloe.

"Sure, yes sir", Chloe responded. Phineas went back painting the invention.

"Gosh, I must admit that Phineas and Ferb really are as good at this stuff as they claim to be", Timmy said.

"Yeah", Chloe agreed. "This thing's gonna be amazing. I'm pretty sure Trixie will realize she made a huge mistake taking that bet."

"Speaking of realizing", the bracelet Cosmo said, "Did you know that Ferb guy has green hair like me? 'Cuz I sure didn't until now!"

"WE KNOW", Timmy, Chloe and Wanda said in unison.

Perry noticed Trixie and Veronica entered the perfume department. The platypus has no way to actually hide himself from at least Trixie, due to the fact that the victim to Doof's perfume still imprisoned him in her own arms.

His only hope was that she would regain sense to herself before Trixie would see them.

It seems like Veronica actually did notice him as well, and by the looks of her face, she fears the exact same thing as Perry, but probably had no idea the woman that captured the platypus was influenced.

Veronica was panicking a bit. She had no clue how to hide Perry from Trixie, and standing there doing nothing might give her asian friend some suspicion.

"Hey, Veronica", she heard Trixie say, "You coming?"

Veronica startled a bit and said: "Oh, um, sure", as she went after Trixie, but not before worrisomely glancing at Perry. The platypus sighed.

Remy and the bullies have just arrived at the project, but to their surprise were expected by Buford, Chester and Isabella, the latter whom had notified the rest about the Boom Juice.

Despite her appearance, Isabella could easily take at least one bully, if her record of Fireside Girl patches proved anything. Buford, being a bully himself, was obviously looking forward fighting one. Chester wasn't being sure if he could even defend himself, since he was often one of Francis's targets, but out of Timmy's friends, he was said to be the hardiest. If anything, he could probably distract one of the bullies.

As Isabella was pushing one bully away, Buford was brawling with another and Chester was running from the third one, this leaves only Remy and Francis.

By then, Timmy and Chloe already noticed several dots on their radars, and their two flying cameras were already focusing on the remaining two antagonists.

To top it all off, Candace also arrived, snatching the flask from Remy's hand.

"After her", Remy yelled to Francis, as both gave chase.

"Careful, Norm", Heinz said when his robot man was adding water to the concoction. "Adding too much water would neutralize the effect."

"I KNOW, SIR", Norm replied as he stopped pouring water in the cauldron.

"Perfect", Doofenshmirtz complimented. "Now at last, the special ingredients, and then we can stir this baby up."

Norm added an unknown ingredient that Doof probably made himself, and then pulled a hair out of his boss ("Ouch!"), which he promptly threw into the mix as well.

"Now, let's stir it for five minutes", Doof said. "Did you set your built-in timer?"

"TIMER ACTIVATED, SET FOR FIVE MINUTES, SIR", Norm confirmed.

"Veronica, I need your help on deciding what pefume I should use for the upcoming event", Trixie said. "Something that lets those dorks know they lost, but not in an all too meanspirited way."

"Umm", Veronica thought audibly. Trixie was just a few aisles away from Perry and that thought made Veronica too nervous to think straight.

She picked a random bottle and asked: "...How about this one?"

"...Eau d'Ordinaire?" Trixie asked. "Are you sure?"

Veronica responded: "I dunno, but sounds exotic, right?"

Trixie picked up a sample bottle and spritzed some on a paper strip, smelling on it.

"...Veronica, this is just water", Trixie concluded.

Veronica temporarily forgot Perry as she was genuinely confused. "Really", she asked. "They're selling water as perfume now?"

"Yeah, it's completely useless, a total waste of money", Trixie scoffed. "I could make much better fragrances at home. I bet anyone could." Trixie threw the sample bottle away.

Said bottle fell right into a teal hand.

Perry's limbs may be stuck, but his hands could still hold objects. Not that if would've helped much, since he couldn't reach any objects to grab onto. That is, until a bottle of perfume fell into his right hand.

Perry heard the conversation between Trixie and Veronica from a few aisles away. He inspected the bottle and concluded that this was indeed the bottle of Eau d'Ordinaire, or ordinary water, that Trixie threw away.

Perry suspected that a bit of water might undo the effects of the Eau de Inator that Doofenshmirtz has sprayed over his captor. If not, he could at least set himself free by spritzing her in the eyes.

So, in the good old 'freeing-himself-from-the-trap' fashion, Perry sprayed the water in the girl's eyes, which prompted her to not only let loose of Perry but fall on the ground.

Perry went back into his 'mindless pet' mode as soon as he could, but stayed a little while to see if the Eau de Inator's effect subsided.

"...Ohhhhh", the brunette said, placing her hand on her forehead. "W-where am I?"

This confirmed enough for Perry and he left the perfume department.

Trixie settled on Eau de Citron, a fresh fragrance from a sour source that actually had a scent. She wanted to go straight to the cashier and pay for the perfume.

Veronic isn't all too eager about it because it requires the two to walk straight towards the location where she spotted Perry. And then his cover would be blown.

"Wait", Veronica said. "How about we, um... go the other way to the cash desk?"

Trixie gave a weird look to her blonde friend. "Is there something you want to tell me?", she asked.

"What? Nonononono", Veronica responded while sweating. "Nothing all too important."

"Well then", Trixie smiled. "Then we can just go this way, right?"

Trixie went straight ahead. Goodbye, Perry...

...except, to Veronica's surprise, Perry was already gone. The brown-haired girl that used to hold Perry captive was now alone, and seemed to be standing up after having fallen or something.

Veronica didn't get it. She observed the department, but it seems Perry already left.

She did see a teal spot outside of the perfume department.

This teal spot was of course Perry in his regular pet mode. The platypus noticed Veronica staring at him and gave her a thumbs-up to reassure her. Veronica couldn't help to smile when she noticed a little thumb coming from the teal spot.

"Hey Veronica, are you gonna stop standing there?", Trixie asked.

This startled Veronica again. She responded: "Coming!"

Candace was skating around the area, still trying to stall. She was trying to skate as far away from the slide-like project as possible, but the many tubes confused her in a way so she just went circles.

This led to her being caught in surprise by Remy, who was smart enough to skate into the opposite direction after sensing the orange-haired teenager's pattern.

Quickly, Candace turned around, but saw Francis in the distance, who still followed Candace straight. Panicked, the teenager decided to climb on the nearest tube, supported by scaffolding.

This proved a bit difficult with rollerskates on her feet, as it prevented her from using her feet for climbing. The good thing is, Remy and Francis suffer the same disadvantage.

Still, one small mistake and it's over. Also, Candace had to hold the flask of Boom Juice in her mouth, as she needed both hands to climb and her skirt had no pockets.

Frantically moving her legs while trying to climb and not to slip up, Candace almost kicked Baljeet, who happened to paint the tube she was climbing to.

"Hey, could you watch out, please", the indian boy shouted.

"Swwwy", Candace said with her teeth gripping on the flask.

Finally, Candace reached the insides of the tube, which she plummeted into. If she slid towards the end, this thing was finally risk-free!

If she would move, that is.

However, as soon as Candace tried to stand up, with her roller skates still on, she realized that this was a bad idea, as she raced down towards the end of the tube, frantically flailing her arms and legs screaming from the top of her lungs.

And the moment she saw Remy and Francis waiting for her at the end, who seemed to have just went to the end of the tube waiting for her, instead of going through the trouble of chasing her, Candace realized this was a REALLY bad idea.

The teenager crashed against the rich boy and the bully, and soon enough, all three were pulling at the flask.

"WE HAVE REACHED FIVE MINUTES, SIR", Norm said in his gleeful yet monotone voice. "STIRRING PROCESS DEACTIVATED."

"Excellent", Doofenshmirtz exclaimed. "Now, all we need to do is to get a dozen gallons of tiny 0.1 liter perfume bottles, and fill 'em up!"

"...OR, YOU COULD GET A GIANT SPRAY BOTTLE AND SPRAY EVERYONE IMMEDIATELY", Norm suggested.

"I would, but this stuff still only works on valley girls", Doof lectured. "I want to use as little as possible on immune people so my army will be huge, and just spraying everyone in the room with the chance of no valley girls, there's just too much risk! Plus, I can get rich too!"

Heinz paused before continuing: "Besides, your idea is just the easy way out! And you know what they say about taking the easy way-"

Then the evil scientist got interrupted by the closet door being opened.

In the door opening was a teal platypus with a fedora on his head.

After buying her perfume, Trixie waited along with Veronica near the entrance, waiting for the others of the popular crowd. Tad and Chad were the first to arrive.

"Ey, Trixie", the two boys in purple greeted. "And Veronica too, of course." Veronica drooped her eyes to a neutral frown. Her friend was clearly more popular than her.

"Hi Tad, hi Chad", Trixie greeted back. "I take it you contacted all the populars of our town?"

"We certainly did", Tad grinned with pearly whites. "They'll be arriving as soon as this phone's at five."

"We even invited your parents to come", Chad announced.

Trixie was surprised at this.

"Umm, is it really needed to let Daddy and Mother come here, too", she asked.

Tad and Chad had a reasonable argument ready. Tad said: "Well, whatever happens next will certainly give a huge impact on the next week, whether you win or lose (although I doubt the latter)."

Chad continued: "So we figured your parents need to know. Can't let your slaves be confused for ordinary ordinaries, right?"

"...Right", Trixie said.

Trixie, while having no qualms about her father showing with her in public, felt a bit uncomfortable with her mother showing up as well, especially with the fear of losing against the unpopular. Sure, she has won every bet so far, but with her strict mother watching, who always had prejudice against ordinary folk, she couldn't help to sweat a little.

Timmy and Chloe are in a bit of a loss. Remy and Francis are now fighting with Candace over the flask.

"What in Dale Dimm's name can we do" Timmy asked. "They're too close to each other."

"Remind me why that's a problem again", Chloe asked back.

Timmy explained: "Any of the wishes I can think of don't only hurt Remy or Francis, but Candace as well. It may also damage the flask which may cause the Boom Juice to explode!"

"How about making the flask disappear?", Chloe suggested.

Timmy said: "That would cause way too much suspicion. The other wishes already caused a bit of it from Remy."

"Oh, makes sense", Chloe agreed. "So, wait, the only thing we can do right now is... nothing?"

"I suppose so", Timmy responded.

The two watched the three fight with defeated faces.

"Perry the Platypus?!" Doofenshmirtz exclaimed. "How did you escape from my slave?"

"HIS MUCH MORE COMPETENT SLAVE, HE MIGHT ADD", Norm added.

"Quit the passive aggressive sarcasm, Norm", Heinz remarked.

As a response to Doof's original question, the platypus showed his nemesis the sample bottle he still had with him.

Heinz squinted while reading the label: "Eau d'Ordinare? Isn't that just ordinary water?"

Doofenshmirtz eyes widened as he realized what he just said. "Wait. ORDINARY WATER?!", he panicked.

Perry knew exactly what to do now. He screwed the perfume bottle's cap off and prepared to pour the water in the cauldron...

...but Doof slapped the bottle right out of Perry's tiny hand, and the bottle flew right off the third floor, landing somewhere on the first floor.

"Not this time, Perry the Platypus", Heinz said. "Whew, not a second too early, or I had to start all over aga-"

Perry socked Doof in the face before he could finish his sentence.

Candace is still trying her hardest to get the Boom Juice back in her possession. Whatever happens, she's not going to let this giant slide thing disappear.

Remy is also trying his hardest to get the Boom Juice back in his possession. He cannot stand the idea of Trixie losing this particular bet.

He was a bit disappointed that Francis wasn't trying hard for him to get the Boom Juice back for him. Francis is a big, strong bully that could've easily taken Candace down, and yet it seemed he wasn't pulling at all. Remy didn't write four checks worth a million dollars each for this!

However, both him and Candace noticed that the floating cameras were getting closer, and closer. And as they got so close they were in their faces, Francis crushed them into smithereens.

Candace was so shocked that her mouth went wide open. Remy grinned and complimented: "Nice, Francis! That's good!"

This also worked as a distraction because Candace accidentally let loose of the bottle. With full possession of the bottle and no cameras to worry about, Remy skated away.

Candace wanted to give chase but then Francis pinned her down.

"Looks like I win", Remy gloated while skating. "And that means dear Trixie will win and your brothers won't! You lose, giraffe neck! YOU LO-"

But before Remy could finish his sentence, he slipped on a bottle that was lying on the floor, and his flask flew right out of his hand.

The Boom Juice was flung all the way to the third floor, miraculously without hitting anything concerning Phineas and Ferb's project.

This gave Candace enough confidence to push Francis aside and gloat back at Remy: "Looks like I win, gel-head." Candace felt absolutely proud about finally coming up with a cheesy insult against the snooty blonde.

Now that Remy is defeated, he decided to inspect what did cause his defeat.

"A sample bottle of Eau d'Ordinaire?", he questioned.

Perry and Doofenshmirtz were fighting inside of the closet. They were clashing with buckets as if they were swords. Norm, unsurprisingly enough, didn't do anything else than spectating.

With the closet door still open, Perry was able to hear a faint sound approaching the two. Suspecting that it might be dangerous, the platypus placed his bucket onto Doof's head and kicked him in the gut, so the evil scientist would tumble into the cauldron. He then sat next to Norm, who still didn't bother to do anything.

As Heinz put the bucket off his head, he saw a flask flying right towards him. The flask crashed on the cauldron, which promptly exploded and flung the labcoat-wearing man upwards. He could be heard saying: "CURSE YOU, PERRY THE PLATYPUUUUSS!"

Perry guessed the flask contained Boom Juice. It would at least explain why this explosion reminded him so much of the explosions caused by selfdestruct buttons his nemesis constantly put on his inators.

Perry's mission has been completed, as he has yet again averted another evil scheme by Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz. He ran out of the closet and was about to return to his owners as a mindless pet.

AJ finished mounting the water systems (which have now been colored in various hues), Candace, Buford, Chester and Isabella escorted Remy and the bullies away, and the project was painted in various vibrant colors. And it's only a few minutes before five o'clock.

"All right Ferb, it's finished", Phineas exclaimed gladly. Ferb gave a thumbs-up. The two stepbrothers then heard a familiar chattering.

"Oh, there you are, Perry", Phineas said to their pet platypus. "You're just in time to witness what we're about to show Trixie, remember?"

Perry remembered, and as always, he's impressed by the work of his owners. But he still had to act like a natural platypus, so he chattered again in response.

"I knew you'd like it", Phineas replied. He looked at the clock on his cellphone.

"It's almost five o'clock", he said. "I probably should call her."

As time gets closer to five o'clock, more populars were entering the mall, waiting alongside Trixie. Finally, Trixie's parents showed up: a short, bespectabled father and a tall, asian mother.

By the worried look on Mr. Tang's face, and the stern one on Mrs. Tang's, it's obvious which of Trixie's parents would act stricter.

"Hello, Daddy, hello, Mother", Trixie greeted, slightly nervous.

"Now, Trixie", her father started, "I hope you do win the bet you agree on. Both of us know how your mother would react if you do not, with the repurcussions of losing in mind."

Trixie knows that all too well, but try to stay positive. "Relax, Daddy", she said. "I never lost a bet. I'll be fine."

"I hope you will", Mrs. Tang said grimly to her daughter. "For there will be consequences if you lose."

Trixie, Veronica, Tand and Chad couldn't help but grimace fearfully at the last statement of Trixie's mom, combined with the tone she said it.

Trixie decided to check the time on her smartphone.

"It's almost five o'clock", Trixie said. "Should we-"

But before Trixie could suggest anything, her phone started to buzz. She answered the phone: "Hello?"

"Hi, this is Phineas", the voice answered back.

"...How did you ge my phone number?", Trixie asked dully.

"Oh, Timmy gave me yours", Phineas replied obliviously. The black-haired popular was a bit weirded out by that statement, as well as the fact that the triangle-headed dork could talk about it in such a casual way.

Phineas continued: "But anyway, we're about done with our invention and it's almost five o'clock. Where can Ferb and I wait for you?"

Trixie replied back: "Me and all the other populars of Dimmsdale are at the entrance of this mall."

"Great, that's exactly where we're heading right now", Phineas responded. "You might see us in just a sec."

Not even a second later and Phineas, Ferb and Perry are already in front of the populars.

Noticing the crowd of populars, Phineas remarked: "Wow, you weren't kidding when you said 'all the other populars', Trixie." He turned around and repeated: "She really wasn't kidding, Ferb."

"Well, you weren't exactly kidding when you said we would be there 'in a sec'", the green-haired stepbrother responded.

"You're right", Phineas said. He then noticed Trixie's parents. "You must be Trixie's parents", Phineas said to them. He stuck his head in front of Mrs. Tang, expecting her to shake it, and said: "Greetings, my name's Phine-"

"I don't touch hands with the unwealthy and unpopular populace", Mrs. Tang interrupted sternly. "Besides, I just manicured my nails and don't want them ruined by filthy hands like yours."

Phineas returned his hand with a slight frown on his face. Trixie's mother is clearly not the nicest person Phineas has met.

"Soooooo... you ready to lose and be humilated by the popular side of town?", Trixie asked.

"No, but we ARE ready to show you what we've been working on", Phineas said, with his optimism regained. "Now ladies, gentlemen, if you follow me and Ferb, please?"

The group of populars followed the two stepbrothers. Some of them are giggling already, as everyone is still thinking that these two will lose against the most popular girl of Dimmsdale.

Kids around the mall took notice of the populars being escorted by Phineas and Ferb, and they were intrigued, seeing the two stepbrother didn't nearly look as stylish or rich as the populars that followed them. So, naturally, they joined the group and followed Phineas and Ferb. Unsurprisingly, this turned the group extremely large.

Remy joined alongside the group, with a defeated frown on his face. He wasn't grinning like the rest of the populars, he knew what Phineas and Ferb made, and he tried with all his power to avert it without avail. And soon, the rest of Dimmsdale would know what the two brothers made.

Phineas and Ferb met with Timmy, Chloe, Isabella, Buford, Baljeet, AJ, Chester, Candace and Irving as they arrived at their project. Phineas then turned around to the populars and presented: "Here it is, guys!"

All the populars gazed in awe at their project. Trixie couldn't believe her eyes.

She lost.

Author's Note: Yep. Trixie lost against Phineas and Ferb. Raise your hand if you saw this coming.

Everyone raised their hands yet? Good. Considering Phineas and Ferb, it really shouldn't be a surprise.

The bigger question right now is how Trixie's mom will react to this. Or the rest of the populars. Or if we'll see Doofenshmirtz again.

This chapter was originally a three-parter, because the three chapters combined was deemed too long to past me. However, two years later, I got stories that had chapters way longer. But what do you think of this long chapter? Tell me in the reviews! Or, if you like this story, you could fave it, too.