The corridors they were in seemed to be made for utility. Doors branched off the corridor, looking as if they've never been used. Dark and dimly-lit, every step they took could spell disaster. And yet this place was their best chance of survival.

They were near some filing cabinets when Phineas stopped.

"Psst...Ferb!" Phineas whispered.

"What?

"I think they're coming. About..." Phineas pressed his ear to the tiled floor. "About a dozen of them. Our tasers can only safely fire six shots before it overheats. I say we wait here and ambush them."

"I second. Isabella, with Phineas, to the left of the corridor, behind that pillar. I'll take the right side, behind the cabinets." Isabella moved quickly towards Phineas - a little too quickly maybe.

Phineas' face was hidden in knew a chance when she saw one, and she didn't waste this one. She sneaked right up to Phineas.

"Phineas?" It was Isabella, her voice barely more then a whisper.

"Yeah?"

Should you say it? Yes? No?

He nearly died once, and I need to tell him before it happens has ABSOLUTELY no idea, despite all the not-so subtle hints. He needs to know.

"Well...I just wanted to let you know...let you know..."

"Let me know that you love me?"

Say what? Isabella stared.

Say what? Ferb goggled.

For long moments, Isabella was speechless.

Am I dumb or mute? Say something, for the love of Phineas!

Finally, her tongue obeyed her brain. "Why, yes. Err...if you're not okay with it-!"

"But I am okay with it! In fact-"And he kissed her full on the lips. Exactly the sort of thing she had been dreaming of forever. Especially for the last five years.

Ferb just stared in openmouthed astonishment. A textbook dumbstruck audience.

Apparently, I'm not the only poker expert here.

But then a sudden noise brought him back to reality. And there was no mistaking that metallic noise.

"They're coming."

"I'm sorry."Phineas said, breaking the kiss. Isabella fell in behind him.

"There's no need to be sorry." Isabella said, somewhat dizzily. She still hadn't recovered fully from the shock.

"Rather, I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier..."

"Hush!" Ferb said. "There's a time for this, and the time is later."

Isabella seemed scandalized, but she wisely kept quiet, opting instead to glower at Ferb.

Then silence fell over them. Somehow, the silence seemed louder then their conversation.

"You ready?" Phineas asked, breaking the silence.

"You bet." Ferb replied.

They could hear the metallic sounds. Closer...closer...

"NOW!"

Chaos.

Isabella screamed as a laser missed her by front of her, Phineas was firing. Blue arcs of electricity and green lasers filled the corridor. Isabella kept well out out of the firing line, praying to every God she knew that her Phineas would be alright.

Phineas POV(1st person)

I was shooting at the robots, all the while wondering how I even got myself into this mess. I had only six shots, so they had better work. And I needed to keep track.

"One...two...three...four...five...six-!"I was pulled back by someone-

And just in time, too, as a laser flashed past where I was, not two seconds ago.

I turned around to see who had cut me off. It was Isabella.

"Thanks." I mumbled, not sure of what else to say.

Ferb finished the last of his six shots, having been more judicious then me in shooting. Nevertheless, the result was the same. Both of us had hit six for six.

"Nice shooting, bro." Ferb congratulated me.

"Thanks. You weren't too bad yourself."I said.

"Is everybody okay?" Isabella asked.

"I think so." both me and Ferb replied.

"Great.",Ferb said. "Okay, let's recharge these tasers when we're moving, they're certain to come here.

I could clearly see Isabella from where I was. My thought, my feelings for her threaten to overrun me. I tried to focus on the task at hand, but it was no use.

Isabella. I've always liked her, her cheerfulness, her cuteness...every part of her seemed made for me. But I've always been too shy to admit it. Me, bold Phineas Flynn, too shy to admit something? That has got to be a first. I told myself, maybe another day, maybe another day...another first for me. I've always been one to seize the day.

But when I was in that tank, I knew there wasn't going to be another day for me, and that's when regret set in. I regretted not telling her earlier. Now that I've told her, at least she knows. At least she knows I'm all hers.

Now that's making the day.

Isabella's POV(1st person)

I dusted myself off and followed the brothers. And especially Phineas.

Phineas. Phineas Flynn.

I would have loved to say that the first time I saw him, I fell for him. But that would be a lie.

Instead, he was just another boy to me, when I was nine. The summer I moved in.

Still, there was something vaguely charming about him. Maybe it was his perpetual smile, his bubbly personality. But, just another was when I was nine...and naive.

I suppose you can say he built his way right into my heart. All his contraptions the next summer won me over. And not just because of their grandeur. It was because he didn't do it for himself. Rather, he did it so that everyone else could have their fun. How many kids are like that? That clinched it. Call me a hopeless romantic, but I couldn't stop thinking about him...I actually fantasized about him being a centaur...Me, Isabella Garcia-Shapiro, fearless Fireside Girl troop leader, fantasizing over a boy? Unlikely.

But, like I said before, his personality clinched it. He was-is my other half.

The one thing I didn't know was that I was his other half. I didn't know I completed him. For all of five years. I had no idea. How was I supposed to know? He hides his emotions so well. Even Ferb had no inkling, much less me.

Oh, well. At least I know I complete him now.

And he completes me. As always.