Chapter 4 is now up and running! Be warned, I might get a little technical with the S.A.F. members and what arthropod I based them off of... And I spoiled part of the S.A.F.'s name. Urg.

But anyway's I hope you enjoy this chapter!

Perry was running, gasping for breath in the blood-soaked, burning terrain. He turned around, there were his colleagues running with him, they were all wounded and covered with burns. Perry turned around and then ran into two enormous figures. One was a worm, the other one a snail. The figures laughed before a rain of needles and acid rained from the sky.

Perry and his colleagues started felt the burning sensation of the acid and needles, and tried to close their eyes to block out the pain, but it was no good. To make matters worse, none of them were aware that they had all started to melt and bleed.

Perry saw his flesh melt off of his bones, and he could feel blood leaking from his body. He tried to close his eyes to block out the horror, but found that he couldn't. He then looked down in horror and he staggered back.

He and his fellow agents had all been reduced to skeletons. Perry then looked up as the worm and snail began to contort and grow sharp teeth. Perry's skeleton tried to run, but his leg bones suddenly broke apart. The demonic worm and snail bent over, still laughing, their fanged mouths coming closer and closer until…

Perry woke up with a start, his body sweating rivers. This woke up Phineas, whose bed Perry had been sleeping on.

"What's wrong Perry?" he asked innocently.

If animals could talk like humans, perhaps everything would've been alright. But Perry couldn't speak to Phineas, nor could he ever allow Phineas to know about his double life as an animal agent, and yet, Perry just couldn't get over what had happened to him today.

Phineas just pet Perry on the head.

"It's all right boy, must've been a bad dream." Phineas said as he went back to sleep.

It wasn't just a bad dream for Perry, what had happened earlier had been a nightmare come true, and the night had compounded it with a nightmare about a nightmare.

It had all happened so fast.

The hunt for Walter, or really, Benedict, had not been difficult. Arrows had been dug into the ground and trees. Perry and Monty had been suspicious, as had Francis, but they had no choice, they'd have to play by Benedict's rules or they'd have no chance of finding him. It had only taken them twelve minutes to find Benedict, but then, it had only taken one minute for the slaughter to happen.

Perry and his fellow agents had been surprised at Benedict's reflexes and abilities. He had single-handily destroyed ten armored helicopters, all with minimal effort. No one in the helicopters survived the massacre.

Then came Benedict's attack on Perry and his colleagues. None of them expected Benedict to possess such powerful weaponry, and Perry knew weaponry. Norm, Heinz's robot, had once upgraded himself into an unstoppable force of destruction, and if Phineas and Ferb had not invented nanobots capable of turning into pretty much anything, Norm would've destroyed the Tri-State Area.

But Benedict's weapons were simply astonishing. One use of them had incapacitated thirty of Perry's colleagues, they didn't have a chance to dodge. And then came his attacks that immediately downed Terry and Sergei-no, Serum…. Ferdinand and Herman had managed to restrain Benedict, but then, came an even bigger shocker.

Serum was Benedict's partner-in-crime.

Perry, like Major Monogram, had seen the weapon slash Monty. He had seen it down Ferdinand and Herman, and had seen the sadistic, bloodthirsty smile on Serum's face that had made even Benedict shiver. He had seen Serum replace his old snail shell with what Perry presumed to be his real shell, and how Benedict then just tore apart his restraints.

Then when Kitty, Damien, and Montague tried to attack Serum, they had also fallen to the snail's wicked blade.

Then came the rain of needles, the painful, searing rain of needles. Perry had never felt such horrible pain in his life. He had felt, for the first time in his career as an O.W.C.A. agent, blood leak from his body. Heinz, the Regurgitator, and Dennis, all dangerous in their own right, had never managed to inflict such bodily harm to Perry, and from what his colleagues sometimes told him, their own nemeses had also never managed such damage before.

Perry had fallen unconscious afterwards, staring at the droplets of blood that sprayed from his body mix into the mud.

He had then awoken much later, and he remembered seeing his colleagues and Monty, all of them in bandages. Perry remembered seeing the Major's face, which was solemn. His eyes had turned red, and from what Perry had seen, it had been from crying. Perry had never seen the Major cry like that, and he knew why, since for the first time in any of their lives-

The O.W.C.A. had felt true fear.

Perry later found out that the O.W.C.A. scientists and interns, working at top speed, had reverse-engineered Heinz's 'Omni-Chemical-inator', which had helped heal the agents from their wounds, which had very nearly killed them all. The poison of Serum's sai had also done major damage. Monty and the agents who had been struck by it wouldn't be moving for some time.

Perry, lying down in his bed, realized how lucky he was to be alive and healthy.

Benedict looked at the Brazilian Black Tarantula sheepishly. Shelia's eyes were burning with rage as she ranted off towards Benedict.

"I TOLD YOU TO GET YOUR BUTT OVER HERE, AND INSTEAD YOU WASTE TIME MURDERING WHEN YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN DELIVERING! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH PROFIT WE CAN GET BY HELPING TERRORIST GROUPS? DO YOU KNOW THAT WE HAVE TO COMPETE WITH ENIGMA ALL THE TIME TO GET THESE JOBS? TAKE THIS INTO CONSIDERATION BENEDICT OR I SWEAR THAT I WILL DRAIN YOUR BODY FLUIDS DRY!"

"Calm down Shelia." A mosquito said calmly.

"SHUT UP VISER!" Shelia yelled.

"Hey, hey, hey, what's happening over here?" a voice asked.

Shelia turned around to see Serum and another tarantula crawl towards them. The new tarantula was a Chilean Rose.

"I'm punishing Benedict over here for disobeying orders Ellen!" Shelia replied

Ellen rolled her eyes. "Serum's the guy you should be screaming at, he's the one who let loose the acronym of our organization, and from what he's told me, you're the one responsible for Benedict's little slipup."

Shelia was flabbergasted.

Ellen went on, "You, in your impatience, yelled at Benedict before he got a chance to kill that Major guy. You've always been a hot-tempered agent."

"Hey, hey, we had a deadline!" Shelia protested

"Oh? Then how close was Benedict?" Ellen asked.

"Five seconds" Shelia said bluntly.

"What terrorist group was it that needed that blackmail material?" Ellen asked.

"al-Deadline" Shelia answered.

"Huh, fitting" Ellen replied.

"But that isn't the point! My main point is that we've got the attention of an espionage group!" Shelia cried out, "Plus, what was Serum even doing there as a double agent in the first place?"

"I was um, sneaking research data out of the O.W.C.A., there's a large number of highly skilled inventors and I decided to check it out for myself and get our hands on some of those blueprints." Serum said nervously.

Shelia glared at him, then sighed.

"Guess we'll have to live with this." She muttered.

"Don't worry Shelia, they're aren't Enigma, if Benedict and Serum beat down a task force of them in less than three minutes, there isn't much to worry about." Ellen said.

Ellen looked at Benedict and Serum.

"Back to your barracks you two." She commanded. The two S.A.F. agents immediately left.

"Alright, I think we're done here," Ellen said. "See ya Shelia."

"See ya." Shelia replied

Ellen crawled away, and Shelia sighed as she crawled towards her desk. She looked at the business card stack that a careless crab agent left behind.

'Secret Arthropod Facilities – "Manducare vel comedetis eam" 540-929-1972'

So we now know what S.A.F. stands for! Anyways, yeah.

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