Perry went back to his office and began typing up a report on the battle, as all agents were required to do. But when he wrote about watching Pinky get injured, he had to stop. That was when he decided to call it a day and go home.

He took his rocketcar home this time. He parked it in his lair and took the tube up into Phineas and Ferb's bedroom, which he found empty. He could hear construction noises coming from the garage so he assumed that the boys were working on some new project. Even though it was only six in the evening, Perry felt exhausted from the battle so he got straight into bed and slept.

…

"Hey Perry, c'mere!" called Portia's voice.

A two-year-old Perry ran out of the shared bedroom and into the corridor, where he found Portia sitting cross-legged beside a golden retriever dog and an ocelot. "This is Georgia and Oliver."

"I haven't seen you guys before," Perry said thoughtfully. "Have you been here the whole time?"

"Yeah, we used to hang around with Bianca the Badger," Oliver said as if that explained everything.

But it did explain everything. Highly skilled Bianca the Badger had basically collected the five most skilled Taskers—apparently including Georgia and Oliver—into her own group and used them to gain favour for herself. Until two days ago when Bianca had been badly punished for disobeying a direct order from Kirk and she hadn't survived the punishment.

"Oh right," Perry said quietly. "Portia and I have been on our own for just over two years now."

"I wanted to ask you if they could join our group," Portia said to Perry.

Perry felt torn. He was always up for meeting new people, but he absolutely loved the fact that Portia and he were always alone. But the former won over the latter.

"Absolutely," Perry smiled. "Welcome to our group of friends."

Georgia and Oliver beamed.

They chatted for a couple of hours; this was a very rare day off for the Taskers. Soon, a sharp whistle sounded throughout the base, followed by a bell.

"A battle!" Portia said eagerly, clapping her hands together in delight. "This is going to be fun!"

Perry was a bit less eager. "We haven't been training for long," he said doubtfully.

"Don't be such a spoilsport, come on!"

Portia got up and grabbed Perry's wrist. "Coming?" she demanded of Georgia and Oliver.

"Oh, we're coming," Georgia said, both she and Oliver looking just as excited about this as Portia.

Portia dragged Perry after all the other Taskers, who were gathering in the entrance hall of the base. Everyone waited in a tightly packed crowd with anticipation.

Kirk Kennedy came and stood in front of the doors, holding a megaphone. "Everyone, Kegan's robots are attacking again. If you get captured, you will be punished when released. If you get hurt, you will be punished. If you get killed…well, try not to get killed."

Perry gulped. This wasn't his first battle but Kegan's robots were formidable foes.

The doors suddenly opened and Kirk was lifted up by a platform on wires as the crowd of animals surged forwards. Portia was still holding Perry's wrist so she was dragging Perry along. No sooner had he got outside than Perry saw a massive crowd of robots with arm guns, shooting at them. The Taskers attacked them with all their strength.

Portia let go of Perry's arm as she kicked an advancing robot. On her other side, Georgia and Oliver fought two more robots with their teeth and claws respectively. Perry punched one of the robots as hard as he could but the robot suddenly grabbed him with its claw hand and pushed Perry into the ground, stunning him. It held him down while he struggled.

A scream caught his ears. He twisted his head and saw that Georgia had been shot in the back by a robot. She fell to the ground and didn't get up again. A few metres away, a heavy claw hit Oliver on the head and sent him down too. He didn't move either.

Perry searched wildly for Portia and found her engaged in combat with another robot. Just a second after he spotted her, the robot's energy beam shot her through the chest. She let out a piercing scream and fell backwards in what seemed to Perry like slow motion. Perry hollered her name as she hit the floor but, like Georgia and Oliver, she didn't move.

Perry felt sick. All three of his friends had been killed, it was like a nightmare.

"Portia! PORTIA!"

…

Perry shot into a sitting position, sweating and breathing heavily. It was dark outside; he could just see the light of the street lamp outside his house. From the looks of things, the boys were in their beds, asleep.

Perry got up from his bed and headed downstairs, before going outside and lying under the oak tree in the backyard, the cool air helping him to calm down.

He didn't understand it. The first part of the dream had been something that had really happened in real life: him meeting Georgia and Oliver. He remembered that battle too but the end of the dream had been different. Of course, Portia, Georgia, and Oliver had not been killed; they were currently sitting in prison cells in OWCA's base. He didn't understand why the nightmare had altered the end of the battle. What had really happened was they had shorted and/or defeated all the robots and Kirk had actually captured Kegan Kennedy, who was Kirk's older brother. Now that he thought about it, Perry supposed that meant Kegan was Kane's older brother too. Kegan had lasted four days of torture before he had managed to escape.

After calming himself down, Perry headed back inside. He drank a glass of water and went back upstairs to his bed. The clock said the time was two am. He settled back into bed and closed his eyes again. This time, he had a completely dreamless sleep.

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