Chapter 4

Perry looked over the two boys' shoulders.

"Is it done yet?"

"Almost. And… now! Ta-da!" Phineas held out his arms in a presenting way. Ferb held up the invention. It looked like a hair drier with a bunch of weird wires sticking out of it.

Phineas explained, "We just need to flip the switch and it will give you your 'Gg-g-g-g' noise back."

"That's fantastic!" exclaimed Perry.

"Lets give it a go," suggested Phineas. The two brothers stood back and took aim at the platypus. Right when Ferb was about to flip the switch, a hole opened up under Perry and he disappeared down a chute.

Phineas cried, "Hey, where's Perry?"

As Perry slid down the chute, he said, "Aw 'shoot'. No pun intended."

"Maybe we should go after him, Ferb. C'mon." Phineas and Ferb jumped into the hole after him.

Perry landed in the agency. Major Monogram's picture was on the screen.

"Sorry Agent P, for the inconvenience, but Doofenshmirtz said he has a little surprise for you. I'm not quite sure what it is, so be on your toes."

Perry said, "I don't really have time for this right now. I have to-"

Just then, Phineas and Ferb appeared behind him.

Major Monogram looked utterly confused. He said, "Agent P, you're talking!? What are the boys doing here!? What's going on!?"

"I'll explain later! Phineas, Ferb, get out of here! I don't want you to get hurt!" Perry said.

"But we want to help you, Perry," Phineas said.

"Yes, but you did help me already. You built that thing to give me my platypus voice back. Please guys. Doofenshmirtz is a bad man. Well sometimes- kind of. Anyway, it's too dangerous. Now I need to see what this 'surprise' is and destroy all the voice changing inventions he made so that this doesn't happen again. You two need to go out the back entrance," Perry explained.

Perry got into his car and drove off to D.E.I. Little did he know that Phineas and Ferb had followed him.

Once Perry got into the elevator, he had figured out that the two boys had followed him in one of the other motorized vehicles he had at the agency.

"What part of 'It's too dangerous' do you not understand?" Perry said.

"Well, we were going to leave," Phineas began. "But we noticed you forgot your bag of gadgets so we wanted to bring it to you."

Perry said, "I never forget anything. I didn't bring it because I didn't need it."

"Oh. Well, we're here now."

Perry shook his head.

"Okay, you can stay, but to make sure that you're safe, I'll put you guys in this evil-proof bubble." Perry took out a bottle from the bag and blew a bubble, keeping Phineas and Ferb inside.

They rode up to the top floor. Perry kicked the door open. Dr. Doofenshmirtz turned around.

"There you are Perry the Platypus. I've got a present for you." Doofenshmirtz pulled out a gadget that was shaped like a star.

"I think this could be the one to give you your platypus voice back," Doofenshmirtz said.

"Who's that behind you in the bubble?" Doofenshmirtz said.

"Whatever you do, don't hurt them. They're just children," Perry said.

"Oh my goal isn't to hurt children, only you. Now let's try this invention out." Dr. D aimed the star towards the platypus and pressed the button.

"Say something, Perry the Platypus!" Doofenshmirtz shouted.

Perry opened his mouth and said, "Hello? Testing, one- two- three, testing." Perry's eyes widened. His voice sounded like a teenage girl's.

Phineas and Ferb giggled behind him.

Perry cried, "Omigod! This is just, like sad. Ya know? I mean, like totally. I can't believe that- What are you laughing at?"

Doofenshmirtz snickered, "Oh, I'm sorry Perry the Platypus. It's just that you sound like Platypus Barbie. It's hilarious!"

"Oh whatever!" Perry walked over to a box with all the voice changing gadgets in it and zapped himself with the human voice one.

"What I was saying was that I think it's absolutely pathetic that you've tried dozens of times to come up with an invention to change my voice back and they've all been failures! But these two boys tried once and they got it right off the bat! What kind of scientist are you!?" Perry cried.

"Um… An evil one." Doofenshmirtz said.

"More like a stupid one," Perry muttered to himself.

"Hey! I heard that!" Dr. D said.

"Oh, did that come out of my mouth? I am so sorry," Perry said sarcastically.

"You're going to eat those words, Perry the Platypus." Dr. D went to the box and pulled out as many of the voice changing gadgets as he could hold. He shot Perry with the star-shaped one.

"Oh, it's like totally on now!" Perry declared.