Chapter 5

Back at the house, Candace paced back and forth waiting for her mother to come home.

"C'mon, Mom! Hurry up," she said to herself. She looked out the window and noticed that the three were gone.

"Hey! Where did those three twerps go? Darn it! I need to find them or I'll be busted! Uh-oh! That's not good! Why am I talking to myself?" Candace raced outside in search of her brothers and pet.

Meanwhile at the D.E.I, Doofenshmirtz was attempting to zap Perry the Platypus with all that he had.

"Hold still, Perry the Platypus!" Dr. D shrieked. Perry flipped and tumbled avoiding all the blasts.

"Oh sure. Now you're going to act all cool. You should have seen him this morning. He was begging and pleading, it was so unlike him," Dr. D said.

Ferb explained, "Perhaps it was a side-effect to the vocal changes. Occasionally, the vocals can affect the brain. Or it could have been just fear, shock, or any other natural emotion."

Doofenshmirtz said, "Hey, aren't you kids a little young to-"

At the same moment, Doofenshmirtz was saying this, Perry had aimed one of his gadgets at the scientist and zapped him. Doofenshmirtz opened his mouth and said, "Mooooo!"

"Yes, yes we are," Phineas said simply.

"That's like, weird. I don't remember you like, making that one," Perry said being reminded that he still had the teenage girl's voice. Perry zapped himself with the human English voice gadget and then Dr. D for his mooing was becoming a nuisance.

"That's because I tried making a few more after you left. Sadly, they were all failures still," Doofenshmirtz explained. Dr. D zapped Perry.

Perry opened his mouth and made a dolphin noise. He pointed his gadget, not at the scientist, but at one of the gadgets that the scientist was holding and blasted it out of his arms.

"Hey, no fair, Perry the Platypus!" Doofenshmirtz shrieked.

The invention flew up, bounced off the ceiling and landed in front of Perry. Perry stomped on it as hard as he could and it broke. He also zapped him self with the human voice ray again. Dr. Doofenshmirtz tried to zap him again, but Perry ducked long enough for the beam to bounce off a mirror and hit Doofenshmirtz. This time Dr. D said, "Perry the Platypus? Je ne suis pas- Ooh! Je peux parle francais! C'est fantastique!"

Dr. D danced around happily. Perry found this as the perfect opportunity to get that remote. He ran towards Doofenshmirtz, jumped up, and slapped it out of Doofenshmirtz's hand. Perry crushed this one as well.

Phineas called from the bubble by the door, "Go Perry!"

As Perry destroyed more and more of Dr. Doofenshmirtz's gadgets, he would destroy the ones in his own arms as well. Perry zapped Doofenshmirtz with one of his own and Dr. D opened his mouth a clucked. Perry looked amused, but this was no time to just point and laugh at someone.

Phineas whispered to Ferb, "You know, Ferb. I wanted to wait, but now might be nice. After all, Perry is dodging everything that's coming after him."

Ferb nodded and took out their gadget. He aimed it at Perry through the bubble and launched it. The light came out and missed Perry by just a hair and hit Doofenshmirtz instead.

He opened his mouth to speak and out came the platypus chirping noise. Doofenshmirtz looked shocked. Perry half-smiled. He knew it had come from his loving owners.

Phineas looked at the gadget they had made.

"Oh. Ferb, remind me next time to give the battery a longer life. Well, I guess we can't play with it anymore until it's time to turn Perry back for sure. At least we know it works." Phineas stated.

Doofenshmirtz cried, "G-G-G-G-G-G-G!!!! G-g-g-g…" Perry's eyes widened and he put his arms down at ease.

"Uh… Dr. D, that's not appropriate to say around children," Perry said.

Phineas asked, "What did he say?"

"Uh… wait until you're older," Perry said. He ran up and knocked another one of the gadgets out of Doofenshmirtz's arms.

Pretty soon, it was down to just two gadgets left. Perry had destroyed all the others.

"Ha, Perry the Platypus!" Dr. Doofenshmirtz said in a southern accent, "All you has is the Human-English-Voiceinator while I has the Teenage-Girl-Voiceinator. If you zap me with that you'll actually be doin' meez a favor."

Phineas turned to Ferb and said, "Hmm. Speaking of teenage girls. I wonder what Candace is doing."

Back at the house, Candace was plotting to herself.

"Okay. I'll tell Mom that they ran away with their talking platypus so that- No, no, no! Wait. I'll tell Mom that Perry forced them to run away with him so that they wouldn't tell anyone he was talking to people that would want to do weird, crazy experiments on him. I tried to stop them, but the platypus was too strong! And- oh this is ridiculous! I'm just going to have to tell Mom the truth that I lost them and that Perry is talking. Oh! But if I tell her that, then I'm going to be the one that gets busted. Grrrr!!! And to top it all off, I'm talking to myself again, aren't I?"

Meanwhile….

Doofenshmirtz laughed evilly. Perry then unexpectedly, pulled out another gadget from behind his back.

"Hey! That's so unfair, Perry the Platypus! And how is that even possible. You know, I always wondered where are you keeping all of that stuff that you just seem to magically pull out from behind your-"

Zap!

Doofenshmirtz yelped, "RRRROOOOWWWWW!!! Meow?" For those brief few seconds that Dr. D was distracted by his sudden feline-vocal- change, Perry had run up and kicked the Teenage-Girl-Voiceinator out of his hands. He ran back and destroyed the Meow-gadget. He was about to crush the English-Human-Voiceinator as well when Doofenshmirtz hissed and screeched, "RROWWWW!!!"

"Well, you did try to help me before," Perry pondered aloud. He then zapped Dr. Doofenshmirtz back to normal and then crushed the gadget.

"Awww. Thank you Perry the Platypus." Perry was about to destroy the Teenage-Girl-Voiceinator when Doofenshmirtz asked, "Uh. Actually, can I keep that one? I mean I really think that that will help with the communication between my daughter and me."

Dr. D pointed to a picture of his daughter, Vanessa on the wall.

Phineas gasped, "Ferb, isn't that…" his voice trailed off. Ferb's eyes widened and then went back to normal as he said, "Oh this is definitely a dream."

Perry gave Doofenshmirtz the star-shaped invention.

"Got cha'!" Dr. D said and he aimed it towards the platypus. Perry jumped at the last minute and smacked Doofenshmirtz with his tail.

"You might want to look away," Perry told the boys in the bubble. Ferb covered his eyes with his hands and Phineas turned his head and closed his eyes each time Perry would hit the scientist.

"Ow! Ooh! Ouch! Oof! YOW! NOT THE FACE! OW!" Dr. Doofenshmirtz yelled. Once it was all over, the two boys opened their eyes.

"Whoa! Now that was AWESOME! Way to go Perry!" Phineas rooted.

Doofenshmirtz lay on the ground dazed.

Perry bent down to him and said, "Here, you can keep the gadget, but I must warn you that if you zap me ever again with that, you'd wish you were dead."

Perry went back to the bubble.

"But if he zaps himself with it, won't his voice be stuck like that because he doesn't have the normal-human-voice-thing-a-ma-bob?" Phineas questioned.

"Shhh…" hissed Perry. "Let's go home, guys," he said.