Phineas and Ferb

Dark Ages

Chapter 2: Change

Disclaimer: Phineas and Ferb is not mine; it belongs to Dan Povenmire & Jeff "Swampy" Marsh. Spiderman is also not mine.


Phineas, Ferb, and Isabella began working on their meteorite again. Concerned over why their speed shoes had turned black, and why Phineas could just suddenly wake up and have a black wardrobe on, they were determined to get some answers by the day's end, one way or another.

As they got to work, some more of their friends, Baljeet, Buford, and Irving, came into the backyard.

"Hey, dweebs! Where have you been?" Buford asked; they were all supposed to meet up in the park for a game of paint ball, and the three had been waiting for quite some time. So they decided to head over to the Flynn-Fletcher home to see what was keeping them. "Hey, dinner bell, why didn't you show up for-" Buford's voice slowly trailed. "Yo, what's with the new getup? You goin' goth now?"

"What's that? Oh, this." Phineas almost forgot that he was wearing a black shirt & black shorts. "Nah, just a little "wardrobe malfunction". Why?" Phineas's tone was beginning to get a little harsher. "You got a problem with that?"

"No, no, no. I think it looks cool on you." Buford said immediately, believing Phineas would do something to him if he insulted him again. Isabella grew more concerned and considered placing a comforting hand on his shoulder, but decided against it.

"Good. Now, as for this meteorite, it crashed into our front yard the other night and we're trying to figure out where it came from."

"Any luck so far?" Baljeet inquired.

"Does it look luck we've had any luck so far?" Phineas asked, a bit stuck-up. Baljeet was taken slightly aback by this.

"Uh...no?"

"No, we haven't. But we could sure use your help."

"Are you gonna be like this all day?" Irving asked. "Because I really don't want to be around you if you're gonna be like this all the time."

"Why? Do I offend?"

"Well, now that you mention it..." Isabella began. "You are sweating a little bit. You know how wearing dark clothes in hot weather can make you sweat."

"Yeah. So?"

"So, why don't you take your clothes off-"

"EWW!" Phineas immediately jumped back and covered himself with his arms. "What are you? Some kind of pervert! You expect me to take off my clothes and stand here naked in front of you! That's gross!"

"No, you twit. I meant go inside, take your clothes off, wash up, and put fresh ones on."

"Oh..." Suddenly, Phineas felt a little stupid for what he said.

"I would never expect you to strip yourself in front of me. Of course, if you wanted to, that would be a different story." Everyone's heads turned towards Isabella as she sheepishly giggled. "What?"

"OK, getting back to what we were talking about before..."

"Like how you were gonna act the whole day." Irving reminded him.

"Sorry. It's just...this new black wardrobe of mine's got me a bit on edge, and I don't really know why."

"Hmm..."

"What is it, Isabella? Something on your mind?"

"You know, it probably sounds crazy, but..." Isabella had to choose her words carefully. "What if this new black wardrobe of yours..."

"Yes?"

"What if it has something to do with this strange meteorite that seemed to appear out of nowhere. I mean, it can't be just coincidence that this meteorite crashes into your front yard and then the next morning, you go goth."

"Hey, let's get something straight here!" Phineas began raising his voice again, and got really up close in Isabella's face. "I'm not goth, alright? I'm just trying out a new style. Get that through your thick, dense head, 'cause I don't like repeating myself!" Isabella cringed at the thought of her crush yelling at her like that. Tears began to swell up in her eyes. Phineas noticed this and he began to calm down. The thought of hurting his best friend was something he couldn't bear, but the Symbiote's hold on Phineas was still getting stronger. "Isabella, I'm sorry. It's just-"

"Oh great. Now he's yelling at his girlfriend. What's this world coming to?" Irving shouted out. Phineas slowly approached him.

"Girlfriend? Isabella's not my girlfriend." He said out loud, which once again upset Isabella. Though he didn't really mean it to be harsh; he honestly didn't know that Isabella was crushing so hard on him. "Now, come on. We need your help."

Through the few hours they were running tests on the meteorite, there were moments where something would happen and Phineas would get upset over it. These little fits slowly grew as time passed and the tests continued, and everyone, including Ferb, were a bit scared of Phineas by the end of the testing. Still, they barely had any information on it.

"Alright, Baljeet. What do we have?" Phineas asked rather forcefully; he was really on edge now. "And please give us something we can work with!"

"Well, according to these test results, it appears that this meteorite comes from an asteroid belt that is not even from our galaxy. It seems to have escaped from another galaxy."

"Well, what galaxy?"

"Unfortunately, that test came back inconclusive. It is like this is a brand new type of rock. And there is absolutely no information available about it at all on the internet."

"Look harder, Baljeet. There has to be something."

"Phineas, there is nothing! I have typed it in Google three times and nothing has come up!"

"There has to be something about it on the internet."

"There is nothing. I'm telling you, there's nothing."

"Phineas, stop yelling at him. He's doing the best he can!" Isabella shouted, defending him.

"Hey, you are defending my honor." Baljeet pointed out. "Does this mean you love me?"

"Don't get your shorts in a bunch."

"Yeah, there's no way Isabella would ever go out with a short-stack like yourself." This time, Phineas had gone a bit too far. Everybody gasped when Phineas said that, as he crossed his arms and eyed Baljeet down. Isabella was nearly at her wit's end with Phineas's bad attitude.

"OK, Phineas, what is your deal today?" Isabella asked strongly, even getting up close and personal with him.

"What are you talking about, Isabella? And don't get this close to me again!"

"OK, first off, I can get as close to you as I want, buster! And second of all, I am talking about the rude, obnoxious, bad attitude that you've had all day today. You have been yelling at people and snapping at your friends for no reason at all. Where's the Phineas Flynn I know and-" She stopped and covered her mouth; the next word she was going to say was "love", but she knew it was a bad time to bring it up. "...really care about."

"Hey, just because I'm acting differently today doesn't mean I'm not the same guy."

"Yes it is."

"You're just jealous because I make this look good!" Phineas shouted smugly as he strutted a pose, showing off his new black features. She didn't want to admit it, but Phineas was telling the truth. Isabella was more attracted to Phineas with his new wardrobe than she was before, but that attraction was slowly disappearing with his lousy attitude. "Admit it! You're hot for me."

She was...until he dawned on a new outfit. She was going to tell him off, but it didn't exactly come out the way Isabella planned.. "You know, something, Phineas? I was hot for you! I was totally hot for you." And with that began the cycle of disaster for the two lovebirds. "I had the biggest crush on you a girl could ever have on a boy!" She covered her mouth, realizing that she had just done something she wasn't sure she would ever do: admit her crush on Phineas to him. She didn't want him to be the one to know about it because she had doubts that he would understand what that meant.

The boy's mouth dropped when she said it. Phineas was just egging her on. He didn't know she was really hot for him. "Y-You r-really had a...crush on me?"

"Duh, Phineas! I mean, didn't you ever notice the signs?"

"Signs?"

"Remember when we made our own fashion line and I cut out the shape of your head with little hearts in between?"

"Wait, that was supposed to be me?"

"Yeah! And when you were going to carve yours and Ferb's face into Comet Kermillian so you could show your grandchildren, I said "You had me at our grandchildren"?"

"So...you meant our grandchildren as in...you and me?"

"Wow, you're dense." Isabella said, realizing that Phineas was truly the clueless boy she thought him to be.

"I had no idea at all that you liked me so much."

"Phineas, I...I don't just like you." She started moving closer to him, taking his shoulders. "I like you alot. Heck, I think I could even say...I..." She knelled down and embraced him tightly, tears falling down her face. "I love you. Or...at least I love the old you."

Phineas was feeling at an all time low. He had just dissed all of his friends and had given them a lousy attitude, and nobody could figure out why. And he was feeling so much worse now because Isabella had just admitted to him that she was in love with him. When it seemed like all too much to handle, a glimmer of hope came their way.

Out in the street, two cars collided into each other causing massive damage to both cars. Angry at each other, the two drivers honked their horns and kept it going for a long period of time. This long period of loud sound waves caused the Symbiote that was attached to Phineas's clothes to begin to peel off. Everybody immediately saw it and gasped.

"Hey! Look at Dinner bell's clothes!" Buford yelled. "They're moving!"

Phineas looked down and saw that his black shirt was peeling. "Whoa, what's happening?"

"It must be some kind of...alien." Ferb remarked, noticing the change. At that moment, Candace came into the backyard, and, immediately seeing the moving clothes, rushed over to his brother.

"Whoa, his clothes are moving." Candace remarked. "THe same thing happened to me."

"It did?"

"Well, sort of. Whatever that thing is was crawling up my legs while I was at Stacy's house. But once I screamed, it seemed to stop and it actually started detaching itself from my legs. After that it crawled out of the room to who knows where."

"So you're saying it was affected by your screaming?"

"Yeah."

The kids all looked at each other for a moment as Phineas's clothes turned black again. The Symbiote's bond grew much, much stronger on him. "Let's take him into the garage to see if we can't figure out what's going on."

"No, the garage is too small." Phineas spat out. "Follow me." He led them all to the tree, where a passage was opened. The space inside was big enough for only three at a time, so they took turns in groups heading down the chute to an underground lair, similar to the one Phineas & Ferb used to hide their Beak suit.

As soon as everybody was down in the lair, Ferb led them all to a Super Computer. It had a giant monitor at the top connected to the CPU on the ground with everything a science lab could ask for. (Don't make me list them, OK?)

Phineas stepped into one of the test tubes, and Ferb immediately began typing stuff on the computer. Tests immediately began running on Phineas, examining the specimen that was attached to his shirt, shorts, & shoes. Smoke filled the test tube as it was being examined. Everybody stood in worry. They had no idea what was going to happen. They didn't know whether or not this alien creature would actually kill the boy or not. Isabella was beginning to cry again and had to turn to Candace for comfort.

After they were finished, Phineas stepped out of the tube and walked over to his friends. He took a look at the big screen and saw a video of the Symbiote crawling around, and attaching itself to someone. Then, the name of the organism appeared on the big screen in big, bold letters: SYMBIOTE. But that was it.

"Symbiote?" Candace read aloud. "What the heck is that?"

"Hang on. I've heard that name before." Isabella said as she pulled out a Fireside Girls manual, and began searching through countless pages for something on it. "Ah, here it is. According to the Official Fireside Girls Manual, symbiosis is a term used to describe close and often long-term relationships between different biological species. And according to this footnote here, the term "Symbiote" refer to the mysterious living, sentient, extraterrestrial organism that bonds with other living organisms in order to survive."

"So you're saying we're dealing with an actual alien here?" Candace inquired. "You mean like Meap?"

"No, not at all like Meap. It also says here that they are very deadly and have murderous urges on a regular basis."

"M-Murderous?" Phineas started stammering at the thought that the very clothes he was wearing could possibly kill him. "I don't wanna die."

"I don't think it kills its host, Phineas." Isabella continued. "It also says that once it bonds to a host, they tend to take on the abilities of the host they bond to."

"I thought that would only work with super humans." Buford pointed out.

"Well, I thought it too. But I guess since Phineas is so great with technology and is so mechanically inclined," Phineas was blushing at the fact that Isabella was complimenting him. "I guess this Symbiote could gain the ability to understand all kinds of machines as well. I don't know."

"Well I don't want to wait to find out. Get this thing off of me!" Phineas shouted as he started tugging at his shirt. The Symbiote's hold was far too strong for mere mortal hands.

"Easy, Phineas. You don't want to mess with it too much." Candace said.

"But I want it off! This is no way to live!"

"We just have to figure out a way to weaken this alien so it'll come off more easily."

"According to the Fireside Girls Manual..." Isabella interrupted, reading an exert from her book. "The Symbiote's only known weakness is high frequency sound waves. They disrupt the natural flow of cosmetic energy from the alien to its host."

"In other words..."

"We've got to make a lot of noise."

"There are pots and pans down in the storage unit. I'll go get them." Ferb said as he raced away from the group over to a cabinet, pulled out lots of pots and pans, and raced right back to them, giving them each a bunch. "Here, we can use these."

"Alright, guys. Start banging! Bang your pots and pans like you've never banged your pots and pans before!" Isabella shouted as they all started banging their utensils like crazy. Phineas's ears were hurting so much from the noise that he had to cover his ears with his hands. But as much as he was hurting, the Symbiote was hurting 10x worse, because a shriek was heard as soon as the banging got louder, and the alien began to detach itself from Phineas' revealed his trademark orange shirt & blue shorts underneath.

After a few seconds of banging, the friends stopped to see what the damage was. They managed to catch a quick glimpse of the Symbiote peeling off of Phineas before it realized that the noise had stopped and attached itself right back to the boy. "Whoa, it's strong." Isabella commented.

"It seems like it will be impossible to remove this alien species from our fellow companion if we are all making noises at the same time. One of us will have to extract the species off of Phineas while it is in its weakened state." Baljeet explained. "But who would be courageous and crazy enough to do something as daring as-"

"I'll do it!" Isabella shouted, dropping her pots and pans and walking up to her love. The soundwaves made from the pots & pans hitting the floor weakened the Symbiote again as it detached slightly off of him. But before it could reattach fully, Isabella grabbed a part of it and made sure to have a tight grip on it.

"But Isabella, it's dangerous. You don't know what it'll do to you if it bonds to you!" Candace warned.

"I don't care! I'd rather be consumed by this ugly alien than let it consume my Phineas!" She shouted, tearing up and turning to her best friend.

"Y-You'd really risk your life to save me?"

"Of course I would, Phineas. I would do anything for you."

"Even after I was such a jerk to you and the others?" Phineas still wasn't convinced that he was deserving of their hlep because of his previous behavior. So to get through his thick head, Isabella leaned it and passionately kissed him on the lips, a move that surprised even all, even the Symbiote, as it slowly began to creep up Isabella's arms. It seemed to last forever, and the world was standing still. Not even the alien was moving.

After releasing him from their kiss, Isabella looked at him and smiled. "Does that answer your question?"

Phineas was completely speechless, but his smile said it all as he nodded.

"Good." She looked back at her friends. Although they were all shocked at the sudden presence of affection, they were all happy for her and gave her reassuring smiles & thumbs-up's. "OK, guys. Let's make some noise!"

End of Chapter 2!

Next Time: Can the friends free Phineas from the Symbiote's hold on him? And can they figure out the one big secret behind this alien?

Expected Update: Look for it during either the end of the first week or the beginning of the second week in July.