Chapter 3: The Accident

I was given the advice to tell the story on how I came up with this story... Well I was sitting down in English and it just sort of popped into my head, and I almost shouted out saying it was one of the best ideas that I've ever come up with...

Isabella's Point of View

"So Isabella," Phineas said. "Have you figured out when slash where we are headed?"

"I think I've got an idea. Code number 74361 dash 244 mark 1," I said not comprehending what the Code was suppose to signify at all.

"Well, you heard the birthday girl Ferb, let's see what Isabella chose," Phineas said. Obviously he had not memorized the code book that they had created. Of course, I had randomly chosen a code based on deductive reasoning that the Fireside Girls taught. Ferb nodded and finish typing in the code just as Candace came into the backyard.

"PHINEAS WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOW?" Candace yelled which made Ferb hesitate before pulling the lever.

"We were just about to start granting Isabella her birthday wishes," Phineas said. "We're at Isabella's mercy today." You know… For all I have to admire and love about Phineas, he put that very strangely… It's like he is predicting something will go wrong and he doesn't want to blame me for it… He really is sweet, no wonder I've had a crush on him since we'd both known each other.

"Well, I'm telling mom, and when she sees what you are doing, you're going down. D-O-W-N DOWN!" Candace yelled going out the backyard door. "MOM!"

"Oooo…kkkaaayyy…" I said. "Ready?" Everyone nodded and Ferb pulled the lever and off we went. Of course things went wrong from the beginning. Apparently, when Candace had come out to see what we were doing, she kicked a stone which got caught in a pipe inside the Time Machine. So the instant we pulled away the code got scrambled into an entirely different one. Ferb saw the code change also. Ferb looked at me and nodded. I kicked Ferb out of the Time Machine and pushed Phineas and myself out a second later to avoid the explosion which launched the Time Machine away from us and back to Ferb. Ferb landed back in their backyard. Phineas and I were thrown backwards in time to about… to 1940. World War II.

"Isabella? Isabella? ISABELLA?" I heard Phineas say more and more desperately. "Are you hurt?

"I'm fine… But what happened?" I asked looking around. "And where slash when are we?"

"Um, I couldn't guess without looking at the time machine, but I've asked around the nearby village, apparently, we are in the Rhineland of Nazi Germany during World War II," Phineas said… I was in shock. Of course I had heard about the persecution of Jews by Hitler during the war, but now I truly realized the severity of my situation. We rushed into the nearby village which was under full occupation by German troops. We went around carefully, then by some miracle, Phineas had pulled out a twenty in U.S. currency and gave it to a shop keeper in exchange for a calendar and map. I stared at today's date that Phineas had been able to gather without me translating for him. It was May 1st. That means that the French army was somewhere south and the British were in no condition to help us. They apparently were trapped around the port town of Dunkirk, wherever that is.

"Phineas, we need to leave, and fast," I said finally. Phineas nodded and we headed into the forest around the village. There we hid while we inspected the hurts we suffered when we were thrown out of the time machine. I hope Ferb is back in their backyard right now, building another time machine and coming to rescue us.

Ferb's Point of View

Oh my god… This isn't good. I quickly went to the code book and looked up the code that I had saw the time machine turn to and marked the code. Then I made some calls.

"Ferb?" Baljeet asked. "Why are you calling? Aren't you and Phineas doing something just with Isabella today."

"We were, but I need your help, I need you do develop undetectable universal translators while I call up a few other people, this is an emergency."

"Okay, okay… How many?" Baljeet asked. I did some quick calculations. "For you, me, Irving, Buford, Phineas, Isabella, and Candace, so about seven."

"Okay, I'll have them ready in a little over an hour mainly, because I cannot build as quickly as you or Phineas-"

"-Yeah, well I've got to go. See you in an hour," I said.

"Password?" my phone said as I began setting up a conference call to the others, including Candace.

"PAF-1940 (ironic isn't it), dash 177435," I said.

"Welcome Ferb Fletcher," the cell phone said. "Who would you like to set up a conference call with?"

"Buford Van Stomm, Irving, and Candace Flynn," I said. "End list."

"Processing, Buford Van Stomm, Irving, and Candace Flynn," my cell phone said. "Calling."

"Alright Ferb what gives?" Buford answered first. "I'm in the middle of something."

"Ferb? Why are you calling me?" Irving answered. "I was just about to come over."

"Ferb…" Candace snapped. "This had better be good."

"Hey everybody," Baljeet said coming into the conference call without me knowing…

"I know everyone is doing something today, but I need all of your help if I can save them," I said.

"I know that this is bad timing, but save who Ferb?" Irving said.

"Well Phineas and Isabella of course."