Everything was black and Vanessa was waking up to a painful throb in her head. She groaned a bit and sat up, having to hold her head tightly while doing so. She finally opened her eyes and looked around. Once things focused, she saw the room was dark. There was a deafening silence in the building and she thought it best to look around. As she stood up she couldn't help but groan as a powerful head rush swept over her. She finally began to look around, calling out for her father and Phineas. There wasn't a reply. Everything was so... quiet. Her ears strained for a response as she began to feel fear get a hold of her.

"Dad?", she asked again.

She remembered her father was attacking Phineas and had hit her but then... nothing. She must've been knocked out when she came to help.

*BRRRIIIIIIING!*

"AAH!", Vanessa yelped before realizing it was her phone.

She brought it up and looked to see it was Candace calling. She swallowed hard and tried to keep calm before answering.

"Hey, Vanessa? It's Candace.", Candace was saying. "I was just curious if you or anyone took a look at what time it was...maybe? I, I tried calling Phineas and I know he's visiting your dad, but I can't seem to reach his cell. I'm trying to keep calm about this, so I'm assuming he probably just forgot to charge the batteries again. Anyway, if you're over there, you think you could let him know he's supposed be home now?"

Vanessa was worried. She knew how Candace normally reacted to things but it was nessecary to tell her that Heinz had most likely kidnapped him for...something.

She opened her mouth to speak but Candace interrupted again, "Okay I'll be perfectly honest, I'm totally freaked out."

Vanessa only left her jaw ajar as she was now, unsure of how to ever respond. She covered the speaker of the phone in her hand and mouthed to herself.

"Why me?"

"Vanessa?", Candace was heard.

"Yeah, yeah. I uh..", Vanessa said back, glancing at the clock and finding it to be 8:30. "L-listen, Candace. I uh.. I kinda got something to tell you. B-but it's best to say it in... Actually you know what? Put-put Ferb on the phone. Please?"

Candace, a little confused by the stammering, complied and passed the phone to Ferb.

"Hello?", Ferb asked into the phone, shocked and slightly excited to hear Vanessa's voice.

"Ferb? It's me Vanessa. Listen, I need a HUGE favor from you."

"S-sure! What?", Ferb quickly said, eager to listen to the love of his life.

"I need you to lock ALL windows, doors, everything that can be locked. Make sure NO one can get inside, kay? I'm gonna be over there soon and I'll explain more to you in private. I-I can only say it in person and you're the only one I know calm enough to take it best. Alright?", Vanessa asked as she grabbed her purse and made sure she had what she wanted.

Ferb was even more confused than Candace and glanced over to see she was waiting patiently for an answer. After a moment he gave a nod, agreed, and then asked when he should expect the visitor.

"Uh..", Vanessa ran a hand through her hair trying to think clearly, but soon looked at her hand feeling something unusual. She sighed softly seeing that there was blood and then quickly answered. "Um, a-an hour, or so?"

"All right.", Ferb nodded "See you then I guess."

Ferb hung up and saw Candace looking at him expectantly, somewhat worried.

"...Well?", she asked "What did Vanessa say?"

Ferb thought for a moment of what to say to Candace.

"We need to lock the doors." he said walking past her.

"What? Wait, why?"

Ferb didn't answer. Something was obviously wrong but he didn't know what. What happened to Phineas? After Vanessa had taken care of her head, and taking a couple of pain relievers, she finally got into her car and sighed as she turned it on.

"Dad.. What have you done now?", she groaned to herself.

After making sure everything was locked, Ferb came to the front door and looked back at Isabella who came earlier that day, asking after Phineas, as she sat on the couch in slight curiosity.

"...Isabella, do you wanna go home?", Ferb asked.

"Mm... I think I should stay. If what Vanessa has to say is making us have to lock doors and stuff, it must be serious...", she pondered. "And I'm pretty sure it's something that has to do with Phineas so yeah. I think I should stay and hear."

Ferb gave a nod and locked the door. The two went upstairs to Ferb and Phineas' bedroom to wait for Vanessa while Candace kept an eye out. In the room, Ferb sat on his bed and waited while Isabella couldn't help but look over her life-long crush' bedroom. After a curious glance over at Ferb and the confused pet platypus that laid beside him, she looked over to the bed she was sitting on. Phineas' bed. Ferb noticed the glance and the stare and simply chuckled and gave a nod.

"Go ahead. I know you want to.", he shrugged.

Without a moment to lose, Isabella flopped on the bed and began to squeal and giggle uncontrollably as she hugged Phineas' pillow close to her.

"OH MY GOSH I'M ON PHINEAS' BED!", she squealed to herself.

Being the fangirl she was, Ferb was surprised by how long and high the pitch of her squeal went for. Even Perry was a little surprised by Isabella's enthusiasm for Phineas. Vanessa had pulled up to the driveway finally and Candace greeted her at the door. After saying her hello Vanessa was soon directed to where Ferb was and informed of Isabella also wanting to hear the news.

"Should I come too?", Candace asked.

"Uh.. No offense Candace,", Vanessa began. "..but you're..."

"Easily freaked? It's cool. I understand.", Candace shrugged.

Vanessa gave a nod and came up to the boys' bedroom. After her greetings, she sat down and after a moment, finally found words to tell the news.

"...Guys Phineas uh... W-well Phineas was supposed to come over to see my dad, as I'm sure you know and... Well I heard a loud noise and came in to check. And my dad was... he was attacking Phineas...", Vanessa started to explain, earning a gasp from Isabella and full on alertness from Perry. "I.. I think he was kidnapping him...somehow."

Perry instantly jumped off the bed and was soon out of the room to find a way to reach Monogram. He tore down the halls in a desperate attempt to think of the nearest entrance to his hideout though with panic easily grabbing his attention, it was extremely hard to concentrate on anything.

"...but I only know that much. Cause then he attacked ME and shoved me into a wall where a bookshelf fell on my head and I passed out.", She gave a touch to the bandage on her head. "So it's definitely not like Dad.. Like... I don't know but something was wrong and all I know is that neither of them are at Dad's place and Phineas is most likely in trouble."

She shook her head as she tried to understand the situation. Isabella, scared to death of this news, ran off instantly to go tell Candace as soon as Vanessa was finished. Vanessa started to get up to get her but Ferb laid a hand on her shoulder and told her it was best to not follow. After looking back at him and then taking his word, Vanessa sat down again. There was soon a muffled scream through the floor from Candace, signaling her hearing the news as well and that was when Vanessa and Ferb noticed the awkwardness of both of them being on FERB'S bed. Ferb quickly took his hand away from Vanessa's shoulder and stood up, saying it was okay to go now. Vanessa gave a nod and they walked out. Meanwhile Perry was frantically looking for an entrance. ANY entrance where he could get into his hideout but found that everything in the rooms that humans weren't in, was closed off for the night. He finally ran to the backyard, hoping to use the reliable tree-entrance but found how much of a hurry he was in. He smacked his face straight into the sliding glass door and slid down to the floor in defeat.

'NOOO!', he was sobbing in his mind as he picked himself up and scratched at the glass. 'I've gotta tell Monogram! He's gotta know!'

Ferb was gracious enough to open the door for Perry while Candace was charging at Vanessa with a million questions in concern of her brother. After being outside, Perry ran to the tree, double-checked to see Ferb had gone back to the conversation and hopped onto his hind feet and opened the tree. The bark moved aside but the entrance was covered by a thick metal wall.

'No! NO! No it can't be!', Perry groaned as he beated against the door. 'He-! There-! I've gotta-! AAH!'

He looked at his watch after closing the door again and saw how late it was.

"'CURSE YOU HEINZ DOOFENSHMIRTZ!'" the platypus yelled in his native tongue, understanding that Monogram had already locked up the organization for the night.

Candace, meanwhile, reached for the phone but Ferb quickly grabbed her hand and stopped her.

"Ferb! I gotta call-!"

"And what will you say? 'Hey Mom. I've lost your SON'?", Ferb asked logically. "She won't listen to you."

Candace only had tears in her eyes and on her face and tightly embraced her other brother, unknowing of anything else to do.

"Should we at least contact the police?", Isabella asked worriedly.

"I've... I've already done that.", Vanessa assured, knowing of Perry's attempts to reach Monogram.

It was agreed that Vanessa, privately fearful of her father roaming about the DEI and openly stating how late it was, would spend the night at the Flynn-Fletchers. Isabella returned home but no one could sleep peacefully and the platypus, not at all.

Back in the other dimension, it was also time for the captives to be sleeping and Heinz leaned against the cold stone wall, wringing his hands a bit from soreness as he began to unwind for the night. He looked over at Phineas who stood near the sink that was provided in the cell in terms of keeping them from being poisoned by the motor oil.

"Phineas, don't drink out of the sink. We just washed our hands in it!", Heinz said.

"I'm sorry Dr. D..", Phineas said, wiping off his mouth and turning it off. "At least it's running water and I'm drinking from my hands."

"Well.. I guess it IS better than dehydrating.", the man shrugged.

Phineas' stomach then began to growl and the boy was easily reminded, again, of his last meal being breakfast. Heinz couldn't help but chuckle at Phineas' slight embarrassment and passed aside the apologies. He came up to the front of the cell to check if the muffin Normbot or Doofenshmirtz was passing by before he dug into his lab coat and produced the muffin from earlier. Splitting it in half and giving Phineas the bigger of the two, they ate what it was worth and decided to call it a night. Phineas tried to sleep on the cold hard floor but found it to be much harder than thought. Heinz saw the feeble attempts for a good night's sleep and called him over to his corner. Phineas was soon rested against his father and the wall and before long, they drifted to sleep, happy at least for the company of one another.

The next morning brought small to no relief on the whole of anyone in this story. Ferb woke up drowsily, unused to his brother not being the one to wake him up instead, and walked downstairs as he tried to recollect what had happened the day before and possibly any dreams of his. There was some alert of Phineas.. He was kidnapped by Dr. Doofenshmirtz. Yes, that's right. But was Vanessa staying also a part of when Ferb was on the run of his life from a video game character in his dream? Yes it must've been. He came down and went, as routine, to the bathroom first. He opened the door but quickly shut it again and pressed his back on the door in a moment of absolute shock. His face quickly turning a brilliant shade of red as he was in full-on wakefulness. He quickly tried to get as far away from the bathroom as possible but had to stop short on one single word.

"Ferb?", Vanessa asked, coming out of the bathroom in a bathrobe.

She had only caught a split-second of him as he opened the bathroom door while she was blow-drying her hair and was wondering if she saw right. But one look she could already see the truth and see his full embarrassment along with the fact that not only was she soaking wet in a bathrobe after being okayed to take a shower by Candace and he was in footie-pajamas, thought carefully of what to say though Ferb dreaded, feared, and expected the worse.

"...Nice pjs.", she gave a polite smile, blushing a bit herself.

After an uneasy smile and a couple of awkward chuckles she went back into the bathroom to allow her cheeks to become burning red as well. Ferb, meanwhile, face-palmed himself and made a mental note to burn his pajamas at the earliest possible convenience. Vanessa being in the same house as him, was certainly no dream. Perry, uncaring of what had happened, wasted no time when 7 am struck. Phineas, meanwhile, had woken up much earlier than anyone with no thanks to Doofenshmirtz and was already hard at work. The evil man in question was still lounging about as he kept half an eye on him and after a moment of observation, Heinz nudged over to Phineas to show what the doctor was really up to. AltDoof was content to playing with his puppet and toy train where he was and was none the wiser of his captive's knowledge.

"I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts..", he was humming to himself as he made the puppet talk.

Heinz had to try hard to restrain his laughter when Phineas nudged him. He looked over to see Phineas had his cell phone out and quickly snapped a picture of what had happened. Phineas quickly put it away before Doofenshmirtz looked over, seeing the flash. He sat up more properly and cleared his throat in something of a haughty manner while he put the puppet away in his coat and the train in his pocket. He looked over at a clock on the wall and then thought to himself for a moment. He finally snapped his fingers to catch his muffin-bot's attention and pointed at one of the captives. Before Phineas and 1Doof had much time to ponder what was going on, the shackles were taken off of Heinz's legs and he was soon picked up by the robot.

"What the-! What's going on?", he said, feeling panic arising in him as he was being dragged away from Phineas.

"W-wait! Where is he-?", Phineas began to ask. "L-let him-!"

He was weighed down by his ball and chain and watched desperately as Heinz was carried off into the hall as the doors to the room closed.

"DAD!"