"No! No you've got to believe me!", 1Doofenshmritz cried as he was being shoved through the prison. "I'm telling you! You've got the wrong guy!"
The two secret agents shoved him into a cell and 1Doof looked back as the door was slammed shut. He was soon up at it, grasping at the bars and pleading for Monogram to listen as he only glared down solemnly.
"I'm framed! You've got to believe me! It's not me you're after!", 1Doof tried to explain.
"Tell it to the judge.", Monogram simply stated before walking away.
1Doof looked down at his nemesis. Perry only hung his head as not to look and Heinz slid down to his height, holding an arm out through the bars for some support.
"Perry the Platypus... You've got to believe me. I didn't do it..", he said, praying the platypus would believe him.
Perry only glared at him angrily. Tears in his eyes and streaming down his face as he was hurt. Very deeply. He had trusted the doctor. Tried to keep things loose. But he was very mistaken. He should've just stopped him before any of this ever began. The platypus turned away and walked off as 1Doofenshmirtz began to panic and rattle the bars some more.
"No! No! What about Phineas? Perry! Phineas is in trouble! I didn't steal him!", 1Doof cried out some more as he struggled for someone to listen to him. "PERRY THE PLATYPUS!"
The agent walked out, not wanting to listen to more. The man broke down into tears as he understood his son's danger and there was nothing he could do about it.
For the son in question, Phineas continued to work for some while as he watched AltDoof sit back in his chair after finishing his business and continue where he left off. With each moment passing, Phineas began to feel a burning anger swell up inside of him. Worse than he's ever known. And the rage only built more and more with his impatience until he finally slammed down the wrench and stood up to yell at the older.
"WHAT DID YOU DO WITH DAD?", he demanded.
Doofenshmirtz glanced over at him with his good eye and then turned back to his notepad, flipping through a few pages.
"So, you know the truth for only a day and suddenly you're calling me 'dad'. Interesting.", he noted to himself.
"I'm not calling YOU 'dad'. I'm calling HIM 'dad'!", Phineas corrected, still waiting for his answer. "What did you do to him?"
"Phineas...", 2Doof said as he sat aside the papers and stood up. "An innocent kid with a family of 5 and a pet platypus who's also a secret agent has been missing for an entire day. By the time anyone's noticed you were missing, Owca's doors would've been closed and, of course, a concerned platypus like Perry wouldn't waste a moment of a new day to rat out his nemesis."
Phineas' eyes grew wide as he realized the set up. How his father was being framed and thrown in jail or...possibly worse. After a moment's thought, the young boy was forced to think of denial. He couldn't think the real villain would be able to get away with this. It seemed to obvious to him.
"No.. No you-! Perry's to smart! He-! He wouldn't just...", Phineas tried to convince himself.
By the time AltDoof walked over, he clasped a hand on Phineas' shoulders, causing the boy to look up at the one eye as he gave a wide and malicious grin.
"Phineas... It was HIS dimension, HIS lab, HIS ropes, HIS everything. What do you THINK is going to make people think otherwise?", he sneered.
He let go and walked away as Phineas tried to think of a loophole. A reassurance. Something positive about the situation when he thought he finally struck gold.
"AHA! You lost Dad! My motivation for working for you! I would rather DIE than have to work on your robots!", Phineas declared, knowing the full consequence of choosing death over life.
The doctor simply looked back uncaring and gave a little chuckle. After a moment he almost started laughing and shaking his head.
"You don't get it do you?", he said. "I can reach into ANY part of your dimension. I KNOW your family, Phineas Flynn. And every time I open the hole, it creates a shock wave that shorts out any small, hidden cameras for at least a temporal time period. I can just as easily snatch your sister as I can your father. Or brother. Or would you like your little platypus to help you out? Hm?"
Phineas felt his guts turn into knots as he listened and fear crept over him. He was beat and if he wanted to involve his family and friends in as little as possible for all this, he knew he had to agree to help. He sighed and sat back down to work. Doofenshmirtz, after watching him for a minute, picked up his notebook and pencil and walked out, leaving the muffin normbot behind to keep watch. As Phineas worked, he thought of ways he could perhaps stall the invasion and that's when he noticed how fast he actually worked. Looking back over at the normbot, Phineas raised the screwdriver to another screw and turned it as slowly as he possibly could. Just to save some time. Just until he knew his father, his whole family, was safe.
Meanwhile back in the first dimension, Perry sat in his chair in his hideout. His nemesis had finally flipped. He kidnapped Phineas. Perry could feel the regret chewing away at him for even allowing Phineas to say "hi". To go to the inventor's competition without Ferb. Old memories washed over the platypus as the regret and grievance gnawed at him more and more.
"That's when you should've put on your little hat! Not now! After we've gone through it into this mess!", he heard Phineas say angrily.
Why didn't he just do it then? Phineas MIGHT have not known the two apart.
"Ah.. Perry the Platypus..", Phineas smiled evily in his mind.
If Perry didn't stop Phineas from going to the other dimension, he could've at least stopped him there. Snatched him up and took him HOME where he belonged! Sure the evil was all fake but still. It would've been better. It wouldn't have let Heinz to this.
"Actually...", Heinz was saying to Perry as he told his back story with Linda. "he's my son.. I know that's a little hard to believe and I'm breaking laws here by even SEEING him but I couldn't just let that silly restraining order stop me. I.. I was too proud of him and happier than I've ever been to get to know him."
'He kidnapped his own son..', Perry thought in his mind as he shook his head. 'Who does that? Wait a minute... Wait who DOES actually do that? Kidnap their own children?'
"...my dad was... he was attacking Phineas...", Vanessa said in his memory, scratching at the bandage on her head.
'WAIT A MINUTE! BANDAGED? Her head was hurt? The only reason she would need something bigger than a bandaid was because she got hurt real bad. She couldn't have just whopped her head on a doorway though. She had to be attacked. Phineas couldn't attack her cause he was being attacked himself so the only one could be Doof. But... But Heinz loves his kids too much. He loves Vanessa to death! He'd NEVER harm her!', he sat up in his chair as these thoughts came to his mind. "'...I need a witness.'"
Vanessa couldn't testify what had happened. She was knocked out. Visiting hours were over so he couldn't sit down and talk to the attacker himself.
'Who..?', the platypus finally snapped his fingers as the right name came to mind. 'Norm!'
He rushed into the lab and looked around. This had to be the right room. There was a fallen bookshelf. As Perry went to examine, he found a book that had a little blood on the bottom of the pages. Vanessa's. He looked around for any other traces to where Phineas or Norm might be when he heard a muffled sound. The only sound in the DEI. He looked around, trying to follow it when it turned out to be a rattling sound. Eventually his ears led him to the kitchen. Inside he saw the robot man curled up on the floor against the counters as his entire body shook. His smile was upside down and if Perry didn't know better. The robot even looked...scared.
"'Norm?'", Perry chattered as he came up.
Suddenly something shot out of Norm's eyes and Perry looked to see it was a video. A video of earlier.
"AAH! What-!", Phineas stammered on the movie.
The movie was taken from a far corner of the room. Norm must've recently walked in. As Heinz began to tie him up, Vanessa walked in at that moment, hearing the commotion.
"Dad?", she asked, poking her head in before gasping at the sight. "DAD! What's going on!"
Perry watched as Vanessa tried to help but was slammed into the wall. He saw pick up Phineas and after a moment's pause saw the portal to the other dimension open up.
"'WAIT! PAUSE THAT!'", he yelled, jumping to his feet in his shock.
He came up closer to the screen to watch and his eyes widened with horror as he took a good look at the portal.
"BEHOLD! The mind-blowing first images from beyond our dimensional reality!", Doof's voice echoed in his mind.
Perry could even see a normbot standing a bit away on the other side.
'Oh no...', Perry thought to himself, shaking his head. 'He was innocent...'
He started to run out of the room but stopped to reassure Norm of how things would work out and thanked him for the help. After he left the room, Norm smiled to himself once again and could feel his own spirits being lifted.