When Phineas woke up, he could hear something. It wasn't distinctive yet, but after a moment, he could hear the footsteps and... a voice.

"Ugh, I swear I can't find anything in this freakin' building!", 2Vanessa complained.

Phineas made out who it was and quickly sat up, grabbing his head tightly as he felt a powerful head rush sweep over him. After it cleared up he blinked and saw the teenager walking by but slowing as she also saw him. As the two stared, Phineas began to feel nervous. If her father had treated him this bad, what would SHE do to him? Alternate Vanessa crept a bit closer, looking carefully at the boy in front of her. It was her half-brother of another dimension. But he looked dirty, sickly, and she would probably see his ribs if he wasn't wearing that shirt. She blinked for a moment, looked over at the muffin normbot standing by and glared.

"Norm, gimme that muffin.", she ordered.

"Here you go Ma'am!", he said cheerfully as he handed it to her.

She took it and held it out to Phineas through the bars, her face softening as she did so. Phineas only backed up a bit, hesitant to be taking anything from his enemy's daughter.

"Go ahead..", she urged, trying to reach a bit further. "For goodness sake's it's just a muffin!"

Phineas turned his head a bit away, still feeling nervous and Nessie decided to change tactics.

"Take it.", she ordered sternly.

Phineas quickly did as told and came up and took it. As he grabbed hold, he looked back up at her. She smiled at him and after a moment he smiled back and took the muffin. He bit down into it, tasting the sweet doonkleberries that were nestled into the baked dough. The berries reminded him of his mother's pie and the memories of his mom and his family and friends, quickly brought a fresh wave of warm tears to his eyes. Nessie was a little concerned, watching him sob over the muffin, and sat down to talk.

"What's... What's your name?", she asked softly.

"...Phineas Flynn..", he replied after swallowing his bite and he took another.

"...What happened to you?", she continued, hoping to find conversation.

The boy was quiet for a moment, looking back down into his muffin before swallowing hard and replying, "I.. I saved our dad from my dimension.. But Dr. D. in this dimension was furious with me and he orderd the normbots to beat me up. He even kicked me a couple of times himself. When I was tossed back in here, I passed out, probably from the blood loss."

2Vanessa looked behind him and saw the small pool of blood and winced a bit. She's never SEEN her father kill those other guys but if it was anything like this, she would make sure she never will.

"I'm.. Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry...", she apologized, looking back at the boy.

Phineas only shook his head, "It's not your fault..."

"Yeah but it's my dad...", she retorted.

"But... You're not really like him... Are you?", Phineas asked, looking up at her.

"Everyone else thinks so but I'm not.", 2Vanessa confirmed. "I hate how evil he is sometimes. I hate seeing him torture people like this.."

"I'm sure he doesn't mean it..", Phineas remarked, looking back at his muffin.

"What do you mean by that? He's evil.", she raised an eyebrow in curiosity.

"Well.. Normally evil people.. Or from my small experience.. Evil people are only like that because of something bad, right? Like.. Like Dad from my dimension. He was wanting to be evil, but as I hung out with him for the day and got to talking with him, I could see he wasn't really evil. Yeah, he had some hard times with Uncle Roger, but if someone was just.. Nice to him, he wasn't really that bad."

"Wish I could say the same for mine. People would bend over backwards for him when he was in charge and he wouldn't care.", 2Vanessa sighed and leaned backwards against the bars. "The only 'nice' thing he's done was being an over-protecting, psychotic parent who bans boys from me if not kills them when he doesn't have the power. Who does that?"

"...Well if you don't like him so much, how come you don't live with your mom like in the other dimension?", Phineas asked.

Nessie was quiet for a moment, feeling an old pain stab at her. Something that hasn't resurfaced her mind in a long time.

She quietly replied, "My mom was banned when he got his power..."

The conversation was ended and Phineas, not wanting to lose the opportunity to talk to someone, decided to change subjects.

"Have you met me here?", he asked.

"What?"

"There's another me. I was wondering if you two have ever met."

"...Uh.. No. No. No we haven't. What's he like?"

"Uh.. I'm not sure. I only saw him for a little bit but.. He was really.. jumpy.. And quiet. And...pretty scared.", Phineas listed.

"Like you?"

"What?"

"Well.. You were all scared to take a simple muffin from me.", she noted. "What, did you think I was going to poison you or something?"

"...Well no but.. I.. I'm sorry but with today.. I guess I've really just learned not to put myself so out there..."

"Mmm.. I would guess with how bad that beating looks..", she shrugged a bit, grimacing at the blood.

Phineas looked down at himself and winced as well. The reflection of Dr. Doof in the mental mirror didn't look this bad. They changed subjects and talked for a while. But as they did, the teen couldn't help but keep thinking of how bad the younger looked. Though that Ferb guy he mentioned did sound pretty cool. After a while, 2Vanessa thought for a moment and then stood back up.

"I'll be right back.", she said, making Phineas look up.

Phineas is an extrovert. In other words, he loves talking with people. In more plainer terms, he's a very social people-person. Being alone with no one to talk to but your feet, was a very maddening idea indeed. His eyes widened with the very thought of it.

"Wh-wh-where are you going?", he asked.

"I'm gonna go get a first aid. I'll be right back.", she reassured.

"But.. Your dad-"

"My dad wouldn't care.", she said again, ruffling his hair a bit. "I'm gonna be right back."

And with that, she left. Phineas managed a small smile and prayed that she was right. Nessie walked through the hallways and into a small infirmary-like room. She was fortunate to find that. As she took a small first-aid out and walked back through, she came to a doorway where she heard some electrical working and peeked around to see her father creating something. 2Vanessa decided to carefully walk by, making sure not to make a sound. Parents are very good at catching their kids no matter what and Doofenshmirtz proved it.

"I don't want you talking with that boy, Vanessa..", he warned without looking. "Phineas doesn't need companions right now."

"Ugh! Dad! When I saw him he was acting like some sort of half-starved, caged animal! He was scared to take a MUFFIN from me!", she sighed at getting caught and was very quickly angry with her father.

"You gave him a muffin?", he simply keyed in on as he turned around to look at her.

"Dad, did you not hear what I just said? Phineas is acting like some sorta whipped dog! He was nervous to really even LOOK at me."

"Well that's good. He knows his place and knows your of the alpha male's decent. Bout time. Maybe now he'd stop his back-talking.", he smiled to himself and went back to work.

Vanessa only groaned and started walking back off.

"But you're not going to go take care of him.", he stated, his smile fading.

"What are you going to do? Kidnap me?", she mocked as she walked.

She quickly smacked into a normbot and she backed up and glared up at him.

"Norm, out of the way.", she ordered.

"I'm afraid I can not do that!", the robot replied cheerfully.

"OUT. OF. THE. WAY.", she restated more seriously.

The helmet came on and she was quickly picked up off the floor.

"By order of Doofenshmirtz, you must be placed in your room.", the robot said in a more serious tone.

"What the-! DAD?"

"Vanessa, you're grounded.", he simply said. "I'm not going to have you give any sort of pleasure to that kid."

"Dad! This is crazy! He'll bleed to death or-or get sick! I promised him I'd be back!", she tried to argue as she was being carried away. "DAD!"

2Doof only sighed and shook his head. Kids never understood what adults need for them to do and always thought they know best. But in this case, he wasn't about to let a strong-headed child, even his own daughter, get in his way. He'd be more careful, of course. Unlike his treatment with Phineas. He loved her verly dearly and always wanted what's best. In this case, when he's taken control, it would be for the best in his opinion. And soon enough she'd understand it.

In the first dimension, everyone was hard working. Even Candace had pushed aside her tears and tried to help as best as she could. Heinz babbled on while he worked like he usually did. Normally with Perry, who had to constantly shove the fedora up to see right. Isabella helped as best as she could with Phineas strongly on her mind. Ferb, though, was more distracted than anyone else as he continued to glance again and again at Vanessa whenever she was nearby. Heinz, who was working nearby, was curious of something and unaware that one of his daughters was gaining the interest of the person beside him.

"Hey uh... Ferb was it? How come you don't talk much? Are you mute or something?", he asked.

Ferb, noticing Vanessa was in ear shot, glanced at her and then looked back at Dr. D. before saying, "I can talk, but I prefer not to say much and annoy people by blathering on like an idiot."

"Oh I know, right? I hate those chattery people. They just go on and on and on..", he blathered on.

Vanessa had to try hard to suppress her laughter and Ferb smiled, seeing her enjoy the joke. Perry pushed his hat back up and noticed the two and couldn't help but chuckle to himself. He looked back down at his work as the fedora fell over again and he finally threw it off.

"Ugh, there is no way I can work with this stupid thing on..", he grumbled to himself.

Night soon fell and the inator was mostly done but dinner was in order. Candace decided to take charge, knowing a simple-enough recipe to quickly make for everyone but there was one problem.

"Oh come on, Candace. I want to help.", Heinz insisted.

"Dude, I know the recipe by heart. I can do it myself.", she argued.

"Candace, come on. As your father, would you PLEASE let me help you in the kitchen a bit? I know a couple of things to help spice it up if you'd like."

Candace rolled her eyes but noticed Vanessa and Perry giving small nods, having been around him long enough to know his cooking. She agreed and the two sat to work though the stove was not the only source of heat. Heinz cut the meat and Candace chopped vegetables, but being the sort of man Heinz was, he couldn't help but notice how she was doing it.

"Uh, Candace, you should really be more careful. It's a sharp knife.", he encouraged.

"Uh, Dr. Doofenshmirtz, I can chop vegetables easier like this. I'm fine. I've been doing it like this for the last two years.", she replied.

"Well I've been working in the kitchen much longer then that and all I'm trying to do is help you make sure you don't-"

"-blow something up?", she cut in front of him. "Since that was the only thing you were good at when I was little."

"Now wait a minute, what do you mean by that?", he asked, setting down his own knife.

"I mean that YOU made every toaster Mom bought blow up, the car blew up, my video games blew up even because of your 'modifications'!", she stated, pointing her knife at him while she spoke. "Don't think I don't remember you!"

"Don't you forget to NOT point that thing at me!", Heinz snarled back, pushing the knife down.

"I'll point it wherever I wanna!", she insisted, raising it back up.

"Candace Gertrude Doofenshmirtz!"

"I AM NOT A DOOFENSHMIRTZ! I'M A FLYNN!", she yelled angrily.

Everyone in the living room could hear what was being said and were very uneasy with the ongoing argument. Vanessa decided to try to break away from them listening in by opening up with a different topic.

"So, Ferb...", she began, suddenly at a lost of what to say as he looked over. "...How long have you known that Perry was my dad's nemesis?"

'That's your first subject?', Perry asked in his mind.

"One day Phineas and I were trying to decide on a project and Phineas leaned on the tree.", Ferb began. "It opened up to Perry's secret base and Phineas mistook it for MY designing. I could tell it was Perry's, because his boss said 'Agent P' either for 'Perry' or 'platypus' and everything was platypus-themed. Either way we went on to go save Candace."

Perry's jaw dropped, Vanessa laughed, and Isabella sat up a bit more.

"That's why you guys fell in my pool?", she asked receiving a shrug.

"Yeah that's why because I had to catch up on Monogram's briefing, go ahead of them to hide Doofenshmirtz, and stop them from using the hover craft after they saved Candace so I decided to over turn them into Isabella's pool.", Perry explained. "What I WASN'T aware of was that Ferb already knew my identity!"

"Well again, I had no part of its being there and no one would take time to hear me out.", Ferb shrugged again.

"IF YOU DIDN'T FALL ASLEEP BEHIND THE WHEEL!", Candace yelled loud enough for them to hear.

"How on earth do you even remember that?", Heinz asked, now completely bewildered. "Candace! All I was doing was trying to help you not cut off your fingers yet you act as if I've been nothing but harsh to you for your entire life!"

"Well I'm sorry but quite frankly, I don't see why after ten years of leaving Mom and me-"

"I couldn't help that and you know it!"

"Well you certainly did want to help yourself to emotionally scarring me for life!", she yelled out with tears in her eyes as she finished off the vegetables by scraping them off from the cutting board into the pot.

The words were fast, sharp, and cut a large gash, deep into Heinz's heart with a powerful sting. His expression very easily showed his fear. He didn't... How could..? He started to ask but Candace merely shoved aside from him, not wanting to discuss the issue as she wiped a few tears away.

"No! No Candace!", Heinz followed after her through the house.

Candace only refused to listen to him and stormed into her bedroom and slammed the door in her face.

"Candace...!", he whined, wanting to talk with her.

"GO AWAY! I am NOT going to talk to you!", Candace yelled through the door.

Tears came to the man's eyes but the only thing he did was plop down on the floor and waited for her to come out so they could talk. With them being gone, Ferb took over kitchen duties and after a while, Perry came up with Candace's dinner. He knocked on the door and after saying who was there, was quickly let in. Only him. In Candace's room, Perry sat the plate on an end table as Candace walked back to her make-up table. It was obvious that she was crying and Perry couldn't help himself but sit down and try to talk with her.

"...Y'know..", he began.

"Perry, I really don't wanna hear it right now. You don't know what he did when I was little..", Candace said, her voice cracked from possible yells and sobs.

"I was just gonna say, 'I'd like to have a better understanding of what happened.' Candace, you're family to me. I just wanna help.", he explained.

Candace sighed and began the back story.

"When I was little, Mom tried looking for jobs because it was after she faded away from being a pop-star, we were poor, and Dad worked at a bratwurst stand. When Dad was home, he'd toy with the appliances around the house and try to modify them to 'help us out', as he would say. They always blew up. In fact one time, nearly the whole house caught on fire. One time we were driving across the country and Mom was taking a nap and Dad was driving but he fell asleep behind the wheel and we crashed off the highway. After getting out and getting to the road to look for help, the car itself exploded. Everything he ever built or TOUCHED even, would make me worried it would blow up. And knowing Phineas is his SON and builds stuff like him, I'm constantly going around town trying to tell Mom. Trying to warn her of what could possibly happen to Phineas! What if his inventions blew up and he DIED? And now that Phineas is a prisoner and in trouble, NOW Dad decides coming around and trying to be a real father to me. But I'm already scarred from what he's done and the last thing I need is for anything to become combustible with his help.", she explained.

Perry listened with a saddened heart. He knew Doof all too well to know how bad it would hurt him to hear how his own daughter's suffered one of the many things he suffers from on a daily basis. And how it was by his OWN doing makes it all the worse. But Candace had a valid point of being scarred. Perry's seen the inventions blow up one after another. There was every reason in the world to fear that something would blow up again this time but that wasn't the case.

"...Candace, I'm not gonna try to push you into forgiving Heinz for doing this to you, but you gotta understand something. Every day I go to fight that man in a normal battle of good vs. evil. Every day he talks of an emotionally scarring back story that backs up what he's doing. And more often then not, a lot of his back stories, are something about how neglectful his parents are. I'm sure that when he first became a dad, he would NEVER want to do anything like his own and if he did, or as he has before, I'm sure he hadn't realized it and is very guilty of it. Again, do what you want, but I hate his guts and even I would forgive him."

With that, Perry walked out of the room and convinced Heinz to come downstairs for dinner. Candace looked back at her mirror after she watched the platypus walk out. She saw something in the mirror and looked over to see her Ducky Momo doll in the corner of her bed. With the thought of her biological father on her mind and Ducky Momo being her favorite thing, she couldn't help but remember when she was little and it was Heinz who first gave her that very toy. It was him who even went so far as to dress up as Ducky Momo for her birthday one year. The year he left her and Mom. Candace sighed as she thought over what Perry said and what her past had told her.

Candace stayed in her room for a good while. As dinner was cleaned up and people got back at working while there was still some light out, Candace finally emerged, watching from a distance while everyone worked. A few glances came her way, but she didn't pay much attention. Heinz hadn't realized and kept to his work though his mind still echoed those terrible words.

"'...emotionally scarring me for life!'", they gnawed at his heart while they repeated over and over again.

After a moment, Candace began to walk up to the group and Heinz finally noticed. He looked up but then started to move away when she tapped his shoulder. He looked back and after a moment of staring at the ground, she came up and hugged him. Surprised by the embrace, Heinz stared for a moment but soon accepted it with his own.

"...I'm sorry.", he said quietly while they hugged.

"I love you, Dad.", Candace replied as she hugged tighter.

"Awwww!", Vanessa, Isabella, and Perry fawned.

Ferb gave a smile with them, not really being one to say anything. After they broke up everyone got back to work but progress soon slowed down as people began to become tired. Candace, being the most worn out, was first to go down. She slouched over the table as she grew tired and was soon fast asleep. After some help, Heinz and Ferb managed to put her on the couch. Heinz pulled up a blanket for her and couldn't help but watch as she nestled down into sleep. He smiled a bit, brushing her hair aside. He missed those days, when she was little and it was something of a happy family. After a moment, Candace could feel something in her arms. It was very familiar, plushie, and very soft. She hugged the Ducky Momo toy closer and gave a small smile as she slept. Heinz brushed her hair aside and walked back to the doorway of the living room. He paused and looked back. Yes, it was annoying to the kids, but as parents, there was something about watching their kids, even while they slept. Seeing them rest so peacefully. Something Heinz had missed out on with her for the last ten years. Vanessa soon came up and tried to deter her father from it.

"Dad, come on you don't want her to wake up.", she whispered.

"I know I know.. I'm sorry I just..", he sighed happily, still watching though he took half a step.

Perry came up to help Vanessa and between the two of them, they managed to pull and push him away.

"Come on, don't need her to get more mad at you.", Perry teased.

"Yeah yeah Perry the Platypus. Look you don't know what it's like.", Heinz laughingly argued as he walked away.

"Kinda. Now come on."