"Candace!", 2Phineas was crying as he ran into the living room and hid behind his sister.
"Ferb, stop trying to take away Phineas' game.", 2Candace ordered.
"But-"
"He will grow up when he's good and ready. He doesn't have to mature super fast like you and I did.", she insisted, looking over her shades at him.
2Ferb only sighed and walked back to the other room. He leaned against the wall and looked around, soon catching sight of 1Vanessa. He was instantly lost in the same rock-ballad filled dream-world the other him normally was in when it was suddenly popped as 1Ferb walked over with his arms across his chest. The alternate looked at the original, to Vanessa, then back to the first and gave a thumbs up with a smile.
"Back off, then.", 1Ferb simply said.
"Okay, look, my Phineas is a whole lot more mature than yours.", Bella reassured her other. "I'm serious!"
"Well sorry, but if I was gonna go after anyone of my dimension, I'd want a man. Not a boy.", Izzy shrugged. "Try as much as you wanna, but you're not gonna convince me that my Phineas is worthy of my time."
"Well you know, you don't have to be so harsh about it.", Bella sighed a bit.
"I could be worse."
At that moment, 2Phineas came up, over hearing their talk and decided to try to change his Isabella's mind.
"Hey, Isabella, you know, Ferb's gonna be 18 this year.", he said.
"And your reason for telling me this NOW...?", Izzy asked, waiting to hear the answer.
"Well isn't that a bit too old for you?", Phin insisted, wondering what on earth she was expecting.
"I mean, the dude's 9 years older than you are.", Bella chimed in.
"Well then at least he's taller than me.", she replied back, verbally k. her Phineas with the understanding that he was MUCH shorter than her.
"Augh! It's not like he'd ever love you back or anything!", 2Phineas groaned, walking away. 'That's it, I give up. There's no pleasing her!'
The first decided to give up and looked over at the two older girls.
"I wonder what they're talking about."
"Dunno, but it doesn't look like Vanessa's enjoying it much.", Izzy noted.
"Come on Vanessa! Let me have my fun!", Candace was teasing. "I mean he's foreign, has a cool British accent, smart..."
"What does it have to do with anything of me liking him?", Vanessa finally asked, being more and more annoyed with the prodding.
"Everything considering the fact that he's from the country that started the whole punk-genre.", Candace smirked, finding that she caught Vanessa deep when the older of the two's eyes widened a bit.
Vanessa finally scoffed, stammered, and then stormed over to where her dad was.
"Dad! Are you two almost done in here?", she asked, feeling over annoyed.
"Sorry, Hon but you know the other me here doesn't exactly have a lot of windows but I know we weren't in any dungeons underground because I saw some clouds outside ONE window on our way to the room Phineas and I were working on the robots.", Heinz explained.
"Once we can understand where Phineas is held captive and where any robot-generator or anything like that is, we can split up into two teams and easily take down the entire fortress with as little trouble as possible.", AltCandace chimed in.
1Vanessa groaned and walked back in with 1Candace.
"Seriously, Nessie, what's up? Why are you so tense just cause I'm teasing you about getting together with Ferb?", Vanessa's younger sister asked.
"Well for one, I'd be pretzeling the family tree if I DID like him and if we did hook up.", Vanessa began while Candy argued.
"Not really.", she cut in. "He's MY step-brother. And I'M your half-sister. He's not related to YOU. He's related to ME."
"...Isn't he a bit short though, anyway?"
"Well DUH! Then he'd be too awesome! Besides, Dad just says he's getting ready for a growth-spurt."
Vanessa scoffed and chuckled saying, "You really think he's THAT awesome."
"Vanessa, I KNOW he's that awesome. He made an entire, souped up spaceship for an alien he barely knew. I yell at him all day, everyday and he still saves my butt from time to time. Phineas is 7 years younger than him but Ferb spends everyday of his carefree Summer Vacation with him because he knows it'd make Phineas happy. Yeah, he's a great guy."
"...well I don't mean to dis your bro or anything, but look Candace, I've had my share of bad boyfriends. What if he's just another one? I don't really wanna bother."
"Oh, come-come on! You really think he'd try this hard to impress you and then just blow you off? Vanessa he barely talks to ANYONE. Even our own parents!"
"Wait, he's been trying to impress me?", Vanessa backtracked.
"Shyeah! you never noticed?"
"No. I barely know him let alone know what he's like when he hits on someone. And still, you didn't say he'd be just like any other jerky guy I know."
"Trust me, he's a gentleman.", she reassured. "He's a great guy and an even better brother."
1Vanessa thought about it for a moment. She looked over at her Ferb and saw him sitting down to play Doofopoly with the other Phineas. She smiled a bit, finding it easy to believe Candace all of a sudden as she watched him.
'Maybe... My earlier thoughts weren't so bad...', she thought to herself.
Izzy, happily lost in her own daydream zone as she stared at her Ferb, decided to come up and try to make conversation while he watched the other.
"Hey, Ferb..", she greeted. "Whatcha dooin?"
Bella groaned, hearing that and walked out of the room, not wanting to see herself in love with either Ferb.
"Um... Talking to you?", 2Ferb replied, already understanding her reason for coming over.
"So.. Ferb, I was wondering if you would-"
"Isabella, no offense but I don't actually like you like that."
Her eyes widened as she listened, not really expecting to hear any of this.
"I'm.. I'm just gonna put it out there already before you get hurt bad. I prefer someone a bit more to MY age. Not a grade schooler. Again, no offense, but I'm not your type.", he laid it out before anything awkward happened.
Izzy's shoulders slumped as she listened and said it was okay before walking away again, allowing the pain to sting a bit.
"Wait, she likes you?", 1Ferb asked.
"Weird, eh?", he counterpart replied.
"Indeed."
In Doofenshmirtz' lair, 1Phineas was just waking back up from the rough night's sleep when he heard the door to the dungeons opening up. Nessie soon appeared with a first-aid and Phineas' smile, spirits, and everything instantly light up.
"Vanessa! You're back!", he greeted happily.
AltVanessa made no comment. She appeared crestfallen but entered the cell and began to work on Phineas' wounds as the boy went on to say how happy he was she was back.
"and tha-"
"PLEASE... Don't thank me..", she said with a sigh.
Phineas was a little confused. Why was she so upset? But wanting to push all depressing things aside, he smiled still and thanked her anyway. 2Vanessa only sighed again, in more of a despaired tone as she blinked back a tear so she could focus on her work.
"...Vanessa, why are you so..?", Phineas began to ask when he looked up and saw Doofenshmirtz walked in with an evil smirk, obviously behind the reason why Nessie was even there.
1Phineas' eyes widened as he saw the man and he looked back at the daughter with slight fear and wondered what was going on.
It was some few hours later things were finally settled and the the second dimensional gang was getting ready to head out. As they did, Vanessa found this of a good opportunity to stop her Ferb for a moment and say her thoughts.
"Hey, Ferb? Can I say something in private?", she asked pulling him aside. "Look, I've been thinking and I wanna talk more about this later, but for right now I'll just start it with this as a reminder."
She leaned forward and gently kissed him for a small moment. She backed up again, smiled a bit and then walked out to catch up with the rest. Ferb watched her as she went, his heart skipping 3 beats as it pounded 5 per millisecond. He was DEFINITELY going to talk to her about this later. They piled into a car and AltCandace drove off, not letting any traffic get in her way.
Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorperateeed!
"You know, I like the way the song looks with my building a whole lot more than with his.", Heinz grumbled to himself as they ran in.
Everyone raced down the halls, taking this turn and that. Unfortunately there was soon a swarm of normbots coming down the halls against them. AltPhineas and his bro were instantly in action as they saw the robots and Phin was soon on one knee and pulled out a large laser-loaded bazooka from behind his back and fired while Ferb pulled up his own gun and began to fight. Izzy took on a robot herself and slammed it into the wall with Platyborg's help but the robot's arm reached out and dragged Phin along with it, slamming him into a wall as well. It was a small group of them so they were soon taken down but as the group advanced, Izzy noticed 2Phineas was still held back and clutching his arm.
"Phineas, pick it up!", his older sister called out.
"Go on, I'll be fine.", he reassured and the group moved on except for 2Isa.
She came up and saw blood dripping down past his hand where he held onto the arm.
"Phineas, you're bleeding.", she said, quickly taking the bow out of her hat and tieing it around his arm.
"It's just a scratch.", 2Phineas reassured again. "It's nothing."
After the quick fix-up the two headed off again and were soon back with the group though Heinz, being the oldest and the most out of shape, lagged himself.
"You okay?", 2Phineas asked as they caught up to him.
"No actually. I'm out of breath...", the older panted.
He stopped to catch his breath, finding the stitches in his sides too painful to bare. He reassured the others to go on and they caught up and he trailed from behind. AltFerb was a bit ahead of the gang when Nessie was walking down the halls back to her bedroom.
'I wish I could do something for Phineas..', she sighed to herself as she walked on. 'I can't just leave him like that but...what can I do?'
The two suddenly collided with each other and when they looked again, the smaller was overtop the other. An easily believable blush sprawled all over their faces as they stared. But not because they were embarrassed.
'Oh! Oh... This.. This must be... Is this Ferb that Phineas was telling me about?', Nessie thought as she stared.
'Wow... This must be the Vanessa in my dimension...', AltFerb thought as he stared back.
The two started to lean closer, lost in their own world when 2Ferb was the first to snap out of it and stand up, snapping the other out as well. The red in his cheeks darkened as he held out a hand and helped the other up. After a few small apologies, the two stared, but were soon interrupted as the others approached. 2Ferb pushed up his shades a bit more to hide his staring at her.
"Ferb?", AltCandace said as she came up.
"Resident. Miss...?"
"Uh, Vanessa."
'Darn she's hot...', 2Ferb thought to himself as he walked back into the group.
"Hey, you guys are the ex-resistance, aren't you?", Nessie asked as she looked over them.
"Yes, yes we are.", AltCandace said, pulling out the map again and looking at it.
"C-can I help? I wanna stop my dad. He's gone insane with this taking over the world stuff.", Nessie offered, wondering if she'd be accepted.
"Mm.. I dunno, you're Doofenshmirtz's daughter...", AltCandace began.
"No, it's cool.", 1Vanessa chimed in. "If she's like me, she hates Dad's evil plans."
"Who are you?", the second asked.
"I'm the you from the other dimension.", the first explained.
"Cool.", she smiled a bit.
Both Ferbs began to speak but the second one, being a bit more eager, piped up first, "I trust her!"
2Ferb realized his burst and looked over to see the other him give him an expectant look that said, 'Dude, take it down a few notches.' The second covered up his enthusiasm with a less eager suggestion of trusting Nessie.
AltCandace looked over at her Ferb for a moment before turning to 2Vanessa and saying, "Alright I'll trust you for now. But we gotta get moving so we're splitting up into two teams."
"Wait, what about Dr. D.? He was getting a little behind.", Bella noticed, looking behind her.
"I'll mark the map and we'll leave it here. He'll choose from there while MY dimension team heads with our Vanessa to stop the cloneinator. You guys go find Phineas.", AltCandace instructed, taking out a marker from her pack.
She bit off the cap, scribbled on the map, and replaced the lidded marker back, folded up the map, and put it on the floor. They split up and 2Vanessa opened her mouth to talk to the first group as they headed off for Phineas, but they were soon out of reach and 2Candace was already telling her to catch up. She sighed and ran off with her group. Heinz finally caught up. He looked down the two hallways, not being able to see either group and saw the map on the floor. He picked it up, looked over the notes and after a moment of thinking it over, went on his way.
The first dimension group came to where 2Vanessa said Phineas was at. No robots were along the hallways but as they came into the room they saw Phineas standing there. He was patched up from his hard beatings and carrying a long spear-like weapon. It had a staff and a small yellow glass bit on the end with spikes surrounding it. Candace smiled with relief, seeing her little brother again and ran up to hug him, not noticing what he was carrying but instead began to ramble on about how banged up he was and how pale and sickly he looked and how much she missed him. She locked him in a close embrace as tears flooded over and for a moment, Phineas seemed confused. But then Perry saw something that for once in his life, made his skin crawl in fear. The young boy's eyes turned bright red and he shoved his sister off as he scowled menacingly at her.
"Ph-phineas..?", Candace began to ask, confused by the rejection.
Before anyone had time to react, Phineas aimed the pointed the end of the spear at his sister. It shot out and dug into her chest, electrocuting her all the while. Isabella screamed from fear as Candace screamed from the excruciating pain. She fell over unconscious and the end pulled back up to the staff as Phineas gave a sickly cold smile at his small triumph and he turned to the others, waiting for his next opponent.