Phineas' eyes grew wide as Perry landed behind him with the chip in hand. The shock made its way through the platypus' hand but it was soon stopped as Perry crushed the chip. The red left Phineas' eyes and the boy soon fell over top of Isabella, physically drained from everything. Isabella quickly caught him, surprised a bit but soon Phineas was back to consciousness as Perry sat back down, trying not to exert himself too much. Phineas let go of the spear he was holding and shook his head as the fog over it began to clear up.

"Wh..?", he began.

"Phineas?", Isabella asked, hoping he wasn't going to suddenly snap and attack her.

Phineas' head snapped up, hearing her voice and he looked wildly at her for a brief second before lunging forward and hugging her tightly.

"Isabella! Oh my gosh you're here!", he said, letting tears flow down his face from relief.

"Wh-? Of course I'm here! Oh, Phineas I'm glad you're back to normal...", she chuckled, letting her own tears flow down as she hugged him back.

The two enjoyed their company and before Bella had much time to react, Phineas quickly kissed her and hugged her again, being the happier of the two for someone to be there. While Isabella was in a daze, Phineas finally let go after a moment, scratched his head and looked over at Perry, his eyes widening with fear and his face turning a tad green from the blood.

"Oh my gosh, Perry!", Phineas exclaimed, rushing to another side of the room.

He saw everyone else on the floor as he quickly came to a small cabinet and pulled out a first aid kit.

"Y'know Phineas, I'm real glad you took the time to teach me how to play dead.", Perry said, trying to keep calm and stay awake as Phineas came back over to fix him.

Phineas apologized over and over again as he began to get to work when he suddenly noticed something and looked over at his pet in surprise.

"Wait a minute! You can talk?", he exclaimed, making the platypus laugh.

"Delayed reaction there kid!", Perry replied, quickly groaning and holding his chest again from the pain.

"Sorry, with the days I've been having, it took me a while to finally notice.", Phineas apologized.

"I'm a genetically engineered platypus. Bred for a bigger brain capacity so I could be an agent and a mindless animal. I learned how to talk along the years.", Perry explained.

"Heh, any other secrets you wanna keep from me?", Phineas said in a half-hearted joke before shaking his head again and apologizing some more. "I'm so sorry you guys. I had no idea- Well no I knew what I was doing but it didn't matter and I'm..."

"Phineas, it's okay.", Isabella reassured, finally snapping out of her daze.

She came over and got a few supplies and began to work on Ferb next.

"Phineas, do you remember what happened before we got here?", Perry asked as Phineas finished up.

Phineas thought back to near the beginning of the day.

The young inventor was still working on the cloneinator though it was near about done. He had been working hard and with the lack of care to him, exhaustion was taking a toll. But Phineas had proved that he could work in his sleep so as he worked, he fell asleep and kept up a slow pace while sinking into a deep dream.

He was sailing on the open seas with his lovely wife Isabella. Things were at leisure and Phineas looked over the side of his large ship, deep into the water's reflections. It was a great day that day and he couldn't help but remember his childhood days. The fun adventures he and his wife had and the challenges they faced. But then as the skies grew dark and stormy, a new challenge soon approached them. Isabella cried out for him to see what was going on and Phineas took a look through his trusty telescope to find another ship coming towards them. It was all black and gray but the captain of the ship was what Phineas shuddered to see. Alternate Doofenshmirtz approached them with a large inator on his ship that was causing the storm that he was traveling with. The storm rocked Phineas' ship back and forth as the two ventured nearer and Phineas could practically feel the waves shoving on him.

"Phineas! Phineas!", his wife called out as she was being swept by the ocean.

But then the dream began to change and it wasn't Isabella calling out to him. He soon come to realize he was dreaming and woke up to see that he was being shoved on by Doofenshmirtz. He quickly stood back up from his spot, apologizing quickly for falling asleep.

"No no. It's okay, I understand.", Doofenshmirtz covered over him, catching the boy by surprised. "Just try to stay awake okay?"

Phineas stared for a moment, thrown off by the more polite attitude to his blunder but agreed that he would. AltDoof reached into his pocket and pulled out a sandwich and offered for him to eat it when he felt like it. The older gave a smile and walked away, leaving the boy to stare in wonder. With the past few days, Phineas was suspicious of the sandwich he was given and decided to put it aside for later till his stomach quickly reminded him of his hunger. As he worked, he ate the sandwich and soon everything was finished. His captor gave him a congrats on the job well done and began to bring him out of the room.

"Now if you don't mind, there's something I wanna show you.", he was saying as they walked out.

"Y-yes Sir...", Phineas agreed, following along.

They walked into a mostly empty room where there was a single chair and a screen in front of it. AltDoof offered the chair politely to the young boy but Phineas was hesitant, curious of what was going on and why Doofenshmirtz had been so nice to him that day.

"SIT.", he ordered, making Phineas scurry over and sit down. "Try to relax. There's no need to be so uptight, Phineas."

Phineas sat in the chair, trying but his back was giving him a hard time to unwind. After a moment or two, he finally nestled down into the seat more comfortably and AltDoof walked around behind him.

"Nice chair, huh?", he asked casually.

"Y-yes Sir...", Phineas replied quietly.

"So, Phineas. I want you to look at the picture on the screen and tell me what you see. Kay?", he began, pulling out a remote for the screen.

He pressed a button and soon a collage of the Flynn-Fletchers, Isabella, Buford, Baljeet, and Heinz appeared in front of him. Phineas' heart sank as he looked at it and he quietly said what he saw.

"My family and friends..."

"Mm-hmm. Miss them, huh?", the older asked with sympathy.

"Yes Sir...", Phineas hung his head as he felt the weight of his emotion settle over him.

Suddenly the older man smacked the back of his head and leaned down to ask again, "So now tell me what you see."

Phineas suddenly didn't feel depressed anymore. Instead a deep rage took hold of him as he looked up at the picture again.

Phineas in the present, suddenly shook his head, shuddering over the memory and how bad it felt to him then.

"Easy there, Phineas, it's okay now.", Perry reassured.

"No. No it's not. We gotta help the others and then stop Doofenshmirtz!", Phineas said, looking back at the platypus with concern. "If we don't stop that cloneinator, it'll only take hi ma day before he takes over the world in both dimensions."

"Right right. We will. Don't worry. But remember, we gotta help everyone else and... Wait a minute! Where IS Dr. D.?", the platypus looked around in slight confusion.

At the very top of the DEI, Doofenshmirtz was watching as his robot army was growing bigger and bigger by the dozens. Everything was working perfectly. And soon the whole world would be his. The mere idea made the man chuckle in great delight. He soon felt a tap on his shoulder and he turned around to be greeted with a punch to the face. Doofenshmirtz tumbled to the floor as Heinz glared down and pointed at him.

"THAT'S for hurting my son!"

Btw, I don't know if anyone picked up on this but Phineas' dream is "Come Sail Away" by Styx. Not entirely the song, but a basic sense of some of it. Just thought you'd like to know.