Authors Note: And this is the last you will see of Irving in this story xD Don't worry, he reappears in 'In One Dimension'. I haven't killed the little freak, don't worry…
NEXT UPDATE: Death In a Cyborg.
2nd Dimension.
Irving was thrown into a chair, the restraints instantly snapping shut around his wrists. He looked up in the dark room, the same man from before was looming over him, smiling wildly.
"Now, tell me everything you know about Doofenshmirtz…"
Now Irving didn't really know Doofenshmirtz. Don't get him wrong, he talked to the man a few times, followed him home, peed on his couch a few times for revenge, stole DNA, pictures, legal documents, his birth certificate and dental records, but personally? No, he didn't know the man personally. So the stalker boy shrugged. "I don't know much about him."
"Nice try but that isn't going to work." Roddenstein told him, frowning.
"Really! I don't know that much about him! The only things I DO know are things I've heard from my dimensions Phineas and Dr. D-"
"Who?"
Irving's eyes went wide and he looked horrified. What did he just do?! "No one!" He quickly corrected and even he knew that it was too late.
Rodney got even closer to him than he already was, it was kind of creepy. "You just said someone….AND you said 'your dimension'….you're not from here, are you boy?"
"Yes I am! I'm totally from this dimension!" Irving lied.
"You know Doofenshmirtz, but then again, you don't. You know his counterpart…"
"I-I thought you didn't know about the 1st Dimension..." Irving tried to change the subject.
"So you HAVE been talking to the Doofenshmirtz of the 1st Dimension…"
"I don't want any trouble for my friends!"
"They're not in trouble, oh no, they're not…"
Irving sighed in relief then jumped when the madman continued.
"…AND they won't be…that is…if you just tell me where in this dimension they are…"
"No way! And how did you know that they were in this dimension?!"
"You just told me that they were." Rodney grinned.
"No!" The fan-boy screamed. He was horrible under pressure! "I mean, I never told you that they were here!"
"What's the big deal? I just want to talk to them, that's all and nothing more. I promise…" The man grinned.
Irving didn't know… He heard some things about this guy, from Phineas, and Candace when she was making fun of him, and occasionally from Dr. D. They weren't good things, he could say that much…
"I won't hurt them…I just want to talk to them…"
"Just talk?" Irving asked for reassurance and the madman nodded "…They went to the 12th Dimension…looking for knots to break a wall…"
12th Dimension.
Phineas opened his eyes and uncovered them. He looked to the pile of glass that stood where he once was. He would have been under all of that if he hadn't been pulled back and he looked up at the scientist that was holding him by his shoulders.
"You okay?" Dr. Doofenshmirtz asked and the boy slowly nodded, still staring out in front of him at the colorless glass pile that was once multiple colors. A few blocks fell from up high, triggered from the boy banging on the lower blocks in the structure. "What's the matter with you? Huh?" The doctor asked, looking down at the young boy. "This isn't the young, optimistic, inventor, which I'm proud to have had the opportunity to meet. You're not being Phineas, Phineas. What's wrong?"
"I miss them…" Phineas whimpered "A lot…"
The scientist stooped down to hug him. "I miss them too…So much…" Doof said, frowning and recollecting "I miss Platyborg's smile, his playfulness, his innocence…" He straggled off.
Phineas sulked, remembering the time when he didn't think Platyborg was as innocent as thought to be. He found out he was wrong, the cyborg was innocent all along…
"…I miss the other me…" Doofenshmirtz started to smile, laughing "The way he belittled me, and called me an idiot, the annoyed looks and glares he always used to give me…the times he slammed me up against walls to prove a point or try to scare me…. It's funny how you could miss the worst in a person, especially if that person was yourself, and the worst in that person, was actually always their best…" The scientist's voice broke "You just never know until they're gone..."
Phineas listened, leaning into the lab coat.
"But do you know what I miss the most?"
"What?" The red head blinked.
"I miss your optimism, another thing we lost to that crazed bastard, Rodney. I want nothing more than to get back at him for what he's done…" He glared then blinked it off "I'm sorry Phineas, I didn't mean to curse like that and go all street. I'm not like Rodney…and neither was the other me. I wish I could take back what I said to him, but I think he knew that I never really meant it…"
"You two were best friends, weren't you?"
Dr. Doofenshmirtz shook his head with a small chuckle "Now I don't know anything about that…"
"Of course you were!" Phineas smiled. "Remember that song?"
"What song- Oh. That song." The scientist suddenly remembered, his first encounter with his counterpart. They did sing a song. How long ago was that? It had to be more than three years ago…the day they first met…
"And…I think you remember how it goes…"
"No! Phineas! I don't think I'm up for singing anything right now. Especially not that…and besides, that was so long ago, I don't think I know the words anymore."
"I think you do!"
"I don't. Let's leave it at that and go find those knots."
"Before we find those knots…" Phineas' smile was wide "We must sing!"
"No! We don't 'must' do anything! We have to find those knots and get back to our dimension!"
"Do I know you…?" Phineas asked, jokingly.
"Come on Phineas! Don't do this to me!" Doof pleaded.
Phineas kept going. "Well, that would explain the handsomeness…"
"I'm not in the mood!"
"Does this mean that you and I are exactly alike…?"
"You're going to make me cry!"
Then the music started playing.
Phineas: Do you want some rice pudding…?
Dr. Doofenshmirtz (half-heartedly and talking): …Ew, no, that's gross…
Phineas: It was a test! Almond Brittle?
Dr. Doofenshmirtz (starting to smile): …I love it the most…
Phineas (smiling): Me too! …Do you collect coins?
Dr. Doofenshmirtz (getting into it now): Yeah! Just in case…Vending machines become the-
Both (All Out): -Dominant race!
I've been alone all these years!
With my irrational fears!
Dr. Doofenshmirtz: (But not the vending machine thing. That's gonna happen)
Phineas: But now before me I see!
Both: Someone with whom I agree!
I've found a brand new best friend and it's me!
I've found a brand new best friend and it's me!
Phineas: Hmm, I thought I'd be taller…
Dr. Doofenshmirtz (eyes narrowed): I've been told I slouch. I thought I'd have both my eyes, y'know...
Phineas (Suddenly wearing an eye patch and holding up a black pouch): It's in this pouch.
(Phineas and Doofenshmirtz look at each other for a second before bursting out laughing and continuing the song)
Dr. Doofenshmirtz: …Do llamas weird you out?
Phineas: Yeah, are they camels or sheep?
Dr. Doofenshmirtz: No, no, I meant Lorenzo-
Phineas: Oh, that's right…
Both: He played Meap!
Dr. Doofenshmirtz (Playing the multicolored blocks like an xylophone): Now I know all about you…
Phineas: And you know all about me…
Dr. Doofenshmirtz: (Ooh-wee-ooh!)
Both: And now before me I see…
Someone with whom I agree!
I've found a brand new best friend and it's me!
I've found a brand new best friend and it's me!
Now that I've found you…
We can be a duo!
Dr. Doofenshmirtz: (That's right)
Both: Twice the evil
Double Doofenshmirtz!
Dr. Doofenshmirtz: Coming at you Fridays!
The two laughed it off, sitting on the ground after their fun music number. The scientist calmed down his laughing enough to praise the boy.
"Thank you Phineas, I haven't felt that great in a long time."
"You're Welcome Dr. D! I feel better too!"
"Well, it's great that we both got some type of closure out of this, but it's getting late…" Doofenshmirtz looked at his wristwatch, getting up from the floor "We still have to get back to our dimension and we haven't even started searching for those knots yet….I don't think I'm quite sure on where to start, you?"
Phineas stood as well, looking over the world of multicolored blocks. "I think we should look over there." He pointed to a pile "Those blocks look the most out of place."
The scientist threw an arm around the boy as they walked over to said blocks. "You know, I was thinking the exact same thing…"
2nd Dimension.
"Hey! What gives?!" Irving yelled as a robot tossed him into a cell made of concrete bricks and rusty bars. The cell door was slammed behind him. "You said no one would get hurt!"
"I said that, yes." Rodney nodded, starting to walk away "But I think I knew that I was lying in the first place…"
"But I didn't know that!" The fan-boy called after him.
"You do now, don't you? That's all that matters!"
"Get back here! You can't do this!" Irving cried as the exit was shut behind the man, he slid down from the bars, and he wondered, just how many things did he just screw up?
1st Dimension.
"They've been gone for an awful long time…" Isabella noted, standing and still staring at the spot where the portal was once opened up at, near the fence and outside of the dome.
Baljeet was sitting cross-legged in the grass and Buford was kneeling not too far away from him, Ferb was nowhere to be found and Candace was giggling at Jeremy, the couple standing off to the side.
Baljeet agreed, asking "How long has it been since they left?"
Buford looked at his watch, answering plainly "Three hours."
"Oh my…" Baljeet sounded concerned "Perhaps we should go in after them."
"I thought we couldn't." Buford told him "They have the only working portal remote in this whole dimension thingy."
"Oh yeah." Baljeet nodded knowingly "Our Dr. Doofenshmirtz has the only one in existence of our dimension, and the one from the 2nd Dimension had the other only one in existence of his dimension. There were only two remotes."
Isabella seemed hopeful for any solution "Can't we just build another one?"
"We cannot risk doing that." Baljeet told her. "Inter-dimensional travel is extremely dangerous at this point, and that's only because of the 2nd Dimension's current state. Also, before his death, the 2nd Dimension Doofenshmirtz- try saying that three times fast –specifically asked that the only two remotes in existence REMAIN the only two remotes in existence. And I for one, REFUSE to go against a dead man's wishes-"
Isabella hoisted the Indian nerd off the ground, with a face that promised death. "You're going to have your own wishes if you don't build that 3rd remote!"
"Done!" Baljeet promised and was dropped to the ground, getting up to run to where Phineas and Ferb kept all their tools.
2nd Dimension.
"Wow." Phineas smiled, an armful off expertly done, rope knots, in his arms as he and Doofenshmirtz- arms also filled with multiple knots and some being held between his teeth–walked through the 3rd Dimension, avoiding the giant monster there. "We were right about those out of place squares. I can't believe we found them that quickly…Dr. D?"
"Hang on…" The scientist said, mumbled because of the knots in his mouth. He reached into his coat pocket for the remote to open another portal, and then spit out the knots. "We're entering the 2nd Dimension now, the danger zone. Are you okay?"
"Yeah." Phineas nodded, noticing that the doctor looked nervous and so did he a bit, but he reassured the man anyway. "I'm fine."
They stepped through the portal and into the 2nd Dimension. It was quiet, almost too much. Doofenshmirtz looked unsure, looking around them for something, anything.
Phineas looked neutral for a second, but then caught sight of something, doing a double take, he stammered, pointing. "D-Dr. D!"
Dr. Doofenshmirtz followed the boy's finger, staring at the army of skinny robots headed straight for them. His eyes narrowed as he was able to pick out one lone figure out of thousands, hatred and revulsion filling up in the scientist as he said the name of detestation aloud in disgust. "Rodney…"