Authors Note: Update? Yes! Clichéd sequel? Yes! Action? Oh yeah! x)
Since school starts this Thursday in 4 days and I have absolutely NO STUDY HALLS and I have two main classes with my arch nemesis that might try to destroy me once the bell rings, updates might be slow and I might work on one story at a time.
CURSE YOU SCHOOL!
"Man, is it great to get off this bus." Doofenshmirtz stepped outside and immediately felt the cool air hit him. He shivered and turned around to get back in the bus. Perry chattered angrily and pushed him out from behind. The doctor landed on his stomach and glared up as the platypus marched off the bus. "You need to stop abusing me Perry the Platypus! I don't like it! I don't like it I tell you!"
"Oh lighten up Heinz." Rodney smirked, walking by him with Peter the Panda in tow. "You're nemesis is just having fun with you."
"I don't clarify 'causing me pain' as fun Rodney." Heinz dusted himself off and stood up.
"You don't, but I think it's rather fun seeing you in pain."
"Hardy Har Har! Shut up Rodney!" He scowled as his rival walked off. The platypus stomped over to his nemesis and started dragging him off by his lab coat to the end of the line.
Terry carefully walked off the bus, suitcases stacked up over his head. He couldn't see anything so he was being extremely slow so he wouldn't trip on a step and become covered in luggage again. Pinky was behind him and was annoyed with how slow he was walking. He was holding up the whole line of people and animals to get off the bus. The chihuahua got a brilliant idea and smirked.
"Piggyback ride!"
"PINKY, NO-!" The turtle felt a weight leap onto his shell and he fell forward, suitcases flying and the both of them lying on the ground in pain. Well I guess Pinky was in the least amount of pain.
"Woohoo!" Pinky erupted from under the pile of suitcases, both fists extended in the air.
Terry moaned in pain.
"Alright gang." Monogram instructed the group "We need to take the gondola lift up to the top of the mountain to get to the lodge up at the very top. For those of you who don't know what a gondola is, Carl will now explain." He waited for the intern to take over but after a few long seconds of waiting, the major scowled and nudged him with his elbow.
"Huh? What?" Carl looked around, confused.
"I said Carl will now explain."
"Explain what, sir?"
"The gondola!"
"Oh! Right! Uh…a gondola is like a bus but it rides up the cable and up to the mountain for large groups like us instead of individual trips. It's less time consuming and no risk of people getting lost or in some cases, running away." He scratched the back of his head.
"So it's like a bus?" Doofenshmirtz asked and received a 'really' look from everyone. "What? I was just asking…"
"Yes, Dr. D it's like a bus. I just said that…" The intern glanced off to the side.
"Well, enough dilly dallying!" Monogram interrupted the awkward silence that followed "Let's get on that bus!"
Everyone walked ahead towards the entrance for the gandala, Carl stayed behind somewhat lost in his thoughts and half making sure everyone got on okay. He waited for Doofenshmirtz and Agent P to pass him but the scientist spoke to him instead.
"Hey Dr. Coconut-"
"WHO TOLD YOU?!" The intern screamed, the platypus and Heinz stepped back in shock by his outburst. "I-I mean…yes?"
Doof looked uncertain "I just wanted to ask a question but if you're too…" He stepped back more, pulling Perry back by the shoulders "…crazy to answer…then we're just going to-"
Carl stopped them from passing and sighed "I'm sorry for freaking out, I'm just having some…problems…right now and-"
"Ah! I don't want to hear about your problems! Monobrow told me enough about it already and I will never unhear them!"
"No! No! Not problems like that! They're more like…emotional problems I guess…"
"Oh. Well what's wrong?"
"It's kind of hard to explain…I heard this voice in my head…and it sounded just like me except…eviler."
Doofenshmirtz thought about this "That is a problem."
Carl nodded.
"Say, have you been experiencing any nightmares at all? You know, any dreams related to this?"
"Well now that you mention it..." The red headed boy's eyes widened just the slightest "Actually I-"
"CARL, DOOFENSHMIRTZ AND AGENT P! GET UP HERE!" The major's voice made them all flinch.
"We'd better get up there before Francis blows a gasket." Heinz rolled his eyes and the two nemeses headed further up the hill.
"Yeah…of course…" Carl sighed and followed them. He's talk to Doofenshmirtz again later probably, I mean they were on vacation and they had a whole week! What was going to happen that would prevent them from talking and being able to have a conversation? They had a bunch of time, maybe even all the time in the world.
When Carl finally got up the hill, his shoe crunched on some snow. The snow began from this point and traveled all the way up to the top of the mountain. He caught his breath enough to actually take notice of the argument taking place between Heinz and his boss.
"You're doing this on purpose because you don't want me here! Admit it!"
"That's not true Heinz! Agent P is your nemesis and I fully respect his wishes for you to take this vacation with him."
"His wishes? What do you not wish for me to be around?" Doof sounded hurt. "Is that it?"
"Oh for heaven's sake Heinz!" Rodney called from inside the gondola "How would he be able to control how many seats a gondola can hold? It isn't anyone's fault that there aren't enough seats to fit just you and your nemesis! You should have gotten up here faster!" He calmed down and then greeted "Hello Perry the Platypus."
Perry tipped his hat to him awkwardly. Doofenshmirtz scowled and pointed at his nemesis "You don't want me here either do you?!"
The platypus was shocked at the accusation and the scientist laughed it off "Nah, I'm just messing with you Perry the Platypus. I know you want me here…UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE I KNOW!"
"Uh sir?" The intern walked over to his boss "What's happening exactly?"
"There are two less seats then we anticipated and Heinz thinks it's my fault-"
"So you admit it!"
Monogram sighed.
"Well maybe they can take a ski lift ahead of us, I'll go with them if they want."
"Brilliant idea, Carl! This is why you're my paid intern! Well not actually paid but-"
"Yes, sir. I know."
"Right, well then…is that alright with you Heinz or are you going to turn this into an emotionally scarring backstory?"
"I'm good." Heinz shrugged, he and his nemesis got onto an individual seated ski lift in front of the gondola.
The intern was about to follow them when the major pulled him back "Where do you think you're going Carl?"
"I was going to go on the ski lift with Agent P and Dr.-"
"Oh no, you aren't! You're riding with me and everyone else." Monogram lowered his voice a bit "Plus I'm scared being alone with all these scientists around. What if one of them takes a shot at me? Who will jump in front of me and take the shot?"
The LOVEMUFFIN members glared and Poofenplotz spoke up "You know we can all hear you right?"
Carl was getting agitated again and his mouth worked itself into a cold frown "So if someone tries to assassinate you, you expect me to jump in front of an oncoming projectile to save your life?"
"Of course! What else is a paid intern for?"
The intern twitched in anger and muttered "I can think of a few things…" He got on the gondola and slammed the door behind the both of them.
"Take it easy with that door Carl! I'm not paying for any damages you cause!"
"I cause?" Carl glared and breathed a little harder than one normally would. The bus like machine started and began its ascent upward to the top of the mountain. As the air got cooler, a draft blew in his face. It calmed him and he could think clearly. He thought more, coming to a shocking and most ridiculous discovery. It was ridiculous that no one noticed this at all.
"Where's Dennis?" The intern said it without thinking.
Monogram spit out his complementary hot chocolate, Pinky whimpered and Peter shook as he felt a chill go down his spine. Whether it was from fear or the dropping climate, he didn't know and couldn't think clear enough to find out. His mind struck a blank and he stared straight ahead of him in a freaked out trance.
"Great Googly Moogly! Where is he? I want a report from the last agent that saw him, pronto!"
Terry was about to get up when Pinky jumped up and barked to get the major's attention. He didn't want Terry to get in trouble, it was his shift and his fault. He couldn't let one of his best friends get fired!
"Agent Pinky? Do you know where Dennis is?"
The chihuahua shook his head no and sat back down, he was too scared and quickly changed his mind about coming clean and saying it was his fault. It wasn't his fault the major scared him!
"I'm sure we just left him on the bus, sir and if that's the case then he's most likely still in his cell…" Carl looked around, looking very concerned all of a sudden "Hey, Where's Dara?"
"We're in the DROP zone, haha. Get it?" Dennis nudged the female rabbit.
Dara stared at him, either not getting the joke or…yeah she probably didn't get the joke. They were standing on the roof of the moving gondola.
"Never mind." The male rabbit scowled and then smirked evilly "Here" He handed her a screw driver. "You know what to do."
She nodded and walked over to the metal part attaching the vehicle to the cable, she began loosening the screws on it. Dennis nodded and went to go do his part, with great balance he walked across the wire like one would do with a tightrope to Perry and Doof's lone ski lift.
"You know Perry the Platypus; this is actually kind of nice. WAY better than being in that crammed little trolley back there." Doofenshmirtz jabbed a thumb behind him.
The platypus nodded and glanced behind them. He did a double take, eyes widening at the sight of Dara using a screw driver on top of the gondola that I am now going to call a bus. Perry yanked on the doctor's lab coat and turned his head around to see what he was seeing.
The mammal chattered "What is she doing?"
"Heeeey is that that female rabbit you told me about? What's she doing outside of the gondola?" Heinz squinted to see better and saw exactly what she was doing "It looks like she's disconnecting it from the cable. Yup, that's exactly what she's doing. Wow. We sure are lucky that we aren't on there, right Perry the Platypus?"
Perry wasn't listening and was already dialing on his agency issued video phone. Terry answered with a chitter.
"Hey dude, what's up? Doof getting on your nerves yet?"
"Not yet, but you guys have to stop her!"
"Stop who?"
"Hi Perry!" Pinky chimed in, pushing the turtle out of camera view. "You look even fatter on camera than you do in real life!"
"Pinky put Terry back on." The platypus demanded and had another delayed reaction "Hey! What do you mean fatter?!"
Terry snatched away the phone and was back on camera "Sorry about that, stop who now?"
"You don't think I'm fat do you Terry?"
Agent T coughed and changed the subject "Who do we need to stop again?"
Perry ignored his act of changing the subject for the sake of their lives and yelled "Dara! She's on the roof of your ride and she's disconnecting the cable as we speak."
"What?!"
"I don't see her." The chihuahua put his nose against the cold window, his breath making a fog on the glass. "All I see is Dennis about to cut you guys' ski lift wire."
"What?!" Both Perry and Terry exclaimed.
"He's right dude! Look up!" The turtle told him and Perry looked up.
Sure enough, Dennis was detaching their chair from the cable. The platypus dropped his video phone and stood up in his seat.
"Perry the Platypus, what are you doing?!" Doofenshmirtz exclaimed as he watched his nemesis climb up to the cable above them, getting into a fist fight with the rabbit. Heinz may have been an evil genius but you don't have to be smart to see that a situation like this was going to end terribly for somebody. He hoped it wasn't going to be them.
...
Terry ran to the front of the gondola and chittered frantically at Carl.
"What is it Agent T?" Carl followed the turtle's pointing finger and his eyes doubled in size "Dennis?! What is he doing?"
Everyone's attention turned to the ongoing fight between the rabbit and Agent P. Neither of them had fallen yet so that was a good thing, but then again the keyword is yet. Terry hesitantly pointed to the mirror on the side of the gondola; it showed a busy Dara at work disconnecting the red bus. He felt bad about showing this to Carl, he knew how attached he had gotten to the rabbit. It was a shame but it was either them or her now. Well, either them or her and Dennis.
"Great Googly Moogly! She's disconnecting the cart!"
"That crazy rabbit!" Poofenplotz exclaimed "We'll fall to our deaths! One of you animals do something!"
The turtle grabbed Peter's arm and pulled him out of his seat towards the door of the bus. Peter shook his head and pulled on his ears. This couldn't be happening! This couldn't be happening!
"This IS happening Peter! Now help me open the door!"
"I said that out loud?"
"Yes, yes you did! Now pull!"
The panda did as he was told and helped the turtle slide open the door. Air rushed in as if they were in an airplane.
"Come on!" Terry climbed up to the roof without any use of a ladder whatsoever.
Peter took a step back in horror "Y-you're insane!"
"Get up here!"
The panda gulped and climbed up to the roof after him. By the time he got there he was shaking in fear and clutching the roof of the bus for dear life. Terry was fighting Dara and they were evenly matched.
"Don't just stand there! Help me!" The turtle demanded, throwing a kick at the rabbit. She dodged it with ease. "Peter?"
Peter stood stalk still, not knowing what to do.
...
"Perry the Platypus, be careful!" Doof bit his lip in both anticipation and fear. One wrong move or un-dodged blow could have his nemesis falling to his death. He had to do something, he knew what he had to do but he was completely dreading doing it. Heinz gulped and stood up in the seat, looking down the whole time. Yup, he just wet his pants.
...
"Peter? Peter, what are you doing?! Help me! Don't just stand there! Do something!" The turtle was on his back, Dara closing in on him.
Pinky seemingly came out of nowhere, kicking the female rabbit to the side. "Take that, you female version of Dennis!"
She returned the attack full on, knocking the chihuahua into Terry. They both fell off the roof and Pinky held on to the edge, the turtle hanging from his feet. Dara loomed over them, stepping on Pinky's paws to make him lose his grip.
"I always knew you were a traitor Peter! You're with them aren't you?!" Terry yelled in the panda's direction.
Peter narrowed his eyes and helped them. He helped Terry and Pinky, that is. He lunged at the feminine rabbit, both of them tumbling and trying to be the one on top. Dara punched him in the stomach and kicked him to the end of the roof, over the edge.
"Peter!" The chihuahua screamed.
…
Carl continued to look down on the floor, ignoring everyone's frantic yelling and arguing that was barely audible by the roaring winds of the still open door. He looked up and erupted up out of his seat. He ran to the opening and began climbing to the roof.
"Carl! Carl, where are you going?! Get back here!"
The intern ignored his boss's calls and continued climbing.
…
"I'm okay!" The panda was hanging from the edge much like Terry and Pinky were on the other side. Dara was about to kick him off when she changed her mind and began working on disconnecting the cable.
…
Doofenshmirtz reached up and grabbed his nemesis tail, pulling him back into the seat and saving him from a punch to the face. Perry struggled when the scientist curled up into a ball with him on the seat, holding him close to his chest.
"What are you doing?!" The platypus chattered angrily, trying to push him away.
"Hang on and cover your head." Doof told him and before the agent could demand an explanation, the seat was detached from the cable and they were falling over 2,000 feet.
…
The three agents watched in horror as they watched Agent P and his nemesis plummet until they were completely out of sight.
"Perry, No!" Pinky sobbed. Terry stared blankly below them, that didn't just happen! That couldn't have just happened! Agent P No!
Peter hung his head in defeat and loss. He did still have attached feelings for Doofenshmirtz yes and Perry was his friend now so…why didn't he feel that upset about what just happened?
They couldn't pull themselves up without the risk of the high winds blowing them off. They could only hang and watch as the rabbit unscrewed the screws that now held their fate. Something snapped and the gondola tilted fifty degrees. There were screams from inside the red bus and the three agents held on tighter. There was another snap and the bus was now more than halfway disconnected. The force of the bus tilting another five feet was enough to knock all three agents back in the bus through the sliding door. The door slammed shut behind them due to gravity.
Two more snaps and they were all done for. Just when she was about to unscrew the second to last bolt completely, a nasally voice called out making her freeze.
"Dara, stop!" Carl stared at her with sympathetic eyes.
The scientists, agents and major watched this from the windows in anticipation. All fearing for the worst and hoping for the best. Dara stared back at the intern and her eyes softened, she was just about to step away from the cable when the bolt started to shake. It snapped and the gondola tilted even more. The intern started to fall backwards when his hand was grabbed by a smaller and furry hand. Dennis kicked their hands apart and grabbed her, kicking the last bolt loose. He hung on to the cable with one hand and Dara in the other. He smirked as he watched the gondola fall.
Carl was grabbed and pulled into the red bus as they descended out of sight into the foggy mist below. The intern had never felt more heart broken.
Dennis snickered evilly and yelped in pain as Dara bit the one hand that was keeping them hanging from the cable. He let go and they both began falling.