Well, this is awkward. I wanted to be able to update this a lot more frequently but sadly, I got a little sidetracked. But let's put that aside for now and get on with the reviews.

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Disclaimer: Phineas and Ferb characters belong to Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh.

Erick and story belongs to me

Beta read by Sabrina06

(Phineas's POV)

(The next day)

I awoke the next morning, groggy and disoriented. I felt a little off balance as I got out of bed. When I looked over at the nearest mirror I was shocked at first when I saw Isabella staring back, until I remembered that I was inside her body. "I'm going to have to get used to that." I said as I looked into the mirror. I then noticed how her hair was a complete mess, and that she had a comb at her desk. "I guess I have to get ready for the day." I muttered as I sat down. "Seeing as how easy the shower was, this can't be that difficult."

(Isabella's POV)

I awoke the next morning to Phineas's alarm poking me in the head as I tried to get some more sleep. I reached over and tried to find the snooze button, to no avail. "Where's the snooze button?" I asked as I tried to get some more sleep.

"We don't have one." Ferb responded. "Phineas never saw a need because he's up well before it goes off anyway ... speaking of which, why are you so tired?"

"I had trouble sleeping." I said as I tried to pull the covers over my head. "Last night was just … just too much for me."

"Like taking a step you weren't ready for?" He asked.

"Yes Ferb." I retorted. "Like that."

He laughed as I tried once more to disconnect Phineas's alarm clock with no success. "Don't bother, that thing is fool proof, you're going to have to get out of bed if you want it to go off."

"Then I'm going to have to tell Phineas to fix that." I said as I got up causing the alarm clock to finally stop poking me.

"Yeah, when the two of you actually get married he's probably still going to be an early bird."

"Ha ha." I retorted as I tried to get into Phineas's clothes. "Now let's get our problem fixed already."

"I thought that you wanted to stay like that for a while?" Ferb asked jokingly.

"Well yeah, but I have to switch back at some point right? Not to mention that I don't want Phineas finding out about my feelings for him." I finished getting Phineas's shirt on and looked back at Ferb. "And the longer he stays in my body the more opportunities there will be for him to find out."

"Well, you wouldn't have to worry if you just told him yourself now, would you?"

"I though you didn't talk much." I retorted.

He leered at me then turned around. "I swear, if one more person … never mind." He marched out the door and down the stairs.

After breakfast, both if us walked outside and waited for Phineas to show up. I heard the gate open and looked over to greet who I expected to be Phineas, but when he actually walked through; his hair was all over the place like it had a mind of its own. "Hi guys, Whatcha' doin'?" Phineas said, pretending to be me.

"What's the matter? Did your comb go on strike?" Ferb joked.

"Don't joke about something like this!" I snapped.

"She's right Ferb." Phineas added. "I tried for a good two hours, but I just can't get it to stay down."

"You just have to use the right comb." I responded. "Wait … why aren't you as red as a tomato?"

"Huh?" He asked. "Oh, you mean about last night, well, in case you forgot, you have spray on soap so I didn't have to worry about touching any … sensitive areas."

I crossed my hands and looked away. "Well good for you." I pouted.

Phineas looked at me, confused for a moment, then back to Ferb. "So did you tell Erick yet?" He asked.

"I called him, after breakfast, and told him that we desperately need his help with something … other than that I thought you two should tell him yourselves."

Phineas and I looked at each other then back to Ferb. "All right." I surrendered. "Any idea when he's going to get here?"

"You talking about me?" We heard someone say. We all looked over to the gate to find Erick leaning against it. Erick was a young boy, slightly smaller than Ferb. He had very dark red hair and always wore a red T-shirt, green hoodie, and brown cargo pants. "If the great Ferb Fletcher needs my help, then it must be important."

"Well …" Phineas began. "Yeah, it kinda is."

Erick raised an eyebrow as he looked at me. "New hair style Isabella? What, you making a point for someone who usually has hair like that?"

Phineas placed his hand on his head and patted his hair. "No, I'd never intentionally have my hair look this ugly-"

Within a second, both Erick and Ferb were glaring down on him. "I'd think very carefully before speaking from here on out." Ferb hissed.

"Yeah Isabella." Erick added. "You never know when someone will get offended."

"That's actually the problem." Phineas began as he backed away. "I'm … not really Isabella. … I'm Phineas."

Erick looked at Phineas in disbelief. "Um … is this some kind of joke?"

Phineas shook his head. "No, it's no joke, both Isabella and I ventured into our game. Something happened that switched our minds while we were in there, and we need some help figuring out exactly what got switched so we can switch back safely."

He continued looking at us until he began to laugh. "Oh, that's rich, you actually expect me to believe that all of you not only ignored my constant warnings about mind separation always leading to bad things. But you didn't bother to implement extra tethers to prevent control switches? How dumb do you think I am?"

I looked over to Phineas who was biting his lower lip and rubbing his arm. "Well … I kinda thought that we had it under control."

He crossed his arms and looked at Phineas who was in my body. "Okay then, let's see you prove it. Person who should be Phineas, please step inside and go someplace where you can't hear anything."

He looked at Erick, strangely. "Why should I do that?"

"It'll help prove what you're trying to convince me of." Erick replied. "Now go." Phineas walked inside and when he was out of earshot Erick looked and walked over to me. "Okay then, if you're really Isabella then prove it. Tell me something that only Isabella knows and Phineas does not, maybe even something that everyone else in the world knows, except him, like something about-"

"I have a crush on Phineas." I said causing Erick's smile to quickly fade. "Had it almost since the day I met him, hasn't gone away and if anything it has only grown stronger. Now are you done making fun of me or do you need more proof?"

Erick was speechless as he looked over to Phineas's house. "Ferb, can you please fetch Phineas." He asked.

Ferb quickly went back into the house and brought Phineas out, he looked confused. "Why did you have me go in the house? How exactly did that prove anything?"

Erick turned to face Phineas and slowly clenched his hands. "You … damn … MORON!" he exclaimed causing Phineas to recoil in fear. "Did I not warn you that separating one's mind from their body was a very VERY bad idea? I thought it was obvious that it would end poorly, and to not use a tether?"

"We took every precaution, nothing should have happened to our minds when they were in there. Not to mention that they were connected to our bodies so we should have been pulled back into our own bodies; but something happened."

"You don't say?" Erick retorted. "That's not the only danger! Your minds may not have returned properly causing you to go insane. Your minds could have gotten stuck and only a portion of them return while the other one got stuck in the game. For all you know, both of you could have been sucked back into the same body; now wouldn't that be awkward?"

"Okay, okay, I get it." Phineas defended. "We messed up, now will you help us?"

Erick sighed and looked over at Ferb. "First, you are not going into the game again until you find another way to do so, preferably without separating your mind from your body. Second, we're going to need a mental scanner to see the extent of the damage."

Ferb nodded and pulled out a remote and pressed a button revealing a machine that almost looked like a mind switching device, to dramatically emerge from the ground. "I put one together this morning, thinking that it would come in handy. And just for the record, I did tell Phineas that it was a bad idea."

"Thank you Ferb, and it is noted on the record." Erick said as he examined the device. "Now both of you, take a seat and let's see how much damage this caused."

(Phineas's POV)

(A short time later)

Both Isabella and I were sitting in the chairs, waiting for the results from Erick. It had been some time since the device finished and it was taking longer than expected for them to analyze it. "Are you guys almost done?" I asked.

"Finished a while ago." Erick responded. "But this is kinda troubling."

I tried to look at the screen but due to the location of my seat, I couldn't get a good view. "Well don't keep me in the dark, tell me!"

"You can get up and see for yourself, the date has already been recorded."

Both Isabella and I got up and looked at the screen to see images of two brains each above a body colored a verity of colors. "So what are we looking at?" Isabella asked.

Ferb sighed and looked at both of us. "Each brain represents the mental portion of your mind while the body represents the physical components that it is in charge of. The colors represent whether the function is originally a part of Phineas's mind or Isabella's; the orange sections are Phineas, the pink are Isabella."

I looked at both and sure enough, the one for Isabella's body had mostly orange in the brain while it had mostly pink in the body but there was something else that was troubling me. "What about the salmon, coral, hot pink, and all the other colors in there?"

Erick sighed. "That's the troubling part, those areas are actually small parts of both of your minds … they are so intertwined that it would take the almighty himself a microscope. Not to mention, a soy venti latte extra-caf-and-a-half quadruple sugar, blood pressure bomberino to sort through them all in a week."

"You're exaggerating." I said flatly.

Erick folded his arms and rolled his eyes. "Well yes, but it's still rather bad. I'm not sure how I'm going to get you two back before the end of summer."

"You mean that we're going to be stuck this way for the whole summer?!" I asked in shock. I was terrified, now I'm positive my feelings for Isabella were going to become permanent. I might have been able to get through one night without it getting to serious, but there was no way I could survive the entire summer. Not to mention that neither of us could keep this charade up for the next two months. "Isn't there another way? We can't pretend to be each other for an entire summer!"

"Well maybe next time you'll listen to me, before doing something stupid." Erick retorted.

"Um. Excuse me." Isabella said from a good foot away from the rest of us. "I know I'm not good with stuff like this or anything but … couldn't you simply filter each of us out of the wrong body and place it in the right body?"

All of us looked at her in shock, then began thinking until Erick finally spoke. "That … just might work."

"Yeah." I added. "We build a device that will filter out the male from the female and that should get most of it."

"Actually all of it, none of the functions that are not gender specific got switched as far as I can tell. If there's anything else, then we could simply take care of it later."

"So we should be back in our proper bodies soon?" I asked hopefully.

"Phineas, you know that this takes specialized parts and that our local supplier doesn't have them. We have to special order and that would take some time."

"So what are we looking at?" Isabella asked.

"A week and a half to two weeks." Erick responded.

I released a sigh of relief. "That's a relief." I said as I began to place my hand on my chest to try to calm down only to come into contact with one of Isabella's breasts; that I still wasn't accustomed to. I looked down and noticed the vantage point I had, to see not only her chest, but also the rest of her curves; which sent my feelings into overdrive. "Um, Ferb, Erick, can I talk to the two of you... alone for a moment?"

Both Erick and Ferb looked confused but eventually Ferb looked over to Isabella. "Isabella, would you mind going inside so that we could talk to Phineas for a moment?"

"Why?" She asked.

"You heard the lady Isabella, she wants to talk to us alone." Erick added.

I placed my hands on my hips and gave Erick a sheepish look. "I'm sorry but did you say 'she'?"

"Yes Phineas, yes I did. You are a 'she' now, so it's only appropriate that we refer to you as a girl. Do you have a problem with that?"

I let out a laugh. "Um, yeah, I'm not a girl."

"I think Erick has a point." Ferb added. "I don't feel comfortable referring to you as a 'he' and Isabella as a 'she'; as long as you two are like this."

I was speechless for a moment but eventually gave in. "Fine, fine but I still need to talk to you two alone for a moment."

Isabella looked at all of us then walked inside in frustration, when she was out of earshot I gave it another few seconds to make sure. "Guys, I need advice on something important."

"What is it?" Ferb asked.

I reached my hands up to my chest as I began to plead to them but both of my hands came into contact with Isabella's breasts before I could begin. I looked down for a moment then back at them. "This is the problem."

Both Ferb and Eick looked at me confused.

I let my hands fall and tried to explain again. "The more I try to not think about being in Isabella's body the more embarrassed I am when I am reminded of it."

"Okay." Erick began. "I'm not seeing the problem."

"The problem is that Isabella is fricking hot! The more I look at her body the more I think about her."

"Still not seeing the problem." Erick responded.

"Or why Isabella had to go inside." Ferb added.

I sighed and placed my hands on Isabella's hips which were so smooth that I was forced to look down once more which sent my heart racing again. "The more I look at Isabella the more I think about how hot she is. The more I think about how hot she is, the more I think about how awesome she is at other things. The more I think about how awesome she is, the more I feel for her, and the more I feel for her the closer I come to falling irreversibly in love with her!"

Erick had a look of shock and disbelief while Ferb looked like he was about to snap. "Okay … now tell us why this is a problem and why you haven't told us that you were in love with Isabella."

"Because she's my best friend and if she found out that I was in love with her; she would never want to be my friend again. I had feelings for her since the day I met her, but was content with just being her friend. That's why I never told anyone. But, a few months ago my feelings started to intensify and … the more I fall for her the more it hurts knowing that I will never be with her." I tear escaped my eye as I tried to hold back more tears. "That's why I've been trying not to think about her or see her. That way my feelings would go back to the way they were and I could be happy with being just friends. That's why I need your help, I need to know how to get through these next two weeks without having my feelings getting beyond the point of no return."

Erick burst into laughter and began taking a few steps back. "Sorry Phineas, but you're on your own with that one."

"Wait a minute!" I cried.

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone." He said as he continued backing away.

I looked over to Ferb who looked like he was about to snap. "Ferb?" I asked. "Please tell me you know what I should do."

Ferb looked at me and shook his head. "All I can tell you is that you have to keep trying. I'm not that good with relationships."

"But Ferb!" I exclaimed.

"I do however recommend that you try talking to her … or him in this case, and at least try to learn to get that hair under control so you don't inadvertently insult someone."

I was confused at Ferb's remark, but walked inside anyway. "Well that's not very helpful." I said as I walked away. "I need to talk to someone who's good with fighting emotions, someone who is capable of repressing the most powerful feelings a human has ever felt … but who?"

(Erick's POV)

Phineas walked inside, leaving Ferb and myself alone. Ferb lowered the mind scanner back into the lawn and I began to get curious about his recent actions. "So, Phineas is in love with Isabella."

He nodded.

I was confused at his lack of a response to what he recently heard. "And you plan to do nothing about it?"

"Yes, but it's not exactly nothing that I'm doing by doing nothing."

"Strangely I understood what you said, but what is the something that is coming out of your doing nothing?"

"Phineas needs help repressing his feelings, without help, he won't be able to repress those feelings. I don't help him and he falls in love with Isabella."

"And this is good for you because you can finally wash your hands of the guilt from knowing that Isabella is in love with Phineas; and not being able to help Isabella by simply telling Phineas."

"There's that." Ferb said as he looked up. "And if Phineas spends more time with his girlfriend then, I will be able to spend more time with my girlfriend."

I was shocked for a moment but quickly understood what he was talking about. "So … the rumors are true."

Ferb didn't respond at first, but soon nodded.

I looked away slightly. "So … you and her are really …"

"Yup." Ferb finished.

"And … you know about when she tried to-"

"Yes." Ferb quickly interrupted. "I'm well aware. Her parents are helping her with that."

"Yeah." I said as I looked down.

There was another awkward silence until Ferb finally decided to ask a question. "So … you're okay with it?"

I thought to myself for a moment before answering. "Yeah … I'm okay with it …"

You know, a lot of the references I made in these chapters are extremely dated. I also feel as though I included something in this chapter that was supposed to hint at something else but for the life of me I can't remember what. Oh well, until next time, Axis23 is out, peace!

Hello, my name is Axis23 and I enjoy torturing characters.

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