Chapter 7

Kim slowly escorted Candace out of the Panic Room.

"That...pink rat...it...talks..." Candace stuttered in fear.

"Come on, Candace..." Kim reassured her, "...Rufus is harmless! You have no reason to fear him!"

"But...what if...how does it..." she stammered, her hands still shaking.

"Look, you can't go crazy over little trivial things like that!" Kim explained.

"Oh yeah?!" Candace countered, "How about trying to prepare my date with Jeremy for the 'Summer Rocks' dance?!"

"Wait..." Kim exclaimed with surprise, stopping, "...you're going there too?"

"Yes, and my Prince Charming that goes by the name of Jeremy Johnson is going to walk with me over there!" Candace grinned, "And once we do our first dance together, we're going to go to prom together, then we'll get engaged, get married and have kids named Xavier and Amanda..."

"Hold your horses right there, Candace!" Kim exclaimed, "You got to take it one step at a time before you go down that road!"

"Okay, Kim...taking it one step at a time...oh, that reminds me! I gotta edit some photos on my laptop of Jeremy!" Candace exclaimed as she headed towards the stairway.

Kim sighed with disappointment. This babysitting job was going to be harder than she thought.

Ron and Monique, on the other hand, were looking at the set of instructions on the refridgerator.

"Let's see...no showing Phineas and Ferb R-rated movies!" Ron said as he read the rules of the house. "Well...that's obvious..."

"Make sure that Perry, our pet platypus, gets fed..." Monique said, reading the second line.

"And make sure to take out the kitchen trash, plus your instant lunches are in the freezer!" Ron read the last line.

He opened the freezer door and saw a instant lunch box with mini-churros on it made by the Bueno Nacho Corporation. On top of the box was a post-it with Ron's name on it.

Ron squealed like a fangirl at this sight.

"Oh my gosh! I love it! I love it! I love it! It's like she read my mind!"

Rufus slurped and smacked his lips upon seeing the product.

"Something tells me that you're going to like it here!" Monique grinned.

Phineas and Ferb, meanwhile, were carrying a large metal dish down the stairs.

"Ahh...nothing says summer more than making cotton candy from a machine!" Phineas said with excitement on his face.

Ferb nodded in agreement as they continued their way downstairs with the large dish.

Candace was about to walk up the stairs to edit a CD she made with fifty of her latest photos of her crush working at Slushy Burger when she saw her brothers.

"Um, what are you two trying to pull off this time?" she asked for an answer.

"What is that...thing...that they are carrying?" Kim asked Candace.

"It's...umm...er...eh...um...it has to do something!" Candace said, struggling to explain the nature of the dish.

"We're going to make some cotton candy in the backyard!" Phineas explained his purpose.

Candace still eyed her brother with suspicion. "You're not trying to make anything...you know...bustable, right?"

"It's just cotton candy, Candace." Phineas replied, "We're just going to make some to our friends."

"Okay...but I am still watching you like...like... as if eyes grew in the back of my head!" Candace shouted.

"What does that even mean?" Phineas asked.

"Just...go outside in the backyard!" Candace commanded her brothers, "I need to get ready before my date with my ultimate crush, Jeremy, begins tonight at 7:00! The Summer Rocks dance begins right after that, so I don't want any major distractions!"

Phineas and Ferb continued to move their cotton candy dish outside en route to the backyard.

Over at a secret lair on the outskirts of Middleton, Dr. Drakken and Shego were holding a garage sale to sell off some of the mad scientists' machines, which he created himself, that he didn't like. Some of the mad scientists from the Danville area were scoping around.

"Are you sure that this garage sale is a good idea, Dr. D?" Shego questioned.

"Shego, it's a way for the both of us to legitimately raise money to finance my future, and highly illegal, plans of world domination..." Drakken replied. "Plus, it will allow me to clear out some of these machines that I don't want anymore!"

"Whatever, the sooner these lousy and useless inventions you made youself will disappear, the better." Shego mocked as she sat down on the couch and began to file her nails.

"They aren't useless, Shego! They are...well...not suited for my forte of world domination!" Drakken replied.

"So that's what you've been doing when not trying out one of your so-called Doomsday machines that Princess and her goofy sidekick had repetedly destroyed!" Shego replied, still having fun taunting her boss. "All because you put a self-destruct button on every single last one of them and that they ended up in the scrapyard!"

"Oh yeah, and while you're at it, why don't you also raise some money from this sale to improve this place!" she continued ranting, "Like say...plumbing problems..."

At that point, a hole came bursting from the ceiling, dumping water all over Drakken.

"Arrrghhhh!"

The blue-skinned scientist was frustrated with his clothes now sopping wet.

"And this was my last clean uniform too!"

Shego continued on, sniffing from the lair's cafeteria, "And not to mention better food for the henchmen..."

The awful smell of gruel that seeped through the kitchen was too much, even though they have been exposed to prison food before.

"Don't worry, Shego!" Drakken assured her with a smile, "We will make enough money to both pay for the improvements needed to this place and to finance my schemes of world domination!"

"I just know that one of them will sell well on the black market..." he chuckled, pointing to one of his devices that he was going to sell for money. "...the Animal Transformation Machine!"

"What?!" Shego muttered, unimpressed, "You had a silly transformation machine that could transform anyone into animals?"

"I was unable to finish the correct dials for the machine, Shego!" Drakken explained why it went offline and pointed to where the dials were supposed to be.

He then looked in his pockets "I knew they were around in my lab somewhere but I don't know where I put them!"

"Duh, Dr. D! Shouldn't you...say...check the machine's compartments?" Shego chuckled.

"I checked every single last one of them twice, Shego!" Drakken shouted, "And they are not there!"

"Maybe we should check out your bedroom, unless the pigs somehow got into your clothes!" Shego laughed. She pointed out that Drakken hadn't cleaned his room in three weeks.

"Urrrghh! Fine then, Shego! Let's go into my bedroom!" Drakken grunted, "Hopefully, I would bring four extra cans of air freshener!"

All of a sudden, they saw a green glow surrounding the Animal Transformation Machine.

"What is going on here?" Drakken demanded.

And the Transformation Machine disappeared right before Drakken and Shego's eyes.

"Huh? Where did it go?" Shego asked, looking around.

But Drakken, realizing that it isn't suitable enough for domination, dismissed his assistant's worries.

"Just let it go, Shego. What harm can the Animal Transformation Machine do?"