Chapter 24
(1:45pm, 5hrs 15 min. before permanent platypus transformation)
Bonnie pulled up her car into an empty parking spot at the mall. The parking lot was about 95% full, as it usually is during the summer.
"Ah, here we are!" the proclaimed Queen of Middleton High said with a refreshing smile. "The Googoo...geegee! Ugh! It's totally hard to pronounce the name!"
Candace got out of the passenger seat of the sedan and said, "The Googolplex Mall. It has at least 150 stores including one certain Slushy Dawg that my Jeremy is working at!" She opened her flipphone to show Bonnie a picture of Jeremy in his normal Slushy Dawg uniform.
"Usually, I don't approve of girls at my high school dating a guy working at a fast food joint, but he is quite a cutie you caught!"
"Now, if only I could talk to him without acting like a complete fool!" Candace worried a little.
"Come on, you have the guts to talk to him! You know, have him discuss where you're going to eat, what time you're going to pick him up, that type of thing!" Bonnie said, throwing in a few suggestion while whipping her hair, "I did that a couple of times with Josh!"
As she and Candace were walking along, Bonnie turned her head and noticed that Josh was walking with a couple of his band friends into the mall.
My gosh! This is all too perfect! Josh and his gang are at the mall! Now, all I need is to figure out a plan on how to lure Mr. Mankey to the Candace girl's house so that I can humiliate K once and for all, once the platypus thing is permanent!
"Is something wrong, Bonnie?" Candace asked, interrupting Bonnie's thoughts.
"Oh, um, nothing's wrong, Candace! I was just admiring the view, that's all!" Bonnie giggled nervously.
"Do you have the shopping list?" Cadace questioned
"Of course!" Bonnie replied while holding out a list of all the things that they were going to buy at CB. "Where again are you going to meet up with your friend, the Stacy girl?"
Candace felt her phone vibrate as a text from Stacy read:
Center Court, First Floor
"I think I just answered your question, Bonnie!" Candace smiled. "Should we meet here before or after we get the clothes?"
"Before, Candace, because if we have more girls, we have better tastes to make in fashion." Bonnie replied. "Now let's get going and not waste any more time!"
So, she and Candace walked on the hard hot asphalt into the mall.
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(2:10pm)
Agent P was still flying his hovercraft in the air through downtown Danville while Kim was looking around.
"So where is Doofenshmirtz's lair? Is it an underwater lab? Is it a hidden castle on top of a mountain? Or maybe his base is underground?" she asked while looking among the buildings.
All Agent P had to do was to simply point at the familiar building where he faced his foe.
As if on cute, a jingle comes out.
Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated!
Kim was in disbelief. This was not like the type of supervillain lairs that she had experienced before.
"What?! His lair is sticking out like a sore thumb! And he even has a jingle with it too? Ugh, what type of villain is he? Still, he's not going to succeed in his evil plot...whatever that might be!"
Agent P pulled his craft up to the top of DEI and pulled out a rope from the hovercraft to the building. He motioned with his finger for Kim to come down.
"I'm on it, Agent P!" Kim replied as Agent P went first and Kim followed with a close second.
While climbling down, she remarked, "Well, at least this totally beats getting humiliated by Bonnie. I wonder how Ron's faring with babysitting Phineas and Ferb? Mmmm...they're probably watching a movie together."