It took a while, but the two boys eventually found another stair well with no monsters in it and ran down them as quickly as they could all the way to the bottom floor. As soon as they got there, they ran to the front lobby, found the door, and darted out. "What was that thing in the stair well, why are there so many dead people everywhere.", Phineas said. Ferb had no answer for him, even he had no idea what was going on, nor could he explain it.
"It appears something happened while we were asleep.", Ferb said.
"Wait, how long were we asleep?", Phineas asked.
Ferb check the calendar on his wrist watch. The date was September 3rd, 2009. Neither boys could believe it, they had been asleep for over four months. Looking around at the destruction and death around him, Phineas suddenly became sick with worry as he thought about all the people he cared about. Buford, Baljeet, Isabella, the Fireside Girls, Stacy, Jeremy… MOM, DAD, CANDACE, PERRY! "Ferb, we need to get home.", Phineas said. Ferb nodded in agreement and rushed quickly down the street toward their house, seeing nothing alive.
After some time they made it there. Phineas slammed the door open and ran inside, Ferb followed right behind him. "MOM, DAD, CANDACE, PERRY!", Phineas repeatedly yelled. Meanwhile, Ferb looked around the house to see what he could still salvage. The place had obviously been broken into and robbed, taking into account the smashed windows and the amount of valuables and expensive things that were missing such as the television and Mom's jewelry. Ferb looked at the walls and noticed something odd. All of their family photos were missing and in their places were bare spots on the wall. Ferb then went into their parent's rooms and opened the drawers to find that the clothes were missing, he then went upstairs and checked Candace's room, and Candace's clothes were missing to. Ferb suddenly felt a sudden rush of hope, a feeling he had not felt in a long while, when suddenly he heard Phineas screaming, "YAHHHH!".
Ferb rushed back downstairs only to find that Phineas was being attacked by one of those things. He could hear it making strange moaning and gurgling sounds that he had never heard any living person make. "Ferb, help me!", Phineas called out as the monster fell on top of him. The creature was biting and gnashing its jaws wildly in Phineas's face as he tried to push it off of him. Ferb ran to the kitchen and grabbed a knife from one of the drawers. He ran back into the living room with it to help Phineas who was doing his best to keep the thing from biting him. Ferb game up behind it and plunged the knife repeatedly into its back. Strangely though, this had no effect on it and it kept trying to bit Phineas's face off. "It's not working." Phineas said. Phineas could not hold it back much longer, so in one last desperate move, Ferb stabbed it in the back of the head. After that it stopped moving and collapsed dead still on top of Phineas.
Ferb moved the body off of him, Phineas thanked him and Ferb helped him up. "Well, now we know what kills them" said Ferb. The two boys looked at the body and both of their jaws dropped, it was Mandy. They had not seen her since the whole fort competition they had earlier in the summer with her two obnoxious brothers Thaddeus and Thor.
"Damn.", Phineas said making Ferb flinch slightly.
"We should probably get changed out of these hospital gowns.", Ferb said, and with that, they both went upstairs to their room.
In a few minutes they had gotten changed back into their usual attire. Ferb went downstairs and grabbed his tool box, log book, canned food, water bottles, and knives and anything else that could be used as a weapon and stuffed it into a backpack.
"Where are we gonna go.", said Phineas.
"Look at the wall.", said Ferb.
Phineas did as Ferb said but didn't see anything. "What about it?", he said with a shrug, slightly annoyed.
Ferb pointed out that all of the family photos were gone along with mom, dad, and Candace's clothes. "A random burglar wouldn't steal that which means that there is a chance they might be alive". Phineas was a bit skeptical about this theory but Ferb had never been wrong before, so he just went along with it. The two left the house with their supplies and walked outside into the driveway. "How do we know where to go?", asked Phineas. Ferb pointed out the skid marks on their driveway that stretched out onto the road. Obviously they had bolted pretty quickly. "We won't be able to travel very fast on foot". With that Ferb pulled a remote from behind his back and flipped a switch. Suddenly, the driveway flipped over to reveal the all-terrain vehicle they had built and stored for future use. "Always prepared aren't you." Phineas said smartly. The both hopped into the vehicle, fastened their seatbelts, and grabbed the remote. Phineas took control and backed out of the driveway and began to drive down the road, following the tire tracks. "Let's go find our family".