Miles away from Dimmsdale, there was another boy who was roughly Timmy Turner's age. Like Timmy, he was being plagued by odd visions. Unlike Timmy, though, he was not in a coma having these dreams. He was, in fact, completely healthy. His name was Phineas Flynn, and he had been having these dreams for months.

In these dreams, he was suspended over a pit of lava along with his brother Ferb. His pet platypus, Perry, was with them, and the semi-aquatically mammal was wearing fedora. The type of hat you would see in an old spy movie. Candace was also there. There was also a...a pharmacist with some type of accent.

Other times, he was walking on a glass structure with Ferb and Perry and hearing the glass crackle from their weight. At times he would dream about snippets of conversation.

"So," said Phineas to Perry, "not only have been you been living a double life this whole time, but you sat there allowing us to help an evil scientist open an evil portal into an evil dimension and you did NOTHING to stop it."

"Well," said Ferb in his English accent, "he DID pee on the couch."

That always struck him as odd. Why would he be having a conversation with his pet? Perry was a platypus, they didn't do much.

One of the most confusing parts of these dreams was that he was in a room with his friends and man in some type of uniform was in front of them. There was a younger man standing next to him wearing glasses and a white uniform.

"So Major Monogram," said Isabella, "none of us will remember anything?"

"That's right," replied the older man in the uniform.

"Okay," said Isabella who promptly planted a kiss on Phineas.

"Isabella," said Phineas with happy surprise.

"Hit it Carl," said Isabella.

"No wait...," said Phineas.

And that was boy with the triangle shaped head would wake up. The dream seemed so real. Also, the kiss from Isabella was so real. It stirred up emotions in the young boy...romantic emotions...was it possible?

No, it was just a dream. Phineas looked around the room he shared with his step-brother Ferb who was sound asleep. He looked over at Perry who was sleeping at the foot of his bed. Phineas just shrugged his shoulders, rolled over and went back to sleep. He didn't notice the figure floating just outside his window. This figure was wearing a diaper and had some heart shaped arrows. He was Cupid and he smiled at what was going on.

He of course knew what Phineas was dreaming about was real. After all, it was true love. Poor Major Francis Monogram. He had no idea. After all, if magic couldn't interfere with true love, one of Heinz Doofensmirz lame "enactors" certainly could not interfere with it. Soon, though, Phineas would remember everything.

Right now, though, Cupid had to go back to Dimmsdale to see how Timmy Turner was doing. All of Timmy's friends, and Cupid could be counted among them, were concerned about the young buck toothed boy. Looking at Phineas Flynn one more time and smiling, Cupid vanished.

Perry felt a vibration and heard a soft beep coming from a type of watch on his wrist. The platypus looked up at these owners, Phineas and Ferb and saw they were still asleep. He looked on the words on the watch's small display screen: "Urgent. Go to lair immediately". Perry, then, put on his fedora and snuck out of the room.

He went into the bathroom and pushed a button marked O.W.C.A. A porthole appeared and Perry jumped in. He landed in his chair.

Major Francis Monogram appeared on the screen. He looked very grim.

"Agent P.," said Monogram, "we have a dangerous situation and for a change it doesn't involve Doofensmirtz.

Perry looked surprised. Monogram almost seemed to know what Perry was thinking which was fortunate as Perry, while sapient, and couldn't talk.

"I know, Agent P.," said the Major, "it's highly unusual but it involves that bright light that was recently sighted recently over the Western Hemisphere."

Perry nodded. He remembered. It looked almost like another sun. While in his disguise as a "mindless domestic house pet", he had heard Candace blame Phineas and Ferb for the light in the sky. The normally very stoic monotreme almost cracked a smile upon Candace's knee jerk reaction to blaming the boys.

"It seems," said the Major, "the light was centered over a city in California. A city called Dimmsdale. You may know it because it's where that OTHER government agency, M.E.R.F. is centered.

Perry stiffened. He knew of M.E.R.F., although he didn't have a lot of contact with the organization. It was partly because they were different government agencies and party because Perry didn't really trust the Military Extra-terrestrial Research facility. The platypus had always thought it was a mistake for O.W.C.A. to share its genetic engineering knowledge with M.E.R.F.

"I can see Agent P.," said Monogram, "you trust M.E.R.F. as little as I do. They're pretty shady and worse, they actually have a cool acronym. No government agency should have a cool acronym."

Perry raised his eyebrows a bit.

"Yes," said the Major, "what does that have to do with the light in the sky and us. Well, it seems that M.E.R.F. attempted to attack they light but they were incapacitated in some way. Peter the Panda was sent to investigate what was going on and he found out something that is very alarming. Rogue agent Dennis the Rabbit was apparently set free by an individual named Hugh J. Magnate with the assistance of M.E.R.F. It seems this Magnate fellow wants to use Dennis as an evil assistant. Strange as it sounds, our intelligence indicates that he wants to use Dennis to breed a large number evil rabbits to use as his henchmen or Hench bunnies. We need to send you to Dimmsdale as soon as possible and stop this from happening."

Perry didn't like this one bit. M.E.R.F. and Dennis working together would be disastrous. It, also, proved to Perry what he always thought; M.E.R.F. was dangerous and since the Organization without a Cool Acronym had shared it's genetic engineering methods, there was no telling what this Hugh J. Magnate would do. Perhaps breed thousands more genetically engineered animals. Creatures that would be trained by M.E.R.F.

However, another thing troubled Perry. Dimmsdale was in California and Danville was in the Tri-State area. That would require Perry disappearing for a longer than normal time which might arouse the suspicion of his host family, the Flynn-Fletchers. Once again, though, Monogram seemed to read Perry's thoughts/

"I know Agent. We've already worked out a plan for you to work in Dimmsdale without arousing host family suspicions. We're sending you and them on an all expense paid vacation to Dimmsdale California. You and the Flynn-Fletchers will be leaving tomorrow. So good luck Agent P. You'll need it.

Unknown to the Major and Perry, Phineas had awakened again. To get his mind off of the strange dreams, he fooled around with his and Ferb's latest invention; a type of new communications device that could perhaps make contact with other forms of life. It picked up a communication that seemed to be coming from his house. Out of curiosity, he tuned in on the frequency. He heard Major Monogram's entire conversation.

And he started to remember everything.