Part 3

Linda came closer! Sweat ran down my body. Even though I was in disguise, I had to hide…and fast!

I held onto the brim of the card shelf and pulled, not wanting to be seen.

"Huh? Perry the Platypus," My nemesis said. He looked at me. "What are you doing?" Linda came near us. I pulled on the brim, forcing Doof to turn around. He turned to face her.

"Hey, I think I know you." He said to her. "Didn't we date that one time?" Linda looked at him.

"Yeah, I think we did." She said as she browsed through the cards on the shelf. "Didn't you stuff me in the back of your truck at the drive-in when we were teens back in the 80s'?" Doofensmirtz laughed lamely.

"Yeah, that was me."

"So, I persued my plans of being a pop star. How about you? Did you persue your dreams of taking over the Tri-State Area?"

"Well, I tried, but I have a nemesis that stops my evil schemes every time. His name is Perry the Plat…" Linda picked out a card. She wasn't really listening.

"Ah, here is a nice one!" She took the envelope and turned back to him.

"Well it was nice meeting you again." She put the card into the envelope. "Bye!" She then left.

"That was Linda Flynn- Fletcher." Vanessa explained, sneaking up on us with an envelope in her hand. We looked at her. "She invited Mom, me, you and Heinz Jr. to her house for dinner someday. She wants to see Heinz Jr. She said she was going to buy him a cute little outfit." Doofenshmirtz looked confused.

"Uh honey, what are you going to say when we show up with no Heinz Jr?"

"I'll lie. I'll say that he was sent to my Aunt Debbie's or something." Doofenshmirtz smiled.

"That's my girl!" He said. He then changed the subject. "Did you find anything?"

"Yep! I already put my card for Lacey in this envelope. Now let's go pay for this bad boy and get out of here!"

"Are you sure you don't want to steal it?"

"No Dad, we're not stealing it."

"Aw man!"

We paid for it and put it in a little bag. We left the mall.

On the freeway, Doof's car began to slow down.

"Uh oh!" My nemesis observed. "That's not good." Vanessa looked at the gas gauge. The needle was pointing to the letter 'E'. The car suddenly stopped.

"Oh great!" She moaned. "The car's out of gas." She looked at her dad. "Dad! You got to prepare for this!"

"No, no!" Dr. D said trying to restart the engine but to no avail. "Don't do this on me now. Not with a platypus strapped on my back!" He tried and tried with no luck. We then heard a car horn from outside. Doofenshmirtz looked out the window. It was a guy in a semi truck who didn't look happy.

"Hey!" He shouted. "Move it, will you? I got some food to deliver!" Other car honks were heard from behind him.

"Sorry!" The evil scientist called back. "My car's out of gas!" He then just laughed nervously. "Don't you just hate it when your car breaks down on you like that?" The man wasn't amused.

"JUST GET OUT AND MOVE YOUR CAR TO THE SIDE!" He yelled. He honked his horn again. "NOW!" Dr. D and Vanessa got out and started pushing. "Come on slowpokes; I don't have all day! You're holding up traffic behind me!" Dr. D looked at the man.

"Your truck or car never ran out of gas on a freeway before, has it?" With a look at the guy's face, Dr. D immediately began pushing again.

"Perry the Platypus," He said to me. "You can help you know." I gave him a look. "If you weren't strapped on my back." He resumed on pushing.

A few minutes later, he and Vanessa pushed the car all the way to the side of the road.

"Finally!" The guy sighed. He drove off, followed by the many cars behind him.

"That guy was just rude!" Dr. D said as soon as he got his breath back. "Our car ran out of gas; it wasn't our fault. He needs to be taught a lesson"

"He was just grumpy," Vanessa agreed. "But he needed to deliver all of that food before it spoiled."

"I guess, but he still needs to be taught a lesson." Vanessa looked at her dad.

"You need to be taught a lesson on how to plan ahead and refuel in advance!" Vanessa sighed, "I'll go find the nearest gas station." Vanessa went off, leaving me alone with Doofenshmirtz. Doofenshmirtz turned to me and smiled at me lamely.

"So, this is awkward huh Perry the Platypus? Being stuck to your nemeses like this? How are you hanging on?" He laughed at his lame joke. When he saw that I wasn't amused, he stopped and turned to face forwards again.

"Let's play a game!" He suggested. Oh please not The Alphabet Game. Anything but that! You'll be playing by yourself anyways.

"How about the 'Guess what number I'm thinking of" game? Chatter once for 'yes' and twice for 'no'

I chattered once. What the heck!

I guess I shouldn't have agreed. When it came to my turn, I only chattered 25 times when Doofenshmrtz told me I could stop. He laughed and said that it was 87. I looked mad at the laughing fool.

That fiend! He would've made me chatter 87 times if he didn't stop me. Well, he was Doofenshmirtz so I guess I wasn't surprised he would do that to me, but still!

He then said that this probably wasn't a good game for me (Thank goodness!) He then told me about his experience at Excitement Kingdom yesterday. He told me on the log flume ride when one kid used that other as a human shield how he laughed so hard that he almost fell in the water.

Vanessa came back then in a car. She and a man in a gas station uniform hopped out.

"Heard you people had a bit of car trouble." The man said.

"Yes." Dr. D told him. The man held up a gas pump.

"I'll fix it in a jiffy!"

"Oh gee thanks!" The man in uniform went to my nemesis's car and put in the pump.

After the car was refueled, Doofenshmirtz and Vanessa thanked the man.

"Don't mention it!" The man responded. "Always happy to help." He then looked at me.

"My, that's a cute young tyke." He observed.

"Oh thanks!" said my nemesis. "He's been getting admired by people all day."

"I bet." He then began to leave for his own car. He waved. "Well, bye!" Doofenshmirtz and Vanessa waved back.

"Bye!" Doofenshmirtz called. The man got into his car and drove off. Doofenshmirtz looked at his daughter.

"Well," Doofenshmirz stated. "Let us held for home too." He and Vanessa went into the car.

As soon as they fastened their seatbelts, the evil scientist drove off.

"Lucky there's no traffic this time." He said.

"Just drive." Vanessa moaned.

We drove off in silence for the rest of the time. Doofenshmirtz put in "The Wizard of Oz", audio book (translated into evil). Vanessa listened to her music on her Mypod.

When we got to DEI, Vanessa took out the tickets and put them into a more festive bag. She put in the card along with them.

I chattered madly for attention. Hello? Platypus still in silly baby clothes here! The two humans looked at me.

"Oh, Perry the Platypus," Doofenshmirtz stated. "You are still in your cute baby outfit. Are you sure you don't want to keep wearing them? They're cute on you because they're wittle like you. We can start a family together, just me and you as my wittle Heinz Jr. What do you say?"

I chattered madly at him telling him that I wasn't in the least bit interested. Never in a million years!

Doofenshmirtz held up his hands in defense.

"Whoa!" He told me. "Whoa; I was just checking. No need to be snippy about it." He then folded his hands to his chest. "Anyways, you are such a dream killer Perry the Platypus. They should call you Perry the dream killer Platypus." I gave him a mean look. Just help me out of this darn outfit!

"Okay, okay!" He said. He reached around, trying to reach me for about a minute before stopping. He looked at his daughter. "A little help, Vanessa?" Vanessa then went to work taking off my tiny diaper, shoes, shirt and pants. They then managed to remove the baby carrier.

"There!" Vanessa told her dad once everything was off. "They're off. Now what are we going to do with them?"

"I don't know." My foe admitted. "My cousin Kahla is expecting a baby in a few months. I'll give it to her…that or I'll sell them on Abay." Vanessa looked at her watch.

"It's a quarter to six." She announced. "Perry the Platypus' family is probably wondering where he is."

"Hmmm, you're probably right." Dr. D agreed. "But he's still stuck on me. It'll be awkward to see your pet's nemesis coming home with their pet glued on the back."

"You have to do everything together; he might even have to go in the same bathroom as you and in order for him to go potty…." Dr. D winced in disgust.

"Ewww! I don't even want to think about that!"

They were right. I do want to go home! Usually I destroy Dr. D's inventions by now and go home to my family. But I can't go home like this. Not in the situation I'm in, that'd be creepy beyond belief!

I guess I should just go and see them; just to make sure they're all right.

I poked my nemesis' coat. He turned his head to face me and looked confused. "Huh?" I pointed to the room with the pens and paper.

"I think he wants something." Vanessa said. "I'll go get a sheet of paper and a pen."

A couple minutes later she returned with a pen and a notepad. She gave it to me. I quickly wrote something down and showed it to them.

"You want to go home?" Doofensmhirtz asked. "In this state? But why?" I was about to write something more when Vanessa spoke up.

"He probably just wants to see his family and then you can take him home and you can invent a machine or whatever sort out this mess." I nodded. What she said.

"Okay." Dr. D said. "Anything you say…or write Perry the Platypus. You know this isn't the 20th century anymore so I think you should be able to type out what you want to say on a laptop or something. I should tell Monogram to get you started on that." I chattered impatiently at him.

"Okay, okay!" He said. "I just wondered why you haven't done that yet. I thought it might be a little easier for you but if you don't want to; that's fine by me! I was just helping Perry the Platypus, just helping!"

"No Dad!" Vanessa told him. "I think he wants to go now."

"Oh, I knew that." I rolled my eyes. He, Vanessa and I left the room. We went into the elevator and out of the building.

I watched my owners and their friends from behind the fence. They were still having fun on their log flume ride. Since I was watching from my nemesis' back, the scene was lopsided. I smiled as I heard shouts and laughs of excitement.

Suddenly, water gushed to the side and splashed all of us!

"Great!" Vanessa moaned. "Now I got to go change. I'll be at the apartment, dad." She left.

I could feel myself slipping. I looked as I fell onto the grass. I was free!

"Perry the Platypus; you got unstuck!" Dr. D said. "Hmmm, what do you know! Water freed us from being stuck forever; hmmm, I wonder why we never thought of that before."

Then a beam shot out and hit something in the backyard. I looked in a panic. My owners and their friends were all off the log flume as it vanished. I did a sigh of relief.

"Well, that was queer." Dr. D observed. "I didn't activate anything. I wonder where that beam came from." Then a 'Gitchee Gitchee Goo' ringtone could be heard from Dr. D's pocket. He dug into his pocket and took his phone out.

"Sorry Perry the Platypus." He told me. He then answered it. "Hello?" He listened for a bit before speaking again. "What?!" He listened again before continuing. "Err, how could you Norm!" Again, he listened. He sighed. "I'll be right over." He closed it, put it back into his pocket and looked at me.

"That was Norm. He messed with my Be-Gone Inator and it went off. And now I got to go home and try to fix it." He then left. "Curse you Perry the Platypus for nothing!"

I stayed there for a few seconds then went into the backyard in pet mode.

Phineas was just explaining to Isabella with a notepad and pencil how the ride worked. She wrote down everything my owner talked about. I chattered to get their attention. Phineas looked at me.

"Oh, there you are Perry." I chattered again. Candace and Linda then came in the backyard.

"Knew it." Candace said. "Knew it'll disappear."

"Now if only you telling me of Phineas and Ferb's inventions would disappear." Linda stated with a sigh. She then changed the subject.

"Phineas, Ferb; wash up for dinner and say goodbye to your friends."

"Okay Mom." Phineas and Ferb walked in followed by their friends, Linda, and Candace. I followed behind them with the happy thought that I was no longer on the back of my nemesis.

"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" they say. Boy, I sure kept my enemy closer today…literally!