WHAT REALLY HAPPENED BEFORE...

(PROLOGUE)

One early morning, in Mr. Slushy Burger stand inside the mall, Candace walks pass the stand and glances at Jeremy who is handing burgers to children. She hopes Jeremy would notice her, but he didn't, so she gathered the courage to just appear in front of him and say at least 'hi' to her boyfriend.

"Hey, Jeremy!" And that very moment, Candace leaned over the stand counter, directly in front of Jeremy.

"Oh, hey Candace," Jeremy smiles back and seems so happy to see Candace here.

Candace blushes. "So, uhm... How's..." Candace suddenly forgot what she was supposed to say, considering she has even written a script of the order of things she'll say to him.

"So... How's..." Candace gives up and just blurted what comes first in her mind. "How's the... Burgers coming?"

Jeremy's eyes turned blank. "B-Burgers?"

"A-Aaahh.. AH!" Candace realized her stupidity and covers her mouth quick, and thinks of a quick follow-up. "Oh, look! The burger's overcooked!"

Jeremy looked at the empty grill and then looked back at Candace.

"Ohh, uh, hehehh..." Candace twitched her eyes and smiled maniacally at him. "I mean... The burgers on the other stand."

"Oh," Jeremy smiled again, relieved that Candace isn't the insane girl the other guys are talking about. "How about you, Candace? How's everything going?"

Candace continues to stare deeply at Jeremy with her face blank, and when she realized she was just asked a question, she remembers she wrote keywords on her palm so she has something to read if she ever got nervous.

"I'm... All right," Candace recites, "It's been... A great day... Isn't it?"

"Yeah," Jeremy smiled again, ignoring Candace's weirdness. "Oh yeah, Candace. Are you free tomorrow?"

Candace's eyes just widened. Oh. My. Gosh. She never expected a question like this and she didn't see any keyword on her palm regarding that question. OMG she's panicking... But her panic room is all the way dooown the house!

"Candace...? Are you okay?" Jeremy tries to reach for her hand, and he feels she's shivering like crazy.

"I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I..."

Jeremy chuckles softly and rests his arms over her shivering shoulders. "Relax, relax, Candace. No need to panic."

Candace stops shivering. "No need?"

"Yes. I mean, I know this is all of a sudden, but of course... Since we're a couple already, I thought we should... You know... Go out together more often?"

Candace's black pupil suddenly turned into a heart, and her chest began visibly beating very fast. She can hardly breathe.

"C-Candace...?"

"NO!" Candace suddenly blurted out of nowhere.

Jeremy suddenly stepped back, a bit frightened with that sudden word. "What?"

"No! I mean... No, that's not what I meant! What I meant is, no, I'm free tomorrow, and... Sure!"

Jeremy raised an eyebrow, and yes... He couldn't understand what she said.

"No, no," Candace finally slapped her head, and she's SICK of being so overreacting and weird whenever Jeremy's around. She really isn't this weird at first, but at the moment they were officially the B and G-word, she's acting terribly insane.

"So... Are you free tomorrow?" Jeremy repeated his question.

"YES!" Candace blurted out again and this made Jeremy take a few more steps backwards in fright.

"Ohh..." Candace slaps her head again. "I'm sorry about myself. I'm so lousy lately... I guess I'm not really used with these kind of things yet..."

Jeremy pats her shoulder and continues to smile. "No problem. I understand you; so we should start get to know each other more. Here, Candace. I've bought you a gift."

"But... My birthday's still months away - "

"I know, silly," Jeremy chuckled. "There's no chosen occasion just so you can give a gift to someone. Let's just say... This is a regular gift."

"A... Regular gift?" The moment she received it, Candace never hesitated to open it quickly and saw a very nice red dress.

"Oh my god, Jeremy..." Candace pulls the dress out of the box and stared at it happily. "What is this?"

"It's a dress, Candace..."

"I know, silly! What I mean is... What is this for? I've got plenty of dresses anyway..."

"Y-You don't like it?"

"What?" Candace asked. "No, no, no... It's beautiful! The best dress I've ever seen! But... Why, Jeremy?"

Jeremy smiled and sighed in relief that she liked it. "I was hoping you could wear that for tomorrow. I looked for a perfect dress for you far and wide... It's one of a kind. I even crossed the mountains for that."

"Oh, Jeremy... That's so..." Candace suddenly paused for a second and glanced at him. "Wait - you crossed the mountains for this?"

"Yeah."

"O-kaayy..." Candace thought of it for a moment and ignored it. "Okay! I'm gonna wear this tomorrow! Thanks a lot, B-word."

"No problem, uhh, G-word." Jeremy helps Candace arrange the box and waved at her as she left. "See you tomorrow!"

. . .

Candace runs like a little kid back at home and giggles with her signature laugh, carrying and hugging the box tightly. As she arrives at the front door, she senses something familiar happening in their backyard, and even if she knows what it is, she goes to look at it... And she was right. She always was.

"A-ha! Phineas, Ferb, tell me what you're doing!"

Phineas popped his head out from inside the giant contraption they were building and waved his hand with a wrench. "Hey Candace! We're building a machine!"

Candace raised her eyebrow. "I know you're building a machine! Are you thinking of me as stupid now, Phineas? I can see perfectly well you're building a machine! That's what you always build everyday! Now be good and TELL ME WHAT YOU'RE BUILDING!"

Phineas stared blankly at his always weird sister.

"Actually, Candace, we haven't thought of a name for this thing yet," Phineas finally said after a moment of silence. "Baljeet just have this giant drawing he would want to paint but has no giant paint tools for it, so we thought of building a machine that could spray different colors."

Candace places her arms on her waist. "What was that supposed to mean?"

Phineas decided to explain while Ferb does all the work. "You see those levers over there? Those levers correspond to your chosen color. Just place the canvas or anything you would want to have paint on below this tube, and it's set! For example, you chose the red lever; the red color will spray over the designated area! It's quite easy for painting, you know. You don't even have to tone and blend the colors by paintbrush... You can now use this handy machine to just spray your chosen color! Available in 1,746 different colors."

Candace just coldly stared at Phineas, not even bothering to listen.

"Yeah, uh-huh, right." Candace stated. "And you know what this means, right? You're going to be a B, a U, and a S, a T, and an E and D."

Phineas looked at Ferb and back at Candace. "Busted?"

"Ohh, you got that DEFINITELY right! Wait here and I'm gonna go bring mom here and see what you're doing!" Candace unknowingly drops the box open, revealing the dress on the grass and ran away. "Once she sees it, you're never gonna call yourselves the greatest painters anymore!"

Phineas and Ferb watch their sister ran maniacally away, and the two stared at each other. "I told you, Ferb. We should never call this machine The Greatest Painter."

Ferb nodded.

. . .

Baljeet is then seen going to Phineas and Ferb's backyard, carrying a canvas bigger than a refrigerator, and smaller than the biggest refrigerator. And of course, he has Isabella and the Fireside Girls helping him.

Before Baljeet can say anything, Isabella will took the first scene.

"Hey Phineas, hey Ferb. Watcha doin'?"

"Hey Isabella." Phineas waves. "Hey Baljeet. Hey Adyson. Hey Ginger. Hey Holly. Hey Katie. Hey Milly. Hey Gretchen. And hey to the other two unnamed. We're building a machine!"

All of them stared blankly at the machine, and at Phineas.

"Uhm," Isabella said, "We already knew it's a machine."

Ferb then popped out his head and pursued his British accent. "Actually, it's still unnamed."

"Oh!" Everyone exchanged glances and nodded in understanding.

Baljeet and the rest landed the huge canvas and placed it below the tube Phineas pointed at.

"Phineas," Baljeet stated. "Is this machine really going to paint my drawing?"

"Of course," Phineas smiled, and headed towards the levers. "I'll assure you that your month-long making of this will not go to waste."

Baljeet smiled in excitement. "Why don't you name it 'The Greatest Painter'? That sounds cool."

Phineas glanced at Ferb once again. "Nah, didn't bother."

Phineas holds on to the first two levers he get to reach, and Ferb signals him of thumbs up, meaning they can start.

"Hold on, folks! Consider this day a 'colorful rainy day'!"

Everyone pulls out their umbrellas and covered themselves, seeing that this 'colorful rainy day' means that the spray will possibly wet and stain them. Phineas and Ferb jumps all over the levers and activates different colors spraying through the canvas and all around the backyard, making color stains. But as it turns out, the drawing is a very beautiful painting just like what Phineas had said.

"Wow, Phineas! This is really amazing!" Baljeet said as kept the umbrella back and headed over the beautiful painting of the mountains. "Thank you!"

"No problem." Phineas replied. "Except for the tree and grass, I hope nothing else around here was stained - "

And that's when they saw Candace's new dress being stained with paint.

Phineas gulped, as he stared anxiously at the dress. "Uh-oh..."

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

The next chapter will be the start of the mishap madness! Please review! :)