Perry's POV
"Perry! Perry, wake up!"
I groggily opened my eyes and gradually broke back into consciousness at the sound of my owner's voice gently calling my name and urging me to get out of bed. I picked myself up and yawned, stretching my limbs until I was fully awake and aware. I looked up to of course see Phineas and Ferb already out of bed, standing over me and waiting for me to drag my lazy butt out of bed too.
"Good morning, boy!" Phineas said, greeting me politely and enthusiastically as always.
I lazily yawned once more and plopped myself back down on the bed, closing my eyes and desperately trying to get just a little more shut-eye. I heard Phineas chuckling at my unwillingness to get out of bed, like usual. What could I say? Being a secret agent was a tiring job, I needed all the sleep I could get.
But unfortunately my attempt to fall back asleep was rudely disrupted when my annoying little wrist watch alarm went off, signaling a new mission for today. I groaned and hastily turned it off. I guess now I had to wake up. I checked the little watch and answered the urgent message, and Carl popped up on the little screen as usual.
"Good morning Agent P!" he greeted me.
"Ugh, what's so good about it?" I half yawned, still too tired to really care.
Carl rolled his eyes at my lazy, unenthusiastic attitude, but continued on with my daily mission anyway. "Well Doofenshmirtz is up to something, you should go see what's up." he said.
Sighing, I gave a half-hearted solute to my boss and hid my watch back under a patch of fur on my arm. Was going all the way over to D.E.I. just to ultimately press a self destruct button and leave really worth getting out bed for? But nevertheless I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and stretched again, now fully awake and ready for what ever mission awaited me. I climbed out of bed and started strolling out of Phineas and Ferb's room, but wasn't the least bit surprised to hear small but obvious foot steps behind me.
I turned around to face the boys, and they didn't even need to say a word for me to automatically know what they wanted. "Fine, you guys can come too." I said, and the two brothers cheered and high fived in delight.
I think of all the changes Carl had made to the agency once he was put in charge, this one was my favorite. It was much easier to let the boys know my secret, and I didn't have to be as sneaky around them anymore. If Major Monogram was still running the O.W.C.A, he'd make me erase their memories of everything. Where's the fun in that? I personally think it's a lot easier this way now that they know I'm a secret agent. Plus getting to take Phineas and Ferb on missions is pretty fun too! They always seem to get really excited when they see me fighting for some reason. I don't know, if you ask me fighting is fun but it gets old after a while. But it's been a few months and the boys never seem to get tired of me pulling a few judo maneuvers on my nemesis.
Speaking of Doofenshmirtz, that's the one part of my life that stayed remotely the same. After the incident and after Carl had finally pieced the O.W.C.A back together, Doof figured he would just give up evil. But I didn't want to abandon our old lives even after everything that had happened, so I eventually convinced him not too. So our lives carried out just like before, where he gets raveled into this big evil scheme and I have to stop him. But a couple things have changed big time, more specifically in our relationship instead of our old routine. We still fought each other everyday, but the fighting was more out of fun than out of hate anymore. It was hard to even call Doof my nemesis really, besides the fact that I still foiled his evil schemes all the time. After everything that had happened, he was more like family to me than ever.
"What do you guys think you're doing?"
My thoughts were interrupted when we ran into Candace on our way out, and she looked pretty irritated about something or other. She glared past me and down at her brothers, waiting impatiently for an answer.
"Actually Candace we weren't really doing anything today." Phineas said.
"Oh don't try and pull that on me, I'm sure you guys are obviously gonna make some sort of big doohickey or whatchamajigger thingy in the backyard and I have to relentlessly drag mom home to bust you for it!" she said.
"Well, uh, actually Candace we were just gonna take the day off today and tag along with Perry at work." Phineas said, and Candace dropped her glare and pondered that for a moment before responding.
"So you're just going to follow Perry to D.E.I or whatever? Perfect! That means I have the day off to spend with Jeremy…" she said, pronouncing her boyfriend's name dreamily as her voice seemed to trail off for a bit at the thought of him. "Aw I love ya Perry! Thanks for taking these two bozos off my hands for the day! Have fun at work or whatever, and tell Doof I said hi!"
After that she dashed up the stairs to her room and shut the door, psychotically laughing to herself all the way up. The three of us just kinda blankly stared up after her, a little disturbed by her sudden switch in mood.
"Okay, then…" I said. "Let's go…"
So the boys and I left the house and I grabbed my platypus shaped flying car from my underground lair. We climbed in and headed out to see what Doofenshmirtz was up to. I wondered what my nemesis would have in store for me to thwart today. Giant robots? Some random destructive ray gun? Or maybe he wasn't really up to anything at all and he was just doing something extremely boring that he needed my help with. I sighed. Whatever his evil scheme of the day may be, I just hoped it wasn't too tiring for me.
I thought for a moment, and remembered back quite a while ago before the whole situation with Major Monogram when I was always this unwilling to put up with Doof. And I never really cared about him or realized how important to my life he really was until he was suddenly almost taken away from me. I took a deep breath and brightened up my reluctant mood a bit. Sometimes I just forgot how much of a luxury my life really was, and I took everything for granted. My nemesis was lucky to be alive and I was still too lazy to even drag myself out of bed to see him. I decided to try and feel more enthusiastic and look at the positive sides of coming to work.
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~DOOFENSHMIRTZ EVIL INCORPERATEEEEEEEED~
At the sound of the evil jingle, I pulled my hover car in front of his building and the three of us climbed out. I looked up to the very top of the huge building, but there was no sign of any ray guns or machines on his deck, or really anything suspicious at all. This made me a little more suspicious and curious to exactly what Doof might be up to today.
We climbed into the elevator after entering the building and started up to the very top floor of the enormous purple building. Once we finally reached the top I wasn't in the mood to break in, so I just pulled out my key to Doof's apartment and let myself in. Another thing that changed with me and Doof was my breaking into his house every day. I rarely did that anymore, considering it's just more of a hassle for both of us. And since he gave me the key to his apartment, I figured I might as well use it once in a while, right?
I strolled in, expecting some sort of trap to fly out at me or a cage to drop on top of me at any moment now. But after a few minutes of waiting, still nothing. I looked around, but there were no evil schemes or inventions anywhere either, not even a sign of the evil doctor. I took a few more cautious steps, but still nothing. I heard Phineas and Ferb following closely behind me, but besides the gentle sound of their quiet footsteps there was not a sound in the entire room. Now I was getting a little frustrated.
"Doof?" I called, my voice rebounding back off the walls, the only reply being my own echo. "Doofenshmirtz? I'm here to foil your scheme or whatever." There was still no answer. I frowned. Why even bother calling me all the way over here if he wasn't even going to answer me anyway?
Then suddenly out of no where two gigantic, robotic arms came straight out of the floor on either side of me, tightening around my arms and restraining me from escaping. Phineas and Ferb gasped and stepped backwards in shock at this sudden movement. I growled a little under my breath in frustration. If he was going to trap me couldn't he at least make it slightly more comfortable?
"Ha ha! Surprised you didn't I Perry the Platypus?" Doof said, entering from the other room with the remote control to my trap clutched in his hand. I growled in irritation under my breath in response.
There was silence for a moment as my nemesis looked past me and noticed Phineas and Ferb. His mood seemed to cheer up a bit at their presence.
"Oh, you brought Phineas and Ferb along with you? Perfect! You guys know I always love vists from you guys! You can make yourselves comfortable on my sofa over there, alright?" Doof said hospitably, gesturing the boys towards the couch on the other side of the room where they obediently sat down.
Oh yeah, another huge change was my two lives finally combining. Ever since Doofenshmirtz met my owners they've come quite close as family in the past few months. It's really touching to me to see my family and my old enemy coming together as friends, or really coming together at all for that matter. It felt like an enormous weight lifted off my shoulders now that I no longer needed to keep any secrets from anyone. Life just ran much smoother for all of us like this.
And I suppose you're wondering if I'm concerned at all for the boys' safety, since as you know I'm always paranoid about anything bad happening to Phineas and Ferb. Well now that I'm closer to my nemesis than ever, I really tend to trust him a lot more than I used to. I know for a fact he would never think of hurting me or the boys, since even Doofenshmirtz doesn't have a heart that evil, especially after that huge life-altering experience that changed us both so much. So even though I'm twice as protective over my family than before, I feel like they're safe around each other at least.
So Phineas and Ferb eagerly watched as Doof made his way back across the room and straight to me again. I was sure they were anticipating some sort of huge battle or a life-threatening evil scheme to keep them on the edge of their seats. But me, I was just hoping to get this over with and go back to bed. I was surprised I hadn't passed out on the spot already.
"So Perry the Platypus, let me introduce you to my latest evil scheme!" Doof started, signaling that his monologue would ravel into some sort of long, rambling back story from his dark, cruel childhood.
Now on any normal day earlier this summer, I would have been half listening and completely bored out of my brain at the sound of whatever his dumb, pointless schemes and flashbacks were. I would have hated being here and wanted just to go straight home after beating my nemesis up a little and foiling his plans. Because back then, I hated him and his plans. It seems so hard for me to even imagine myself hating my nemesis anymore, but as weird as that is I did. I used to hate Doofenshmirtz and dread dragging myself over to his house everyday, for I would always be bored and unimpressed with his countless traps and schemes and songs. But I never for a second realized that this man that I found boring, pathetic and unintelligent, somehow completed my life. I never really figured out that the crazy mad doctor I thought I hated was truly my best friend. It took me so ridiculously long to realize that no matter how much I fought and tricked myself into thinking I hated Doofenshmirtz, I actually loved him deep down.
And it wasn't until his life was threatened to be brutally sacrificed and taken away from me forever did I finally find the true love for him in my heart, and my true desire to keep him alive at all costs. And so my treacherous journey began, both physically and mentally. And I risked my own life and limb countless times to keep Doof's heart beating, so when I ultimately failed it was inevitable that I was struck with great depression at the loss of my new found friend. So now that Doof was finally back to life and safe again I learned to never, ever take advantage of our strange yet beautiful friendship ever again.
So yeah, as dangerous and life threatening as the entire experience was, I think everyone really benefited from it, you know, despite Monogram being thrown into prison for the rest of his life. Now not only did I have closer bonds with my family, my nemesis, and my new boss and all the agents, but I learned the extremely important lesson to not take advantage of your life and loved ones, for you never know when it all just might be taken away from you. Or when there are people out there like Peter formerly was, who never had anyone to love. So in this important lesson I personally think that being an agent against the agency improved my life significantly more than it destroyed it.
I took a deep breath and sat back in my trap, clearing my thoughts and focusing my attention completely to what Doof had to say. Now I was fully engulfed and intrigued in his back story, eager to here whatever the doctor had to say, for once.
THE END
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