To Be Human

Chapter 24: Marie Flynn

This story is not official in anyway for the Phineas and Ferb series.

Marie Flynn (C) belongs to Angelus19 and sam-ely-ember.
Thomas Fletcher (C) belongs to Melty19.
Jasmine Rai (C) belongs to sam-ely-ember and melty19.

With the Homunculus finally gone, nothing is left to bring anymore harm to the children. However, there's still one thing that needs to be done. Thanks to the S.P.I.D.E.R, Marie and Thomas's parents are stuck in an area below the room. After taking the disarmed S.P.I.D.E.R out of the bottle, un-shrinking it, and adding some modifications to it...

"Is it about ready, Marie?" Thomas asks.

"Hold your horses. I'm putting in alot of effort to fix this without blowing it up." Marie says. "Ok, that should do it."

After making one final adjustment, the remains of the S.P.I.D.E.R activates, as shown by the sudden light up of its large red eye. It no longer have its eight arms to build or destroy anything anymore, but that's not why Marie has repaired it.

"S.P.I.D.E.R, open the ground floor and let our parents free." Marie orders.

Now back to its normal operation mode, the machine blinks its eye, which then opens up the ground floor once again. In the underground tunnel, the children can see the adults still unconscious, with the exception of Phineas, who's beginning to come to.

"DADDY!" Marie screams with excitement.

"Marie? Marie, are you ok?"

"You bet I am! Hang on, we'll get you guys out of there!"

A few minutes later, after Phineas wakes the others up and the kids get some rope, the grown ups are pulled out of the pit one by one until all four finally make it out. Naturally, the first thing that the worried parents do hug their children, and in Isabella's case, kiss his daughter constantly, embarrssing Marie in the progress.

"Oh, Marie! Are you alright?" Isabella asks as she kisses Marie's cheek over and over. "I've been so worried."

"Yes, yes, yes, I'm fine! Stop it. At least wait until my friends leave." Marie says, embarrissed by her mother.

While the Flynn Family is getting reunited, Ferb is hugging Thomas and rubbing his head for a job well done. While Vanessa has been worried about his son too, she feels that someone has confort Jazz, who's suffered a bad hand injury. That said, Vanessa has decided to take the time to wrap the hand up in a bandage.

"Oh, man. I'm not sure what will make my Dad more made. The fact that I almost died, or the fact I skipped school to almost get killed" Jazz says.

"Don't worry, Jasmine. If Baljeet asks, I still have THIS!" Vanessa says as she pulls out a sap from her person, the same one she used on Jazz a few days back.

Not amused by this, Ferb snatches the sap from his wife's hand and says..."Vanessa, no sapping!"

"Aww, man."

With everyone alive finding that everyone else is also safe and sound, they decide to check out the one person who unfortunately isn't alive anymore. Still lying lifelessly in the center of the room is the Homunculus, who died after having its mechanical heart stopped by an EMP wave. Although its not the real thing, the sight of seeing a lifeless body looking exactly like Marie is bring uneasy thoughts to everyone, especially Isabella.

"I always knew Project H was a bad idea." Isabella says.

"I still think it's a good idea." Phineas says. "It's just that...it failed this time. I tried to make a perfectly organic body for Marie to live in, only to come close to having Marie's body be lost to it."

"What do you mean, daddy?"

"Well Marie, the Homunculus was going to merge its mind with yours using the Mind Arch, similar to what I was planning, only its mind would've made it the one and only Marie."

The one and only Marie? At last, Marie finally understands why the Homunculus was doing what it did, and the true meaning to the only words it said, 'I must live. You must die'.

"It was just like me." Marie says, confusing everyone. "I don't think it really wanted to hurt anyone. It only wanted to live, which was exactly what I wanted when I found out about it. In fact, I bet it was scared and alone in its tube, like I was when I dreamt I was in there."

"You don't say." Phineas says. "But she definitely wasn't you. She doesn't have a heart of gold like you do."

"No. No she didn't. But she had my desires, which was to live and find happiness. So maybe it wasn't such a monster afterall. I mean, we ALL want to live, don't we?" Marie says as she smiles, now showing new form respect for the Homunculus.

"Perhaps your right." Phineas says, now smiling as well after listening to his daughter's wise words.

Although the Homunculus was viewed as nothing but a monster earlier for trying to kill the children, everyone can now feel some sympathy for truely having one human trait. Ferb, perfering action over words, decides to give the Homunculus some respect by bending down and closing its eyes close. Although most can't forgive it for what it had done, Marie still understands the Homunculus.

After that, Phineas goes over to the Mind Arch to see the progress on it.

"Well, the Mind Arch I reckon is about 80% finished now, but with the Homunculus body...well, dead...I'm afraid I'm going to have to make a brand new one if I want to make Marie a human body. This will definitely set me back awhile."

"It's ok, Daddy. I can wait.."

"You? Wait?" Thomas asks. "What's next? You going to promise not to blow anything up anymore?"

"TOMMY! NOT FUNNY!"

Although Marie isn't amused by this, her friends and family all begin to laugh at Thomas's joke and Marie's complaint. It feels to all of them that everything if finally back to normal.

The next day, after school, Marie makes her way home with Thomas and Jazz by her side, making sure she's still alright. Although because of how their day went, they can assume that she's alright.

"So you first get an A+ on the science quiz, and then blow up the lab. I'd say Marie is normal again." Thomas says.

"Oh, ha ha ha." Marie says sarcastically. "So how your arm, Jazz?"

"It needs to be in this little cast here, but it's fine. How about you, Marie?"

"Got an A on my quiz and came up with an idea for a solar-powered digging machine, and don't ask me how that can work, because it will. So anyway, yeah, I'm fine."

"I think Jazz means...how do you feel after what happened Yesterday?" Thomas asks. "What's going to be happening with your body?"

"Oh, that! Well, I talked to my Dad about that, and I asked him not to tell me when he does refinish Project H."

"Really? You don't want to know when you'll stop being a robot?"

"Uh huh. I've learned to accept the fact that I am an android and that I can live happily knowing that. I simply don't care if I'm fully human or 100% machine. No matter what I am, I'll always be me."

"That's the right attitude, girl!" Jazz says.

"That's how you should've felt this whole time, Marie. I've always loved...I-I mean...WE'VE always loved you regardless of who or what you are. To us, you're still Marie Flynn."

Now feeling a great sense of gratitute and love for her two best friends, Marie reaches her arms around Thomas and Jazz and gives them a group hug, feeling lucky to have friends like them.

"Thank you Jazz, and thank you Tommy. A girl like me can't feel any luckier. Anyway, my house is right by the corner, and my Dad is there waiting for me to FINALLY work on that Mach-5 hovercraft. Jazz, take care of your arm, and Tommy...thanks for all your help too."

Before running off, Marie gives Thomas a quick affectionate kiss on the cheek before running off. This makes Thomas blush, as well as feel rewarded for helping Marie through this rough time. Jazz also giggles after seeing what Marie did and also feels rewarded in a way.

"Seeing that done was worth the broken hand." Jazz says.

Now holding his hand onto his cheek, Thomas says..."That was worth risking my life."

"Of course, she's always worth it." Thomas thinks. "Someone as innocent and cheerful like her shouldn't be sad, regardless the reason. If it means to put myself in a little danger to keep her smiling, then of course its worth it. I admit, I love her, but it's because she's my friend that I feel she has to stay cheerful and innocent. Nowadays, someone with a happy and pure heart like hers is hard to find."

Excited to play with her father, Marie rushes home to meet up with him. She makes it home and finds that both of her parents have been waiting for her, obviously still worried about her. Nonetheless, there's nothin but smiles now at the Flynn house, as the family begin to have some fun with a little inventing.

"It's funny, because for awhile, she forgot who she actually was, then almost aloud herself stop being her altogether. I guess she isn't so hopeless after and knows how to learn a thing or two. As for what she learned, it was the one thing she should never unlearn ever again."

"And that is that she is, and always will be, Marie Flynn."

And there you have it. The Grand Finale of To Be Human.

Although I'm sad that the best story I've ever written is over, I'm also happy for actually making the best story I've ever written. I've said a few times that Blast From The Future was my favourite story among the stories i've written, but now I think To Be Human earns that title.

Ok, I should give some shoutouts now.

-To Angelus19, Sam-ElyEmber, and Melty19, for creating the great OC's that I used.
-D.T Gutharry, for agreeing that the forth wall is for losers.
-Wordnerd93, for coming up for the acronym for S.P.I.D.E.R. The Super-Polytech-Inititve-Designing-and-Engineering-Robot.
-YamiYugi4Ever, just because she's a good friend, reader, and even inspiration.
-Crazy Flyer 3000, emmi94, and iheartphinabella05, for no other reason then by being repeating and kind reviewers.
-And to anyone who I may have missed. I love you all.

Hope you enjoyed this story. If you haven't read my other Phineas and Ferb stories yet, feel free to give them a read. My new story, Playing With Fireside, will be updated very soon, so you'll have something to look forward to.

I guess that's all I have to you very mush for reading, and until my next story, ciao.