A/N: Hey, peoples of the fan fiction world! ;P This chapter should be more, hum, how do I say this… deep? Emotional? Trigger to your 'aww!' reflex? Well, either way, I hope you like it and please don't forget to review! ;P Thanks bunches… here we go!

Chapter Five: Ferb

June 16, 2012

Ferb was doing his best to hide his despair for having one of his best friends missing. Normally, he wouldn't even keep this much emotion bottled up inside him, but he figured he'd do it for Phineas because of his little brother's concern for him during tough times. Phineas had something with Isabella- more than a friendship- and for her to just disappear, well let's just say it had crushed him. So, Ferb decided to take it easy on Phineas and act like he was okay. This had also been helpful to Linda because ever since Isabella had gone missing, Ferb had been helping out with the house.

"Ferb, honey, I'm not arguing with you're helping me out with the house, but don't you want to do, well, do something else?" Linda asked as Ferb finished cleaning off the table.

"That's what I'm saying, but no! They can't do anything bustable now! Humph!" Candace yelled from the living room couch, sounding fairly annoyed.

Ferb shrugged. "I would if Phineas would." He replied. Linda sighed and ruffled Ferb's hair. "You're a good boy, Ferb." She said with a faint smile as she left the quiet room.

Ferb, however, kept thinking about this question. He wanted Isabella back. He wanted Phineas back. He rung out the soapy cloth and went downstairs to throw it in the washer. He then walked outside and sat next to Phineas. Phineas looked over at Ferb and smiled weakly.

"How long have you been sitting there?" Ferb's British voice broke the silence. Phineas shrugged.

"You're pretty bummed, huh?" Ferb asked. Phineas nodded and rested his head between his knees. Ferb sighed and patted his little brother's back affectionately. Phineas looked at him, a tear falling down his pale face.

"You never think about how much you care about someone until they're gone- I mean missing." Ferb corrected himself and continued. "The important thing is to not focus on how it is without her, but the times with her. Remember when we built that tree house? Do you remember how we sent Isabella up those tubes first, and when we all got up there we laughed for five minutes straight? Or what about the time when" Ferb said, until he was interrupted by the first word Phineas had said to him in days.

"You have a good point, but it hurts to about her. It's like a part of me is gone." Phineas admitted sadly.

"Well, do you know why?" Ferb asked knowingly.

"No, but can you tell me? I just don't understand!" Phineas replied hopefully.

"I'll let you figure that one out for yourself." Ferb said, patting Phineas on the back. Phineas rested his head back on his knees. Ferb couldn't stand this. He knew Phineas was upset, but not this upset. He had to do something, and fast.

"Well, if you're so upset then why don't you find her?" Ferb said.

"What do you mean?" Phineas asked, his head still between his knees.

"Well, you're a genius! Surely you can think of a way to find her, I mean, how hard can be if we work together?" Ferb said, feeling odd that he had been talking so much but at the same time glad that it was with Phineas.

"Sorry Ferb, this one's impossible. If the police can't do it, neither can we." Phineas replied, choking up more as he talked.

Ferb looked at Phineas with a sense of shock and disappointment. "Okay, upset or not, this is not the intelligent, strong willed, inspirational little brother that I've known since, well, forever. Com' on Phineas I know you can do this if you put your mind to it. Please. For me, for Isabella."

Phineas looked up at Ferb, a new sense of quietness in his eyes. Phineas opened his mouth to talk, but right that second the back doors burst open and Candace stormed through them hopefully, putting on her best aggravated act.

"Alright, what's going on here?" she demanded. Phineas' head dropped back between his knees.

"Candace," Ferb said, "can I talk to you for a moment?" Candace looked from Ferb to Phineas, then Phineas to Ferb and grunted.

"Fine." She huffed. "But I'll be back!" Ferb led her over to the side of the house and glared at her.

"What?" Candace asked innocently, or at least as innocently as she could.

"Phineas has been having the worse six days of his life. You could show a little sympathy." Ferb scolded.

"Well sorry! I'm just trying to bust you guys but you haven't done anything in forever! Humph!" Candace argued back.

"Well, I'm trying to get Phineas to do something but he's completely given up hope. Help me!" Ferb replied, fairly annoyed at his sixteen year old sister.

"Okay, okay. Hum, how does Kwasmo magazine say about cheering creative boys up? Um, here let me go get it!" Candace said enthusiastically. Ferb rolled his eyes and returned to his spot next to Phineas.

"Phineas, I know you're upset but don't you want to take a stand and find her? I mean, come on Phineas, how are you ever going to see her again if you don't look?" Ferb told him. Phineas raised his head again, but proceeded to put it down when Candace burst through the door again, magazine in hand. She strutted over to Ferb, grabbed his hand, and pulled him to their original location.

"Okay, so there are three steps to this. Step one: inspire him." Candace said, looking at Ferb for his reaction.

"Check." Ferb said.

"Step two," Candace continued, "is to let them be sad, but comfort them as they 'sweat through their eyes'." Candace looked at Ferb and said, "That's man talk for crying, just in case you didn't know." She winked and Ferb blinked, repeating his last reply.

"Okay then, the third and final step says to present them with an idea that will make them want to get out of their sadness and jump into the fix!" Candace said, way too enthusiastically.

"Well I guess I can try that." Ferb said nonchalantly.

"Excellent!" Candace exclaimed as she pulled Ferb over to Phineas.

"Okay, mister. If you want your little friend back then you're going to have to take a stand. Make some blueprints to a mega cute tracker or something and find her using that! I mean come on Phineas!" Candace practically yelled, afterwards being very out of breath.

Phineas looked up and through sniffles said, "That would be too difficult. There're a lot of cute dogs in this world, and what if Meep decides to visit?"

"Okay then, how about you build a mechanical dog or something and give it one of Isabella's things so it could track her down? Huh, what about that?" Candace asked.

"Been there done that, sorry, sis." Phineas replied, raising his head higher.

"Fine. What about texting her and asking where she is? Or is that too simple?" Candace asked, beginning to be annoyed.

"Yes." Phineas said, still raising his head higher.

"Really? I came up with an idea for you? Yes! I knew something like this wouldn't keep my little brother down!" Candace exclaimed, jumping up.

"No, no Candace, I meant yes it would be too simple." Replied Phineas, who had already stopped crying and had his head lifted all the way up.

"Ugh, well I have one more idea, but you'll need cardboard, a peperoni pizza, peanut butter, and a baby elephant. So, what you do is" Candace started, now fully annoyed but still hopeful.

"Candace," said Ferb nicely, "I think I've got this one." Candace huffed but stayed quiet so Ferb could talk.

"Phineas," Ferb said, a smile stretching across his face, "I know what we're going to do today."

A/N: Okay, so this chapter was supposed to be all inspirational and stuff… I'm not sure how I did Ferb, Phineas and Candace so PLEASE let me know in a review! Thanks so much and I'll try my best to have new chapter out every Thursday. Wish me luck! ;P