Blast From the Future. pt12

Chapter 12: What now?


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The character Marie Flynn (C) belongs to Angelus19 and sam-ely-ember of Deviantart. I do not own her in any way

The character Thomas Fletcher belongs to Melty94. I do not own him in any way.

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


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"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Marie screams. "HOW COULD THIS POSSIBLY HAVE HAPPENED!"

Thankfully for Ferb and Thomas, they had covered their ears before Marie started screaming.

Dispite how humorous Marie is at the moment, this is now a very serious situation. Isabella has refused to go the the end-of-summer dance with Phineas, which is something that wasn't suppose to happen. If Phineas and Isabella really don't go to the dance together tomorrow on Saturday, then there will be a future where they both don't get married, both become unhappy, and on top of all of that, Marie will not be born and therefore will not exist.

Phineas himself is currently moping around inside the house, not feeling like talking to anyone at the moment. Marie, as well as Ferb and Thomas, are still outside.

"This is bad! REAL bad! If Mommy and Daddy don't go to the dance, then they won't fall in love like they should, won't get married, AND I WON"T BE BORN!"

"Yes Marie, that is exactly what the discription in the previous paragraph just said." Thomas says.

"Now isn't the time to be breaking the forth wall, Tommy! We gotta stop my Mom from going to that dance with Baljeet! Maybe we can go back home in our time and see if Jazz can stop her Dad from going with Mommy!"

"Marie, there's currently a future where you're not suppose to exist. NO ONE except me would even know who you are." Thomas explains. But after thinking over what Marie said..."Although, that's not a horrible idea. Since we still have a time machine, we could go back and make sure that Uncle Phineas makes it to the movies on time!"

"GREAT IDEA, TOMMY!" She shouts as she jumps on Thomas to hug him.

"Well, between the two of us, ONE of us has to have good ideas."

"HEY!"

Ferb agrees that it's a good idea. As usual, he takes actions before saying anything by taking out the time machine. He sets in the date that they want to go to, pushes a button, and activates.

Unfortunately, it deactivates seconds after. Annoyed that this has happened twice, Ferb gives the device another smack. This time, however, it doesn't fix the problem. Needing the time machine to actually function, Ferb starts to to study it to find a problem.

"What's the problem? Is it shorting out again like before?" Thomas asks.

Ferb has no clue. All he can do is shrug.


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A few minutes later, still in the backyard, Ferb now has the designs that Marie gave to him for actually creating the portable time machine. But before he starts looking at them, he wants to check one more time on his own.

"Hmm..."

"If you're not going to figure it out on your own now, you'll proabablt not figure out later." Thomas says.

Ferb agrees. He just can't find anything wrong with the time machine. So he stops being stubborn and opens up the time machine designs to get it fixed already. Ferb takes a good look at the plans, only to discover a problem. He doesn't even believe it at first as shown by how he quickly shoves the designs right into his face so he can look at it.

"Uncle Ferb?"

"Is something wrong, Dad?"

Never before has Ferb gotten a look on his face like he has. The calm, quiet, and cool Ferb that everyone knows and loves...isn't here. He's actually completely horrified, as if he saw ghost. His face has even gone pale as if he did.

"TH-TH...THERE'S NOTHING HERE!"

Ferb spins the paper around for Thomas and Marie to see, revealing an almost completely blank piece of paper. The only thing on it was Ferb signature that hangs on the lower left corner of the page.

"What do you mean there's nothing there?" Thomas asks.

"I MEAN THERE'S NOTHING THERE! AND I KNOW THESE ARE THE RIGHT DESIGN PAGES, BECAUSE I SAVE THESE IN A SPECIAL SAFE!" Ferb explains, still being in a panic.

"Are you saying that we won't be able to time travel anymore!" Thomas asks, now also starting to worry and lose his coolness.

What could be happening to the time machine plans? Why isn't it working? Why can't Ferb fix it? All three of the kids try to figure out. Between the three of them, Marie is the first one to figure it out.

"Maybe...maybe since the future is changing, my Daddy never invented the time machine, nor did he create the designs..." Marie says.

"...and so you were never able to give them to Ferb here, my Dad, so HE can't use them either!" Thomas says, completing Marie's sentence. "So that must mean that the time machine is starting to erase itself from existance!"

"Aww...how cute! You were finishing my sentence there!" Marie says as she holds her hands together, finding this to be cute.

"Marie, I can see right through you." Thomas says.

"Of course you can! We've been best friends since we were babies!"

"No. I mean I can literally see right through you! Look!"

Although unaware with what Thomas just said at first, after looking down, she notices that part of her chest is somewhat invisible.

"GAHH! WHAT THE-!" Marie screams.

"GREAT SCOTT!" Thomas shouts. "You were doing that when we went back to the future!"

Even though Ferb is silient, he's just as horrified as Marie and Thomas are.

This is the worst case scenerio that they've been worried about this whole time. Ferb in particular has been dreading for a day like this to happen ever since he first met Marie. Although they're all horribly scared, they notice that her chest begins to reappear again. After a few long seconds of waiting, Marie becomes whole again, bringing peace back to them all. But only for a moment

Marie is still a little spooked out. Even though she's whole again, she still looks like she's ready to cry.

"Am...am I going to die?"

"Marie, I promise you that we'll figure something out." Thomas says to assure Marie. "Somehow."

Ferb, one more times, breaks his silience so he can speak.

"Our only way to save Marie and make things right is to keep everything on track. We must make sure that my brother goes to the dance with Isabella!"

"But Mommy already said that she doesn't want to!" Marie says. "What can we do?"

All three, now unsure about what to do, begin to ponder. None of them have ever been in a tight situation like this before.

Looking inside of the Flynn-Fletcher house through the glass door, Marie can see Phineas sitting on the couch doing absolutely nothing. She can tell that he feels as bad, if not, then more, miserable then she is. The Phineas Flynn she knows, the Dad that she knows, is not who she can see right now. The Phineas Flynn that raised her was always cheery and optomistic. This Phineas is feeling only failure. She can't stand seeing him like this.

"I'm going to talk to Daddy. I'll be right back."

She wants to see if she can encourage Phineas enough to try and ask Isabella to the dance again. Being his daughter, she feels obligated to try and make him feel as good as he can. Only problem is: He doesn't know who she really is.

So she slides open the door, closes it after coming in, and walks right up to Phineas.

"Hey." Marie says. "What's wrong?"

"Isabella won't go to the dance with me tomorrow."

What Phineas doesn't realize is that Marie, Ferb, and Thomas all already know about that. But again, Phineas doesn't realize that.

"Marie, what do you do to get girls to stop hating you?" Phineas asks.

"I'm not sure. I'm into boys."

"Yeah, good point." Phineas says as he realizes that he asked a stupid question. "Well then, if you were angry at a boy who liked you, what should they do to get you to stop being mad at him."

"Well, I still don't know, because as far as i know, there's no boy who-You really do like moth-I mean, Isabella?" Marie asks.

"How can I not? She the friendliest girl who helps me and Ferb out at every opportunity and is cuter then a baby kitten."

"Aww...that is SOOOO precious! Have you ever said something like that to her?"

"She already knows that she can destroy my cute tracker."

"So...have you?"

"I...guess...not..." Phineas says. "Although I have tried to hold her hand when an opportunity comes. Like this one time I walked her through a haunted house, and again when we all sang in the backyard after our trip around the world. Do those mean anything?"

"A little." Marie says. "But that may not be enough. If you want to show her that you like her, you got to try harder. And because I know she likes you too, I'm sure you can do it!"

Given a bit of inspiration makes Phineas feel MUCH better. The advice to try harder gives him more confidence a stronger will to settle everything out with Isabella. And maybe if he's lucky, he'll be able to go to the dance with her after all.

"Thanks, Marie. I guess I really needed someone to talk to."

"Well then, it's a good thing Ferb didn't come in here."

Both Phineas and Marie laugh together at the cleve joke. Both being happy now, they give each other a nice, well needed hug. Phineas needs it since he's been down and Marie needs it because it's the first hug she's had with her father since she traveled to this time period.

After they break their hug, Phineas starts to take a good look at Marie's face. He realizes something and begins to ponder a little.

"Hey, now that I think about it, you actually look a little bit like Isabella. And you have the same hair colour as I do."

"OH! Umm...REALLY!" She says nervously, as she knows she's Phineas' and Isabella's future daughter. "W-wow. What a...coincidence!"

"It is, isn't it? I just though that it was funny. I mean, you look like what could happen if me and Isabella were to have a baby. I mean, how funny is that? Haha."

"Y-y-y-yeah! How...funny."

After an akward silence due to Marie's nervousness, they both begin to hear something. It sounds...like music. Jazz music for that matter.

"Do you hear that?" Phineas asks,

"Sounds like Tommy's saxophone. I didn't realize he had it." Marie says "Want to check it out? he's fantastic!"

"This I gotta see!"

With no arguements, the father-daughter duo leave the living room to go back outside.


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