Part One can be found here: thecvcrescentcrier.weebly.com/home/the-downfall-of-thanos-as-orchestrated-by-phineas-and-ferb While our heroes were celebrating the return of the universe’s lost souls, it became apparent that Thanos had not only been ruling over the Tri-State area, but had been preparing to protect it as well. Since his followers were all slain at the hands of the Avengers during the Battle for Wakanda, Thanos realized he needed to rebuild his crew. He needed to collect four new followers, and so he set out in Danville. He recruited Thaddeus and Thor, two characters that hate the Flynn-Fletcher boys as seen in season 2 episode 23 No More Bunny Business. His next stop was to pick up Aloyse Everheart Elizabeth Otto Wolfgang Hypatia Gunther Galen Gary Cooper von Roddenstein, also known as Rodney, one of Doofenshmirtz’s fellow villains in the L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N organization who tries to best Doof at every turn. But his most devout follower of all left even Thanos a bit unnerved, since she was on the search for him: Suzy Johnson, sworn nemesis of Candace Flynn (and we can infer that she has bullied Buford as well as seen in season 1 episode 39 where Buford dressed up as Suzy because he’s afraid of her). With his gang of cronies in tow, Thanos set out making his next plan. He knew that there would be people who resented him for his decimating the population, so he set about creating a contingency plan, in case events similar to the last article took place. Suzy would come up with ideas, Rodney would create the first prototype, and then Thaddeus and Thor would begin mass production. In a week they had amassed an army of about 16,000 robot frontline fighters, 1,000 robot commanders in charge of a squadron, and 14 heavy hitters, robots able to soak up damage and deal massive damage if required. Some people might question the availability of all these robot parts, but if Phineas and Ferb can get as many parts as necessary without bankrupting their parents, it’s safe to assume that Thanos would have access to the same infinite amount of resources. Back to the action at hand: the moments after the snap restoring half of all sentient life forms, the sacrifice given up by Doofenshmirtz’s self-destruct button, Buford being right about chili-cheese fries, Candace and Phineas asking nicely while Ferb holds a telepathic conversation, and Isabella being a huge asset and the most efficient. Back to the invasion currently taking place. Back to the recollection of the cosmic powers never-before-seen, back to the innocence of plans thought out by children. Back to the battle for the fate of the universe. Robots poured out of Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated, where Thanos had decided to take over after Doof vacated it in search of Perry the Platypus. They came out of all the windows, smashing through the retractable roof, exiting through any way that was not the door. “Well, that’s just rude ya know,” said Doof. “The worst part is, I just decided I didn’t need the evil-robot-army-destroying-your-house insurance policy literally moments before this guy just decided to waltz in and just take over my property. I figured, what are the odds of another robotic army taking over the world from my house happening again, but no. Some days, you just can’t win,” he said with a sigh. Perry walked over, and awkwardly gave his nemesis a pat on the back, and he offered a chitter of encouragement. And then remembered the invasion currently taking place, and what they did last time. Perry typed some commands into the robot the boys created so that no one would have to die from handling the stones, despite the protests of the others around him. The fingers snapped. The robot army was still there, but something new was beginning to materialize around our squad of children and a man in a lab coat. All of their previous inventions began to materialize around them, everything from the rollercoaster to the time loop fixer. All of Doof’s Inators, from his Magnetism Magnifier to the temporal loop one, everything was there. But that’s not all. Their other friends began to walk through orange portals to come and help out. Out of a portal on the left, Irving came through with the Fireside Girls right behind him. Out of another portal came Meep, steering his spaceship. Inside the cockpit with him was Balloony. Another portal opened, and instead of this dimension, all of the 2nd dimension counterparts began to pour through. Through the fourth portal came all of the O.W.C.A. agents. Out of the final portal came a teenager with blonde hair, a smile on his face, and a Slushy-Dog on a stick. “Hey Candace,” he said. Jeremey Johnson had arrived. At this point in time, we cut away to Dan Povenmire and Jeff Marsh, the creators of the show, in a similar fashion as in previous episodes, where they are stop motion pictures of themselves. “Does this count as copyright infringement?” asked Dan. “Nah, I’m pretty sure that Disney owns Marvel. Like, at least 40% sure.” “Oh well. Worst case scenario some kid author has to go to court over theft of intellectual property. Besides, who's even going to hear about this adventure? Some kids reading a newspaper?” * “My thoughts exactly.” With these closing thoughts, we return to the action. “We can’t let these robots leave Danville!” cried out Phineas. Ferb stared blankly at the crowd and pounds his fist. “Yeah, that’s right Ferb. Let’s break some robots.” Everyone got inside their previous invention, or manned one of Doof’s Inators. Buford manned the robotic shark as seen in The Belly of the Beast, an episodic spoof of Moby Dick. Baljeet controlled the production of the Phinnedroids and Ferbots from the episode titled I, Brobot. Ferb rode around on the roller coaster with one of the baseball launchers for extra mobility. Phineas drove Perry’s flying car and used Doof’s Ball-gown-inator to distract and hinder the robots. Isabella and the Fireside Girls set up methods of transportation around the perimeter so help could arrive quickly where needed, and then snatched some water guns and made their way inwards. Doof and Perry grabbed the Forget-about-it-Inator and one of the giant tops and made their way towards Thanos’ hideout. Candace and Stacy commandeered the tree house fighters made for her and Stacy in Tree to Get Ready. O.W.C.A. put out a call for help through the animal translator, then waged war with their own gadgets. Love Händel prepared their stage to play the soundtrack to the battle. It was show time. At first, it seemed to be an even fight between the two armies. But then, out came the heavy hitters. One of them even destroyed Ferb’s rollercoaster, leaving him flying through the air. He landed on the back of another heavy hitter, and he managed to take control. But as he looked up, he saw that the other robots had begun to punch through one of the walls, and were beginning to escape Danville. Not all at once, but they were slowly beginning to trickle out. So he tapped on his wristband, and the Beak super-suit came flying towards him, and Ferb went to go and take those escaping robots down. Meanwhile, Dr. Doofenshmirtz and Perry the Platypus were making their way closer and closer towards Thanos’ lair, while taking roundabout ways to destroy nearby robots. Well, Perry would destroy them while Heniz offered running commentary about how annoyed he was that Thanos basically stole his idea. “Like, how many times have I made robots to do my bidding? I mean, Norm is pretty much exactly like these guys, and...and...and what about that robot army I made? Yeah, you never really got to see them because their self destruct button was on their foot, but still. It was a thing I did. You don’t see everything that happens in my life Perry the Platypus.” Suddenly, two heavy hitters landed on the ground right in front of them, forcing Perry to swerve the top out of the way. But these two were special, and were currently being manned by Thaddeus and Thor. They opened up both of their protectors, and Thaddeus began monologuing. “How dare you try and stop Thanos? He is a fantastic and glorious lea-” He was cut off by a bolt of green coming from Perry, who had just fired the Forget-About-It-Inator, rendering him obsolete. A second blast came and hit Thor, taking out two of Thanos’ officers quickly. “Nice work with that inator Perry the Platypus! I had completely forgotten about it. Did you see what I did there, huh? I’m contributing.” He reached out for a hug. While Perry took down those two, Rodney had set up on top of city hall, and was just blasting his knockoff versions of Doof’s -inators that he switched to be -inizers. Buford was the first one to notice this, and he put out a call for help. Candace and her Tree House Robot came and grabbed Buford’s robo-shark and threw it towards Rodney. Rodney let out a scream as the shark’s maw surrounded him. But as he opened his eyes, he realized he was not dead, and that he was just inside of the shark itself. He started cackling, believing that he could now control the shark, until Buford came up from behind and just knocked him out cold with a punch to the head. As Buford started celebrating, he felt the shark being lifted again. He called out for Candace to stop, he realized that Candace had already moved on to fight against the other waves of robots. Another mech was picking him up. It was Suzy, but her robot was the size of the nearby skyscrapers. She shook Buford out of the shark, and flung him into the sky. Baljeet swooped down to the rescue, catching Buford in the plane as well as dropping a wave of the Phinnedroids and Ferbots onto the Suzy-mech. She shook most of them off in a single brush, and made her way closer towards outer-Danville to try and allow more robots to escape. But then, a voice rang out through the city. “SUZY JOHNSON! You are going to be in so much trouble when we get home,” said Jeremy, who had used the speakers from the episode, Oh, There You Are Perry, to amplify his voice throughout all of Danville. Suzy immediately exited the mech and tried to pretend like she had never even done anything wrong, but it’s pretty hard to hide the whole helping someone take over the universe when you have a giant robot version of yourself destroying downtown Danville. While the battle had been raging, Thanos had decided to stay down on the ground and simply watch it all play out. Phineas noticed this, and he drove Perry’s car in this direction. “Look Mr. Thanos, I just want to say, why did you do this? Why did you need to kill half of the life in the universe?” “Look kid, I just went over this like four days ago, but I guess you weren’t there. Basically, there aren’t enough resources for everyone in the world, and the only solution is to wipe out half of the population,” Thanos explained. “Well, couldn’t you just double the resources in the world instead?” Phineas proposed. Thanos paused for a moment. “You know, I never thought of it like that…” “Look, I get that you were trying to be a hero in your own roundabout way I guess. So here’s an offer. You call off your robots, and then you can use the infinity stones to double the resources for the universe. That way, you still can be considered a hero by the galaxy.” Thanos smiled. “That sounds nice. The only issue is, the robots can’t be called off. They were programmed to control the universe and-” A loud explosion coming from Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated cut him off. While Phineas and Thanos had been talking, Doofenshmirtz had finally gotten that hug from Perry, which had pressed all the other self-destruct buttons for his inators stored back at his home. The quick succession of all these explosions took out the control box for the robots, shutting them all down around town. A cheer rose up all around Danville. Phineas led Thanos back to their house, where the Infinity Gauntlet with the collected stones still was. Phineas typed in the command to have the robot do the snap, but Thanos shook his head. He grabbed the gauntlet himself, and let out a yell of pain as he snapped his fingers. He had doubled the resources for the universe, as now everyone had access to the same void that allows for Phineas and Ferb to have enough materials to build all of their creations everyday. But this came at a cost. Thanos felt his life force leaving his body. He closed his eyes. And then he opened them. “You really think we would let someone die from something as dumb as the Infinity Gauntlet?” quipped Phineas. “That is why we built this machine, so that we didn’t have to save everyone’s life everyday.” All of a sudden, another portal opened up, and all of the Avengers came flying through and started attacking Thanos. Captain America and Black Widow recognized this kid from back in New York 2012, and called off the fight at his request. The rest of the gang eventually trickled in from Danville, showing up with their battered inventions, all happily being greeted by the Avengers. Thanos decided that he deserved galactic punishment, since he did wipe out entire planets, and so they carted him away, cementing this as the day that Thanos, who defeated the Avengers, lost to a bunch of elementary schoolers. *Disney is surely investigating this article through their lawyers to see if they can sue Vincent Bottaro over this. For now, Vincent will remain part of the team, but if faced with legal action, he will tell the Disney lawyers where to stick it. Because the editor does care about image copyright, the images are from the Phineas and Ferb Fandom Wiki and CinemaBlend. - Vincent Bottaro If you want to write for the Crescent Crier, we would love to see you at one of our virtual meetings, which are every Wednesday at 1:30pm! To come to a meeting, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/TrQ5PqFcDqeE2yiB9, and we’ll send you a link ASAP. 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