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The Triangle Enigmatic Ch3

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“Come back… come back…” Isabella murmured between quiet sobs and breaths for air. She had her arms stretched out in the air above her and her eyes were clouded with pain. Ferb gently stepped up on the table and tried to comfort her by wrapped arms around her, but she continued to cry up to the sky.

“Where is he!? Where did it take him?” Ginger squealed, her hands covering her mouth.

“Do you really think he knows?” Buford said back, scratching his forehead in shock at what had just happened. “That thing came out of nowhere!”

“You got that right.” Adyson remarked.

Ferb took Isabella’s hand and stepped in front of her view in order to make her look at him. Her cheeks were stained with tears and she breathed unsteadily, causing Ferb even more pain to see. Isabella was his best friend, -or even better-a sister, and he would do anything in order for her to be safe and sound. It made his heart ache to see her like this, and he was sure his facial expression at the moment wasn’t helping her at all. They just stared at each other, Isabella knowing exactly what was going on in his genius brain. Years of being by him in their adventures had trained her mind’s eye to see into his overly complicated skull, and she could tell what he wanted to get across to her.

They were going to find that bloody triangle and get their triangle back.

Isabella fell into his warm embrace, and hugged him tightly, short cries coming from her body and her chest heaving. Ferb held her close and tried really really hard not to start crying himself, because this was his brother- His very own brother that had been taken right out of the grasp of Isabella. The same brother he had vowed to himself to always keep safe no matter what the issue. And he couldn’t have done anything to stop that rancid beast from stealing Phineas away from him. It happened so fast-A little too fast for either of them to be able to hold back their tears.

“Well, are we just gonna stand here and cry all night, or are we going to find where Phineas was taken?” Milly said, putting the one question down on the table that was lingering at the back of everyone’s brains. “I for one do not want to have a crying Izzy at all, and a crying Ferb is definitely not the next thing we need.” She crossed her arms.

Gretchen tapped her fingers together in thought. “What should we do, Ferb?” She stepped forward and looked up at the boy and Isabella who stood on the table. “Who was that… thing?”

Everyone went silent, as they all had no idea what it was, and all eyes fell upon the green-haired Brit. He knew that everyone wanted an explanation from him, so he slowly pulled away from Isabella and wiped her face of tears. “It’s going to be okay, everyone.” He murmured softly. Ferb looked out at the now empty yard. Everyone had left besides the usual gang.

They all looked up to Ferb, and he knew it. He couldn’t simply tell them that he had no idea what to do or what that blithering thing was, because that would scare them out of their minds and nobody would be able to sleep tonight. Not even Buford. Because whatever that triangular thing was, it had scared the living daylights out of Ferb, and it wasn’t normal for him to be scared of anything.

“I’m not going to just let this slide without a fight. I don’t know where he is, but with all of the justice in me, I will find my stepbrother, and I will bring him home, and I don’t give a crap about how long it takes.”

Gretchen smiled then, and so did a few others, but Isabella still had misty eyes.

Isabella wiped her eyes, trying to get rid of all the running mascara that made them turn bloodshot. She sniffed twice in a row, and fixed her hair before she turned to face the others. “Guys, we need some time to think about this so… Everyone should go ahead and head home. We’ll talk about this tomorrow.”

“But Chief!” Gretchen called, but Isabella stopped her by jumping off the table.

“Please, everyone, just leave.” She said more firmly this time, and all of the Fireside girls gave her hugs and left. Buford and Baljeet were more reluctant to go, but with a warm hug to both of them from Isabella, they turned and left.

Gretchen stayed though, even though Isabella turned towards her and gave her an annoyed look.

“I’m not going to leave, Isabella. Phineas just disappeared on my birthday. I am not going to just call it a night and go home when I know this was probably my fault!”

“How was this your fault Gretchen?” Isabella’s voice quaked.

The girl pushed up her glasses and her eyes began to cloud over. “I don’t know! Maybe all the commotion made that thing come?” She threw her arms up into the air. “I am not going to just let that slide. Please let me help you guys!”

Ferb jumped down and joined them on the grass.

Isabella looked at Ferb as if asking his approval that she could help. She had nothing against Gretchen helping, she just didn’t know if Ferb would mind.

“If you truly wish to help, just understand that this may be dangerous.” The usual spark in his eyes had gone somewhere, leaving a very non expressive look to Ferb’s face. Almost the same as it had been all those years ago when he had first moved here…

Gretchen nodded without a single second wasted. “Yes! Yes, I don’t care. You know I’ve joined you in things you’ve done in the past. I wanna help as much as I can.”

Ferb gave her a small smile only to reassure her. “Alright. But… you two may want to change into some more comfortable clothing. I know I’ll be up all night trying to figure anything out, so if you want you can go put on some night clothes.” The girls cut him off by nodding in return.


“Yeah, these outfits are meant for fancy situations, not grave ones.” Isabella said, and they both ran out of the yard in five seconds flat.

Ferb stood in his place until the gate stopped squeaking back and forth. He looked out at the yard and then gasped, reaching a hand up to his forehead. He then let out a frustrated sigh.

“I guess no one here knew what a rubbish bin was…”

While he began to pick up after everybody because he simply did not feel like making a quick robot to do it for him, the girls ran over to Isabella’s house to get some comfy clothes. Isabella was going to let Gretchen borrow some because her house wasn’t even in the neighborhood.

They both ran past Vivian, who was a little bit too endorsed in a television show to notice the sound of footsteps behind the couch. Gretchen followed Isabella up the stairs and into her room.

Once they were safely inside, Isabella pulled out her pajama drawer. “Okay, I have lots of sweatpants and stuff to wear. What color do you like best? I have… pink… pink… and um… pink...” She frowned.

“Why do you only have pink?” Gretchen giggled.

Isabella pulled out a pair that had a bejeweled princess crown on the left upper leg. “I don’t know…”

Gretchen smiled and took a pair from her. “That’s okay, pink is fine.” She paused for a moment to examine them before she began to change. “So… are we going to keep this a secret from our parents or what?”

Isabella took a deep breath. “I’m gonna tell my mom that there’s gonna be a sleepover at Phineas and Ferb’s house and just the gang is gonna be there. She trusts everyone enough to let me stay late.”

“But what about my mom and dad?”

Isabella handed her a tank top to put on. It was also pink. “Tell them you’re sleeping over with me.”

“But I’ve never lied to them before!”

“It’s okay Gretch, if you end up having to tell them the truth, it’s not like we’re doing anything wrong. Ferb’s not that kind of guy.” Isabella brushed her hair after getting her own tank top on.

Gretchen pressed her lips together in acceptance. “Yeah… I guess you’re right. Plus, my party isn’t even supposed to be over anyway.” She smiled.

Isabella handed her the brush, and she took it.

“That dress was so tight.” Gretchen muttered as she gave the sparkly piece of expensive fabric that laid on Izzy’s bed a disgusted look. “I’m glad to be out of that thing.”

“You looked so good in it!” Isabella complimented. She raised her eyebrows and chuckled. “You were catching a lot of attention…”

Gretchen’s eyes went wide. “Was it that bad!?”

“That’s not a bad thing!” Isabella said loudly.

“Yes it is! I don’t want attention from boys yet, I still have to get through college! I have an education on the line here!” She sighed. “Oh, I knew it was a mistake to get it.”

Isabella shook her head slowly. “Gretchen, look at you. What are you saying? You’re gonna make yourself get through college before you start dating!? I thought we’ve already been through this!”

“We have, Chief, and you have a completely different mindset than me.” She laughed.

Isabella smiled at her and rolled her eyes. “Well… then what made you get the dress even though you knew it would get attention?”

Gretchen blinked at her. “I don’t know.”

Isabella eyed her suspiciously. “You’re lying.”

“I’m not lying!” She said as her face started to turn pink.

Isabella paused and looked at her through the mirror. “There has to be a reason!”

“Well, there’s not, I just liked the dress! It looked marvelous on that mannequin and I just… I liked it okay!?” She started to nervously fold the thing.

“Gretchen, now I know for a fact that you’re lying. You start to fold things when you lie.”

“No I don’t!”

Isabella crossed her arms and glanced from the dress to her and back again twice.

“It just needed to be folded, I’m a bit OCD!” She glanced at the bed and made a quick adjustment to the covers, passing a hand over them to force the wrinkles out.

“No you’re not.” A clever grin crept up her lips and made a dimple on her cheek visible.

“How would you know?” She sat on the bed.

“Because I’ve known you since we were in kindergarten.” Isabella laughed. “And if you were, you wouldn’t have just messed the bed back up by sitting on it.”

Gretchen swallowed nervously and twirled a piece of loose string in the quilt around her finger. “Let’s just go back to the backyard, okay?”

Isabella was then reminded of the reason why they were even in her room in the first place. She bit her lip as her eyes trailed straight to the picture beside her bed containing none other than Phineas Flynn. Gretchen had done a good job at helping her forget him.

She forced herself to look back at Gretchen who was a nervous wreck for some reason that she didn’t know, and Isabella sighed slowly. “Okay. Ferb’s probably wondering what’s taking so long, anyway.” She paused as Gretchen stood back up. “But don’t think that this conversation is over, Commander.”

Gretchen slumped down as she made her way out of the bedroom. “Yes Sir…”

Isabella shut the door behind her and they both made their way back to the backyard.

Ferb had finished any cleaning that needed to be done, leaving all the lights and decorations because frankly he didn’t feel like dealing with them right now. He had brought his laptop outside and was fiddling with it under the tree when the girls arrived in the backyard.

All of the lights had been turned off, and the dance floor was now gone, leaving only the grass to sit on. Ferb had changed too, and was now sporting some purple flannel pajama pants and a T-shirt.

“Hey Phi-Ferb… um…What’cha dooin?” Isabella asked sadly.

The sound of the voice made him look up, and seeing that they were both now wearing some comfy attire, he smiled and gave them a small wave of the hand.

“No really, Ferb what are you doing?” She pressed.

The boy blinked. He wasn’t used to having to answer that question, so he just… hadn’t. “Oh, I’m trying to see if this thing has been seen by anyone else.”

“That’s a good start.” Gretchen said as the two girls sat down on either side of him to look at the screen. On it, there were two different tabs open and they were split down the center of the screen so that he could see both at the same time.

“The internet is the only logical place to look first. I mean, I don’t recall having any books about yellow talking triangular kidnappers.”

“Do you think it was some kind of…” Isabella trailed off as she began to read some of the suggestions Google had given them, and most had websites about geometrical shapes.

“I don’t know what to think.” Ferb said. “Everything I’ve tried hasn’t pulled up a single thing relevant to what I’m looking for.”

“Why do you have two separate internets open?” Isabella questioned, pointing at them.

“In case I find something on one and I want to look something else up on the other.”

“Why don’t you just open a new tab?” Gretchen said, leaning in to see it better.

“Because I like to be able to see everything I’m looking at at one time. And since Phineas won’t give me the password for the holographic computer, I can’t work on that one.”

The girls both simultaneously let out the same noise. “Ohhh…”

Ferb smiled a bit at that, and then erased what he had typed in in the search bar for Google.

“Have you tried looking up entities? It was glowing so maybe it was some kind of creepy thing like that.” Gretchen suggested.

“The only thing I’ve tried so far is ‘living Eye of Providence’ and ‘creepy talking triangles’.” He sighed softly. “But it wouldn’t hurt to try that.”

He typed in ‘evil triangular entities’ and tapped enter.

The first thing to show up in the list was a website for a Mystery Shack apparently.

“Evil dream demon.” Ferb read. “Click to read more.” He raised his eyebrows.

“Click on it, it sounds about right.” Isabella said, pulling her legs up to her chest and wrapping her arms around them.

So Ferb did exactly that. The website was fully decorated with a background that looked like old brown wood and an orange bar on the top of the screen that listed off different pages on the site. The first button read “Buy Merchandise”, the second read “Absolutely Real Creatures”, the third labeled “Activities”, the fourth with “Directions to Here”, and the fifth reading “ROGUE DEMON ON THE LOOSE. CLICK THIS.”

The front home page only gave a picture of this “Mystery Shack” but the S was missing and the sign only said “Mystery hack”, and below it said, “Want a super awesome and mind bending tour containing some of the most elusive creatures known to mankind? You’ve come to the right place! Stop by the Mystery Shack, the house of mystery, and have your mind blown today! Don’t forget your wallets.”

“This just looks like some dumb tourist trap.” Isabella muttered.

Gretchen shook her head and looked closely at the screen, eyeing the words carefully. “I don’t know, Izzy, this might be something important. Take a look at the label on that button in the navigation bar.”

Ferb moved the mouse up to the button that read “ROGUE DEMON ON THE LOOSE. CLICK THIS” and clicked it.

It took a minute before the page pulled up. The wifi in the tree wasn’t all that strong. They had installed it about five years ago, so it didn’t surprise anyone that it was getting a bit wobbly. But once the page did pull up, they all gasped simultaneously. There was a very accurate drawing of the thing they had seen. The thing that had taken Phineas.

“THAT’S IT! THAT’S THE THING!” Isabella shouted, as if neither of her friends knew.

There was a short paragraph below the picture, and Gretchen pushed up her glasses and read:

“If you’re reading this right now, please DO NOT stop. I don’t think my Great Uncle would approve of me hacking the Shack’s website but… I need to get this out there in case somebody needs help. If you have seen the thing in the picture above, do not interact with it. It is an evil demon by the name of Bill, and is EXTREMELY dangerous. The girl stopped and continued to read in silence, not being able to utter a sound because of how frightening the message was.

“Whoever this guy is, we need to go meet him.” Isabella ordered.

Ferb nodded. He took a screen capture of the drawing of the demon and saved it to his pictures, and then added the website to his bookmarked pages. He then went back one page, returning to the home screen, and clicked the button “Directions to Here”.

It pulled up a map of a place called Gravity Falls.

“Oregon? This guy lives in Oregon?” Gretchen said after seeing the labels on the map.

“Then what in the world was this Bill guy doing here? And why did he take Phineas!?” Isabella exclaimed with wide eyes as she turned her gaze from the computer screen to Ferb.

“That’s what I was thinking.” Gretchen concurred. “What would he want with Phin? He’s just a normal… well… abnormal teenager.”

Ferb stared at the screen a minute longer while the girls talked.

“And it seemed so happy about stealing him away from us!” Isabella yelled. “I wouldn’t be surprised if it was just all for fun and games… I mean, he was wearing a bow tie, for goodness sake!”

“Well, there have been some really serious and meaningful men that bore bow ties on their suits.”

“But that wasn’t a guy, Gretch! THAT was a TRIANGLE!”

“Phineas is a triangle too.” She added.

“Yeah, but at least he has a heart!”

Ferb leaned his head back until it fell against the bark of the tree.

“Isabella, you need to calm down.” Gretchen said soothingly.

“HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO CALM DOWN WHEN A DEMONIC TRIANGLE RIPPED PHINEAS OUT OF MY OWN ARMS?”

Gretchen let out a sorrowful sigh and looked down just as Ferb shut the lid of his laptop.

“I could have held onto him tighter… or… or pushed him out of the way or… or something!” The raven-haired Jewish Mexican girl said though shaky breaths. “If I can’t stop this from happening, then how am I gonna stop even worse things from happening in the future?” She passed two jittery hands through her hair on the top of her head. “Oh, what am I talking about, what could be worse than this?”

“Isabella, just take a deep breath in, and let it out slowly.” Gretchen said. “Hyperventilation is not helpful during dire situations.”

Isabella did just that, filling her chest with air and then waiting a few pulses before letting it out through her nose. She then looked up at Ferb with her big blue pleading eyes.

“Ferb?”

The boy lifted his head off the trunk to look her in the eye.

“What are we gonna do? If the person we need to get to is in Oregon, and we’re like five states away from him, how are we going to know how to get Phineas back? I mean, I don’t think this is one of those situations that can be handled over the phone, Ferb. We need to meet up with this Mystery Shack person and confront with him.”

Ferb tapped his fingers on the lid of the laptop and raised his eyebrows before looking at Gretchen and back to Isabella. “Well,” He began. “That means we need to catch the very next flight to Gravity Falls, which is, apparently, just west of Weird, one of the major cities in Oregon. So… In other words, Isabella, I know what we’re going to do today.”

“Tonight.” Gretchen corrected sadly.

Ferb frowned slightly. “…Tonight.”
Onward to Gravity Falls they will fly~

I have a feeling it's gonna be fun writing about these three as a group. Ferb, Isabella, and Gretchen make a pretty awesome team. You'll see what I mean later. Hopefully. You can blame *foobar137 for the Ferbetchen fluff. I read his stories, and a bunch of others on FanFiction (I was bored one day and I wanted to read stories), and I started liking the pairing again. :stare:
I'M SORRY. not really... The geeky fluffy stuff is cute and I just think he has the same chances with her as he does with Vanessa, if not more. I mean, come on people, she's like five years older than him. I DO STILL LOVE Ferbnessa. But there just wasn't a place for her in this story. ^^; and also I have trouble coming up with good Ferbnessa plots, and with adding Doof into my stories. I'm SO bad about leaving him out. :(
I can't wait till they meet Dipper and Mabel!!!!!!!!!!!! :iconlaplz:


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Gravity Falls (c) Alex Hirsch
Story (c) Me, :iconhalypooh:

Also, I tried putting spaces between the paragraphs with this one. I realized that I tend to like reading stories better when they're formatted like this, so I made this chapter like that.
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Oh my glob, oh my glob, oh my glob,  Dipper and Mabel!! They get to meet Ferb, Isabella, and Gretchen, Yay!!:D (Big Grin) :D (Big Grin) :D (Big Grin) =P (Razz) Clap Clap I am a dummy! :happybounce: Hug I love your writing!!