The last Baljeet pawn had just been cleared off the field, making it impossible to reclaim any pieces for both teams now. Ferb had lost a great deal of pieces and all he had left now were queen Megan, a Katie horse, a Ginger tower and himself. Of course Ginger thought it was sad to see her crush get blown off the playing field but it was just a game after all.
Baljeet sat down under the tree, watching the rest of the game develop while next to him, Buford sat, only focusing on Phineas's doubts. Would he choose victory over Isabella or the other way around? He completely ignored Baljeet. The latter watched the game and sure enough had found out what Buford's strategy was, only it was too late for his team as he was now off the field. He also started gathering the courage to tell Buford what happened. He was going to tell it as soon as the game was over.
Phineas on the other hand still had some pieces left. Both of his Holly-horses, Isabella the queen, a Gretchen-tower and an Adyson-bishop.
This game sure took long and it didn't look like it was going to end soon. They might have to take a break and continue after dinner.
Phineas was ready to make his next move when suddenly...
"Well well well! Look who turned traitor on us." Another girl in fireside girl uniform had entered the Flynn-Fletcher garden. This one was blond and had brown eyes.
Megan froze as she recognized the voice and knew all too well who its owner was.
"Clarissa told me I could find you here" the girl said.
Isabella had also frozen as she recognized the girl as well.
"Ch-chief... listen I-I can explain!" Megan said when she turned around. In the garden-gate was none other than Samantha.
"Yeah yeah, I know, your 'curiosity' again. You know, you shouldn't blame stuff like this on stuff like that" Samantha replied.
Holly looked at Adyson with a frown and muttered "stuff like this on stuff like that?" after which Adyson shrugged in reply.
"And Isabella, how lovely to see you again" Samantha said sarcastically.
"Samantha..." Isabella replied.
"So are you coming or what" Samantha said, turning back to Megan again.
All of Megan's eagerness and joy disappeared within a flash. So much for a day of fun. Samantha was either going to kick her out of the group and thus the fireside girls or she was going to make her work too hard. Both weren't very great options but at least she got to stay with the fireside girls at the last option. She was about to step off her piece when suddenly, Phineas spoke up.
"Hey wait! You would take your friends away from having fun?"
Samantha gave him a frown and just stood there.
"Phineas is right Samantha, Megan was having a lot of fun here today until you arrived" Isabella said.
Megan looked at them with surprise. Either this was really great or a terrible mistake. Making Samantha angry was not a good idea but they were standing up for her.
"Yeah, whatever" Samantha just said in reply.
Even Buford stood up from his place and walked over to Samantha. "Now listen, miss bossy. If you are willing to take away a new friend of ours and prevent her from having fun, then the gate is that way and only you receive an entry-ticket."
Once again, everybody was a bit startled at what Buford said but they began to get used to his Anti-Bufordian behavior.
"You'd hit a girl?" Samantha said to Buford.
"Of course not! I just throw them as far as I can, and whatever they come in contact with does the damage for me" Buford replied.
Megan was very touched by all of this. They only met her today and they already treated her as one of their friends!
"Right..." Samantha said, still not convinced. "But this doesn't even concern you. I was talking to Megan."
"Well you don't have to go all bossy, Samantha!" Milly said.
"And you deserve your 'talk-while-you-shouldn't-be-talking-patch'." Samantha said.
"Shut up..."
A few faces suddenly turned to Megan. Samantha wanted to speak up again when Megan said "I said shut up!" Now all faces were turned towards her.
"You've had a bad time with Isabella in your lil' sparks time and just because of that, you're saying that this all is rubbish. You've been keeping our group from enjoying all this just for that sole reason!" Megan said, suddenly looking stern.
"Megs I..." Samantha wanted to say.
"If that is why you've been treating us like you did, then I don't know how I could have put up with it for so long!"
"But Megs, we..."
"She is right Samantha and you know it!" Isabella intervened. "You're being too bitter about something that happened at least 5 years ago!"
Samantha snorted and muttered something under her breath. "Well fine, have it your way then. You're out Megan, good day!" With that, she left the garden and slammed the door shut.
"You know, I think we need to lock that gate every now and then" Phineas then said.

"Nein... nein... nein... nein... oooh! So that's where I kept my toothbrush... nein... nein..." Doofenshmirtz looked everywhere for his posters. Meanwhile, Perry carefully examined the trap and tried to see if there was any way for him to get out of it and steal back his fedora.
"COME ON! I have to find those pictures soon or I'll be late for my daughter!" Doofenshmirtz yelled in frustration. He once again walked past Perry but this time, the platypus had a plan. He bit in the lab-coat of his nemesis and didn't let go.
"Hey what the... oh you're planning to play it like that, don't you?! Well I got a surprise for you!" the doctor said and he took off his coat. "What do you say to THAT who-ever the platypus! MUHAHAHAHA" Doofenshmirtz then turned around again to search in some other corner of the room.
Perry rolled his eyes and tried to get to the pockets of the lab-coat with his mouth. It was a bit tedious but eventually, he found his way. There it was, his fedora! He had finally found it!
"Hey, who-ever the platypus, what are you doing with my lab-coat anyway? It's not like I was stupid enough to place the button to release the trap in there. Those are safely on that table over there." The evil scientist turned and pointed to it. Just then, Perry finally managed to get his fedora back on his head, making himself agent P once more.
"See, so there is nothing you can... PERRY THE PLATYPUS?!?! WHO WHAT WHEN... HOW DID YOU GET IN THERE... AND WHERE'S WHO-EVER THE PLATYPUS!!!"
Perry looked at him, rolled his eyes and made a gesture that said 'make an educated guess'.
Then, Doofenshmirtz face-palmed himself "It was you all along, wasn't it..."
Perry nodded in return.
"Well... CURSE YOU inability to see that it's Perry the platypus without his fedora!" the doctor then said, shaking his fist angrily in the air. Perry had to grin at this.