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Chapter 14 - Episode 14: “Tents, Tech, and Time Warps”

---INTERVIEW – JOEY DUNPHY---

[Joey stands beside the RV, squinting at a blueprint labeled "Phineas & Ferb Innovations: One-Day Wonder." Buddy sniffs a suspiciously high-tech toaster.]

JOEY: Ever meet someone and feel like you've known them… in another dimension? [Pauses] No? Just me? Cool.

RAMBLING PINES CAMPGROUND – SUNSET

The group unloads gear as Zoey claims the RV's lone bed, sprawled like a starfish. The others glare at their tent kits.

JOEY: Don't hate me because I'm innovation's favorite.

LILA (stabbing tent poles): This is medieval. Joey, your RV has self-heating floors but only one bed?

JOEY: It's a prototype. Blame the designers.

MATT (reading the RV's logo): "Phineas & Ferb: Built in a Day™." Wait, is this a real company?

TRAVIS (holding a tent upside down): Are we sure this isn't a parachute?

--- INTERVIEW – ETHAN PARKER ---

ETHAN: Joey's smugness is almost unbearable.

CAMPSITE FIRE PIT – NIGHT

The group grills marshmallows as Joey explains the RV's origins. Phil eavesdrops, fiddling with a "smart" campfire app.

JOEY: They were these… kids. Brothers. Red hair, and green hair with platypus obsession. Said they could build anything in 24 hours.

LILA (skeptical): And you just… trusted them?

JOEY: They had a triple-redundant solar grid and a pet platypus. Seemed legit.

ZOE (from the RV window): Named Perry, right?

JOEY (startled): How'd you—

ZOE: Lucky guess. [Winks]

[Flashback: Joey's blurry memory of two boys singing "Hey Ferb, I Know What We're Gonna Do Today!" while welding the RV.]

JOEY (muttering): Why does this feel like a fever dream?

--- INTERVIEW – PHIL DUNPHY ---

PHIL: I once hired a guy named Klaus to fix my boat. Turned out he was a squirrel. [Nods] People these days.

THE DUNPHY-PRITCHETT CAMPSITE – NIGHT

The family's attempts to "rough it" clash with Joey's RV luxuries. Claire battles a collapsing tent, Jay grumbles about "glamping," and Mitchell accidentally orders a drone strike on Cam's s'more.

CLAIRE (yelling): Phil! Your "raccoon ambiance" app is summoning actual raccoons!

PHIL (panicking): They're early adopters!

GLORIA (to Manny): This is why Colombians sleep in hammocks. [Points to Joey's RV] And why we marry rich!

MANNY (writing poetry): "O techno-beast, thy chrome heart calls…"

[Inside the RV, Zoey demonstrates the voice-activated espresso machine.]

JOEY: PINE-E, triple-shot latte with existential dread.

PINE-E: "Brewing… and same, man."

---INTERVIEW – CAMERON TUCKER---

CAM: Mitchell tried to "bond with nature" by naming a squirrel "Steve Jobs." It stole his phone.

RV ART STUDIO – LATE NIGHT

Joey sketches furiously, trying to recreate a memory: a towering "Treehouse of Tomorrow" with rollercoaster loops. Buddy whines, snapping him back to reality.

JOEY (to Buddy): I know them. Or… I did. [Sighs] Maybe in past life.

ZOE (peeking in): You're muttering about platypuses again.

JOEY: Platypi. And it's nothing.

ZOE (softly): Y'know, my uncle swears he met a time-traveling cowboy. [Shrugs] Stranger things, right?

--- INTERVIEW – LILA CARTER ---

LILA: Joey's either a genius or a Truman Show victim. Jury's out.

FINAL SCENE

The group gathers around the fire, Joey's sketchbook open to the treehouse. Phil plays "Campfire Rock" on a kazoo, and Claire finally masters her tent.

JOEY (staring at the stars): Phineas and Ferb… whoever you are, thanks.

MATT (toasting): To one-day wonders and weird brothers!

TRAVIS (burnt marshmallow aloft): And to not sleeping in a bear den!

[Post-credits: A shadowy platypus waddles past the RV, pauses, and tips its hat. Text overlay: "Agent P: Mission Complete 🎩".]

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