The Belly of the Beast

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Piper held her Grandma's hand as she looked around in excitement at all the ships and people dressed in old style clothes.

"Ah, rapture! This is my favorite part of the Danville Harbor Days festival." Lawrence said as he lead the way down the dock. "The annual shark reenactment. Let's checketh it out!"

Linda gave him a look. "Checketh it out? Really?"

"I stand by my Old English." He heard music and looked behind him in excitement. "Oh, look! They're doing a song!"

🎶 Won't you gather round and hear a tale
Of the shark of Danville Harbor.
Who terrorized our people,
Can you just imagine this?
If it's sharks you want to know about
You're bound to end up smarter.
'Cause though technically a vertebrate,
They're cartilaginous.

The monster came upon us,
And its eyes were black as coal.
His jaws so big that we could see
His molars and incisors.
He came at us and of our bladders.
We did lose control.
Then he ate a politician,
And a curriculum advisor.

He cornered us in Miller's Cove.
We thought that we were dead.
We've never seen his like, remember:
This was way before TV.
We lost control again, there were a long line for the head.
Then the woman folk banged pots and pans and drove him out to sea.
Yes, the woman folk banged pots and pans and drove him out to sea! 🎶

"And that is why we celebrate Harbor Day every year with a reenactment." Lawrence told them. "Here cometh the shark!"

The family look out at the ocean only to Buford in a floaty with a shark fin on his head.

"Look at me, I'm a shark! I can poop in the ocean!" The boy yelled with excitement.

Baljeet, who was dress at the tail and was pushing him, popped up out of the water behind him. "But you are not going to, right?"

Buford just smirked. "Keep pushin' dweeb."

"Wow." Piper muttered. "They really should put more effort into the shark."

Phineas turned to other two with a grin. "Squad, I knoweth what we're going to doeth today."

"Hey," Lawrence hummed. "Whereith is Perry?"

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"Oh brother, these Harbor Days festivals are so lame." Candace complained as she and Stacy walked down the dock. "I can wait to see wait to see this year's lame-o replica of the Great White Shark of Danville Harbor."

"It's always so feeble." Stacy said and they both laughed.

They fell quiet when they heard the sound of helicopters and looked up to see two of them carrying a giant mechanical shark.

The trio were in a small boat in the water and Phineas had two orange flags up to signal to the helicopters. "Okay, let 'er drop! Right..."

The shark was dropped into the water, causing a big splash got Candace soaking wet. The teen stood their in disbelief. "Okay, now how did that only hit me?"

"Let's go!" Phineas said and Ferb moved the boat up to the shark's gills. "We're gonna give this Harbor Day's reenactment the best shark ever!" With that, the trio climbed inside the shark through the gills and the shark submerged.

Candace let out a groan of irritation. "Come on, Stacy. We've got a shark to bust!"

The teen ran over to the big man with a pegleg who had sang the shark song earlier. "Yo-ho, Captain Kidd! We need your ship! My brothers and their friend are in that shark!"

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