Idea for another dimension au: rather than like in the 2nd dimension, this is more of a mirrorvers. Perry is a villain working for evil O.W.C.A, which has taken over the world. Doofenshmirtz is a science hero trying to free the Tri-State Area from O.W.C.A’s control. Regular Perry and Doofenshmirtz aren’t sure how to feel about that dimension
buddy you just gave me an idea for a Perryverse sequel
(big rambly plot outline below the cut bc it got...long)
Doofenshmirtz breaking the laws of dimensional science to bring some of him to help defeat evil OWCA. Due to the loopy-ness of whatever -inator that ends up handwaving the 500 years thing, a couple of the Perrys come along too (I’m thinking original, lab coat!Perry, and a new one that I haven’t thought of yet, plus their doofenshmirtzes, so there’s like seven of them)
there’s some weirdness with the whole “HE’S EVIL!” “No, I’m the evil one!” but soon they all agree to team up to take down evil OWCA, esp once they see what sorta stuff evil OWCA is doing
Good guys LOVEMUFFIN, small plot point where they have to convince the more hardcore evil scientists to join them, Dr. Diminutive seduces someone with really bad “I’m short” pickup lines and it’s played completely deadpan.
Everybody ends up joining, except for Rodney, he ends up joining OWCA’s side because I don’t like Rodney
They fight Monogram, (and rodney his right hand man, rodney ends up running off and he’s never seen again) who turns out to be sympathetic to the cause and he has a redemption arc
They also free the interns (who were enslaved), and together with the trainees (who, spoilers, haven’t yet been indoctrinated into the OWCA belief thing and are just kinda confused) (like mormons? i don’t know much about mormons but it kinda feels like that) they all convince the OWCA agents of Danville to defect to their side.
There’s some cool duel that happens in here too.
And then they discover that this is actually a global thing, and that the big bad leader of OWCA, General Grammar, is the one to be taken down, so they have to hunt him down.
It takes a while for them to find him, so that gives time for emotional development and redemption arcs
the Evil Perry gets a redemption arc while they’re looking and it’s hopefully handled well
evil!Perry realizes that yo what i’ve been doing is fucked up (he really truly believed he was doing the right thing, that’s the whole brainwashing thing for ya) and during a fight against OWCA Seattle fights against the basically-brainwashed Peter, has to choose between killing him (a fellow agent, a friend on the evil side) or letting one of the other Perrys/Doofs die.
He chooses killing Peter, and that’s where the redemption arc starts.
(evil Perry has a hard time accepting anybody’s love too so there’s gonna be that)
There’s a big thing where evil Perry tells his backstory and what he was forced to do to lab coat!Perry, and they have this moment where evil Perry is like “i know i had a shitty life and i was forced to do this shit but i also know that isn’t an excuse for all the fucked up things i did, i have to make things right, i have to do the right thing”
(There’s a lot of cool redemption arc stuff that i can’t think of right now)
They get the word out across the globe and resistance groups pop up. Then they finally go and fight General Grammar (and win duh). The world sorta goes back to normal, and good guy Doofenshmirtz sends everybody back to their own dimensions.
(Also evil!Perry doesn’t end up in a romance thing with good guy!Doof, because I don’t think it fits in the time frame of the fic. Feel free to change my mind tho.)
And while this whole thing is going on, lab coat!Perry and his Doof are trying to figure out their relationship, since they’ve had the whole FWB thing going on the whole time but they’ve both caught feelings.
And the original Perry and his Doof are just in the background being adorable, basically making them both go damn i want that but there’s no way he feels the same. Which is BS.
So if I ever get the motivation, heck yeah that could absolutely be a perryverse sequel.
