Cherry and the Chipmunk Adventure

chapter 4

"Klaus and Claudia wanted us here by 11:00," Alvin said as they got to the front gates. "I hope we're not too late."

"I'm sure that we're not late alvin." Atticus assured him.

Alvin went ahead to open the gates.

"I still feel really guilty about tricking Ms. Miller..." Theodore sighed.

"At least you're a good one too." Simon didn't feel guilty, he didn't want to even be here or have anything to do with Alvin's plans.

Atticus felt the same way simon felt about alvin's plan and hoped that this around the world thing wasn't going to take long. Klaus and Claudia waited in their garden in formal black and white clothing, even their dog Sophie looked a bit fancy with her enlarged bow.

There were two large hot air balloons ready for the Chipmunks and Chipettes, just like in their video game.

Cherry stood with the Chipettes. "There they are..." she said as she saw Atticus coming with the Chipmunks.

"There they are." Atticus said while pointing to where cherry the chipettes klaus claudia and sophie were.

The Chipmunks went to their balloon.

"Ready to lose?" Brittany challenged her counterpart, Alvin.

"Not on your life." Alvin challenged back his counterpart Brittany.

"Bring it." Brittany nearly growled.

Klaus tried to get their attention as he carried two chests.

Cherry and Atticus opened the boxes to reveal that one was filled with Alvin, Simon, and Theodore DOLLS and the other had Brittany, Jeanette, and Eleanor DOLLS.

"DOLLS?" Atticus said out of confusion.

"It's part of the contest, young man," Klaus informed, then gave out instructions to the groups. "You each will take these DOLLS, and go follow your maps and place the dolls, replacing them with the other dolls. You have unlimited time, it all depends on how long it takes you... The first one back will the grand prize winner of $100,000."

"A hundred-" Alvin started.

"Thousand dollars..." Brittany finished dreamily.

Jeanette looked at her map with Cherry.

"Ask Simon, he should know this stuff better than I do." Cherry told the brown-haired chipette.

"Simon you should be in charge of the map." Atticus said handing him their own map.

"Simon?" Jeanette came to the smart munk, who she had a secret crush on.

Simon went to her to help her after he took his and his brothers' map.

Brittany overheard Simon's instructions, but pushed Jeanette away, she thought it was another plan cooked up by Alvin. "What a liar!" she scoffed, not knowing Simon was right, as usual.

"Brittany, Simon isn't a liar, he's smart." Atticus said.

"I bet you're on Alvin's side cuz you're a boy," Brittany scoffed.

"But what if he's telling the truth, Brittany?" Jeanette asked her sister.

"Oh, Jeanette, don't be so naive, he's only saying that because our route is shorter." Brittany said, pulling Jeanette in.

"I take it you will go with the boys and you'll go with the girls?" Klaus asked the human kids from Atticus to Cherry.

"Well, the Chipettes are kind of my responsibility anyway," Cherry shrugged. "They had nowhere else to stay besides that tree house in the middle of the forest."

"The same with me, the Chipmunks are my responsibility." Atticus said.

"Very well, that'll be fine." Klaus separated the boys and girls.

"Simon, don't worry so much..." Claudia kissed the smart chipmunk's cheeks.

Atticus and the chipmunks were ready as were cherry and the chipettes.

"Please, reconsider!" Simon begged.

"GO!" Klaus called.

Sophie gnawed at the hot air balloon ropes and sent the groups off for their travels around the world.

Simon gasped and he grabbed onto the basket as it left without him.

"Better get in, Simon!" Theodore called.

"Why didn't I think of that?" Simon glared, sarcastically.

"Come on, Simon get in." Atticus said.

"Do you know how to work this thing?" Alvin asked as they were nearly flopping everywhere.

Simon tried to get in, but got squished between the two baskets.

"Watch where you're going!" Brittany scowled at Alvin.

Atticus began to try to get Simon in.

The girls gasped as they were nearly going to crash into the fountain.

"Higher, Cherry, higher!" Eleanor cried to their human companion.

Cherry wasn't sure what exactly to do, but raised the balloon as high as she could, they broke the fountain, but they didn't get wet.

Klaus and Claudia tried to run from the balloons, but fell to the ground as the balloons were now gone and the adventure was set.

"Whew, that was close." Atticus said.

Cherry and the Chipettes didn't know it, but they appeared to have been driving into a stormy location, just like Simon said, but Brittany assured them it was nothing.

"Uh, Brittany, are you sure that it's nothing?" Eleanor asked her older sister.

"Trust me, guys, I know what I'm doing." Brittany reassured.

Cherry's eyes widened. "This won't end well..."

The bolts of lightning crashed down and it was raining very heavily instantly.

"You were saying?!" Jeanette asked Brittany.

"C-Come on, it's nothing..." Brittany promised.

The storm got worse, it took down their balloon and they landed onto a beach, knocked out of the basket, though they were actually supposed to land in this area.

"See guys, it was quite a breeze!" Brittany called.

"A breeze?" Cherry scoffed as she crawled out, her hair all fluffed and messed up, her clothes torn a bit since they didn't have a lot of protection from the storm.

"I hope all of our landings are not this rough." Eleanor said.

"It was a hurricane, Brittany, just like Simon said!" Jeanette roared.

"Yeah, Brittany, why don't you just admit you were wrong?" Cherry asked as she tried to flatten her hair down now, it didn't even look this bad when she would go out into town with her hair down.

"Well, because..." Brittany hesitated as she looked at herself in the mirror, then looked back at her sisters and their friend. "Okay, I was wr-...wr-..." she gave up. "Uh, Cherry, where's our first drop off?"

The other three sighed.

"We meet Mr. Antoine at the docks." Cherry said, gesturing to the docks where they would have to go with one of their chipette DOLLS to retreive a chipmunk.

"One DOLL down." Brittany said.