Cherry and the Chipmunk Adventure

chapter 9

Meanwhile, the girls were lazily going along as the sun was setting where they were.

"Could one of you pass me a sandwich from the cooler?" Brittany asked, a little weakly.

Eleanor woke up instantly with a gasp and covered the cooler to keep Brittany from looking inside it to see what was really in it.

"Eleanor what gives?" Brittany asked her younger sister.

"D-Don't look in there!" Cherry cried.

"Come on, guys, we haven't eaten in a while..." Jeanette opened the cooler and saw an old familiar face.

"A penguin!?" Brittany gasped. "You were gonna eat this penguin!?"

"Where did he come from?" Jeanette asked and then looked at eleanor and cherry knowing they had something to do with this.

Eleanor blinked. "We couldn't just leave him in Egypt... He needs to go home."

Brittany merely rolled her eyes.

"Britt, just look at him..." Cherry gestured to the very sad and homesick penguin.

Brittany looked at the baby penguin. The penguin's eyes seemed to be like a puppy dog's eyes like he was about to cry.

"Please, Brittany..." Eleanor pouted with her hands together. "We have to take him home..."

Jeanette looked and agreed with Cherry and Eleanor.

"Fine." Brittany said in defeat.

A while later, the baby penguin had been getting sick, not just emotionally, but physically, probably from the lack of cold.

"Oh, he's getting worse..." Brittany sounded sympathetic for a change.

Eleanor played NURSE and tried to feed the poor penguin. "Come... Open up for Auntie Ellie."

"What's wrong with him?" Cherry frowned.

"He needs his mother, Cherry, she'll know what to do." Eleanor replied, she then paused as she said that as something hit her and her sisters deep in their hearts.

It was that they never knew their biological mother.

Cherry then realized. "You guys don't remember your mother, don't you?"

Brittany sighed. "Not really... Unlike the Chipmunks, we never met our mother..."

"We were raised by this girl Olivia in an orphanage back in Australia." Jeanette added.

Eleanor nodded out of sadness.

"Oh, girls... I'm so sorry..." Cherry said to them.

"It's okay..." Jeanette hugged Brittany.

Eleanor then hummed a little lullaby for the baby penguin until they would get to the Arctic circle to drop off the penguin, maybe there was also a DOLL there, they weren't really sure, but they had something more important to worry about. But what they didn't know was that this so called race around the world was not at all that it seemed.

The girls got on their jackets, earmuffs, scarves, and gloves once they got to the snowy climate. Eleanor walked with the penguin to find his parents and they did. The girls were so happy for him at the loving family reunion and the penguins happily quacked.

"I think they're thanking us." Cherry smiled to the Chipettes.

"You're welcome!" the Chipettes called as they went back to the balloon to go to their next stop.

There was a bad man coming and had grabbed one of the Brittany DOLLS, but he wasn't going to get away with it. The penguins called out to them again. Jeanette screamed as she grabbed the Brittany DOLL'S other arm, but the man had the other.

The penguins then threw snowballs to get the bad men away from their new friends.

The doll was ripping and it fell into the basket while the one bad man had one of the arms and the doll had been ripped.

"The doll's ruined!" Brittany exclaimed.

"I can't believe people would kill for these DOLLS!" Jeanette picked up the doll as they were getting out of the snowy climate.

"They're cute, but come on..." Cherry said, then she noticed something. "Wait, that's not stuffing!" She bent down and picked up several diamonds that had been sewn insdie the DOLLS.

"That can't be good!" Eleanor gasped.

"Try a Chipmunk doll." Jeanette handed an Alvin doll with a knife to see what was inside it.

It was filled with money.

"There must be hundreds or thousands of dollars in this!" Eleanor gasped.

"I can't believe we were part of some diamond smuggling scheme!" Cherry snapped.

"And if we're in trouble for this, just think about the boys!" Brittany actually sounded worried about the boys for once. "We've got to find them!"