Disclaimer: I don't own 'The Nut Job' since they are owned by Open road films while 'Rio' is owned by Blue skies studios and 20th century fox. I own NOBODY in this story!

The Nut job: Lost in Rio.


"...What is it?"

"Is it even alive?"

"Quiet, you two! It's a Puniceus Sciuridae, a mythical purple squirrel. But he seems to be hurt."

These three voices to Surly sounded as if they belonged to little children and that was probably the case. But something felt wrong and he couldn't place a claw on it as his stomach felt like it had flipped and his head was very light and his hands were raised in the air in a way that felt normally like they were pointing downwards.

Surly's entire world was black and the last thing he recalled was falling into a bunch of lush green ground below. Curious, Surly mustered up enough strength to open his eyes and saw that there were three young blue feathered birds flying upside down for some reason. It was then all the pieces clicked in his mind. They weren't upside down, HE was the one whom was upside down.

It turned out that Surly had gotten his feet tangled up in some vines and was hanging upside down from the fall he had. It appeared that the three bird kids had noticed his movements as the thinnest and only obvious male out of the three of them exclaimed "Hey, I think he's waking up!"

Giving a groggy moan, Surly looked around. He didn't know where he was and he was confused and when he got confused, he was really irritable. The purple squirrel looked curiously at his surroundings as his mind was still registering what was going on. Alright, he appeared to be in a jungle of some sorts. He also appeared to be totally alone as he struggled against the vines he was tangled up in. The purple squirrel sighed as he wriggled around to try and unbind his flimsy feet but this proved fruitless as he quickly discovered that without some quick assistance then there was no helping him.

"...Are you kids going to cut me loose?" Surly asked bluntly but only for the easily excitable young male to be in his face as his eyes were wider than water melons and stared at him in a somewhat adorable way. Surly felt a little unnerved by the way the boy was staring at him and smiled to show this even though the young parrot didn't seem to grasp the picture as he basically wrapped his wings around the squirrel's chest as he expressed how glad he was for him in that one hug "Oh, I'm glad you're okay!"

Honestly, Surly felt a tad uncomfortable by this gesture of kindness as he never was one to like hugs even though he gotten used to receiving them. Grunting through the slight pain he felt in his chest and lungs, he coughed a little as the young azure blue bird's wings came into contact "Ugh...Thanks, kiddo..." It would be a lie to say that Surly had a thing for children and knew how to talk to them but he was trying not to be a giant sour puss like he used to be so decided to accept the nice hug he was receiving.

"How in the world did you end up like this, sir?" The chubby one of the triplets asked with her voice dripping with poisonous hostility. Surly could not help but find this bird's hostility kind of cute as he cooed while using one of his floppy claws to grab a small portion of the young cerulean macaw's cheek and squished it in his paw in a teasing way "Aww, you're kinda cute when you're trying to be all intimidating, young man-"

"I'm a girl, idiot." The chubby blue macaw dead panned with a death glare. Surly gave her an almost devilish grin as he found great amusement in toying with this little bird chick "Ya sure could've fooled me..."

"Ouch. You're in trouble now." The young macaw hugging Surly sing songed.

"And by my counculations, that means that Carla should lose her temper in 3..." She held up one tip of her wing to not only emphasis her point but also to count down her sister's temper spiral "...2..." She dropped one wing tip to count how many seconds Surly had to take back what he had said until only one wing tip was standing "...1..."

The chubby female blue macaw youngling instantly began to do whatever she could to make sure the purple squirrel take back that wise crack as her talons yanked roughly at his eyelids and this in turn made him yell out in agony as Surly felt his body sustain multiple scratches from the insanely angry female macaw fledgeling. "Ugh! It doesn't matter what you do to me, I'll get outta this mess!" He yelled defiantly through a pain-filled smirk.

The triplets ceased what they were doing and accessed the squirrel's situation. Both the oldest and the youngest of the young azure/cerulean blue fledgeling trio looked to the middle oldest and the smartest as she began to study the situation and his prognosis.

The smartest of the young birds studied the binds keeping the squirrel suspended in the air before writing something down on a small notepad as she muttered some inaudible nonsense "Hmmm...those vines seemed to be wrapped densely hidebound around you're feet therefore forcing the circulation going to you're legs to be temporarily cut off, making it so that if you were released now then you wouldn't be able to use you're feet for at least ten minutes tops." Eventually she concluded her gibberish so she grinned cheekily "So you're steadfast stuck and therefore you can't break away."

Carla beamed at this as she spared a grateful smile towards her younger sister. Surly was really beginning to hate these little birds as he decided to try and prove them wrong by wriggling as hardest as he could to free himself from the vines constricting the blood flow to his legs and after a full 10 minutes of trying, Surly gave in to his growing exhaustion and asked them "What are you gonna do? Call you're parents?" He barked mockingly.

This was responded to with a devilish grin pulling at the corners of Carla's beak as she folded her wings across her feathery chest "Nope." She shook her head "Because we don't wanna bring our parents into this and besides, I wanna deal with you personally."

Surly didn't like the way the young blue macaw female said that. Before he could ask what she meant by this, however, the young male azure parrot popped his head up from behind the presumably second youngest of the trio randomly and asked "Can I do it now, Carla?"

Surly's were now wide as he looked to his chest where the young macaw was hugging him. How in the world did he managed to slip out out that!? Hm, maybe he was more slippery than originally thought...

"Yes, Tiago. Get the TNT ready." Carla nodded before the youngest, named Tiago, went to get some dynamite. The purple male squirrel was kind of concerned when the TNT was mentioned and had no idea how these little devils managed to get their wings on it but he knew that he needed to get himself free if he was to get out of here alive.

"Aw, c'mon! I thought ya liked me.." Surly pouted as he tried to get Tiago to refrain from what he was doing as he got a stick of dynamite out from behind his back and retreated back towards him while strapping the supposed stick of dynamite to the purple furred rodent's back all while he was begging for mercy.

"Sorry, furry dude. I have to respect my elders." Tiago said almost wisely whilst he finished strapping the explosives to Surly, despite his desperate struggles.

"No, no! Please! Lemme go! I don't wanna die! I'll do anything!" The purple male squirrel frantically cried out as his breathing became rapid and fast, signifying that the squirrel was becoming visibly distressed.

"Well...I do kinda think you're cool." Tiago (who stopped what he was doing) admitted thoughtfully as he took careful consideration about what he was doing. He knew his parents wouldn't be happy if they killed anyone and they never really done it out of vengeance before, just for a joke. After a moment or two of mulling it over; Tiago grinned happily at his decision "Alright, I won't use dynamite..."

Surly let out a heavy sigh of relief as he put a floppy paw to his pounding heart in a fruitless effort to calm it. He felt so relieved to hear that he wasn't going to die but then something made his fear worsen... Tiago hadn't finished talking, it turned out, as he pulled out some firework sticks instead "I'll set you up with fireworks instead!"

"WHAT!?" Surly exclaimed worriedly as he struggled harder than ever before, frantic to get away from these crazy kids. He began once again begging for his life as he felt Tiago remove the explosives and replace them with fireworks. So, this was the end? This was not how he invisioned his death to be like. Would have he amounted to anything? Many thoughts pulsed through his head as he squeezed his eyes shut at the sound of a match being struck but then he heard a stern clearing of a throat. Not belonging to the children.

Opening his eyes, Surly noticed that the three chicks were receiving a displeased glare from an older blue parrot (Blu). Confused, he raised an eye ridge and even though he was upside down; he could clearly see that the bird was their father.

"Kids, what were you doing to that poor squirrel?" Blu demanded as he folded his wings across his chest firmly. Even though the jungle air was warm with this certain morning moistness lingering in it, it was simple to see how the simple scolding of children could sour that freshness with one raise of the vocal cords. The adult male Spix macaw held the lit match in one talon as his stern gaze was fixed upon the three young chicks standing in a line before him.

Surly watched as the three looked at the ground even though their backs were turned on him. Somehow he had a vague memory of being just as adorably lethal as these three and felt kind of bad for putting them in trouble like this but then again, he knew they just couldn't go around threatening to kill people with explosives.

His rapid heart rate calmed gradually as the male purple squirrel watched as the scolding took place and he knew he was safe for now.

"...And when you get teased that doesn't mean you should get mad and use violence! You must take all these things into account since he might not even be from Rio; he probably came from a life similar to mine and isn't used to this kind of environment." Blu reasoned with the obviously sad triplets.

Surly decided to intervene as he pointed out rather awkwardly "Um...I'm right here, you know."

Blu heard the squirrel and raised a wing in a way that said 'I'll be with you in a minute' as he started to finish off the lecture while staring down at his children with a soft yet firm look one would get if telling his children off (which he was). "Alright. So what do we not do?" He asked.

"...We do not threaten lives with explosives of any shapes or form." The three blue macaws sighed in unison but then Tiago raised his wing to say something and pointed out "But I changed it from dynamite to fireworks to make sure it hurts a little." Blu's eyes narrowed slightly as he opened his beak to argue further but then he sniffed at a strange smell. His eyes darting down to the source of the smell, Blu noticed that he had dropped the lit match and it had fallen to his right talon to ignite the grass beside it into a fire.

"Ahh!" Yelping out in panic, Blu stomped repeatedly on the fire in hopes to quickly extinguish it and whilst it averted disaster; it burnt the bottom padding of his talons and made it hurt. Blu released a heavy sigh from his throat as he walked over to Surly, removed his Swiss Army knife from a small pocket strapped to his leg in case of emergencies such as this as the blade snapped the vine holding the squirrel in the air and Surly fell sorely to the blades of grass inches below him.

"Owwww...That hurt." Surly moaned as he sat upon his behind with his eggplant coloured bushy tail swishing in the air to get all the feeling back into it. After a few intense moments of getting the feeling back into his body, Surly cracked his fingers as he threaded them against his own fingers in a stretch of his arm joints.

Blu knelt down to meet the egg plant coloured squirrel at eye level as he decided to get down to business as he began to ask him with interest mingling with his nerdy voice "Alright. Whats you're name and how did you get here?"

"..." Surly was silent for a moment as he tried to regain his bearings. He was never in this kind of situation before and never had he known how to react to this kind of thing. He racked his brains for answers as the squirrel finally opened his mouth and found himself replying to the bird's "The names Surly. I live in a town called Oakton...if you heard of it."

Blu nodded while his eyes lit up in recognition of that name before "Yeah, I heard of it. My names Blu and as you can see you've ended up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil." He furrowed his brows in confusion "But how did you get all the way here, Surly?"

Surly looked skywards as if to think for a moment. He couldn't recall much of what had happened before he woken up but he could remember being on a flying machine of some kind while he was with some familiar faces. He mumbled thoughtfully as he stroked his chin "Hmmm...I can't tell ya much. All I can remember is that I was on a flying thing with my-" Surly's eyes widened immensely whence he remembered that he couldn't find his friends anywhere.

He began to writhe where he sat in a panic as Blu tried to pin him down and while Blu had the squirrel pinned down to the ground, he could see clear indications of a plane crash. There was some soot covering some strands of Surly's uniquely-coloured prune fur and there was even a few patches that were still smoking from the clear crash he had...Plus the giant plane wing that was tangled up in some vines (kind of like Surly was) made it even more clear.

"Oh no, Andie and Buddy are lost and out there somewhere!" Surly exclaimed in a panic as his sharp paw nails dug into his head and Blu decided to get the squirrel to calm down before he hurt himself in his own frantic panicking as he grabbed on to his shoulders with both his wings and this made Surly look right into his eyes.

Blu didn't need to be a genius (which he kind of was for a bird) to know that Surly didn't freak out often. It was clear who his character was from the first second of seeing him. He used to be a selfish jerk who sought out to care for himself when something changed him. Surly hid all his emotions behind a stone-faced mask.

"Woah, woah, woah, woah. I have some friends who can help us find your friends. We can search from the sky!" Blu's rather high pitched nerdy voice sounded really calm yet firm as he tried to smack some sense into the purple squirrel. Actually, Surly was already hyper ventilating and letting out pathetic whines on occasion and Blu decided to quite literally smack some sense into him as he held a wing to the side and struck his cheek with narrowed eyes.

"Pull it together! If we're going to find you're friends you need to calm down..." The male adult blue macaw told him and eventually; Surly allowed all this to sink in as he put that stone mask back on and apologised while putting a gentle paw upon the bird's shoulder and tenderly patting it "Sorry 'bout that. I went a little nuts." He stood up on his feet... but only to fall back down due to the fact that his legs were still numb.

Annoyance washed over the squirrel whence he remembered what the young female smart macaw said and grumbled.

Blu suddenly heard the attentive grunting sounds of his children before he peaked over his shoulder to see Bia, Tiago and Carla. The three chicks all gave their father an annoyed glare as they folded their wings simultaneously across their chest.

The jungle's peacefulness was restored since Blu dismissed the lecture contest and everyone appeared to be stressed out right now; especially as they now had a case on their hand. Or, in their case, their wings.

"Oh!" Blu slapped a wing upon his head as he forgot to introduce the triplets "I forgot to introduce you to my kids; Carla, Bia and Tiago." He placed a wing on each of their heads to point each of them out while he said their names as to let the squirrel know which was which.

Surly felt a little hostile towards the adorable trio but managed to move wobble towards them slowly as he stood straight until he knelt down before the three little blue birds and gave them the kindest, genuine smile he could muster as he stared at the three with soft eyes "Look, I'm sorry for gettin' you guys yelled at. Can you forgive me?"

It took a few minutes of waiting for the circulation to return to Surly's legs but he smiled as both Bia and Tiago smiled back at him sweetly and nodded simultaneously, clearly being forgiving given the squirrel's stressful situation. Carla, on the other hand, wasn't so forgiving as she did nod but gave him a mad glare as she basically stormed off.

Blu shook his head. His oldest daughter did have some attitude problems but she had a problem that meant she carried everyone's problems upon her shoulders and tried to make both herself and everyone she loved happy. She most likely needed a little break. Blu watched as his daughter took to the skies without looking back and Blu gestured for Surly to climb on his back (to which he obliged) as he announced "C'mon, let's go home."

He picked the fruit he originally gathered up into his talons as he took to the air with both Tiago and Bia flying closely behind, Tiago blowing raspberries at his sister and making other annoying sounds to make her groan his response to try and ignore her mischievous brother.

But Blu suddenly felt his head knock into something as soon as he was properly elevated into the altitude and found that he had clumsily rammed his head into a nearby oak tree. His head now felt like a million bells smashing against each side of his skull as those church-like bells swung back and forth heavily. Putting a tender wing up to rub at his aching head; Blu laughed sheepishly as he looked over at the squirrel he rescued.

Surly didn't look entirely amused as he gave the Domestic Spix macaw adult male a bored look as he gave a small roll of his chestnut eyes as if to say 'Oh brother...'. He looked down the side to watch the jungle below go by as if in deep thought.

He had no idea where Andie nor Buddy was but hoped that they were alright and for some reason, a part of him for some reason hoped that Grayson was behaving and not bragging about his heroism.


A/N: That's the end of this chapter, guys. It looks like that Surly was saved but what of Andie, Buddy and Grayson? Will they be alright and did they survive the plane crash.

If you are all wondering, this takes place AFTER Rio 2. Actually, it takes place just as Blu and Jewel and everyone else returned from the Amazon.

Also, I'm aware that I probably made Carla and the others look like brats but there is a point for me making them act this way and I will get to that later. Jewel also reappears in the next chapter and we should hopefully see the fate of everyone else.

I hope this chapter was good and I hope that this will get reviews. Thanks, guys!

-Chloemcg