A New Beginning Part 3
Back on the warship, Mira was tied up and held high above the floor to a normal human's eye level.
"Mira, I have one simple request that will save your family the pain of grieving: tell me the location of your home." said Ian as he walked over to her.
"No." said Mira.
"No? Why not?" asked Ian.
"Because you're a stranger. And my mom taught me not to talk to strangers." said Mira.
"Oh, but I am no stranger to your mom or your dad." said Ian.
"But you're a stranger to me. And I'm going to tell you nothing." said Mira.
Ian groaned.
"Alright, if you want to play this game. Then we'll do it." said Ian.
He then turned and looked at an JETT agent that was standing by.
"Bring the prod." said Ian.
Meanwhile the chipmunks returned back home.
"Britt, we're going to find her." said Alvin.
"I know, Alvin. It's just that, I'm very worried about her." said Brittany.
"I know, Britt. We all are. Now, in order to find her, we should come up with some kind of plan." said Alvin.
"Alvin's right. We need to think of one." said Simon.
"And fast. The longer we wait, the more trouble Mira could be in." said Dave.
Back on the warship.
"I'm going to ask nicely one last time. Your home!" said Ian.
"Yeah, sure thing, buddy. Like I'm going to tell you!" said Mira.
Ian turned on the prod and tased Mira. Mira screamed loudly in pain and then she passed out. Ian chuckled. Back at the chipmunks' home, the chipmunks and Dave all went to bed. Although for Brittany, she was the one who had the difficulty sleeping. Alvin tried to reassure her that he thinks Mira is alright. She just wandered off and got lost, and they'll find her the next day, but Brittany wasn't too sure. Brittany was in the living room, sitting on the couch, wearing only her pink nightgown. Then she was startled when he heard her name called. It was Jeanette, walking in, wearing her purple nightgown.
"Are you alright, Britt?" asked Jeanette.
Brittany sighed.
"We'll find her, Britt. Like we all keep saying." said Jeanette.
"I know. It's just…she's so young." said Brittany.
"Of course she is. So is Megan and Julia. They were all born back in April." said Jeanette.
"Yeah. I remember when I gave birth to them, you were there as well as Alvin. And of course, I could never thank you enough for helping and being there for me." said Brittany.
"Britt, you know that I'll do anything for you. I'm here for you, and I'll always be here for you. Even in the hardest of times, like back then, and right now." said Jeanette.
She jumped onto the couch and sat next to Brittany.
"And Britt, not meaning to change the subject, but, remember when Alvin said we need to think of a plan?" asked Jeanette.
"Yeah, why? You got one?" asked Brittany.
"I do. Well, it's a start." replied Jeanette.
"Well, what is it? What do you got?" asked Brittany.
"Well, I was suggesting that we fly above the streets, see maybe if we can find a clue to Mira's whereabouts." said Jeanette.
"But, Jeanette, my jet pack is low on energon. I've used most of it taking all of you on rides." said Brittany.
"I know, so we'll need to locate another source of energon. Like the source I found. But then, how will we convert the solid energon to liquid energon?"
"I have faith that you will find a way, Jeanette."
"I hope so, Britt."
"Jeanette, that is a good start to a plan. After we refuel my jetpack, I can fly above the streets, hopefully find Mira, and possibly locate the Cybertronian spaceship you saw." said Brittany.
"Wait. You're not going to do this alone, are you?" asked Jeanette.
"Well you certainly can't fly. How else?" asked Brittany.
"Just take me with you." replied Jeanette.
Brittany sighed.
"Alright. I'm sure I can make that work." she said.
"Then it's settled. We'll leave first thing tomorrow morning, okay?" asked Jeanette.
"Sounds good." replied Brittany.
"Alright, let's go back to bed." said Jeanette.
They got off the couch and went to their room. The walked in and quietly closed the door. Then they both kissed each other on the cheek.
"Goodnight. I love you." whispered Jeanette.
"I love you too." whispered Brittany.
They went to bed and fell asleep. But Brittany was having a nightmare about Mira. She imagined her being in a dark room with a man who was holding Mira hostage. Although, Brittany couldn't tell who the man was. Brittany couldn't take much more of the dream. She suddenly jumped up, which woke Alvin up.
"Britt, it's okay. You were just having a bad dream." he said, trying to comfort her.
"I know, Alvin. I know." said Brittany.
She looked at the window and saw it was still dark out. Then she looked at the clock and saw it was 12:35 am. Brittany laid back down closely to Alvin and closed her eyes. The next morning, after doing their morning routine, Brittany told Alvin everything Jeanette and Brittany told each other.
"Is that all?" asked Alvin.
"Not entirely. But Alvin, I need you to and everyone else who's available to keep a look out for anything…suspicious." said Brittany.
"I will, Britt." said Alvin.
"Good. I believe in you." said Brittany.
They then kissed a few times and later that morning, Brittany and Jeanette set off. Jeanette was holding tightly onto Brittany as Brittany was flying using her jet pack.
"So, Britt? Do you know what we're looking for?" asked Jeanette.
"Energon, Jeanette. Didn't we go over that?" asked Brittany.
"Well, yeah, we did. What I meant to ask was "Where are we looking?"." replied Jeanette.
"Oh, well, uh…"
Then Brittany looked down to her right and saw something blue.
"You know what? I see something. Hold on!" said Brittany.
She then flew straight down very fast.
"Uh, Britt? Are you trying to send us to the graveyard?!" asked Jeanette.
"Not to worry, Jeanette. I have everything under control." replied Brittany.
"Yeah, well. A little fact, I'm a little scared right now."
"It's alright, Jeanette. I'm not going to drop you. Besides, look! We're on the ground now." said Brittany as she landed.
Brittany let Jeanette go and Jeanette took a couple deep breathes.
"That's going to take some time getting used to." she said.
"Jeanette, come here!" called Brittany.
Jeanette straightened her clothes and ran to Brittany.
"What?" she asked
"Look! We just found a whole lot of energon!" exclaimed Brittany.
Then a large object blocked out the sun above them. They looked up and both gasped.
"Oh my." said Brittany.
"That's it! That's the spaceship I told you about!" said Jeanette.
"That looks like a Cybertronian warship, like the ones used by the Decepticons back in Chicago." said Brittany.
"Yeah, well, we better get some cover." said Jeanette.
Jeanette began to run to underneath a tree, but Brittany stopped her.
"Jeanette, let's hide in the energon." she said.
"What?" asked Jeanette.
"If we hide in the energon, the warship will probably take the energon along with us. And we'll be inside the ship. Please, Jeanette, just go with me." said Brittany.
"Alright." said Jeanette.
They both quickly ran to the energon. And just as they hid, the warship hovered above. Then the warship picked the energon up, along with Brittany and Jeanette, and it then took off.
"Well, we're in the warship." said Jeanette.
She then turned and looked at Brittany.
"Britt, what are you doing?" she asked.
"I'm putting some energon in my jet pack storage container. There, now when we get finished here, I have some energon to use to refill this. Now, let's see if this ship has information on how to build a groundbridge." said Brittany.
They left the room that contained the energon and walked down a hallway.
"This place is huge. Where should we begin to look?" asked Jeanette.
"I'm not sure." said Brittany.
While Brittany and Jeanette were walking down the hallway, there were seen on a computer monitor, watched by James.
"Intruders! I must alert Lord Ian." he said to himself.
He quickly ran to the room where Ian was interrogating Mira.
"Alright, I'm going to ask you again. Tell me, where do you live?!" he shouted.
"I will tell you nothing, as I said before." said Mira.
Just then James walked in.
"My liege, we have intruders on the warship!" he said.
"Who?" asked Ian.
"Two female chipmunks. One of them is wearing mostly pink and the other is wearing mostly purple." replied James.
Ian thought for a moment.
"Brittany and Jeanette!" he said.
Ian then laughed a little.
"It's been a long time since I've seen them. But, how did they find us? How do they know Brittany's daughter is here?" asked Ian.
"I don't think they know Mira is here. Do you want me to terminate them?" asked James.
"No. Leave them be, James. I must prepare myself for a proper reception to my old friends. But first, one last attempt." said Ian.
He turned to Mira.
"I will ask you one last time. The location of your home. Now!" said Ian.
"I will tell you over my lifeless body. You are not a nice man!" said Mira.
Ian groaned in anger and was about to tase Mira, but he then stopped and laugh.
"Hmm. Over your lifeless body, huh? Well, that can be arranged." said Ian.
He released Mira from her manacles and let her fell to the floor. Then Ian kneeled down to her and held her to the floor with his left hand while holding the taser with his right hand. Mira squirmed, trying to break free from Ian's grip, but he was holding her too tight. Ian grabbed Mira by the collar of Mira's shirt and turned on the taser.
"What are going to do to me?" whimpered Mira.
"This is punishment for not telling me what I want. I'm afraid you won't survive what I'm about to do to you. So thanks for nothing!" yelled Ian.
Mira screamed loudly as she was being tased right onto her throat. A few moments later, Mira stopped screaming. Her eyes were closed and Ian had let go of her. Then Ian and James laughed.
"Alright, just leave her here with the door open. I want Brittany and Jeanette to find her." said Ian.
"Yes, my liege." said James.
"And one more thing, James. Tell Gabi to instruct some agents to try and capture Brittany and Jeanette." said Ian.
"As you command, master." said James.
They both left the room, with the door open, and went to different directions. James went to the bridge of the warship to meet Gabi there. Gabi is not a human, but a chipmunk. She has brown colored fur with brown eyes. And she often wears dark blue shirt and skirt. She is the third in command and her primary occupation is communications. She is excellent when it comes to technology, especially hacking. Though she never really speaks, but she lets her work do the talking.
"Gabi, tell the available agents to engage the intruders." said James.
Gabi nodded and went to a computer. Meanwhile, Brittany and Jeanette found a room that had a Cybertronian computer in it.
"Let's check in here." said Brittany.
They walked inside.
"Jeanette, you still have that flash drive on you?" asked Brittany.
"Yeah, but I don't see anywhere to plug it in. This tech is very alien." said Jeanette.
Then they heard a door opened. Brittany and Jeanette turned around and saw a JETT agent looking at them.
"I've located the intruders!" he said.
The agent then took out a gun and began firing it at Brittany and Jeanette.
"Get cover!" said Brittany.
"What are you going to do?" asked Jeanette.
Brittany took out her Ion Blaster, the one Optimus Prime gave her awhile back, and aimed it at the agent.
"I never wanted to hurt a human, but it seems I have no choice. It has become clear to me that the people aboard this warship are hostile." said Brittany.
She fired her Ion Blaster at the agent, and with a couple bullets, the agent fell to the floor and died. Brittany sighed at the fact that was the first human she has ever killed.
"You know, I'm beginning to wonder if this is it." said Brittany.
"What do you mean?" asked Jeanette.
"Before I left the Realm of the Samurai and arrived back on Earth, but after Optimus gave me this, he said "I want you to keep it. Use it for your mission. And I have a feeling that later on in the future, it will be useful.". I wonder if this is the future to what he is referring to. Although, it has only been about a couple months." said Brittany.
"It very well could be, Britt. But we just don't know yet." said Jeanette.
Just then the door opened again and this time five more agents came in.
"There's the intruders!" shouted one of the agents.
They began shooting at Brittany and Jeanette.
"Jeanette, get on that computer and look up "groundbridge"! I will contend with these humans!" shouted Brittany.
"Right! I'm on it!" shouted Jeanette.
Brittany used a nearby desk as cover and began fighting the agents in a gun battle. Jeanette jumped up onto the computer and looked at the massive keyboard.
"Okay, "groundbridge". Got to type that in." she said to herself.
Luckily, it wasn't long before she got what she needed. On the screen, it showed instructions for a groundbridge.
"Okay, I got it, but there's no way I can download this. This isn't an Earth computer." Brittany had finished defeating the agents. She looked up at Jeanette.
"Jeanette, good job!" she said.
"Thanks, Britt! But, there's no way I can download this! How are we going to get this back home?" asked Jeanette.
Just then the door opened and more agents came running in.
"Get her!" shouted one of them.
They began shooting at Brittany. Brittany resumed firing her Ion Blaster. While she was, an idea came to her mind.
"Jeanette, take a picture! Use your phone and take a picture of everything that is there!" shouted Brittany.
"Great idea!" shouted Jeanette.
Jeanette took out her cell phone and opened the camera app. She aimed the camera at the computer screen and snapped a pictured of all the information. Then she closed everything on the computer, put her phone away, and jumped off the computer. Brittany had just finished defeating the agents. Jeanette ran up to her.
"Got everything?" asked Brittany.
"Yeah." replied Jeanette.
"Then let's roll." said Brittany.
They left the room. James saw them running down the hallway.
"All units, disengage. The intruders are near the prisoner." he said.
The prisoner, is a reference term for Mira. Brittany and Jeanette were close to the open room where Mira laid on the floor. When Brittany and Jeanette arrived at the room, Brittany quickly aimed her Ion Blaster at Mira, thinking it was someone else. But then both her and Jeanette gasped in horror. Brittany quickly put her Ion Blaster away and both her and Jeanette ran over to Mira.
"Mira! Mira! Oh my god! Who did this to you?" asked Brittany.
Mira didn't respond. Brittany picked Mira up and saw a couple of deep scars on Mira's neck. Brittany was starting to cry.
"Jeanette, is she…?"
Brittany handed Mira to Jeanette. Jeanette held Mira in her arms and felt Mira's chest.
"No, she's still alive, but barely. Her heart is beating way slower than normal." said Jeanette.
"Oh my gosh. We-we need to get her home, now. We have everything we need, so let's go." said Brittany.
"Alright." said Jeanette.
They ran out of the room with Mira in Jeanette's arms. But when they got to the end of the hall way and stopped. There was a man standing right in front of them.
"Where do you think you're going?" he asked.
Brittany and Jeanette looked up and gasped. Ian was standing right in front of them.
"Oh my god." said Jeanette.
"Ian Hawke?!" exclaimed Brittany.
"Very good Brittany. You remember me." said Ian.
"How could I not?! I could I not remember the man who put me and my sisters in a cage." said Brittany.
"You still remember that? I thought we had put that all behind us." said Ian.
"Never." said Brittany.
"Oh well, that's too bad. Well then, I guess I'll never put behind the fact that you and your sisters ruined me!" shouted Ian.
He grabbed Brittany and threw her against the wall.
"Brittany!" exclaimed Jeanette.
"And you, Jeanette. Ah, I see you found your little puppy, Brittany." said Ian.
"How do you know she's my puppy?" asked Brittany.
"I've read about it on the internet. So you and Alvin had puppies, huh? How splendid." said Ian.
Right then a realization came to Brittany.
"You. You did this to her! You were the one who kidnapped Mira at the concert! Weren't you?!" shouted Brittany.
Ian laughed loudly as a response. Brittany and Jeanette narrowed their eyes at Ian as he continued to laugh. Finally, after a few moments, Ian stopped laughing.
"You did this didn't you?! You kidnapped my daughter!" said Brittany.
"Yes, I did that to her. Although I wasn't the one who kidnapped her, but I did however send someone else to." said Ian.
"Why you-"
"Britt, stand down. We need to get Mira home." said Jeanette.
"Not this time Jeanette. I won't stand down this time. You get Mira home. I shall contend with Ian."
"No, Britt. I am-"
"Go, Jeanette, now!" shouted Brittany.
"Ooh, you better listen to her. Or else you'll-"
"Shut up!" Brittany interrupted Ian.
She jumped and punched Ian in his face. Ian fell, but he quickly got up. Then Brittany and Ian fought each other. Jeanette looked at Mira, who was still unconscious.
"How am I going to get you home, Mira? This warship is miles in the sky. I can't jump off. That'll kill us both. I can't fly. Nor can I drive. And I can't groundbridge, yet."
Jeanette's thinking was then interrupted by Ian's yell.
"Oh, you're going to get it, Ian. You will pay for your deception!" said Brittany.
She then punched Ian in the face. Ian fell to the floor, hurt. Brittany ran over to Jeanette.
"Let's get out of here." she said.
"Well, I'm lucky that you're still here." said Jeanette.
They later got outside the warship and arrived near its hull. Jeanette handed Mira to Brittany. Brittany got a hold of Mira and held her in her arms.
"Okay, hold on tight to me." said Brittany.
"I am." said Jeanette.
Brittany's jet pack was turned on and they flew off the warship. They later arrived back home. When they got back, Jeanette took Mira and examined her in her and Simon's own laboratory area that was in the den of the house. Meanwhile Brittany explained everything that had happened.
"So, Ian is back?" asked Dave.
"I'm afraid so. I have doubts that he ever left." said Brittany.
"Great! Our worst enemy is back!" said Alvin.
"Not to mention the guy who put all of us in cages." said Simon.
"Who's this Ian?" asked Megan.
"Ian Hawke is an old enemy of ours. One who we had hoped we would never see again after we left the island." replied Brittany.
"Island?" asked Julia.
"We were stranded on a deserted island, thanks to me." said Alvin.
"But that was many years ago." said Simon.
"And that experience has brought all of us closer together in the end." said Brittany.
"Even though you wanted to kill me." said Alvin.
"Alvin, I don't believe I could kill you then, and I definitely don't believe I could kill you now. You are much too valuable to me." said Brittany.
Just then, Jeanette walked into the room. She had a sad look on her face.
"Jeanette, what's wrong?" asked Simon.
"Is everything alright?" asked Dave.
"How's Mira?" asked Brittany.
Jeanette sighed heavily. After a few moments, she spoke.
"Mira will survive. But…she may never speak again." said Jeanette sadly.
Brittany, Alvin, Simon, Theodore, Eleanor, Megan, Julia and Dave all gasped in horror.