The group kept walking, not seeming to realize that there were people leaving and it was longer than an hour passing, since it was dark and the Chipmunks' show was cancelled.
"Great shortcut, Alvin," Simon spoke sarcastically. "We've been walking for hours and we've yet to see a single dragon!"
"Yeah, and I'm still hungry." Theodore pouted.
"And worst of all, we've missed your show!" Atticus said loudly.
"What do we do now?" Cherry glanced at the red clad chipmunk.
"Okay, okay, I admit it," Alvin looked back to them. "We missed our show, the park is closed, we're probably locked in and it's all my fault! There, are you happy?"
"I'm just fuzzy all over." Simon scoffed.
"I can't stay here all night!" Theodore whimpered as he clutched his stuffed bear. "Teddy will get cold."
"Don't worry, all we have to do is call Dave or our parents and tell them that we're locked in." Atticus reassured Theodore.
"Luckily for us, I got a quarter left over." Simon showed the coin, deciding to go for a payphone.
"I pick Atticus's plan," Theodore spoke up, then saw he was alone. "Hey, wait for me! Guys... Can I be the one to use the phone?"
"Someone give him a boost." Cherry said, knowing the payphone booths would be bigger than Theodore.
"I'll do it." Atticus volunteered.
"Why don't I get to dial?" Alvin whined.
"Because it's my quarter and Theodore asked first." Simon glared at him.
Theodore was worried as he held the phone and was balancing on Atticus, dialing their home phone number.
"Please, Dave, answer please, please, please, I beg of you, please answer." Atticus began to beg, hoping Dave would answer the phone.
Theodore sadly sighed as he only got the answering machine and slowly hung up the phone. "He's not home..."
Alvin gasped dramatically, shaking Cherry suddenly. "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!"
"Chill out, Munk boy!" Cherry shoved him slightly.
"Hey, look!" Simon looked ahead, he saw a castle with a light on. "Somebody's still here!"
"I don't know, Simon, my detective instincts are telling me that this time it's not a good thing that someone is still here." Atticus said as he see's what the castle looked like.
"It's our only hope though," Simon looked to him. "You have a better option?"
"Okay, you got a good point, but if the person up there seems to be *coocoo bird noise*, then we bolt it." Atticus said.
"Couldn't agree more, let's get going before they decide to leave too." Cherry said, leaving with the boys.
The castle wasn't too far away and there was a hill to step up and the door was unlocked. Alvin was picking on Theodore by tapping his shoulder and acting like he wasn't doing anything to scare him.
"Alvin, stop scaring Theodore." Atticus said without looking.
Alvin chuckled, unable to resist.
Simon shushed them. "Do you hear that?"
Everyone listened closer and they heard a thick German accent singing and hid as they found a man with silver hair with a pointed nose, looking very aged, wearing a gray jacket, white shirt, black pants and black shoes. He was singing to himself as he seemed to be working on something very important and looked very intelligent.
"Judging by his lab coat, he must be a mad scientist." Atticus whispered.
"Mad?" Theodore sounded worried.
The scientist kept working, then revealed a familiar looking monster of Frankenstein unleashed and unveiled, which made the chipmunks gasp.
"Guys, it's just a costumed character," Simon assured them, though actually not sure himself. "It's not real..."
"Nope, those body parts are definitely real, you can tell by how real the whole body looks." Atticus whispered.
"Ah, mein leibschen..." the scientist stroked his monster's makeshift face. "At last ve are together again... That fool Yesman, hiring zhe REAL Dr. Frankenstein to make his exhibit a little more frightening... I think ve vill frighten him enough, don't you?" he went to pull a lever with electric bolts to properly reanimate his monster.
"The real Dr. Frankenstein?" Cherry couldn't believe that. "Shouldn't he be... What's the word I'm looking for? Oh, yeah...DEAD!?"
Atticus then covered her mouth.
The doctor didn't hear them, he kept making his electricity work and then he brought his monster to life, making Theodore and Simon faint. He kept laughing and Alvin actually did something good and decided to get Theodore's teddy bear, but while the doctor danced, he stepped on Alvin's hat.
"HEY!" Alvin snapped, glaring up at him. "Don't touch the cap!"
The doctor yelled, then grinned crazily, about to grab him, making Alvin scream too and the monster groaned awake.
"Look at that, time to go." Cherry said, before they all decided to run off.
All five of them kept on running for their lives.
"They musn't escape!" the doctor told his monster, setting him to chase after the kids.
Frankenstein groaned, then started to chase after them to bring them back for his master.
Luckily, Cherry, Atticus, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore could make it out of the castle, but they would have to dodge the monster in order to be safe tonight.
"Alvin, this is all your fault!" Atticus yelled.
"What did I do!?" Alvin got defensive.
"You made us miss your show appointment, drive that crazy bus, and get us stuck here at night!" Cherry glared at him.
Theodore whimpered as he hugged his bear, he didn't like to see fighting.
"We're sorry we're fighting, Theodore, but it's just that if Alvin hadn't gotten us lost, we wouldn't be in this situation." Atticus apologized to the youngest chipmunk while running.
"In there!" Cherry pointed ahead to a little exhibit.
Frankenstein walked by as the exhibit was cardboard cut-outs of Sammy Squirrel with woodland friends such as bunnies and ducks.
'Whew, that was close.' Atticus thought.
"Is he gone?" Cherry asked.
Alvin popped his head out from the bunny as Simon was a duck and Theodore was a log. "I think so..."
Frankenstein snarled then, showing them they weren't alone as he was in Sammy Squirrel's head.
"But, I could be wrong..." Alvin chuckled nervously.
Simon and Theodore looked horrified as they ran with Alvin, Cherry, and Atticus. Frankenstein went for them, destroying the set and breaking the voice box on the squirrel.
"I hate monsters so much!" Atticus exclaimed.
Alvin kept running with the others, but stopped as he saw something. The others tried to get his attention, but Simon noticed they had stopped at Dragon Land.
"No, we're not going there!" Cherry snapped.
"Come on, we have no other choice!" Alvin insisted, taking her hand and pulling her with the others to the ride.
"I am hating this night more and more." Atticus said.
The kids had no other choice, but they had to go into the ride.
Alvin noticed a phone, then ran to it and dialed the phone number. "Maybe Dave's home by now, he could call the cops to save us!"
"Alvin, no, that's not a-" Cherry tried to explain.
"Dave, you gotta come get us!" Alvin screeched, thinking he got a hold of their human guardian. "There's a monster after us! Cherry and Atticus are with us and we're hiding in Dragon Land!"
"So much for the hiding concept." Simon deadpanned.
Atticus then grabbed the phone from Alvin and hangs it up.
"Now we're busted." Cherry sighed.
"Well, maybe the monster doesn't understand English." Theodore suggested as a possibility.
"That little glass of YOURS is always half full, isn't it?" Simon ruffled up his hair.
Theodore chuckled. "Yeah..." he then got confused. "What little glass?"
The monster growled as SOON as it came to Dragon Land.
"Now what?" Atticus asked.
Frankenstein busted against the ride's machines as the kids got into the ride to hide, it seemed to be going with them.
"Theodore... Just tell yourself this isn't real, it's just a ride..." Cherry said, hoping that would soothe the youngest chipmunk as she had no choice but to ride this dangerous dragon device to get away from the monster chasing them.
"Yeah, just keep telling yourself that, Theodore." Atticus agreed.
Theodore gulped, he decided to do just that. "This isn't real, it's just a ride..." he started as they were slowly going up with the kart as most rollercoasters start with a slow beginning, then very fast-paced throughout. "This isn't real, it's just a ride... This isn't real, it's just a ride... This isn't real! It's just a ride!"
The big dragon head breathed fire to them, but didn't burn any of them, but they all screamed, including Frankenstein as he caught up with them, but tried to get them as the kart quickly went down.
"*gulps* Oh, my." Atticus said.
The ride took the Chipmunks and kids about as they passed various obstacles on the way.
Theodore noticed that the monster was standing up. "You're supposed to sit down and keep your hands in the car at all times!"
"Very helpful, Theodore," Alvin rolled his eyes. "We wouldn't want him to get hurt before he could KILL US!"
Atticus then suddenly gets a scary feeling. "Oh, no, guys, Cherry, I'm getting a scary feeling that this ride is going to be getting really scary and possibly fast very soon." he said.
"Don't they all?" Cherry moaned.
The kart went very fast, totally quick, it even seemed as though Alvin, Simon, and Theodore reverted into their old selves and into actual chipmunks, then back to normal with their mouths stretching, even Theodore's teddy seemed affected somehow.
'Please let this end well.' Atticus thought.
Frankenstein kept trying to get the kids, but the kart was going crazy because of the intense speed and weight. It even crashed through the building it was in and Frankenstein wasn't found and they all landed on a traveling bus through town.
"We're okay!" Theodore beamed, he started to eat the snacks that were trapped with him after they crashed.
"We're alive!" Alvin laughed as he wore a Dragon Land T-Shirt. "I told you to trust me..."
"Oh, brother..." Simon rolled his eyes as he was wearing a Dragon Land hat.
"I will never want to be locked in an amusement park ever again." Atticus said.
"Well, it looks like we're going home now." Cherry observed.
"Dave must be so worried..." Theodore whimpered.
"Let's get these three home first." Atticus said.
The driver stopped to drop off someone and the Chipmunks faced him, startling him a little.
"No time to explain, we need to make a stop to 1544 North Saint Andrews Place." Cherry said to the driver, giving the Chipmunks' ADDRESS.
The driver blinked, then smiled. "You got it, kids!" he then took out a sandwich consisting of mustard, lettuce, and Swiss cheese as a quick snack.
"I hope Mom, Dad, Jessica, your parents and Dave aren't angry with us." Atticus said to Cherry.
"We can only hope." Cherry said back.