AJKOOL - I'm sorry I haven't let crash and eddie have a consenice in the last few chapters, however as of this point onwards I am making them have regretful feelings about their treatment to poor sid, so I hope this doesn't create any hard feelings as I will have them kinder in the future:) No worries okey,

Kaladestroyer - Thank you once again for your top loyalty to my stories, I have my PM messager working again, and I am ona roll with my stories in toll, so I hope you will enjoy this chapter:)

chapter 4

''Stop that Sloth! and the discovery''

Crash and Eddie ran as fast their legs would carry them as they ran after the roly poly sloth who was rolling at high speed though the snow, gethering snow as he roll at high speed.

''Stop, sid, stop'' eddie screamed as he was struggling to keep up with his older bother crash who was just a few steps ahead of him.

''Wait up sid, your exhust yourshelf, rolling too much at high speed!'' he cried, trying hard not to tear the tiny hairs on his head.

''We gotta stop him crash!'' eddie said to him as they continue to run at high speed. ''I know, but I don't know how to do that!'' he panted as his little legs would carry him.

Eddie suddenly had an idea, ''what if we attached something at the bottom and could grab him, like a net prehalps?'' he metioned.

Crash smiled at his brother. ''Bro, that is a very clever idea, but, we need to get near the bottom fast,

I know, we'll use this old oak bark and slide down as fast as we can!'' he said to eddie who nodded before getting off on the oak tree and sliding down the snowly side of the hill along with crash, to meet near the cliff's end.

as soon as they landed, crash and eddie spran out and Crash suggested using a fellow mooses to help secure the trees into one twing where they will catch sid and before he rolls away.

''Allright, Eddie you find one mosse, I find one on this end, hurry!'' Crash ordered as he and Eddie, both grab a moose each and hurryed to both sides as their mooses twangled their horns onto each branch and as they brought them in closer in order to prevent the inflatable sid from going off track.

''Here he comes!'' Eddie shouted as Sid came down at top speed.

''Let's catch us a sloth!'' Crash shouted as they herd up the branches. sure enough sid came in between and stopped immeditatly.

''Horray!'' cried the possiems as they climb off the mosses and steady siezed sid as they gently rolled him off the danger of the branches. ''Thank mooses, your cool dudes!'' said crash as the mooses let go of the branches they gave their thanks and bid farewave as the walked away.

''We better get this surprize to Peaches before anything else happens'' said Crash, as they steadly but slowly, turn said around as he was rolled quite calmly and gently as the three made their way.

As they arrived at the snow valley, walked to where Peaches was still asleep and said to her.

''wakey, wakey Peaches, guess what uncle Crash and Eddie got for you.'' said Crash to a sleeping, peaceful, Peaches who woke up and saw with her own eyes, a hug, inflatable, unbealivable and magnficent balloon of unbealiable resembless.

''Oh goody, what is it uncle Crash?'' she asked sweetly as she walked up to sid (not reckonisizing him) pokes him softly with her trunk. ''It's so light and airy inside.'' she commented as she looked at it closely.

''This is your very own inflatable ice age balloon to play with peaches, as much as you like, he bounces, he rolls like a natrual and he can be undeflatable!'' he announced proudly presenting Peaches,

Sid whom's face was camaflodged along with his skin and was asleep at this time, so his eyes when seen propperly.

''Wow, my very own ball!, thank uncle Crash, uncle Eddie!'' she cried as she seized control of the ball with her trunk and immeadiatly began to bounce Sid like a basketball, ''weeee'' she cried as she bounced her beloved ball. ''This is fun!

''Watch me, uncle Crash, uncle Eddie!'' she shouted as she bounced Sid very hard and started to hold him in her trunk and shoot him off though a loop like branch in a tree.

''I did it, I did it'' she cried as she scored with her trunk. Peaches ran over to hug Crash and Eddie with her trunk. ''I love you uncle Crash, uncle Eddie, thank you for the lovely gift you gave me'' she said sweetly as she smiled at her uncles.

Eddie whispered to crash in one ear

''What shall we do in case manny and the other guys find out about what we done to sid?''

''relax, we can deflate him'' crash whispered to Eddie. Eddie however was still worried.

''But I was thinking, what if he is undeflatable, he should have squeeze air out of himshelf when we caught him on the branches...'' ''eddie relax, everything is under control.'' Crash insisted as he stepped on his brother's foot as the others came this very minute.

''Hi guys,'' crash and Eddie say a little sheepishly, trying their best to keep the truth from coming out.

''Hi crash, eddie'' Elle greeted warmly as she came with manny and diego, who look a little worried about something.

''What's wrong with manny and deigo?'' asked eddie looking a litle puzzled.

''We been looking for Sid all moirning, and we can't find him anywhere, do you know where he is?'' Elle asked them.

''Well...err...we did see sid this morning...but...OWW!'' he cried as Crash stepped on his foot to keep him to keep him quiet.

''But what?'' manny asked, looking very suspicsous.

'But, he said he was going near the waterfall for some time off.'' Crash said hurriedly. as he was anxious to change the subject.

''We already checked there, there was no sign of him, we look everywhere and we'll all very worried!'' Elle repled fornloanly.

Peaches came toddling to her parents, with her new present. ''Mummy, daddy, guess what uncle Crash and uncle Eddie gave me?'' she said.

''What is it, sweetheart?'' aske Elle looking brighten as she smiled apoun her lovely daughter.

'' A new bouncy ball for me!'' she cried in delight, as she shown it to her with her trunk.

Elle, Manny and Diego looked surprized.

Manny and Diego looked at it very supsiously as they walked around it.

''Where did you get this ball, Crash and Eddie?'' manny asked weary, looking at them with straight cross eyes.

''We errm...we found it in the forest and thought we do a few circus tricks with it!'' Eddie said hurreidly, crash clinced his teeth in a forced smile. ''Yeah, that's exacatly what we did!'' he said smling hopefully.

Manny eyebrowed them still not conveinced. ''Are you sure?'' he asked.

Deigo looked around the ball and observed. ''This ball's skin looks familer, kinda like Sid's fur'' he remarks as he look at Sid's head. ''Smells like sid, looks familer like sid...'' but just as he was looking, Sid opened his eyes and gave Manny, elle and deigo an awful fright.

''It is Sid!'' deigo cried out in shock,

''Surprize...'' Crash and Eddie said nervously, chuckling nervously

Manny was very cross as he turned on Crash and Eddie. ''Guys...What did you do to sid!''

Crash and Eddie both looked shamelessy on the floor and admitted the truth. ''We only wanted to have a bit of fun, Manny, and we wanted to surprize Peaches as well, so we tricked Sid into playing a game with us and we inflated him at the gysers and we made him a rubber ball, but we never meant any harm!'' they wailed truthfully.

''you two Idiots, see what your trickery has done!, sid is a bloated balloon and it's all your own fault!''

manny scolded at them

Both possiems looked shamelessy on the ground as they admit this.

''We know, we'll very sorry Manny, we were only having a bit of fun and yet, we realized that we got a little bit carried away with it.'' Crash said looking red with embrassment. This hadn't been a very smart idea after all, he had purposely made sid a balloon against his own wishes and for his own greedy, evil pleasure, and it wasn't fair to Poor Sid.

''So daddy, is uncle Sid is a balloon?'' ask Peaches, confused.

''How are we going to fix this Manny?'' Elle asked looking very worried and anxious at Sid, placing her trunk on top of him, to secure him.

''yeah, if we try to deflate him he could pop!'' Diego said looking at him with pityful eyes.

''If we try to get him to move or speak, he could explored!'' observe Manny poking Sid's stomach.

''But we must do something!'' wailed Elle .

''What about a porcupine's spike, maybe it will deflate him'' asked Crash hopefully.

''or jumping on his stomach might help'' suggested Diego who was personally amused that Sid was a round aired balloon for everyone to see.

''No, we might make him explored if we do anything drastic'' Manny, wisely said as the others were poundering what to do with him.

''I know! we can asked old pete, the wise ox, to see if we can deflate our friend!'' eddie cried, clicking his fingers.

''I don't see what choice we have manny, old pete may be the only way we can help poor sid'' Elle said to him as she gave sid a symperthectic look.

''Very well, we'll go to him, but I know he is a loontic!'' said Manny as he pickes up Peaches and puts her on his back.

''Come on everyone, let's go, we'll go to old pete and see how we can help sid get back to his more thin, err less fatter shelf'' he said, reconsidering what he was orignally going to say.

As the others were on their way, Elle rolled Sid with her trunk, as to keep him safe and out of mischeious way of the two now very guitly possiems who were beginning to feel very sorry for all the trouble they have caused.

to be continued...