Chapter 4: Chapter 4 Trying not to fail

Alvin and Brittany ran into the school as quickly as they possibly could. The school was not quite, what they had expected. At first seemed there was no one. It was quiet and eerie, but as they walked through the school, they slowly picked up different, eerie noises. Some sounded like tapping or whispers' in the night and coming from all directions. The hallways were dark lights flickered as if the school had been attacked or something.

"Maybe we should just leave," Brittany said nervously.

Alvin never said a word he just kept walking…

"Ugh this is creepy, Alvin lets get out of here," she said in a whisper.

"No" Alvin responded he kept walking like he was on a mission.

"Then why are we here". She said in an annoyed voice.

"I want to change my grades so that I could stay on the basketball team.", "Don't you want to stay on the cheer squad"? Alvin asked.

"Well yeah I could use some better grades," she said.

"Well let's get going before Mr. and Ms. Goody-two-shoes arrive." Alvin said.

Brittany giggled a little.

While Alvin and Brittany were checking all of the doors. Simon and Jeanette came in through the front doors. The two bespeckled chipmunks did not expect to see the school in such shape. Jeanette seemed a little creeped out, hiding behind Simon as they walked. Simon looked a bit more thinking Theodore would pee himself if he was here right now. Alvin, who had spotted Simon and Jeanette, quickly ran over to Brittany and grabbed her hand.

"This way before they spot us, they will ruin everything," Alvin whispered to Brittany as they went running down a dark hall.

"Alvin"! Simon yelled out for his brother. "Brittany"! Jeanette called out. There obviously hiding from us Simon thought to himself. They continued to walk down the hall.

"Maybe they are hiding in the bathroom," Jeanette said with a worrisome look on her face.

"No they are playing a game with us, and it's Alvin leading the way trust me". Simon pulled his glasses off his face to clean them with his shirt.

"We have to find them before they do something They will regret later". "Com on"!

Simon grabbed Jeanette's hand. She started to blush slightly. However, it went unnoticed by Simon.

"Simon?" Jeanette asked.

"yes? Jean"? Simon replied

"What do you think these passes are for"? She questioned.

"I believe that they will allow us to go from place to place and that they let us in certain areas". "Oh" Jeanette replied while looking down at the ID.

While Alvin and Brittany were playing, hide and seek with his younger brother, and her oldest sister. Alvin and Brittany both kept darting from door to door and hallway to hallway trying to avoid Simon and Jeanette. Unfortunately, Simon and Jeanette found the one place Alvin did not want them to end up.

They had found the computer lab.

"Hey, check out the computer lab Simon". "Sounds good." Simon said as he smiled at the thought of being in school, even if it was a virtual school

Once in the lab Simon and Jeanette both found themselves thinking about how real the lab felt, for a digital look-alike of their school. Alvin and Brittany had finally found the computer lab however, to discover that Simon and Jeanette were in it already. Alvin pulled out what looked like a touch pad and wrote. I need you to distract them. Get them to come out of the lab and distract them somehow please. "Any questions". He handed her the pad and pen. Yes why me. Alvin replied because you are the most beautiful girl in the whole world. Brittany' melted into a puddle of pink goo. Alvin noticed this and took advantage of this, knocked on the door, ran and hid were Simon and Jeanette could not see him. When Brittany came to, she found Simon and Jeanette standing over her. Brittany realize what was going on she decided to play it to the hilt. With not saying a word, she pointed down the hall. Simon looked at her and said "Alvin' in a worried expression. Jeanette had a worried looked on her face. The worry was for her sister she wanted to say with her sister but Simon grabbed her hand and rushed down the hall to look for Alvin.

Meanwhile Alvin dashed into the lab. In the lab, zipping around Alvin was looking for his and Brittany's file. He had found them both. He zipped over to the desk grabbed a pen and started to change his grenades. He changed his and Brittany's F to a D, his D's to C's and so on. He did this just so that he would not draw too much attention to their grades. He quickly ran out to Brittany. He asked, "Where were Simon and Jeanette"? Brittany responded by pointing in the direction that they ran.

Simon and Jeanette got to and intersection of a hallway they stopped to look for Alvin. The lights started to flicker and started to make buzzing and crackling noises.

"Simon what is going on." Jeanette said in a shaky voice.

Simon studied his surroundings.

"OH NO"! He yelled 'WE HAVE TO FIND ALVIN AND BRITTANY'! "NOW" his voice echoing through the halls. Simon/s voice echoing through the school with a hint of danger.

Jeanette looked back at him.

"Why' she questioned.

"If I am right the school's computer is crashing and if we are here when it crashed were finished! "Oh no" whispered. They ran back to where Brittany was lucky they were still there.

"Lets go"! "Now'! He yelled to Alvin and Brittany. As they ran past them and down the hall, the halls began to rumble and shake. A loud eerie moan like twisted metal came from down the hall that they just came from.

"Time to bail" said Alvin.

"Why didn't I think of that" Simon said smartly.

Brittany rolled her eyes. When they got to the door, the lights above the door were red. Alvin tried the doors anyway. "They won't open" Alvin yelled.

"Oh no" Brittany yelled "oh god" what do we do?" Jeanette said in a panic state.

"Just relax." Simon said Brittany spun her head around.

"Relax!" "You want us to relax! There are creepy noises coming from all around us, and you want us to relax!" Alvin put his hand on her shoulders. Alvin started to rub her shoulders and in his most soothing voice, he said. "Come on just relax. Take some slow deep breaths" Brittany felt her eyelids starting to drop. Brittany came out of her dreary state to hear Jeanette yelled. "What about the math lab"?

"For the math hall," Jeanette said. Jeanette tries to open the math door, only to find that she was unable to open the as well.

"What about the music room"? Brittany yelled. They started to run down the hall and stuff started to fall down for the ceiling. Dust was flying in the air vents falling out of the walls. Lights were flickering off and on. Clocks were falling off the walls. The boys and girls spun around when they heard what sounded like a hollow metal pipes falling in the distance. Everyone spin back around when the wall flew from the left to right with something large and brown, penetrating through the other side of the other wall.

"What the world was that?" Simon said

"Don't know and don't want to find out," Brittany said running in the other direction. Large pieces of cement started to fall. "The ceiling is crumbling lets make a run for the gym" Alvin said. As they started to run for the gym, Alvin pulled out the digital pad that he had in his pocket. "Where did you get that?" Simon questioned

"In the car, in the glove box" Alvin retorted.

"Let me see that "Simon grabbed the touchpad from Alvin's hands.

Back at the Miller's residence poor Theodore was still wandering around the computer, and Eleanor finally realized that green icon was... "Theodore!" Eleanor exclaimed. Then she picked up her a headset /mic plugged them in hoping to see if she could hear him or that, he could hear her. All she wanted right now was to hear his voice and see his face. She would do anything to be with Theodore once again.

"Theodore"! She yelled in the mic. Theodore dropped to floor and covered his ears.

"Ouch, Ellie that hurts' my ears"

Eleanor herd Theodore say this, which made her quite ecstatic to hear his voice that made her, yell even more.

"Teddy bear is that you oh Theodore" squealed desiring to hear him once again.

"Eleanor where are you, I can't find any body anywhere. Come quickly please" this made her wince in agony even more. She knew she could not yell back because it would hurt his ears. She took a couple of deep breaths to relax herself. Once calm, she told Theodore. "Okay one, you are in a computer. Okay "

"Two you are in my computer" "oh he said that explains why your name was on a door" Once he said that she had a confused look on her face.

"Eleanor, call Simon get me out of here". "I'm scared"

Now that the, dual pair of chipmunks were into the gym, they had to figure out how to leave the gym.

"Now what, braininess" Alvin said.

Simon was looking at the digital pad. He noticed a red icon flashing.

"What's this?" Simon said.

"Don't know but hit that icon it might do something for us' Jeanette said.

The gym started to rumble and shake and pieces of the roof started to fall from the ceiling. Simon reached over with one arm and pulled Jeanette into a semi hug. Only to save Jeanette from a, huge piece of concrete, that was about to fall on her and crushing her. Simon and Jeanette both blushed and looked into each others eyes. Simon leaned over to whisper something into her ear but was interrupted. The wall on the right side of the gym came crashing down. Simon turned his back to the flying debris to shield her from it.

A giant worm came crashing through the wall, it went right for the chipmunks. Behind the broken wall, you could see the boys' bathroom. Water was gushing from the pipes everywhere.

"Oh Simon what can we do. We cannot fight this thing, can we"? Jeanette said.

Brittany and Jeanette ran behind Alvin and Simon with frightened looks on their faces.

Alvin grabbed the digital pad from Simon and started to mess with it.

"Hey Simon I have an idea"

"What now " Simon said in rolling his eyes.

"This" Alvin retorted.

Alvin started hitting a couple of buttons. Things started to materialize in front of each chipmunk.

"Alvin we just can't start fighting this thing. We do not even know if we can defeat it "

"Well Simon we just can't sit here"

"Wait I have an idea"Jeanette said

They got into a huddle and talked"