Ted made himself a sandwich and everyone took their lunch break. They all ate sandwiches, but Theodore's was bigger than everyone else's due to his appetite. As they ate, Ted's hat came off his head suddenly as he bit into his sandwich.
"What happened to your hat?" Eleanor asked as she made a sandwich for Simon.
"I dunno..." Ted rubbed the top of his head and looked up into the tree, seeing a brown monkey. "Hey! Oh, a monkey... Hey there, little guy."
The monkey seemed to smile at him as he was with Ted's hat.
"He seems to like it." Patch said.
"Um, hello, monkey," Ted looked up at the tree. "Can I have my hat back, please?"
The monkey oohed to them.
"I kind of need my hat," Ted then said, trying to get the monkey to understand. "The sun's hot and I freckle... Not the good kind either, I blotch... So please, my hat?"
"I hate monkeys..." Cherry muttered under her breath.
The monkey looked down to them and showed them the yellow hat.
"Let me talk to him." Atticus volunteered before going over to the monkey.
The monkey was very curious of the hat and was going to play with it.
"Excuse me, but can you please give my friend his hat back?" Atticus asked. "I can talk to animals, so it's okay if this is kind of confusing."
The monkey merely smiled to him, he took the yellow hat and used it as a parachute as he fell down next to the man in the yellow clothes.
"Hmm..." Ted smirked, deciding to play along with the little monkey.
"He's like a little kid." Eleanor giggled at their new jungle friend.
"Hello, anybody in there?" Ted pretended to ask. He then lifted it up to take a look at him with a friendly smile. "Peek-a-boo!"
The monkey laughed and enjoyed this game.
"It makes me think of when we first met Dave." Alvin smiled in memory.
"Yeah..." Theodore joined him, holding onto that memory.
Ted kept playing a little longer, then took his hat back once he was done, but this disappointed the monkey. "Well, look at that," he smiled. "A monkey who likes to play peek-a-boo."
The monkey smiled back and took his arm, chattering a little.
"What did you say?" Brittany asked the primate.
"He likes Ted." Patch translated.
"Yeah," Atticus said. He then went over to the monkey. "Excuse me, but would you mind telling me where your parents are, they must be worried about you." Atticus said in monkey language, hoping he translated it correctly to the monkey.
The monkey tilted his head, not answering the question about his parents.
"What's wrong?" Atticus asked him.
The monkey still didn't answer him, but then asked a question in his monkey language. "What are parents?"
"You know, a mom and dad that take care of you, feed you, bathe you, give you lots of love and makes sure that they do everything that they can to make sure that you're safe and sound." Atticus explained in monkey language.
"I never heard of them, do they live around here?" the monkey then asked which made the very sad conclusion that this monkey was an orphan.
"Oh, dear, um, I-I don't know how to tell you this, but I think your parents might be... Dead." Atticus said in monkey language.
"What's dead?" the monkey asked but from Atticus's tone of voice, he felt like it could not be a good thing.
"Well, it's when s-someone is no longer with you and is now up to Heaven." Atticus explained in monkey language.
"Um... Hey, this was fun, my little friend," Ted spoke up as he looked at the time. "But sorry, we've got to go."
The monkey frowned as Ted and the others started to leave, he wanted to play with them longer.
"I wonder if Simon is up yet?" Cherry wondered out loud.
The monkey then jumped onto her back eagerly, then hopped onto Ted's head to take his hat and play more like a playful Kindergartner.
"Hey, come back here!" Ted called to the rambunctious monkey.
"That monkey really is a kid, right Atticus?" Patch asked but then noticed that his owner/friend wasn't responding. "Atticus? Hello, anybody in there?"
"Um... Yeah, he's a kid alright..." Atticus agreed, it was a lot for him to take in just to learn this little monkey was orphaned since he didn't know what parents were and didn't appear to have any.
Ted went to chase after the monkey, but he had a playful determined face like a father playing with his wild child son. The monkey stopped at one point, but Ted still ran in circles around the tree.
"Um, Ted?" Eleanor stopped him.
"Ted, you can stop running now." Patch said.
Ted did stop running, but all the running gave him a cramp. The monkey knelt onto Ted's chest and smiled down to him.
"Okay, I have an idea," Ted smiled as he took his sandwich. "We'll trade. Sandwich for the hat. On three..."
The monkey smiled in excitement, feeling like this was a whole other game as they both held onto the sandwich and hat, but even after three, he didn't let go. Soon he had won the hat while Ted kept the sandwich. Ted took his hat back and gave the monkey the sandwich, he then decided to wear that as a hat.
Soon, they were back on the trail, leaving the monkey and Simon had finally woken up.
"Finally." Patch said, seeing Simon awake.
They all then walked as Ted counted the paces from the book. The monkey from earlier swung on a vine and came back to see his new friends.
"Not now, Monkey," Ted told him so they could continue their walk. "Okay, look through the mufti bushes and you will find 'X'."
"Those are muftis!" Jeanette pointed to the bushes right in front of them that had red plants among them.
"Perfect." Patch said.
"Good eye, Jeanette," Ted handed her the journal, then took out his binoculars. "Here, hold this." he then went closer and closer to the bushes to take a closer look at them.
The monkey put his hands over his eyes to mimic the man. Alvin and Brittany pulled the bushes back for him and there was the shrine!
"There it is..." Ted whispered. "It's awesome... It's spectacular..." he then put his binoculars down and didn't see anything. "It's... Gone?" He saw that the shrine was actually about three inches tall and wasn't big and glorious as he had hoped. "What? This can't be it!"
"This is it?! This is what we came all the way here for?!" Alvin asked out of frustration.
"It's supposed to be huge," Ted showed them, holding it between his fingers. "That isn't huge, okay? That's the opposite of huge! I need the giant monkey!"
Cherry took a look at the scale model of the shrine from the journal. "Who knew this would be actual size?"
"Oh, no, do you know what this means?" Patch asked.
Ted found ancient writing which told him to look into the light for the answer and he looked directly into the sun.
"What does that mean?" Patch asked.
"It means don't look in the sun." Cherry scoffed slightly since Ted's eyes were now burning.
"No, the ancient writing." Patch said.
"It said he would find the answer in the light." Jeanette translated the ancient writing.
"But I don't think it meant to actually look directly into the light." Atticus said.
"Well, someone should've told him that..." Simon sighed that Ted had taken that literally and looked in the sun.
"Um, Ted, you can stop looking towards the sun now." Patch suggested.
Ted rubbed his eyes and even took their water canteen to soothe his eyes from the blistering sun's burn. He was very disappointed in their travel leading to this, but obviously not as much as Alvin or Brittany. "Oh, what am I going to tell Mr. Bloomsberry?" he sighed as he sat by the tree with them.
"I'm afraid there is only one thing to do." Atticus said.
Suddenly, Ted's cell phone rang and Bloomsberry had been calling for him, much to his surprise.
"Guys, you might wanna get out of here," Ted told the group with him. "This isn't gonna be easy."
"Okay, come on, guys." Atticus said.
They all then walked off, but not too far so Ted could talk with the man in charge.
"All that trouble just for some stupid monkey that's not even big enough to be a key chain!" Brittany scowled.
"I know! And worst of all, I don't think it could be worth anything!" Alvin scowled.
"No, worst of all, that was going to be the only way to save the museum." Atticus said.
"Whatever!" Alvin and Brittany rolled their eyes.
Jeanette and Simon just sighed at their selfish siblings.
"Well, we could only try..." Theodore shrugged. "Maybe we could find something even better for Mr. Bloomsberry?" he then suggested.
"Oh, what?" Brittany glanced at him, folding her arms. "Like the Devil's Eye diamond?"
"No, that was in New York, and besides, it was already found and was donated to the Smithsonian Museum." Cherry glanced at her.
"Yeah." Atticus said.
"What happened to diamonds and rubies?" Brittany huffed.
"Is that really important right now?" Patch asked.
"I guess not..." Brittany rolled her eyes.
Ted hung up the phone, then came back to the group. "Well, time to go."
"How did Mr. Bloomsberry take it?" Cherry asked.
"Well, we're gonna talk about it when I get back to the museum," Ted replied. "He cried when I sent him a photo of the shrine... I feel like this could be the end of my career."
"M-Maybe it won't be so bad having a parking lot." Patch said, trying to cheer him up.
Ted sighed. "I just hope he's not that harsh when we come back."
"Aw, I'm sure it won't be as bad as all that," Eleanor soothed. "No matter what the other kids say though, I think you're a wonderful museum lecturer."
Ted smiled softly to her. He was about to go, but his hat had been robbed again. It was the same monkey and he tried to play peek-a-boo with the hat to make Ted stay.
"You know what?" Ted smiled before he left with the others. "Keep the hat."
"Sorry, little guy, but we have to go back to the city." Atticus said in monkey language.
The monkey pouted as they were now leaving and he would never see either of them again.
"Hey, don't look sad," Ted coaxed. "It's the new khaki."
They went to the jungle jeep to take them on the boat back home where they belonged. Patch sniffed something different and looked around, but he didn't have time to see what it was, he had to get moving.
"You smell something, Patch?" Theodore asked the puppy.
"Thought I smelled a different chipmunk..." Patch shrugged.
"That's strange, chipmunks usually don't reside in forests..." Simon was puzzled.
They went through the tall blades of grass and were now on their way back to America.
"Yeah, you're probably right, besides what chipmunk could live here?" Patch asked.
The others shrugged and just went along. The monkey looked through the grass and followed after the jeep, swinging and walking along with Ted's hat. There were a couple of chipmunk figures hiding in the grass with glowing eyes and they seemed to disappear in the shadows as the monkey went off.