Author's note: Well der boy! It's time for another chapter. Any who, thanks to some brilliant author's I was able to get some OCs for this chapter. Not all of them will appear in this chapter but they will feature predominantly in the following ones. A big shout out to all the author's who gave me permission to use their OCs! Thanks!

Tom Zened – alvinnascar5

Nicole Madar – alvinnascar5

Jammie Siroun Joans – Emmazippy577

Steven Keath Abram – Emmazippy577

McKensie – MR J.H.F

I do not own Alvin and the chipmunks, but I do own the plot and any OCs that are not listed as other authors'.

The mall was only a couple of blocks away from the youth centre, leaving little time for the new chipmunk to be questioned and even less time for them all having to endure Charlotte's disastrous singing. All though people say some things run in the family, when you adopt chipmunks that can sing, you don't instantaneously be granted the power to sing well-but she didn't care. The arrived after fifteen minutes of leaving the hall and the journey left one chipmunk feeling very awkward about looking after such energetic employers.

The complex stood at forty feet tall and took up a couple of acres. Charlotte led the way through the entrance into the heaven on earth of shopping places. Stores scattered the entire area with large steel bars residing from the ground up, so as to maintain the structures integrity. People walked by while pointing and squealing at the chipmunks and chipettes all the while Alvin smirked while clicking his fingers at them. They had only walked a few metres, when Simon blew his top.

"Stop being so arrogant Alvin. Every one of those girls is a human and last time I checked we were born to be our own kind. Get what I'm saying?" Simon said while gesturing at the chipettes who walked a good few metres away from them.

"I know, I know Si. I just thought, you know, the ladies need a bit of love," Alvin replied all the while he winked and blew kisses to every girl within the age bracket of eleven to forty. Simon simply shuddered at the sight before realising something was wrong. He looked around to see where his cousins had gone in the mist of human bodies. He spotted Charlotte over by a mirror, working at her image. She was shaking her flowing brown hair around to remove anything stuck in it, while she stirred at herself. She wore her usual purple jacket over her white t shirt and her jeans looked like the same pair she always wore. She brushed her hair away from her slightly freckled face, before looking past the mirror towards a food counters. Simon was known as a true scientist in his school, and he couldn't help but be fascinated at this 'creature' in her unnatural habitat. He could not for the life of him figure out what all the fuss about her image was at that moment, until he looked towards the food counters.

He scanned them while looking for anything strange but found nothing. Disappointed, annoyed and tired, he walked over to her with the must sadistic smile he could come up with.

"Char?" he said, but found that she was still rotating between the mirror and food counter, "Char? Hello, Char. I would like to at least move more than five metres before Dave picks us up."

Still she didn't reply, so he gave up on her, thinking that a distracted Charlotte is as easy to control as a distracted Alvin. He took a clean sweep of the area once again, finding Toby and Luke had gone off to a bench to plat portable games, the chipettes were still standing beside his brothers talking and savouring each other's attention, except for Jeanette who looked dejected. Simon was about to go and comfort her, until he saw his new bodyguard standing at the doorway. He simply stood gaping at the entire structure. Simon hadn't been able to get a clear view of him before so he took the opportunity to look over his features. There wasn't that much that was distinct about him. Blue eyes, brown fur, slightly smaller than Simon, two white stripes on his back, a tail etc. Although, he couldn't quite put his finger on it Simon felt something almost familiar about this chipmunk as though they had met before. He shook of the feeling, noting it as irrelevant, and walked over to him.

"Enjoying the view I see," Simon casually noted, causing the chipmunk to look down at him and zone back in to reality.

"Oh, what? The view, yeah it's nice or in other words amazing. We do have a sort of shopping centre back home, but it earth in the universe compared to this. I mean look you roves have roves for crying out loud!"

It wasn't often Simon would take notice of things like that. He had lived around these sorts of buildings for a year and a half now and really felt as though they were small. He began to imagine what it must feel like to see one for the first time and awe at it. He only got a few moments to awe, before Connor and his brothers and the chipettes made their way over to them.

"So, while my bros play videogames and Char checks out some guy, what do we do?" Connor questioned while pointing towards the food counter. It was only then that Simon saw the blond teen behind the counter as well as the very smiley Charlotte ordering what appeared to be everything in the fast food place while he placed on the tray. A chorus of 'Ohs' rang out and they all new that that ship is long gone.

"In the true state of democracy, unity and equality," Alvin said with his best Richard Nixon voice, "I suggest we just divide into boys and girls, so as the boys can do whatever they want and the girls can't nag them." His usual 'tease Brittany' face was on and the girls simply gave him a glare.

"I don't think so Alvin, may I call you Alvin?" James said which received a nod from Alvin, "My job is to keep all of you safe so I need a way to watch you all, ok?"

The group just huffed and complained, mostly done by Alvin and Brittany, about the problems of working together. James just stood there, looking up at Connor for advice. The teenager gave him a 'you're on your own' stare and retired to sitting on a nearby bench with his brothers. Feeling as though he would be mauled by the two eldest chipmunks in a moment, the bodyguard gave in-but for one good reason.

"Tom, Nicole, over here!" he shouted while waving frantically at two chipmunks near a Nike store. The others turned to where he was shouting, momentarily stopping Alvin and Brittany, to see a chipmunk and chipettes looking around for the shouter. When they caught a glimpse of the group, they scampered over to them, while dodging the oncoming human traffic. The first to arrive was the girl, who beamed at them and ran over to James. She wore a pink short sleeve t-shirt and a dark blue skirt, with an auburn fur residing underneath. Her eyes were blue and she matched Brittany in many ways. The boy caught up with her and the chipmunks immediately noticed his Kasey Kahne #5 NASCAR shirt and matching hat that covered his brown fur. His resemblance to Alvin in some ways was uncanny but the others didn't get to speak to them right away as they both ran over to James and jumped on him. It left a very odd looking mix of tails, legs, arms and heads in a bundle and three laughing chipmunks trying to untangle themselves.

"I can't believe you guys are here," James said as he stood up with the others. The chipmunk dusted himself off before helping the girl up, but didn't let go of her hand after that.

"I know, small world. We have seen you since the station," the one James referred to as Tom said. They continued their conversation for a good ten minutes, while the others stood and watched awkwardly not knowing how to react. Only Theodore looked happy to see these new people and after the ten minutes he felt he had given them enough time to catch up.

"Hey James. Who are your new friends?"

Of course it would be Theodore's only view that these chipmunks are friends that he would soon cherish. James turned around to the group, noticing their different stare. Some were unsure, others friendly and two were simply impatient.

"My bad, I forgot where we were for a moment," he said before gesturing to the new chipmunks, "These are my friends, Tom Zened and Nicole Madar. They helped me get around when I first arrived in the states, until could take care of myself. I honestly didn't think we'd meet again, considering I landed in New York."

The girl, called Nicole, broke away from her other friend and held out her hand to the chipmunks.

"I'm Nicole, as he said, and it's good to meet you considering how famous you are."

Simon and Jeanette were weary of the stranger while Alvin, Brittany and Alvin all stood back from the stranger just incase she did something unusual. They had only known their bodyguard for a while so they weren't sure if they should trust them. That left Theodore to do what Theodore does best-run up and shake her hand vigorously. Nicole simply laughed, before Theodore pulled away and grabbed the hand of the still hesitant Tom. After seeing that the new guys don't bite-literally-the others joined in with the pleasantries and soon Connor and a very sad looking Charlotte came over. After everyone had met, Alvin looked up to tease Charlotte, but instead found spaghetti falling from her hair.

Unable to contain his laughter, he began rolling about on the floor, pointing and crying at Charlotte. The others turned around to the same sight and their will not to laugh was broken. Soon enough Charlotte had nine chipmunks and a boy lying on the ground laughing-along with twenty confused shoppers.

"Oh get up you children, it's not even that funny!" she exclaimed but was only met by more laughing and Tom asking "What happened to her?"

Charlotte had suffered enough as it was so; she simply gave in and explained.

"I was walking away from the food counter when I slipped with my tray, ok?" she pleaded, only to be met by more laughing. After five minutes they were all breathless and thought they couldn't take it anymore, until Alvin shouted, "More like you were stretching across the counter to feel that guy's ass!"

Little could be done to stop the laughter then and after ten more minutes they finally stopped. A furious Charlotte simply stood over Alvin, with smoke burning out of her nose. Knowing he would be slaughtered worse than a turkey at Christmas, he quickly changed the subject.

"So, now that we all know each other, and have broken the ice with a good laugh, what do you say we give the boys' and girls' groups a go, eh?" he stated while cowering away from Charlotte. The cinders and ashes finally dissipated away from Charlotte and she returned to her calm and breezy self.

"Ok fine Alvin, you win. We'll divide into boys and girls but only because Nicole will be going with the girls and I can at least trust her. Anyone who doesn't want to go around the shops can stay with Mario and Luigi over there," James stated while pointing to Toby and Luke. The groups then parted and went about their business, but not before Simon noticed Tom's reluctance to let go of Nicole's hand.

'I'll have to ask him about that,' he thought as the boys began walking around the complex. Connor had taken charge of the group, with him leading them towards one of the American football stores. Shirts hung from racks all over the store, and footballs were thrown between beefed up teenagers and beefed up teenager. Connor had been a fan since he was a young boy, and had followed the league for years. While he ran around the shop from shirt to shirt, the others scattered around the different aisles. Tom was a much bigger fan of NASCAR than anything, but didn't mind the football either. He and Alvin discussed the chipmunk lifestyle in the world of football while the other stood with their hands in their pockets.

"Not to be rude, but guys what is this game?" a voice questioned from a corner. James stood examining a large shirt, which in his opinion was made for the incredible Hulk. Connor stopped his running to stare at the little chipmunk while the others looked at him blankly.

"How do you not know about American football?" Connor shouted, earning a glare from a shop assistant. James just stared back at them with a quizzical look. Simon even knew what football was, so how could anyone else not?

"We don't exactly play American games nor do particularly American things back home. Speaking of which, do you know where there is an O'Neill's shop around here?" James questioned. During the conversation Tom had simply gone on looking around and when he reached them, without looking up he stated the obvious.

"Different land, different culture, different sports. You'll get used to it but I suggest you find an O'Neill's store soon, he goes crazy without his 'Gaelic' as he calls it."

It was then that Simon realized the cultural value behind his new friendship. New life means new things to learn and new people to teach. Alvin then realized something too. New life means no idea about American lifestyle meaning he can prank this bodyguard so badly, he'll probably move to Mexico in a week. Simon and Alvin both had smiles now but how different they were. One excited and enthusiastic, the other pure evil.

"Well then buddy, we'll just have to find this shop and teach you some culture. First though how about an American bite to eat," Alvin said while giving his least evil smile he could manage. James simply nodded, before Alvin led him off to the food counter. The others simply looked at one another before sprinting after them, leaving one bemused looking Tom stranded in the store.

"It looks like he got in easy enough-but that was the easy part," he mumbled to himself," The hard part is keeping them alive." After a few more trains of thought, Tom sprinted after them faster than what was believed to be physically possible.

Well that's that! See you next chapter. Go raibh maith agat do ag léigh! (Thanks for reading!)