A/N: Hey-oo! I'm back from Sweden and with a new chapter, and for you to know, I brought everyone of my readers a virtual cookie, which I'm sending you now... beep! Sent! Anyway, to the story...
The thing that changed their lives (To the rescue!)
the chipmunks and the chipettes walked off the stage drying themselves with the tiny towels they had been given. Brittany was holding a red rose in her paws, which had flow from the audience and was smelling it.
Alvin had been thrown a pair of girls panties with pictures of him, which Alvin thought was REALLY weird, so he had left them on the stage for cleaners to take care of.
Dylan felt really proud of himself, because everybody was congratulating him for a great performance including the chipmunks and the chipettes themselves. They had thought that Dylan was definitely going to sing in their future concerts too and maybe if Whitney showed them her skills, maybe she too.
"Wow Dylan, that was pretty hard singing on the stage bro!" Alvin said slamming his paw on his shoulder.
"Thanks Al. I think it was good for a first time." Dylan replied modestly
"That was way better than good. You were brilliant! About the same level as Alvin on his first concert and considering that this came to you as a surprise, you did even better." Simon congratulated him.
"I think I speak for all the girls when I say that you were just great!" Brittany said and Alvin moved his hand around her waist. "You did good too babe" He whispered and Brittany giggled.
"Speaking of you girls, where's Whitney?" Dylan asked
"Maybe she's just waiting us in our dressing room with Dave." Jeanette suggested.
"Maybe. Anyway, should we get there now? " Dylan asked
"Sorry D, we can't. I bet there is a truck-load of paparazis waiting in front of our door and I'm not in a mood for too many interviews." Alvin said shivering from the pure idea of giving any interviews on Christmas, the time of relaxation and love.
"Oh, I see"
"Don't worry Dylan, we can always play something while we wait. So, how about a round of truth or dare?" Alvin said eagerly.
"I'm not in a mood for that. How about we just chat." Eleanor said and everybody nodded in agreement, except Alvin, who showed a long face because his idea had been ignored completely, but he had to agree because everyone else did."We better chat about something interesting then."
They chatted for the next 30 minutes and during that, Alvin was able to fall asleep 3 times, because he thought it was too boring, but Brittany always woke him up by gently kissing his cheek.
"I think it's time for us to go" Theodore said
"I agree. I can't take another word from you guys or I'll fall in a coma." Alvin said again showing a long face and Dylan just laughed at that.
"Alvin, you face does kind of a trick when you feel grumpy. You know that?"
"No, but I do know that your face is going to more than just a trick if you continue that." He replied and shot a glare at him making him laugh even more.
"It's not that funny. I can really twist your face however I want if I'm angry."
"Yep, you just have to fall asleep first to catch me, because now you couldn't even catch a snail!"
"Are you saying that I'm slower than a snail?"
"No, I'm not saying it. I just thought it out loud." Dylan said and got another burst of laughter and then Alvin hit his face with his paw causing Dylan to fly a feet from him, but surprisingly he stood up as soon as he had fallen and started laughing even more.
"What? I just hit you with all my strenght and you are still laughing?" Alvin wondered.
"Yep, learn to live with it Al. I can tell it hurt pretty much, but I don't care as long as I don't bleed."
"You know, for a little brother you're a pretty cool guy" Alvin had to admit.
"Yep, probably just because my older brothers are world- famous superstars" Dylan said and rubbed his cheek, which turned red from the hit.
"You bet it is like that!" Alvin said and smirked stupidly trying to pose a heroic pose.
"Umm... Alvin, remember that he hasn't even met us before a week ago, so he can't have..."
"Who cares if he has met us a week ago! He's our brother and shares the same blood! Every Seville should be like me and him!" Alvin shouted scaring Simon.
"Whatever, we should go to see if our room is now paparazzi-free." Theodore commented
"Good, I guess some of our fans have left us treat-baskets and I'm hungry!"
"So off we go." Jeanette said and grabbed Simon's paw, who took in gently in his and followed her.
Soon they came at the door of their room and saw that all the paparazis had left already, so they carefully approached it and knocked on the door and Dave came to open it.
"Thank goodness you're alright! I thought you were kidnapped or something. You don't usually come this late" Dave almost worried his head off.
"The actual word is MUNKNAPPING in our case and we were late only because Alvin and Dylan started fighting again." Simon said and Alvin stared at him his mouth wide open.
"You snitch!" Alvin shouted "Why did you have to tell him that I punched him!"
"Alvin, you are not paying attention. I only said that you were fighting, but it's good that you confessed yourself." Simon replied grinning like Alvin always did, which didn't quite work for him.
"ALVIN! You punched Dylan?" Dave said very angrily and reached at him, but Alvin dodged and started running away. "AAAAAALLLLVVVIIIIINNNN!" Dave shouted and started chasing him and soon caught him, because he knew all his tricks. Well... at least most of his tricks.
"Now you're in a lot of trouble young man. First, apologize for Dylan." Dave said hanging Alvin upside-down from his tail.
"Sorry Dylan." Alvin said because he wanted to get out as soon as possible. Blood had already started to pack in his head.
"Apology accepted" Dylan said and Dave placed Alvin on the ground so that they could shake hands and they did.
"Let's do that fight another time." Dylan whispered. "So, how's Whitney. Why hasn't she come out from our room yet."
"I thought she was with you guys" Dave replied, thinking.
"No she wasn't!" Dylan said and gasped "WHERE IS SHE!"
"Let's find her, quick!" Brittany replied "She can't be too far. We just saw her before our last song."
"You're right. Let's not panic, she can't be too far away." Simon added.
"Sorry Si but I'm already in panic and I'm off!" Dylan said and darted away, leaving everyone else standing.
"Oookay, he's nuts with Whitney." Brittany said causing everyone to chuckle slightly.
Before they could even tell, Dylan shouted from a distance "Guys, quickly, come here! I think I found something!" This woke up their interests and they slowly made their way to him. He was holding a black cellphone in his paws.
Everybody seemed to take it quite normally like it was just a regular phone, but when they closed on it, Jeanette gasped and took it in her paws. "This is Ian's cellphone!"
"Yeah, that's definitely Ian's, but what is it doing here?" Brittany added.
"I don't know, but we all know if it's Ian, It can't be anything good." Simon said referring to the things he had done to them all and he shivered from the idea of putting in a cage.
"But Ian can't have taken her... right?..." Eleanor muttered quietly and very unsurely
"I don't know, but if he has, she's in a lot of trouble and suffering." Simon said scaring Dylan to almost a heart attack.
"She'll handle him." Dylan said confidently, but still sounding very unsure and scared.
"Now we have to tell Dave!" Jeanette and Simon exclaimed in unison
"Let's, and quickly!"
Whitney's POV
It is cold. The metal against my fur isn't making it any better and the sounds of metal scratching against anything hard is ear-wrenching. I don't think I can handle this much longer.
This is some sort of cage made from pure metal and I can't see anything, because no light is coming in from the openings. The munknapper covered the cage with a thick blanket and I didn't even get a chance to see him or her and now I'm alone, swinging slightly and listening to the quiet footsteps of my munknapper.
Then the cage swung very hard causing Whitney to fly against the wall hardly. She fell on the ground and could feel a strong pain right below her tiny lungs. She had broken a rib or two. If she wouldn't get help soon, the breathing would come much more difficult, so she had to get at least fresh air by now, because the air inside the cage was dusty and stuffy.
The cage was harshly dropped on the ground, which caused her to wince and moan in pain as she felt her broken ribs move. The munknapper was heard to say something, but Whitney didn't recognize the sound. It wasn't anything she had heard before.
The cage was lifted back in the air once more, but soon enough it landed, but this time more gently, but the blanket waved just enough that Whitney saw that she was in a car right outside the orpheum theater, but she still didn't see her munknapper, who was clearly a male, but that was the only thing she knew by then.
"So, the fourth chipette" The strange male said and lifted the blanket from the cage revealing himself to Whitney "Do you know me?" he asked
Whitney tried to recognize this male, but wasn't able to. She had never seen anyone like that and especially hadn't seen anyone that ugly. He was wearing totally out of fashion glasses and was bald. On his face was seen a VERY stupid grin, which Whitney wanted to smack off, but couldn't do that because was in a cage.
"So, I see... The chipmunks haven't introduced me to you yet, but let me fix that. I'm Ian Hawke." the male said and the very stupid grin grew even bigger and just then, the cab started driving which caused Whitney to fly at the other end of the cage and hurt herself badly again.
She panted heavily as she tried to move, but she couldn't even stand up because of the excruciating pain below her lungs. She couldn't even breathe as well anymore. She was now completely immobilized.
"I can tell you've hurt yourself, but I don't mind because when you've healed, you'll make me a lot of money."
"In that case I will never heal!" Whitney exclaimed, but that only caused her humongous amounts of pain, so she had to stop. She coughed and a little blood flew out of her mouth.
"Oh yes you will, because I'll make sure you get treated by the best doctors in the whole country."
"I won't go!" Whitney exclaimed but had to grab her sides, because of the pain again.
"Yes you will, and in fact, you're going right now. Taxi-driver, to the hospital"
"No...."
With the chipmunks and the chipettes
The chipmunks and the chipettes plus Dave had drove home and called the police right after Dave had heard what had happened and now they were making LOST notes, in case that someone would see Whitney.
"I can't believe that Ian would do such thing. It's just awful even for him to do." Brittany said and tried her best to capture Whitney's image on paper with a pencil. Her art had always been the best of them all, because she liked to draw herself clothes. She was even better than Jeanette even though she would be better without her clumsiness.
"Yeah, It's like really wrong and Ian should know that after being thrown in a dumpster and that kind of stuff." Alvin said as he carefully colored the parts of Whitney Brittany had already drawn.
"I'm sure we'll find her, because knowing Ian, she's trying to make her world-famous, so we must hear about her quite soon." Simon said as he and Jeanette were writing the announcement on the paper; HAVE YOU SEEN A CHIPMUNK WHO LOOKS LIKE THIS. IF YOU HAVE; CALL.…...
"I really hope she'll be found soon or that Ian is wise enough to bring her back." Dylan said very sadly, just sketching on some blank paper
"I really don't think Ian is wise enough, but I hope that she'll be found soon too." Theodore continued.
"Yeah" Dylan said and sighed
"I guess you really liked that girl did you?" Brittany said gently and placed her paw on Dylan's shoulder, but he took it off.
"Yep, she is so pretty and wonderful. I remember on the second day of her school when she even stood up against Ryan with me, but I was almost in a side-role in that scene.
Flashback (Dylan's POV)
Me and Whitney were walking to our next class which would be mathematics, but when we turned towards our room, I saw Ryan blocking our way.
"So, How are you BRATS today" He said spitting the words out like they would have been acid.
"We're doing great, thanks for asking" I said keeping my calm composure, but that only seemed to make him more angry.
"You're not entering this classroom before you've paid for what have you done."
"What have we done?" I said still remaining as calm as what.
"You know what have you done" Ryan said and tried to grab my tail, but I dodged and tried to slip to the classroom and made it in, but then Whitney screamed and I turned back. Ryan had caught her instead.
"Let her go Ryan. She has done nothing for you!"
"No, she hasn't but you have and she's going to pay."
"That's not fair! Taking on a girl like that and even only a part of your own size!"
"I know, but... you know... business is business." Ryan said and started shaking Whitney, but suddenly he screamed like a girl and dropped Whitney on the ground. He's hand was bleeding from the point Whitney had bit him.
"Man you taste awful! Have you ever heard about handwashes?" Whitney said and Ryan got furious and tried to catch her again, but this time Whitney dodged like Dylan had and moved to his leg and scratched it with her sharp claws, making Ryan wince in sudden pain.
"You Brat are coming here!"
"NOPE!" Whitney exclaimed and climbed up his leg at the same, making tiny wounds on his skin with her claws.
"Ouch! You little brat, show yourself!" Ryan shouted and tried to hit a lump in his jeans, but missed. And caused a bruise to himself.
Whitney finally came out "What? Can't a large slow, woodhead jock hit a little girl? Huh?"
"You're dead!"
"No she's not" Was a voice heard. It was Julie Ortega, one of their teachers and their cousin Toby's girlfriend. "I saw the whole scene and now you're going to get detention!"
"But, but, but they started it..."
"No buts Ryan, we've gone through this before and now, follow me." Julie said and got a really angry look on her face and Ryan had to obey.
"Wow, Whitney, you were really brave!"
"Thanks."
End of flashback
"Wow, you didn't tell me she's that brave." Alvin admired and Brittany slapped the back of his head. "Ouch, Brit, please, You know I think that you are even braver." Alvin continued and this time Brittany kissed him, not saying a word.
"So, how about we continue making these notes?" Simon suggested
"O-okay" Eleanor and Theodore replied
"We should definitely find some other way to search for Whitney in a maximum power." Dave said and everyone nodded in agreement.
"Yes, and I think I have just the way, but we can't do it by ourselves." Simon said.
"Really? What is it?" Everyone asked in unison.
"Well... We could track the calls made with Ian's cellphone to find out where he has called the most and assume that would be the place he's staying and has Whitney in it." Simon said and turned away looking ashamed, because he thought that his idea was foolish.
"Simon, that's a marvelous idea!" Dave shouted
"It is?"
"Yes it is, I've seen that to work a million times on TV!"
"Dave, remember this is not a TV, but anyway, Simon, your idea is just great like they always are" Jeanette said and Simon blushed.
"But how can we perform that? You know, track his phone?" Alvin said
"Well... I guess we should go on a little visit to LAPD." Dave said and grabbed his car keys.
Ian's POV
Finally! Finally he had been able to catch one of those annoying chipmunks. He almost had done it a week ago in the airport, but then that stupid white-hooded chipmunk had gotten away, but now he had succeeded with flying colors.
"I can't believe I finally caught one of you!"
"But why... you don't even know if I can sing" The female chipette whispered, because apparently some of her small ribs had broken and she was in pain.
"Oh, I don't care if I had to teach you to sing, but you will still make me loads of money in the future and nobody can stop me!" Ian said and laughed evilly. "Now let's get you to that hospital and to heal those stupid broken ribs or otherwise you're no use."
"Then I shall stay like this! OUCH!" the chipette yelled, but grabbed her sides after that.
Ian moved his face closer to her "So, you haven't even told me your name yet?" Ian said, but as an answer he only got some chipmunk saliva in his eye.
"So, you want to play it that way huh? I can tell you that after my treatment you will NEVER disobey me again!" Ian shouted furiously and the chipette was clearly coming more and more scared. "Oh, It looks like we've reached the hospital, should we get in? MUHAHAHAA!" Ian laughed as he opened the taxi door and lifted the metal cage roughly off the seat causing Whitney to wince again.
"I'm going to be rich and nobody can stop me"
LAPD
"I'm sorry sir, but we can't do that unless it's a very serious crime." The head officer told them
"What? Don't you think kidnapping is a serious crime?" Dave said sounding very shocked.
"Well... in this case it's munknapping and there's no law for those cases."
"NO LAW pfft... Are you kidding me?"
"No, there's not a law for munknapping and chipmunks aren't really that rare so..."
"But she's part of our family!"
"Your family? Are you sure? All I see is a bunch of chipmunks with clothing there and for that, isn't it quite strange to dress some weird chipmunks?"
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING WEIRD!" Brittany exclaimed and the head officer fell from his chair in a shock.
"WHAT? You can talk? I'm probably dreaming, please pinch me" he said and Alvin climbed on his shoulder and pinched his ear "OUCH!"
"You believe now?" Simon said and fixed his glasses
"Yeah, I'm starting to... uhh... I'm starting to go down..." He said and fainted at that spot.
"Are you the chipmunks and the chipettes!" A female officer nearby screamed and pointed at them.
"Umm, it isn't very polite to point at somebody, but yes, yes we are and we're looking for someone, who could track this pho..." Simon continued and couldn't even finish his sentence before she spoke.
"I know a guy!" She yelled excitedly and rushed away and soon returned with a short, grey-haired man and on the name-plate read TOM."
"Tom here is very good at those things you asked for and I'm sure he'll help you. After all, he's your fan too, but not as big as myself " the female officer said and placed her hand proudly on her chest.
"So, I heard that you want to find out the owner of this cellphone and his location am I right?" Tom said
"We actually already know who the owner is, but the location would be nice." Dave said and glimpsed at the female officer who seemed to examine the chipmunks pretty closely and was already asking for autographs "what a fangirl.." he thought.
"So, we just have to connect this phone to my computer like this and press a couple of buttons and then like this and this and click once and eventually I found out where all the calls have been made." Tom said as Simon looked him work admiring his speed and wisdom.
"Oh, it seems like all the calls have been made in the staples center. That's strange. I didn't know there are rooms in that building." Tom continued.
"Me neither" Dave said "and we've visited it many many times."
"That's strange, but remember that Ian used to live in the cellar of jett records before he found the chipettes." Simon reminded and it all made sense.
"Ian is at the staples center." Brittany said "And also is Whitney, but he may have all kids of booby traps and stuff around the place where he is plus the place is HUGE. How are we ever going to find her in there?"
"I don't know but we will." Dylan said and looked at all the others including the female officer/fangirl "Will you help me?"
"Sure, but we've got to be quick. Who knows what kind of plans does he have for Whitney and is he even staying there anymore or is he moved to another place." Simon said.
"You're right, we've got to be fast, but we need a plan. So, we've got 9 persons plus Tom, who can probably umm..."
"I can take control of the staples center security cameras and be an eye for you." Tom replied
"Good, so, we need a distraction..." Dylan started and with the help of Simon and Jeanette, they were quickly finished with an excellent plan.
"Now there's enough of theory, we should get going or it may be too late" Alvin said and Brittany gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. " Just for good luck my #1 munkstar"
"And for the greatest girl on earth" Alvin said and pecked her on the lips and they realized that all the others were embracing each other too, except the humans.
"Let's start the operation W"
"I'll call Claire to tell the news and maybe she can help us." Dave said
"Good idea, but call her on the way to the car." Alvin said "We have Dylan's girlfriend to save"
Dylan, who usually would get annoyed by a comment like that, reminded silent, because he couldn't deny it. He really liked Whitney and wanted her to be his girlfriend, but that wasn't possible before she was saved.
"Yeah, whatever Alvin, but yes, we've got to save her."
"I'll go start the car and you follow suit." Dave said and left the chipmunks with the two persons, a fangirl and a super tech.
"Okay, I'm finished taking over the cameras. Here, does any of that stuff look familiar to you?" Tom said. he had been doing something on the computer all along and Simon had watched him.
"Yes, that's definitely Ian's stuff." Brittany said and pointed at the clothes on the floor but then suddenly the screen went black and everybody gasped "What happened!"
"I think someone or something just destroyed the camera" Tom responded and started crazily smacking the keys on his keyboard and soon there were many smaller screens on his screen, but not the one which they had seen earlier. "That must have been a small time bomb which was set to explode at certain time so that nobody could suspect Ian for doing it. it's like the camera just shut down."
"But what are we going to do now?"
"I can observe every else part of the staples, except Ian's room, but I guess that's enough so no need to change plans." Tom said
"that's good to know."
"Take this radiotelephone so that we can keep contact. It should work anywhere you go, even if you went 100 feet below the ground, because it's the latest technology." Tom said and handed them a small radiotelephone and showed it's pair, which was in his pocket.
"Okay, here we go" Dylan said as he took the radiotelephone in his strong paws
"You're right! TO THE RESCUE!" Alvin screamed and made a loud war-cry, so that everyone had to block their ears.
"Please Alvin, no more war-cries" Brittany said and Alvin blushed "sorry..."
"I'm coming with you" The fangirl said and was already out of the door before anyone could reject, so they just shrug their shoulders and followed her.
"Did I miss something" The head officer said and stood up shaking his head.
"Not much" Eleanor said and the officer fainted again
"He shouldn't really be an officer..."
Whitney's POV
The hands of a doctor were cold and stiff. Not too good feeling on a thin skin of a chipmunk. he obviously knew what he was doing and did it quickly, but you can't really say I enjoyed it, but because after all, this would only please Ian, so I just tried to remain calm but it was really hard. Imagine a feeling when you are squeezed all around your body with huge loafs of old bread which have just been dipped in ice-cold water, yeah, not too cool.
The doctor got my ribs supported in just a couple of minutes and Ian was watching me with a devilish glare in his eyes. I will never make money for that monster, I'd rather do a suicide!
"You're all done and because you're a chipmunk, it can't take too much time for you to recover" the doctor said
"That's good, but are we free to go now?" Ian said quickly like he wouldn't want to waste any more time.
"Yes, but please take this pill. It will relieve the pain." The doctor said and handed Ian a pill, which he immediately stuffed into my mouth making me cough, but I still swallowed it because she didn't have a choice. otherwise the pains would have killed me in any moment.
"So Whitney, are you ready to start your career?" Ian asked and grinned at me.
"NO!" I yelled, but regretted it immediately as Ian threw me hardly at the bottom of my cage and locked it with a heavy-looking padlock. "The others will come to rescue me!"
"No they won't unless they find out my secret hideout and I guarantee you that they won't!" Ian said and laughed evilly.
"Yes they will! they will search under every rock and through every ocean because that's how they are!"
"No they are not and besides, you're a newcomer so you don't matter as much. You'll never matter to them Whitney, NEVER!"
Chills flew down Whitney's back. What about Ian was right? maybe they weren't even looking at her. maybe she was just an empty lonely shell worth nothing. Not even Dylan would search her. What if that was true?
"Finally I got you silent and I'm right, they aren't even looking! you haven't ever sang before, so they don't need you. you are worthless, but for me, you're a piece of gold."
Whitney started to think seriously. What if he told the truth. She had never sang before so they didn't know how she sounded. Maybe, just maybe they didn't even look for her. Should she show them that she was worth looking, should she co-operate with Ian and show them that she mattered. What should she do? She didn't have a clue, so she remained silent and Ian grinned almost sure of his victory.
"What should I do?"
'Munks and 'ettes
Dave was almost speeding with his very old and now stuffed car. all the chipmunks were sitting on the front seat and the fangirl/officer and Claire were sitting at the back.
"I hope we aren't too late!" Dylan shouted as Dave turned hard from the traffic lights.
"We can't be too late. It's less than an hour since Whitney disappeared and Ian can't have gotten all his stuff yet from the staples center." Simon said
"I know, but maybe he doesn't even get them. He may immediately rush to some big music producer and force Whitney to sing. That wouldn't be new for Ian."
"You're right, but there's this one thing he can't forget" Dave said and showed everyone Ian's phone "He must think that he left it at his hideout and he'll be looking for it."
"How do you know Ian needs a cellphone?"
"I've been a songwriter for a pretty long time and I can tell that if you make a hit, you instantly start getting calls from sponsors and people like that, so he can't live without it."
"That makes sense, but what makes you think he'll look from his hideout? wouldn't it make more sense to look at the theater first?"
"Yes, but then we'll just wait for Ian in his hideout."
"But then our plan will be totally ruined!" Simon shouted and Jeanette nodded.
"Simon, think the plan as a rule and rules are meant to be broken. " Alvin said
"No, rules are meant to be followed and you should know that after being punished about breaking them."
"Simon, don't be so uptight! we're on a mission here and what I have learnt about missions or at least our concerts is that improvisation always works the best."
"You're right, but I still have a strange feeling about this"
A/N: OOH! Is Whitney going on Ian's side? Will the chipmunks be able to rescue her before it's too late? read more to find out!
first of all I hope you liked this chapter, because I did, even though it jumped from one place to another, but it's just like some of the books I've read.
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