Hey everybody! I'm back and I broke my personal record. Oh man, 8212 word. How did I do that?
I think this chapter is the best on so far. I hope you'll agree with my opinion.

Here's the next chapter. Enjoy!


The four chipmunks were on the way to the nuclear power station in the city under the ground.

Alvin was Jumping, Chrystal and Rob were flying in their antigravity fields and Klaus was running in his cheetah body.

The form of the station became clearer and clearer. It was surrounded by a high, steel wall.

It didn't mean problem for them. Everybody had a solution to get over the wall.

They were inside; the nuclear power station was right in front of them.

"Alright, Chrystal and I are going to the control room." said Klaus. "Alvin and Rob, you're going to the core. We gotta know if it's working."

Rob and Alvin nodded; they ran toward their destination.

Klaus looked at Chrystal and met her furious sight.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

Chrystal walked by him and punched him on side. "You separated me from my husband."

Klaus rolled his eyes and followed Chrystal toward the control room.

The entrance of the station was a half meter thick, steel door.

But Klaus saw Chrystal had the plan to go through it.

She activated two canons on her arms and aimed at the door.

In the next moment, the canons started burning and a huge hole appeared in the door without any sound. Chrystal turned back at Klaus and her smile was scarily wild. "Primitive humans. They can't mess with me."

She said and jumped through the door.

Klaus stared after her and a voice inside his head said: "Hot chick. No doubt."

He followed the crazy-like chipette. Jumping through the door, he found himself on a long corridor.

Chrystal had already been at the middle of it and she was calling him. "C'mon!"

Klaus ran on all four and followed the (then) auburn furred chipette.

He wasn't even sure what she was doing. So far he had been the leader but Chrystal had just taken the command.

When he was behind Chrystal, the girl turned left and Klaus almost bumped into the opened door.

The girl giggled and smiled at Klaus. "Reaction time, Klaus. Improve it." She said and disappeared in the dark room. Klaus shook his head and stepped into the darkness, after Chrystal.

Then all of the sudden, the lights were turned on and Klaus had to cover his eyes.

He heard gigging and looking upward, he saw Chrystal standing on a desk. Behind her was an enormous screen full with graphs and figures. It was a big chaos for Klaus but Chrystal looked like she understood the things on the screen.

Klaus jumped next to her and watched the screen.

"Cree, what's that?" he asked and for that, he got an angry look.

"First: only my friends call me Cree. Second: this is the control room of the reactor and what we're looking at, is the whole station."

There was a red square; that was the control room. Quiet far from it, was a green square; that was the reactor room and in it were the cores. – Yes. There were three cores. –

Both of the chipmunks were amazed. It was sure that that station didn't supported energy only for the city.

Chrystal tried to find where almost 70% of the generated energy was going.

Soon she found a mysterious area, ten kilometers from the power station. When she tried to search for information about the area, she bumped into a security code. And she wasn't able to break it up. It was more stranger. She and Robert were informatics geniuses and a Russian computer stopped her.

She hit her paws into the virtual keyboard. "Hogy rohadna meg az egész!"

Klaus looked at the angry chipette and, from safe distance, he asked her: "Are you okay?"

Chrystal calmed down in a microsecond and adjusted her hair. "Sure." She breathed in and out few times and did some tai-chi moves. "Okay. I'm totally calm."

Klaus stepped closer and looked at the broken screen. – Gee. I won't make her angry.

"Chrystal, what did you say?"

The black furred chipette jumped on another console and tuned it on. Klaus followed her.

As she was trying to find information about the most of the generated energy, she answered. "It was a basic, Hungarian curse. Don't make me to translate. I'd be impossible."

Klaus widened his eyes and moved them randomly. "O-okay." Then he muttered under his voice: "Okay; she is a bit crazy."

He was more than surprised and scared then ever before, when Chrystal spoke up. "Rob always says I'm not crazy, but different from the ordinary girls."

She left a laser shot in the screen what she was working on and headed to the door.

When she passed by Klaus, she patted his chest. "He is right; I'm not afraid of doin' bloody jobs."

Klaus swallowed and followed Chrystal.

But before he could leave the room, a siren was audible twice. The high and loud voice hurt the chipmunks' sensible ears. Klaus covered them and waited until the voice shot up.

When it was end, he saw Chrystal working on another screen with worry on her face.

"Chrystal, what's going on? "

The chipette just kept typing on the screen and numbers were appearing and disappearing in front of her.

Klaus grabbed her and asked again. "What's goin' on?"

Chrystal pushed him away and turning back to the screen, she answered: "If I'm right, and I'm always right, the whole station has just woken up. The cores has just been activated but I don't know how and where from."

It meant only one thing: Rob and Alvin were walking around only a few meters from a radioactive chain reaction.


Rob and Alvin found the entrance of the reactor there was only one problem. It was too weak for them.

Rob took his forehead and said: "Not even Shannon would be able to climb through it. It's too tight."

He scanned for other opportunities, but it looked like the whole reactor room was perfectly separated from the other parts of the power station.

"So, what's the plan, Rob?" asked Alvin for the twentieth time.

"I don't know, Alvin. Maybe I'll throw you through the wall."

Alvin's eyes widened. Rob's expressions on his face told them he was going to do it. But the auburn furred 'munk just caressed Alvin's head. "Hey, what's this scared face? I was joking."

The red clad lightened.

"Anyway, why don't you shoot through this thin door?"

Rob laughed and his voice echoed. "The most powerful weapons are on Chrystal. She could do it, but I can't."

Alvin crossed his arms and thought.

He had played a game some weeks ago and in the mission he had had to blow a nuclear reactor up. – How the hell did I get into the reactor room? – As the question crossed his mind, he found the solution.

"BINGO! Genius Alvin strikes again!" he exclaimed and started dancing around.

Rob stopped him gently. "Alvin, I know you're happy, because you found a way to get in. But it'd be really helpful if you told me."

Alvin calmed down and laughed at himself.

"Okay. Sorry! So, I played a game some weeks ago and I had to get inside a reactor room. And I used the water supplier tube. I swam inside."

Rob placed his paw on his forehead. It was a brilliant idea; Even if it came from Alvin.

Alvin got a fatherly head stroking. "Okay, good boy!"

The red clad pretended he'd got it wrong. "I'm not a dog, Rob."

The light blue clad ignored the comment and went to look for the water supplier tube.

He found it very soon; it was five meters under the ground.

Rob charged the lasers on his arms and shot into the ground.

It wasn't hard the reach the tube. But as the big tube was revealed, the laser batteries ran out of energy.

Four, little sticks were launched from the laser canons on Rob's arms. As those sticks landed in the snow, the snow became steam around them. They were clearly hot.

"Sucks." said the light blue clad chipmunk and disconnected the devices from his arm. "Alvin, please step back."

Alvin did and the devices exploded. He didn't say anything. He was sure that Rob knew what he was doing.

"Alvin, can you take us inside the tube?"

The red clad just shook his head. "Nope Right after Jump I and everybody take a deep breath. So if I took us inside, we'd breath in water."

Rob nodded. He didn't show it, but he was impressed by Alvin's knowledge about his ability.

"Then I ask you something. Take under my shoulder and hold me." Alvin did, but he didn't see the point. Rob activated something on his equipment and a module opened on his right shoulder.

I bright white ray shot directly into the tube and cut a hole into it.

When the ray was turned off, Rob collapsed, but fortunately Alvin was holding him.

"Lay me in the snow." said Rob with whispering.

Alvin gently laid Rob into the snow and the chipmunk's body started steaming. The snow melted and steam covered the 'munks.

Rob was panting hardly and his eyes were shut closed.

Alvin tapped at his forehead and its warmness burnt his paw.

"Rob, what's happening with you?"

The auburn furred 'munk didn't answer for a while. He needed rest.

"You know..., while the nanobots are..., transmitting my brain's orders, they're generating heat."

He stopped talking because he ran out of breath. Alvin got the point. "I think I know the rest of the story. Your body doesn't like this warmth."

Rob smiled weakly and tilted his head back.

"Anyway, what was that weapon what you used?" asked Alvin and looked into the water in the tube.

The tube wasn't full with the water, it was about half filled. They were going to be able to reach the reactor room by swimming.

Rob got enough breath again and he answered.

"Too complicated. But in short of, it was a laser."

Alvin nodded and looked around worryingly. Rob's body was still hot and it didn't look like it was on cooling down.

He was on looking for a way to help Rob, when he was interrupted by Rob's voice.

"Alvin, is the water in the tube, clean?"

The brown furred one went to the edge of the hole on the tube and sniffed the water. Then he yelled back to Rob. "It looks clean."

Rob waved to Alvin and he ran back to him.

He got a little device from Rob who asked him to put it underwater, keep there for ten seconds and bring that back.

Alvin did as Rob said and put the device underwater; then took it back.

Rob connected it to the equipment and read the data.

"Okay. Great. Now, please bring me some water."

Alvin nodded and got back in no time.

As Rob opened his eyes he saw a big bubble of water hovering over his face.

"How the hell are you doing it?"

Alvin shrugged. "Does it matter? Now, open your mouth."

Rob opened his mouth and Alvin started leaking the water slowly. In a minute Rob was fresh again and he felt better.

He sat up and took a deep breath.

"Thank you, Alvin." He stood up and held on to Alvin.

"You're welcome, Rob. I finally did something important."

Rob smiled at Alvin and sighed. "You know, it shouldn't be told to anyone. 'Cause, Chrystal always says she bears the heating longer than me."

Alvin let out a quiet laugh and zipped his mouth. "I won't tell anyone."

Rob shared a brofist with Alvin, and then the two chipmunks stepped to the edge of the hole.

The water was leaking in it; its speed wasn't so fast, so it was logical, that the core wasn't active.

They had only one job: swim into the reactor. Easy to say; hard to do.

"Um, Rob. I've made up my mind. I'll wait for you here." said Alvin staring the water.

Rob laughed evilly and straightened from grouching.

"Oh Alvin you don't know how much you are going to come with me."

He opened a module on his left shoulder and took out a mask. "Here you are. Oxygen. I won't let you die into the water."

Alvin put it on his face and stared into the water again.

"How are you going to breath?" he asked. Rob stepped away from the tube and answered. "The nanobots supply me with oxygen. I don't have to breathe for air. Now, go!" suddenly he pushed Alvin into the water; it caught him and started taking him toward the core.

Rob jumped after Alvin and swan into the power station.

When they stopped a grid was in front of them and they were pushed against it by the water.

"Rob, why do I need the mask if we aren't underwater."

Rob brought a device out of the back of his equipment and started cutting through the grid.

"Just keep it on. Have you ever been to waterpark?"

Alvin nodded; Rob sent a scary smile to him and cut through the gird.

As the big piece of iron disappeared in the dark water, the stream caught them and pushed them toward the end of the water supplier system faster and faster.

- Why is it so fast? – asked Alvin. Rob didn't answer. He just waited for the moment when they…

The tube suddenly turned down and it was totally vertical. They were falling in a tube, filled with water, going into a radio active death.

Another turn followed and the tube was horizontal again, but the stream of the water was still too fast.

- Rob, where's the exit? – asked Alvin and this time he got answer. – When I say 'now' Jump us out of here? Understood? –

Alvin held up his thumb. The stream fastened and it became hard to breath for Alvin. The water pressure on his chest didn't allow him to fill his lungs with oxygen.

But before he could say anything to Rob, he heard his voice inside his head. The brown furred 'munk tensed his muscles and his mind.

In the next moment… they were out.

Alvin was lying on his back, his fur was soaked from the water and his mouth was full with the taste of… something.

He turned his head right and Rob was sitting not far from him. The chipmunk with black fur looked at his partner with white fur and smiled. "Good job. Let's go and find out what's goin' on here."

Alvin got up and followed Rob.

Looking around they were in a huge room. In the room were three huge holder-like objects; around them were wires, tubes, smaller holders. The whole place looked random and nothing had clear function.

Everything looked new. The devices and everything looked made from steel and other, modern materials.

The light in the room was brown. All walls looked rusty, but they were brand new.

The silence filled the air and it bothered the red clad's mind. He didn't like the silence. In games, every time he'd heard silence, an attack had come.

He ran closer to Rob and took his shoulder.

"Rob, something is wrong."

Knowing the force of instincts, Rob stopped and looked at Alvin.

"Instincts?" he asked looking into the chocolate-brown eyes.

Alvin shook his head insecurely. "No. It's rather… um… talking of experience."

Rob smiled and looking around he said: "Experience from games?" he laughed softly. "Alvin, the real life doesn't always fix with the games."

Alvin stared at the suspicious objects on the right of him. "But my experiences have been useful so far, haven't they?"

Rob had to accept Alvin's point. They really had had advantages from Alvin's ideas.

"Okay. Maybe you're right. What do you think."

Alvin's face was scared. He was in panic, deep inside his mind.

He was spinning around looking for anything dangerous.

"I… don't know. I just know, we… aren't in good place."

Rob knew the state of Alvin. He knew this kind of panic. It wasn't the same, but he knew it.

He ran to Alvin and hugged him. It was strange to hug Alvin, who actually was 19 years old, but it was even necessary. Rob had to calm Alvin down.

He laid Alvin's head on his shoulder and caressed his back.

"Okay, Alvin. Just breathe slowly. Calm down. Everything's okay. We're okay. Nothing wrong is gonna happen. I'm here; you'll be fine."

Alvin started calming down. He wasn't panting and he wasn't in panic. He sounded like he was on crying, but it was just the aftermath of the adrenaline load.

Rob let Alvin go and looked into his eyes. His pupils were normal, according to the dark.

"Alvin, are you okay?"

The red clad looked up at Rob and stared him. "Yes. I'm… okay." he looked around insecurely. "What did you do to me?"

Rob smiled and with a quiet, kind laugh, he fondled Alvin's head. "I just calmed you down."

Alvin looked away from Rob. His eyes were strange.

"No. I mean, how did you calm me down? What was that talking?"

Rob closed his eyes and smiled. Then he turned Alvin's face toward his. "You had panic seizure, Alvin."

"WHAT?!"

He started coughing. It was too sudden movement for his system. "Hey, chill, okay? You need to relax first."

Alvin did as Rob said.

"Rob, how could you calm me down? I want to know. You aren't a psychiatrist, are you?"

"No, I'm not a psychiatrist. But I'm a father and I have a four years old daughter. Shannon is afraid of staying alone and at the HNSA she was alone at home for long time. She had same kind of seizures."

Alvin had a scared and shamefaced expression. He felt he'd lost his dignity.

"Great. Now, I'm an instable, crying, peevish girl. No offense for Shannon."

"No offense detected, Alvin. And in your point of view, it's totally normal. I'm not scared, because I have experience. But you have never had to risk your life."

Alvin stood up and held on to Rob. "I think, we're equals. " "How do you mean?"

Alvin put all of his weigh on his feet and they held him. "Well, I have a secret to keep from you and now you have one from me."

Rob laughed and patted Alvin's head. "Okay, Al. I won't hurt your dignity."

After a while, they began to investigate the place.

They had to find out if the core was working.

It was the easiest part.

Rob launched a probe from his equipment and it scanned the whole room, where they were.

After two minutes, the little device returned into its place and Rob downloaded the information.

His eyes widened and his brain wasn't able to process what it saw through Rob's eyes.

Alvin noticed the shock on Rob's face.

"Rob, what's wrong." asked the red clad looking around again.

"Well, we were totally wrong. Here isn't a core." Said Ro, but he spoke weirdly. "Rob, what are you talking about? How do you mean we were wrong?"

Rob turned left and pointed to the three, huge objects in the room. "Those are the cores. This power station has three, nuclear cores."

Alvin dropped his jaw and looked up at the huge things.

"So, what now?"

Rob was on saying something, but a voice interrupted him. It was low, loud and disturbing. Also, a quieter but more high-pitched voice was in the background. It sounded like a warning.

"What's that?" asked Alvin, but Rob couldn't answer, because he hadn't any idea either.

All of the sudden, the first, low voice became more loud and it hurt the chipmunks' ears.

Also they felt the temperature in the room started becoming higher and higher.

And the fur what the chipmunks had wasn't helpful at all. It just made the things worse.

"What's goin' on?" panted Alvin, wiping the sweat off of his forehead.

Rob looked at the cores and realized: They were in big trouble.

"The cores have been activated. In ten minutes the radiation will kill us."

Alvin looked at Rob and suddenly he felt better. He didn't even felt the warm in the room, he was extremely fine.

But Rob was still getting worse.

"Rob, can't you protect yourself somehow from the radiation?"

The auburn furred chipmunk just shook his head.

"No. I haven't developed the material for this yet."

Alvin looked around and decided to take Rob out of the reactor room. No matter what.

He took Rob's shoulder and tried to Jump out, but he couldn't.

He looked over himself and scared. – Does the radiation block my ability? -

"Alvin, you can't, Jump. You're ability is protecting you, right now." said Rob and suddenly he collapsed. Alvin caught him and held him in his arms.

"Rob, it's weird to hold you. Please, get up."

His partner just groaned and let out a choking sound. "I wish I could. But I can't. You…, gotta take me out of here." Alvin groaned. Rob and his equipment were too heavy for him. He was stronger than he had been, but he couldn't hold the weight.

"Damn, Rob. At least, drop the… equipment."

Rob nodded. "There's a button at my neck. It's hidden in the hull. Push it."

Alvin found the button and pushed it. The whole equipment was disconnected from Rob's body and it fell on the floor.

"Step away." said Rob weakly. Alvin did and in a half minute, the equipment self-destructed.

Alvin walked around the room looking for exit. He was holding Rob in his arms, who was getting closer and closer unconsciousness.

"Rob, stay with me." said Alvin shaking Rob, who woke up and stared into Alvin's eyes.

"How long has the reactor been being activated?" he asked.

"More than ten minutes." Rob tilted his head and coughed.

He felt his lungs were burning. He knew, he was going to lose his ability to breathe.

"Probably your ability wants to protect me too." Said Rob and he fainted again.

Alvin swore a harsh one and started running around for exit.

But he remembered that Rob had said the reactor room is perfectly separated from the outside.

- Man, why do I have to be here. I don't want Rob to die in my arms. Damn, it sounded so weird. Oh man I don't care. I gotta get out of here immediately. Who says immediately? Simon. Eeew! I'm turning into him! –

While Alvin was arguing with his, own brain, Rob woke up again and he was in worse state.

Alvin noticed he was awake, because Rob started heaving. When Alvin looked there, Rob threw up. – Typical symptom of the radioactive contamination. –

"What if you leave me here and go?" asked Rob trying to get rid of the disgusting, thing in his mouth.

He sounded like he had already given up and he didn't care his own life.

"Rob, this is the first mission. You can't die. It'd be… ridiculous."

Rob couldn't answer; he blacked out again.

Alvin decided to put him down on the floor, because his muscles started tiring.

But as he bent down and the top of his paws touched the floor, he felt it was hot.

- Man! Why don't I feel this on my feet? Oh, great. My arms are gonna tear down. Oh, fuck it!

He took a deep breath and yelled out with full lung.

"Somebody, HELP!"

He hadn't felt that heavy and painful panic yet. But in that situation, where his friend lay in his arms unconsciously, near to the death, he was under this feeling.

"HELP!" he repeated.

Like a miracle from nowhere, he heard a strange, high voice that hurt his ear; then a circle appeared on the wall of the reactor room. The wall piece collapsed on the floor and a tiger stepped in, carrying Chrystal on its back.

As she noticed Rob's unconscious body she jumped down and took Rob's body out of Alvin's arms.

"Robbie! Wake up! You can't die now!"

She cried and the tears dropped from her eyes. Her mate was lying in her arms and he didn't react to anything. He looked… dead.

"Alvin, how long is he unconscious?" she asked with watery eyes.

"For… fifteen minutes."

The tiger who was Klaus lay down and spoke up. "We needed to find a boost for Chrystal's equipment. She hadn't enough energy to cut through the wall." he said.

Chrystal carried Rob up on Klaus's back; Alvin followed them.

"Klaus…" stared Chrystal but the tiger formed chipmunk cutted her.

"I've already called Kimi. He is on the way here. Now, get out of here!" he said and turning around he ran away from the reaction room as far as he could.

Traveling on Klaus's back, Chrystal fondled Rob's forehead with her right paw. Meanwhile she kept her left paw on his stomach.

Alvin just watched the scene and wondered. – What could Chrystal feel, right now? It must be worse than what I feel, but… - He was interrupted by Chrystal's voice.

"Alvin, Rob's skin and fur must've been burnt now. Why aren't they?"

"Well, he said my ability tried to protect him as well."

Chrystal looked at Alvin and gave a peck on his cheek. "Thank you, Alvin."

Klaus stopped. He didn't turn his tiger body off, because Rob needed to lay on something warm and everywhere was only snow.

In ten minutes, Kimi showed up on the sky with the plain. He was approaching the area and landed five meters from the others.

He opened the rear door and got out the vessel. He ran to Klaus and climbed on his back. Seeing Rob's state, he understood Chrystal's mood.

"Okay. Chrystal, can you tell me anything?"

The chipette swallowed her tears and answered.

"Well, I sent about 15 thousand nanobots inside him and they're stabilizing his cells. His system won't collapse, but he needs more nanobots to recover. They need to neutralize the radiation in Rob's system."

Kimi nodded and checked Rob's pupils and pulse. They were normal, but his pulse could be better.

"I took a holder. I don't know if there are enough nanobots in it. I couldn't read it." said the Finnish 'Munk.

Chrystal lifted Rob up and carried him into the plain.

Alvin followed them, but he sat down far enough from the couple. He knew they needed to be alone for each other.

While Chrystal started curing Robert's radioactive contamination, Kimi and Klaus were talking outside. – Klaus'd turned back into chipmunk. –

"How are you doing?" asked Kimi looking at his friend with worrying. But he just waved. "I'm okay. The last load was a bit stronger. It weakens the symptoms. I can use my ability quiet well."

Kimi checked Klaus's pulse as he'd done with Rob before.

"Normal, but your blood pressure is still high. Aren't you feeling dizzy."

Klaus whipped Kimi's paw off of his neck and walked by him, toward the plain. "Oh come on! I'm not dying. I'm totally okay. Leave me alone."

He jumped into the plain and sit into the seat next to Kimi's seat.

The 'munk, left outside, followed his friend and whispered. "Minor depression detected. Kimi, it's time to start thinking."

He climbed in the plain, sit into his seat, closed the rear door, fired the rotors and pulling the arms forward, he lifted the vehicle up.

Moving the joystick under his left paw, he turned toward West and accelerated.

In 23,000 meters altitude, the small, chipmunk sized vehicle sped upper and reached the Mach 3,9.


After they arrived, Jeanette and Luc, found the rocket. It was clearly a Chinese cargo rocket. Six, separated thrusters and huge body.

The rocket and the whole place was more advanced than the base what Rob and Alvin had seen in North-Korea.

Jeanette looked worried when she saw how big the rocket was, but Luc calmed her down, saying it's not that big deal. Most of the rocket is filled with the fuel.

Jeanette gave a furious look to Luc. (A/N: Yeah, I know it's a funny combination of words.) Of course she knew how a rocket worked. She was supposed to be a scientist. It was a very basic part of her knowledge. Luc took the message and shot up.

They approached the rocket and looked at the head of it. It was about 65 meters high.

Fortunately they didn't have to climb the rocket. Luc just took Jeanette's paw nervously and teleported themselves up into the head of the rocket, where the cargo was.

They found themselves in a tiny place where was just enough play for them. But there wasn't oxygen supply. It wasn't necessary for the cargo; it didn't breathe.

But the two chipmunks needed to breathe.

"So, do you have a magical solution?" asked Jeanette looking into Luc's eyes with a smile that discomforted the chipmunk.

He just giggled nervously and created a bubble in the middle of the small place. It popped and they had oxygen.

"Voilà, ma'am. Tu est heureux heureuse?"

Jeanette giggled at the cute French and gave a sweet smile to Luc. "Oui, mon chérie."

They stared into each other's eyes than both of them burst out in laugh.

Five minutes later, they felt the rocket started shaking and then, it started taking off.

Luc facepawed and created a force field. If he hadn't done, the acceleration would've killed them. – 18G are too much even for a powered chipette. –

When the rocket reached the requested speed for leaving the atmosphere (18,750 mph) the acceleration stopped and Luc could turn the force field off.

Some minutes later, they felt a bumping. It meant, the bigger part of the rocket had been disconnected. Only the cargo part was flying toward the station.

Luc stood up and he realized something weird. He was flying through the small place. In the moment he realized it, he bumped into a container.

With a groan he rubbed his head and flew back to his place.

He saw Jeanette's smile and heard her quiet laugh.

"What's so funny, huh?"

Jeanette attacked Luc with a cute smile again and Luc's brain almost melted. "You are supposed to be a scientist. And you didn't remember that in space isn't gravity."

Luc mumbled and pretended he was peevish. Jeanette just kept smiling at him.

- Please stop smiling at me like that! – Asked Luc by telepathy. – Why? Don't you like it? – Asked Jeanette and giggled.

"I do. But I have a girlfriend who checks my whole memory every night. If she doesn't see I protested she will cut my acorns down."

Jeanette laughed and stopped her smile. "I'm sorry. I just tried out my new ability."

Luc gave a questioning look to Jeanette. "What new ability?"

"Since I have powers I've been more like Brittany. I wanted to know if I could seduce a male."

Luc looked away with a blush and coughed. "Well, you could perfectly."

"Thank you, Luc."

The dark brown furred chipmunk turned back to Jeanette.

"Anyway, why don't you use your…, new ability on Simon?

Jeanette sighed sadly and looked upward thoughtfully.

"You know, a week ago, he told me that I'd become like Brittany. He said he didn't love me anymore, because I was too confident for him. So technically, we broke up."

"Don't you take it too easy?"

Jeanette just shook her head being at a loss.

"I don't know what I should do. I don't know how I should react or behave in this situation."

Luc crossed his arms and watched Jeanette for a minute. "Personally, - I'm sorry Ashley. – I haven't any problem with your new personality. I mean you were cute when you were shy. But now you're more… sexy."

Jeanette sighed with a smile. "Thank you, Luc. But in my case, it doesn't help."

"You're right." said Luc. "Listen, Jean, we're boys. We want to be the dominant. And if a girl is boyish, we feel our dignity is in danger. You know, we can't have control on an extreme confident girl."

Jeanette disagreed. "You have a point, but what about Rob and Chrystal's relationship? Or yours and Ashley's."

Luc looked around the cargo like there could be anyone who would eavesdrop.

"Okay, let's clear it. Rob and I are idiots. In our brain something is broken. We are in love with the most tomboy, - I'm sorry Ash. – girls in the universe. Be honest, Jeanette. If you were a boy, would you want a girlfriend like Ash?"

Jeanette laughed and looked into Luc's eyes like it was a camera. "Ashley, I just want to tell you that you don't have to hurt Luc. I'm the one who is making him talking about it."

Luc laughed; Jeanette too.

They felt bumping again; the rocket was modifying trajectory.

Jeanette held on to a container and using her telekinetic ability, she stopped her spinning.

With a groan she sat back on her place. "How long does it take to reach that station?" asked Jeanette; the scientist chipmunk in front of her answered.

"We were launched from Being. The fuel tank was rejected quite soon, we have modified trajectory thrice so far, ergo the station is on high orbit and it isn't on standard, high orbital speed. I'd say 13 hours."

Jeanette applauded and bent her head. "Then, we can talk about your and Rob's…, broken brain."

Luc bumped his head into the container behind himself and groaned. "Me and my big mouth."


12 hours and 43 minutes later, the Chinese cargo rocket approached the space station.

The huge station was bigger than the ISS. – That had been updated some years ago – It had twenty-seven section and huge sun-collectors surrounded the blocks.

When the rocket's distance from the station was 960 meters, it slowed down to 20 mps.

The rocket turned a bit ad its sensors aimed the docking port.

Inside, the two chipmunks just waited the bump, what means they arrived.

And they felt it. It was a big relief for both of them.

They had been being in that small place and for Jeanette it started being uncomfortable, and for Luc it started being awkward. – Being with the girls who about you still think is sexy. –

So when the cargo docked to the station, both of them let out a relieved sigh.

"Finally. I was on developing claustrophobia." Said Jeanette, but before she could stand up, Luc stopped her. "Hey. I want to get out of here as well, but we have to wait."

Jeanette calmed down.

In five minutes, the door of the cargo opened and two robot arms started moving the cargo from the rocket to the station.

Luc laughed. "I could've guessed they would use robots."

They got out of the cargo bay and looked around. The station looked like the Chinese engineers had built it for human service. Corridors, cabins, control panels and these kinds of things were everywhere. – Oh, and the most important: oxygen. - But the containers were carried out of the cargo bay by robots.

A robot took the container; put it on a bogie that carried it to its place, going on a rail.

As Luc was watching the robots' work, he heard Jeanette's voice.

"Luc, is that what I think it is?" she asked pointing at a big thing on a bogie.

Luc ran his sight down on the device and nodded. "If you think it's a battery, you're right."

Jeanette shook her head and without a word, she flew on the device. When she turned back, Luc stared at her with wide eyes. "What? Wasn't it your plan?"

Luc just shook the unnecessary thoughts out of his brain and followed Jeanette.

The bogie with the battery, went through the whole station. Meanwhile and scientific brained chipmunks could admire the space station. It was clearly a well built, well constructed, perfect base in the space. But there was an important question left: why?

The station's orbit was obviously suspicious.

"Luc, look over there!" exclaimed Jeanette and Luc followed her finger.

They were passing through a big crossroad and a window was at the end of a corridor.

Fortunately that side of the station was toward the Earth, so Jeanette and Luc could see the planet where they lived.

"Can you take a picture?" asked Jeanette with her usual, girlish voice and looked at Luc with begging sight.

Luc sighed. "I'm not a Cyborg like Rob, but I can save it from my memory for you."

Jeanette hugged Luc. "Thank you!"

In ten minutes, the bogie what they were travelling on, arrived to the destination. A robot took the battery off of the bogie and put it into a place in the wall.

"Probably the batteries are in a grid. They must supply something big."

Jeanette just nodded and started walking somewhere.

Luc jumped after her and took her shoulder. As his paw made contact with Jeanette's body, he pulled his paw away.

Jeanette giggled. "Luc, you're behaving weirdly." She said. "But whatever. What do you want?"

Luc took a deep breath and shook his head. "I just wanted to stop you because my gravity field's range is only 20 meters. And… you were going to the wrong direction."

Jeanette gave Luc an angry look but she accepted his point a followed him.

The next place where they arrived was a control room; but totally empty. It was ready to control all the station with humans, but nobody was there.

Luc jumped up on one of the keyboards. Fortunately it was English. He typed in orders, technically dancing on the keyboard.

In no time, the screen in front of him was turned on and he saw everything what he wanted. – In Chinese. –

He stopped and with opened mouth, bending forward, he stared the screen. "How? Why? The keyboard is English. Why is it Chinese?" He turned to Jeanette. "You don't speak Chinese, do you?"

The purple clad shook her head. "Can't you switch the language to English?"

Luc laughed. "Without the language pack, I can't. And why would've they installed it?"

Jeanette didn't answer. She wasn't even looking toward Luc. She was watching something on a wall, in direct from their place.

Luc jumped next to her and smacked right in front of her face. Jeanette jumped back in surprise.

"Hóngsè de shān calls Jeanette. What were you looking at?"

Jeanette looked at Luc with weird face. "Who calls me?"

For a second, Luc didn't get what Jeanette was asking, but a second later, he got it. "Oh. This station. It's called Hóngsé de shān. It means 'red mountain'."

Luc realized they were talking about something irrelevant. "Damn, my brain isn't focusing again. Jeanette, what were you looking at?"

"Oh. Over there, on that wall, are flags. Can you see it?"

Luc focused with his eyes and he really saw some flags.

There were six flags: Russia, China, Japan, United Kingdom, France and USA.

"Well, if there are the flags of the USA and the UK, the system must have the language pack." Said Jeanette and poked Luc. He reacted and jumped back on the keyboard.

The screen became black and white characters were appearing on it.

In eight seconds, a long order was scribed on the screen:

varsys_lgpck -all:en-US -image:C:\SQR

Luc hit the Enter and the screen went black for a while.

And then… the system was English. Luc exclaimed and did a back-flip in the air. "Genius Luc strikes again!" he said, but he heard Jeanette's coughing as she was trying to get attention. "Okay Jeanette, I admit: Genius Jeanette strikes again."

Jeanette nodded, jumped up next to Luc, slapped him on his head and smiled at him cutely.

Luc rubbed the back of his head and continued typing.

He soon found a map. "Look, we're here and only seven meters from here, is the laser canon."

"Then, go." said Jeanette and started running toward the right direction.

Luc tried to follow Jeanette but somehow the purple clad got terawatts of energy and sped up to 300,000 km/s.

When she finally slowed down under light speed, Luc could reach her.

She stopped in front of a gate; Luc stood next to her with hanging tongue and lungs.

"Who are you and where's Luc? He wouldn't be dying from little sprint."

Luc leant on the gate and tried to catch for breath.

"You know… I've never run faster… than light speed."

Jeanette giggled and caressed Luc's head. "It's wasn't even Warp 2."

Luc let out a final, dying breath and stopped being on dying.

"Did Rob get you watch too much Star Trek?"

Jeanette punched Luc on his shoulder. "No. He just showed it to us. May we go in?"

Luc straightened and pushing a button, he opened the gate.

They stepped in and dropped their jaws.

It was more than obvious: They were looking at a huge laser canon. It was a, 8 meters long tube and from the buzzing noise, they could find out the canon was ready to shoot.

"What now?" asked Jeanette. "Are we going to destroy it?"

Luc had a thoughtful expression on his face when he said: "It depends. Do you want to die?"

Jeanette punched him on side again. Luc rubbed the place of the hit and said: "Okay, okay. I'm switching to normal mode."

"Thank you."

He jumped up on the canon and took a look at it. "No doubt, it's ready to destroy."

Meanwhile Jeanette started exploring the place. There were spots for the batteries, screens, button and this kind of thins. Noting special.

The whole place – and the whole station. – was boring. The walls were grey. Despite the fact, that in a scientist's point of view (like Jeanette) the station was fascinating, there wasn't anything to be worth for attention.

Jeanette was just walking around, searching for a big, red button with a text on it: "Eject."

But it would've been too easy.

She stopped and looked at Luc who was still examining the canon.

"Anything?" she asked.

The working chipmunk sighed and shook his head. "I don't think if I blew up the whole canon, it would solve anything. Also… it'd kill us. I mean you."

Jeanette rolled her eyes.

"Mr. Immortal, what if…" she couldn't finish what she wanted, because she was interrupted by a strange and scary sound.

It sounded like the electrical system was under charging. And Luc knew it.

He jumped down, next to Jeanette and spoke up worryingly. "Okay. Now it's not good. They're charging the canon. We gotta know the target."

They ran back to the control room and checked the targeting system. It wasn't locked on a point on the Earth. It aimed the Moon.

"What the hell are they doin'?" asked Jeanette starring at the screen.

"I think it's a power test. They want to know if the canon of powerful enough."

"But why are they shooting a hole into the Moon?"

Luc hear an alarm sound and turned his head toward the screen immediately.

"They aren't. The canon is overloading. They're trying to stop the protocol, but it's useless. We gotta get out of here."

"Why don't you just teleport us back to the base."

Luc shook his head and putting his fingers on his wrist he counted his pulse.

"In my current state, it's not possible."

Jeanette gave a surprised, questioning look to her partner and asked: "What the hell? Aren't you a munky god?"

Luc just laughed. "It's kind. I mean you think I'm a god. But no, I'm not. When I'm under too bog stress my teleportation ability shuts itself down."

Without a word, Jeanette started running on all four. Luc followed her through corridors, until they arrived to the dock where they had arrived on the cargo rocket.

Jeanette just stood in front of the closed gate and didn't get what was going on.

"Where's the rocket?"

Luc sighed and placed his paw on Jeanette's shoulder. "it has already disconnected from the base."

Jeanette looked around for another solution. Anything could be good. An escape pod, a container or anything. But there wasn't any helpful stuff. The robots had already put them away.

She didn't find a way to get out, but something else.

"Luc, look over there!" she said pointing to some Chinese letters on the wall.

Luc turned his head there. "Nice. What's that?"

"I've got no idea. Just… isn't it strange. There wasn't any text scribed on the walls, only here."

Luc didn't answer, he was on calming down.

He needed to be calm to get them outta the station.

But he wasn't able to get rid of the adrenaline in his system.

"Why ain't I able to calm down? WHY?" he hit his paws into a wall and it warped.

Jeanette stepped to him and placed her paw on his arm.

"Luc, it's okay. There must be another way to get out."

The spectacled chipmunk breathed in few times and calmed down a bit. He still couldn't use his teleport ability, but he couldn't think clearly.

He looked around and meanwhile he did some math.

"Okay. My mind is back. So if my math is correct we have two minutes left until the canon explodes."

"How big the station is?" asked Jeanette putting thoughtful expression on her face.

"About 330 meters wide. Why?"

Jeanette did some math in her head as Luc'd done. "Maybe, if we're far enough from the canon when it explodes, the explosion won't kill us."

Luc wanted to protest against the idea, but he had to admit it had a great point.

Also he wasn't sure if he was going to be able to protect Jeanette and himself from the vacuum.

"Okay. Let's go."

Jeanette copied the order and sped up to light speed again. This time Luc had his command on his mind so he just followed the flying Chipette flying on the wings of his antigravity field.

As they reached the furthest part of the station, Luc started counting quietly.

"65…64…63…62…"

The sound of the overloading system was audible from that place where they were. It sounded like a Boeing 747 as it pulls away.

Luc put his paw on Jeanette's shoulder. "Apologize."

Jeanette didn't get it, but she couldn't ask, because Luc closed in on her.

In the next moment, the air started to burn and the canon blew up.

As soon as the first breach appeared on the station, the vacuum started drew out the air. The station was rapped into peaces and the pieces were destroyed by the explosion.

Blue, red and orange lights colored the black space.

Luc and Jeanette were drafting in the nothing. They were surrounded by literally nothing. The space was empty, there was no oxygen, no dust and anything.

Luc was still closed in on Jeanette.

He had created an oxygen bubble so the vaccum couldn't kill them.

The planet Earth was spinning under of them. The light of the sun, mirrored from the surface of is, impressed the chipmunks.

There were no noises and only the Earth, the Moon and the stars supplied light.

Luc let Jeanette go but he kept her close with telekinesis.

"It was close."

Jeanette just looked around and blinked. "Yeah. It was. So… how are we going to get down to the Earth. I hardly believe Kimi and Klaus have a shuttlecraft."

Luc shook his head. "Star Trek lady. Anyway, as soon as I calm down, we can get down."

Ten minutes later, when their oxygen was still enough for fifteen minutes, Luc finally calmed down and imagining the place of their secret base, he teleported Jeanette and himself back to the surface.

They appeared on a beach, somewhere in Africa. It was at night and only the sounds of the animals were audible.

"it's awkward. How do we get down?" asked Jeanette but as the question left her mouth, a door opened in the ground and an elevator showed up.

Its door opened and they saw Jake in it.

"What are you waiting for? Come in!"

They stepped in and the elevator took them down to the residential part of the base.

When they got out, Luc spoke first. "Jake, why didn't Kimi or somebody else came for us?"

Jake just kept walking and answered: "Kimi left two hours ago and everybody is sleeping."

"What time is it?" asked Jeanette looking around.

Jake laughed quietly. "It's 23:41. Everybody was tired and the others haven't come back yet."

Luc and Jeanette looked at each other. "We thought when we would be back long time after the others."

Jake stopped in front of Jeanette's cabin. "You clearly didn't. There you go, Jean. Good night. Kimi had ordered relax. The reports can wait."

Jeanette said good-night to Luc and closed her cabin's door.

Luc went to his cabin with Jake and said good-night as well.

Jake went to his cabin where Tracy way sleeping next to JJ, peacefully. He lay next to them and fall asleep.

They didn't even know that their son was coming home with more than 90 MBq of radiation in his body.


That's it. It was the nineth chapter and I was enjoying writing it. I hope you enjoyed reading it.

It's not easy to fight for the word, huh? They haven't even been spotted. What if they're spotted? Well, I don't even know. I have to write it.

I can tell you a back-stage information: this story is supposed to be long and tricky. The plot will twist like the DNA.

Also many thanks to Lulu308 for being my translator. *brofist*

Untill the next chapter, MunkyRob is out of this dimension.