A peaceful day at the fields, with birds chirping, and wind blowing. Scrat, once again pursuing his acorn until the end. It rolled over the hills, climbed mountains, sailed to the waters of the rivers and seas, and went through harsh and rough courses of lava. Scrat however, is persistent, he is extremely tempted to get it at all costs.

What Scrat didn't know, is that he is being lured.

Scrat and the acorn ended up back to Herd Valley, where the herd rests. It was early in the morning, as the sun began to rise and Manny had already started to wake up. He had been sleeping with Ellie in their own cave, while Julian and Peaches slept nearby in a makeshift shaft with leaves.

"Huh...Guess we overslept." exclaimed Manny as he can see the light has already reached into the cave.

"Now you're awake, Manny." Ellie came to say good morning to him. As she looked at him and yawned.

"Oh, hey El, since when did you wake up?"

"Around five minutes ago, just wanting to check on Peaches and Julian, they're awake by the way."Ellie said as she headed out to the river nearby.

As soon as Manny walked out from his cave, Peaches came to greet him with Julian.

"Morning dad! Slept well?"

"Well, I guess so, how about you?"

"Chilling night, but it was fine."

They were having a chatter, before Scrat came up to them. He then poked as Manny as he wanted to show him something.

"Oh, hey little buddy, what do you want?"

The squirrel then put his finger out as he wanted Manny to be patient a bit, he then revealed the acorn that he had been chasing to Manny, as if it was his proudest and greatest achievement. Manny gave the squirrel a fake smile:

"Heheh...well, that's a nice acorn you got there, buddy, I..uh...like how you got it."

Scrat then put his finger up again as he knocked on the acorn. It was then that it caught Manny's attention. The sound that the acorn made when it was knocked on doesn't sound natural at all, instead it felt metallic.

"Huh? That sounds weird." Julian said as his concern grew at the acorn.

"You're not the only one who thinks that sounds weird." Peaches added in.

"HEY guys, what are you three standing there waiting for?" Ellie came back as she saw the three mammoths looking down at Scrat, as they wondered what's next.

Ellie came to join them, as Manny picked the thing up…

The acorn suddenly started beeping out tones, the time delayed from each beep was getting shorter and shorter.

"Is that what I think it is?!" Julian freaked out.

Manny dropped the acorn as he shouted "EVERYONE RUN!"

Before any of them can even run, the acorn hit the ground and created some kind of a force field around a small radius, that fitted in all of them.

"What is happening?!" Peaches started to lose her mind, as the force field started to shrink down.

Nothing can be heard outside, as the animals inside started bashing the barrier and scream for help, but all efforts are worthless and ineffective. While the insides were filled with panicking screams and the loud long beep of the 'acorn'

The force field then suddenly disappeared as it blinked away, and the 5 animals that were stuck inside were gone with the acorn.

"You know, maybe next time you get them instead of me, whiner." Diego was having a conversation with Sid and Shira, as they walked towards the mammoth's place shelter for a visit. Only to be surprised that they found none of the four mammoths.

"Huh...Manny? Ellie? Peaches? Julian?" Sid shouted "You guys and gals here?"

Diego and Shira tried to scent them, but they found no trails of any kind.

"This is not a good start to the day." Shira exclaimed "We have to do something, things must be going on in this place recently."

-•-

"Ow…" Manny slowly opened his eyes to look around his surroundings, it felt weird and strange as he looked at Scrat holding his head with both hands, feeling frustrated. Everyone started to slowly open their eyes as well, as they felt curious. He realised something abnormal too.

There was snow around him.

"I don't remember Herd Valley being filled with snow?"

"Dad! You're alright!" Peaches came to give him a hug.

"Where are we?" Ellie wondered, as Julian looked around the place, to try and familiarize it.

Manny then came to pick up the acorn, but the acorn suddenly transformed into something. It removes its acorn disguise, and is revealed to be some sort of machine. There was a light on it, as it flickers red, and then turned to a consistent green. There were weird signals around the thing. Manny tried to read some of it, but nothing seems to be in the mammoth's understanding.

"Manny? What is that?" Ellie asked him

"It's some sort of a weird machine that teleports you to somewhere strange?"

"Wait." Manny then looked around him, he suddenly realised where they are all at right now.

"Dad? What is it?" Julian checked on him.

He looked around as he noticed some rock outcroppings.

"This is Half Peak." He claimed.

"Half Peak?!"

"Why are we here?!" They seem concerned about their current location. Scrat looked at Manny nervously, as he felt like he caused a disaster to all of them.

"Maybe somehow we could reverse th- AAAGHH!" Manny suddenly got scared and he felt something was going on.

"Dad?!" Peaches got worried as she came running to him.

"They're coming! Soto's going to kill me! DIEGO DO SOMETHING!" Manny's mind seems to be tormenting him, but the rest of them still don't know what was going on. Scrat seemed to suddenly get frightened as well.

"Soto? Who's Soto?!" Ellie interrogated Manny, who seemed to be in a crisis on what was going on. Peaches and Julian looked at Manny as they can feel something odd was happening, something that they haven't seen yet.

None of them have a clue of what they were dealing with was extremely deadly and it has serious consequences if they failed to figure it out.

END OF PART 1. ◽ ◾