Munks Meet More Mutants

About This Story: While the Chipmunks are taking a spring break concert tour, they spend a few days in New York City, where they meet a group of their unlikely fans - the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Age-wise they are 11. I don't own any part of the Chipmunk franchise, just borrowing them from Nickelodeon, Janice Karman, & Ross Bagdasarian, their family, & their company. I also don't own any part of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, just borrowing them also from Nickelodeon, as well as Mirage Studios (Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird & their entourage) who founded them.

About This Chapter: Rated PG (K+), pretty much family-friendly interactions.

Pairings: Alvin/Brittany, Raph/Brittany, Raph/Alvin (Bromance)


3. Upscaled

Raph blinked as he woke up the next morning. It seemed bright for his room - or his sewer Lair, and the sheets were white, rather than gray or red. The surroundings seemed too nice and upscaled for his room in the sewer Lair. Fortunately it seemed too nice to be some Kraang base. So he must be in some kind of hotel room. "How did that happen?" He thought.

He tried to sit up and move, but he could feel something - or someone - warm and soft snuggling next to him. He could hear a pleasant humming sound coming from his snuggle-buddy, and they seemed about his size or a little smaller. Raph playfully pushed them away. "Mikey, get off me, you little twerp."

A cry soon came from his snuggle-buddy - and it sounded nothing like Mikey. "Oww! Hey, Alvin, watch the leg, it still hurts from last night."

"Oh, sorry about that." Raph sat up. "Theodore? You're not Mikey. I thought you were my little brother, Mikey. Why are you in my bed?"

"Alvin! You're awake!" Theodore smiled at him. "How do you feel?"

As Raph sat up and looked at Theodore, he realized something. "Wait a minute... Since when are you about the same size as me? Did you grow, or did I shrink? No offense or anything..." He reached out to pat Theodore on the shoulder, only to realize his outstretched hand was not green, and he had two extra fingers on each hand. He inspected these strange hands in front of his face, wiggling the fingers. "What?"

"What's wrong, Alvin?" Theodore asked with concern.

Raph gave him a puzzled look. "Did you just call me 'Alvin'?" He started feeling of his face, and his skin felt softer, and covered in peach-fuzz. His nose was also smaller. As he felt the top of his head, he could feel actual hair. "Unreal..." He mumbled as he experimented with the feel of tugging on individual hairs versus a whole cluster of hair. There was also a new and strange sensation on his skin that he was wearing pajamas - a red t-shirt and some plaid pajama pants. He felt around at his sides and his back. "Where the shell is my shell?" Sure, he felt lighter and more flexible without a shell, but he felt so vulnerable and naked without it, despite the fact that he was wearing clothes.

Getting completely out of bed was not as easy as usual, since Raph was now shorter than the bed. "Is everything bigger, or am I smaller?" Soon Raph made his way over to the bathroom area of the hotel room, catching a glimpse of his reflection in the floor-length mirror of the sliding closet doors. He was actually in Alvin's body! "AAHHHH!" He screamed as he started feeling lightheaded.

Before he could collapse passed out on the floor, Theodore caught him and guided him to a comfortable sitting position on the floor. "You're not Alvin, are you?" Raph could see the concern in Theodore's brown eyes in his mirror reflection. "So, who are you, then? A body-snatcher?"

"I'm Raph the Ninja Turtle, or so I think..." Raph nodded, still not used to having a chipmunk voice. "At least I'm supposed to be..." He felt of his throat, still unsure if his voice was supposed to sound like that.

"How is that possible?..." Theodore wondered aloud.

"Alvin?" Dave came into the room, followed by Simon, before Raph could explain the story to Theodore. "Are you OK, son?" He picked up Raph and gave him a gentle hug. "You poor thing! You're still a little shaky as if you've had quite a nightmare. You've been out cold since last night. But the Turtles were nice enough to take us back to our hotel and let you rest." He glanced over at Theodore and asked, "Is your leg better, Theodore?"

All Theodore could do was nod absent-mindedly. "Uh-huh...a little."

Dave set Raph down beside Theodore, "Well, I'm glad you're feeling better, Alvin. You're safe now. I'll leave the room so you can get dressed. I'm going downstairs to the continental breakfast. Remember that we start setting up and doing sound checks this evening for our upcoming concert at Radio City Music Hall. But we are free to relax and do some sightseeing until then." With that, he left the room.

Raph looked over at Theodore and shrugged, "It will take me some time to get used to this height - or lack thereof. And I'm sure it's been years since anyone has picked me up to hug me like that."

Theodore smiled absent-mindedly at Raph, still trying to get used to the fact that someone else was inhabiting his brother's body. "Well, you're still taller than me - as well as Eleanor and Brittany, so you could've been in a shorter body."

Simon was confused. "Uh, Theo, why are you looking at Alvin like that? Is something wrong with him?"

Theodore sighed. "First of all, Simon, that's not Alvin. It may look like him, but it's not him."

Simon looked curiously from Theodore to Raph. "Well, who is it? A Tasmanian devil that ran away from the Central Park Zoo or the Bronx Zoo?"

Raph scoffed. "What? No way! It's me, Raph the Ninja Turtle!"

Simon's eyes grew wide and his jaw dropped upon hearing this. "Come to think of it, you don't sound like Alvin when you talk. Am I detecting a bit of a New Yorker accent? A bit of a Brooklyn accent mixed with a bit of a Lower-East Manhattan accent to be more precise, maybe?"

"I guess..." Raph shrugged. "Since I've lived here in New York my whole life, I don't notice my accent or anyone else's. I really only notice a difference in accents when I hear someone talk who is not from New York, kinda like you guys and your California accents. But I did grow up in Lower-East Manhattan. And when I say 'Lower', I also mean below street level. That's probably where your brother Alvin is. I hope he's awake and OK by now."

Simon continued to think. "But how is that possible for you and Raph - er, you and Alvin - to switch minds?"

Raph explained, "The Kraang we fought last night had a 'brain-switch device' with them, and they must've activated and used it on Alvin and me, right before I blacked out - still in a taller green body that had a shell."

Simon asked both Raph and Theodore, "Dave obviously doesn't know yet. How are we gonna tell him?"

"Sorry that I haven't told Dave yet." Theodore shrugged. "And that I'm just now telling you. But Raph only told me about a second before you and Dave walked into the room. I just didn't know how to tell Dave while he was here - I was still recovering from the shock, myself. Oh, Simon, what do you think we should do about this?"

"I-I-I don't know yet, Theodore." Simon stammered. "I already have so many questions... A 'brain-switching device'? This seems like something out of a science fiction movie - Raph's mind is in Alvin's body. I guess this means that Alvin's mind is in Raph's body? Do we have a way of contacting the Turtles? Maybe we should also let the girls in on this, and Jeanette and I can think of something - especially if we can brainstorm with Donnie and April."

"Right now, I'm starting to get hungry." Theodore rubbed his belly. "Are you hungry too, Alv - er, Raph? Sorry, I gotta get used to you being Raph instead of Alvin."

"Come to think of it, I am getting hungry." Raph smiled at him. "And it'll be weird for me to learn to answer to 'Alvin' instead of 'Raph'."

Theodore offered, "Could I get you something to eat off the room-service menu? It's on us - well, Dave's business credit card." He wandered off to go find the room-service menu.

"Thanks, Mikey - er, Theo. Sorry, Theo, I'm used to Mikey trying to solve all the world's problems with food. That sounds great!" Raph held out a slightly shaky hand and asked, "Hmm... Does Alvin have low blood sugar or something?"

"Not usually..." Simon seemed to think for a moment.

"And since I'm in a 'rented' body," Raph began, "does Alvin have any food allergies or anything I should know about before I order anything off the menu?"

Simon shrugged, "Well, we try to limit his caffeine and sugar, so he isn't too hyperactive. But he doesn't usually listen to anyone else who tries to tell him what to eat or what not to eat."

"Sounds like my family's issue with Mikey." Raph chuckled. "And, Simon, sorry in advance if I accidentally call you 'Leo' or 'Donnie'. You just seem so level-headed and responsible for everyone - like Leo, and then you start talking in science-geek gibberish - like Donnie."

"No problem, Raph." Simon smiled. "I guess I'd even take it as a compliment to be like two Ninja Turtles rolled into one. And if our family reminds you of your own family, that might help you feel less homesick." He chuckled, "It does bring back memories of the times our family would play Ninja Turtles. Remember, Theo?"

"Sure do!" Theo returned with the room-service menu in hand. "Simon would usually play Leo, Alvin would be Raph, I would switch out with Eleanor to play Mikey - if I wasn't playing Vern the camera man, or Splinter, or some extra, and Jeanette would be Donnie. Sometimes Brittany would be April, you know, when she wasn't too cool to play with us."

"Oh yeah, Alvin told me about that last night." Raph chuckled. "He said he remembers strapping pillows to your backs to pretend they were shells. That was about the same time I told him that Mikey and I once snuck into Donnie's lab and found a tank of helium."

"Oh, I can see where this is going..." Simon laughed.

"Yeah..." Raph finished. "We ended up making our own little homemade music video pretending to be you guys singing your famous Christmas song, since it was close to Christmas anyway. I was Alvin only because I was already wearing red, same reason Leo was Simon, and we let Mikey be Theodore, while Donnie was Dave. We may have even done another spoof music video where we were ourselves, just singing in high-on-helium voices where Leo was the director - kinda like Dave - getting the rest of us ready for our performance. Only he used our names, like, 'Ready, Donnie?' He was like, 'OK.' Then Leo went, 'Ready, Raph?' I was like, 'OK.' And then Leo went, 'Ready, Mikey?...Mikey?' And we all went, 'MIKEY!' Before Mikey finally went, 'OK!' Basically, Mikey did Alvin's part in the song, including the part where he wanted a hula hoop, only he was himself, and we all got to yell at him. We had to go topside for some fresh air afterwards, since we were using so much helium. It was fun while it lasted."

Theodore and Simon were laughing at this point. Theo stopped laughing long enough to say, "Whoa, if only you guys didn't have to worry about sticking to the shadows, you should post that online. I'm pretty sure it would go viral. I mean, I'd wanna see it."

"Me too!" Simon smiled. "And I'm sure Alvin, Dave, and the girls would love to see it."

"Well," began Raph, "Since my family isn't as musically talented as yours, we aren't exactly bragging about it. Donnie may have it saved on a flash-drive somewhere, but I don't know. Anyway, I'd hate to change the subject, but, Theo, could I see that room-service menu?"

Theodore handed him the menu. "Sure, Alvin - I mean, Raph. Sorry, I did it again."


A/N: Like the TMNT Nick episode "Plan 10" (where Raph switched minds with a Kraang), as well as the Disney movie "Freaky Friday" (the concept of switching minds and lives with someone else). Raph waking up from unconsciousness - like in the first live-action movie from 1990, where he wakes up to Leo... And his famous nasal-spoken line: "Leo, don't..." (Well, my family gets a kick out of that, but we are easily amused.) the Turtles seemed to use phrases like "What the shell?" a lot more in the 2k3 cartoon series. When Raph asks Theo if he grew bigger, it may also bring to mind the Nick Chipmunks episode "Theozilla". Theo's reference to the body-snatcher is a nod to the Chipmunks episode "Brittany The Body-Snatcher". Simon's mention of the Tasmanian devil is a nod to the episode "Who's The Animal?".