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, for mild depiction of injury and recovery, as well as a brief mention of nudity and underwear.
Pairings: Alvin/Brittany, Alvin/Angel, Raph/Angel, Raph/Alvin (Bromance)
4. Shell-Shocked Alvin
Alvin woke up that exact same morning to a room that was darker and damper than the hotel suite where his family was staying. His muscles felt tired and sore, like he had been doing a heavy workout of some sort. Despite his muscle stiffness and soreness, he managed to roll over in bed.
He found himself facing the side of a girl's plaid skirt that was pinkish or light maroon-ish in color. "What are you doing here, Brittany?" He grumbled in a voice that was several octaves lower than his chipmunk voice. "I must be recovering from a pretty rough concert, or I'm super tired or even sick." He thought.
He heard the sound of a turning magazine page, then the voice of a girl he didn't recognize giggled, "No, Raph, it's me, Angel. But I'm flattered that you think I look like Britney Spears in my old school clothes. Her classic 'Baby One More Time' music video was actually one of my inspirations for this look." She turned to face him, stroking the side of his face with her hand. "How do you feel?"
Alvin managed a weak smile. "Glad to hear that you're an angel, since the rest of me sure doesn't feel like I'm in heaven." With a puzzled expression, he felt of his throat and asked, "How long have I been out?" Wondering to himself, "Could it be that I've been in a coma for enough years that I actually slept through puberty?"
The girl smiled, patting his cheek. "Just the night. I'm glad you're doing OK." She jumped off of her spot where she sat on the bed and ran to open the door of the room. She exclaimed out the door, "Hey, guys, your brother is awake!"
On the other side of the door, Alvin heard, "Yay! Raphie!" But instead of Simon or Theodore, in came Mikey the Ninja Turtle. Mikey pulled Alvin into a friendly hug.
Alvin gave him a confused look, since Mikey now seemed a little smaller than Alvin seemed. "Did you shrink?"
Mikey laughed, patting his belly, "Well, I did recently get liposuction, you know, the same day I got Botox at the health spa." When he saw his brother's confused expression, he laughed even harder as he pointed at Alvin's face. "Ha! Gotcha, Raphie!" He sighed with a smile. "Anyway, I was worried about you for a while there, after you and our new buddy Alvin got hit in the head with some beam from the Kraang last night." He changed his tone and enveloped Alvin in a hug around his neck and shoulders. "But I'm just so glad you're OK now, Bro!"
Alvin shrugged and figured he needed a hug right now. True, hugging Mikey wasn't as soft as hugging Theodore, but Mikey's hugs were just as warm. He returned the hug, and patted Mikey on the back as he would often do with Theodore, only he felt something hard and heard a slight thud as he realized, "Oh yeah, he's got a shell, and I just thumped it. I wonder if he can still feel that?"
His question was soon answered as he felt Mikey's palm thump on his own back. It reminded him of the feeling of someone playfully knocking their knuckles against his helmet he used for bike riding and skateboarding. Alvin's eyes grew wide as it dawned on him that he now had a shell! He glanced over the back of Mikey's shell to look at his hands, which were green and had three fingers each!
In a growing state of shock, Alvin immediately pulled away from Mikey to feel of his own face. "Smooth, instead of fuzzy?" He felt the top and the back of his head. "Oh no! I'm bald! And where's my lucky hat?" Glancing around the room nervously, he finally caught a glimpse of himself in a mirror. He was a mutant turtle - more specifically, a Ninja Turtle! He let out a terrified scream, and continued to nervously stammer as he felt of his throat. It was hard for him to recognize the sound coming from his mouth as his own. "And what happened to my beautiful singing voice?"
Mikey and Angel glanced at each other and shrugged, before Mikey placed a hand on Alvin's shoulder. "Uh...Raph? Are you OK?"
"I'm not Raph!" Alvin shot back nervously.
"Uh," Mikey chuckled. "If you aren't Raph, then who are you?"
"Duh!" Alvin rolled his eyes, but smiled. "I'm Alvin, of course! But I'm sure you don't recognize me, since I'm in Raph's body, I think. Kinda hard to tell without seeing the red mask on my face in the mirror."
Mikey wheezed as his eyes grew wide, "Yikes! It happened again!"
Before he could explain what he meant to Alvin, Leo and Donnie both stumbled into the room.
Leo rushed to the foot of the bed. "Oh, Raph, I heard you screaming from the dojo. Are you OK?"
"Maybe..." Alvin nodded, smiled, and started looking around the room. "I'm in Raph's room? In the Lair? Wow..."
"Where else would you be?" Leo chuckled.
Donnie approached from the right side of the bed. "Well, Raph, you were hit in the head last night during the battle with the Kraang, and you've been unconscious for nearly twelve hours." He got out a tiny light and started shining it around Alvin's eyes. "Fortunately, there aren't any signs of any more serious injuries. I mean, you've had much worse before. Have you tried standing up and walking around yet?"
"I guess I could try that now." Alvin shrugged.
As Donnie helped him out of bed, Alvin glanced quickly downward at himself, then pulled the blanket up to cover himself with it. "Whoa! I'm naked!"
Donnie looked over at Leo and they both started laughing. He looked back at Alvin to say, "You're no more naked than usual, and no more naked than seventy-five percent of the other people in this room."
Angel could tell Alvin was looking nervously at her, so she turned around while covering her eyes. "It's OK, I'll turn around while you put on your 'big-boy man-panties'. It's not like I've never seen you guys in just your shells before. Or without your masks. But if it still makes you feel better, I'll turn around...Alvin."
"What?...!" Donnie and Leo shot questioning looks over to the guy who they thought was their brother Raph, but they now had their doubts.
Alvin smiled over at Angel. "Yes, thank you, Angel. To me so far, you've been a real heaven-sent guardian...well, I just can't think of the word right now, but when I do think of it, I'll get back to you. It's cool now, chica, you don't have to look away. False alarm on the 'naked' thing - turns out I'm wearing a shell. But I guess you're also as much fun to mess with as Eleanor." He giggled.
As Angel turned back around with a laugh, Leo shot another confused look toward Mikey, who was still sitting on the left edge of Raph's bed, wide-eyed and open-mouthed. "Uh, Mikey, you've been quiet. What's going on? Do you know what they're talking about?"
Mikey finally recovered from his catatonic state with a blink. "Well, right before you and Donnie got here, he was just telling us that he's Alvin in Raph's body. I'm still processing all this, but I'm more and more sure every time he talks that he's Alvin and not Raph. Does any of this remind you guys of the Kraang brain-switching device?"
"Is that also why you called me 'Brittany' when you first woke up?" Angel asked him.
Alvin sighed and started pacing around. "Yeah, since I just saw the pink-ish of your plaid skirt, and thought you were Brittany Chipette, since she has a similar outfit for school. But once you mentioned it, I realized you could have also passed for Britney Spears in the 'Baby One More Time' video. Come to think of it, I think Brittany got that outfit when she and the Chipettes may have been working on that song, and maybe something from the Mary Catherine Gallagher movie 'Superstar' for some kinda 'Back To School' or some other schoolgirl-themed concert tour."
Angel giggled. "It's alright, I'm now flattered in a different way - but still flattered. I'm a fan of you Chipmunks and Chipettes, too."
Donnie started pacing back and forth as well. "The Kraang brain-switching device is involved? What could the Kraang be up to this time? And does this mean that our brother Raphael is in the two-and-a-half-foot-tall body of a mutant chipmunk?"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa..." Alvin interrupted him. "Who says we're mutants? We've been called 'humanoid' chipmunks, and we've been called 'anthropomorphic' chipmunks, but nobody has called us mutants. Most people just call us 'Chipmunks', with a capital 'C'."
"Maybe no one calls you mutants to your face." Donatello shrugged and continued to pace. "Ironic that no one calls us the 'Teenage Humanoid Ninja Turtles' or the 'Teenage Anthropomorphic Ninja Turtles'. Come to think of it, you Chipmunks have been famous longer than we have been, even though you're about five years younger than us, especially since we Turtles try to stick to the shadows and avoid the spotlight. I guess we've called ourselves mutants for so long that it's nothing insulting to us, just a description. We embrace it as part of our heritage, just like our Japanese heritage, and even our Italian heritage, if we wanna call it that."
"You Turtles are part-Italian?" Alvin asked him. "I never realized that! I could see the Japanese, though. Kinda like my family is part-Spanish and part-Armenian."
Mikey chuckled. "Cool! I kinda figured Spanish, but didn't see the Armenian coming. Our family name is Hamato, which is Japanese. We'd call it our 'last name', but we say it before our individual given names when we say it in the Japanese way. And our individual given names are Italian, since as you know, we were named after Italian Renaissance men - who were like legendary superheroes of their day." He stood up and posed like some flying superhero. "So, we say we're part-Italian, part-Japanese, and All-American New Yorkers - as well as All-Turtle! Except for our dad, who is a rat, and our human sister April, who is part-Irish and part-Kraang, and some of our other human brothers and sisters, who are mixes of all kinds of cultural backgrounds. All together, we're like one giant supreme pizza with all kinds of exotic 'toppings' - just how I like it!" He licked his lips.
"Thank you for explaining that, Mikey." Donnie smiled as he saw Alvin nodding. "And speaking of history, I hope our brother Raph is not history right now. I wonder if he's awake yet, or how he's coping with being in a chipmunk's body - ahem, your body, I assume." He motioned to Alvin. "And how is your family gonna react when they realize they have Raph in Alvin's body? We also need to work on a way to switch them back. How do we do that without sneaking into a Kraang facility? If we did that, we might put the whole Seville family in danger. There's also no telling which Kraang facility would have the device by now, anyway. If only there were another way..."
Alvin chuckled and patted Donnie's shell. "Well, let me know when you figure it out, Simon - er, I mean Donnie. Sorry, I guess it's obvious which of my brothers I think of when I see you pacing around in your 'science-y' mode."
Donnie laughed. "Well, if it makes you feel more at home with us, and less homesick for your own family, I'm happy to help you. And, Alvin, you just helped me realize that April and I could work with Simon and Jeanette to come up with some way of switching you and Raph back. That's an ingenious idea!"
"Well," Alvin shrugged in fake modesty, "I have been known to be the resident genius of the Chipmunks. In addition to being the brains, I'm also the athletic brawn as well as the handsome beauty. You're welcome, by the way." When he saw the Turtles staring at him wondering whether he was really that arrogant or if he was just joking, he added, "Which is why my family probably misses me, and why you would be doing me a huge favor, Donnie, if you could figure out how to switch me back into my chipmunk body." He got down on his knees in front of Donnie, clasping his hands out in front of himself. "Please, Donnie, I am begging you!"
Donnie chuckled, patting Alvin on the shoulder and helping him stand to his feet. "Alvin, it's OK. Kinda weird seeing Raph's body groveling to me like that, but I'd do my best to help you out even if there wasn't anything in it for us - like getting Raph back. Anything for a friend."
Alvin threw himself into a hug around Donnie's shoulders. "Oh, Donnie, thank you! You rock!"
As Donnie chuckled and returned the hug, Alvin could feel his stomach - or rather, Raph's stomach - growling.
Mikey came over to Alvin, placing an arm around his shoulders. "Aww, you poor thing, Alvin, you must be hungry! Here...how about I take you into the kitchen and use my culinary savvy to cook some breakfast for you?" He led Alvin out of Raph's room, with the others following close behind them.
Alvin giggled, giving Mikey a friendly noogie. "Wow, you really can solve my problems with food, Theodore - Oh, sorry - I mean, Mikey!"
A/N: Britney Spears and her "Baby One More Time" music video, as well as the Mary Catherine Gallagher (Molly Shannon's character from the "Saturday Night Live" skits) movie "Superstar", were also an inspiration behind my women's club's (or sorority, Lambda Omega Alpha, or LOA) show in Lubbock Christian University's Master Follies in 2003, when we were schoolgirls. It was lots of fun, even though we didn't win the competition. I was imagining Angel's outfit to be kinda like Brittany's in "The Squeakquel". Angel is a character from the TMNT 2k3 cartoon series, who first appeared in the episode "Fallen Angel".
When Mikey talks about the Turtles' Italian "heritage", I was originally gonna include that they like pizza. But, hey, I like pizza, but it doesn't make me Italian! So I just had him talking about a supreme pizza with many diverse toppings as an analogy at the end of his speech instead. I also had Alvin say that his family is Spanish (Seville) and Armenian (since Ross Bagdasarian Sr was from an Armenian family). I also like the fact that they are Turtles or Chipmunks, which brings a whole different aspect into their ethnic background, but I would still think they would be affected by the cultural backgrounds of their respective adopted fathers. Age-wise, the Chipmunks have also been around since 1958, and the Turtles since 1984 (even younger than the Chipettes!), but the Chipmunks are depicted as around age 8 (but in this fanfic, they are 11), while the Turtles are depicted as 15 (but they are 16 by now in this fanfic).
Raph switched minds with one of the Kraang in the Nick cartoon episode "Plan 10". We find that April is a blend of human and Kraang DNA from the episode "The Kraang Conspiracy". Mikey is seen in one of his elements, the culinary expert, in the episode "Pizza Face".
